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Finale

‘The Tail’ exhausted himself with all the escape attempts and promptly fell asleep. The others let him snooze.

Tabitha stepped forward and meowed, “Are we all agreed? ‘The Tail’ is the ‘Fall Tom’?”

Eager nods were her answer, except for Whiskers. Tabitha waited for him to agree. Finally, and reluctantly, he nodded.

“We’ll have to get our story straight for Bella and the authorities. Tie up the loose ends like, why would ‘The Tail’ catnap Skittles and Reggie?” Tabitha paused and glanced at each face individually. “Can we come up with a plausible reason?” Tabitha wanted their stories to match.

Tibbs answered, “I can always meow that Reginald and Pumpkin were in it together and were both after Patches but Skittles got in the way. We all know Reginald is desperate for a lady furriend. Cat knows, you’d have to be desperate to go after the She-😈.”

“That might work.” Tabitha agreed. “Can we connect them to ‘Muskrat’s Revenge’ going up in flames?” Tabitha believed the more intricate the story, the better the chances that the authorities would buy it.

“Magic was at fault for the ship fire but we’ll meow that it was Pumps who started it.” Whiskers threw suspicion on the young black Persian.

“It wasn’t me! Tibbs was on the boat too. It would have been just as easy for him to start the fire.” Magic meowed in his defence.

“There were quite a number is cats on that ship. All of them here in this room. Depends who craved the Bird voraciously enough.” Tibbs added.

“Why burn the boat, though?” Tabitha asked.

“To find the Bird!” Whiskers, Magic and Tibbs answered in unison.

At Tabitha’s confusion, Whiskers explained, “If someone hides a valuable object, when there is a fire, they go straight to the object first, in order to save it. Everyone knows that! It’s what we’d all do.”

“I ran to save the treats”. Tibbs mentioned with pride.

“See . . .” Whiskers proved his point.

Tabitha understood now. Before she could continue with their framing of ‘The Tail’, he woke up with a start.

Pumpkin looked around the room. The others all stared back at him.

“I’m afraid, you’re going to kitty jail.” Whiskers told his brofur.

‘The Tail’ had no fight left in him. He sat, flat out and refused to budge.

“You have your ‘Fall Tom’,” Magic grinned. “Now, give us the Bird!”

“It’s coming. You’ll have to wait a tad longer.” Tabitha meowed.

“Waiting is NOT my strong point.” Whiskers added.

The doorbell rang and Tabitha went to answer it while the others waited in anticipation. Upon returning, Tabitha led Rocky into the room followed by Reggie, Patches and Skittles, whom carried a package.

“WTFLOOF?!!!” Tibbs let out.

“Good, everyone is here.” Tabitha grinned. “Now, let me explain what really happened . . . Patches, here, wanted ‘The Blue Bird’ because it was the last gift given to her by her love, LG . . .”

“My husband.” Patches corrected.

“Whatever?” Tabitha was not going to quibble over such a trivial fact. To her knowledge there had never been a Lady Graydon but that was neither here nor there. Tabitha continued, “Anyway, Twitter has been ruined for her, without the ‘Grey and White One’. So, she had to have the Bird. Reggie, in a bid to impress Patches, stole ‘The Bird’ so that he could get it back for Patches and she would be grateful enough to date him. Tibbs knew what Reggie was planning. But Whiskers wanted ‘The Bird’. So, Tibbs took it then tried to hold it for ransom and get as many treats as he could for it.”

“Rightfully, it’s mine.” Whiskers held out his paw.

Tabitha began to hand the package to Whiskers when another knock was heard. This time Skittles went to answer the door. She came back in with Bella, the press and the police.

“Where is it?” Bella barked.

Tabitha pointed to Whiskers, Magic, ‘The Tail’ and Tibbs, all surrounding ‘The Blue Bird’.

“Arrest them all!” Bella instructed the police. And while the authorities slapped the cuffs on the culprits, Bella addressed everyone, “Make sure you mention that this ring of thieves was captured by the fabulous operatives of #DDDDC. That’s ‘Deeds Done Doggone Dirt Cheap’”

As Patches sat weeping in the corner, Reggie comforted her. What an opportunity for him to try to win over the Babe.

“There . . . There . . . Patches.” Reggie consoled.

Unfortunately, Patches turned on him and hissed, “You took my Bird!” Then she pounced and wrestled him to floor! The scuffled lasted as long as it took the police to nab him and Patches as well.

Skittles picked up ‘The Blue Bird’ and joined her colleague. She passed it along to Tabitha. Bella whispered to Tabitha, “Is that what this has been all about? What’s so special about that thing?”

Tabitha began to pull back the head of The Bird. Underneath the blue covering was a bird made out of nip.

Tabitha held up ‘The Blue Bird’ and announced, “This is the stuff that dreams are made of!”

Skittles was heard meowing, “Looks like catnip to me.”

“If nip be the mystery of love, detect on.” Tabitha waxed all Shakespearean.

The End

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