My second oneshot. This is Squirrelflight's thoughts sometime after Sunrise.

I hope you enjoy! :D


Squirrelflight would always do what she thought was right. No matter what the situtation was. She always ended up doing the right thing all the time.

But, was she wrong this time?

She remembered Leafpool's painful and scared expression when she told her that she was expecting kits, and that they were coming soon. Not just any kits though, Crowfeather of WindClan's kits. It was against the warrior code for a medicine cat to have kits. The kits being born Half-Clan would only make things more worse and complicated for Leafpool and Crowfeather.

Squirrelflight was always close to her sister, closer than most littermates were. She couldn't bear to see Leafpool's world ripped apart, she would have probably had to step down from being a medicine cat.

So Squirrelflight did what she though was right.

She told Leafpool she would take the kits. They would have a great life growing up believing that their father was Brambleclaw, the ThunderClan deputy, and thinking their mother was one of the cats that traveled to see Midnight and brought the Clans to their homes by the lake. They would have perfect lives.

She did this for them.

So why did they hate her?

Why couldn't they see she lied for them, not to hurt them.

She tried her best to be the greatest possible mother to Lionblaze, Hollyleaf and Jayfeather. Sometimes it felt like they really were her kits. At that time it looked like the secret would be kept forever. She was fine with that. She was happy they would never have to find out they were Half-Clan, and never have to face certain hardships in the future.

But no secret can be kept forever.

She told them the truth to save their lives from Ashfur, who wanted to kill them because she chose Brambleclaw over him all the moons ago.

She thought they would forgive her, after all she told her darkest secret to save their own lives.

They didn't forgive her, all they heard was she lied about being their mother. Brambleclaw wasn't their father. They had been living a lie, literally.

It wasn't right! She saved their lives! She lost everything! She lost Brambleclaw, the trust of her clanmates, and respect from other clans! Leafpool had to stop being a medicine cat! It was all going wrong, but they didn't care.

Was all this madness truly her fault?

She didn't mean for this to happen. Now nobody even speaks to her anymore in ThunderClan. Brambleclaw won't go near her. Why doesn't anyone understand? Brambleclaw would do anything for Tawnypelt. Jayfeather, Lionblaze and Hollyleaf would do anything for each other! They should understand she had to help Leafpool!

She did this for her sister! She did this for them!

Why couldn't they see the same way?


I wrote this because sometimes I get rather annoyed when Jayfeather and Lionblaze keep complaining that Squirrelflight lied to them. Well obviously, but she did this so they can have better lives.

She also saved their lives from Ashfur and they don't seem very grateful.

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