"You want me to what?" Bryn asked, eyebrow raised. "I think it would help you two get along better." Jacob explained cooly.
"No offense, Jake, but I'm straight. Me being in the same room as a naked girl, especially her, does not mix." Bryn said. "Oh come on, it could be worse, I could be asking you to sacrifice her soul." Jacob said, making Bryn look at him with wide eyes. "My my, for someone so innocent looking, you have a cruel mind." he said. "It's always the innocent ones." Jacob said with a sickly sweet smile. "Now come on, I'll give you half of my dessert for the rest of the week if you help." Jacob offered. Bryn looked at him indifferently, Jacob groaned. "Fine! For the rest of the month." Jacob sighed. "Deal, where is she?" Bryn asked. "Follow me." Jacob said, leading Bryn to the bathroom Elina was in.
Elina was exploring the bathroom, sniffing and digging in everything she could. Like Tugger, she was a curious cat...human...whatever. That's when she noticed the two boys walk in and was quick to explode with questions. "Jake, what's this big white thingy and what does it do? What's this thing and why is it when I turn these, water comes out?"
Jacob laughed. "Slow down, El, this is a toilet, the...human version of cat litter." he said. "Oh...ew." Elina said. "Yeah, and in order to make it go down, we press this." Jacob said, pressing the handle down. The noise was enough to make Elina squeal and run behind Bryn, who groaned quietly and tried not to facepalm.
"This is gonna be a long night..." he muttered.
"So um...you and Cassandra have your own family?" Jason Gardiner asked Alonzo, who was taking care of his daughter, Elvira's fur. "Well, yeah." about a year after the ball, we decided it was time to have our own little ones. We had three, Elvira here, Vero and Lorenzo." Alonzo explained, motioning to his sons playing in the corner.
"I see...how many kits are there total?" Jason asked. "Well...there's Jem and Mungo's twins, Lec and Tumble's son, Pouncival's little queen...seven total." Alonzo said. "Oh, wow...the tribe sure has grown." Jason said. "No kidding, I feel old knowing my best friend's kit has kits of her own." the black and white tom said with a chuckle.
"So um..."Jason said then looked at Elvira. "Do you plan on having kits of your own?" he asked.
"Well, maybe two or three-" she started before Alonzo covered her mouth. "No, no, she doesn't. She never wants a tomfriend! Isn't that right, darling? You wanna stay daddy's little queen." Alonzo said rather quickly.
Elvira groaned from behind her dad's paw, making Jason chuckle. "I guess that answers my question." he said.
"I hate to seem like I'm intruding but...how was raising Elina?" Kaye asked as she and Tommi were in the same room as the twins. "It's a wonderful experience, being a mother..." Tantomile smiled, remembering the day she first held baby Elina in her arms. "I never thought I'd be a father to a human kit." Coricopat said, remembering the days where Elina would play with him when she felt he was lonely.
"So...what were your thoughts when you found her?" Tommi asked. "Well...we had two options: take her to the building where human kittens have no parents or see if Old Deuteronomy would be merciful and at least let her stay temporarily." Coricopat said. "What we didn't know was temporarily would turn into permanently. We all got so attached to her." Tantomile said.
"Even Tugger got emotional when the thought of letting her go came up." Coricopat said. "Old Deuteronomy himself adored her and let Cori and I raise her on one condition..." Tantomile said, seeming to tense up a bit, Coricopat too seemed uncomfortable about the topic that was to be brought up.
"What was that?" Kaye asked, now very curious.
Tantomile looked at the floor quickly before looking at Kaye. "She was never to know anything about humans."
This surprised both Kay and Tommi. Never know anything about her own kind? "How did you manage to do that?" Tommi asked. "We just...told her she was a different kind of cat, the kind with no fur, no pointy ears, no claws..." Coricopat said, feeling riddled with guilt about lying to his daughter all those years.
"But it was for her own good and the tribe's." Tantomile said, "Suppose she went into a bad part of the human world, where human toms take advantage of poor little kittens like her? He wouldn't have it and neither would we." she said.
"What about the tribe?" Kaye asked.
"Well...Old Deuteronomy was worried that if she interacted with humans, she'd tell them about the Jellicles. If word got out about cats that looked like humans, they'd surely try to take us, experiment on us...sell our kittens for money." Coricopat said with a sigh. "I honestly agreed with that...until we met Andrew, he assured us we'd all be safe." he said.
"Well, we don't like people who take animals and hurt them for fun, people like that are disgusting." Tommi said. "esides, you guys are beautiful cats." Kaye said.
"Thank you." the twins said in unison, smiling.
So sorry for the long wait, guys! School is crazy...R&R please!