My first fic ever! So, I've finally done it. I hope nobody will get bored
to death while reading it. Warning – Spanish is my mother tongue, so please
excuse the grammar mistakes there can be (I'm still learning); feel free to
correct me in the reviews.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Cats. If I did I would have Drew Varley doing private performances for me in my living room every night...
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Chapter 1 – Outside alone
Can you see in the dark?
Despite her natural ability, Demeter could hardly see anything in the middle of the rainy night. She walked slowly, not knowing exactly where she was going, dominated by pain and despair. Walking away from the junkyard forever.
It had happened early that night, when dark clouds were beginning to cover the moon. Munkustrap had suddenly appeared in front of her, looking angry and hurt, and then he spoke... She couldn't quite remember the exact words, not believing that her beloved mate could make such an accusation:
"You've been seeing Macavity, he said. "Mungojerrie saw you with him in the alley behind the junkyard. Do you only work for him, or there's something more...?" "No!" she screamed, but she didn't even have a chance to explain. Explain what? She hadn't seen Macavity since the last Ball, when he almost kidnapped her and he took Old Deuteronomy instead. Something was terribly wrong...
"Jerrie, tell him it's a mistake..." she implored. Mungojerrie was standing right behind Munkustrap, sad and bewildered, not daring to look directly at her. At last the young tom spoke: "I saw you, Demeter. It was you, I swear..." Then he turned away and disappeared into the pipe.
After that, all her memories were confused. She vaguely remembered Bombalurina crying bitterly in Tugger's arms, and the rest of the cats surrounding them, some in anger, some in disbelief. And then, the streets. Expelled from her home, she managed to look into Munkustrap's eyes for the last time, but he wouldn't even look back at her; then she walked away, alone, in the rain.
He was waiting for her, watching her walking from across the street. Moving soundlessly in the shadows, he came near and touched her shoulder from behind.
"Looking for me, dear?"
"You! What have you done? How could you make Mungojerrie lie about me?"
"That's the funny thing, he did not lie", he whispered as Demeter stared at him in astonishment. "You know, now he is a Jellicle he wouldn't work for me any more, so I put some catnip on his way and, when his sight was blurred enough, I let him see me with a certain queen conveniently made up to look like you. It was a surprise how a plan so simple could work so well... He looked more intelligent when he was on my side. Now, I have set you free from the Jellicles, free to be with me"
"No! How can you be so blind? I was happy with them; I love Munkustrap, I..." "Do you love him? Even now he thinks you're a slut and wants you far from his beloved tribe? Nobody wants to have you around... like I do". He moved forward to hold the terrorized queen; she cried out loud and run down the street as quickly as she could. "Run as far as you want, dear" he whispered to himself; "I'll find you".
After a while her lungs ached, her head was spinning and a growing sensation of nausea invaded her body. She has run almost for an hour, arriving at an unknown part of the city. Exhausted, Demeter headed for a nearby alley and curled herself under a car, and, shivering, she fell into an agitated sleep, her paws seizing her womb... the secret she had planned to tell Munkustrap in a few days. "How am I going to protect them now?"
The rain continued to pour down for the rest of the night.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Cats. If I did I would have Drew Varley doing private performances for me in my living room every night...
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Chapter 1 – Outside alone
Can you see in the dark?
Despite her natural ability, Demeter could hardly see anything in the middle of the rainy night. She walked slowly, not knowing exactly where she was going, dominated by pain and despair. Walking away from the junkyard forever.
It had happened early that night, when dark clouds were beginning to cover the moon. Munkustrap had suddenly appeared in front of her, looking angry and hurt, and then he spoke... She couldn't quite remember the exact words, not believing that her beloved mate could make such an accusation:
"You've been seeing Macavity, he said. "Mungojerrie saw you with him in the alley behind the junkyard. Do you only work for him, or there's something more...?" "No!" she screamed, but she didn't even have a chance to explain. Explain what? She hadn't seen Macavity since the last Ball, when he almost kidnapped her and he took Old Deuteronomy instead. Something was terribly wrong...
"Jerrie, tell him it's a mistake..." she implored. Mungojerrie was standing right behind Munkustrap, sad and bewildered, not daring to look directly at her. At last the young tom spoke: "I saw you, Demeter. It was you, I swear..." Then he turned away and disappeared into the pipe.
After that, all her memories were confused. She vaguely remembered Bombalurina crying bitterly in Tugger's arms, and the rest of the cats surrounding them, some in anger, some in disbelief. And then, the streets. Expelled from her home, she managed to look into Munkustrap's eyes for the last time, but he wouldn't even look back at her; then she walked away, alone, in the rain.
He was waiting for her, watching her walking from across the street. Moving soundlessly in the shadows, he came near and touched her shoulder from behind.
"Looking for me, dear?"
"You! What have you done? How could you make Mungojerrie lie about me?"
"That's the funny thing, he did not lie", he whispered as Demeter stared at him in astonishment. "You know, now he is a Jellicle he wouldn't work for me any more, so I put some catnip on his way and, when his sight was blurred enough, I let him see me with a certain queen conveniently made up to look like you. It was a surprise how a plan so simple could work so well... He looked more intelligent when he was on my side. Now, I have set you free from the Jellicles, free to be with me"
"No! How can you be so blind? I was happy with them; I love Munkustrap, I..." "Do you love him? Even now he thinks you're a slut and wants you far from his beloved tribe? Nobody wants to have you around... like I do". He moved forward to hold the terrorized queen; she cried out loud and run down the street as quickly as she could. "Run as far as you want, dear" he whispered to himself; "I'll find you".
After a while her lungs ached, her head was spinning and a growing sensation of nausea invaded her body. She has run almost for an hour, arriving at an unknown part of the city. Exhausted, Demeter headed for a nearby alley and curled herself under a car, and, shivering, she fell into an agitated sleep, her paws seizing her womb... the secret she had planned to tell Munkustrap in a few days. "How am I going to protect them now?"
The rain continued to pour down for the rest of the night.