They walked into an alley, and Phedra slumped down against a garbage can, they had walked for about two hours straight and were exhausted, Pandora soon followed suit, as did Munkustrap.
It wasn't long before Phedra had falled asleep, and the other two cats were watching over her. Munkustrap shifted a bit, but retracted his paw as he had shifted so that it was resting on Pandora's butt, she lifted her head, but he had turned away, so she walked around him, and lay on his other side.
"You didn't have move it you know", she told him, but he pretended to be asleep, "Munk!", she gave him a nudge, "I knew you weren't asleep, I said you didn't have to move your paw".
"Huh? What are you talking about, Pandora?", Munkustrap tried to act soft, but his facade didn't fool her.
"Your paw. You didn't have to move it. From my butt", she giggled as his expression changed from playing the fool, to being damn right embarassed.
"What? My paw was touching your butt?", he exclaimed.
"Uh huh, and I said you didn't need to move it, I enjoyed it", she gave him a wink again.
"Uh...uhh, I must have been dreaming, yeah, dreaming", he searched for the words.
"Must have been a pretty good dream?"
He was speechless, she'd caught him off-guard. "Okay, okay, you win, you caught me red-handed..., sorry, I didn't mean that...", she cut him off, she placed a finger over his lips to silence him.
"Was it a good dream then?"
"So, what do you say we find a more private garbage can...catch my drift?", he was very pursuasive, as she agreed.
"But what about, Phedra? What if she wakes up and I'm not there? What if...", now it was his turn to silence her, with a kiss, "She'll be fine, come on".
He took her paw in his and lead her off towards a place he knew all too well...The Jellicle Junkyard.
"Where are we Munk?", she asked him.
"Somewhere special only a selected few know of", he answered.
"Oh, okay"
When they got to the 'somewhere special only a selected few know of', Munkustrap left Pandora to take in the breaktaking view over the whole Yard, as he went to collect a sleeping Phedra.
"Wow", is all Pandora could say to herself, and as she turned to show her reaction to Munk, he had vanished, "Munk?!"
"It's okay, I'm here", he bounded back into sight with her sister in his arms.
"Thanks Munk", she leaned in and gave him a quick lick on the nose, he could've dropped Phedra, because at this moment, he didn't know what was happening to him, his guess was he was becoming an adult tom. His guess was correct. He became all hot and flustered, and began to blush under his silvery fur.
"Munk? Are you okay?", asked Pandora, she had noticed his sudden change in attitude towards her, going from a little embarassed when she had caught him with his paw on her butt, to down right shyness around her, a change which had happened within several minutes of moving from one sopt to another. "You're not...mad at me are you? I mean, I know we've only just met and all, but...". He cut her off again, this time he had placed Phedra down on the floor, and swept Pandora into his arms, and was now kissing her, in only a way she had ever dreamed of.
"Mad? Me? At you? Don't be stupid Dora." he began to say, after the kiss had finished, "I really like you, and hope you feel the same way about me?", he hoped she'd say yes.
"Munk! Of course I feel the same way, it's just" she stopped to think of a way to explain it to him, "Munk, listen, I know Macavity's your brother and all, but Phed and I, we live with him and she's his mate, me being his bit on the side, but that's where we make our home. As soon as he's healed and feeling he's got the strength, he'll come for us, and I don't won't you to get hurt or anything saving us, so, I think it's best if we don't see each other a..." Munk had turned his back and Pandora could she he was shaking, "Munk? Say something? Please."
He turned back to face her, and looked into her deep, golden eyes, "Dora, I want you and Phedra to come and live with us". He noticed Pandora's puzzled expression, "What?"
"Us?"
"Yeah, my family and our tribe"
"You have a tribe?"
"Yeah, we're called the Jellicles, have you ever heard of us?"
Phedra suddenly woke up and sat bolt upright, "Jellicles? That's where I know you from!"
"Guessing you've heard of us then?", Munkustrap chuckled as he helped Phedra up onto her feet.
"Yeah, and I know you, you say you're Macavity's brother?"
"Yes, unfortunately, how do you know me then?"
"Well, before Dora and I went to live properly with Macavity, I had a bit of a tendancy to wander. And one day I wandered into a strange place, with lots of garbage and like, junk everywhere, everywhere was as silent as can be, and me being me walked into a pile of trash, and sent it clattering to the ground. I tried to get away from the commotion I'd caused but, my path was blocked by a certain silver tom, and that's how I know you. I knew I'd see you again someday!" Phedra wrapped her arms around Munkustrap, unaware of the past ten minutes or so that Pandora and Munk had spent together, "Do you remember me?!"
"Well, actually, come to think of it...yeah. I'm sorry if I frightened you but, it's my job, well it is now, wasn't then. I'm the tribe's protector, and the next inline to Jellicle Leader"
"I've heard of you. You're Old Deuteronomy's son, aren't you?" Asked Pandora, she had recognised too, "I recognise you from somewhere too, but I can't seem to put my claw on it, let me mull over it, it'll come back to me, soon. I hope"
"Yeah, somewhere, I knew I'd saw that fur somewhere before too, you'd never forget fur like that, it's stunning", he walked around her, looking her up and down, "Just like you", he whispered in Pandora's ear, and she turned a darker shade of scarlet than her fur.
"Well, since we've been talking about the tribe, let's go and meet them!", Munkustrap announced to the sisters.
"Really?" asked Phedra.
"Really, really" answered Munkustrap.
And with that, he led the way towards the entrance to the Jellicle Junkyard and the tribe that lived inside...
Author's Note: Bit of a random chapter, I know! But I thought I'd stick a little bit of a history behind the Phedra and Munkustrap characters
Let me know what you think. XD