Tiger couldn't feel anymore pain.

She felt her body wake up. In her ears, she could no longer hear the sound of scared, muffled human voices or the mysterious, artificial beeping sounds of the heart rate monitor. Everything was silent.

"Ohh I need a good long stretch." She thought as she flexed her limbs, and much to her delight she could feel the sun and the heat on her fur.

Her eyes opened, and were immediately greeted with a bright hot sun and cloudless blue sky. Nothing like her dark, cosy bed-basket. Nothing like the veterinary practise she was in not long ago. Nothing like London, in fact.

"Ooh... this is nice..." she thought. "Very nice..."

So she stood up on her all fours and crept away from the shady spot which she was laying near.

"Where am I?" Tiger stopped walking on the warm basalt rock beneath her paws.

She looked all around her. Below the basalt the land descended into a dip with a stream from a waterfall running through the middle. On the sloping hills there was a thick blanket of lush green leafy trees, seagulls flying above the canopies. Further away in the distance was a blue ocean, its surface sparkling in the sunlight with mountainous islands in the horizon. And where Tiger was standing the bushes around her had colourful, exotic flowers growing unlike the ones in the garden in London.

In fact, this wasn't London at all. She was in a beautiful tropical ravine.

A million exciting thoughts and ideas rushed to Tiger's head as she surveyed her new environment full of liberty and possibilities.

"Maybe I could catch some of those wild birds for the human!" She thought as she bounded down the rocky scree towards the valley, the birds flying above her head and teasing her as she chased after them.

But a though it her head occurred.

"How do I get back to the habitat from here?" She stopped running and looked around her worriedly.

Just as she pondered this she heard a deep bellowing behind her, and she spun around. There was a monsoon approaching, and high amidst the lavender grey clouds flashes of lightning could be seen, illuminating the clouds.

"Looks like I'll have to wait until later..." she turned around to head back up the grassy rock face to the viewpoint where she was before.

As she made her way there clouds had quickly travelled overhead, and by the time she'd reached the top droplets of water started to fall, pitter patter all over the basalt.

"Uughhhh nooo! It's raining already! My fur is getting wet!" Tiger thought as she headed towards a shady area under some large boulders with dark craggy caves in between them nearby.

She curled up at the foot of the cave only to hear the loud breathing and thudded footsteps of what seemed to be a larger, and perhaps more threatening being.

So the feline was quick on her feet, ears back and fur standing up at the ends, backing away from the mouth of the cave.

"What are you?" She hissed in defence, her eyes wide. "Who are you?! Don't eat me!"

Through the darkness she could see two big dark eyes shining back at her as they reflected natural light, getting bigger as they moved towards her.

But there was something about the eyes, a famliar and warm kindness in the way they sparked. Tiger felt safer as she looked into them, getting a feeling of being back home again, and they almost didn't seem feline at all...

"Human," Tiger thought, her state of mind relaxing a little. "They're the eyes of my favourite human!"

But as the mysterious creature emerged from the black cave it wasn't revealed to be Freddie, much to Tiger's disappointment.

"What?!" Tiger looked up at the sight towering over her in confusion.

It was a big, black cat. It had a sleek black coat, long jaw, large paws, a muscular body and a loud, deep purr. Yet it still had the eyes of Tiger's favourite human being, and now it puzzled her greatly.

It was a panther.

"Uhhhhh, hello." Tiger mewed frightfully as she began to tremble. "I'm a little lost."

Suddenly, and swiftly, with its jaws the panther picked Tiger up by the scruff of her neck like any cat mother does with its baby, although the funny thing was that the panther was in fact male.

"Wh-Where are you taking me?" Tiger panicked a little as the panther carried her back into his cave.

Sending Tiger's discomfort and vulnerability, the Panther set her down before settling. But before she could scram, the panther stopped her with a large paw, pulling her back towards him and cradling her between his two paws.

"Wow... You really do like getting close to cats you've only just met." Tiger meowed uneasily.

Still, the panther looked back down at her with his kind eyes, bending down to affectionately nuzzle Tiger as if she was one of his own cubs. Tiger instantly felt a rapport as she looked back up into the panther's gaze, a connection even. It was almost as if it was one of those evenings when she would be curled up in Freddie's arms in front of the television, or on his lap as he played piano in the lounge, feeling warm and safe and secure.

The loud purrs of the panther began to rhythmically relax Tiger, and soon enough she could feel her eyelids drooping as her body and mind floated further away.

Maybe she was finally at peace. She didn't care what happened to her anymore, but someone did, and he was absolutely tearing himself up about it...