This is basically how the conversation went, okay? I just want you all to know before this comes out in fic form and you all just stare a lot.

TINA: lololol, Caius/Adamo.
ME: YOU HAVE TO JUSTIFY IT.
TINA: Adamo, defender of the weak, gay and crazy?
ME: Now I am seeing him taking in kittens.
ME: Balfour would bring him kittens, all kinds of, um, er, I found this, you see, and it's very thin...
ME: ...oh god, what have we done.
TINA: They could live in the boots.
ME: Rook would kick them one day and there would be this sad little squeak.
ME: And everyone would stare while Balfour went slowly pink.
TINA: And someone would have an allergy.
TINA: Adamo?
ME: Compagno-- NO.
TINA: Who would drop it out the window to see if it lands on all fours?
ME: Balfour would scream like a girl. Rook would do it just to stop the sneezing.
TINA: And there could be a new dart game.
ME: jskafhjsdfdfjhfd
ME: MARRY ME.

[EDIT] Further notes, roughly chronological:

• SECRET KITTEN ALLIANCES: Thom is allergic to cats, which Rook approves of; the kitten plays with and loses Rook's earrings, which makes Thom smug.
• cat is fed in a sly and ninja-like way by EVERY SINGLE AIRMAN
• The kitten goes missing. PANICKED ACCUSATIONS BY BALFOUR followed by MENTAL HEALTH NIGHT FOR BALFOUR followed by/during Rook finding the kitten in Have's bay and learning how to shimmy like a cindy in a hurry
• Balfour is called a woman about 75 separate times when the kitten is returned.
• kitten tears > airmen
• lessons in fast talking: justifying kittens to th'Esar. "IT... IS AN EXERCISE! TO DEVELOP EMPATHY!"
• THE NAMING OF CATS: "ER. FRECKLE." (LATER, OUR OF TH'ESAR'S HEARING: "WHAT? NO!")
• Hal is the only person with the sense/experience to check the kitten's sex. Bewildered panic ensues.
• "Their daughter who beats up all the dogs."
• Oh god how do you pat a kitten when [spoiler]. T____T
• Kitten leaves trophies proudly on Adamo's desk; ROOK: WHO'S A VICIOUS LITTLE KILLER, THEN.

[EDIT] Er, and now that I have linked this at Thremedon, I feel like I need to make the notes a little less cryptic. I would remove the capslock but I feel this might undermine the point.