Here u go! Another chapter! I hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: still haven't written that novel...

"Oh, the poor, darling kittens! Jennyanydots cried when Munkustrap, Alonzo, and the three kittens walked into her den and told a disjointed version of the story. While she checked the trio over for injuries with the help of her friend, Jellylorum, Munkustrap watched his friend. Alonzo had spaced out and was staring at his paws, frowning. Munk shuffled over to sit next to him.

"You ok?" He whispered. Alonzo snapped out of his trance to look at his friend.

"Yeah, I'm fine!" Alonzo smiled a little too enthusiastically. The other tom blinked.

"What's on your mind?" Munkustrap asked quietly. Alonzo sighed, giving up the act.

"Just... I was thinking about my parents. And theirs It's so stupid how some cats are heartless enough to abandon their kittens like that. Kittens need their parents more than anyone else and their parents just turn their back and leave them to die!" Munk put his arm around his friend's shoulders, who leaned into his friend's embrace and rested his head on Munk's shoulder, sniffing. The two sat in silence while Jenny and Jelly finished examining the kittens.

"Who wants food?" Jenny stood up and rubbed her paws together.

"Mee! Mee!" Tumblebrutus and Pouncival shouted, causing Plato to start crying again.

"Come on you, let's eat." Munkustrap pulled his friend to his feet and they followed Jenny and the kittens to her kitchen.

Munkustrap and Alonzo sat opposite Pouncival and Tumblebrutus as Jenny placed a mouse in front of each of them. The brothers were already bickering.

"I should get the bigger mouse, Pounce, since I'm the oldest." Tumblebrutus said, plucking the dead animal out of his brother's paws and replacing it with his own, smaller one.

"Yes but I'm younger than you and I need more food so I should get the bigger mouse." Pounce said, swapping them back immediately.

"That's stupid! I need to be big and strong so I can protect you!"

"No you're stupid! Give it back!"

"It's mine!"

"But I had it first!"

"Stop it, both of you!" Jenny interrupted. The brothers looked at the floor. "If you both want it that badly, why don't we split it?" She took the mouse carefully and cut it in half with a slightly rusty knife. She handed one half to Tumble and the other to Pounce. They smiled, their argument forgotten, and started chewing on their half of the animal.

"Jenny the peacemaker." Alonzo whispered to Munkustrap, grinning. The silver tabby grinned back. The gumbie cat swatted him over his ear, smiling slightly.

"And what does Plato normally eat?" Jenny asked the kittens. They stared at each other wide eyed.

"Um... uh..." they spluttered, turning a bright red.

"Right." She said, understanding their embarrassment. "I'll ask the twins to steal some milk for him. Normally I wouldn't encourage stealing, but it looks like it's needed." She put her paws on her hips and watched the four toms eating. She nodded in satisfaction.

"Are they staying here?" Jenny asked Munkustrap quietly.

"If they want to, I guess."

"Will they have someone to stay with?"

"I don't know." He replied. There was a pause.

"They're sweet little things, aren't they?" Jenny cooed.

"Mm." Munk replied shortly, too busy eating to give a proper answer. There was another pause.

"I think... I think that if no one else wants to adopt them... and they want to stay... I think I might adopt them..." Munkustrap stopped mid-chew and stared at her, his eyes shining happily.

"You'll need to ask Skimble." Munk teased, earning a swat from a blushing Jenny. Everyone was certain that Jennyanydots and Skimbleshanks were going to be mated at the next Jellicle Ball during the mating dance. The two cats were very much embarrassed at the topic, both blushing furiously whenever it was brought up. Neither of them denied it though.

"Anyway, I'll go look for Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer and ask them to steal the milk." And so she left, waving at the toms and stroking Plato's headfur. Alonzo and Munkustrap turned their attention to the kittens, who was trying to calm a crying Plato. They were making faces, and stroking his headfur, and trying to feed him bits of mouse, but to no avail. He kept crying. The two older brothers looked at each other.

"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine," Tumble started singing, slightly panicked.

"You make me happy, when skies are grey," Pounce nodded and joined in.

"You'll never know, dear, how much I love you,

Please don't take my sunshine away." Plato had stopped crying and was staring at his brothers, wide-eyed.

"Where did you learn that?" Alonzo asked quietly. They jumped and spun around, looking as if they had forgotten that the two older toms were there.

"Mummy used to sing that to us when we were little. And then she taught it to us when Plato was born." Tumble said sincerely. Alonzo smiled at the three brothers.

They would be inseparable.

Or so they thought.