Title: Follow Your Heart
Rating: K+
Summary: When Jayfeather receives a sign from StarClan that involves a certain RiverClan she-cat, Jayfeather has to decide which way he must go. Will he stay with his clan, or will he stay with the cat he loves?
When: Sometime after Dovepaw and Ivypaw receive their warrior names in Sign of the Moon. (I haven't really gotten farther than that, so yeah.)
Pairing(s): Jayfeather/Willowshine
Disclaimer: I do not own Warriors, Jayfeather Willowshine, or anything Warriors related except for this plot.
Only when he joined StarClan did he know what had become of her. Not before. He was never told, kept in the dark by the she-cat he loved. He'd thought about her while his clan slept peacefully in their dens. Thoughts of her haunted him every moment of every day. He was hopelessly in love with the one who stole his heart, and so was she.
Jayfeather's pelt bristled as Willowshine brushed against him. Why won't she quit doing that? He thought, annoyed.
"Stop it," he muttered.
"Sorry," she murmured.
He felt her pelt grow warm with embarrassment. He slipped away from her and crouched down by the edge of the pool. He lapped up a few drops of the icy water and closed his eyes.
He stood near the horseplace. "Jayfeather?" came a hiss from the other side of the small, dark clearing.
"Over here," he hissed.
A pretty gray tabby she-cat stepped out of the shadows. It was Willowshine. Jayfeather watched silently as she ran toward him and her pressed cheek against his. Okay, this has to be my weirdest dream yet.
"Willowshine, what…?"
"Jayfeather, isn't this what you've wanted? To be with me?" she asked, quietly.
"What? No, I mean-"
But she and the horseplace had faded.
"Follow your heart, Jayfeather," Spottedleaf's voice spoke in his ear,
He sat up quickly, taking a deep breath. He heard the slow, deep breathing of Littlecloud, Mothwing, and Kestrelflight, but Willowshine, however, was awake. They sat silently, waiting for the others to wake up.
"Jayfeather, I need to talk to you alone for a moment," Willowshine finally meowed, breaking the silence.
"We're alone," he replied.
He heard her pawsteps as she walked a little ways off. "Come over here."
He stood and walked over to where she stood, gazing at him. "What?"
"I-In my dream you and I were-"
"In the horseplace?" Jayfeather interrupted her.
"Yeah, how did you know?"
"I had the same dream."
"Do you think StarClan is trying to tell us something?"
"No. It was probably just a regular dream," he meowed stubbornly.
He felt her disappointment pierce him like a claw. Was she…? No, she can't be! We're both medicine cats for StarClan's sake!
"Jayfeather? Willowshine?" Mothwing asked, shaking out her fur. "What're you doing over there?"
"Nothing, Mothwing," Willowshine replied, sighing, and walked over to her mentor.
Jayfeather sat down where he had been sleeping before, and waited for Littlecloud and Kestrelflight to stand up.
"Stand still," he muttered to Dovewing as she squirmed again.
"Sorry."
He grabbed the thorn in his teeth again and tugged it out. He spat it onto the ground. "Just be careful not to let it get infected. If it hurts again come back and I'll give you something for it okay?"
"Okay. Thanks, Jayfeather."
He listened as the she-cat's pawsteps echoed out into the clearing. And as he sat in his den his thoughts kept drifting back to what Spottedleaf had said. Follow his heart? What did that mean? And where in StarClan's name was Willowshine involved. Then suddenly it clicked. She knew what the dream meant. She's in love with me. Oh great StarClan…