#oh no! i need to hide my buddy who can shapeshift! here quick take this fake moustache!!!

[coquelicoq]

obsessed with natsume wanting to hide sensei's ceramic cat form from a guy who was trying to kidnap sensei for being a ceramic cat and choosing as the ideal form of disguise a feather boa, and then just completely ignoring sensei when he goes "you know i can take forms other than a ceramic cat right"

[thetruthaboutlovecomesat3am]

Hey! Can you plz do a feline shapeshifter!Natasha with BlackHill where Maria doesn't know the kitten following her around all day is Natasha?? Thanks! Have a great day!

Hi! It’s been 84 years and I’m sorry this was so slow but I literally have been on the worst writer block ever, so have this short thing and I hope this is what you had in mind!

(don’t @ me if Dr Strange’s spell don’t work like this I literally have no idea and this is the simplest way I could explain what was happening, all my love

The firsttime Maria notices the black kitten is when she’s coming back fromher morning run. There’s this cute cat curled up on her doorsteps andshe barely pays attention to it, since it happens sometime that a catlurks around the building to get a treat from some of the tenants.

Whatstrikes her is how the cat seems to be indifferent to people comingand going up until Maria walks up the steps to the front door and thecat immediately goes to walk between her feet, almost tripping herup.

Mariascoops the cat up, absentmindedly scratches under the blackfur-ball’s chin, then places it back down and walks in without asecond thought.

Sheregisters, but doesn’t really think about it, the fact that the catis still there when she comes back down to head into work. She petsthe cat again, and starts walking the five blocks to the Stark’sIndustries Building. The cat follows her silently, a few feet behind,quick on her footsteps, but Maria doesn’t really notice, tooconcerned with going through the day’s schedule in her mind andplanning her late afternoon for when work is done.

What shedoes notice, however, is how the cat tries to follow her into workonly to be stopped by one of the security guys at the entrance. Theman blocks the cat with a foot and Maria feels the need to step inand scoops up the small creature again, scratching his head.

“Youcan’t come in here, buddy,” her voice is stern but soft, softerthen usual, as she contemplates what to do with the cat.

Curiouseyes stare up at her and a paw boops her nose softly.

“That’sreal cute, little one. But you still can’t come inside.”

A softmeow escapes from the cat, who then proceeds to jump out of Maria’sarms to quickly disappear down the street and around the corner.Maria frowns, but shrugs. There really isn’t anything she can do.

WhenPepper’s secretary knocks on her office and slightly opens the doorto say something to her, Maria nods and answers and doesn’t cast hereyes to the floor: if she had, she would have seen a quick small apexpredator sliding into the room and immediately hiding away, waitinguntil the room was empty again except for Maria to let out a smallbut firm sound.

“Meow.”

“Whatthe f-”

Mariacan’t even jump up from her chair, the cat is quicker. Before she canreally react, there’s a kitten sitting in her lap.

“Lookslike we have a little stowaway.”

“Meow.”

“You’relucky you’re so cute. What am I gonna do with you, little buddy?”

Shescratches the kitten tummy and the soft purrs starts reaching herears a moment before the sound of her phone ringing overshadows them.

“Hill.”

“Maria,it’s Clint. I just spoke to Tony and apparently he was introducingNatasha to Strange and they didn’t really get along, so he might haveuh, I think the term he used was he shifted her? Yes, he cast a spellon her.”

“Aspell. On Natasha. Someone cast a spell on Natasha and you’re notarresting them as we speak because…?”

“Well,apparently they eventually sorted things out and he might have agreedto teach her how to cast this spell on herself.”

“Let mestop you right there. The deadliest assassin in the world has now theability to cast spells? Is that what you’re telling me, Clint?”

“Justone, just the one spell, Maria. She can turn herself – well, maybeturn isn’t really-”

“Ashapeshiter?! Natasha can shapeshift. The deadliest assassin has nowthe ability to disguise herself however she pleases, is that right?”

“Basically,yes. But nobody knows and she doesn’t mean any harm. The thing is,Tony might have – and this is going to sound bad, but pleaseremember this isn’t my fault – Tony might have lost her. And shedoesn’t really have the counter-spell properly down, yet, so shecan’t change back before, like, seven o'clock. Unless, of course,she’s currently human.”

“I’msorry, wait, human? So she isn’t just a shapeshifter, nope,she turned into an animal? Clint, is she a warewolf? Pleasetell me she isn’t running around NYC as a spider, if someone squishesmy- Natasha because you fools were playing with spells-”

“Relax,nobody is going to squish her. She turned into a cat.”

“A cat?”

“A cat.”

Maria handstops suddenly and the purrs stop along with it. She looks down. Thecat looks up. And Maria swears to God the little fucker is smiling ather.

“A blackcat with medium fur and a reddish spot on the belly?”

“…yes?How do you-”

“Natashais okay, Clint. I’ll take care of it. Goodbye.”

She hangsup and scoops up the cat to be face-to-face with her. It feels alittle insane to be doing this, but after all, her life hasn’t beensane for years.

“Nat?”

“Meow.”

“You gotlocked out of the house and slept on the doorsteps, uh? And thenfollowed me here? You look tired. You’ve probably been walking a lotto come back home. Why would you escape Tony? Or did you just losehim? Oh, why the hell am I asking this while you can’t answer. Well,I guess is bring-your-shapeshifter-to-work day.”

She sighs,sets Natasha back in her own lap, and starts scratching her bellyagain. She manages to get through her workload, despite the softpurrs.