WILL DO EDITS LATER, I fell asleep around six yesterday and my computer is dying!

Four minutes of battery!

Snowcrystal of Thunderclan- shippings! :D :D
No! No creepy smile! XD

Leon's hilarious! :D

Guest: Jaymoon is pretty cute I agree, but I'll probably always like Briarfeather better :D although if you'd like you can count Bree and Jay as a different couple :D Snowcrystal likes Halffeather over Briarfeather in the books too :D

It was really cute, wasn't it? I try my best! :D :D
Patience young grasshopper! XD My writing isn't that good! XD you'll ever to let me know when you get an account cause I'll read your stories! I love reading people's stories! :D :D :D I'm surprised that I along with others, inspired you, keep writing! :D
My day was okay, seeing how I fell asleep at seven yesterday! XD

I Can't Do That To Her Dad, It's Not Her Fault Part 2 out of 3

Sarah walked in the front door and went over to Cynthia where the teenager was sitting at her desk with her head on top of her arms, gazing longingly at one of the pictures she had, it was more of a collage than a picture, it contained random moments as she grew up, the one she was staring at was a small picture of her and Leon when they were about six, Cynthia had been explaining the whole partner thing while Leon looked confused, the picture, however, displayed the moment after where Cynthia had hugged him and said she wanted him to be her partner and Leon was awkwardly hugging her back. "Cynthia," Sarah said quietly, walking up behind her and sitting down in another chair that Holly probably had been occupying, "how're you feeling?"

"Fine." Cynthia mumbled, not once moving her gaze away from the picture, "I'm fine."
"No you're not," Sarah gently brushed her daughter's bangs from her pale face, "have you eaten anything today?"

"No," Cynthia mumbled and glanced at her mother before her gaze strayed back to the picture a moment later. "I'm not hungry."

"You need to eat Cynthia," Sarah spoke gently, she knew that her daughter wasn't feeling too great emotionally, but she couldn't let her not do anything. "I know you don't want to but you'll get sick if you don't."

"I don't want to eat." Cynthia muttered, "I won't get sick."

Sarah sighed and rubbed her daughter's back, she would try again later. "Do you want to stay home tomorrow?"

"Yes please," Cynthia murmured, "I don't want to go to school."

"Then you can stay here with me," Sarah smiled warmly and looked behind her as Holly emerged, carrying a few ham and cheese sandwiches on a plate.

"Hey Sarah," Holly greeted her friend's mother as she walked around the desk to the other side, "you ready to eat something Cindy? You can share one of these with me if you'd like." She offered her friend half of one of the sandwiches, attempting to get her friend to eat with a tactic both she and Leon used, usually Cynthia wouldn't eat when she was upset, unless you ate with her and offered to share with her, showing you cared, then she usually did.

Sure enough, Cynthia lifted her head up off her arms and straightened up before she took the sandwich and took a small bite from it, watching Holly do the same with her half.

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Leon hated how miserable Cynthia was, the female wild remained friendly to him, but she kept her distance, never allowing him to get close enough to even high five him and her eyes were always broken and full of wistful longing she always directed at him, not to mention she wouldn't look him in the eye or talk anymore, everyone at their human school thought she had lost her voice since she never spoke. But Leon knew better, she spoke in a murmur when it was just her and Holly, but if he was anywhere near her she was mute, unable to find anything optimistic to say, nor able to say anything to him for that matter. He could remember the conversation he and Cynthia had a long time ago, back when they were kids…

"Do you get it now?" Cynthia asked Leon curiously, she was sitting in front of him on the floor, pretending her stuffed animal dog was tearing apart a small city full of cars while Leon drove the cars and tried to avoid her dog, pretending he was trying to not get squished by the large toy.

"Yeah, sorta." Leon replied as he drove the last surviving car out of Cynthia's range, "do you have a partner?"

Cynthia tilted her head and put down her stuffed dog, "no, I'm too small, but I will!" she lunged and hugged him, "I hope you're my partner!"

Leon awkwardly hugged her back, "uh… I hope I'm yours too." He said a little awkwardly.

