Never love an Anchor

Chapter 1

"Are you sure about this?" One of the queens asked. "Maybe they can stay for a little more?"

"They're going to start forming memories soon. We need to get rid of them now." The other queen growled while holding a sleeping kitten in her mouth. "We need to make sure that they don't remember Macavity so they can hide from him."

"I know." The smaller cat sighed. She looked at the cat in her mouth. "I'm going to miss them."

The bigger cat tapped the shoulder of the other cat. "Look, we put them on the train, and humans will take them in and they'll be happy and safe." A train door opened and the two cats looked at each other and went to the train.

The smaller cat went in and placed the female kitten down. "I love you so much." She whispered. The bigger cat walked and placed the male kitten next to his sister. "You two will be safe, I promise."

A shadow of a cat appeared in the doorway and the two queens ran away.

"Hey!" A ginger cat tried to follow the queens but didn't leave the train. He was about to leave when he spotted the twins. "Oh no, uh, " He picked up both of the twins and carried them to his bed. "It's okay you two. I promise."

"Attention Jecille tribe!" Old Deuteronomy summoned the tribe. "As of today, we have two new members: Bombalurina and Demeter." The two queens stood on either side of him. Bombalurina was smiling looking at the tribe, while Demeter was shaking out of nervousness. She and her sister had broken free from Macavity and found the tribe. "Go on, " The leader nudged them with his tail. "Mingle with the tribe." Bombalurina jumped down and Demeter followed, landing on a small and sharp rock.

"Yes! One of them landed on it." A female cat laughed.

"I thought it was too far out but you were right Teazer!"  A male cat smiled. Demeter turned to glare at the cat and her eyes went wide.

"Mungojerrie! Runpleteazer!" A silver tabby scolded them. The twins laughed while the tabby rolled his eyes. He walked to Demeter. "I'm sorry ma'am. They're troublemakers that's all. I'm Munkustrap." Demeter nervously licked her paw. Her eyes shifted to the twins before going back to Munkustrap. Bombalurina was busy introducing herself to the tribe.

"I'm Demeter." She smiled. "Bombalurina is my sister."

"You should try to meet the rest of the tribe." Munkustrap beckoned her to the rest of the cats.

"Can I later? My paw hurts." Demeter smiled.

"Oh, of course." Munkustrap nodded. "Why don't you rest in my den?"

"Thanks." Demeter smiled. Bombalurina barely noticed her sister leaving.  "So how did you find the tribe?" She asked the tom.

"Actually, I'm Deuteronomy's son." He gleaned with pride.

"Who's your mother?" Demeter stopped to lick her paw. Munkustrap shifted his paws nervously. "Neverm-"

"My mother is Grizabella. She was kicked out of the tribe." Munkustrap flicked his tail. "My dad found out she was prostituting herself behind his back." Demeter put a paw on one of his paws. "It's okay." He mumbled.

"I'm sorry for asking." Demeter sighed.

"Come on, you need to rest your paw." Munkustrap continued.

Demeter followed, a pain in her stomach forming. "I'm sure your mother misses you. I had to give up my kittens a year ago. I was afraid my mate would kill them one day."

"That must hurt." Munkustrap blinked back tears. "Alright, this is my den." He led her to an old blanket, "You can lay here if you want."

"Thank you so much." Demeter curled up on the blanket.

Munkustrap sat next to her. "Again, I'm sorry about the twins. They're always pulling stuff like that. They're good at heart, but they're brats." Munkustrap licked some of his fur. "It's hard to blame them though. Their father usually works at the railway and that means no one is here to tear their whiskers out when they misbehave."

"The railway." Demeter gulped.

"Yeah, Skimbleshanks wasn't going to give up his work just because some twins came into his life." Munkustrap sighed. "He adopted them, but they were basically raised by the tribe because of how little Skimbleshanks was around."

Demeter nodded, the pain in her stomach growing. The twins she had abandoned weren't adopted by humans as she and Bombalurina thought, they were adopted by a cat. They were in her life again and Macavity might find them.

"Are you okay?" Munkustrap placed a tail on her shoulder to comfort her. "You look sick."

"Yeah, I'm fine. I promise." Demeter smiled.

That night, Bombalurina and Demeter were in their den. "The tribe was really nice." Bombalurina nuzzled Demeter. "Where were you?"

"I cut my paw on a stone" Demeter lifted her paw to show her. "But, that's not important. My twins are in this tribe."

"Should we leave? Macavity might find them." Bombalurina asked.

"I... No." Demeter slumped her tail. "I missed them so much and I need to see them again." Demeter started to cry. "I mean, they'll never know I'm their mother but I'll know."

"I understand." Bombalurina nodded. "I'm going to sleep. Good night."

" 'Night." Demeter nodded. Bombalurina curled up while Demeter stepped out of the den. She just wanted to cry but noticed Munkustrap in the clearing looking at the moon. "Hey."

"Hey, " Munkustrap didn't look at her, his eyes fixed on the moon. "Couldn't sleep?"

"Yeah." Demeter nodded. "Are you thinking about your mother?"

"Yeah." Munkustrap finally looked away from the moon. "Are you thinking about your kittens?"

"Um..." Demeter flicked her tail. "I'm..."

A loud crash was heard and Demeter ran away. "Demeter wait!" Munkustrap followed her. Demeter hid behind a tree. "What's wrong?"

"My mate," Demeter said in between breaths. "He found me."

"No, I think it was just a cat doing something that they're not supposed to be doing." Munkustrap looked back at the clearing. "It's fine." Demeter remained in panic. Munkustrap placed a paw on one of her. "You past mate must have been terrible."

"Yeah." Demeter blinked away tears. "I should go back to my sister."

Munkustrap let her go and soon went back to his den. Both were unaware of a ginger cat, with a dusty coat and uncombed whiskers, was in the trees, watching them.

"So this is where she and her sister are hiding." Macavity scoffed. "Let me guess, the twins that were definitely, totally, 100% eaten by a fox are also here."