A Cats Christmas - 2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
None of the Jellicles were very pleased by the idea of letting the daughter of Macavity, who acted like Macavity, join them, but no one objected to much.
Old Deutoronomy also said, that until she could be trusted, at least two Jellicles must be with her at all times, especially while she was still out.
Mistoffelees and Munkustrap were the two toms who ended up with ‘short straws’. They had to watch her first. Mistoffelees wasn’t to thrilled, but Munkustrap didn’t say anything. Partly because he knew it was just another lesson he could learn something from. Since he would be the next Jellicle leader and needed all the knowledge he could get if he would have to deal with them.
"I still don’t like the idea. I mean, why can’t we just kill her?"
Munkustrap shot Mistoffelees a sharp look.
"Look, I don’t like the idea either, but who are we to kill her? Who knows, maybe Jenny’s right."
"You’re only saying that because you know she hears you."
"She can’t hear me."
"She might.."
"OH shut up."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As a few hours passed, the two toms were; scared, tired, bored, aggravated at being locked down there, hungry, and fidgety, and that caused many problems….
"Look, all I’m saying is that my fur is a hell of a lot shiner, Munku."
"Ha ha Misto, we both know, the shinest fur here, belongs to me."
"Yeah right! Look!" Mistoffelees stood up, and turned in a small circle. Munkustrap laughed.
"Yeah, look at that nice dust spot!" He laughed.
"What dust spot?"
"That one."
"Which one?"
"That one."
"There?"
"No there."
"Here?"
"To the left."
"Here?"
"To the right."
"There?"
"Forget it."
And if you thought that was bad, as more time passed, it got worse. Because they weren’t aloud to leave until morning, when Plato and Mungojerrie were coming in.
"Was that a bug?" Mistoffelees said worriedly.
"No."
"You didn’t even look."
"I don’t have to look, I can smell a bug, that wasn’t a bug."
"You couldn’t smell a bug if it sat on your nose."
"Bugs don’t sit."
"How do you know?"
"Because I do."
"Were you a bug?"
"No."
"Yes you were!"
"No I wasn’t!"
"HEY! Did she move?" Mistoffelees spat, changing the subject, Munkustrap, both dizzy and tired, could only shake his head.
"She’s only breathing."
"No she isn’t she’s moving!"
"No she is not!"
"Yes she is!"
"No she isn’t!"
In fact, Hyper did move, suddenly realizing she wasn’t where she thought she was, she froze. For a while, the toms were silent, so Hyper moaned.. Nothing… She frowned, and twitched… still nothing. She turned around, and saw her guard, sleeping. HA! He was sleeping he was supposed to be a guard, and he was sleeping. She stood up, and casually walked towards the exit. Wait! Guar’d’? No ‘s’? Oooh boy, she stopped, and turned around, and sure enough, there was her second guard.. He was tall…. Gray.. striped… blue eyed.. and gorgeous.
"Where do you think your going?"
"I’m……." Leaving? NO! Leave him, no way sister! She needed to get to know this tom… excuse an excuse..
"Where?"
The fall!
"I’m… not sure…"
The tom gave her a questioning look.
"I don’t…. I don’t remember," She acted lost, and sat back down on the quilt. "Who are you?" She could only grin to herself as she saw the toms realization to her act, amnesia.
Munkustrap frowned, uh… well, amnesia is good, now she isn’t like Macavity. Should he lie? Or tell the truth.
"I’m Munkustrap, my friends, Mistoffelees, Mungojerrie and I rescued you from…. From.. a… warehouse. You had a fall, and hit your head."
OH my god! He was lying!
He was lying! The tom was lying to her! HA! Munkustrap did he say. Hmm.
"Do you remember anything? Anything at all.."
"A little bit." She figured, hey, he’s cute, why lie completely, I’ll make up some true stuff. "My name….. my… my parents.. I know… I know I’ve got a sibling…. A….a sister I think."
"What’s your name?" Was he second guessing her?
"Hyperistithianniesbuea."
"Hmm. Mistoffelees!"
"AH!" Mistoffelees shot to his feet. "What?"
"Go get Old Duetoronomy, Skimbleshanks, Jennyanydots, and whoever else might be able to help.." Munkustrap turned to look at Hyper as his friend nodded, and ran outside. Obviously happy to get out of the little room.