Cynthia smiled and hugged him tighter before she let go and pulled him along, "come on!"

"Okay!" Leon smiled and followed her.

"Mom, can Leon be my partner?" Cynthia asked her mother through innocent blue eyes.

Sarah smiled, "maybe when you get older Cynthia."

Cynthia pouted, "okay," she mumbled and Leon pouted too, noticing his friend's upset attitude.

Sarah picked Cynthia up, "partners are for bigger people Cynthia, but maybe you can practic if you'd like."

"How?" Cynthia looked curiously at her mother.

"By being nice to each other and helping each other as much as possible." Sarah smiled and bopped her daughter on the nose.

"Okay!" Cynthia smiled looking quite excited, "I wanna practice!"

Sarah laughed, "after you take a nap before you become a grouchy bear."

Cynthia wilted before she brightened up again, "can Leon come too?"

Sarah smiled and picked up the other six-year-old, "sure, Leon can share your nap too."

"Yay!" Cynthia grinned and hugged her mother while Leon smiled and offered Sarah a toy car, something that was a good as getting a hug from him.

Leon felt more guilty, his father had told him not to get close to her again until they got older and were mature enough to be partners, and because of that, he had broken a promise he had made with Cynthia a year ago.

"Leon," Cynthia asked her friend as she paused Sword Fighters to ask him a question and adjust the settings for her character. "You want to be my partner right?"

Leon nodded as they continued playing, "of course I do," he paused the game and did a sort of bow, "it would be an honor Milady Sunshine."

Cynthia laughed and shook her head in amusement, "the whole sunshine part ruined the dramatic set up."

"I know," Leon grinned and plopped back down on the couch next to his friend, "what about it Cyn? I want it too you know."

Cynthia looked surprised and she promptly ran into a wall in the game and got pummeled. "You want it to?" she asked, looking at him.

"Of course I do, I don't want my best friend to paired up with some random bloke right?" He added in the British word, emphasizing his point with the usage of Cynthia's birth dialect.

"I guess," Cynthia replied, feeling a bit disappointed, but it vanished at his next words.

"Plus I want to be your partner too." Leon smiled warmly at her before he snorted, "your character is continuously running into that wall."

Cynthia jerked her attention back to the video game, "oops," she said sheepishly and maneuvered away from the blockade, her mind distracted by Leon's answer.

For a few minutes, it was silent besides the many different sounds of the video game, Leon was a little smug at not getting embarrassed by his admission, and Cynthia was thinking, which was probably why she kept dying.

"Cyn," Leon said a moment later, "While watching you run into a billion walls is hilarious," he pulled her controller out of her hands, "what's on your mind?"

Cynthia studied him for a minute, "do you promise?'

Leon looked confused, "do I promise what?"

"That you aren't lying and that you want to be my partner." Cynthia replied before she smiled, "pinky promise?" she joked.

Leon smiled and hooked his little finger with hers, "I promise."

Leon was startled back into awareness as his bedroom door opened to reveal his older sister.

"Leon, Cindy and I are going to the park with Ivory, Diana, and Ben, want to come?" Holly asked as she poked her head into the room with Cynthia standing silently behind her.

Leon sat up and glanced at Cynthia, "are you sure you want me to come, Cindy?" he asked Cynthia directly, doing as she asked and not calling her any nicknames that were of his own design.

Cynthia averted her gaze to the floor and shrugged, gesturing toward Holly and shuffling her feet.

Holly looked sympathetically at her brother, "Cindy's just tagging along as well, it'll be okay if you come too."

"Okay," Leon mumbled and got to his feet, stuffing his feet into his tennis shoes before following the two girls, his amber eyes a little sad.

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"Holly, is there any way of reversing a rejection?" Leon sighed, leaning forward on his arms and rubbing his temples, he couldn't take it anymore, after a month of Cynthia not at all acting like herself, and seeing the deadened state of her blue eyes, he was done following his father's directions.

Holly didn't look up from the book she was reading about wilds as she replied, "yes, there is."

Leon's amber eyes brightened and he pulled the book from her, "tell me!"

"Hey! Give me my book back!" Holly snapped and reached for her book, trying to get it back.

