A/N: this story/ chapter is dedicated to my friend Chimalmaht. Because she came up with the next couple of chapters. Hope you enjoy.
So I am basically over protective. But how can I help it? After all Demeter has gone through I need to be protective. If this had happened to me and she had been the one to find me, I'm sure she would be protective of me. Of course, people tell me that I am protective to a fault, but that is not the point. What the point is, is that I am protective so I can prepare myself for the moment when Deuteronomy descends to the Heaviside Layer and I am the Jellicle Leader.
Of course that won't happen soon, so all I just have to do is be prepared for it when the time comes. Not that it matters, if the tribe decides that I am not fit to be leader, The Rum Tum Tugger will be chosen leader. Although, if anyone was stupid enough to choose Tugger, I doubt he would agree. Tugger has been trying to go to the Heaviside Layer for years now. And in my opinion it isn't such a bad idea to let him. One more problem off of my back.
Well, I'm just doing my job, and that is all I can do. If anyone disagrees with that they can take it up with me when I am the Jellicle Leader, not before, not after. It just comes with the territory I guess. Not that anyone would give me any credit. I am just the tom behind the desk, not the one in front of it. Although the fact that I get blamed on everything that happens in the tribe.
And unlike most toms, I believe in the females in my tribe, not just the males. I don't see them just as a potential body, but as a mind capable of thinking for themselves. It's just that most of them are frailer than the males in our tribe, and most of them need to be protected. Sadly most males don't believe what I believe. I am a mind on my own.
A/N: I hope you liked this chapter.
Chimalmaht: what do you think? Like it? Did it live up to your expectations? And what was the rest of the order?