Munkustrap looked Hyper over, he couldn’t help but notice a few of her…….. her…. .. uh… curves… The queen was well built… very well built. Her eyes, though different colors were lovely. One was a sapphire green, while the other a wild, burning orange. She looked bewildered, and figured she must be, if she has amnesia. She started laughing. Munkustrap stood up.
"Oh, I’ve never been able to lie for long! I don’t have amnesia!" Munkustrap frowned.
"You don’t have amnesia?"
"Nope."
"Then why’d you say you did?"
"You."
Munkustrap started to criticize but was taken by surprise.
"What..?"
"You’re cute, and I kinda like it here. If I have amnesia, I could stay."
"If you don’t act like your murderous father you can stay."
"Listen here tom, my dad ain’t murderous. He’s persuasive." She said leaping to her feet, and stepping towards Munkustrap. "Besides what are you going to do about it, me not having amnesia I mean. I can still fake it with them. Are they all going to believe you, against me? I can fake up tears, I can get what I want." Munkustrap now frowned, she had cornered him against the wall. She put her paws on his shoulders, and leaned forwards, pulling him into her kiss.
As Mistoffelees returned with Old Duetoronomy, Jennyanydots, Skimbleshanks, and Silabub, he was a bit shocked to see the display. Munkustrap had been cornered, and was now locked in a kiss, a rather one sided kiss, since his paws were at his side, with Hyper.
Skimble coughed, and suddenly the two realized they were being watched. Munkustrap looked rather cross, yet a bit embarrassed, and the captive looked utterly embarrassed.
"hmmmmm……" Silabub said putting her head on Mistoffelees’s shoulder. Mistoffelees looked at her out of the corner of his eye. Munkustrap cleared his throat, and walked out the nearest exit. Hyper slid down onto the quilt.
"Hyper?" Jenny said starting forward.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Demeter, Midnight, Mungojerrie, Rumpleteazer and Alonzo were the only ones awake when Munkustrap came storming up from out of the tire. He passed them all, his fists clenched, and disappeared into the trunk of the old ford.
Midnight mewed, Demeter frowned. "I’m going to see what’s wrong." She climbed into the ford and sat beside her brother.
"What’s wrong?" She put a paw on his shoulder. He was leaning against one of the sides, his eyes closed.
"She kissed me."
Demeter giggled slightly. "What? Who? Silabub?"
"No, her. Hyperisithiann-"
"The new queen? Macavity’s daughter?" Demeter frowned as Munkustrap nodded. "Why?"
"And I quote ‘"Oh, I’ve never been able to lie for long! I don’t have amnesia!" "You don’t have amnesia?" "Nope." "Then why’d you say you did?" "You." "What..?" "You’re cute, and I kinda like it here. If I have amnesia, I could stay." "If you don’t act like your murderous father you can stay." "Listen here tom, my dad ain’t murderous. He’s persuasive. Besides what are you going to do about it, me not having amnesia I mean. I can still fake it with them. Are they all going to believe you, against me? I can fake up tears, I can get what I want." Then she kissed me!" Demeter frowned.
"Did you tell dad?"
"No…."
"Why? She lied! She could hurt somebody and I-"
"Demeter!" Munkustrap’s sudden outburst frightened Demeter she jerked. Munkustrap frowned, and crawled towards Demeter, giving her a reassuring hug. "I .. I’m just tired." She smiled, and sat with him for a while, soon they fell asleep.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Demeter woke up about an hour later. Alonzo opened the car hood, and smiled kindly at her, she yawned, and crawled towards him. "I just needed to stay with him, until he fell asleep." She smiled, as if she had stayed awake.
"Uhuh, sure." Alonzo put his arm around her, they started to walk towards the tunnel.
"Where’s Midnight?" Demeter asked crawling into the tunnel before Alonzo.
"Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer volunteered to take her for the night. They’ve started to think about kittens, and kind of wanted to test out one." He smiled. Though the two cats had gotten names like, notorious, and cat burglars, all the Jellicles knew they were loyal, and trustworthy when it really mattered.
Alonzo crept up to Demeter, touching his nose with hers. He smiled, and laid down, Demeter laid down beside him, with one of her paws on his chest. "Hey Demi?"
"Hmm?"
"I’ve been meaning to ask, I love Midnight with all my heart, but… I was wondering, would it be possible to try for our own kittens?" Demeter sat up aburptly, looking at Alonzo. "I mean, Midnight is our kitten, but… like…" Demeter smiled, and laughed, shaking her head, and laying back down beside Alonzo.
