aakacub: Sorry about Rainy XD. Hmm. You'll just have to see about Squirrel's kits. And yes, Leaf is torn between Crow and Spider, but she doesn't want to be. I actually like your idea about having both their kits! I found this on an informative article about cats:

Furthermore, cats are superfecund; that is, a female may mate with more than one male when she is in heat, meaning different kittens in a litter may have different fathers.

Is that what you're thinking of? I was thinking of that too, but I wasn't sure if anyone else would understand it. Hmm, I'm thinking...well, no, that will come about eventually. XD Thanks for the wonderful idea and the great review! Oh, and...Rainwhisker IS still alive...he's here at the Gathering, actually...

Leafpool watched in horror as Rowanclaw leaped upon Crowfeather viciously. It was as the dark ginger warrior tore at Crowfeather's dark fur that the angry, thunderous cry rang out: "Stop!"

Every cat froze, looking up at Bramblestar and Hawkstar, but they looked shocked as well.

Of course, Leafpool had recognized the voice instantly - Firestar. She looked around excitedly for her father, then felt a soft pelt wind around her. "I'm always here, my daughter," he whispered. She closed her eyes for a moment, blissfully drinking in his pine-forest scent, then she opened her eyes and saw a translucent fire-colored pelt stride forward and leap up the Great Tree. She realized quickly that only she could see the great leader. Firestar sat next to Bramblestar and whispered in his ear, and the LionClan leader's eyes flew open and he leapt to the edge of his branch like he'd been struck by lightning.

There was a gigantic crack.

The flimsy branch snapped instantly and Bramblestar plummeted to the earth.

"What's going on?" yowled Rainwhisker, his dark gray fur bristling.

Firestar slid fluidly down the Great Tree - Leafpool never took her eyes off of his orange pelt, which seemed to be only partly in this world. He sniffed at Bramblestar, then lifted his head and met Leafpool's gaze.

"You have much to learn, my daughter," he murmured, and yet she heard his soft voice. Then his form faded.

Brambleclaw scrambled to his paws furiously, spitting. "This Gathering is over!" he screeched, racing for the tree bridge. Leafpool exchanged a glance with Mothwing, then she turned and ran after him, Rainwhisker and Ashfur by her sides.

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Leafpool was alone with the leafy scents of the medicine den. Barkface was out gathering borage for Whitetail and her kits, Gorsekit and Burrkit. Leafpool sat down and wrapped her tail neatly around her delicate white paws. Closing her eyes, she whispered, "Firestar?"

There was no reply.

"I can't always respond to your call," came an amused voice just as Leafpool was about to open her eyes and give up on it.

"I'm sorry, I just...I don't know where to go from here. Can't you just tell me...Did Bramblestar kill you?"

"Oh, Leafpool. Whatever difference would it make if you knew that?"

"I would know if I could trust him!"

"Trust comes not with knowledge, but with closeness," meowed Firestar. "You would do well to remember that. It is not whether or not he took my lives that should decide your trust."

Leafpool blinked. "But that doesn't make any sense."

"It does when you have lived for many seasons, my daughter," sighed her father.

The light tabby medicine cat paused for a long moment. "Firestar, where do I go from here? What happens if or when I break the warrior code? What can I do?"

For a moment the image of her father flitted at the corners of her vision, behind her closed eyelids. "Leafpool, StarClan does not hate you. You will be punished, but StarClan would never deny you entrance to our starry skies."

"Thank you."

"I speak only the truth," he purred. "There aren't any thanks needed. Believe it or not, Leafpool, I knew true love. I knew affection with one cat, pure love for another, and then passion and love for a third. And now you are experiencing the same tearing that I once knew."

"What do you mean?" whispered Leafpool. "I thought you loved Sandstorm."

"Oh, Leafpool. I do love Sandstorm. I walk in her dreams every night to see her, and she begs me to take her with me, but it isn't her time yet. But that doesn't mean that Spottedleaf and Cinderpelt weren't in my heart, my two first loves before your mother."

Cinderpelt? Leafpool was too shocked to speak.

Firestar purred tiredly. "I have known love, Leafpool. I do not condemn you for what is in your heart. Know only that LionClan has a medicine cat."

"What does that mean? Firestar, wait! What does that mean?" Leafpool's eyes flew open as she demanded the question, but Firestar was gone, his pine scent drifting out of the den.

Sorry, that was rather short...

Oh yeah, if you read this and liked it, please read my story "A Starlit Path"! It's a collection of oneshots of all the deaths in the Warriors series, and I've done Into the Wild all the way through Sunset, and now you can send in requests! Go check it out!