Snowcrystal of Thunderclan- they would if they were allowed to anyway! XD They can lock the dorm rooms, but the actual dorm they can't lock unless none of them are in there, they're often in trouble because of that! XD The rest of the story is featured in a flashback style prolog I'm writing for this as an actual story :D
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I know right? I wish I had Cynthia's memory! XD and yes, she gets shot in the chest protecting Hannah like Leon asked her to, here's a snippet of the scene: Cynthia pushed Hannah out of the stronghold and through the window where Leon was waiting, she ignored Hannah's scream of fear as she fell due to the pain rippling through her body because of the gun that went off, leaving her barely able to breathe and able to taste something copper like. 'I have to buy them time.' she limped away from the window, her footsteps silent and uneven, 'they won't be able to get out quickly with Hannah.' She glanced at the blood welling between her fingers, 'hopefully, I'll last that long.'
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"Where's Cynthia?" Leon asked from where he was crouched down next to Hannah as the evening light was broken by flashing blue and red lights that had arrived half an hour ago, and nobody had seen Cynthia since she pushed Hannah out to their rendezvous point.
"I have no idea," Holly replied, looking worriedly into the building, "she hasn't responded to her com at all… Oh no!" She pushed herself to her feet and sprinted over to her father who was carrying an unconscious Cynthia.
"No!" Leon got up and ran over too, staring at the blood covered woman his age, "is she alive?"
Cynthia was white as a sheet, her right cheek was bruised and bloody, but her front was soaked with blood, her left hand covered in the now drying liquid.
"I don't know," Brad replied quietly, looking at the woman he had raised when she was a teenager, "we found her upstairs near a few knocked out Dark Blades members, I haven't seen her move since she collapsed."
You did use a lot of XD in there! :D Featherflight reviewed that one, but you were the first! :D
Featherflight123- I'm glad you like them! Writing AUs are fun! :D Actually, Isa does come across someone getting annoyed at their wild, she comes across Cynthia muttering under her breath about how Cinder needed to shut up and leave her alone! XD they did find out! :D
Yeah, I wouldn't mind being a wild either, as long as I don't have a wild like Cynthia's or Ivory's XD
iDragonSpyro: Adorableness! :D
I can in fact for another one, these are fun to write! :D
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Wild Partners: Wild partners consist of both a male and a female wild who are practically an inseparable couple. It happens when a male and a female are close to each other normally without their wilds being active, they become emotionally attached to the other and a wild partnership occurs. A wild partnership is common but rare at the same time, due to the amount of "pure-blooded" wild females and the males who "settle down" and don't screw around. A female wild will have one partner, only one for her entire life, the partner is depicted by both her wild's compatibility with another wild and the presence of strong feelings for the male. Cynthia and Leon are a good example of this. If a female is rejected by their partner they take it personally and it's something that never leaves their mind and breaks the friendship between the rejected female and her partner.
I can't do that to her, Dad, it's not her fault Part 1
Cynthia, Leon- 14 ½
Holly, Jay, and Bree- 15 ½
Cynthia hugged Leon, wrapping her arms around him and pushing her nose against his neck, purring loudly as she could while breathing in his scent. "Hi," she purred affectionately.
"Uh…" Leon looked at his friend, "is she okay Holly?"
Holly looked up from her book and her eyes widened, "no, she's not okay, uh, Paige? Can you call our parents? Your sister's in heat."
"What?" Paige looked confusedly at the other girl, "in heat?"
Holly groaned, "I'm not getting into the details right now, all you need to know is that Bracken will know what you're talking about." She got to her feet and hurried over to Cynthia and Leon, she carefully loosened Cynthia's grip and pulled her away, "come on Cindy, you need to calm down," she gently urged, tugging her away from Leon.
Cynthia whined and pulled against Holly, refusing to follow the other girl's lead and refusing to leave Leon. "I don't want to!" She whined
Leon's eyes flickered from amber to sunset, "she's fine," he said, not quite aware of what he was saying, "she can stay."
Holly's eyes widened and she dug her heels into the carpet and pulled harder on her friend's wrists, "no, she needs to be isolated from you, Leon-"
"Why?" Leon asked, getting closer to the two of them, his attention locked on the midnight black haired girl struggling to get free of Holly's grip.
"Because you're being affected by the change in her scent!" Holly snapped back and pulled harder, she couldn't allow them to get much closer. "Haliah, I need your help, we need to get Cynthia out of here, right now!"
Leon looked confused, "no I'm not, although she does smell different." he leaned a little closer to Cynthia, now curious about her change in scent from the usual almost herb-like scent to a honey vanilla like scent.
