Kevin returned home after another disappointing day. The police station had been chaos and he had completed nothing of value, just gone from crisis to crisis. He was looking forward to a quiet night with his cat Mina and the ballgame. Opening the door to his apartment he received the shock of his life.
Standing in the kitchen was the strangest creature he had ever seen. It stood just over five feet and had blonde hair and a tail. Cat like ears stood on top of its head but it had no fur. Soft pink skin glistened in the soft light from the kitchen window. It was dressed in a crop top t-shirt and Daisy Duke cut off jeans. It stood on its toes, without the benefit of high heels. Hearing the door closed it turned and looked him in the eye.
"Kevin, your home at last," it said in a soft voice as it came toward him. She, as it was definitely female, judging from the size of its breasts beneath the t-shirt, smiled at him and brought him a soft drink. Kevin noted that her hands were the same as his, four fingers and a thumb. Her face was very human looking, but there was a trace of feline in the shape of her nose, and her eyes were definitely cat's eyes. They were the exact same shade of green blue as Mina's.
"What are you? How did you get in here?" Kevin asked backing away from the creature in front of him.
"It's me, Mina." She said simply. "I live here with you."
"You are not Mina. Mina is a cat and you are not a cat. What have you done with her?" Kevin yelled. Mina was the one living thing that he loved. He treated her like a person and she responded, as well as a cat could to that treatment.
"I am so Mina." She replied with some heat. She took a deep breath and tried to calm herself. "Let me start at the beginning and I can explain everything."
"MINA." Kevin screamed as he started to look around the apartment for his cat. He was scared for her and wanted her in his arms to make sure that she was all right. He lunged forward and picked up a collar on the floor, it was snapped in two pieces. "What have you done with her?" He demanded.
"I'm right here." She replied. "Sorry about the collar, but it started to choke me when I began to transform."
Kevin turned and started down the hall to the bedroom but she caught him by the arm and dragged him back to the couch with surprising strength.
"Just sit down and I will prove to you that I am Mina." She said and she turned to show him her left side. She flipped her hair back from her ear, there just below her ear was a small discoloured mark, the same mark that Mina had below her ear. Kevin sat down sharply on the couch.
"You found me at the animal rescue centre. None of the other cats would come near you. I came right up to you and licked your little finger. You picked me up and the rest of the cats seemed to relax and sigh. The centre worker said that they had never seen anything like it before. She said that I was rescued from the streets near 7th and McBurney. There had been a murder in the neighbourhood the same night, a man had had his throat cut by something with long claws and they were collecting all the strays in case there was a wolf or coyote in the area."
Kevin sat lost. He remembered the conversation. There had been no one else in the centre at the time. There was no way this creature could know about that. He remembered the story about the murder as well. Before he could voice anything on the case she spoke again.
"I killed that man. He found me when I arrived here and took me in as a present to his wife. Once there she took good care of me, but he beat her regularly. He always brought her presents afterward and I was the latest. Two weeks later after watch him beat her every night, I felt that I could not stand by and do nothing any longer. That night he beat her into unconsciousness. I waited until he passed out from drinking too much and then I ripped his throat out. I turned into this form and call the police and left before they arrived. I watched from the back fence and saw that they took his body away and her to a hospital. Once I knew that she was safe and would not be in trouble with your laws I left. Shortly after that I was picked up the animal control people and taken to the centre. You found me the next day. That was two years ago by your measurement of time."
Kevin sat in shock. He knew the case, but was not involved. The police had been completely stumped by this one. The coroner had been at a lost to explain the wounds on his neck, they had not matched any know species on the planet and the 911 call had not been from the wife. They had closed the file after the extent of the woman's injuries were confirmed. Just one more wife beater killed, but not be the victim this time.
Kevin finally found his voice. "Why are you telling me this? Why are you showing me yourself like this? Are you going to kill me too?"
"Kill you. Oh Kevin, I could never hurt you. I love you. You are the reason I was sent here."
"What do you mean?" He asked.
Mina sat down beside him, staying close but not touching him. She knew that he still had not completely accepted that she was his Mina.
"I was sent here from my planet to see if we can make contact with your race. There were over one hundred of us sent in our ship and we spread out to almost every major city on your planet, looking for the right person to make contact with. You are that person."
"You are from another world." Kevin said softly. "But of course you are. Smitty put you up to this didn't he? Nice job on the costume by the way. However did you get that tail to stick?" He grabbed her tail and gave it a sharp yank. Mina screamed much like a cat would when you pulled their tail.
"That hurt." She said smacking his hand. "It's attached. How would you like it if I tried to pull your dick off?" She reached for his crotch and Kevin backed up quickly.
"Sorry, but this is too crazy to be real." Kevin said. "I thought it was a costume and this was a gag by one of the guys at the station."
She shot him a dirty look. "Don't do that again."
"Okay, look, I said I was sorry. Please forgive me."
"I never could stay mad at you."
Kevin thought this was true. In the last two years, no matter what Mina had always loved him. Even when he had stepped on her by accident or rolled over on her in the night at the beginning of their time together, she would cuddle up to him quickly afterward.
"As I was saying, my people have come to find the right person to help us make contact and save our race."
"What do you mean 'Save your race'?"
