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Once more with cleaning

Angel was working on cleaning the absolutely filthy assistants lounge. This was arguably due to the fact that as a vampire with a soul he was a nice guy who enjoyed doing good deeds for others.

Or possibly he had some extra energy that he needed to work off.

~~Said energy had absolutely nothing to do with someone whose name began with C and ended in allisto. For the record. Ahem.~~

As Angel didn't think he'd be using any fire this time he had Sean with him. Sean busied himself by playing with a squeaky ball.

The ball rolled off into a corner by the cabinets, and Sean chased after it.

It was entirely possible for either the vampire or the puppy to be interrupted.

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There was a rustling from inside the cabinets. It was very quiet. It may not have been heard over any noise Angel was making. Sean, being so close, would probably be the only one to hear it.

Sean lifted his ears when he heard the noise. He looked back at Dad but Dad seemed to be busy or unbothered by it.

Still, noises he'd never heard before might lead to things he'd never seen before. There really was only one way to get these kinds of experiences.

Sean sniffed around the area where the noise had come from.

As Sean sniffed around the cabinet, one of the doors popped open a crack just briefly and then shut again.

More rustling came from inside.

Sean cocked his head to the side with a "Rr?" Granted he was still learning so it was entirely possible that doors opened and closed for no apparent reason. On the other hand he could hear noises on the other side.

Maybe he was supposed to make noise too?

He raised a paw and scratched on the door.

Something on the other side scratched back.

Sean's ears lifted higher. The door was talking. This was by far the most interesting thing he could remember happening that day.

He bounced on his front paws, his tail wagging like a metronome. He gave a friendly and inviting "Rrf!"

The left hand door popped open and shut again. Then the right one did the same thing.

Sean was startled enough by this development that he sat back on his hind legs with a small thud. He looked from one door to the other. Were the doors talking to themselves?

Deciding he wanted to join in on the conversation, Sean said, "Aroo?"

Both doors opened at once and shut again quickly.

Sean may have caught sight of a vague shape holding onto the insides of the doors. It may have been a purplish color.

There was a thing! Sean had absolutely no idea what it was, but then again he tended not to since he was still very new to the world in general.

Still, it was a thing and he'd never seen a thing like it before. It was a new thing!

This was very exciting.

Sean was momentarily lost in a severe case of happy tail. Then he tried to stick his nose under one of the doors so he could greet the new thing properly.

The left door opened slowly just a little and stayed open.

Sean immediately tried to lick whatever his tongue could reach.

A small purple paw may have pet Sean on the nose when it could avoid being licked.

He was being petted! Sean tried to lick the tiny paw in return, since that was about the best he could do for an introduction since he hadn't been taught how to shake hands yet. His tail wagged hard enough that it thumped against the cabinet.

The paw drew back into the cabinet and thumped on it from the inside.

Sean, who occasionally had moments of forgetting that his tail was attached to him, marveled at how the New Thing had just made a thumping noise exactly like something else in the room.

Sean woofed his approval.

Both doors opened again, wider this time. They also stayed open just a little bit longer before closing again.

Sean bounced on his front paws in great approval of this new game. He scratched at the doors to get them to open again.

The left hand door opened and shut. Then the right one did. Then the left again.

Sean was practically dancing with glee. His tail wagged itself into a blur. He barked.

"Find something, boy?" Dad asked.

Sean barked again.

"Okay. But don't eat it."

The right hand door opened wide enough that anything inside might have been able to peak out at Angel.

Sean barked, trying to let New Thing know that that was Dad, and Dad was great and friendly and wonderful and very comfortable to sleep against, even if he didn't have a temperature and a heartbeat like most Dads did.

If there was something inside the cabinet, it might have looked at the puppy and grinned. It also may have giggled just a tiny bit.

The door shut again.

Sean decided to demonstrate to New Thing what he meant. He trotted over to Dad and nuzzled his pocket.

"Hey," Dad scritched him behind the ears. "Hungry?"

"Rrf!"

Dad produced a treat. He held it up above Sean's nose. "Okay, Sean. Sit."

The treat moved. Sean followed it with his eyes and felt his bottom hit the ground.

"Good boy! Very good sit. Okay, here you go."

Dad gave Sean the treat. Sean mouthed it very carefully. He trotted back to the cabinet and put the treat down on the ground.

He barked.

The right hand cabinet door opened just a tiny crack so that anything that might have been inside could see if Angel was looking. When it was verified that he wasn't, a small paw snuck out and picked up the treat. It was replaced with a gingerbread man.

The door shut again.

Sean danced with happiness at this development. He munched down on the gingerbread man, then proceeded to lick the floor well past the point where any gingerbread molecules could've possibly been sticking to it.

While the Sean tried to lick through the floor, one of the doors opened wide enough for a small paw to sneak out and pick up the squeaky ball.

The door shut again. Now there was squeaking coming from inside the cabinet.

Sean's ears perked with surprise. He snuffled at the door, hoping to follow the sound of the squeaking.

The squeaking stopped for a moment. Then it started again, very fast. Then it stopped. And started again slowly. And finally stopped.

Sean's tail wagged itself into a frenzy. He barked, then scratched at the door.

The right hand door popped open and the ball bounced out into the room. The door shut again right after.

Sean bounced with joy, right along with the ball. He chased after it, his paws occasionally sliding on the floor. It took him several tries but once he caught it he brought it back to his new friend.

He put it down outside of the cabinet and barked.

The door opened again and a small purple paw snuck out and rolled the ball across the floor.

Sean leapt on the ball. It rolled even further across the floor. Sean raced ahead to catch it and pushed it back to the door using his nose.

The door opened again and the paw reached out to pick up the ball again. The small purple arm threw the ball, underhand, in a wide arc up in the air.

Sean leapt for it, then ran like a maniac. He ran around the table, ducked through Dad's legs, then caught the ball when it landed on the couch.

Panting and very proud of himself, Sean brought the ball back to the door.

"Having fun, boy?"

Sean wuffed a confirmation.

The door stayed open as Sean chased the ball. When he brought the ball back, a small paw reached out to accept it from the puppy.

Moving carefully, Sean handed (mouthed?) the ball over to his new friend. He then danced back a few steps to await what happened next.

The creature in the cabinet bounced the ball right in front of the puppy so that it went over his head and behind him.

Sean looked up, up, up, then nearly tripped over himself as the ball went out of his field of vision. He righted himself after a moment of sorting out all his paws, then ran for the ball. He caught it mid-bounce, then brought it back. It was possible he was strutting a little.

The creature in the cabinet accepted the ball back again and held out the dog treat it had picked up earlier.

Sean barked. He sat just as Dad had taught him.

The treat was set down on the floor in front of the puppy.

Sean pounced on the treat at once. He crunched it down, then plopped down onto the ground, his paws stretched out in front of him. He was panting, but he was happy.

Sean was close enough to the cabinet that anything that might be inside it could reach out and pet him by opening the door a little bit wider and sitting closer to the front edge.

A small purple arm reached out and petted the puppy.

Sean's tail thumped against the ground. He licked a couple of times to say thank you to the hand. Then his head felt very heavy. He lowered his head onto his paws to rest for just a second, and promptly fell asleep.

The paw kept petting the puppy until it was well asleep. Then it tucked the ball next to Sean's chin and shut itself back in the cabinet.

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