A Squirrel in the Brambles

by Heartsky

On August 1, 2010, I started to write my first multi-chapter fanfiction. I was very proud of it. Seven years later I am both amused and horrified by it. Posted for nostalgia and archival purposes. Read at your own risk. Lineart in cover image is by evertenn.

2. Brambleclaw is Angry

Chapter 1: Brambleclaw is Angry

Brambleclaw woke up suddenly. He shook his head. He had that starry pawprints dream...again! It seemed that lately, that was the only dream he ever had. What could it mean?

The dream made him angry, because he was sure that the brown tom was him. And he was almost certain that the dark ginger she-cat was Squirrelflight, his mate, no, former mate. She had lied to him. Betrayed him. She told him that Jaykit, Hollykit, and Lionkit were their kits. But they were Squirrelflight's sister Leafpool's kits.

Leafpool was a medicine cat. She wasn't supposed to have kits. So they had kept the kits' true parents a secret. But the part that really made Brambleclaw mad was the fact that Squirrelflight hadn't trusted him enough to tell him. He would have helped her! Now the secret was out, Hollyleaf was dead, and Jayfeather and Lionblaze had to deal with the shocking secret that they themselves hadn't known for the longest time.

Brambleclaw hated that dream. He would never be Squirrelflight's mate again. But who was the ginger she-cat with white eyes that was in his dream? He had no idea.