"Yes, you are!" Holly could see the slight fogginess in her brother's eyes as his wild fell prey to Cynthia's, not that the blue eyed girl could control it. "clear your mind, Leon!"
"My mind is clear," Leon mumbled, getting closer to Cynthia to put his nose against one of the wild specific scent glands in her neck.
Cynthia stood still, fighting Holly pulling her backward, her azure colored blue eyes lighting up at Leon's proximity.
Holly gave a tug and pulled Cynthia backward, pulling her away from her brother, "Seriously Haliah!"
Haliah came rushing over, she grabbed her sister's other arm and pulled with Holly against the athlete who whined and struggled back, clearly not understanding why they were trying to pull her away from him.
"Go away!" Cynthia whined, "You're ruining everything!" She kicked and struggled against Holly and Haliah while Leon followed them like a dog, wondering if he should help Cynthia.
At Cynthia's pleading blue eyes Leon decided to and made the other girls release her wrists before tilting his head and looking at her, "What do I get for helping you?" he asked almost curiously, his growl a little arrogant as he stood mere inches in front of the slightly shorter wild.
Haliah covered her face with her hands and groaned, "there is no way we're going to be able to stop them."
Cynthia gave a small shrug and her blue eyes glowed slightly, "Anything you want Leon."
"Don't!" Holly pulled on her brother's arm, trying to at least slow down her brother.
Leon looked frustrated and pushed his sister away, "Stop it, it's annoying." He complained before he approached Cynthia.
"Don't!..." Holly trailed off with a sigh, "kiss…" she sighed as the other two wilds kissed and she buried her face in her hands, well hopefully Brad and Bracken arrived within the next ten minutes, or they would have a serious issue on their hands.
Luckily for her, they did. The front door was thrown open to reveal the police officer and the attorney.
"Where are they?" Brad asked, his amber eyes narrowed in concentration.
"Back here!" Holly called, "Thank StarClan!"
Bracken rushed over and seized his youngest daughter around the middle, pulling her away from Leon and taking her in the direction of her room.
"Let me go!" Cynthia snarled, struggling against her father's grip with all of her might, "Let me go!" the snarl turned into a pleading whine.
Bracken didn't release her, "I'm sorry baby girl," he apologized in a low normal sounding growl, "I can't let you do that yet, you're too young."
"Let me go! I want my partner!" Cynthia struggled harder against her father, "Please let me go, please!"
"I'm sorry," Bracken sighed as he put her down in her bedroom, "You're too young Cynthia."
Cynthia burst into tears, burying her face in her her knees and sobbing as her father shut and locked the door, "Leon!" She roared through her tears, "Leon!"
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Brad nearly dragged Leon toward the bathroom and turned on the cold water in the shower before he shoved the teenager into the cold water, washing off any traces of Cynthia's scent and hopefully jolting him free of the wild partner urges.
Leon let out a yell a moment later and stumbled out of the shower, his clothing dripping wet, eyes back to amber. "What was that for?"
"Cynthia's in heat," Brad sighed, "and you're her partner."
Leon's eyes widened with surprise, "really? I mean sorry dad, I won't get close to her again-"
"Leon," Brad sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, "we both know you will, just promise me you'll come get us before you give in."
"Okay," Leon agreed, "I'm sorry dad."
"I'm not the one you'll have to apologize to, you'll have to apologize to Bracken, Cynthia's his daughter."
"I know."
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Bracken watched as his youngest daughter emerged from her room and quietly sat down on the floor next to Leon and Holly, looking at her golden blonde best friend, blue eyes a strange mix of sapphire and azure blue. He kept a careful eye on her while he discussed law-related stuff with Brad, waiting for Cynthia's patience to run thin and try and continue her and Leon's partner interaction. He had no doubt that she would, just like every other female wild who went into heat, her sole focus was on her partner and he didn't want his daughter to be a mate to Leon at fourteen years old.
Leon's yelp and the sound of a controller hitting the ground signaled Cynthia's move, she knocked the game controller out of Leon's hand and kissed him, her position slightly awkward as her fingers brushed his shoulders and the back of his neck.
Bracken sighed and grasped Cynthia by the wrist, pulling her away from the teen her age before pushing her out of the room.
Cynthia didn't say anything and just made an audible drawn out miserable whine that tugged on her father's heartstrings.
"I'm sorry baby girl," he apologized to his youngest daughter as he pushed her into her room, "stay in here until you are ready to be calm." he told her in English before he shut the door.
