~ Cat Nips ~ Delilah & Riley

“Now you two behave!” Delilah said sternly to a pair of flowers. Bright pink petals with black polkadots, not blooming but they are already letting out a faint scent. She could only sigh and gently pet the two flowers before tending to her other plants. If only she could feel the softness of the petals somehow or even the sharp teeth that are carefully concealed, just to check on the progress. Alas that is impossible with the bandages covering her hand.

A lot of people were shocked at the injuries the little girl sustained. Covered from head to toe with bandages, her arms and legs being the thickest and blood regularly oozes out. What they are not surprised of is the reasoning. After all they knew the little girl can be clumsy sometimes and hanging around with so many dangerous plants gives a lot of chance for one of the plants to turn on her. Of course it seems a little weird to some, since she always seems to have good control over her creation and they all seem to adore her. Then again its Delilah, the girl couldn’t lie to save herself.

Every single of her movement is careful. From standing up and reaching for tools, each bend of her limbs made her flesh feel like its grinding against sandstone. Her professors and colleagues all recommend her to take a few days off until she recover – they needed the time to germinate some new seeds anyways – however all that meant was she end up at her own private greenhouse flower shop to do her own research. And sell some flowers, the world needs more pretty things.

However for the whole day she has to keep getting cats out of her shop. They keep wandering in and it’s definitely not safe in her work room for them. Several cats were already eaten by the giant venus fly trap she kept under the desk. And the new flower creation on the windowsill is still a baby, and is always hungry.

As Delilah went around tending to the plant and customers – most of them seems to have some sort of cat gene mods – she has very little time to turn her head to check on the newborn plants. She doesn’t want to do that often anyway, it hurts too much to turn her neck and she was sure her plants would behave themselves today. Especially after what happened few days back, most of them need some small recovery time from overexertion or being trampled by that awful thief.

So of course the baby plants would take this opportunity for some mischief. The flowers slowly open its petals, the teeth still carefully hidden, but the gap is enough to release a lot more of those sweet intoxicating scent. It wasn’t overwhelming yet but it was enough to make some other people turn their head and stumble out of the line with a slight drunk expression. Unfortunately Delilah did not have the same scent gene mods and was too busy bundling up the bouquet to notice what her flower was doing.

It was only when the petals fully open, showing off the tentacle-like Stamen and Pistil and all the tiny white teeth lining the borders. Everything about the flower would warn people to stay away, if not for the intensely strong scent beckoning them to come closer. To take a deeper sniff inside its petals...

Of course now the scent was strong enough for Delilah to notice now. She immediately screamed out, “ANI! IMA! DON’T YOU DARE!” She coughed roughly at the end but the yelling frightened flowers to withdraw and close up their petals. It also seems to break many of the customer’s trance.

She quickly went over and pulled the girl a bit further away from the flower before standing right before them with hands on hips. “Now I told you two to behave don’t I? If you keep being naughty no treats for you later!” Delilah stared and only when the flowers looked sheepish enough and closing the petals tightly that she turn towards the girl.

“Hello! I’m so sorry about them, they are still babies and are plenty cheeky... Are you alright?” she asked cautiously, wondering if she should take her to wash out the smell out of her nose. They do have a more lasting effect then typical plants.

((It's all good o wo) b take care of yourself))