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I felt myself strangely attracted to her. I had never really noticed her before.

And then suddenly, she was here, right next to me. I was stroking her, and having to control myself at the same time. She seemed to be flirting with me.

As we walked to the river, I saw her glance back. I followed her gaze and saw ice-blue eyes; Crowfeather's eyes. What was she doing? I'm just going to play along and follow my heart, but I'm suspicious all the same.

Leafpool looks torn now, but I notice she's looking at me differently than before; attraction in her eyes; genuine attraction. I continue walking towards the river, and she follows me, leaves in her mouth, head bent to the ground. Suddenly she stopped and her eyes widened.

She said urgently, "Thornclaw, don't go near the river!"

"Why?"

"Kittypets."

I sniffed the air, she was right. I said, "But we should try to get them off of Thunderclan territory."

"I suppose," she said cautiously and crept forward like a mouse, a very attractive mouse, I couldn't help but add. She peeked around the bush and said, "Thornclaw, I don't like this. One of them is looking at me, and he's coming towards us. They all look vicious."

I looked around her shoulder and saw an enourmous burly dark grey tom with yellow eyes approaching Leafpool.

He called over his shoulder to the gather ten or so cats, "Hey, look what we got here, a nice little she-cat and her boyfriend. Get the boyfriend, Jaw, and then we can have some fun with this little chica."

An equally large blood-red tom approached, he circled around us, and leapt at me. I dodged, and realized that now Leafpool was in the way of his lunge. Acting quickly, I whirled around in the air and grabbed Leafpool by the scruff, dragging us both down to the ground and out of the way of "Jaw."

I whispered quickly into Leafpool's ear, "Run, go up a tree, I'll be rght there."

"But they can climb too!" she protested, Jaw was getting up from his fall.

"No they can't, I'll tell you later, go!" I ordered.

She bound from our fall towards the forest, faster than a rabbit. The large gray tom sprang after her, saying, "I'm not going to have you ruin my day, chica!"

Jaw approached me. The nine other kittypets followed him, all toms. They formed a circle around me and Jaw nodded. They all pounced at the same time. Suddenly I was amidst a whirlwind of teeth. There was a slash on my hindquarters, a slash on my neck, and a slash down my eye to my jaw. I was helpless in the tornado.

I tried to bring up a happy picture, and that was Leafpool. Thinking of her alone in a tree, I saw an opening and lunged. I was limping, but I could still run swiftly. I couldn't lose them, because my steady trail of blood left a mark of the direction I went.

I heard Leafpool call, "Thornclaw!"

I saw her up in a tree, the grey tom below the tree calling, "I promise I won't hurt you, chica. Come down and you'll be all right. You could fall from up there!" There was a menacing gleam in his eye, and I knew sensible Leafpool wouldn't obey.

I scrambled up a nearby tree, my right hind leg hanging limply, and teetered on a thin branch near Leafpool's tree.

I leapt, and dangled on the branch she was on right over the jaws of the gray cat. I was hanging by my front paws, and swung my hind legs over the branch. I scooted along towards the major trunk, where Leafpool was curled up terrified next to an abandonned squirrel's nest. I called weakly, "Leafpool!"

She leapt towards me and gentle teethed my scruff, dragging me back to where she had been standing. A bent wide limb intersecting with another branch provided enough room for one cat to lay down. She brought me to that spot and balanced on another limb herself.

I still heard the gray cat calling down from below, and more yowls too, the other cats had arrived.

They were circling the base of the tree, and Leafpool crept towards me. She began gently licking the blood frommy wounds. She said, "You're hurt. Thank you for saving my life."

"Any time," I said weakly, and said:"What are you doing?"

She had jumped to a higher branch and some more, reaching almost the top of the tree. She slashed at something with her paw andbounded back down, spiderweb on her paw. She cautiously applied it to my gashes, and said, "We're going to have to stay up here until they go away."

"I know," I saw, shivering with pleasure as she licked my cheek were a gashed was. She licked the top of my ear, there was no cut there.

She asked, "Why can't they climb the tree?"

"They're kittypets," I replied, "Sometimes humans have cat's claws removed surgically, they all have no claws."

"Oh, how awful!" she exclaimed.

"Yeah."

The daylight ceased coming through the trees, and Leafpool was still perched on the branch. I saw her yawn, but not move. I said quietly, "Leafpool, you can come over here, I can make enough room, you should sleep."

"Okay." She walked down the branch to me and curled up into a tiny ball next to me.

I saw her head move to rest on my shoulder, and she leaned against me. It was no wonder Crowfeather fell in love with her, who wouldn't? She licked my paw, and I licked the top of her head. I said quietly, "I love you, Leafpool."

"I love you too, Thornclaw." She meant it.

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