Frances: Forever alone… My love is gone. *sigh*

Rebecca: Aw, poor Frances…

Macavity: MWUHAHAHAHAHA-

Munkustrap:*punches Macavity* JERK!

Rebecca: I don't own Cats, enjoy!

Gingeresca's POV

It had been a week since Frances left and I couldn't stop crying. It felt like they're was a large hole in my chest that nothing could fill. My parents had told me that I was arranged to marry Bagheera, but I wasn't planning to do that. Cleopatra was now more irritable towards me, probably because she thought that I wanted to be his mate. We all know how much Cleopatra likes him. Tigress and the 3 new kittens spent a lot of time with me. I refused to see Bagheera, I hated him for being okay with the arranged marriage.

"Gingeresca… Please feel better, there's no need to be so sad," Tigress said in a soft voice as she groomed Marcus since Dallas and Onicka were grooming each other.

"There's every reason to be sad!… Frances is gone and I'm being forced to marry Bagheera. I don't love him!" I explained, making Onicka and Marcus jump a little.

"I know the arranged marriage thing sucks, but why do you care if Frances is gone?" she didn't know my feelings, I hadn't told anyone.

"She loves him, of course," Marcus said before nuzzling Tigress.

Her eyes went wide. "You do?" she said. "But he's the unwanted child, the one who killed his mother with shame."

"He didn't kill his mother, her hard laboring did… And it's not his fault that his father's no good. Don't act like he's a bad tom," I replied.

"Fine… For your sake, I hope he comes back. Plus he was good at getting Dallas and Onicka to behave," Tigress continued to care for the kittens with me while I moped for most of the day.

The next day, I decided to confront my parents. I wouldn't marry Bagheera, and I was going to try to find Frances. "Mummy… Daddy…"

"Yes, babushka?" Jemima, my mother, smiled sweetly at me. Tumblebrutus, my father, looked at me as well.

"I… I know you want me to be mates with Bagheera…" I began, feeling so nervous.

"Yes, sweetie, it's a good decision. You two will be together and have some beautiful kittens," Tumblebrutus explained in the fatherly way he always did.

"But I-… I don't want an arranged marriage," I finally got myself to say.

"What are you saying, Gingeresca?" he said, crinkling his eyebrows up.

"I'm not going to marry Bagheera," I sat up, trying to look tall.

"Who is the tom who has stolen your heart, babushka?" Mum had a way of knowing many things in half a second.

"It's Frances, Mummy, and I plan to go and find him to bring him back," I swallowed hard.

"Oh, lord! Him? The damned son of Macavity?" Dad started pacing while he swore under his breath.

I started tearing up. "He's not bad, daddy… Please, don't be mad," I started crying.

"Oh, darling…" Jemima sighed.

"I'm leaving to find him, and I'm not marrying Bagheera. Goodbye," I left their den and started for the entrance to the junkyard.

"Gingeresca!" a cluster of voices came my way.

I turned around to see Tigress, Cleopatra, Marcus, Dallas, Onicka, and Alonzo. "What's going on?"

"We're going to help you, of course," Alonzo said, and then we bounded off to Macavity's clan. I was going to fine Frances and bring him back, no matter what. We had to run for hours, searching non-stop. We finally found the entrance around sunset, we were all nervous. I was so afraid that someone was going to get hurt or maybe even die… But I entered along with my friends, anyways. It wad for love, so it was okay.

"Hello, hello, my friends. Have you come to join my wonderful little clan?" Macavity grinned wickedly, I noticed that Frances was lounging by his throne looking broken and sad. He looked at me and then his eyes got wide, but he didn't move. I think he knew that something bad would happen if he did.

"No,' I said, pretending to be tough, "We've come to get Frances so he can come back home."

He laughed, "Frances IS home, with me."

I looked into Frances's eyes and he shook his head. "This is no home," I said. "Please, let him come with us…"

Macavity stood up with his fur bristling and hissed, "Leave now before I'm forced to dispose of you!" His followers began to come forward, ready for a battle.

"Macavity, please…" Frances begged quietly.

"SHUTUP!" Macavity smacked him hard enough to fling him onto the floor.

My eyes went wide and I growled, "HOW DARE YOU TOUCH HIM!" and leapt onto Macavity, clawing at him madly. I was trying to get revenge for Frances. I was trying to kill Macavity. The others helped fend off his henchmen while Frances got up and stared wide eyed at me. I pushed myself off of Macavity and took a swipe at his stomach. He took a few swipes at me, earning some bloodshed from my shoulder and my getting a little dazed. My legs were a little weaker and Macavity kept on hitting me. Luckily, someone snarled and tackled the attacker.

I shook the daze out of my head and saw Frances clawing and biting at Macavity. "Frances…" I managed to say before fending off a henchmen who tried to defend his master. I caught glimpses of the others fighting off Macavity's henchmen, all of them had their fair share of claw marks, but they were still fighting very gallantly. There was a sudden and high pitched cry of deep pain and everyone turned to see Frances clawing both of Macavity's eyes good enough to blind him. The henchmen were much more keen to help their master now. My friends and I fended off them until I could grab Frances and run away as fast as our legs could carry us. No one was dead, so that was good, but Tigress and Alonzo were going to take a trip to the medical den for their deeper cuts. Everyone slowly made their way to their home to sleep off the fight until Frances and I were finally alone.

"Hello…" Frances said.

"Hello…" I replied.

"Thank you for getting me out of there."

"You're welcome," I couldn't help but think of how awkward this was.

"Why'd you come for me?" He looked at me with his big, green eyes and seemed to see right into my soul.

I smiled and sighed, "Shouldn't you know by now?"

Somehow, he must've gotten the hint because he cupped my cheek with his paw and held my lower back with his other paw and smashed his lips against mine in such a wonderful kiss that I could've cried. When our lips finally parted we both stayed in each other's embrace while we caught out breath. "I love you," he said after a moment.

"I love you, too," we giggled before kissing more.

Rebecca: That's the end of this chapter, folks!

Cleopatra: How sweet, well R&R!