A Bittersweet Morning [ORP]

[sk8tergal76]

Rain. Ugh. Rumpleteazer hated rain. As she tried to find a place to get dry, she spotted the car. Oooh. Perfect. Teazer sprinted to it and looked for a way in through the back. She found a crack in the window and squeezed through it. She slipped on her way in, however, and landed on her tush inside. Hard.

"Ow!" she squealed, rubbing her behind. She noticed Jerrie and Exotica and smiled widely. "Oi! Fancy meetin' you goys 'ere! Wot ya doin'?"

[Pippin]

Jerrie's attention was drawn away from Exotica by a thump and an awfully familiar sounding 'Ow!' from the backseat. He turned himself half way around so he could see to confirm who it was that had just made such a graceful entrance, though really he knew that voice anywhere. "There yew ah," he said, grinning as he looked her over. The rain Exotica had mentioned must have started, judging from the appearance of her fur. Teazer looked unpleasantly damp. "Oi was wonderin' where yew got to." He settled himself back down into a resting position where he could see both Teazer and Exotica. "Stayin' dryer than yew," he answered her, a bit smugly, before nodding his head backward towards the other queen rather noncommitally. "Exotica 'ere's been sayin' th' end is comin', though she won't tell me wot."

[sk8tergal76]

Teazer scowled at Jerrie and wrung out her tail with her hands. She casually flung her tail in Jerrie's direction before what he said actually reached her brain. She adopted a serious manner. "The 'nd? Ooooooh. Sounds very menacing loike. Please continue," she stretched out luxuriously, thinking this might take a long time. Even though she was in a pose of complete relaxation, she was a little disturbed at the thought of "the end." What if it was the end of Argentine Joint?

[Pippin]

Jerrie flinched as the water from Teazer's tail caught him in the face. The paw he waved idly in front of him had come up to late once he realized what she was doing. He stuck out his tongue briefly at her before turning his attention back to Exotica, his curiosity as to just what she had meant starting to grow. "Yeah. Yew sound loike this is somethin' serious," he prompted, hoping that her answer would reveal that Exotica's idea of serious was something silly like a roach infestation or week old tuna.

[sk8tergal76]

Tantomile awoke to the sound of rain hitting the pipe in which she was sleeping. Rain? Dang it. Tantomile groaned and stood up. She stretched and then looked outside. The sky was filled with clouds and it was getting really dark outside. She knew that she should probably just stay in the pipe for now, but if it started raining any harder, it would be flooded almost instantly. Tantomile looked for a higher place to stay dry in and noticed the car. That would probably work. She quickly but carefully ran over to the care, making sure to not trip and fall in the mud. That would be bad. Tantomile searched for an entrance and found the crack on the rear window. She easily passed through it and sat down in the backseat. This was dry, but it was a little crowded with four cats in it. Tantomile noticed Exotica, Rumpleteazer, and Mungojerrie in the middle of a serious conversation. “It’s very rare for the Notorious Duo to be serious,” she said quietly. “What is troubling all of you?”

[Atraielees]

Exotica smiled for a brief second at the entrance of Tantomile.
She always like that cat.
Slowly, Exotica turned her head back to Mungo and Teazer.
"The end of the tribe." she said matter of factualy.
She laid her head down on her front paws and purred deeply as she closed her eyes.
Almost content in awaiting her doom.

[Pippin]

Mungojerrie glanced briefly over to acknowledge Tantomile's entrance. A strange, aloof sort of cat, and odd to see her without her brother, but maybe she could shed some light on the subject. She did have a tendency to know these things, after all.

Jerrie started slightly at Exotica's answer. That wasn't what he had been expecting. He furrowed his brow and regarded her skeptically. "The end o' th' tribe? Yew got t' be kiddin'. If somethin' tha' big were brewin', we'd 'ave known about it, roight?" he glanced between Teazer and Tantomile, resting his gaze finally on the latter.

[sk8tergal76]

Rumpleteazer jumped up at Exotica's words. Or at least, she tried to. Instead, she just slammed her head on the roof of the car. "Ooooooh," she muttered, rubbing her head. She seemed to forget her excitement for a second before remembering. "Wait. Th' end of th' 'ole troibe?! Is tha' even possible? An' if so, 'ow come you ah so calm 'bout it?"

Tantomile frowned a little. She had been a little on edge lately for no particular reason. Maybe that was it. "Well, I have been feeling a little uncomfortable lately. I've been feeling like something bad is coming. What Exotica says does make sense. In a really horrific way. However, I must agree with Rumpleteazer on that point. You are taking this a little too well."

[Atraielees]

Exotica's ears twitched, she scenced something...no...someone.
"Not good..." she said barely above a whisper.
Just then a voice was heard in the rain outside.
"Jellicles..."
Exotica shrunk back up against the car door, hissing angrily.




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[sk8tergal76]

Rumpleteazer jerked her head toward the window, startled. Oh, catnip. "Is tha' 'ho oi think it is?" she said quietly, trying not to whimper.

Tantomile snarled. "Even though that was a rhetorical question, I'll answer it for you. Yes, it is. Macavity," her lips curled back in disgust. "What is he doing here, though?" she scowled and bit her lip to keep from saying more.

[Pippin]

Though he had no sense of it like Tantomile or Exotica seemed to have, Jerrie felt an involuntary shiver run down his spine at the eery voice that floated to them from across the Junkyard. No way. He leaned down from his perch over Teazer as she moved to look out of the window, half protectively, half to get a better look himself as to just who it was outside. Just as Tantomile answered the question, the ragged, mangy form of the mystery cat came into his view, and he quickly ducked his head back under. The one cat in this world he never wanted to see again...

"Yeah, 'e's got no business 'ere," he growled, backing away from the window slightly and hopping down into the car proper beside Teazer, so as to be less obvious. He'd had his dealings with Macavity, and he wasn't proud of it. The last thing he needed was for that sort of trouble to start up all over again.