Author's Note-
Hi! Silikat here with my first...ever...fanfiction! Dun dun duun!
Hee hee. Sorry about that. So, anyway, here it is. Enjoy! Oh, and please review, I would really appreciate feedback on this. Thanks! =D
Jennyanydots purred, content. She would never understand these humans. One minute they were rushing around their (strangely overlarge) dens, and wouldn't even give you a passing glance, and the next they were perfectly happy to sit for what seemed like hours and scratch you behind the ears. It was nice though. Jenny stretched out and yawned, scratching the large green sofa she was sitting on. The old human queen she lived with looked down at her, smiling.
"Do you like that Meg? Hmm? Do you like that? Do you?"
Jenny rolled her eyes. She hated her first name.
"Hey, it's your two little kitties birthdays today, isn't it? Do you want to go and see them? Hmm? Do you?"
Jenny meowed a 'yes' and moved to scratch the door, ever regretting the fact that humans couldn't speak cat. Then, lovable as she was, she would have to yell at that patronising human. "Don't talk to me like I talk to the kittens! In human years, I'm probably older than you. Learn some respect for your elders." She smirked. If only.
In fact, it was indeed her children's birthdays. She was even planning a birthday party with Jellylorum when she got back to the Junkyard. Though not strictly kittens, her two little rascals certainly needed keeping an eye on!
"Come on then, Meg. Let me get my coat."
Ten minutes later, the duo reached Victoria Grove, Jenny trotting alongside her human. As they got to number 72, they were greeted by a queen kitten's cry of "Mum! Have you seen my pearls? They were on the table a minute ago!" Jenny heard cackling from inside the house and sighed. She was willing to bet that was something to do with Rumpleteazer, her eldest child. By about a minute. Her and her brother Mungojerrie had a reputation around the Junkyard for stealing from their humans, so much so that Jellylorum, when they were talking over their sewing, wondered why the two thieves still had humans.
Jenny's train of thought was interrupted by the door opening to reveal her twins' flustered human queen. Her human greeted her with a grin, and started to talk to her about the weather. Jennyanydots stepped past the chatting pair and into the house. It was quite large and elegant, all fluffy carpets and wood panels. It smelled a lot better than Jenny's own house today, almost like cookies.
And, as if on cue, the birthday kits themselves slunk into the room, holding brown socks over their shoulders, matching their yellow, orange and brown calico fur. They were wearing mischievous smiles on their faces-never a good sign.
"And just what have you been up to?" Jenny demanded.
"Nuffin', mum" Mungojerrie tried to look innocent. It didn't work very well. "Watcha doin'?"
"Well," Jenny said playfully. "I was going to go and wish my two little rascals a happy birthday, but…" she trailed off, cuffing Mungojerrie around the ear.
"Go 'way, mum!" Rumpleteazer said, grinning at her brother. Her mother rolled her eyes, seeing the string of Woolworth pearls around her neck. "And where, may I ask, did you get that, darling…" Jenny's tone was light, but the calico twins sensed the accusation in their mothers' voice.
"Oh…er …birthday present. Fr'm Jerrie. 'Ya comin' ter the 'Yard tonight?" she mumbled evasively. Jenny sighed. Jerrie and Teazer were such a handful! Still, she was wrong about that human kitten's pearls.
"Of course I am, Teazer. I don't even know why I bother coming back to my humans' any more, there's so much to do around there. In fact, if it weren't for the mice and the cockroaches, I probably wouldn't." Now it was the twins' turn to sigh and roll their eyes. They thought their mother teaching the mice and cockroaches was just as bad as she thought their thieving was.
"So, 'ya wanna come in? Oh! We've got some new…ahem…stuff. It's really sparkly! An' really fun to play with."
Jellylorum sighed. She had run out of jobs to do around the Junkyard, after tidying her den, kitsitting Pouncival and Tumblebrutus for her brother Asparagus Junior, helping them tidy theirdens, distracting Etcetera for Tugger and even finding Mistofeelees' lost rubber mouse. In short, she was bored, and Jenny wouldn't be back until 5 o' clock, and even then only to decorate her den for Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer's surprise birthday party. Jelly glanced at an old clock she had found, wound up and put in her den. 3:36. She had a while to wait. The old queen settled down for a quick catnap before her friend arrived.
One and a half hours later, Jelly was abruptly woken up by frightened yowling and angry barking. She hissed. Pollicles. They always wanted to attack the Jellicles, ever since the Awful Battle where they had been upstaged by a single cat. It sounded like they had succeeded. Without hesitation, Jelly ran off to find Munkustrap. The Jellicle Protector could fight a lot better than she could. He'd even got rid of Macavity, for Heaviside's sake! She just hoped she could find him before it was too late…
Disclaimer-Sadly, I don't own Cats. Or anything I'm gonna use, except my OC cat (who will appear later) and the humans. RUG, T.S Elliot and Andrew Lloyd-Webber do own Cats though.