Theme 066 Mice
Miracle 100 Fic Challenge
Completed: 1/100
Theme: 066 Mice
Pairing: EeTeuk/DongHae
Word Count: 1,167
DongHae was in the kitchen making instant noodles since it was his night to cook when he heard a yelp from the living room. He ran out to see what had happened and found his roommate EeTeuk holding a desk drawer as far away from him as his arm would reach and cringing. Since it was EeTeuk’s turn to clean tonight, DongHae could only assume he’d found something unpleasant pushed back in the drawer.
“What’s going on out here?” DongHae asked while trying to keep an eye on the noodles boiling on the stove.
“Mouse droppings; I found… mouse droppings in the drawer.” EeTeuk gagged as he continued to hold the drawer away from him and DongHae came over to investigate.
“Oh gross!” DongHae shouted as he too saw the droppings in the desk drawer. “I guess after dinner we should check to see if there are more droppings anywhere else. They can make you sick right?”
EeTeuk nodded, still disgusted and put the drawer back into the desk before running to the bathroom to wash his hands frantically.
The two ate their dinner rather quickly and donned masks, aprons, cloth booties, and rubber gloves and began scouring every small nook in their house for more droppings.
Not only were there droppings in every drawer of the desk, but also in their media cabinets, underneath the furniture, behind the kitchen appliances, under beds, and inside closets. EeTeuk looked more ill than he’d ever been in his life at the sheer amount of droppings they were finding.
It wasn’t as if the two were slobs. They cleaned the house about three days a week on average, sometimes only once if they had busy schedules, so how did it get this bad so quickly?
EeTeuk let out another small yelp as while he vacuumed beneath the couch a small brown mouse ran across his hands and out of the room.
DongHae rushed back in at the yelp. “Did you find rat droppings this time?”
EeTeuk shook his head and glared at DongHae for a moment. “No, I found a mouse, or rather a mouse found me, stepped on me, and ran away.”
“You know where there is one mouse there are usually a lot of mice right?” DongHae asked. “We should go get some traps I think.”
“Yes, but only get the humane ones. I don’t want to kill the little guys.” EeTeuk agreed.
“Don’t worry; I don’t want to hurt them either.” DongHae agreed and then headed off to the store.
About three hours later DongHae returned laden with every type of humane mouse trap ever created and the two set to work preparing the traps and placing them strategically throughout the house.
Several days passed and no traps had caught any mice at all. Not only that, but there were fresh droppings in all the places they’d cleaned. EeTeuk was going crazy trying to scour the entire house daily.
On the fifth day of trap failure, EeTeuk was once again cleaning beneath the couch when a familiar little brown mouse ran across his hands. He jumped up and began chasing after the mouse with his arms outstretched.
“Here mouse, over here! Don’t worry, I won’t hurt you I promise.” He called after it as he chased it around the house, up the stairs, down the stairs, around the living room, up the stairs again, and into DongHae’s room.
EeTeuk saw the mouse climb onto DongHae’s bed and he pounced onto it, catching the mouse, but landing abruptly on his friend and waking him with a start.
“Um, what’s going on?” DongHae asked sleepily.
“Quick, get a cage, I caught a mouse!”
“You caught a mouse?”
“Yes, it’s in my hands. Get a cage please, it’s squirming!” EeTeuk squealed a little as DongHae wriggled out from beneath him and ran through the house looking for something to contain the mouse in.
All DongHae managed to find was some Tupperware; he poked some holes in the lid and ran up to his room. EeTeuk placed the mouse in the container and DongHae closed the lid over it.
“I think we need to go get a proper mouse cage so when we catch them we can contain them until we get them to a shelter or something.” EeTeuk spoke as he ran to wash his hands.
DongHae agreed and after placing the mouse on his desk the two boys went to the pet store and bought a small mouse cage, and some mouse food.
A few days later DongHae spotted a small white mouse while he was cleaning and chased after it, finally catching it, and placing it in the cage with the brown mouse.
Another day later EeTeuk found a grey mouse and put it with the other two. After a week the small cage they had purchased was filled with mice and they were still finding more.
“I think we need a bigger cage.” DongHae laughed as he put yet another mouse into the cage and filled the dish with food. EeTeuk nodded in agreement and the two once again went to the pet store to buy a larger mouse cage.
Two more weeks and the cage was once again full, with more and more mice still coming out of hiding.
“Where are they all coming from?” EeTeuk asked tiredly as he placed two more mice into the cage before a third trip to the pet store.
Not only were they continuously being forced to buy larger cages, but they were also finding a problem in finding anyone to take the mice off their hands. They did learn, however, that they would be wise to separate the male mice from the female mice; else they would find many more mice in their cages.
So DongHae and EeTeuk bought two very large cages and placed them in the living room, then set to the task of checking the sex of each mouse and placing it in the appropriate cage. At the end of the process they had twenty female mice and forty male mice, and nowhere to take them.
Through the week they found ten more female mice and five more male mice. DongHae was feeding the mice one night while EeTeuk made their dinner and sighed quietly.
“What’s wrong DongHae?” EeTeuk asked, draping his arm over his friend.
DongHae looked up at EeTeuk with big puppy dog eyes and pouted. “EeTeuk, can we keep them?”
“You want to keep seventy five mice?” EeTeuk asked, looking into the cages of the mice, and DongHae nodded forlornly.
“Alright, we can keep them, but you have to clean the cages.” EeTeuk agreed quickly.
“Hooray!” DongHae shouted, jumping up and down excitedly. The truth was EeTeuk too, had wanted to keep the mice, but the droppings still disgusted him, and now it was DongHae’s job.
DongHae and EeTeuk smiled in at their new pet mice, and went to the kitchen to eat their dinner without the worry of surprises in the desk drawers.
