Chapter 3
Tugger was staring at the roof of his den. He had just told Bomba about Matella, and she took it quite well. All she did was hit him on the head with a few cat toys and yelled until she realized that Julia did something terrible and he was now haunted by the memory. Now they were trying to figure out what to do with this kit.
"You're all she has left, you need to take care of her," Bomba was telling him as she fondled with his mane.
"Have I shown any signs of being a good father? I'm a fantastic lover, but not a father."
"I have to agree with the lover part, but you are so good with kits."
"Yeah, but that's because I make them squeal, people would want to murder me if I tried that with her."
"But you have to do something; she needs a parental figure to take care of her."
"I know, but I'm not a parent! I'm still young, and I was barely a tom when she was born!"
"Do something, she's now all alone! How many times do I have to say that? Every one in the yard has at least one parent. Imagine life without Jenny or old D."
"It's hard to, but I told you a million times, I WILL MAKE A TERRIBLE FATHER!"
"At least be there for her, she needs someone."
"Why cant Jenny or Jelly be there? They are good with kits."
"Lazy bastard," Bomba got up and walked over to the entrance. "Until you start taking care of Matella, your not getting any of me in your den, and don't even think about getting some from the other queens."
"Come on Bomba baby, I have no clue how to raise a kitten!"
"Julia gave you a head start, now all you need to do is to raise her till she's a full queen, got it?"
"Got it." and with that, Bomba sauntered out of his den, feeling victorious.
"Why me?"
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"Are you Matella?" Bomba asked the mini main coon who was sitting alone. She has come out to the clearing to find Demeter's den and had noticed her sitting in front of the clock.
"Yes, and you are?" she responded.
"I'm Bombalurina, I'm your fathers mate." Bomba sat down next to the kit. She knew with Tugger that one day she would have to say that.
"What he is going to do now that I'm here?"
"I told him that until he starts treating you as a daughter that I'm going to stay with my sister. So in about 3 days he will start acting like a father."
"3 days, are you sure he will give up so soon?"
"Yeah, ever since we became mates he couldn't sleep without me."
"Is that right for you to do that to him?"
"Yes, it's not just because he needs to take care of you, but…" she just trailed off and looked down at the ground.
"What's wrong?"
"Jenny told me yesterday that… I'm going to have a kit." Matel stared at her. Bomba pulled her knees up to her chin and wrapped her arms around her legs.
"I wanted to tell him so soon, but I remembered he isn't good at stuff that doesn't include the bedroom. So when I heard about you, I tried to convince him to be a father so when he finally liked raising kits I could tell him about our own little one."
"So if he doesn't like me you're screwed?"
"Sounds about right, but he loves kits, the girls want to date him and the boys want to be him."
"Wow, he's really all that?"
"That and much, much more, some of the female kits will call you lucky."
"I have already met Etcetera, she's really annoying."
"I know, you should have seen her when Tugger and I became mates, she went ape shit. We had to get Alonzo and Munkus to hold her back from strangling me."
After this, Bomba knew that Matel had hope. If they could get along, Tugger would love her.