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[Paige]

Fantasia was up late in the night as her restless soul wanted to wander. She did not wander far from the tribe, just to the outskirts of the pond area where there was a bunch of wild flowers in bloom. She slunk into these flowers and laid down, her bright blue eyes cast up at the twinkling stars. She enjoyed being out at nighttime--everything as so peaceful and quiet. She felt like she could do whatever she liked in the dark of the night, anything at all. She could even shed a few tears if she wanted to, but tonight was not the night for that. The moon was waxing, and she had a song to sing and dance to that she had just recently learned. It was a song from a musical called RENT but she had no idea what it was talking about, she just liked the beat of it wen the human was singing it... so she decided to make it into a dance. She rose up out of the flowers and went to a cleared area, grinning to herself as she started to dance and sing with abandon. She was free out here.

"Every single day I walk down the street," She mimed walking down a street, her hips swaying seductively. It was just her style. "I hear people say, 'Baby so sweet'..." She dipped her hips and winked at an invisible person, laughing to herself. "Ever since puberty everybody stares at me! Boys, girls..I can't help it baby." She continued dancing in her slow sensual manner, smiling to herself. "So be kind and don't lose your mind. Just remember that I'm your baby!" She strutted a little before continuing to dance in her slow sensual yet beautiful manner. Her style of dancing was a little odd, but it was beautiful. Some Junkyard jellicle told her she danced like some Queen named Bombalurina--but she'd never seen her around so she had no idea if that was true or not.

She belted the next few lines, shouting them a little at her tribe that she felt a part of... but wasn't ever sure if they actually accepted her or not. "Take me for what I am, who I was meant to be! And if you give a damn, Take me baby or leave me... Take me baby or leave me." She started pacing back and forth for the next few lines, gracefully sing her arms in exaggerated normal gestures that made them look more like part of the dance. "A tiger in a cage can never see the sun. This diva needs her stage, baby - let's have fun!" She turned and walked towards an invisible dance partner, pointing gently. "You are the one I choose! Folks'd kill to fill your shoes. You'd love the limelight too, baby. So be mine or don't waste my time cryin' - " oh Honeybear - Are you still my, my, my baby?" " She jumped back, pushing herself back gracefully as if leaping backwards as she held her arms out, belting a few more lines. "Take me for what I am, who I was meant to be. And if you give a damn, take me baby or leave me. No way - Can I be what I'm not! But hey - Don't you want your girl hot!? Don't fight - Don't lose your head
Cause every night- Who's in your bed?" At the end of the belting, she was laying down and laughing at herself. She was being silly strutting her stuff for no one to pay attention to it... like she was using all of her best moves for the empty air instead of trying to impress a Tom.

[Ono]

Tumblebrutus had been many places in his relatively short life and to the theater to visit the Gus Sr. and Jr. was definitely one of them. So he'd seen plenty of productions. Playing with the actors was one of the few things he did without Pouncival often times. Theater didn't keep Pouncival's interest because they didn't really appreciate a cat's acrobatic flavor in the dressing room and on the stage during a play. Tumble thought it was funny but Pounce had gotten a swat on the rear with the humans' broom for his trouble and had proclaimed the place boring. Tumble often went back, though, when his best friend had other things to do that didn't particularly interest him. The reason these thoughts came to mind was probably because one of the productions that had come to the theater was RENT and now from somewhere near where he had hid himself in the tall grass by the pond a familiar song was being sung.

He frowned, it was one of the songs that Gus had explained to him. It was a song that showed a rift between the two female humans who supposedly loved each other. It was almost a break up song. Right before they were supposed to become mates, too, accourding to the old theater cat. He knew a happier one, though. At least he'd thought it was happier. It was about the two male humans, one who dressed in clothing like a female, who were vowing to stay together. He hummed and rolled up onto his feet to watch Fantasia dancing her best and a grin spread across his face. Now he had to counter her sad song with his happier one. It was even from the same musical. He began the first part with a slightly higher range than he normally sang in, it was a two part song but he was only one tom, "Live in my house, I'll be your shelter, Just pay me back With one thousand kisses. Be my lover and I'll cover you.."

