Jayfeather's Confidant
"Um… Leafpool?" Jayfeather meowed. He was looking to talk to someone about his lo-like for Willowshine. He knew, even though he didn't exactly like his mom, he could confide in her with this knowledge.
"Yes, Jayfeather?" Leafpool meowed from inside the warriors den. She was cleaning out her nest.
"Could you come out here for a minute?" he asked, nervousness lacing his usually assertive tone.
"Sure." Mewed Leafpool.
She stalked out of the den and into the beautiful clearing. The sky was a perfect turquoise and the clan was up with duties for the day already being assigned.
"So what is it?"
"Uhmm, can we talk about it in the forest please?" Jayfeather asked with apparent apprehension.
"Sure, although it better be good if I have out walk all the way out into the forest to hear it."
The mother and son walked out of the thorn tunnel and into the dense forest.
"Um… I wanted to talk to you about a hypothetical scenario."
"Oh.. kay. Let me hear it." Leafpool said with suspicion.
"So, say there was a cat who was a Medicine Cat who… happened to like another medicine cat, hypothetically of course. And he went to his mom and asked for advice." Jayfeather was pretty sure that Leafpool had by now realized that it wasn't theoretical.
"So in theory, " Leafpool started. "That cat should… tell the other cat how they fell about them because if they don't they'll regret it their entire life." Leafpool felt it difficult to give Jayfeather, as a medicine cat, advice on this matter. She'd hoped he wouldn't do what she done. But in her heart, she partially regretted not staying with her beloved.
"Really?" Jayfeather asked, that wasn't at all what he had expected to hear from his mother.
"Really."
"You figured out the hypothetical cat was me, didn't you?"
"Yeah." She mewed with a giggle. It was the first time she'd actually laughed in a while.
"Leafpool, do you ever, you know…" Jayfeather stuttered.
"Regret not staying with your father?" Leafpool finished his sentence. "Occasionally. I mean I still dream about him, and hardly a day goes by that I don't think about him.
"But then I think, 'what would have happened if we hadn't come back to the clans?' and I realize I have my life and my family right here."
"Wow." Jayfeather said, astonished He didn't think she'd spoken those words to any other cat, not even Squirrelflight.
"Thank you. At first I wasn't going to ask you because I thought you'd be upset that I broke the warrior code and disappointed in me for… doing what you did."
Leafpool chuckled softly. "I'll always be here and you can always confide in me." Mewed Leafpool. It felt good to give advice to her kit and to tell someone about the feelings she'd been keeping pent up for so many moons.
"I love you, mother."
"I love you too, son." I always will, she thought.