(sorry it took so long to get this chapter up...computers being stupid life being retared. just your usuall drama. injoy)
"Rumpleteazer! There you are!" Came a voice as soon as she entered the junkyard. The voice was that of Bombalurina, a friend of Rumple's for as long as she can remember. "Wow, where have you been? Your mate was going ballastic!"
"I was.." She went to answer, but was cut off by another familiar voice.
"Everlasting Cat, Teaz! What happened to you! I was worried sick!" Mungojerrie didn't waste any time before running over to his mate, and embracing her in his arms. He hugged her tight as he continued to question her, now looking over her body. "Did you get lost? Did something else happen? Were you caught?" he looked at her bruised face, now growling somewhat. "Did someone do this to you!"
Everything at this moment seemed to happen very fast to Rumple, and she tried to keep up with Mungo's mile-a-minute questions. Thats when she remembered what Macavity had said; ' If you tell anyone, you will pay with your friend's and family's blood. ' She frowned, deciding that she just cant put her friends and family in danger of that horrible cat.
"I was..." she began to answer, slowly, and quietly. "...I was stealing when... a.. a pollicle attacked me. And when I got away.. he... followed me.. and I had to hide. All night... That's where I was." She forced a weak smile, and hugged her mate back.
"A pollicle did that to you!" Mungojerrie growled. "I can't believe it. Teaz, you can not go stealing ever again with out me, is that clear?"
Normally, she would actually protest him trying to control her, as he sometimes did, but she totally agreed. "Okay, Mungo. I won't."
"Good." Mungo nuzzled his mate, purring. "I was so worried that you might have gotten stuck somewhere in that horrible storm.. I thought I may never see you again."
The words coming from his mouth, at this moment, sounded so sweet and comforting, she could've almost cried. Though actually, she would also be crying from her entire ordeal from the night before, but the words would've trigged it. Rumple merely smiled back sweetly, purring and nuzzling her mate, very happy to be home again.
=^..^=
About a week had passed and Rumple was slowly starting to forget about the horrible night she had spent with Macavity, and also started noticing she was changing a bit. It was nothing too noticable, she just felt different, and every time she looked at herself, she thought she looked different. The first few days after noticing a change, she started to notice she was feeling ill from time to time, then feeling perfectly normal other times. And she was hungry a lot anymore. The changes started to make her wonder, so she went to see her mother, and the tribe's very own nurse, JennyAnyDots.
She arrived at Jenny's den, which was made from an old and unable to be used oven, and found her sitting outside it and knitting what looked like a sweater, probably for Rumple's younger sister Etcetera. She walked over and sat down. Jenny hummed to herself, so into her knitting she didn't even notice Rumple had come over. Noticing this, Rumple finally spoke up.
"Uh.. Mom?"
"Wha?" The older cat shrieked, obviously surprised, and enough to throw her half knitted sweater a few feet.
Rumple giggled, always loving to surprise/scare her mom. She always used to do that to her when she was just a kitten, and still loves to do it now.
"Oh, Rumple dear, it's just you.." Jenny said, laughing now just a bit. "..nearly gave me a heart attack."
"Sorry, Mom." Rumple giggled a bit more. "I just came by to ask you something."
"Ask me something?" Jenny said, sitting up now, and using her paw to bat away some pieces of the sweater she was knitting to the ground.
"Yeah.." Rumple said, just a bit slower. "I haven't been feeling like myself lately is all.."
"How so, dear?" Jenny asked, still batting some sweater scraps off her lap.
"Well.." Rumple sighed, trying to remember everything. "I noticed that I look different, even though no one else, not even Mungo, seems to notice I do, and I feel different too. Sometimes I'll just feel really sick out of nowhere, and then later on I'll be fine. Oh yeah, and I'm hungry a lot more too."
Jenny stopped what she was doing, and then looked over to Rumple, a small smile on her face. She walked over to her and examined her, and then finally nodded, her smile now wide. "Sit down, dear."
This confused Rumple, but she obeyed her mother and sat down. "Okay. What's wrong with me?"
The Gumbie Cat continued to smile widely, before walking over and hugging Rumple. "Dear, you're going to have kittens!"
For a moment, Rumple could've sworn her heart had stopped. She mumbled and stuttered, starring off into a distance. "Ki..ki..kit..ki..ki..kitt.."
"Kittens, dear!" Jenny said again, excited to be a grandmother. "Oh, I knew this day would come!" She continued to hug her daughter, very proud.
Rumple didnt hug back, infact, she just sat motionless and her mind racing.
"Won't Mungojerrie make just a wonderful father, dear? I think so!" Jenny said, now letting go of her daughter and now looking around for the sweater she had just thrown. "I'm going to have to teach you how to knit and stitch, you know that? And.." Jenny continued to ramble on and on.
No words seemed to get through Rumple's head besides "Kittens" and "Mungojerrie" and "Father". Mungojerrie wasn't the father, and she knew it. She knew who the father was, and that made her feel very, very ill. The news just made her completely shocked and scared, she then fell backwards and blacked out.