The next part he continued in his normal low ranged tones, "Open your door, I'll be your tenant Don't got much baggage to lay at your feet
But sweet kisses I've got to spare I'll be there and I'll cover you." He stepped in time with the beat, turning a few tricks and dancing a bit, making it up as he went along. He turned a cartwheel to get closer to her for the next part, "I think they meant it when they said you can't buy love Now I know you can rent it. A new lease you are my love, on life Be my life. Just slip me on, I'll be your blanket. Wherever,whatever, I'll be your coat..." He murmured to her, still singing but in a much quieter tone, for her ears only, almost teasingly. He figured she didn't like him. He always managed to show up where she was and she was probably irritated with him and now he was singing a song of devotion to her at random. She must think him a stalker. But it didn't matter, Tumble truthfully had a crush on her and it felt like a decent idea to bring a happier song into the cool night air rather than one of sadness and tearing apart.

[Paige]

Fantasia hadn't been singing it as if she was one of the characters in RENT—simply because she had no idea what to do as a character in that play. She thought the lyrics were just fun, she didn't even know that the song was supposed to be sung between two women. She continued dancing even when she couldn't remember the lyrics anymore, humming the first verse over again as she continued her slow and sensuous movements, fun and graceful. She continued this until she heard him sing to her. She smile and placed her hands on her hips, grinning softly as she listened to him sing. She quite enjoyed his voice, and his dance moves. It seemed that he always came around when she was singing or dancing—but she had never seen him do the same. His voice was rich and sort of soulful when he sang for one of the parts. Fortunately she knew this song as well—learned it from the very same human when she was walking through the park with her boyfriend. She leaned in a little closer to him when he was singing quietly to her, finding a chance to jump in and start a sort of duet with him.

“You'll be my King, I'll be your castle...” She sang to him, smiling as she waited for him to return with the next line... her eyes glittering playfully. She generally liked to sing with other people, but these things never came up so she hadn't gotten a chance to. Especially not anything like this. In a flirtatious manner, she skipped around him while she sang with him, hopefully. “I think they meant it when they said you can't buy love, now I know you can rent it.” She smiled and circled around to face him, winking playfully at him. “A new lease you are my love, on life. All my life, I've longed to discover something as true as this.” She moved a little closer to him, like they were actually together. She did like him, but this was a song about love so it was putting on quite a bit that wasn't there. She did like him, but she didn't really want to. She didn't want to like him because she didn't know if he liked her back, and that created problems. She had people she liked before, but she didn't know if he would stay there if the junkyard tribe moved back to their original home. She shook thoughts from her head before focusing in on the song again.

She then sang with him, but with different lyrics. She danced in front of him for a moment, with the “If you're cold and you're lonely, you've got one nickel only. With a thousand sweet kisses, I'll cover you. With a thousand sweet kisses, I'll cover you.” This song was definitely a lot sweeter than the one she had been singing... much more like Tumble. The first song, diva-like and made her dance sultrily and jazzily for no one, was much more like her. But somehow they worked being sung one after the other. She then sang the same lyrics with him, dancing with him if he'd let her. “Oh lover, I'll cover you. Yeah, oh lover, I'll cover you.” She smiled as she finished the song with him, winking. “I think I'm starting to enjoy meeting like this... maybe, a little.” She grinned, stepping back a little bit.

[Ono]

Tumblebrutus grinned when she leaned in close and sang the next line to him. He continued when she paused, "No, you'll be my Queen, and I'll be your moat." He sang to her softly putting as much emotion as he could into the words as one did when they took on a personality to portray in acting. He wasn't a good actor but he knew how to change his voice and the way he held himself for a song like this. However, for this song he really didn't have to. The male part was enough like him anyway that he could just express it as himself and it worked perfectly.

He sang with her when she sang the duet part, "I think they meant it when they said you can't buy love, now I know you can rent it. A new lease you are my love, on life. All my life, I've longed to discover something as true as this." He grinned when she turned and winked at him and then moved closer. He met her dance with equal dexterity. He wasn't a dancer really but acrobatics and his natural strength had increased his fluidity and improved the way he moved as he got a bit older and not quite so gangly as he had been as a younger tom. No doubt he was still clumsy but when he concentrated he could manage just about anything.

