My Life Chapter 3, a cats fanfic

My Life Pt 3

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This will be the last chapter for this story. Hope you all enjoy it.

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Teaser might just have to get herself out of this one…

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I still couldn't believe I'd been that stupid. We're told and told when we are kittens, "Don't talk to strangers, Don't play in the street, Don't touch anything that doesn't belong to you," and what did I do? I get attracted by something shiny. Idiot.

I'd been in this bloody place now for 6 months. I was hoping that my dad would be able to get me out with some magic plan but I'd seen no sign. I was starting to understand how my mother felt all those years ago. At least I wasn't being abused and tortured. I've seen some shocking things in this place, I was starting to understand how lucky we were in the junkyard. Just the other day they brought in this poor kitten who looked like she'd been starved and beaten, she had a huge scar around her neck and something had torn, not cut but torn, her ears off. About the only good thing about it was that she was blind and couldn't see what had been done to her. She was only here a couple of hours before the one of the humans that works in this place came and took her away, I haven't seen her since.

When I got to this place they put me in a cage with half a dozen other cats, none with Jellicle blood unfortunately so I didn't even have anyone to talk to. The other cats learnt to stay away from me pretty quickly, one of the toms came over and started nosing around and purring. I pretty easily put him in his place, normal cats just can't stand up to Jellicles. It kinda makes nights a little cold, I'd look over at the other cats curled up together from the other end of the cage where I'd be curled up by myself.

I expected to be picked up from here as a rescue by a human family pretty quickly but was disabused of that over time. There was a regular stream of human families that came through the area where the cells are. They'd look in my cage over all of us and then move on. After a while the humans that worked in the pound would come by and take one of the cats away and we'd never see them again. The humans always had a really sad look on their faces when this would happen and I came to dread their appearance, wondering if they'd ever be coming for me. Eventually I was the only one left in the cage, I'd seen one of my cage mates, a beautiful little ginger kitten who was only about 12 weeks old, get adopted but the rest had gone with the human workers through those forbidding doors at the end of the room.

Then one day they came for me. I crouched in the back of the cage huddled up on the blankets when they opened the doors. I was terrified and just stared up into this humans eyes for what seemed like the longest time just willing him to shut the door and leave me alone. There's no-one here I screamed in the depths of my mind. To my surprise he got a blank look on his face and stood up and closed the door. I didn't understand what had happened. I was saved by something. This happened several times until they finally stopped coming for me.

I've since worked it out. You see, in the junkyard there is a spell that's maintained by the life-force of all the Jellicles that are resident there. It clouds the mind of intruders and diverts them from entering too far or investigating the yard, that way the cats stay safe. It was set up to be completely unconscious and nobody even considers it much anymore. We're taught about it as kittens but it's just one of those things your parents tell you that you autodump immediately. I was starting to discover that it could be consciously controlled a bit as well. I couldn't control the humans, god knows I tried, but I could make them forget I was there. The first week I tested how far I could go and they stopped feeding me, big mistake there I know, until I figured out how to reverse the effects. Luckily hunger is a great motivator and I worked it out. I managed to fine tune the effects until I could just avoid getting picked out to go back there.

More cats came and went. Never more than a couple of queens at a time in my cage, I didn't want any more problems with toms. It became liberating to a certain extent to just act like your everyday housecat, I could just laze and do nothing. I'd been alone now for so long it came as a huge surprise to hear a voice one night from a nearby cage.

"Is anyone here?" I heard.

"Yes, yes I'm here. Who is that?" I cried out.

"Admentus, who are you?" was the reply.

"It's Teaser!" I said in relief.

"Teaser? We've finally found you! Thank the cat."

"Finally? What do you mean?" I wondered.

"We've been looking for you for months. Munk has been locked up in just about every pound in the city, but we're not in the city. We're out in the country here. From what we can understand this place normally gets the entire overflow from London, most of the cats here never make it back out." Admentus explained.

"What do you mean, never make it back?" I asked, not really wanting to know the answer.