"Tell me how to do it first!"

"If you'd give me my book I can show you!" Holly huffed and was startled when her brother dropped the book back onto the table and sat still, waiting impatiently. "Woah, calm down you maniac." she snorted before she opened the book and flipped to a certain page, she then turned the book around and pushed it over to Leon. "It's called Wild courting," she explained as he glanced at the book, "it happens in stages, the first stage is showing her you do care, there's a list of things you can do in the book, and lucky for you, this is the modern copy. Anyway, the second stage is the actual courting part which is exactly what it sounds like, and the third stage is actually becoming partners."

"How do I start?" Leon asked, his amber eyes glinting with determination.

"Dad won't like this," Holly said a bit slowly.

"I'm giving us our best friend back," Leon said determinedly, "and I want to make her happy, not miserable."
"We're going to be in so much trouble," Holly sighed, "but I'll help you anyway."

"Thanks, Holly," Leon said gratefully

"No problem brother," Holly smiled, "so the first thing is to stand up for her to people bothering her, like Asher or Hannah..."

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"Leave Cindy alone Hannah," Leon said firmly from where he was sitting at his desk next to Jay and Fin, his amber eyes slightly narrowed, "she's not mute, she just lost her voice for a bit. Would you like it if we all call you mute when you lose your voice?"

Cynthia jumped when Leon stood up for her as the blonde teased her about the absence of her voice -which was his fault in the first place- and she blinked in both surprise and confusion. He rejected me, why is he helping me?

Hannah glared at Cynthia like it was her fault and flounced off toward Isa and Diana, the former of which was looking at them funny.

Cynthia twisted and looked at Leon, her blue gaze confused as he smiled warmly at her. Is he mocking me?

Holly looked over her friend's shoulder and smiled at her brother, so far it was working, hopefully, Cynthia caught on pretty soon.

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"The next thing is to offer to do something with Cindy of her choice," Holly said a week and a half later as she and Leon poured over a pile of books on both their current issue and solution.

"What would that do?" Leon asked his sister, his amber eyes moving left to right as he read something she wanted him to read about the whole courting part. "Not that I'm against it or anything, but I'm not sure how that'll help."

"You are such a guy." Holly sighed, putting her book down on the table before pushing his down so he would look at her, "by letting Cindy choose and spending time with her you're showing that you don't mind saving time for her alone, plus you're displaying that she's your equal, not anything less."

Leon's eyebrows raised in surprise, "how do you know this stuff?"

Holly leaned back in her chair, green eyes a little smug, "I'm a girl Leon, plus I happen to open a book and read more than once a month, unlike you."

Leon pouted, "I do read."

"This is the most I've seen you read in weeks Leon," Holly deadpanned, "things have to be extremely important for you to read anything."

"I guess…" Leon mumbled and picked up his book while Holly picked up hers and continued to skim through it and mark pages for Leon to read later.

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"Hey, Cindy!" Leon broke away from his friends and jogged over to Cynthia, plopping down on the cafeteria bench next to her, "so I'm not doing anything this afternoon and I'm hoping you don't either because I wanted to know if there was anything you'd like to do with me?" he looked at her, amber eyes warm and a little confident.

Cynthia looked at him wide eyed, What? She didn't say anything, still unable to utter a syllable when he was around. He rejected me right?

Leon seemed to understand what she was thinking and his eyes softened, "I don't mean it like anything you don't want it to be Cindy."

Cynthia glanced at Holly who gave a short nod of encouragement, her green eyes glowing. What're they up to? She looked at Leon and studied him for a moment before she nodded in a slightly jerky fashion, still not comfortable around him.

Leon pulled out his phone and typed something while Cynthia watched him, a moment later her phone buzzed in her pocket and she pulled it out to see that Leon had texted her.

'Where do you want to go?' Leon asked, being silent like she was.

'My house,' Cynthia replied quickly.

'You're lying, that's not where you want to go,' Leon texted back, picking up on how fast she replied.

'Okay… archery range?' Cynthia suggested, there was a new one near their school and she was curious about how big it so, supposedly it had a "battle field" where archers could use paint covered foam-tipped arrows to shoot each other, first one to hit a "fatal" shot one. Supposedly anyway.

