It was now about a couple weeks after Rumpleteazers crazy birthday weekend and Mungojerrie had to go on a small mission with the boys of the crew. Rumpleteazer would be with Alice, but she is with her tomfriend and Rumpleteazer helped her get ready and forced her to go. This was their first serious date.
Teazer was sitting at a small cat restaurant, drinking a cup of coke at the bar. She smiled to two cats, apparently twins, that walked past her and smiled to her as they walked to a booth and sat down simultaneously. The restaurant was mostly empty besides Teazer, the bar tender, the twins, a waitress ever now and then, and a couple or lone cat every now and then.
Teazer ordered her second coke and she noticed the female of the twins walk over to her. "Hello." She said kindly as she slowly walked over to a seat next to Rumpleteazer. "Hi." Rumpleteazer answered with a friendly smile and took her coke from the bar tender handing it to her. "My brother and I are just here because we were bored and we noticed you sitting here alone. We were wondering if you would like to join us. Share the boredom." She joked and giggled slightly. Rumpleteazer giggled with her and said "hmm.. Okay. Oi think oi will. Oim Rumpleteazah boi tha way." She said to the short haired queen as they walked back to the booth.
"Im Tantomile. And this is my brother Coricopat." Tantomile gestured to the male twin as she sat by him and Teazer sat on the opposite side of the booth. Coricopat smiled to Teazer kindly and she smiled back.
Teazer and the twins chatted for a while about how their day has been going and about the food at the restaurant. Then Tantomile grabbed Teazers hand gently "i love your ring." Rumpleteazer smiled "Thank you." Coricopat then said something surprising to Rumpleteazer.
"So have you thought of any names yet?" Teazer flicked her ear at him. "Names?" Tantomile looked at her curiously "For your kittens." Rumpleteazer flicked her tail. "oh. Well oi dunno. Thats still a few years away." She giggled slightly to the twins. Coricopat and Tantomile only looked at each other with confused expressions.
"It could only be close to a couple weeks less than two months." Tantomile said to her." Rumpleteazer was dumbfounded. "Whot are ya talkin about?" Coricopat widened his eyes slightly at her. "You mean you didnt know?" Rumpleteazer was getting frustrated. "Oi didn' know WHOT?" She looked at both cats and they only stared at her. Tantomile swallowed and said softly "I think you're pregnant."
Rumpleteazer widened her eyes. "Oi am not" She said in disbelief. Tantamile licked her lips then continued "My brother and I, we are phsychic cats,
"-a very rare breed of cat. There are Phsychic cats, magical cats," Coricopat continued.
"-regular cats, but we Phsychic cats can do only mind magic, you might call it." Tantomile finished. They seemed to talk like this all the time. Rumpleteazer found it quite cool.
"We can put you in a trance, sometimes levitate, we can sense when someone else is near," Coricopat said with a slight nod of his head
"-we can talk to each other with out speaking, and well, we sense a preasance in your abdomen. We believe you are pregnant." Tantomile finished raising her eyebrows slightly.
Rumpleteazer shook her head. "There is no way! Oi made Mungojerreh stay away from moi whoile oi was in heat..." she trailed off talking to herself. She was deep in thought when Coricopat interupted "Is there a chance you might have gotten drunk when in heat with this Mungojerrie?"
Rumpleteazer had to think about this for a moment. "On moi birthday. OI had started early but oi didn' think much of it. We went to tha bar. Oi remembah that. But oim pretteh sure we didn'.. ya know.."
Coricopat and Tantomile nodded and Tantomile said "We would like to try something on you to see if we cant help you remember. But not here. We should be somewhere alone." She said as Coricopat had gotten up and paid the waitress.
Rumpleteazer only followed the twins as they went out of the restaurant and down a couple of Alleys until they found an empty one that seemed pretty secluded. The twins sat down and Teazer did the same.
They didnt say a word as they grabbed each of her hands, then joined their own. Then Tantomile spoke "Rumpleteazer. All we need you to do is clear your mind. Close your eyes, and think of nothing."
Teazer nodded and closed her eyes. She then saw the morning her heat started on her birthday. She watched the day go by as a bit of a fast forward. After the bars they passed out in an alley.
Nothing happened then. Then the next day was the fair where they popped the bouncy house then got more drunk. That night the crew slept in a large bush in Victoria Grove. Nothing happened then either.