"Teaser. This place isn't for adoptions. It's an extermination facility. If you aren't registered then you get put to sleep here. We'd checked everywhere else and I volunteered to look here."

"You did what?" I was shell shocked. All those cats I'd seen go through those doors were dead? They wouldn't even get to the heavyside layer as they weren't Jellicles; I at least had that to reassure me, slight as it was.

"I'll be fine. I just got caught roaming around this area without a collar. I had Jenny implant a identification chip in my neck before I left though so once they scan me I'll be released back home. Once I'm there we'll work out a way to get you out" he explained.

True to his word, Admentus was taken away the next day by a council worker after one of the humans waved a device of some kind over his back. As he was carried past my cage he gave me a wink and let me know that I'd be out soon. I didn't hear anything else for months.

I'd gotten that depressed I'd nearly failed to fog the minds of the humans. Once they even got to the point of picking me up to take me out of the cage before I acted. That incident convinced me that If I expected to get out of here I'd have to do it myself.

At this point I'd been there for a little over 9 months by my reckoning, though time didn't mean much when you're there. I started to increase the impact of the spell on the humans trying to get to the point where they'd forget to shut my door after filling my bowl or something along those lines. It didn't work, every time they'd just automatically latch the doors when they finished, so I decided that I needed to do something a little desperate. I tested out the range of the spell and the effects it could have then put my plan into motion.

The next time they opened my cage to take me away, I let them. The human female that picked me up carried me in her arms and cuddled me into her chest. I'd seen her do this with most of the cats, it really seemed to knock her around that she had to do this. I was carried through those double doors and down a green hallway to a white room. It had a metal topped table and bright lights. The humans there went through and took my temperature and checked my eyes and teeth for some reason. Why check to see if I'm healthy before killing me? The male there shaved a little patch on my leg and then stuck something sharp under the skin there. It led to a short clear tube and it was at this point I really wondered what the hell I was doing. The one that stuck me then left the room talking about having to 'prep another one' whatever that meant, leaving me alone with the kind lady. She picked up two syringes, one filled with a clear liquid and one that looked green. She didn't look at me and shoved the needle with the clear liquid into the tube and pushed.

I just about had a heart attack. I didn't act in time. I waited for everything to fade away but all I got was a cold leg, what the hell. The lady then picked up the green needle and looked at my face sadly. It was my chance. I hit her with the full force of the mind fogging spell, and it worked, Oh Everlasting Cat but it worked. The human lady stood there, unmoving with a blank look on her face. "Put the needle away and carry on" I sent, and then did my best attempt to play dead. The lady put the syringe back on the table and picked up my body. I was taken out through another door to another room. I kept my eyes focused on a point on the wall and tried not to move until the worker put me on a bench and left.

I waited for the door to close and then got to my feet and looked around.

Oh.

I was in a small area open to the air with 4 long metal benches and a furnace at one end. On these benches were the bodies of over 50 cats and kittens. This was to be my fate? I was stunned. I stood there for what seemed like hours, but was probably seconds, before what I was trying to do asserted itself. I looked around for a way out but there were no doors apart from the one I was carried in through, that only left up. Like I said the area was open to the air and the top of the furnace was an easy jump to the roof. From there I was able to make my way across the tiles of what was a compound of considerable size to a fence line. I scaled the fence and jumped over before something snagged the trailing plastic tube that was still in my leg. It was ripped out and I let out a piercing yowl. Oh Bast but that hurt. I limped away from the fence and managed to find somewhere to hole up where I could treat the wound left behind.

The next day I managed to painfully scale a tree and try to get my bearings. I had no idea where I was, there were no real buildings and all I could see was green fields and tall tree's clumped together every so often. I tried to remember what Admentus had said. "We were in a place outside the city." So where was the city. I couldn't see any sign of it anywhere. I didn't know what to do. If I was in a town I could make my way about but I had no experience outside of a built up area. I was flat out knowing how to feed myself in the country let alone find my way home.

