Catnapped, Part 3

JANE: My political beliefs aren't the responsibility of sinister "voices in my head."
JANE: And my election to the presidency wasn't some plot by Strider.
JANE: He managed my campaign, yes, but...
JANE: He only ever wanted me to be happy and successful...
JANE: (Sniff.)
JASPROSESPRITE^2: Wait, are you crying?
JANE: (Sob!)
JANE: Are you going to mock me for this, as well?
JANE: Missing my friends?
JASPROSESPRITE^2: Mrow!
JASPROSESPRITE^2: I wouldn't dream of it, catnip.
JASPROSESPRITE^2: I get it, you're defensive. You're a fighter.
JASPROSESPRITE^2: The heart of a warrior beats like a drum in your ample bosom!
JASPROSESPRITE^2: Maybe even without my alternate-universe half-ectofather pulling the strings for you, you'd win in a landslide.
JASPROSESPRITE^2: But that election wasn't fair. You won with less votes than your opponent!
JANE: That used to happen in presidential elections all the time in Am–
JASPROSESPRITE^2: Hiss!!!
JASPROSESPRITE^2: If you start talking about America again, I will drop you right on the floor.
JASPROSESPRITE^2: You made a new world to shape and knead with your very own paws!
JASPROSESPRITE^2: It doesn't have to be the same as the old.
JASPROSESPRITE^2: If you want to run that planet, you have to win it fair and square.
JASPROSESPRITE^2: No Prince. No gerrymandering. No superpacs. No snipers in high towers.
JANE: Even *if* I agreed, my opponent is gone.
JANE: Poof!
JANE: How could we do over an election with no one running against me?
JASPROSESPRITE^2: You let me worry about that, Crocker.
JASPROSESPRITE^2: I'm clawing up with an opponent for you as we speak.
JASPROSESPRITE^2: But enough politics. You're a great dancer. >;3c
JASPROSESPRITE^2: Don't mind me, just scurrying by!
JASPROSESPRITE^2: I hope you two lovely ladies are enjoying your honeymoon. Don't overindulge!
JASPROSESPRITE^2: Hey toots.
JASPROSESPRITE^2: How's the evening going for my favorite himbo?
JAKE: Favorite what now?
JAKE: Its quite loud in here and i think i must have misheard you.
JASPROSESPRITE^2: Never mind.
JASPROSESPRITE^2: You look drunker than you were when you first dragged yourself in through my kitty door, and that's saying something.
JAKE: Oh well that bartender makes a mean gin fizz.
JAKE: And i cant say no to an expert mixologist after all!
JASPROSESPRITE^2: The Flinty Glasswipe?
JAKE: Im sorry what did you call me?
JASPROSESPRITE^2: That's the bartender's name.
JAKE: Oh of course.
JAKE: How is it going with ol janey?
JAKE: I hope youre being a bit nicer with her.
JAKE: Shes got a good heart you know.
JAKE: I think shes just a bit tired of being discounted and cant abide being bossed around!
JAKE: I dont get it myself. Id love having the kind of help she has getting through her day.
JAKE: A bunch of business types and organizers with clipboards keeping track of everything she has to do.
JAKE: Why it almost makes you think anyone could be president with a team like that!
JASPROSESPRITE^2: Funny you should say that.
JASPROSESPRITE^2: Jane and I have just agreed to redo the election more fairly.
JAKE: Wow thats awfully magnanimous of her!
SWIFER: Oh, howdy there, ma'am!
SWIFER: We were just talking about you.
JASPROSESPRITE^2: Murr-wow! I do love to be known.
JASPROSESPRITE^2: You were saying nice things about me, I hope.
SWIFER: Quite skippily! Except for the part where my moirail called me a "big gay slut," haha.
JASPROSESPRITE^2: Well, are you?
SWIFER: !
CLIPER: ⁂loll⁂
SWIFER: Um, well.
JASPROSESPRITE^2: I'm just kitten. How's the party treating you both?
SWIFER: Good! Good. This place is the bee's knees, but, well...
CLIPER: ⁂we got invited to a political meetinn⁂
CLIPER: ⁂at some point wed like to get things done⁂
JASPROSESPRITE^2: Oh, don't worry about that. I've already got Purresident Crocker to agree to a new, fair election.
SWIFER: Holy toledo! You did?
JASPROSESPRITE^2: In purrinciple, yes.
SWIFER: But wait...
SWIFER: Mister Vantas is gone with Mx Lalonde, Mister Strider, Miss Harley and uh...someone else I forget?
SWIFER: Who will run against Miss Crocker?
JASPROSESPRITE^2: Well, think about what the voters would want to really oppose a god. You want someone down-to-earth, from the working class.
SWIFER: Right...
JASPROSESPRITE^2: Someone already compurrting themselves well in the public arena.
JASPROSESPRITE^2: (Now that I've got the political future of the planet sorted out, I can get back to my masterclass seduction attempt.)
JASPROSESPRITE^2: (But first, I'll purr out the window thoughtfully...)
JASPROSESPRITE^2: (Really sell Jane on my intellectual broodiness.)
JASPROSESPRITE^2: (Wait...is that...)
JASPROSESPRITE^2: OWO
JASPROSESPRITE^2: What's this?