JHR: 10

Hi everyone! I'm finally back from China and dealing with some serious jetlag issues. *Yawn* Anyway, I've been working on this and I hope you like it.

Don't Know and Don't Care 38: Thanks for reviewing! Thanks ALSO for the criticism. What's great about Admetus and all the minor characters, is that don't have very definite personalities and are very vague. You can expand on them very well, to your liking. Well, that's just my opinion. Thanks for adding JHR to your favorites!

musicgal3: Thanks for reviewing! The flashbacks are aren't they? They are definitely much different than anybody's every done. It had such an amazing time writing about the flashbacks. I hope nobody copies my idea though, that would be such a pain.

SensesFaillixx: Thanks for reviewing! I'm sorry I killed him, will you still read and review though? Yes, I purposely made the Admetus, Electra, mystery queen, very confusing, so you guys would have to think about it :)

ElectraDemeter: Thanks for reviewing! Yeah, can't go burying him in the sea. Where would they put the flowers?

Jackpot10222: Thanks for reviewing! I'm glad you liked the ending! And thanks so much for waiting, well here it is!

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LET IT BEGIN!

"Hey, Jem! Wait up!" Rumpleteazer ran to catch up with Jemima who was walking home with her sister.

"Oh hi, Teazer," Jemima greeted still walking.

"Hi," she said back. Since the tiger tabby wanted to talk to Jemima alone, seeing Victoria made her quite nervous.

"Um, listen Jemi. I need to ask you something," Rumpleteazer said shakily. She shot a look at Victoria.

"Oh, okay," Victoria said acknowledging what Teazer meant, "Jem, I'm going to go ahead. See you at home."

Rumpleteazer mouthed a grateful 'thank you,' which Victoria replied with a quick wink.

"That's fine. Later, Victoria," Jemima waved goodbye. She turned to the tiger tabby.

"Is something wrong?"

"Yeah," Rumple said shakily. Her legs started to wobble with worry, so she sat down on a nearby bench, "But . . . I really don't want to trouble you."

Jemima followed her friend and sat next to her, "Don't worry. I'll help. What happened?"

Jemima's melodic seemed to calm Rumpleteazer before she hesitantly answered, "I like Tumblebrutus,"

Jemima let out a playful, girly giggle and smiled, "What's new?"

"Was I that obvious?" asked a grinning Teazer.

"Only to me," Jemima reassured, "So what happened?"

"I told Etcy I liked him. She supported the idea and told me to tell him. So, I did, and he gave me a weird face. I took that as a sign of failure. When I told Etcetera what happened, she said, that maybe that didn't mean he disliked me. She didn't seem to angry at Tumble, but that all changed when she saw him asking you out,"

Jemima nodded, "I rejected him though, he was quite rude when he asked me,"

Rumpleteazer continued, "She looked like she was going to kill him, and took him outside. I couldn't find them. Don't you think that's slightly suspicious? She takes a tom into a place, where I, a burglar cat could not find them. Then Etcetera came back in very calm. And Tumblebrutus did too," she looked at Jemima.

The very concerned calico tried to straighten things out, "Etcetera is your best fri-"

"was," Rumpleteazer corrected.

Jemima sighed, "Ok. Was your best friend. She wouldn't do something like that. Maybe she is a little, you know, 'playful.' But you should know more than anyone, that she is very sensitive."

Rumpleteazer tried to think of something to say. The small kitten had quite an abundance of persuasive abilities.

"True, but-but-but,"

Jemima gave her a 'You're really going to go there?' look.

The tiger tabby was out of things to say and decided to set things straight with her best friend.

"You're right,"

Jemima nodded and smiled, "You got your answer."

Rumpleteazer jumped with happiness and realization. She clapped her hands and hugged Jemima.

"Omigod, I do! I do have my answer! Thanks!" she hugged the little calico, "You give the best advice, Jemima! Now, I've got to go apologize to Etcetera!"

"You're welcome," she waved to Rumple, but she was already gone.

Jemima sighed and walked home.

Suddenly, she heard a scream from the direction she was walking.

Victoria.

"WAIT UP!!!!" Rumpleteazer called running as fast as she could.

"What do you want now?" Etcetera groaned. She took a stance, ready to fight Teazer if she should attack.

"Stop . . . walking . . ." the exhausted queen panted.

"You didn't answer my question," the patched cat fired hotly, "What do you want now."

"I want you to listen," requested the tiger tabby said catching her breathe.

"I'm really sorry. I shouldn't have made such a stupid assumption. I'm sorry, and I know you were only trying to help. I'm sorry," Rumple panted.

Cettie's angry expression switched to a soft smile.

"I know," Etcetera whispered as she embraced her best friend.

They heard someone scream.

The two reunited friends looked at each other.

"Victoria," they both said and with that they ran to help their friend. They grinned, both happy to have their friend back.

The tiny queen ran to her house as swiftly as possible.

Victoria! Hold on . . .

"Past the trees. Over the bridge," Jemima repeated to herself as if she might forget where she lived.

"Good, past the trees, reaching the brid-,"

Something pushed her off the bridge and she plummeted into the rocky, shallow river.

Jemima tried to get up with her bleeding muscles, but was far too injured. Instead, she looked up to see what had pushed her in. Above, she saw an evil sight.

A creature. In a tree.

The creature jumped down from the tree and landed with a thud on the bridge.

"Such a pretty face. It's a shame I'll have to ruin it. It's only reasonable punishment for what he did, right?" A cackling laughter came from hideous beast.

Jemima could only stare, terrified of the demon in front of her. Inside of her she knew what was happening. Tears started trickling down her cheeks.

"You're face is even prettier when you cry," He jumped down on the rocks. As he walked toward Jemima she could see watery streams of blood coming from his footsteps.

She could not help but notice that his blood was a much different than hers. Her own blood was already filling the stream, making it look like a red river, but Macavity's blood was so vibrant. It had an incredible glowto it. It was easily distinguishable from Jemima's.

"Shocked, aren't you?" asked the red cat noticing Jemima's wide eyes.

Jemima whimpered as he took one long nail and streaked her arm. Jemima bit her lip and tears exploded from her burning eyes.

"You see, Jemima, you feel pain. Your sister feels pain. So does your uncle Tugger. You do, she does, he does, everyone alive does," he explained. He put his finger under her chin forcing Jemima to look him in the eye.

"But, that's the thing, darling. I don't feel pain."

He shoved Jemima's head underwater.

OOH!!!! I'll let you guys ponder over that one a little . . . I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I want to thank you all for your nice reviews.

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