Why won't you guys review? Please? Pretty please with Misto on top? Disclaimer: I simply do not own cats or TMI. So, just for the record, some parts of this story actually came from another story I started writing, but never felt like typing up. Wait, make that two stories. Anyway, make the poor Jellicle girl happy and review. ONWARD!

-Samantha POV-

I had never thought about it before, but Misto was quite cute. But, I had vowed never to take a chance on uncertain boys, after Magnus. I just couldn't. I couldn't stand to have my heart broken again. But, as we laughed and talked, I couldn't help but fall in love. It surprised me, because I had only known him for what… three hours? Of course, my mom would freak. A cat? I must be joking. But I am 19… I should be able to decide for myself without my parents looking over my shoulder all the time. Anyway, it should be Magnus who watches Alec. If he doesn't, the Shadowhunter might get carried away with Tugger.

Misto and I hung out over the following days. The tribe wasn't making a move to figure out what was killing off the Jellicles yet. Or, at least, that's what it seemed like. I could tell that Maryse was getting tired of housing the cats. I didn't want her to send them away, but that's what would happen if they didn't get a move on. I told Misto my concerns, and he said he would speak to Munkustrap about it.

I tried to think of what could possibly be killing the tribe. Other than Macavity, I couldn't think of anything. We had already decided that it wasn't the 'Hidden Paw', because some of his cats had died as well. Two Jellicles that Mistoffelees had known who had died was a beautiful red queen named Roxanne1, and her half sister Reyna. Reyna had been his mate until she died.

I wondered what it might be like to leave my life behind all together. What if I had to leave behind my friends, my adopted family, my career... and Jesse? Oh, Jesse. My beautiful bay gelding was practically my whole being. I lived to ride him practically. Of course, he wasn't really mine; I was only leasing him from his owner, Natalie. She didn't have much time to ride, so I rode him instead.

I thought about what life was like for me. When I was very young, my parents, who were mundanes, found out that I was a warlock. They were afraid to keep me, so I was adopted by a Shadowhunter family, the Tripps. The Tripps ran the New Haven institute, and I made friends there quickly. Another family, the Norms, lived there as well, with their daughter, Christina. We visited the institute in New York a lot, so I became friendly with the normal crew there: Jace, Clary, and the lightwoods. Christina did also, and she took a liking to Alec at once. Too bad he was gay, and dating our other new friend, Magnus. We spent a lot of time going back and forth between the two institutes, and when our parents had to do business together, we would spend the night at Magnus's house.

I considered myself lucky to live at an institute. Although I was a warlock, I received Shadowhunter training. But, because I wasn't a Shadowhunter, it was more of a free-for-all, so I could take breaks whenever I wanted to. It gave me pleasure to watch the others struggle through midair back flips while I sat on the side reading a book.

I wondered what it would have been like if I had grown up as a mundane. What if I had never discovered that I was a warlock, and then ended up hurting somebody because of it… how would that have ended? Bad, probably. I could just see my poor mundane parents going to jail, and me being forced to go to the Clave, while I had no idea what was really going on. Yeah….that would end badly, all right. No doubt about it.

However, my horrid thoughts were interrupted by a voice outside my bedroom door.

"Samantha? SAMANTHA!" It was Mistoffelees. I jumped off the bed and raced to the door, pulling it open.

"Yes?"

Mistoffelees grinned. "We found what's killing off the Jellicles!"

My eyes lit up. "Really? What?"

Mistoffelees hesitated. "Well, you're not going to like this, but…"

"Yes?" I pressed on, just wanting to know.

"Well, you see," he said, "It's-"

He was cut off by the quite disturbing act of Jemima darting into the room, followed by Munkustrap.

Munkustrap looked up at me hesitantly.

"It's….."

Duhn, duhn, duhn…. Ha! That, my dear readers is where I leave you. You will have to wait until next time to find out what it is. Although, if you are an avid TMI fan, you will be able to figure it out, I'm sure. So….

If you can guess what is killing them off, put it in a review, and if you are right, you will get recognition. So start reading…. And reviewing! So, as a trick…. If you don't give me a review in your entry, I won't count it…. So HA!

But before I go….. 1: x-Stage-STARR-x…. this is your reward for winning first in my comp….. A mention of Roxanne. Sorry I made her die, but I had to…. Sorry….

GOOD DAY TO YOU ALL!