It was as I was sitting there moping about how I was going to survive that night fell. I decided to climb down out of the tree and find somewhere to sleep when I had one last look around. It was at this point that something became evident that I hadn't noticed when the sun was up. Off to one side was a glow in the night sky. I couldn't see what was causing it. There wasn't any visible light source but there was a huge glow, kinda like just before the sun comes up. I looked at it a little longer before deciding that it would be as good a direction as any to go. Now that I had a purpose I climbed down out of the tree and started on my way.

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Munkunstrap walked out of the cat carrier and ran off into the junkyard, giving a glance over his shoulder at the now common blank look on the face of the council worked that had brought him home. It had taken him 4 attempts at being caught by the council rangers to get taken to the pound where Admentus said his daughter was.

Once he was there he'd called and called Teasers name. He'd never gotten a response and feared that he'd been too late to save her. He'd been there for two days and cried himself hoarse to no avail, before the local council had sent someone to take him back to his home.

He trudged his way up to where his mate Demeter and their second daughter Jemima were sitting on the old oven. Demeter's face fell upon seeing the dejected pose of the tribal protector.

"She wasn't there Dem." Munk groaned, "I was too late. She was gone."

Tears welled in Demeters eyes and she drew Jemima into her arms and howled. Munk just jumped up on the oven and buried his head into his mates' neck and added his own tears to the mix.

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In the dark of the night a slight figure walked through the junkyard clearing and jumped up on the great tyre. The cat turned her face to the full moon and prayed to the Everlasting Cat that she'd see her sister again. Jemima began to sing a song she'd heard on the radio that Pouncival pulled out every now and then.

When you feel all alone
And the world has turned its back on you
Give me a moment please to tame your wild wild heart
I know you feel like the walls are closing in on you
It's hard to find relief and people can be so cold
When darkness is upon your door and you feel like you can't take anymore

Let me be the one you call
If you jump I'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn
You're not alone

When you feel all alone
And a loyal friend is hard to find
You're caught in a one way street
With the monsters in your head
When hopes and dreams are far away and
You feel like you can't face the day

'Cause there has always been heartache and pain
And when it's over you'll breathe again
You'll breath again

When you feel all alone
And the world has turned its back on you
Give me a moment please
To tame your wild wild heart

As she let the final note fall silent, Jemima saw the figure of a cat enter the other end of the clearing. She couldn't make out who the cat was but their movement and shadowed appearance was profoundly familiar.

"You can still sing beautifully Jemima" the cat said simply.

"Who? Who are you" Jem replied?

The cat giggled and limped out of the shadows cast by the walls of the clearing. "I know I've been away a while but surely you recognise your own sister?"

Jemima jumped off the tyre and cautiously approached the pitiful cat in front of her. "Teaser?" It couldn't be her, could it? Daddy had said that Teaser was with the Everlasting Cat now. Jemima reached out a paw and poked the cat in the ribs.

"You're. You're real?" she asked hesitating still.

Teaser just laughed and rubbed the sore spot where she'd just been poked. "Yes I'm real. And I'm home."

Jemima pounced on her sister with a loud squeal, bowling the older cat over and began kissing and hugging Teaser while they rolled around on the ground.

Munkunstrap, Demeter and Bombarulina were all drawn from the den, where they were all mourning the loss of Rumpleteaser, to see what appeared to be the youngest daughter of the tribes protector being attacked by a much larger cat.

Munk let out a howl which pulled many a Jellicle from a sound sleep and to windows and out of doors in alarm. The protectors cry also stunned the two cats playing in the shadows, causing them to cease their play and turn to their father.

Jemima disentangled herself from her sister and pulled her into the light. "Daddy, Daddy. Look who I found!"

Now it was Munkunstrap and Demeters turn to be stunned. Then the most unexpected thing in the world happened. Munkunstrap, one of the greatest protectors the Jellicle tribe had ever had and the cat sure to be the next leader once Old Deuteronomy passed to the Heavyside Layer, fainted dead away.