When she began her differing part to his, he began as well, right on cue, "So with a thousand sweet kisses, I'll cover you, With a thousand sweet kisses, I'll cover you, When you're worn out and tired,When your heart has expired." He sang, matching the tone of the dance she had begun with her, making the appropriate moves at the appropriate time. If it had been any other queen he would have probably stepped on her by now on accident but he was concentrating hard enough that his head was starting to hurt just a bit but it was worth it and still he sang, finishing the song with her, lowering his voice just a bit more so the low notes rumbled in an entirely enticing way, "“Oh lover, I'll cover you. Yeah, oh lover, I'll cover you.” He took a step back from her when she winked at him and then another and bowed to her with a silly grin, "I can't say that I'm adverse to them either. I'm growing rather fond of it." He agreed lowly, his gold brown eyes taking in the sight of her properly for the first time, outside of the almost character he'd stepped into.

[Paige]

Fantasia smiled as she slunk past him, her hips swaying just like they had been before--except it was finally for someone and not just dancing for herself. She smiled and took in a deep breath of the wildflowers she had been dancing in not moments ago. The moonlight danced over the orangey spots in her fur, sleek coat giving a gentle shine in the moon's beams. She turned back around to look at him, setting her hands on her trim hips.

"Really now... growing fond of me now are we?" Fantasia teased, her tail swaying slowly and leisurely behind her. She surveyed him with her glittering blue eyes, watching him carefully... gauging his reaction to his question. She might be able to tell him that she kind of liked him a little too, sometimes, if she knew how he felt. While he wasn't exactly subtle about it, and she was kind of sure that he liked her... she never wanted to show people how she felt until she knew exactly what she was going to get into. He was very interesting to her--and seemed mostly unfazed by her sexy movements, which usually didn't happen.

[Ono]

A low laugh escaped Tumblebrutus at her statement of him being fond of her. He wouldn't deny it but he could tease back, "Ah, now see, that isn't what I said." He purred cheerily, "Mistaking my words like that could make me guess that's what you heard though and perhaps I could assume that you're fond of me, too." He told her with a cheeky grin. If she listened carefully she would probably realize that Tumble hadn't denied that he was fond of her and in fact confirmed it in a rather subtle way. He was fond of her and genuinely enjoyed her company and hoped that maybe she'd be willing to open up to him a bit more and actually talk to him rather than dancing around subjects and subtly trying to push him away. The queens in his own tribe wanted nothing to do with him most of the time after all.

He was almost tempted to reach out and snag her around the waist when she slunk past him. He watched her hips sway appreciatively but not outright staring and drooling as she seemed to expect from toms. Not that she wasn't worth drooling over, he had just been taught better than that. He knew how to control himself and his mother had always told him that he should always respect Queens and treat them right and not act like a slob like his father. Of course she was joking about his father being a slob because the older Tom had always pulled Tumble aside and told him that his mother was right and that he should always treat queens, as their title demanded, like royalty. And Tumble took those words to heart to make his mother and father proud and because it was the right thing to do.

[Paige]

"No, of course you didn't say it dear... but you might as well have," she teased right back. She picked up on the fact that he hadn't denied it at all right away... so did that mean that he actually liked her or he just chose to ignore that particular bit? "The singing of a sort-of love song to me, running into me places probably on purpose..." or it could be the Heavyside pushing them together, "along with not actually denying that you are fond of me leads me to believe you are." She grinned playfully at him, her tail swinging slowly behind her. Of course, she hadn't denied it either.

"So where does that lead us then?" She smiled and held her hands behind her back, walking past him again. "To the conclusion that you might not have said you are fond of me... but it is implied and might as well have shouted it to the heavyside. Unless you'd care to deny it...?" Her hips swayed the same as before, but this time she was watching him out of the corner of her eye. She didn't know what kind of reaction it had gotten before, and she rather wanted to see it. Would he drool like all the other toms, or was he more respectable than that?

[Ono]

Tumblebrutus grinned widely at her and offered her a sly wink, "You sang back darling." He pointed out, "You knew exactly which song it was and which part was yours." He added with another wide grin, his tail swishing through the grass in an exuberant fashion. He listened to her talk and enjoyed the sound of her voice, "Certainly not on purpose. This happens to be a rather quiet spot is all." He told her but he really was fond of her and he wasn't sure that he wanted to admit it yet but he might as well. He'd seen how secrets and avoidance had worked out with Electra and Pounce after all.

