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'?"
"I will get to that in a moment. We have decided to make our presence known to certain people in the general population. If we went to the governments, we would be locked up and studied, and our existence denied and hidden."
"How can you say that? You don't know that would happen. Our government would love to meet a species from another planet. It would prove that we are not alone in the galaxy."
"Tell that to the first mission to this planet. They are still being held somewhere by the different governments of this world, including yours. As much technology as you people have, you are still not like the people on your space shows on television. You people still panic at the thought of another species coming here."
"I guess you are right." Kevin agreed.
"I am. Now today several others of my team are revealing themselves to their people and we will communicate the results later. We have been watching you for a long time. Kevin, you have been selected as the best subject for the experiment."
"Whoa, what experiment?" Kevin replied backing up even further into the corner of the couch.
"Trust me you will like it. For many generations now, my people have been having difficulty reproducing. Female births out number males by about twenty to one and the males that are born are sickly and often sterile. We need a fresh supply of male genetic material to perpetuate our species. In our search of the galaxy so far only humans bear the correct genetic markers to keep our species alive. To that end, we must see if our two peoples can reproduce together." She smiled shyly at him.
"You mean you just want us as breeding stock?" Kevin was disgusted by thought.
"No, we want to see if you can help us sustain our race through mutual respect and trust. If it turns out that we can inter breed, then we will approach certain males of this planet to request genetic material to impregnate ourselves. The males that we contact will have the right to refuse and that will be the end of the issue. But we are hoping that you will agree to help save us."
Kevin pondered this. Like most cops he was a compassionate person and he could not stand to see another suffer. That went for animals as well as people. How could he not help an entire race survive if he could stop their suffering?
"So you just want me to give you a sample of genetic material to see if it will work?"
"Yes" she said simply.
"Well that would not be too bad. What do you need?" Kevin asked, already suspecting what the answer would be.
"A sample of your sperm would do nicely. I have seen the amount you discharge and think that would be more than sufficient."
Kevin now blushed and looked embarrassed, Mina had been present when he jerked off and on the rare occasions that he brought a girl home. Usually they would go to her place because Mina would be unpleasant when he brought a girl home. She would avoid him for days afterward, but it was not as bad when he came home from her place as she could still smell her on him, but did not have to watch the act itself.
