So, when I saw Into the Woods, I heard Moments in the Woods and I was like "SILVERSTREAM AND GRAYSTRIPE ERMEGURSH THIS IS PERFECT" and then I saw the songfic challenge and I was like "YESH" (Actually, I was debating between Any Moment and Moments in the Woods, but this one makes more sense)


Silverstream sat down by the river, thoroughly dazed. "Was that me? Was that him? Did a ThunderClan cat really lick my muzzle? And lick me? And did I lick him back?"

Standing up again, Silverstream remembered the secret meetings with Graystripe.

"Was it wrong? Am I mad? Is that all? Does he miss me? Was he suddenly getting bored with me?" Silverstream obsessed and obsessed in her mind, until she face-pawed herself, claws unsheathed to get herself to snap out of it.

"Wake up! Stop dreaming! Stop prancing around the riverbank! It's not besseming. What is it about this riverbank?"

Silverstream licked her bloated belly and started heading back towards camp. "Back to life, back to sense, back to father, back to clan. You can't live on this bank. There are vows, there are ties, there are needs, there are standards, there are shouldn'ts and shoulds."

Hesitating for a second, Silverstream thought of a new idea. "Why not both instead? There's the answer, if you're clever: have a leader as your father for power, and have a clan for protection and love, and have a forbidden love for- whatever!"

Silverstream facepawed herself. "Never! It's this riverbank."

She started walking again. "Face the facts, get back home, join my clan, stop these meetings, just get off the riverbank!"

After a few steps, Silverstream stopped again in wonder of what had happened. "Was that him? Yes it was. Was that me? No it wasn't. Just a trick of the riverbank!"

She unknowing began to retrace her steps. "Just a moment, one peculiar passing moment... Must it be either less or more, either forbidden or boring? Is it always 'or'? Is it never 'and'?"

Lying down on the bank for a rest, Silverstream smiled just a tiny bit. "That's what riverbanks are for: for those moments on the riverbank..."

She wriggled around and flipped over to get a better position on the warm sand, being careful not to squish the unborn kits. "Oh, if life was made of moments, even now and then a bad one- but if life was only moments, then you'd never know you had one."

Silverstream thought of the bad things that had happened. "First my sisters and mother, then Graystripe, then the kits, then a moment- who can live by this riverbank? And to get what you wish, only just for a moment- these are dangerous woods..." Her meetings with Graystripe had been pleasing during the moment, but they were only a moment.

Silverstream changed her mind again. "Let the moment go... don't forget it for a moment, though. Just remembering you've had and 'and', when you're back to 'or', makes the 'or' mean more than it did before. Now I understand, and it's time to leave this riverbank."

Silverstream got up and turned around yet again, but all of a sudden-


A/N: So, here it is. Sorry it took forever. And the reason why I cut it off is because she started having her kits, and died afterwards, like the baker's wife fall off the cliff and dying. ;) R/R!