Someone To Watch Over You
Author: The Passionate Admiral
Rating: K+
Disclaimer: I own CATS no more than Pauly Shore can win an Oscar.
Plot: Admetus has always been a shy member of the Jellicle Tribe. But he's always had the desire to contribute something to both the tribe and all the other cats in London. One day, he discovers that he has the potential to make this contribution all on his own.
Early one morning, Admetus walked through the clearing in the Jellicle Junkyard. Most of his friends were still asleep, and he generally preferred spending a little time alone in the morning.
He approached the tallest pile in the Junkyard and started climbing up it. It was a little steep, but Admetus was not acrophobic.
After thirty seconds, he reached the top of the pile. He sat at the top and looked all around him. He got a great view of the city of London from that height. He could see the buildings, the trees, and even the roads.
London was a beautiful place; it had always been Admetus' home, as well as the home of everyone else in the Jellicle Tribe.
But despite its outward appearance, London, like any other major city, was not entirely a utopia.
Admetus was well-aware of the crime-rate in the city, as well as the numerous crimes that were committed every day, even though most of them went unnoticed. There were forgeries, assaults, robberies, and several atrocious crimes that he did not even wish to think about.
These crimes were not restricted to humans. There were many animals in the city that committed acts that went against their species's values. There were dogs, birds, mice, and many other animals that conducted such horrid acts. Worst of all, there were many cats involved in crime. Some of them were ones that the Jellicle Tribe knew, such as Macavity the Mystery Cat.
Admetus had a strange ambition to do something about this unfortunate circumstance. But he was just one cat. What could a single cat do to contribute to the security of the animal population of an entire city?
"What'cha thinking about, 'Metus?" a sweet female voice interrupted his meditation.
Admetus turned around to see a white and brown queen-kit smiling at him. It was his mate, Etcetera.
"I was just lost in deep thought, Cetty," he answered her.
"About what?" she asked.
"Nothing of great significance," he answered.
"Okay," said Etcetera. "I was just about to have breakfast. I was wondering if you would like to join me?"
"Of course I would," he grinned at her. Admetus had not realized that he had spent an entire hour thinking on top of the junkpile.
He and Etcetera went back down to the clearing. There, they found Admetus' older brother, Plato, with his mate, Electra.
"Glad you could find him," Electra grinned at her best friend.
"How long were you looking for me?" Admetus asked.
"About twenty minutes," said Plato, "I can't believe it took us that long to look up."
"I can," said a grey, white, and brown Tom lying on the trunk of the TS-E1 car a few feet away. He was Pouncival, Etcetera's older brother.
"Gee, thanks, Pouncival," Admetus said sarcasstically.
"You're welcome," Pouncival leered. Then he got up and left the other four alone.
"Let's eat!" said Etcetera.
During breakfast, the four of them talked about their hobbies and various other things. They talked about how excited they were about the upcoming Jellicle Ball, but all of them avoided mentioning the Mating Dance, as it was still a somewhat uncomfortable topic for Electra and Etcetera.
A few hours later, Admetus was on his own again.
While the rest of the kittens were playing together in the junkyard, he was sitting to the side, watching Etcetera. The two of them had much in common.
Etcetera hated all the pain and suffering going on in the world just as much as he did. But emotionally, it affected her much more than him. She was afraid of the dangers of the outside world, and she wanted them to end too. In fact, just a few days earlier, they had seen a stray cat getting massacred and killed by a group of vicious dogs. Admetus would have intervened to save the cat, but the dogs had intimidated him.
Presently, Admetus' thoughts went back to Etcetera. She took up a lot of the space in his mind. He loved her with all his heart; she loved him just as much in return. He would do anything for her, and he always wanted to see her happy.
Admetus thought about all the crimes in the city of London, and then he thought about Etcetera. The two of them would never really go well together.
And so on that spot, Admetus decided that he would do something to bring the crime rates amongst animals in the city down. If not for the other cats in the city, it would be for his mate.
But there was only one question that he needed to answer for himself: How could this be accomplished?
I know this was a mostly uneventful opening, but the story will get more exciting in the next chapter!
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