'Okay, do you want my mom to take us?'

'And holly.' Cynthia decided, feeling more comfortable if Holly came too, plus she wasn't too bad at shooting a bow anyway.

'And Holly.' Leon agreed, glad she even agreed to the whole thing, plus if Holly came she could make sure he didn't screw the whole thing up.

'Sure,' Cynthia replied and for the first time since Leon's rejection she smiled and looked him in the eye.

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"I hope I don't screw this up," Leon mumbled to Holly as they waited for Cynthia to walk over from her house.

"You won't," Holly reassured him with a smile as she checked over her compound bow, "you've always been a natural for stuff like this."

"Well being a natural didn't stop me from listening to dad and rejecting her in the first place."

"That's not your fault-"

"Cindy I wanna come too!"

The two teenagers looked sharply to their left to see Cynthia sprinting toward them, her blue eyes wide as she ran away from her adopted six-year-old sister Lily and towards Holly and Leon. A moment later Cynthia crashed headlong into Leon, knocking him down on his back on the grass with a thump in the process. Leon didn't dare move, with how close Cynthia was he didn't want to break the strange spell, not he could anyway with Cynthia sprawled on top of him. He could hear Cynthia's heavy breathing from her proximity and felt her breath flutter unevenly across his face.

"Lily!" Miles, Cynthia's other younger sibling, sprinted around a corner and started to catch up with his younger sibling, his slightly stocky build perfect for running after the energetic girl. "Leave our sister alone! We're going to miss my soccer game if we don't hurry up!"

"I wanna go with Cindy!" Lily complained as she ran faster to out run her brother.

Cynthia jerked away from Leon, harshly pushing against his chest, knocked the air out of him when she did so and scrambled up to her feet her blue eyes a little more distraught at how close she had gotten to him. He rejected me, he doesn't want me.

Miles caught up with his sister and scooped her up, "Sorry Cindy," he apologized to his sister, blue eyes a little worried, he had seen the position his older sister had been in, "go have fun, please."

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Leon yelped as he was shot in the back of the head with a foam-tipped arrow, the paint sticking to the helmet he was wearing. "Oh come on Cindy!" he complained as the lights flickered on and he looked at his friend who still had her bow drawn with another foam arrow notched. "I almost beat you!"

Cynthia flashed a bright smirk and let the arrow fly, it hit him in the night visor goggles.

"Hey!" He complained, unable to see now, "that's not fair!"

Holly emerged from another part of the maze just in time to see Cynthia start laughing, her voice hoarse and raspy, but she was making noise and laughing.

Behind his paint covered goggles, Leon's eyes softened and he smiled before he took off his goggles and watched his friend laugh, doubled over in laughter. She's perfect. He mused and locked eyes with Holly, it was working, now for stage two.

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"Now you have to court her," Holly said as she skimmed through her notes while running a brush through her black hair.

"What do I do?" Leon asked as he rubbed a towel through his blonde hair, after the archery outing he had been covered in sweat and paint, courtesy of Cynthia and Holly. "I don't even know what courting is."
"Well wild courting is a bit different but they're pretty similar," Holly said, looking up at him, "the point is to prove you're ready to be her partner, she's been ready for years, but are you?" she looked up at him, leaning forward on the desk and looking at her brother. "Are you ready to be her partner Leon?"

Leon didn't have to think about it, the fourteen-year old's eyes gleamed with determination and a wild love, "Yes," he confirmed, his voice half no hesitation, "I'm ready."

Holly smiled, "good." she leaned back and pushed him a list of things crammed on a small notepad, "here's a list of things you can do if you get mom on your side anyway."

"Why would I need mom…" Leon yelped, "I can't do all of these, I don't have a crap ton of money…" he looked at his sister, "do you really think mom will lend us money?"

Holly shrugged, "if it's for a good cause yes, now we just hope it's good enough."

"Maybe I can do more chores?" Leon suggested, not a big fan of the idea, Cynthia was the one who liked everything organized and neat, not him.