Sunday was just plain see how drunk you can get, which Teazer remembered nothing of. She saw everyone taking as many shots as they could then running out so they didnt have to pay. They had taken many..many..many.. MANY shots and Teazer could barely stand up. Along with everyone else. Then when everyone kept walking down the alley and singing, her and Mungojerrie tripped and fell. That night they DID mate. While she was in heat. Teazer flashed her eyes open, breaking the chain to where no one could see anymore.
"Oh...my.. Everlasting.. Cat... oim pregnant.." she says softly as she puts her hands on her abdomen. She could feel only the tiniest buldge. She then seemed to snap out of a trance as she looked up at the sun. It looked to be close to 9. Jerrie would be back. "Oi have ta go." She said to the twins.
"We understand. If you need anything, you can usually find us in that Restaurant. If not, ask the waitresses if you can talk to Electra. She can tell you where to find us. Goodbye." They said as they waved to Rumpleteazer hurrying down the alley while waving back at them.
When she got back to the hideout, she saw Mungojerrie coming back with Halestrom and the crew and a few other toms. Mungojerrie saw Teazer and waved at her. He then said something to Halestrom and started jogging towards Rumpleteazer.
"Hey Teazah!" He picked her up and spun her around in a hug, like always. They kissed each other then Teazer said "Oi have ta talk to ya Jerrieh." Mungojerrie saw the expression on Teazers face and became worried. "Is somethin wrong Teaz?" he grabbed her hands.
Rumpleteazer only looked down, afraid of how Mungojerrie will react. "Oi, Oi dunno. But, do ya remembah moi birthday? Tha weekend of fun we had?" Jerrie nodded. "Well... on Sunday.. oi think we had alot of fun.." Mungojerrie looked confused. "We had fun tha whole weekend.." Rumpleteazer flicked her ear slightly. "No... oi mean.. Me and you.. we had alot of FUN Sunday noight.." She raised her eye brows at him.
"Okay? we have FUN all the time.." Mungojerrie was very confused. "Mungojerrieh... oi was in heat. And now.. oi think oim pregnant.." Mungojerrie froze with his eyes wide. Teazer only stared at him. Mungojerrie blinked and looked down at her stomach. He saw a small bump.
He stared at it and said "you're... pregnant..." Rumpleteazer looked down again "Jerrieh please don' be mad. Oi-" she was cut off by Jerrie. "Oim not mad! Not in tha smallest bit! Oim happeh! Oim goin ta be a dad! And you're goin ta be a mom!" he smiled widely and picked Teazer up again, hugging her tightly.
They both laughed and hugged and kissed. They went inside and found Alice and told her the good news. Alice and Rumpleteazer celebrated while Mungojerrie told Halestrom, Lato, Munger, and JD the news. Everyone was happy, but they told no one else. Not sure if they should or not.
It seemed as though Rumpleteazer being pregnant made Mungojerrie more protective of her, and she liked it. He slept with her in his arms tighter everynight. Her under his arm closer then they walked. Held her hand tighter when at lunch. Rumpleteazer liked it. There was no drinking this weekend. Everyone was just hanging out.
But Monday before training started, Rumpleteazer was called ot Macavity's office again. She wasnt very happy to have to be apart from Mungojerrie, but she went anyways.
She went down the same hallway and this time saw a Red queen leaving his office. She again didnt think much of it. He probably had queens all over the place for him. She walked to his office, knocked, he said to enter, but this time she didnt feel the feeling she usually does that makes her attracted to Macavity.
She sat down and this time he didnt look up at her. "Rumpleteazer. Did you lie when i asked you those questions?" Rumpleteazer flicked her tail. "No sah." Macavity growled slightly to himself. "You may leave." he grumbled angrily.
Rumpleteazer quickly left, unsure of what that was, but she walked slowly and leisurly back to training, knowing they would think she would be gone much longer. She stopped to catch a couple mice, to get some water from the cafeteria, and to use the bathroom.
When she got back it was almost over. She nodded kindly to Mudd and went to sit by Alice, Mungojerrie soon joining them. "Whot did Mac want? whoiy did it take so long?" Rumpleteazer smiled "Because oi wasnt at his office for most of it. Oi jus' didn' want to come back so soon. He just asked if oi had lied before about something he put on paper. Oi said no. He dismissed moi." Mungojerrie nodded and held her hand again.
The next couple of days were very easy for Rumpleteazer. They were practicing how to shoot guns in training, and two guns with just her and Jerrie. But Wednesday it changed.
After training with Mungojerrie he told her to wait in the gym because he had to put the equipment up then they would exit through the other gym doors. When Mungojerrie left, Teazer saw Halestrom enter through the other gym doors.
