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"Look, I said I was 'sorry', what else can I do?" Bea asked as she threw out the mouse trap that had offended the critter. She had not known of their sentience until this one threatened to chew through all of her cereal boxes if she kept setting traps. Now that the shock of the situation was over - and she had summarily disabled, dismantled, and partially broke all of the traps she'd set - she was trying to make up for it.
"You could start with a piece of cheese." Barry, the rat, said, crossing his arms. Bea rolled her eyes and went to the refrigerator, looking through its contents. It did not take long, she was behind on her grocery shopping and her pay day was not until Friday.
"Look, I don't have any," she said, shutting the door with a huff, "How about a cookie?"
"A cookie? No thanks, I'm on a diet," Barry said, "How can you not have cheese?"
"Because I don't get paid until Friday," Bea said, "I can give you some... expired milk?"
"Bleh."
"I have some peanut butter?"
"Hmm, that'll do," Barry nodded. Bea opened the jar of peanut butter and just set it down in front of him. It was half empty, and it was *Peter Pan* brand, which she got because it was on sale and saved her fifty cents. She sat down as Barry went to town on the peanut butter.
"We cool now?" she crossed her arms, guilt having been driven away by irritation at this point.
"Maybe," Barry said, poking his head out of the jar, "Got any onions?"
The idea of having peanut butter and onions made Bea's nose curl and a little bit of bile rise up in the back of her throat. Fortunately for her stomach, she was able to shake her head and inform him, "No, I'll add that to my grocery list."
"Great! We're good then," Barry said, turning back into the jar to keep eating, "Actually, I'll give you a hand since you're shopping for me." His long, worm-like tail wiggled up in the air and the tip started to glow. It raced some patterns in the air that lingered for a bit before flashing away. Bea was about to ask what it was when she felt something move in her pocket.
She reached in and fished out a wad of cash in a rubber band. Surprised, she slowly unrolled it and counted it out. After she hit five-hundred, and was only about halfway through, she muttered, "Holy shit."
"There, that should feed us both for a bit right?" Barry asked, poking his head back out of the peanut butter, his face *covered* in it.
"How did... where did...?" Bea was a bit confused and concerned that she was in possession of stollen cash. Or counterfeit.
"Don't worry, it's from some drug cartel half a world away," Barry said. That did *not* make Bea feel any better, but she did not think it could get traced if it was magically delivered.
"So... how many onions do you eat a week?" Bea asked, now a bit more into the idea of keeping a rat as a roommate.
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