Darkpaw POV

"I'm running away!" Alderheart cried, the tom sounded mad.

"Why?" Darkpaw asked. Alderheart looked at her with his apple green eyes with nervousness.

"Can you keep a secret?" The tom whispered.

"I'm friends with a former Dark forest cat and my medicine cat uncle is having kits, I think I can." Darkpaw muttered with humor.

"Velvet is having my kits."

"How am I not surprised." The she-cat rolled her eyes. "Now all of our medicine cats have broken that rule."

Alderheart laughed.

"Also Jayfeather is a fox-heart and I'm sick of him and I don't want to be stuck sharing a den with him until he's an elder." He muttered.

"You and I both know that he's going to outlive all of us right?" She said.

"Yep"

"But do you have to go? I'm sure after all the mess with Leafpool and Firestar being a kittypet this clan is just used to this kind of stuff Darkpaw pleaded. Alderheart was Darkpaw's kin and she never liked to see any of them go. But at least Alderheart isn't hunting with Starclan any time soon is at least a relief for Darkpaw. He wouldn't be far from the forest in Twolegs' place were he could visit time to time if the clan wouldn't get their tails twisted in a knot.

"I think it's for the best." Alderheart sighed. "There's nothing truly left for me here."

Darkpaw knew exactly what Alderheart was thinking and didn't need Jayfeather's power to know. He was thinking of Needletail, the gray she-cat he was really fond of and sorta raised Twigbranch with when she was a kit. She died not long before Darkpaw was born and never heard much of her.

"Don't tell them where I went." Alderheart asked.

"I won't." Darkpaw whined. With a flick of his ginger tail he walked out though the back entrance of the den leading outside of the camp, Darkpaw sighed.

"Be safe." She whispered.

Later...

Longstripe was yelling at Lightingpaw to get his paw off of her rabbit. Ivypool was talking bad about Hawkfrost again. Thornclaw blabbing about patrols. Everything was normal in Thunderclan and no one has even noticed Alderheart has been gone for about a day without a word to anyone. For sure, Leafpool or Jayfeather will be the first to notice but what a usually quiet cat he is, its unsure.

Poor Alderheart, not even Bramblestar, Squirrelflight or Sparkpelt has even said a word about him all day. Darkpaw thought. Is it really how it has always been even when he was here? I guess he's better off where he's needed but appreciated.

A spicy yet sweet scent filled Darkpaw's nose pausing her thoughts. The only cat she knew had this comforting scent she loved so much was Hawkfrost. She saw the brown tom stalking in the near woods with this slender frame visible in the shadows of the woods. Darkpaw wanted to know what was up with him hanging in the dark on a nice late sunny day like this. She skipped in the clearing in the tree line to her friend. Hawkfrost's ears rosed up to the sound of her paws breaking small sticks that Jayfeather would be mad about. He turned his head to look at her. His icy blue eyes meeting her mint green ones. Hawkfrost had a content look on his face when he looked at her.

"What are you doing in the dark?" The she-cat asked.

"Nothing much, it's just familiar to me that's all." Hawkfrost said.

The tom has been walking in the place of no stars for 144 moons about because Darkpaw likes doing a twoleg thing called math. He has been doing deeds for Tigerstar and his gang of edgy cats. Such as getting Ivypool to train there with him. Even though he never killed a cat while he was in Riverclan, Starclan didn't want him for what ever reason, mostly likely because he was siding with Tigerstar. Darkpaw shivered to the thought of being in a cold dark forest filled with evil cats and starving constantly with an annual arrival of Dark forest trainees from across the clans that have no idea what there getting themselves into. Hawkfrost was used to the darkness and no light. She wanted to comfort the years of loneliness out of him, but that would just be weird.

"How about you come to more of a lighter place?" Darkpaw suggested.

"Sounds good." Hawkfrost meowed.

The 2 cats walked though the shady forest to a small clearing filled with lavender and white wild flowers with a view of the lake.

"This is perfect!" The dark cat exclaimed.

They laid down on the grass facing the lake.

"I remember the first time I saw the lake." Hawkfrost began. "It was filled with stars as if another sky was showing though."

The cats were gazing at each other. Hawkfrost broke the stare by glancing back at the lake. Darkpaw felt like moths were fluttering in her belly. She felt this way about him for some time now and she finally got a chance to say it and she couldn't hold it in any longer.

"Hawkfrost..." Darkpaw started.

He looked back at her with his blue eyes a soft gaze.

Darkpaw hesitated for a moment before she spit it out.

"Hawkfrost, I love you."

A/n-Another cliffhanger! Mwahahah!