Completed: 1/100
Theme: 066 Mice
Pairing: EeTeuk/DongHae
Word Count: 1,167
DongHae was in the kitchen making instant noodles since it was his night to cook when he heard a yelp from the living room. He ran out to see what had happened and found his roommate EeTeuk holding a desk drawer as far away from him as his arm would reach and cringing. Since it was EeTeuk’s turn to clean tonight, DongHae could only assume he’d found something unpleasant pushed back in the drawer.
“What’s going on out here?” DongHae asked while trying to keep an eye on the noodles boiling on the stove.
“Mouse droppings; I found… mouse droppings in the drawer.” EeTeuk gagged as he continued to hold the drawer away from him and DongHae came over to investigate.
“Oh gross!” DongHae shouted as he too saw the droppings in the desk drawer. “I guess after dinner we should check to see if there are more droppings anywhere else. They can make you sick right?”
EeTeuk nodded, still disgusted and put the drawer back into the desk before running to the bathroom to wash his hands frantically.
The two ate their dinner rather quickly and donned masks, aprons, cloth booties, and rubber gloves and began scouring every small nook in their house for more droppings.
Not only were there droppings in every drawer of the desk, but also in their media cabinets, underneath the furniture, behind the kitchen appliances, under beds, and inside closets. EeTeuk looked more ill than he’d ever been in his life at the sheer amount of droppings they were finding.
It wasn’t as if the two were slobs. They cleaned the house about three days a week on average, sometimes only once if they had busy schedules, so how did it get this bad so quickly?
EeTeuk let out another small yelp as while he vacuumed beneath the couch a small brown mouse ran across his hands and out of the room.
DongHae rushed back in at the yelp. “Did you find rat droppings this time?”
EeTeuk shook his head and glared at DongHae for a moment. “No, I found a mouse, or rather a mouse found me, stepped on me, and ran away.”
“You know where there is one mouse there are usually a lot of mice right?” DongHae asked. “We should go get some traps I think.”
“Yes, but only get the humane ones. I don’t want to kill the little guys.” EeTeuk agreed.
“Don’t worry; I don’t want to hurt them either.” DongHae agreed and then headed off to the store.
About three hours later DongHae returned laden with every type of humane mouse trap ever created and the two set to work preparing the traps and placing them strategically throughout the house.
Several days passed and no traps had caught any mice at all. Not only that, but there were fresh droppings in all the places they’d cleaned. EeTeuk was going crazy trying to scour the entire house daily.
On the fifth day of trap failure, EeTeuk was once again cleaning beneath the couch when a familiar little brown mouse ran across his hands. He jumped up and began chasing after the mouse with his arms outstretched.
“Here mouse, over here! Don’t worry, I won’t hurt you I promise.” He called after it as he chased it around the house, up the stairs, down the stairs, around the living room, up the stairs again, and into DongHae’s room.
EeTeuk saw the mouse climb onto DongHae’s bed and he pounced onto it, catching the mouse, but landing abruptly on his friend and waking him with a start.
“Um, what’s going on?” DongHae asked sleepily.
“Quick, get a cage, I caught a mouse!”
“You caught a mouse?”
“Yes, it’s in my hands. Get a cage please, it’s squirming!” EeTeuk squealed a little as DongHae wriggled out from beneath him and ran through the house looking for something to contain the mouse in.
All DongHae managed to find was some Tupperware; he poked some holes in the lid and ran up to his room. EeTeuk placed the mouse in the container and DongHae closed the lid over it.
“I think we need to go get a proper mouse cage so when we catch them we can contain them until we get them to a shelter or something.” EeTeuk spoke as he ran to wash his hands.
DongHae agreed and after placing the mouse on his desk the two boys went to the pet store and bought a small mouse cage, and some mouse food.
A few days later DongHae spotted a small white mouse while he was cleaning and chased after it, finally catching it, and placing it in the cage with the brown mouse.
Another day later EeTeuk found a grey mouse and put it with the other two. After a week the small cage they had purchased was filled with mice and they were still finding more.
“I think we need a bigger cage.” DongHae laughed as he put yet another mouse into the cage and filled the dish with food. EeTeuk nodded in agreement and the two once again went to the pet store to buy a larger mouse cage.
Two more weeks and the cage was once again full, with more and more mice still coming out of hiding.
“Where are they all coming from?” EeTeuk asked tiredly as he placed two more mice into the cage before a third trip to the pet store.
Not only were they continuously being forced to buy larger cages, but they were also finding a problem in finding anyone to take the mice off their hands. They did learn, however, that they would be wise to separate the male mice from the female mice; else they would find many more mice in their cages.
So DongHae and EeTeuk bought two very large cages and placed them in the living room, then set to the task of checking the sex of each mouse and placing it in the appropriate cage. At the end of the process they had twenty female mice and forty male mice, and nowhere to take them.
Through the week they found ten more female mice and five more male mice. DongHae was feeding the mice one night while EeTeuk made their dinner and sighed quietly.
“What’s wrong DongHae?” EeTeuk asked, draping his arm over his friend.
DongHae looked up at EeTeuk with big puppy dog eyes and pouted. “EeTeuk, can we keep them?”
“You want to keep seventy five mice?” EeTeuk asked, looking into the cages of the mice, and DongHae nodded forlornly.
“Alright, we can keep them, but you have to clean the cages.” EeTeuk agreed quickly.
“Hooray!” DongHae shouted, jumping up and down excitedly. The truth was EeTeuk too, had wanted to keep the mice, but the droppings still disgusted him, and now it was DongHae’s job.
DongHae and EeTeuk smiled in at their new pet mice, and went to the kitchen to eat their dinner without the worry of surprises in the desk drawers.