~Snowcrystal of Thunderclan~

Maybe because that chapter was sad? The surrogate chapter was incredibly sad :(

~HollystormDragoness~

The sequel is heartbreaking and good, it's a mixture of many things! :D Ah, I was a little confuzzled :D

~Featherflight123~

I haven't decided what the object is, although I'm thinking that it's a locket for the promise ring she already has :D

Wow, that's a crazy coincidence :P

~Silver-Rose Writes~

It was sad :(

~Delena's Teddy ~

Thank you for the compliment on my writing! :D

~Blue Tulips 1995~

I'm glad! :D

I apologize for any spelling errors, I didn't have time to proof read it...

I Can't Reject Her! It'll Kill Her

I Can't Do That To Her Dad, It's Not Her Fault

REWRITE

Cynthia, Leon - 15 (Leon just turned 15 a week ago)

Holly and Jay - 16

Bree - 16 ½

Leon distantly heard a backpack being dropped off at the front door of the house, of who's was Cynthia and her family's, along with someone taking their shoes off and assumed it was Cynthia or one of his siblings, not giving it a second thought. He was typically the first one back from school anyway and often times set up a video game that Cynthia could join in on or if either of his siblings were in the mood to join in as well. He knew it was Cynthia the moment she stepped into his peripherals, "hey, you want to play? I'm at the wild guardian and I've almost got him down to critical," he explained, his fingers mashing the buttons of the controller with skill and speed. Of which allowed him to make his character stab the wild guardian with its large sword blade and avoid being smashed. Cynthia didn't reply and Leon looked up at her for a few moments, trying to get a read on what his close friend and crush was feeling before he looked back at the screen when his character cried out in pain from getting clawed with a deadly attack and his health dropped dangerously. "You okay?" He asked as she sat down on the couch next to him, right next to him, her thigh brushing his, with his attention still on the tv screen. "You're acting a little strange," he admitted as she moved closer, curling her thinner arms around his upper arm and resting her chin on the top of his upper arm.

Cynthia nestled her nose against the fabric of Leon's shirt sleeve and took a deep breath, breathing in the male wild's scent and letting it wash over her heightened senses. "Mhmm," the teenager murmured, blue eyes half closed with her body language relaxed and her feline ears tilted back in a relaxed state. "I'm okay."

Leon glanced over at her out of the corner of his eye before the game called his attention again. "Are you sure? You feel like you have a fever, you're making me hot by just being there."

Cynthia rubbed her head and feline ears against his shirt in a slightly drowsy fashion, "I just want someone to cuddle with me while I take a nap," she mumbled in a jumbled mix of English and the wild's language; pressing her head against his sleeve with her nose flaring just a hair, almost like a cat or dog, as she breathed in more of his scent.

Leon's eyebrows furrowed slightly but he managed to reach over and pull the release for foot piece of his section to pop out and recline his, and Cynthia's, part of the couch further back into a more comfortable lying down position. He kept it high enough that he could see the t.v screen with no problem but low enough that it wouldn't hurt his back and or Cynthia's ribs and knee. That fight with Tyler last week had left the female wild with bruised ribs which were still a little tender and healing. "Sure I guess, maybe you'll feel better after taking a nap?" He suggested with a tone like he hoped she would return to normal by that point in time.

Cynthia scooted closer to him, laying on her side with one knee drawn up, one arm resting on Leon's chest, and her nose buried in his shirt sleeve and shoulder. "Mhmm," she responded, the noise was highly drowsy and sleepy, which was proved by the way she half closed her eyes and loosely grasped a handful of his shirt.

Leon glanced over at her, worry pinching his eyebrows together. He had no idea what was wrong with her. She was acting incredibly strange; her body heat was much higher than normal, he was surprised she wasn't sweating; she wasn't really talking in English, it was half English and half wilds language, and she was oddly affectionate. Which was even more of an odd thing when she mainly didn't like touching people. Other than when she was flipped of course, then she was more goofy, relaxed and liked affection from different people.

Cynthia made a soft noise in her sleep, cuddling closer to Leon and giving a faint oddly sounding and feeling purr.

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Leon jumped startled when he felt Cynthia, who he had completely forgotten about with how she had been asleep for at least an hour, sat up and heard her mumble something not in English as she did so. He had been playing Sword Fighters for the past hour and a half, going toward a boss fight and had been putting up with Paige and Haliah all teasing him about how Cynthia was asleep partially on him.