He watched her move again, this time knowing she was observing him do so. His appreciation crept onto his face as a small smile as he watched how the moon glinted off her fur and made it shine and the way her hips moved did something to his stomach, making it flip flop oddly. After a moment his eyes moved back to hers, glinting as he reached a long arm out and attempted to snag her around her waist to pull her close to whisper, "Would you like me to shout it to Heavyside, Fantasia?" He asked softly, "I'm fond of you. I don't think I have to shout for Heavyside to know it though." He further expanded, still quiet, his voice soft as velvet and as smooth as silk.

[Paige]

Fantasia smiled to herself and gave a light shrug in response. "Of course I sang with you... I like duets. They always sound much better than solo's." That said something significant about Fantasia, though she'd always deny it if it was brought up. She was a little afraid of being alone forever. She liked her alone time of course, but she didn't know if she'd be able to be alone forever. She certainly didn't want to test it--she enjoyed other people too much, for the most part... as long as they didn't judge her.

She was pleased as she saw appreciation creep onto his face when he watched her hips... and it wasn't creepy admiration either. It was admiration like someone would admire something beautiful rather than leering at a behind, it was strange to her but she knew it was a lot better than what usually had. She was broken out of her small reverie, a quiet gasp falling from her lips as he snagged her around the waist and drew him close to him.

Her stomach did a weird skip-and-jump kind of thing as she was brought so close to him. She looked up at him carefully, her eyes looking up into his. He finally told her that he was fond of her. Sure, there was no declaration to the Heavyside... but it was a start. She nibbled her lip as she listened to the sound of his smooth voice. She found herself closing her eyes just to listen--letting his words sink in. "Well.." she began, her voice purring slowly... like it did when she was pleased. "As long as Heavyside knows." She didn't know what else to say... should she tell him she liked him as well?

"I.." she began, biting her lower lip. "I'm... fond of you too, a little." There it was. It was true, aside from the 'little'. She was more than a little fond of him, but it was one small step at a time for her.

[Ono]

Tumblebrutus was pleased with himself when she gasped in surprise at him snagging her around her waist and pulling her close. He was rarely so impulsive and definitely not usually quite so brave. He grinned down at her and the look on her face when she processed that he had admitted to being fond of her.

He heard the pleased purr in her voice as she replied to his declaration and then he listened to the silence of her hesitation and a grin bloomed on his face as she said she was fond of him too, a little. He could deal with a little. He could build up a little. He laughed softly, "I think I can make 'a little' become a little more than a little if you'll let me." He told her, curling his tail around his own leg to keep it out of the way and to make it stop twitching in utter pleasure and buzzing happiness.

He let her go, sliding his fingers across her waist in the process, "But if you'd like me to go and let you to your lovely night alone, I shall do that and let you deal with your thoughts." He told her, sounding slightly uncertain, a bit hesitant. But he'd bow to her every whim and wish as long as it was practical and he wasn't a clingy tom himself, after all, and he figured she wasn't a terribly clingy queen either, with how many times she'd been out in the long grass by herself, without others around to crowd her space and time with their idle prattle.

[Paige]

Fantasia quite liked the fact that he was being impulsive and brave. This kind of bravery she liked.... at least she knew him well enough before he tried making moves on her. She watched him quietly as he responded to her, grinning a little. “Really now...” she purred, laughing. “And how do you plan to achieve such a goal? Making a little go a long way is something not a lot of cats can do.” She teased him a little, smiling.

She couldn't help but shiver a little as his fingertips slid across her waist, and a new sort of feeling awoke in her stomach which she didn't understand. He asked if she wanted him to go, and she shook her head softly in reply. “No... I think I want you to stay for a while...” or forever. Whichever came first. While she wasn't going to be clingy to him either, that didn't mean that she was just going to send him away. Her tail curled around his that was around his leg, watching him for a moment as she moved a little closer to him, experimentally.

She didn't quite know what was happening with her heart beating so quickly inside her ribcage—it had never done that before of it's own volition, mostly just after intense dance routines.

[Ono]

Tumblebrutus gave her a very cheshire like smile at her question, "I've been known for knowing how to make a little go a long way. All it takes is a bit of dogged stubbornness and a will to be patient. A good hunter is always patient in their hunt or they'll never be able to see the goal right in front of their nose." He purred lowly, letting the low tenor of his voice vibrate in the air pleasingly the same way it did when he sang notes so low on the scale.

When her tail came to wrap around his, wrapping around his leg in the process, he moved slightly closer to her, the muscles in his legs flexing nicely as a warmth he was unused to surged somewhere within his chest and belly. He offered her an almost smoldering look, licking his lips, "And what do you propose we do since you'd like me to remain here for a while longer?" He hummed softly, impulsively returning his hands to her waist since she had moved closer to him.

