well here's Chapter 8 for ya and I don't own Cats...

The walk to the docks was in an unusually uncomfortable silence. Finally upon arriving Mungo lept up onto a crate and laid down looking down at Teazer who sat down looking up at him. "... why havn' ya ever talked 'bout yer past ta me, Teaze?" he asked. "You know all abou' mine... but yours remains a mystery."

She looked up at him thoughtfully for a minute. "Why do ya ask now?" she countered finally. "You've never bugged me abou' it before."

"Well, dats cause... well I respec' yer privacy usually... and if ya wanted ta tell me I knew ya would," he said looking a little nervous. "Bu' um... Macavity was askin' last nigh' and Oi had to admit ta him Oi didn' know abou' wha' yer life was like before we meet here."

She reguarded him for a moment longer then sighed. "Actually- Oi- Oi wanted to talk ta ya 'bout dat, Mungo," she admitted. "Oi wanted ta last nigh' too... but ya weren' there so Oi talked ta Tugger about it."

Mungo felt a little irritated that Tugger would find out about his Teazer's past before he did but he had to remind himself with a pang of guilt that it was his fault for not being there when she needed to talk. "Well, go on," he pressed after a minute.

Teazer sighed and opened her mouth to speak when she frooze staring past him at the queen from the day before sitting lazily atop a large crate that was a bit behind Mungo's. Isn't there anywhere private for me ta talk ta him? she thought frowning.

"Teaze?" Mungo asked concerned. He frowned and looked around them ears flattening against his skull seeing the other Queen. "Get lost!" he hissed furiously.

The Queen laughed. "Sorry, No can do, sugar," she purred. "I have the all important job of keeping a constant eye on little Miss Rumpleteazer."

He jumped down so he was beside Teazer and giving the Queen a dark look made up his mind, if it meant he'd be able to find out what was going on without a strange cat sitting in on the conversation he would take her Macavity. He nudged his partner's side a little rougher then nessecary to get her moving. "Let's go somewhere else," he stated quietly.

They took three steps before stopping and stepping back again to keep out of reach of Boulder, Ridge and Leftie. "Wha' are you doin' here?!" Mungo hissed placing himself between Teazer and them.

Leftie smirked. "This doesn't look like the Lair now does it, Mungie?" he pointed out darkly. "Master let you leave to get your friend so that he could talk to her about something and you didn't come back. He was worried."

"Mungo? Wha's he mean by dat?" Teazer asked confused.

"Oh, you didn't tell her?" Ridge asked raising an eyebrow. "Were you meaning to suprise her or did you think you could disobey a direct order from him, Kitten?"

The Queen came walking over to them her eyes dark. "You'd best get lost before the other three of us watching Little Miss Rumpleteazer get here," she said her tone ice.

Mungo wrapped his arm around Teazer pulling her tight against him. He was confused but he did what he always had before, protected his Teazer. Maybe leaving the Junkyard was a mistake.

Boulder started towards the Queen but made it only a few steps before a large calico tom lept at him from behind. "You alright there, Misty?" A pure black tom asked approaching with a white and black queen at his side.

"Yeah, fine," the Queen responded irratebly. "What were the three of you doing, playing with rats?"

"Actually..." the other Queen looked at the two large toms rolling around on the dock floor. "The boyo's and I were waiting for the Master."

Misty's eyes sparkled losing their coldness. "He's here?"

"Came in just an hour or two ago," the black tom replied quietly. "He went to get some fish for lunch so he should be back anytime now." He sighed looking down at the two and flicked a paw. "Break it up now," he commanded and Boulder was thrown off of the Calico into the crate Mungo had been sitting on. "Better."

"This aint good," Leftie growled. "They've got a magician."

Teazer gripped Mungo's arm. "Mungo," she whispered sounding terrified. "Let's get outta of here, please?"

"Sure," He agreed looking around them. How to do this... There was only one was off the dock that he could see and he was going to hate himself for this. Preparing himself he grabbed Teazer's arm and ran for it jumping off the side.

The water was freezing and judging by Teazer's claws digging into his arm she wasn't happy with how he got them out. He pried her off him and started swimming for shore. Water has to be the most evil thing the Everlasting Cat put here, he grumbled silently. She better tell me what's goin on now.

When they climbed up onto the dry land Teazer shook herself dry then started running as fast as she could towards the Junkyard leaving Mungo to chase after her. "Teaze, slow down!" he yelled finally.

She skidded to a halt and turned to face him. "Come on," she snarled. "We can' jus' sit out here... not after dat."

He caught up with her and sighed. "You coulda waited fer me," he stated simply.

"Sorry," she muttered.

Well there you go. Hey thanks Chimalmaht for pointing out my mistake about Munkustrap ( I went back and fixed it .) and you don't have to hurt poot Mungo just yet.