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A Year In The Life of Mistoffelees, Conjuring Extraordinaire
Written By Stanza
2. February
February 4
I've been away from this addictive little book for a while again - a week actually. I have a valid excuse, and it's not the sordid one I had before (not that that one wasn't valid), of some cat discovering said journal. No, it's because the threat of the gang of Pollicles is worse. They were audacious enough to conduct a nightly raid into the midst of an entire tribe of Jellicles. Well, not entire. The toms were away, and only the queens and kittens remained. Still, they caused one heck of a disturbance.
Three of the five Pollicles sneaked into the tribe, probably hoping to kill Old Deuteronomy or the toms. Now, if that isn't stupid, I don't know what is. Every Jellicle in the tribe loves Old Deuteronomy dearly, and if he came to harm, we'd hunt down every dog in London. But anyway, they crept up on us when we were sleeping, and unfortunately (for them) met up with Jennyanydots and Jellylorum, who had been enlisted to guard us kittens. They do not take the matter lightly, and tackled the Pollicles like American football players. Of course, the noise - of the Pollicles' cursing and grunting and wheezing - woke everyone up. Demeter grew so paranoid that Macavity was masquerading as one of the remaining Pollicles, she clawed the last two. Bombalurina eventually calmed her down, but she's still pretty jumpy. Let's just say it was an eventful night.
February 6
With the Pollicles vanquished, the toms returned, pretty shocked the queens handled the situation. Anyway, I almost wish they hadn't - everybody's making Valentine's Day plans. With a few cleverly placed spies, we the kittens have discovered that the adult cats are throwing a big party - that means everybody but us have been invited. However...that means we have no babysitter, which is a good thing! A VERY good thing.
February 9
I want to scream. Even the quittens, the female kittens, are making plans! I think they want to ambush us males or something. Shudder Scary thought. Unless, of course, it's Victoria....
February 11
"Scream It's only three days away!" Etcetera is really starting to get on my nerves. I have no idea why Tumblebrutus has a crush on her. Oh yeah, that's right. He loves Cettie. What would Tugger say about that?
I just discovered: Pouncival is going to take Jemima out somewhere. Tumblebrutus had told him it's only proper now that they know their "love is requited". He had to threaten him with being forcefed soap to get him to do it. Tumble says he's very proud of "ickle Pounciekins".
February 14
It's here. Valentine's Day is here. I was right - the quittens tried to ambush us! We ended up playing kiss-tag by the light of the full moon. How romantic. Not. Nobody caught me (THANK BAST!); only Pounce got kissed. Guess who. Jemima. He shinnied up a tree, where Jemima was waiting for him. We heard a surprised yell, a silent pause, Jemima giggling, and a thud - apparently Pounciekins fell out of the tree. We had a good laugh over that one.
Once again, I was too cowardly to kiss Victoria or anything.
February 18
It's four days after Valentine's Day and love is still in the air! I'm going insane! Tugger and Bomba are snogging under the car, Munkustrap's napping with Demeter, Alonzo is out somewhere with Cassandra (don't ask), Skimbleshanks is grilling mouse for Jennyanydots (I seriously regret making him a grill; he may be a good cook but he's not the best firefighter), Asparagus is...doing something with Jellylorum, and Coricopat is slinking around with Tantomile. Jemima and Pouncival are holding hands. Ew. Enough with love!
February 20
Love is dying down. Finally. But, unfortunately, that means the kittens have to go back to recruiting beetles for Jennyanydots. Sweet Bast, I loathe beetles! They're so fast and hard to catch. And cheeky, too! I zapped one with a blue lightning bolt and it swore at me! So I gave it to Jennyanydots as a present; she'll get it to behave if anyone can.
February 25
It's raining. Everybody's in hiding from the rain. I wish I had a towel.
February 28
February is just about over. Stupid rain. I wrote in it yesterday and left it out. It washed away the ink. Now that the pages are dry - I didn't lose anything else, thankfully - I have nothing to say.
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