"Your Swagger Makes Me Smile"
You guys owe me. I wanted to make up for the super short update, so I felt guilty enough that I'd write you a chapter. This one, btw, is short on purpose! There's a flashback next chapter and this was needed to lead into it.
I think this chocolate I had towards the end of the chapter is effecting my brain. I think it's funny…but it could just be me. I will post another chapter, (hopefully soon) but remember, I never try to exceed a week of waiting. That's just mean.
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Munkustrap scrutinized the back path to the Jellicle junkyard. He had begun his detective work at the broken fence post and continued to work his way up the closest pathway; Admetus in tow. A sharp, metallic clang made them both spring into a fighting stance. They held their position, sniffing the air carefully. A bird the alighted from its hiding place, clumsily skimming over a building top. Munkustrap let his muscles relax, the sigh from Admetus made him look towards his fellow protector.
"Munkustrap, sir. What exactly are we looking for?" Admetus questioned his superior in his formal, voice. Munkustrap slid a paw over a long discarded iron rod.
"Let's head back." The last thing Munkustrap wanted was the jellicles to panic. He didn't need to deal with that right now. The tribe had enough problems within themselves.
Especially with Bombalurina, who seemed to cause all of them.
Bombalurina, why do you cause all these problems? Tugger could have screamed. But screaming was too girly for the Rum Tum Tugger. Jenny was driving him up the wall. He set his jaw as Jenny coughed a few times from laughing so hard.
"Hurry up Jenny I haven't got all day." Jenny just smirked at him.
"Why, are you missing out on staring at Bombalurina?"
Yes.
"No! Who said it was even her huh?" He answered back defiantly. Jenny gave him a stale, yet amused look.
"Oh Tugger, you poor dear. The whole junkyard just about knows."
She better be lieing.
"There's nothing to know about." He snorted, turning his head away stubbornly.
Jenny let her teasing grin grow, "Well then there's nothing to help you with is there?"
Damn.
Tugger sighed, fighting the urge to growl. This was the stupidest idea ever.
This was surely the stupidest idea ever.
Electra stared at her sister with little understanding, Etcetera just grinning at the ceiling of the canoe clubhouse, smoothing a paw over her chin. Electra had been thinking lately. Her sister had become far to obsessed with Tugger. To the point she wouldn't even act like a sister to her. Electra was now treated like a servant.
"So, it's brilliant isn't it?" Her sister's gaze fell from the roof above them, to Electra's uncertain face.
"I don't get it. It won't work." Electra immediately regretted that as her sister flinched.
"Well you wouldn't would you. Tugger doesn't even look at you, so you don't even know how Tugger will react to this. It will work." Etcetera spat, sitting up from her place on a cardboard box, and walking to stand behind her "inferior" sibling. Electra felt the tears spring to her eyes.
"Etcy, stop acting like this! Tugger may not love anyone the way we love him, but at least he's nice to us!" Electra sobbed pointedly on the "nice" part. Electra let out a yelp as a paw smacked the back of her head, making her cry harder. Etcetera walked around to face her sister again, eyes filled with a cold emotion.
"Nice doesn't get you anywhere."
"Nice doesn't get you anywhere."
Cassandra observed, stretching a lengthy leg and arching her back. They'd been watching some pollicles fight with each other over a chunk of meat behind the butchers. Rumple sent a look towards Tantomile, who was staring at a flashing neon sign, entranced by the bright colours.
"So Rumple, I told you the red one would win," Cassandra referred to the pollicle who'd won the fight, and was now chasing the smaller tan one around a corner. Rumple couldn't stand Cassandra, she really couldn't. She always had to be right.
Where was Demeter when she needed her? Demeter wouldn't have hesitated to shove her in that blender. After all, Munkustrap would be able to cover it up as some accident and everyone would be happy. Rumple imagined herself cackling manically, thunder and lightening clapping around her as she pushed Cassandra into a giant blender and falling to her doom, screaming a long, drawn out NOOOOOOO.
"No what?" Cassandra poked Rumple from her day dream. Rumple must have said that part aloud. Crossing her brow, Rumple flickered her eyes to whatever she was staring at during her day dream.
That neon sign was trippy.
Cassandra raised her eyebrows at Rumpleteazer, who like Tantomile, was lost in the glow of the sign. Cassandra smirked as more insulting thoughts crossed her mind at Rumple's blank face.
She's just as stupid as Mungojerrie.
"Mungojerrie?"
Mungojerrie shook his head, and briefly glanced at Bombalurina, before blushing and lowering his gaze to the ground. He blushed harder and his heart raced as he felt Bombalurina giggle and let her paw trail under his chin, lifting his head to meet her beautiful green eyes.
"Are you feeling ok?" She asked carefully, Mungojerrie staring like a fool, "You look upset…" she trailed off.
Mungojerrie's heart knotted as he remembered Tugger's warning. He wouldn't be able to explain it anyways. Hell, he didn't even know why Tugger went from friend to foe in the first place. He felt guilty, he wanted to be honest with her.
But how could he tell her?
How could she tell him?
Bombalurina felt her heart smash into a thousand pieces. How could she tell Mungojerrie the way she felt about Tugger? He wouldn't understand. It's not like she didn't have feelings for Mungojerrie too. She did. She felt the angst of romance from both of them. She felt safe with Mungojerrie.
She felt dangerous with Tugger.
She felt girly with Mungojerrie.
She felt sexy with Tugger.
She felt bubbly and happy with Mungojerrie.
She felt carefree and liberated with Tugger.
The evil hogtied Tugger thought had crawled its way out of the abyss of Bombalurina's mind. It ran terminator-style to tackle the Mungojerrie thought, wrestling its enemy to the ground. Both thoughts fought for dominance, body slamming each other into the recently appeared wrestling square. A sumo-style Bustopher Jones threw rice into the center of the ring. Bombalurina's sins of her conscious filled the audience.
"They're both so good looking" Giggled Lust.
"I can't believe they're fighting over me-" Pride exclaimed in vanity, but then gulped as Envy shook her fist, "...I meant us…"
"Mmmmm. You could always have both.." Greed thought wickedly, before taking a swipe to steal one of Gluttony's several chocolate bars.
"I swear to god if you make us all fat!" Wrath screamed at Gluttony, throwing the popcorn container she was eating out of at Sloth, who was sleeping in the next seat.
Bombalurina pulled her self from the wrestling match in her mind when they had started to mud fight. Lust of course had merely giggled at the dirty thoughts. Bomba was sure she was loosing her mind. Stupid Tugger. It was his fault. If he didn't walk around swinging those hips like that, Mungojerrie wouldn't have had to start the mud wrestling contest-.
She was loosing her mind.
Over Tugger.
All this, over Tugger.
Bombalurina felt tears spring to her eyes as she looked beside her, where Mungojerrie had fallen asleep, drool seeping from his mouth as he snored soundly. Bombs ran a paw over his head, making him stir slightly. A sleepy smile appearing as he rolled over to press his head into her side, cuddling against her. He was so sweet. Her stomach dropped as the tears kept running down her cheeks. He deserved better. A queen who was going to love him without feeling that niggling doubt. The pull of another tom in her mind.
It was basically cheating wasn't it? She loved the way she felt when she was with Mungojerrie, but stupid Tugger had to come and still her thoughts away, reminding her of how she felt when she was with him.
Tugger's thought was holding Mungojerrie's down for the count. The sinful audience (A/N: haha such a lame joke) all gasped and fainted as it shot a charming smile to Bombalurina.
A mind is such a terrible thing to waste.