Author's Note: The original by broken2manytimez92. I was trying to show what could be done with the songfic. I might own some dialogue but not the characters. The fanfiction's title is from is Rihanna's 'Take a Bow'.
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Take a Bow
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I sat there, thinking about my mother. She had died about 14 moons ago. She always had a kind word for everyone, and always forgave easily. How many moons will pass until we find another cat like that? I was sitting beside the medicine cat, Hazelcloud. After a long, cold silence, the pretty she-cat got up and said goodbye, but I hardly noticed.
"Feathercloud! I hate you!" I called, hoping to StarClan that mousebrained tom could hear me.
What had I told him so many moons ago?
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"Feathercloud, I was just looking for you to tell you I'm bleeding from the inside. I won't be able to take care of the kits…" And what had he done? Looked scornfully at me and walked away with his tail twined around another she-cat's.
I had scrambled to my paws, running madly after him and Smokelily. My heart was breaking. I didn't know he could be doing this to me. "Feathercloud, no, you can't leave me alone!" He stopped, looking at me, cutting through my heart with torn-sharp claws. "Please tell me it's a dream," I whispered.
His eyes seemed to soften and he spoke to me like a queen would to her kit. "No, it's not a dream," he meowed. I sunk to the ground, meowing pitifully. "I don't want to leave." I could hear the stinking, cheating tom's lies in his smooth honey-rich voice…I hated him, and I hated myself for loving him. "I really don't. But I have to."
I leapt to my paws, screaming and cursing his name in my brain with every heartbeat. "I will not forgive you for that, Feathercloud!" I shrieked. He froze. The simpering kitty next to him brushed her flank against his, urging him to move on. "I loved you more than life…" Had he forgotten all the times we had together? No, wait, he turned back…
"I love you," he replied.
"No!" I yowled. "You don't! You love Smokelily, the cat I hate the most!" What did he see in her? She was just some thin, sleek she-cat…Did toms find her long, curling snakelike tail attractive? Did they find solace in her sharp eyes? "I will never put my faith into you. You're nothing to me now, Feathercloud!"
He was angry; I could see the fury bubble in his eyes. "Oh yeah? Then whose are you, huh?"
"I don't need a tom to make myself happy! You idiot, I hate you!"
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"Leafshade…Leafshade!"
Hazelcloud dropped a mouse at my paws. "You might want this. We've been waiting for him a long time; I don't think he'll be here today." I nodded and started chewing the small rodent. "At least I told you I hate you, Feathercloud." I thought, padding back to my Clan.
I loved you more than StarClan, but now I don't anymore.
I hate you.
You and Smokelily.
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