"I'm bored," The female wild mumbled and rubbed at her eyes with a loosely closed fist.

"Do you want to play with me?" Leon offered her a controller.

Cynthia shook her head with a dismissive noise, "no, I don't want to." She rumbled and stood up, bright-eyed and completely alert.

Leon rolled his eyes as she disappeared and focused back on his game. At Least until ten minutes later where he froze, feeling Cynthia's warm breath against his neck and the weight of her arm around his shoulders. "Er, weren't you going to do something?" He asked curiously, looking at her.
Cynthia had a very odd look on her face, she looked like she was trying to place what she was going to be doing. "Uh huh," she shrugged, her breath tickling his skin. Abruptly she moved away and Leon breathed a sigh of relief before he yelped as she abruptly moved around the couch and sat in his lap, her blue eyes fixed unwaveringly on the blonde's face.

Leon tried to look around her, "Cyndy, I'm playing remember!" He groaned as his character gained more and more damage, "I'm so close to a high score!"

Cynthia tilted her head slightly and leaned partway forward, her wild silently giving her directions.

Leon heard the tell tale sound of his character dying a few minutes later and groaned, throwing his controlled down onto the couch in frustration and looking at the odd acting female wild sitting in his lap. "What do you want from me?!" He asked in exasperation, "I don't have anything!"

Cynthia's expression waived at the faint anger on his face and she rumbled a few words, "I didn't mean to make you upset," she rumbled ashamed and hung her head, looking upset that she had bothered him and made him angry.

Leon's amber eyes softened and he felt his wild soften his emotions at the female's shame. He gently looped his arms around her waist, resting one his hand against her back and the other looping easily around her thin waist. "I shouldn't have gotten angry," he smiled gently at her, feeling a little guilty at making her ashamed when she clearly didn't mean to get in his way. "It's just a game. What did you want Sunshine?" He asked, calling her by the playful nickname he had given her back when they were younger and when she had painted her first real masterpiece art wise that was a large sunrise spilling over a grassy field.

Cynthia purred, leaning closer and looping her arms around his neck, one hand resting near his spine and the other arm was curled around the base of his head. "I wanted a kiss," the wild purred, giving Leon the shock of his life so far, "Cause I love my partner," she brushed his nose with hers and rested her forehead against his, a soft purr rumbling through the gentle hearted wild's body.

Leon stared at her with round eyes, having not expected her to say that. He knew that it was likely her wild speaking since she had called him her partner, but he still felt like his heart was melting at her soft affectionate actions and the soft feline rumble of her words. "I-I'm your partner?" He asked in a hushed voice, his amber eyes turning gentle and surprised.

Cynthia rumbled a response, "Yes," she rumbled, "You've always been my partner." Her azure blue eyes twinkled softly, "and you always will be."

Leon acted impulsively, lifting one of his arms to placed his hand at the back of her neck before he leaned forward, pulling her closer, and kissed her, feeling both wild's and his own pride mingling with the love his wild had and the massive crush he had on her mingle all together.

Cynthia responded eagerly, scooting closer and responding eagerly to the kiss, finally having gotten what she had wanted.

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Cynthia let out all of the air in her lungs at Leon's movement, the male wild's canine teeth had lightly touched the skin of one side of her neck. Her skin tingled at the sensation and she sat still in his lap, unable to breathe from both the sensation and emotion causing her to feel like she was over the moon. "Are you?..." she asked him in a loud purr, the tone of the sound was surprised, giddy, and over all loving and affectionate, a tone Leon picked up on.

"You're my mate," Leon rumbled, "nobody else's."

Cynthia's azure blue eyes glittered happily, "so you're marking me?" She and her wild wanted him to so badly, if he did it meant that he wanted them to be mates as well beyond his words and that the whole thing wasn't a dream. Her partner hadn't rejected her, he wanted the partnership too, and beyond that he wanted her to be his mate above everything.

Leon's affirmative rumble gave her hardly more than a few seconds to purr loudly before Leon's teeth grazed softly against her neck as he started working on the mark. Cynthia slumped forward against Leon's chest, her head rolling to one side on his shoulder as the female wild fell into a half unconscious state. Her blue eyes were glazed and mostly closed, unable to feel Leon's teeth tickling her skin as he lightly marked out the spot and design of her mark.