"Hey Teazer!" he waved to her walking over. "How you doin?" he smiled at her. "Hey Hale. Oim awlroight." They talked for only about a minute, when suddenly, a knife was in Halestroms chest. His eyes widened at her and he fell back. Teazer stepped back and looked around for the assassinator but saw no one.
She went over to Halestrom and lifted his head up. "hale!" she yelled at him, but there came no answer. He only moved his eyes to face her and took in a deep breathe. He said in a strained voice "Macavity..." then his chest stopped moving. "HALE!" Rumpleteazer yelled at him, but it was too late. He was gone.
Just then Mungojerrie walked in and his eyes widened. He ran over to Halestrom and grabbed him "Hale?" he yelled, tears already streaming down his face. Then Macavity came and pulled Mungojerrie back. "CAREFUL!" Mungojerrie was about to speak and pull away, but then Macavity whistled and two toms came and grabbed either side of Rumpleteazer.
"WHOT ARE YA DOIN?" He tried to get out of macavity's grip. "She killed him Mungojerrie! I saw it! She has been plotting against you! She was trying to get to you!" Mungojerries eyes widened as he stared at the struggling Rumpleteazer.
She widened her eyes "NO OI DIDNT!" Mungojerries breathing became heavy as he looked back at Macavity. "Yes she did Jerrie. Dont let her fool you. I saw it. How do you explain the blood splattered on her and the knife missing from his belt. Im sure he didnt kill himself.. and there was no one else here that would. Take her away."
Mungojerrie only knelt down by Halestrom and continued to weep as Rumpleteazer was drug away. As she looked back she saw Macavity put a hand on Jerries back, then look at Teazer and smirk.
She continued to try to get away, but to no avail. They threw her in a cell in a long dark hall full of them. They locked the iron doors, and left her. She was very unsure of what just happened because it had happened so fast.
She then realized, no matter what happened. Her friend was dead, his blood was on her, and she saw him die. She got in the corner of the cell, and cried. She cried for what seemed like hours. She didnt know what time it was when she finally fell asleep from crying all night.
The next day she guessed, she saw no one. But she did notice a familiar face across the hall. It was the black and gold queen she saw leaving Macavity's office. Rumpleteazer went to the bars of the cell and said softly "Hello?"
She saw the figure in the other cell flinch slightly. "Hello?" the queen replied softly. "Whot are ya doin in here? oi thought you were with Macavity?" Rumpleteazer said softly. "well. I was. But i found him cheating on me, with my sister. We got into a fight, he was yelling at me and trying to mate with me again...and i hit him. It was my fault, i shouldnt have done that.." The queen said as she came into the light. She was covered with bruises and cuts like she had been beaten.
Rumpleteazer gasped. "Did HE do that?" the queen only nodded solemly. "Why are YOU here?" she asked. Rumpleteazer sat back and thought it over a moment. "Oi realleh dunno. Moi friend was murdahed and it looked loike oi did it. And when moi baby daddy came in," she had to hold back tears as she lowered her head. "It was his best friend. Oi didn' do it. Oi think it was Macavity. Oi watched him die... his blood was on moi.." she sobbed softly but the gold and black queen widened her eyes "You're pregnant?" Rumpleteazer nodded. The gold and black queen got closer to the bars. "we have to get you out of here. He could make you lose the kitten. As punishment, he rapes and beats the queens. He might make you lose it." They backed up quickly as a large tom walked by. When he was out of earshot the gold and black queen went back into the light. "Im Demeter. We need to find a way for you to get out. I will help you. I know some queens around here who might. We will figure this out. I promise."
About a week passed and they got visits from no one but the occasional guard to bring them food. Which was the nastiest they had ever seen in the cafeteria.
Then on a friday it was Mungojerrie to bring the food. Rumpleteazer tried to talk to him. "Mungojerrieh! Please! Believe moi! Oi wouldn' kill em! He was moi friend to!" Mungojerrie didnt say a word. She grabbed his hand and he looked down at her with soft eyes. "Please help get us out Jerrieh. Whoiy would oi try ta kill ya? Ya are tha fatheh of moi children. Please help." Mungojerrie thought for a moment then sighed. "Teazeh. Oi cant help ya. Macavity has me under 24/7 watch. Toms are everywhere watching me." Teazer closed her eyes and backed up, feeling hopeless. Jerrie thought for a moment. "Oim sorry." He said again before getting up to leave. Teazer sighed. "oi am to." She said as she put the promise ring by his foot. He picked it up. He held it in a clenched fist as he walked away.