Munkustrap raised his paw to knock on the car door, wanting to see how the other kittens were doing, when he heard a chorus of laughter. He turned his head toa side and saw Mungojerrie, Rumpelteazer, and Mistoffelees all watching him intently, while Victoria just looked in his general direction, obviously unaware of the humor in the situation. He looked back to the car door, remembering Tugger's words, and stepped back, calling gently instead. The three older kittens seemed rather disappointed that there wasn't going to be a second striking incident that day and returned to their conversation.

Jellylorum swung opened the door, missing Munkustrap nose by less then an inch, "You again."

"Yes Jelly, me again," he said, giving her a peaceful smile, "Did any others wake up?"

"As a matter of fact, yes," she said, returning the smile, "Two more did. Would you like to see them?"

"Yes," he said, jumping up into the broken down car. Jennyanydots was on the other seat, handing a queen and a tom, both whose fur majored white, a piece of fish before hurrying to the back seat to see what she could do for the resting kits. Munkustrap took her place, sitting in front of the two kittens, "Hello."

"Hi," the tom replied, taking a bite as the queen chewed her food.

"I'm Munkustrap, Protector of this Jellicle tribe," he started, ready to go through the same ordeal as he did with Victoria, "And you are?"

"Plato."

"Etcetera."

Munkustrap looked at them who stared back before returning to their fish, "Can you tell me where you're from?"

"Here," the queen said, staring up at him with her big eyes, "at least I think so."

"Yeah, this feels about right," Plato agreed, a strip of fish hanging out of his mouth.

"But you just got here," Munkustrap said.

"Felt like we lived here all of our lives," Plato said, licking the rest of his fish out of the crevices of his paws.

"Everlasting Cat," he mumbled, "Do you remember anything about your home?"

Plato frowned, coming deeply in thought. After a moment or two he, with great difficulty, said, "A lot of white, very bright, felt... kind of floaty."

"Floaty," Munkustrap repeated blandly. He was about to ask Etcetera the same question but was cut off.

"Who is that," she asked, staring past him and pointing towards the door. Munkustrap turned around and saw The Rum Tum Tugger standing outside talking up to Jellylorum.

"That's Tugger," he said, "Now-" he stopped, seeing that the queen was gone. He turned around, seeing her near the door, batting her eyes at his brother.

"Hi," she smiled, as close to the edge as she could get without falling out.

"Hey," he said, nodding up to her, "Name's The Rum Tum Tugger."

"Etcetera," she squeaked happily.

"Nice," he replied, scratching her under her chin, a purr immediately being emitted. "You best get back in there with Munkustrap, I think he has a few more questions. I'll see you around."

Etcetera squealed with excitement as he walked off, paying close attention to his tail. Jennyanydots came out, leading the tortoiseshell to the front seats, "Another one came to."

"Electra," Etcetera cried, "You have just missed the most gorgeous tom in the world!"

Munkustrap hung his head as the two queens began to badger back and forth, "Munkustrap," Jennyanydots called, motioning to him to follow her outside, "How are you feeling?"

"These kittens are driving me up the wall," he sighed wearily, "They all think that this is where they came from; but they didn't. Plato remembers the last spot they were as 'floaty'. Where on earthy is 'floaty'?"

"It's not on the earth, Heavyside," she said quietly. Munkustrap looked at her oddly, "The Everlasting Cat works in mysterious ways Munkustrap. Me and the others were saying that we're in need of kittens; no one is pregnant so there was no way we could get any kittens in a short amount of time. The Everlasting Cat must have heard our prayers. And look at Misto," she whispered pointing at the black and white tom, "He has more kits his age to keep him company. And Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer will learn about raising kits. We couldn't have asked for more."

Munkustrap nodded; it seemed to make sense, "But Jenny-"

"We're keeping the kittens Munkustrap," she said in a finalized tone, "They have no where else to go. There's more then enough room here, and all cats are Jellicle cats; they stay."

Munkustrap sighed, there was no way he could make her change her mind. Alonzo cautiously slinked up to the two, "Um, Munkustrap, did you get anyone to tell Old Deuteronomy about the kittens?"

"No I didn't, why?"

"Well... because he's here."


A/N: And countdown: 4 days left until my brother moves away. Is it bad that I'm counting down the days left with him? He's moving half way 'cross the Country (Cape Breton to Toronto) and going to go to school. The brightest side of the matter is that I'm getting his room – free of washing and drying machinery... It'll be Heaviside on earth.

Tiger Lily21 – There, I updated, now it's your turn

The look on your face when we drove by you was priceless Dad
I thought that you said that you were home all day
We were... it was on a movie