Leon examined his work five minutes later, sunset eyes twinkling softly as he gazed proudly at the intricate design on his partner's neck. Like a feline would lick a wound to clean it, Leon dragged the lower part of his semi rough tongue over the mark, his saliva giving the mark the shades of tinted color it would end up being for the rest of Cynthia's life if she wasn't rejected at some point and changing from a clear normal color to a pale and slightly foamy blue around the design, a chemical change that signaled the success of the mark's creation.

Cynthia stirred at the odd feeling as well, regaining consciousness now that her wild was aware that she wasn't in any searing pain anymore. She made a soft purring noise as she lifted her head and looked at him blurrily, her blue eyes foggy from the half conscious and paralyzed status.

Leon smiled at her, sunset eyes twinkling slightly, "you awake?" he rumbled and nuzzled his nose against her feline ears, "I finished it."

Cynthia's purr increased in volume and she put her head back down, slowly waking up properly and returning to her earlier status. "I want to see it," she purred, "I want to see what it looks like."

"Wake up completely first," Leon rumbled and held her close to his body, snuggling his partner, "then we can find a mirror and wash off the extra pigment."

Cynthia purred even louder and lifted her head again, feeling more awake than before. "Yuliana," [I love you] she purred in a language neither of them had heard each other speak before, snuggling close to him and rubbing her feline ears against his neck and jaw.

Leon's jaw slackened at the articulated purr, and he stared for a second before he held her even closer and purred himself, making both of them vibrate from the strength of his rumbling purr, "You just spoke Wivono to me!" He purred loudly, "I didn't know you could speak in it already!"

Cynthia's purr combined with his and she felt Leon's joy and pride, "I didn't either!" She then managed to perfectly pronounce another phrase, looking at him with a serous and loving expression, "Yiia xiania, niayui xiai ckanisani." [I'm only yours, you are my only partner.]

Leon's purr got even louder and his sunset colored eyes focused on hers, "and you are my only as well."

Cynthia leaned forward and kissed him sweetly, the female wild felt like she was over the moon. Everything was right in the world, this was the best day of her life so far.

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Cynthia turned on the bathroom faucet and tested the water to make sure it was warm before she cupped her hands and put them under it. She put her hands under the tap before bringing it up to her neck and letting the water trickle gently down her neck, washing off the now mostly dried blue pigmented saliva and revealing the full design of her mark of a bonded partnership.

Leon smiled at her as a few minutes later Cynthia twisted her neck slightly, looking through the mirror and at the mark Leon had given her. "I think it's beautiful," Leon rumbled, his arms looped around her waist. He was holding her to his body, feeling like all was right with the world now that he had his partner snuggled in his arms, he had marked her as his mate, and the partnership was finally activated. He looked proudly at the design on Cynthia's neck, "It makes you even more beautiful than you already are."

Cynthia purred, gazing at her new mark, blue eyes glittering brightly. It was throbbing softly since it was practically an engraving on her skin, but that would fade over the next week. Cynthia's mark was an abstract silloette of a lion head nuzzling a cheetah head with darker blue lining of the swirling lines throughout the two animals' heads and a lighter shade for the filled in shape itself. The mark itself was losing the red color from the irritation of her skin from the process of Leon making the mark, and it was gaining very blue tints, the natural colorations of her felt a little giddy, her partner had called her his mate, he had marked her, and she had spoken her first two phrases to him in a special part of the wilds language. "Your right, it is beautiful," she purred, "it's perfect."

Leon purred with her and smiled feeling excited and energetic now. "Are you ready for something else?"

Cynthia looked at him curiously, "What else?" Her blue eyes twinkled, "partner stuff?" She asked hopefully, giving him blue kitten eyes, widening and rounding her eyes while pleading with him.

Leon pressed a light kiss to her new mark and felt her light flinch at the touch against her sensitive skin. "Sorry, I forgot that it's still tender," he apologized, "but yes, partner stuff."

Cynthia purred loudly, completely ignoring the pain in her neck.

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Holly blinked and looked up from her book, she had just felt something from Leon through her and her brothers' sibling bond, and it was a really odd emotion. Paying closer attention to the bond her green eyes widened, what in the world was her brother doing that was producing that kind of thing from his wild?! She vaguely remembered Leah warning her and Cynthia a few days ago about how Cynthia was old enough to start going into heat every month since her wild was that way, and shot to her feet. She knocked over a chair in the process but she didn't bother to fix it nor tell Finli, her study buddy, where she was going as she shot to her feet and sprinted out of the door of the local library, fumbling for her brother's number. She managed to call Leon as she raced down the street, running as fast as she could. She thanked Cynthia's running lessons and how it helped her run even faster.

Leon did pick up, but he sounded thoroughly annoyed. "What Holly?" he snapped in a low growl and Holly could hear Cynthia's frustrated rumbling in the background.

Holly quickly switched to the wild's language, "Leon, where are you?"

"Cyn's house, partner stuff." Leon growled, "of which you just interrupted."

"I'm sorry," Holly apologized despite the alarm bells ringing in her mind at Leon's use of the words 'partner stuff' which likely meant he and Cynthia were or had already solidified their non active partnership. "But I need you to distance yourself from Cindy, she's not thinking straight right now-"

"So?" Leon growled, "I don't care, she's happy right now. That's what I care about."

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Holly found the pair of them in the living room of Cynthia's family's house, random blankets were thrown everywhere, and currently the two wilds were purring with laughter, tangled together in two of the blankets, Leon was shirtless, propped up on his elbows over Cynthia grinning a wild grin with his hands placed beneath her head to cushion her head.

Cynthia had her arms looped around the blonde's neck, her forehead resting against his with her eyes closed. Holly could see the her tank-top and her bare feet poking out from the messy blanket, her toes curled up happily. Cynthia's hair was also loose, spread out around her head like a wavy fan. She appeared slightly drowsy, like her energy was drained from something or other that had happened less than ten minutes ago. Yet she seemed to be almost vibrating, other then her purr, from how happy she was at the current moment.

Holly hesitated, she didn't want to make the pair unhappy, they looked like they were enjoying themselves, and like both of them were over the moon kind of happy. So she tried to speak to them first, "Leon? What're you and Cynthia doing? She's in heat Leon."

Leon growled, reluctantly slid his hands from beneath Cynthia's head, moved to be sitting next to her and looked over at Holly, his sunset colored eyes highly annoyed, "Can you just leave us alone, you're getting really annoying. I know she's in heat," he looked at the wild who was now half sitting up, leaning back on her arms, and he gave her a soft affectionate smile, "I want to make her happy…"

Holly winced slightly at her brother's snappish growl and her heart stung at ruining their moment, but responded anyway effectively ruining the moment and the mood. "I'm trying to protect you from our father," she told him in a rumbling bear whine, trying to get her point across, "Paige already called Bracken Leon; he and Brad are going to be coming over here any minute to separate you two."

Leon's muscles visibly tensed, the lean but defined muscles of his shoulders tensing up to go along with his scowl of worry and annoyance.

Cynthia followed suit, sitting up straight and the new partnership stared at eachother intensely, silently communicating with each other.

Holly looked a little nervous, she didn't want her father to ruin her brother and her best friend's partnership, but she didn't have time to get them out of there. Her blood turned to ice at the sound of two doors opening from two different directions.

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Cynthia stared at her father and Brad, jaw slackening before her azure blue eyes turned determined and confident, "No!" She snarled at the pair of adults, "You can't keep me from my partner!"

Leon's dreary face gained a big grin at seeing his partner, as scared as she may be, stand up to Brad and Bracken.

Cynthia was feeling increasingly overheated, and her mind was getting foggier for most of her surroundings, she could focus easily on her partner, but everything else besides him and what Brad and Bracken were saying was fuzzy and easily forgotten. Cynthia looked at her father, blue eyes roundening slightly as she tried to make him see, "dad please understand!" She whimpered, struggling to focus on him and not her currently shirtless partner who was grinning at her, "I need him!" she whimpered, "It hurts when you do this to me, taking him away from me and not letting our partnership take its course!"

Bracken's amber eyes were conflicted, he could see Brad's point, but at the same time he didn't want to make his daughter's life harder and potentially terrible if Brad actually had Leon reject her. But before he could say anything Brad pointed out something that he hadn't noticed yet.

"Bracken," Brad said in a semi patient tone, "Cynthia's in heat. Don't let her take advantage of you because she's feeling a constant need for her partner's presence and more."

Bracken blinked and studied his daughter's expression. He then noticed what Brad was talking about, Cynthia's pupils were dilated slightly more than usual, her skin was slightly flushed from being overheated for long periods of time, her feline wild ears were tilted back slightly in a constant relaxed status, and she had a very distracted look in her blue eyes. "Cynthia," he spoke softly to his daughter, "the separation would only be until you come out of heat, it won't be forever."

Cynthia looked hurt that her father wasn't defending her and she snarled, baring her teeth as he reached over to touch her shoulder, her blood abruptly turning to ice. "You don't understand!" She snarled fiercely at her father, blue eyes smoldering with anger and hurt, why didn't anybody understand! "It hurts being away from my partner!" She growled at her father and Brad, "it hurts both physically and mentally!" She whimpered softly, "he's my mate daddy," she whimpered quietly, "the separation hurts me."

Bracken sighed softly and reluctantly grasped his daughter's upper arm, "you're too young Cynthia, it's not possible for him to be your mate yet." He started leading her out of the room, "and you need space to think straight, you're not thinking straight."

Cynthia whimpered and tugged against her father's grip, looking at her partner with upset bue eyes, "dad please…"

"No Cynthia," Bracken said, walking faster, the words tugging on his heartstrings, "you need to clear your mind."

"I can't!" Cynthia wailed, getting hysterical as her father pulled her further and further away from her partner, "and I don't need to clear my mind!"

Bracken felt his daughter's upset emotions like a stormcloud, he could feel the palpulatable amounts of frustration, hurt, panic, and confusion that his daughter was feeling at the current moment. Yet he didn't do anything, trying to protect his baby girl while she couldn't do it by herself. "You can come back later Cynthia once your mind is clear and your heat is fading." He tried to be stern but he couldn't while his daughter felt this way.

Cynthia turned to her partner, seeking his help while her blue eyes glistened with hurt and frustrated tears, "Nisia niaiwa xi jiaua Lioji!" [you told me you wanted it too Lioji!]

Leon was startled hear Cynthia speak in Wivano when she directed her plead toward him.

Everyone was surprised to hear her speak in that version of the Wild's language, it was rare for someone outside of the partnership itself to hear one of the wilds speak in that particular version, it was held close to a partnership, an important piece of the pair of partners' communication. Wivono as he would say, or as Cynthia would say, Wivana, because she was a female, was the romance and bonded part of the wild language, it was special, very very special. And nobody had expected Cynthia to speak in it. At all.

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Leon's amber eyes widened and his jaw slackened, Cynthia was speaking in Wivano to him again! He felt his wild swell slightly with pride now that he heard it outside of her earlier dazed and giddy status. If she was speaking to him in that language it meant that she had have meant what she said earlier before Bracken and his father had arrived and that she was only his, no more competition!

Then Leon felt his father's burning gaze on him and his mouth went dry. His father, Brad had heard Cynthia speak to him, Leon, and he was completely against them beginning their partnership now. But I already did start it, he thought desperately as Cynthia struggled get her father to release her wrist. His amber eyes strayed to the edge of what he could see of the mark he had given her, the blue tinted skin was mostly hidden by her loose black hair. We already activated the bond, I've already given her a mark, she's already speaking to me in Wivono… our partnership is already active! If I reject her now it'll ruin her! He was jerked from his thoughts by his father's voice.
"What're you… Bracken, have you checked Cynthia's neck for a mark?" Brad asked, his voice actually going hoarse as he connected the pieces.

"They didn't get that far," Bracken furrowed his eyebrows before immense worry sparked in his eyes, "did they?"

"Leon's been staring off into space looking at her neck," Brad said gruffly, his amber eyes highly annoyed as he turned to his son, "Leon, what did you do?"

Leon cringed at his father's no nonsense tone, "um…" he couldn't find the words.

Cynthia's hiss of pain drew both father and son's attention to her when the wild abruptly snarled at her father when he lifted her black hair away from her neck and his fingers brushed against the slightly raw skin. Cynthia wrinkled her nose, bared her teeth like a feline and flattened her feline ears to her skull. "Don't touch my neck!" She snarled, a dangerous growl rumbling through her throat.

Brad growled, got up, and moved the rest of Cynthia's black hair away from her neck.

Cynthia actually howled at Brad's rough movements and pained tears gathered in the blue eyed wild's already tear ridden blue eyes. "Please don't!" she whimpered, cringing away from Brad's touch and anyone else's for that matter, "it hurts when people touch it!"

Leon jumped to his feet with the intent to go over there to protect his partner, but his father gave him a deadly glare and the blonde stayed in his spot unable to leave it because of his father's alpha rank, his eyebrows furrowing together. "Dad, it's tender," he told his dad and tried to convince him to leave her alone while he couldn't go help his new partner, "she almost didn't let me touch it earlier because it was throbbing and I'm her partner-"

Brad cut him off before he could say the last word, "I know it hurts Leon," he snapped, "Holly go get rubbing alcohol and a cloth."

Leon and Holly paled, that was too far.

"You can't do that dad!"

"You're not erasing her mark!" Leon roared, breaking Brad's control over him and looking like he was ready to kill at this point. "That mark is hers and hers alone! You can't get rid of it-"

Cynthia gave a wild version of a scream of pain, a very loud and pitched howl as Brad ignored his children and rubbed his sleeve a tad harshly against the intricate shape on the side of her neck.

Bracken sharply pulled his daughter away from Brad and to him, as he knelt down, at the sound and how Cynthia started pulling on his arms and curling up into a ball to try and protect herself. "That's enough!" The soft hearted wild snarled at Brad, holding his daughter close to him as Cynthia trembled, her body wracked with pain from Brad's actions, and whimpered in fear.

"Lio… hakisi!" [Lio… help me!] Cynthia's tear filled blue gaze focused on Leon as she spoke to him again, still speaking in Wivano, "Nia yaiu niaiwa yui!" [You promised you wanted me!]

Leon hesitated once again, if he gave him his father would be beyond furious, and if he rejected her he would probably never see her again. He glanced at his father, noticing the piercing look he was giving him, "Cyn I can't…"

"Waiua niaka nia?" [Why can't you?] Cynthia whimpered, looking at him through scared and vulnerable blue eyes, "N-Niamajia yui!" [Y-you marked me!] The wild fumbled with her words, struggling to speak now with the overwhelming feeling that she was about to be rejected. "X-xijua yachi yui iani kasiani" [Th-that means you w-want me as a mate,] her whimper grew softer and more scared and vulnerable, "Riaui?..." Her whimper grew even more quiet as she mentioned what he had told her when he had marked her. "Xijya waiua niasia yuiwuia nia majiayui…" [Right?... That's what you told me when you marked me...]

Leon's heart broke at the immense fear displayed on her face, but he couldn't do anything, if he agreed his father would hurt her more and try to get rid of her mark and he didn't want her to be in more pain like that. "Please don't ask me this right now," he rumbled, pleading with her, "I can't answer this Cyn," he pleaded with her, his amber eyes begging her to wait for another day.

The female's jaw slackened and she stared at him, not wanting to believe what she was hearing. "W-Waiua? N-Nia niaka sykiaja?" [w-what? Y-you can't a-answer?] More tears threatened to fall as she whimpered, "Niamujias inasinakc yui?" [you're g-going to reject me?]

Leon vigorously shook his head, "No! I just can't answer right now!"

Bracken frowned, looking at his daughter in worry. He didn't want her getting into a mating partnership this young for many reasons, but now he was worrying that she was going to rejected and a rejection would ruin his baby girl beyond any kind of repair he could provide for her.

"Leon," Brad snapped, the police officer was running out of patience, he was tired, cranky, and honestly didn't want to sit her while his son dragged out the process. "Finish it already."

Leon flinched and he looked at Cynthia, looking at her vulnerable and small appearance and how she was looking up at him, borderline terror of rejection showing on her face. He had to, he couldn't let his father mess with her mark and hurt her. "I…"

"Leon!" Holly gasped, her green eyes fixed on him showing high amounts of shock.

"Lio?" [Lio?] Cynthia whimpered confused at his hesitation., staring at him terrified that she was about to lose her only chance at having a partner, companion to share the rest of her life with, and most of all, a family of her own. "Yuliania!" [I love you!] She keened, trying to convince him to not reject her. The female wild scrambled to her feet and rushed over to Leon kneeling on the floor and hugging him around the waist, pressing her feline ears against his abdomen. "Yuliania! Yuliania! Yuliania! Nia jaisa jiayui!" [I love you! I love you! I love you! You mean everything to me!] the wild half keened half sobbed, squeezing her eyes shut and trying so hard to keep him from rejecting her. "Niaxi guina chisajia yui armia!" [You're the guardian of my heart!]

Leon froze, staring at her at the last phrase, it echoed in his head. He was the guardian of Cynthia's heart. Oh StarClan… That was huge, her speaking to him in Wivano was nothing compared to this. Being the guardian of a wild heart meant that the guardian was literally everything to them, it meant that not only did he have her wild's heart, as shown by the whole partnership thing, he had Cynthia's personal heart, the kind, gentle, and loving spitfire of a heart that was his best friend's. