The next morning, Mungojerrie woke up with a panging in his head and a weight on his chest. He looked around and saw that the rest of the crew was still asleep and t looked almost sunrise. The dark but still light bit of morning right before sun.
He lifted his head and found Rumpleteazer lying on him, asleep. He stopped and was held in a trans-like state at her beauty. The slight light of the morning lit up the white around her eyes and tops of her cheeks, like a low mask, and it made her look magnificent.
He smiled at the shorert queen then remember the night before. Or some of it atleast.. he thought they didnt fall asleep this way. He realized that he had been on top of her, passed out, well halfway on top of her. Only his chest was on her.
Now she was completely on top of him on her side except for her legs, her shins resting on the ground as she curled into a small ball, seeming to be holding onto his chest with her open paws and face. He smiled and wrapped his arms around her gently as to not stir her.
He noticed it start to drizzle though after a few minutes. He and Teazer were under a ledge of a building so only the rest of the crew would get wet. He saw Lato and Munger wake up, their heads had been leaned back on each others shoulders with their backs to each other.
They grabbed their heads at the terrible sickness they felt in them and Munger went to sit under the ledge, while Lato just laid on his back and let the rain fall on him as he tried to go back to sleep.
Next was JD to wake up. He was still on the trashbag and just sat up and walked over to the ledge, not before splashing Lato's face with some water first then, with his foot, gently but quickly pressing on Latos chest a couple of times to wake him up.
Lato only grumbled and sat up, only to groan and lay right back down.
Jerrie adjusted himself and Teazer so she wouldnt get wet. He sat up and leaned against the wall of the building, allowing her to sit up but stay leaning against his chest the say way she was on the ground. He was careful not to wake the sleeping queen.
He looked over and huffed in laughter slightly when he saw JD get up from behind the trashcan and look on his hands and feel his face, which were both covered in his vomit from last night. "eww..." he mumbled to himself as he went down to a bucket that had started collecting the rain water and used the little water in it to wash off.
Jerrie said "Oi thin' we bettah go befo' i' starts rainin bad." He gently lifted Teazer a bit and she woke up. She smiled at everyone then realized she was sitting in Jerries lap. She quickly stood up and then grabbed her head "Ow..." she mumbled.
"Ow is right. Hey i got something that will help with that. I got a friend. Who is going to make the walk over there with me?" Hale said to everyone. but everyone just kind of groaned, not wanting to walk."Who ever comes with me gets the hangover gone faster." He crossed his arms as he said this and JK, Lato, and Munger all stood up and said they would go.
Teazer was about to but Jerrie grabbed her hand and pulled her in the opposite direction.
She shot him a confusing glance and he just smiled at her. She smiled back and they walked together. Jerrie had let go of Teazers hand and it was sort of awkward.
"So. Da ya remembah last noight?" Jerrie asked. Teazer only giggled and said "Uncle Fucka? yea. oi wasn' THA' drunk." Teazer flicked her ear. She wondered if he meant the make out last night, but she didnt want to bring it up first. So she lied.
Jerrie looked around a bit. "No, i mean. After that. Like. Um. When everyone was in the alley and they were talking. Do you remember, us...?" Teazer felt her face go red. "Da ya remembah?" Jerrie shook his head "oi think oi do. Ya mean when we...?" He glanced over to her slightly. "Yea. oi remembah it. " She glanced back at him.
"Well. Oi. Oi 'ave somethin oi wanna ask ya. It involves last noight oi guess." Jerrie seemed to become uneasy as he and Teazer walked through the chilly morning air down the dim alley ways. Teazer swallowed in excitement and said "Yea?"
She smiled up at him and he said "Would. Uh, do ya wonna be moiy, moiy queenfriend?" He looked over at her and she smiled into his bright Emerald green eyes. "Yes. Oi will." She saw his eyes suddenly light up and his head faced forward and tilted down, him smiling alot.
Teazer walked slightly closer to him and he reached out and entertwined his fingers with hers, pulling her close enough to where he could put a warm arm around her shivering waist. She smiled and leaned into Jerrie as they walked along in the soft light of the rising sun to Victoria Grove.
When Teazer and Jerrie got to Victoria Grove, they went to the window they knew belonged to Cynthea Rose's room. They jumped up on the sill and tapped it softly, meowing once. Soon the little girls face appeared in the window and she smiled brightly. She opened the window and let the cats in. "Tiger, Princess, i was wondering where you were kitties!" She stroked them each as they soaked in the warmth of the room.
"I will go get you some food okay kitties?" She kissed them both on the head and rushed out of her room to the kitchn. Teazer and Jerrie sat silently for a few seconds and Cynthea was back with a large plate of Rice and Chicken along with vegetables strewn in.
Cynthea then realized her door was open and she quickly went to shut it, but she heard her fathers foot steps coming. She grabbed Jerrie and Teazer and pushed them under the bed "Please stay here and dont make a sound. Please!" She whispered and she pushed them and the food plate to the far corner of the dark under bed.
Then she quickly stood up as her father walked in. Teazer and Jerrie stayed motionless under the bed as they watched the large feet enter the room.
"Cynthea.." a deep male voice came "Would you like to explain to me why your window was just opened then shut? And.. why you suddenly want to eat EVERYTHING in the house, yet you seem as though you are eating less. Cynthea Rose. Whats going on."
Cynthea made her foot in a little circle for a while and then said "Because.. im not the one eating all the food daddy." "Oh Really. And just who IS eating all the food?" Her father began to silently tap his foot as Cynthea knelt down, and reached under the bed. She grabbed Mungojerrie and slowly pulled him out from under the bed.
"a CAT? What are you doing with a cat here?" Her father acted as though the child restated how to build a working rocket ship. She giggled "I dont have a cat daddy." She then reached under and pulled out Teazer to. "I have TWO cats."
She held both cats up to her father, who quickly grabbed the two cats less gingerly by their scruffs "CYNTHEA ROSE! You canNOT take in stray animals off the streets! Do you know what kind of diseases they might have! Or what if they started fighting? They could have hurt you!" He began to walk to her window with the cats held out infront of him.
"Daddy no!" Cynthea Rose followed after him, tugging on his suit top. "Daddy those are MY cats! i been taking care of them! you cant put them out!"
"Cynthea. You cannot keep these cats." He then pushed the cats out of the window and closed it, locking it. Teazer and Jerrie couldnt hear or see Cynthea or her father now, but they guessed she was crying.
"I's okay Teazeh. We will see her." Teazer nodded and they began the walk down the side walk. "Wait. Where's tha pollicle?" Jerrie turned around and spotted it turning a corner. "Oh crap.." Said Teazer as she quickly grabbed Jerries wrist and they took off running just as the dog caught their scent.
They quickly climbed a tree where the dog couldnt get them and they laughed at it. It was around noon now and their headaches were subsiding.
Jerre wrapped an arm around Teazer and he layed back, taking Teazer with him. He layed on his back while she rested her head on his chest and they let the cool breeze blow through their fur.
They stayed laying their resting for a few minutes, then Mungojerrie broke the silence. "Oi think we bettah start gettin back ta tha hoideout." He sat up, causing Teazer to sit up also. "Okay. But oi wanna get somethin reral quick first." She gave Jerrie a devious smile then hopped down the tree, walking off down the street.
"WHot are we-" he tried to say as she stopped infront of a store, but Teazer quickly put her hand over his mouth. "Da ya loike ta steal?" She whispered. Jerrie nodded "Oi 'ave ta. Oi work fo' Macaviteh remembah? Why. Da YA loike ta steal?" She nodded and smiled. "Now quickly follow moi An' don' make a sound."
She crept along a small alley next to a pizza shop, staying in the darkness. Then Jerrie saw a person smoking out back. He followed Teazer as they quickly ran along the wall until they were behind a small trash can next to the back entrance door. The man put out his cigarette and opened the door to walk in. Teazer said softly "Come on!" and they snuck in right behind his heals.
They then quickly sidestepped behind a tall freezer and snuck to the other side where there were pizzas cooking. Jerrie shot her a confused glance. "'ow a'e we goin ta carreh that? I's twoice our' soize." Teazer smiled. "Oi got moi ways." She then looked around and said to Mungojerrie "Give moi a boost up." Jerrie locked his fingers together and she stepped into his hands and he pushed her up so she could climb to the counter.
When she got there she started reaching for the pizza but heard someone coming and had to get behind the pizza rack. It was clear though and she thought for sure she was caught. But the lights on inside the small oven were yellow-orange and Teazer blended in well. Then man grabbed one of the pizzas and a small bag of breadsticks next to the oven that Teazer hadnt noticed.
When the man was gone, Teazer crept out and grabbed a bag of breadsticks. She dropped it over the edge and Jerrie caught it easily. He set it down and watched while Teazer grabbed the pizza box and quietly knocked over a broom and she slid down the broom ontop of the box. She put the breadsticks inside the pizza box and she and Jerrie quickly ran out with it before they got noticed as someone else walked out to smoke.
Jerrie set the box down behind a trashcan as Teazer looked around for something. She smiled at him as she rolled out a small skateboard. "Oi used ta come 'ere all the toime ta get moi some pizza an' oi used this ta bring it 'ome." She and Jerrie put the box of pizza on the skateboard then they hopped up on either side of the pizza and hung two legs out over it. Teazer smiled and they started kicking and soon they were going down the sidewalks quickly, because where they were going was down hill.