He quite enjoyed touching her, her fur was smooth and silky and she was warm to the touch. Her scent was enticing and entirely pleasing the way that many queens he knew weren't. Bombalurina for example reeked of desperation and something sickly sweet that others seemed to praise. Demeter was much the same as was Victoria some of the time, though both had calmed a bit in recent years as their temperaments settled. Fantasia was different, he could be close to her for days and not get sick of her scent or how her fur was silky and warm and her eyes had enough depth that he could get lost in them, wondering after the meaning of worlds beyond their own.

[Paige]

Fantasia was having some incredibly strange feelings in the pit of her stomach as she heard his purr nearly vibrate through the air. “Mm... you are hunting me then?” She purred softly back to him, her own purr not as low as his, obviously, but it was pleasing in its own way. It denoted the pleasure she was feeling at his company, and perhaps a little something more. It was pleasing to hear, or at least she had been told so a few times.

He moved closer to her when her tail wrapped around his leg and she smiled as she felt his muscles flex as he moved closer to her. She liked the feeling of his muscles moving where she could feel them... she'd never felt that before. That look he gave her nearly did her in, it was like his eyes were burning and looking straight into her and it made her strangely weak in the knees. She didn't quite know what to say when he asked what they should do now that he was staying there. She always knew what to say. The fact that she was stumbling for something to quip was extraordinarily new for her.

“I... I don't know. Do you have anything in mind...?” She asked as she felt his hands on her waist again. Her bright eyes fell to his lips before quickly glancing back up again, restraining the random urge she had to move even closer to him and press her lips to his. The surge of heat she had never really felt before and it was strange... and exciting. She didn't know what was going through his head, or what she herself wanted to happen... but she was excited for anything that would come her way. She liked being close to this tom... she'd never let anyone get this close before. Everyone else she'd kept at a 'respectable' distance.

[Ono]

(Ahhh, I'm scum. Sorry Paige!))

Tumblebrutus offered her a sultry grin and tilted his head, "Not currently but I could be if you'd like me to be hunting you darling." He purred lightly, his ears twitching as he licked his lips, the fingers of one paw up her side a bit, still enjoying the pleasant warmth of her body and the softness of her fur. Normally he'd be a bit more forward and tell her what he was feeling but Fantasia was skittish, he'd noticed, and he didn't want to drive her away on accident. He hadn't been lying when he said he was fond of her and if the warmth he felt radiating through him was anything to go by, he figured he was probably a bit more than fond of her.

He glanced up at the night sky and the stars and then tilted his head, "We could look at the stars. Pouncival's told me the names of a lot of them and the formations they make if you're at all interested. Or we can make up our own." He commented, grinning goofily at her. He laughed softly, "Unless of course you have a better idea of what we ought to do. Though you did ask me first." He told her cheerily, making a vague gesture to the stars and sky with his left hand before returning it to it's previous position on her waist.

[Short ]

[Paige]

Fantasia eyed his sultry grin and felt her cheeks flush underneath her fur. Why in the world did such a simple gesture make her feel like a silly little kitten? Her stomach hopped in a most peculiar way when she looked into his eyes again, and a sort of warmth radiated from his hand that was on her waist. She'd never felt these sort of strange things before in her life, and she didn't exactly know what it meant. All she knew was that she 'kind of' liked Tumble... and kind of, in normal jellicle language, meant she liked him quite a lot but wouldn't really admit it. After all, she didn't want him to disappear on her.

Her eyes flitted to his lips again as he looked up at the stars before she looked up with him. She needed to get a reign on her raging feelings soon, or she'd kiss him. She didn't even know if he wanted that... and it scared her quite a bit. So she decided to take control a little bit and suggest/do something different. "That sounds lovely, but there's something else we have to do first..." she said playfully, pushing the quivering voice she'd had a moment ago away. "Can't quite look at the stars with prey if you haven't hunted them yet." She laughed and kissed his cheek before twisting out of his grip and running towards the trees for a little game of cat and mouse. A physical manifestation of what she did with her speech and actions with him... maybe he would be able to catch her once and for all. Her form was gracefully gliding away from him at a rapid pace... hopefully she'd stunned him enough to get a bit of a head start so the game could last longer.