Dawnpelt's POV

She couldn't believe her ears as Littlecloud confirmed what Jayfeather had said," he is innocent!" Littlecloud exclaimed, obviously immensely relieved," Jayfeather is innocent!"

Dawnpelt felt as if she was going to be sick, No, No, No, she thought, how can this be happening ? How could she have been so wrong? She had seen it happen! Dawnpelt began to feel dizzy and she staggered to her paws,trembling.

"How are you so sure Littlecloud," Blackstar asked urgently, and Dawnpelt felt a small spark of hope in her chest. Perhaps the Shadowclan medicine cat was mistaken, but the overjoyed look on his face squashed that hope like an apprentice would an elder's tick.

"At the moonpool Jayfeather gathered all the medicine cats together so that Flametail could tell the truth." Dawnpelt began to feel light headed as all cats began to stare at her , and she shrunk back from their gazes.

Blackstar glared at her, a growl rumbling in his throat," you said you saw Jayfeather drown Flametail, Dawnpelt."

"I did!" Didn't I?

Dawnpelt's flashback

She watched, frozen, as her brother fell through the ice. The ice that she had convinced him to play on.

She knew that she should save him ,but she was too petrified to move. Suddenly a grey tabby tom rushed over to the crack in the ice in which Flametail was stuck. Jayfeather. The blind medicine cat reached down and hooked his teeth into Flametail's scruff, and suddenly Flametail was falling, falling to a place where no cat could follow.

Dawnpelt POV

She could've sworn that Jayfeather had pushed Flametail in ,but Flametail himself had said otherwise. Her head lowered in shame as Blackstar glared at her, and his next words sent horror jolting through her. "The gathering is in a quarter moon and I want Dawnpelt to be there." Dawnpelt felt like she couldn't breath. She now was forced to face the cat whose life she ruined, she would have to admit to everyone that she was wrong ,and she would have to apologize to one of the least forgiving cats in the clan. This would be the worst gathering ever.

Dawnpelt's POV

Cats immediately turned to stare at her, and she ducked her head ignoring Thunderclan's jeers. Her eyes immediately searched out a particular light grey pelt, and she walked slowly towards it.

She saw cats ,mostly Shadowclan but a few from the other clans too, even Thunderclan, giving her pitying looks as she padded up to the tom who probably hated her for what she had done, and she braced herself to be torn apart by Jayfeather's claws.

Jayfeather's POV

Though there were countless cats here, he could still pick out the scent of a particular cat approaching him. Dawnpelt. Oh great, the last cat I wanted to see. He could sense Dawnpelt's nervousness as she padded towards him, and he couldn't blame her. He would be nervous too if he had to face a cat that he'd accused of murder in front of everybody. Especially if that cat was Jayfeather, who was known fore being, cold, harsh, and unforgiving. He let out a sigh as Dawnpelt padded towards him," what do you want, Dawnpelt?" He asked coldly. He may have some sympathy for her, but she had still accused him of murdering Flametail and gotten him banned from being a medicine cat for a while.

" I-I'm sorry!" She said nervously. "I'm sorry for accusing you of murder and getting you banned from medicine cat duties and causing everyone to believe that you killed my brother, but you don't know what it's like to lose a littermate that you could've saved. I could just stand there as my brother drowned right in front of me. I could've- should've saved him ,but I couldn't move. You were the cat that was there. I guess it was easier to blame you than it was to face the fact that it was really my fault the whole time," she said, and Jayfeather could tell that she was choking back tears.

Jayfeather let out a sigh," I know exactly how you feel," he said quietly.

Dawnpelt looked at him, her eyes pained," how can you possibly know how I feel?"

Jayfeather looked at her in surprise, his eyes darkening," forgotten Hollyleaf so quickly?"

Dawnpelt's eyes widened guiltily and Jayfeather sighed, Hollyleaf had been his sister, but she had been crushed by the tunnels when, blinded by guilt and anger she had fled to the tunnels to try and escape the truth. That Leafpool was their mother, not squirrelflight." There was nothing I could do." He whispered quietly and Dawnpelt tentatively pressed against him comfortingly.

Oblivious to the shocked looks of the cats that had gathered around them, Jayfeather leaned in and whispered in her ear," it wasn't your fault."

Dawnpelt's eyes glazed over," I convinced him to go on the ice. If I hadn't he would still be alive.

Jayfeather snorted," you didn't know the ice was going to break. How could you have? If Flametail hadn't gone on to the ice, yes, he may still be alive ,but somebody else might've fallen through. It wasn't your fault." He repeated firmly.

Jayfeather could tell that the words had comforted Dawnpelt because she relaxed slightly and asked ," how do you know all this."

"I've been through all of it," he responded quietly.

Suddenly, Dawnpelt's nose was pressed into his fur, sobbing,"it's just so hard ,Jayfeather ." She sobbed," how will I possibly bear it?"

Jayfeather whispered in her ear," think of Tigerheart, and Tawnypelt ,and think of Rowanclaw and all of Shadowclan ,and think of Lionblaze and me ,because even though we may not share blood like we once thought, we still care about you as if we were kin."

"Thank you,Jayfeather," Dawnpelt said continuing to sob in Jayfeather's fur.

"You're welcome, Dawnpelt," he said, pressing against her, and they sat like that for awhile, neither of them wanting to pull away.

Please tell me whether or not I should add chapters or keep it a one-shot.