When they had gotten close Jerrie had to grab a pole to make them turn and they saw the Hide out jsut ahead. Which was good, because where they were was pollicle territory and they LOVED pizzas. Jerrie and Teazer stopped pushing the pizza as they started to go downhill and saw the crew. They stood up on the pizza and started to yell "DIINNAH BOYS!" The crew cheered and Teazer saw Alice walking with the tom and then she said goodbye to him and ran to the crew to meet Teazer.
But there was one problem. Rumpleteazer and Mungojerrie didnt know how to stop the skateboard, and it was going down the hill very fast, and there was a curb around the hide out. They ran to the middle, grabbed the front of the pizza box, and braced themselves for impact. When the skateboard hit the curb, the back end tilted up, which made the pizza box slide off and Jerrie and Teazer were thrown forward.
They got up laughing with Alice and the rest of the crew as they dusted themselves off. Everyone then went to retrieve the pizza box. Teazer saw a small shed and hid the skateboard in a box under a few other old boxes. The toms carried the pizza inside as Alice and Teazer opened doors for them and walked in front of them to make sure there was nothing in the way. They went to Teazer and Jerrie and Alice's barracks and there was no one there, so they plopped the pizza on the floor and every said "MMMMM" when they saw te cheesy and steamy pepperoni pizza with large crust and buttery bread sticks. Every had two slices and two breadsticks.
"This is much better than what we usually get in this dump." Lato stated as he swallowed breadstick and took a bite of pizza.
Alice nodded in agreement and wiped her mouth "Beats whatever dead birds or anything they shove in a pot then put on the plate. They may not even cook it!" She cringed her nose in disaproval then at a bite of breadstick. Every one laughed and joked around while they ate the pizza.
Then Teazer remembered something. She hadnt seen Bellian anywhere since she broke up with Jake. She excused herself and left without telling every one where she was going.
She marched straight to Jake and Bellians barracks and walked in. She saw Jake with his 'friends' and walked over to him. She tapped Jakes arm and he looked up at her smiling, but he saw it was her he dropped the smile and faced his head towards the poker game being played to win the pot, which had in it cigarettes and beer and whatever drugs that was.
Teazer rolled her eyes and demanded. "Where is Bellian?" Jake shrugged. She tapped her foot slightly. "Have you SEEN him lately?" Jake just sat there and put one of his small beer cans in the pot, and Teazer persisted.
"Jake!" Jake turned around to her "WHAT do you WANT?" Teazer glared at him. "Where is Bellian?" She read his eyes when he didnt answer her and knew Jake had something she wasnt telling her. She grabbed his arm and jerked him up.
"Jake whot did ya do? Where is Bellian?" He jerked his arm away from her "Why dont you go ask your new tomfriend if he has seen him! you seem to be pretty close with him!" Jake turned to go back to his poker game but Teazer grabbed his shoulder firmly. "Is THAT whoiy ya not tellin moi? Ya JEALOUS?" Jake shot back at her "Im NOT jealous!"
Jake then layed down his cards and walked out of the barracks and Teazer saw him go out onto the field. She followed him and saw her crew and Alice and Jerrie watching her as she confronted Jake "WHERE IS BELLIAN?" she said as she grabbed Jakes arm firmly, but he turned around on her and shoved her, pinning her down "DONT TOUCH ME BITCH!"
Teazer hissed back at him and flipped them over and pinned his hands under his head. "WHERE JAKE!" she persisted as she grabbed his throat and he flipped them above their heads and pinned her back.
He pulled back his hand to punch her in the face and Teazer slid out from underneath him and they quickly stood up. She roundhouse kicked him in the gut and he grabbed her throat, lifting her off the ground. She grabbed his arms to hold herself up and managed struggle to get out "Ya know, whot oi have ta do, don' ya?"
He only glared at her then realized what she meant but it was too late. She kicked him in the groin and he fell down onto his knees, clutching himself in pain. Teazer used her foot to push his chest down and held it on his chest, keeping him down "Where. Is. Bellian?"
Jake only glared at her, refusing to talk. She moved her foot up to his throat and pressed down, he couldnt lift her foot and struggled to get out "I- I dont know! H-he ran off. We had got into a f-fight!" He struggled as he tried to gain oxygen.
She widened her eyes and took her foot off of his throat as she tried to think. "jeeze bitch..." Jake said as he sat up, clutching his throat. Teazer quickly turned and kicked him square in the face, knocking him out.
Teazer clapped her hands together, brushing them off. She then walked to her crew, everyone else on the field staring at her and Jake. She grabbed Jerries hand and sat down with the rest of the crew as though nothing had happened "Oim back." she smiled and everyone continued on with the conversation.
Teazer pretended to listen and be interested, but all she could think about was leaving to find Bellian.