He came to in the light of his den with the faces of his mate and his Two daughters hovering over him. He reached up and touched her face with a gentle paw before pulling her into his arms and began to cry in relief.

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I'd just finished explaining to mum and dad what had happened to me in the last couple of years. Apparently my sense of time had gotten completely screwed up and I'd been in that damn place for over 18 months combined with the 2 months that it had taken me to get home meant I was away for nearly 2 years.

"So the glow I was looking at was a city but it wasn't London. It was actually a place called Oxford. I eventually worked out how to get back to London and I came back here as soon as I could."

"One thing I've learnt from all this though is how much I truly love my family. All my family." I swept my sister in for another cuddle "and how fleeting life is, so I should make the best of it. I'm sorry I was such a bitch."

Mum said "All is forgiven. That you're home and safe is all that matters. We'll get Jenny to have a look at you tomorrow just to make sure, but that's after you get some sleep. We've kept your room just the way you left it."

They pulled me to my feet and lead me to my old room. Did I really like this back then? It was so dark and forbidding. "Um. Can I sleep with Jem tonight? I really don't feel like being alone and after I see Jenny I want to get rid of some of this and get something bright and pretty for in here."

"Sure honey," my dad said. "I'll even help you redecorate if you want."

Mum and Jem just rolled their eyes at him. "We'll look after that. Toms don't know anything…"

Dad looked at the three of us and had to admit that they were right, "Ok but if you need anything at all you just need to ask."

It was so very, very good to be home.

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3 months later I had my 17th birthday and officially became an adult. I stayed at home mainly because I didn't feel right without my family, and it let me fall back into the behaviours of my youth. I got back into helping out with the kittens and watching over the adolescents in the tribe, but I also couldn't shake the wanderlust and excitement of getting into things just because I could. I became an extremely talented eavesdropper and spy, mainly I think due to the honing of the mind fogging ability that I'd learnt while in the pound. It was me that discovered who Uncle Tugger was going out with and that they'd secretly become mates. I'd been discovered shortly after that when Tantomile felt the presence of my mind and approached my hiding place. The resulting discussion had my uncle and new aunt inform my parents and a couple of the other adults about their mating and a warning from my aunt not to spy on our family, unless of course I wanted to be completely ostracised and risk being exiled if I was ever caught again.

Funnily enough Uncle Tugger didn't change his ways much after becoming mates with Tanto. They were intensely private with their relationship, and my uncle continued to flirt and break hearts amongst the kittens, so as not to reveal themselves to the tribe in general.

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I was sitting out in the yard watching Jem, Vicky and Misto play when a cat I didn't recognise walked into the clearing. I quickly cleared the kits away and approached this tom.

"Yes? Can we help you?" I asked. My but this tom was a fine figure. He was another calico pattern and we nearly looked like we could be twins.

"Oh hi there me' darlin. An old bloke over by the theatre sent me over this way to look for somfin called the Jellicles, an ta look for sumone called Munkunstripe or some such." This tom was putting out some serious vibes. I was getting surprisingly warm just being around him and he had the most amazing accent.

"He's my dad. I'll take you to him now." I said and led him to my father.

Dad spoke briefly to him and then led him off to talk to Old D. I considered following them but taking heed of the warning I'd received I left well enough alone.

Instead I went to talk to my mum and started to regale her with a story about a hunky new tom to the junkyard. Mum just rolled her eyes at me and said something about having to have a talk to my father.

It was about an hour or so later when dad brought the new cat around the yard to introduce him to the tribe. I was with my mum and was the last one to be introduced to this hunk.

"and last but not least, here is the queen that brought you to my father and myself" said dad.

I looked up at him; he was about half a head taller than me, "I'm Rumpleteaser."

"I'm Mungojerrie" he replied with the most adorable grin on his face.

"Oh I'm going to love having him around."

fin

This then leads into the events in the play 2 years later and Aftermath shortly after that.

The Song is "Crash and Burn" by Savage Garden who own all the rights thereof.

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