No Escape

Hey y'all, this is Elsi and Trek. This is my very first fanfic (posted)! Milestone Numba 1! Yay! Anyways, it's an ickle one-shot about Mousewhisker missing Hollyleaf after Sunrise. Hope you guys like it!

Disclaimer: I don't own Warriors. Done.

She hasn't left my mind. I close my eyes, and I can see her…green eyes dancing with laughter, black fur smooth over her lean form. The Clan knows it, too. They pity me, because I can barely breathe.

Hollyleaf. Every time someone says her name, my mind goes fuzzy. I can remember the day I realized that she was special. In truth, I can remember every moment I ever saw her. There's the day of her apprentice ceremony; the day she beat Heathertail in that day Gathering; the day she came back from RiverClan after sneaking there; the day she and her brothers left for the mountains…all of it.

Looking at her brothers, my heart stops. The days come when Jayfeather will ask me crossly why I'm staring at him, and I'll realize that it's him I'm looking at, not her. Lionblaze will come up to me and ask if I've seen someone, and all I can see is her green eyes surrounded by black fur, asking if I was okay.

"Mousewhisker?" I look up to see Cinderheart. My stomach clenches. It's her best friend. Her best friend. "Brambleclaw wants us to go hunting with Dustpelt and Birchfall."

"Okay," I reply. My voice doesn't sound right. It hasn't sounded right since…I last spoke to her. I follow Cinderheart, remembering looking down past Cinderheart and into a pair of bright green eyes, hoping I would be okay, hoping I wouldn't fall. It's her. But she isn't here to hope I won't fall now.

We go hunting, but I can't scent anything. The cats around me blur into odd masses of colors. My head is spinning. I can't do this! I can't do this!

Suddenly I see something. What looks to be a fox den or a tunnel is in front of me. Could it be possible that this is the tunnel she chased a squirrel into…that night?

"Mousewhisker?" calls a voice. "Mousewhisker, what are you doing?" Dustpelt's voice fades into nothing as I poke my way into the tunnel. I come to a pile of rocks blocking my path. Yes. This is the tunnel. This is her grave. The tunnel before me fades into nothing as I go back…

I see her brothers walk into camp, their heads bowed. The news of the Gathering had spread around camp like wildfire. But I can't believe she would do something like that if she didn't believe it was the right thing. So where was she?

"Where's Hollyleaf?" I ask, padding up to them. Lionblaze looks up at me with amber eyes filled with grief, and gives me the story,

"She was chasing a squirrel into a tunnel. It…it…it collapsed."

"What?" I whisper. "Hollyleaf is…?" The look in Lionblaze's eyes confirms my worst fears. She is gone.

I gasp for air now, still staring into the mountain of rocks that stole her life from her. My eyesight is blurry with tears; they are the tears I have been crying since that night, the secret ones that my Clan-mates know not of. Why, StarClan, why? Why did you let her join you?

"Help me, StarClan," I mew quietly, staring into the darkness of the tunnel. Even among the black rocks I can see her eyes, her bright green eyes, staring out at me. But it isn't her. It couldn't be her. I shake my head and the pair of eyes from my imagination are gone. The rocks regain their smoky grey color. Sighing shakily, I turn and pad out of the tunnel.

I can't escape her. It's driving me insane…

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