"I know what you mean. I’m open for ideas." She grinned over at him.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Munkustrap awoke with a start. He opened the trunk, and climbed down into the room under the tire, Hyper was laying on the quilt, alone. She turned her head as he walked in.
"Ah, Munkustrap, come to return my kiss I see?" She sat up.
"Look Hyper, I know you’ve been playing little miss ‘amnesia’ with everyone else. So far I haven’t said anything, and I won’t, as long as-"
"Why?"
"What?"
"Why won’t you say anything?"
Munkustrap paused.
"I won’t say anything as long as you-"
"Why." Hyper stood up, Munkustrap straightened his posture a bit.
"Uhhuh…"
Hyper smiled. "Why?"
"B-……because I feel… I feel that if given the chance, we can stop you from taking after your father."
"Lie much?"
"What?"
"I said, do you lie much?" Hyper smiled, and yet again cornered Munkustrap. "Why did you come back down here? Just to tell me you haven’t told anyone…?"
"And I’m not going to as long as you promise me one thing.."
"What?"
"You don’t hurt the Jellicles…"
"Now, why would I do that." She gave a devilish laugh, and stepped in closer to Munkustrap. He felt utterly stupid, but adrenaline rushed through his body.
"B-b-b-because your father would, and I-" Munkustrap’s sentence was cut short as Hyper kissed him yet again.
Her paws were soon on his shoulders, though he felt stupid, instincts took over and he soon found his paws on her hips, holding her closer to him. The press of her hips against his sent him spinning. He knew she wasn’t to be trusted, but couldn’t help himself. Since he’d first set eyes on the queen, he’d seen her beauty. After a few minutes of being locked in a rather shocking -for both Hyper and Munkustrap- kiss, Hyper pulled back slightly, smiling.
"There, now that wasn’t so bad was it?" Hyper said, still smiling. Munkustrap started as if to say something, Hyper cut him off. "And I wasn’t the only one kissing that time." She smiled, and looked down at his paws, still planted on her hips. He immediately pulled his paws to his sides.
"What was that for?" Hyper said, frowning, and sitting down.
"You can’t be trusted."
"I bet you wouldn’t have said that if you thought I still had amnesia. What is it between you and my dad? What he ever do to you?"
"My sister-"
"To you?" She said, firmly.
"Nothing." Munkustrap muttered, turning to face the exit.
"Nothing?"
"But he has tormented my friends!" He turned, and glared at her.
"How?"
"He abducted my sister, he nearly killed my father, he attacked Alonzo!" He turned back to look at the exit.
"Does that really make him all that bad? I know a few things that might change your mind about how you look at my father.."
"Like what?" Munkustrap said sharply, turning to face Hyper, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Well, specifically, things your father did to him."
"What? Old Deutoronomy never-"
"Never told you."
Munkustrap looked at her, squinting his eyes and pinning back his ears, but she looked sure of what she was talking about.
"Told me what?"
"He and Macavity are brothers."
"That doesn’t justify-"
"May I continue?"
Munkustrap frowned. "They grew up together, and when they found out Old Duetoronomy was to be leader,"
"Wait, leader? Leader of the Jellicles? Macavity was a Jellicle?" Hyper nodded, and continued.
"Macavity was a bit upset, being the oldest of the two."
"So he attacked-"
"Are you always this rude?" Hyper looked over at Munkustrap as he sat down in front of her. "He congratulated Duetoronomy, but then complained to their father. Duetoronomy found out he’d been complaining, and brought the subject up while they were talking one day. Macavity said he feels that he should be leader, being the oldest. They got into a," She stopped, "verbal argument, and Duetoronomy soon lost his temper, and pushed Macavity up against the wall. A few of Duetoronomy’s friends, Skimbleshanks, Jennyanydots, Jellylorum, Asparagus and Gus, were right there, and soon were standing next to Duetoronomy. They banished Macavity, who swore he’d get even. Duetoronomy banished Macavity just because he didn’t agree with Deutoronomy’s opinion."
"But-"
"But nothing! Munkustrap, don’t you see, your leader isn’t as, ‘just’ as he says he is!" Hyper said, putting a paw on Munkustrap’s. Munkustrap frowned, and left. "You can’t deny it Munkustrap! You know it’s true!" She shouted after him.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Continuation