For an hour it was like playing a game of tag, Cynthia would come out into the living room, end up kissing Leon, and her father would take her back to her room where she would stay for a few minutes before repeating the cycle. But Cynthia was starting to get rebellious to going back to her room, first it was tangling her fingers in Leon's hair while they briefly kissed, then it was constantly whining as her father pulled her away, then she tried arguing with him, then she pleaded with him, and finally did what she was doing now.
"Dad please!" Cynthia pleaded through her tears as her father dragged her out of the living room again for the twentieth time, "I don't understand!"
"You're too young," bracken replied gently, understanding his daughter's frustration and pain, she was like her mother in this aspect. "I don't want you to become a mate this young."
"I'm not that young!" Cynthia cried, not fighting her father as he dragged her, she was on her knees, having refused to walk away from Leon any long. "It hurts being away from him!" She wailed.
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Leon's heart squeezed as Cynthia finally pleaded with him to help her, her blue eyes upset and miserable,
"You said you wanted it too!" Cynthia sobbed as her father started dragging her from the room again.
Leon felt his father's burning gaze rest on him and he knew what the adult wanted him to say, but he didn't want to crush her hopes and feelings for him. "I…" he hesitated slightly and Cynthia looked slightly more hopeful, which just made it harder to continue. "I don't want you, Cynthia." He said and the dismissing words felt strange on his tongue.
Cynthia's expression dropped completely and she cried harder, shaking her head like she didn't want to believe it, "No! You promised!" She cried, looking at him, her blue eyes begging him to take his words back, "you promised Leon!"
"I… I don't want to be your partner Cynthia," Leon replied, guilt weighing heavily in his chest as his best friend dissolved into hysterics, huddling on her knees on the floor and crying hard enough that she started hiccuping.
"No… no…" Cynthia cried, feeling like her world had just shattered, her partner didn't want her, he never wanted her, he broke his promise.
Bracken leaned down and gently pulled his broken daughter to her feet and guided her back to her room, listening to her heart-wrenching sniffles and occasional sobs. I'm sorry Cynthia, I'm so sorry," he murmured as he settled his daughter to be lying on her bed, curled up in a small ball and he pulled the covers up over her shoulders, "I'm sorry."
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Cynthia reemerged a few hours later, she silently handed a forest green backpack to Holly and sat down in a corner on the floor, her shoulders hunched and head bowed, her blue eyes were red-rimmed and devastated and she didn't dare approach Leon, trying to hold together her last shreds of confidence and the broken shards of her wild heart.
Bracken breathed a sigh of relief, Cynthia didn't give up on life because Leon had rejected her, he didn't know what he would've done if his daughter refused everything for the rest of her life. "How're you feeling Cindy?" he asked her gently, still worried about his daughter.
Cynthia gave a small shrug and didn't speak, rather she scratched her right forearm rather hard, something that was normal for a rejected female, it was something that reassured the rejected female that they weren't numb and that they still felt pain.
"It's okay to not have a partner Cynthia, I'm sure you'll find anther one when you're older and ready for it." bracken said gently, looking at his daughter.
"I won't have a partner." Cynthia said quietly, her voice barely audible and oddly clogged, "my partner rejected me." She looked down at her lap, having not once looked up, "he doesn't want me." her voice shook, giving away how torn up she was over it.
'Wen you get older I'm sure he will," Bracken said to her, his eyes glinting with pain for his daughter's broken attitude. "You're a very beautiful wild Cynthia, I'm sure he'll love to have you once you both have matured."
"No." Cynthia replied softly, "he doesn't want me, I'm not enough for him." she murmured quietly, not once lifting her gaze from the ground, unable to muster the courage to do so. "I don't have a partner, I never will."
Leon looked over at Cynthia, his amber eyes worried and guilty, "Cyn-"
"Please don't call me that." Cynthia murmured, "I don't need to hear my faults, I know you don't want me and that I'm not good enough for you."
"It's not you-" Leon tried to explain, wanting desperately to have his friend back.
"Leon," Cynthia looked up at the mentioned teen, her blue eyes broken and nearly lifeless, "don't lie to me." she said quietly.
Leon's breath hitched and he stared back at her, what happened to the life in her eyes? Would they ever be friends again? Cyndy…
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The second half will be up soon, I just have to finish a drawing I've been drawing! :D I'm drawing Cinderpaw's fall at the current moment and I have to finish it! :D
This shot is designed to display why when Cynthia's "gone wild" she stays as close to Leon as she can, nervous about his earlier rejection, that's also why she's overly affectionate, she's scared she'll offend him.