*Demeter*
I was now sitting in my adoptive mother's den still thinking about what I learned from the twin's barley and hour before. "Jelly, there is something I never told anyone about from my time with Macavity." She turned to me and cocked her head to the side a little bit "Oh, what is it dearie? You can tell me anything you know." I nodded, I remember when Bomba and I showed up at the junkyard all those years ago Jelly and Asparagus took us in without a second thought. And even after they found out that we had been prisoners of Macavity they didn't care only protected us more. So I believed I could tell her without a worry of her hating me. "Mom I was p-" I'm cut off from my confession by Bomba walking in "Sorry mom, but I need Deme."
She grabbed my arm in attempt to pull me up and out the door but I didn't move. "Now Bomba just a second Deme was just about to tell me something important." Bomba turned to look at me with a look on her face knowing what I was gonna tell mom. "Are you sure, Deme? You've kept it a secret this long no one needs to know." I sat down and felt like crying "yes Bomba I'm sure and they do need to know she's alive." Bomba's eyes went wide and she started stammering things like but, Cori, Tanti, dead. I rolled my eyes and looked to my mother who was looking between us with curiosity in her eyes. "Mom, I was pregnant with Macavity's child. It turned out to be a little girl named Rumpleteazer, the day I escaped I forgot about my duties as a mother and just focused on getting away.
I realized my mistake too late and I couldn't go back he would kill me. I went to Cori and Tanti a lot after i got back to see if they knew whether or not she was alive. Bomba found out the day that Cori told me they believed my daughter to be dead since they could not find her mind anywhere. I knew on that day that I failed my duties at being a mother." I hung my head in shame and waited for my mother to speak "oh dearie, is that why you cried when you found out you were pregnant with Jemi?" I nodded I felt my mother's arms go around me in a comforting manner. "Well if she is alive like the twins say she is then you must know that she can survive on her own this long she most likely will have a good life."
I sighed the reason I told her this wasn't because I didn't think she couldn't survive or I was scared she hated me, no it was because I saw her in that kit Celeste out there. That name didn't even fit her, Celeste, it screamed that she was hiding something. "Jelly, Bomba, Deme, Old Deuteronomy is here and they are deciding if Celeste can become a Jellicle or not." Jenny called to us "what is with the sad faces he most likely is gonna let her stay." Jelly laughed "we know that Jenny, we were just worried about her past." She nodded and we headed out together to the main clearing.
*Celeste*
Jer took me to his den and showed me where he used to hide all the items he stole as a kit but other than that we mostly just walked around the junkyard talking. At one point I turned to Jer. "Why were you so insistent on knowing my past earlier?" He looked me in the eyes then looked away with a sigh. "Our leader Old Deuteronomy will be here tonight to decide if you get to stay, he will say yes of course, but you will have to tell him and everybody your background story-you real story not the one we made up." I gulped I couldn't do that I shook my head and took several steps back.
"No, I can't Macavity, he will kill me." Jer took a step towards me "no he won't we won't let him." An evil laugh rang out at the end of Jer's sentence followed by an evil voice "that's where your wrong Mungojerrie, little Celeste is right I have forbade her from telling that story ever. Her weak needy story about a mother that didn't want her so much she left her with an evil villain." By now other Cats had shown up and Bomba stepped forward "that's not true Mac and you know it leave the kit alone." He appeared in front of Bomba and wrapped a hand around her neck squeezing and lifting her up "would you rather I took you back with me?" She croaked out an answer best she could and he dropped her but before he turned around he aimed a kick at her but my scream stopped him.
"No, don' 'ur' 'er." He snarled at me laying on the ground trying to lift myself off the ground till I was in a standing position. "No? How dare you tell me what to do kit. I'm the only person who would want filth like you, so now it's time to come home." And before anyone could react he had grabbed me and we disappeared. I was thrown into a dark cell and the door slammed shut. I sat on the ground trying hard not to cry and show weakness but like every adult says I am a kitten still and can't handle this on my own. I leaned my head on the cell bars that lead into the next cell. "Rump, Rump is that you?" Came a voice before a paw reached out and grabbed my paw. I hissed and jerked away "who ah' ya?" I heard giggling from the cells on either side of me. Before someone spoke up "dear Rump it seems as you have grown up quite well, but then again you have forgotten the queens who helped raised you."
I smiled to myself " nah Oi didn' fo'ge' ya Keriae, Athena, Adeola, Evealina wat ah' ya all still doin' 'ere?" They giggled again "oh dear I'm so glad you remembered me-well us- but you seem to have forgotten that we are prisoners here." Keriae spoke softly she always was the one who took control out of the four of them. "Oi am scared." I felt a warm comforting paw on my head running its claws through my head fur gently as I slowly fell asleep. The door to the cell opened with a slam which caused me to jerk up and huddle into the corner more. Macavity walked in and looked around like he couldn't see me. He turned to my corner with a sadistic grin and started towards me. "Did you really think I would let you get away without any consequences?" I shook my head no, but that didn't satisfy him. He picked me up by my shoulders and held me against the wall "answer me! When I ask you a question."
I gulped "Oi did' expec' ya ta leave meh alone." He growled "Talk correctly to me, bitch." then punched me in the stomach. I whimpered "now!" He yelled. "I didn't expect you to leave me alone." I said in defeat. He nodded seeming happy with me submitting to his orders. Before I knew what he was doing he pushed his body up against mine, then slammed his lips on mine. I struggled against him trying to make him stop he hissed and scratched me on the side. I scratched his arm trying to make him stop without realizing what a mistake that was. He pushed away from me causing me to drop to the ground, looking up I saw his yellow eyes glaring at me enraged "how dare you attack me." He explicated each word with a punch or scratch to a part of my body. He continued to hit and scratch me till he seemed satisfied with his work. He turned to walk away but stopped at the door "you will learn to obey me or else you'll end up just like your mother."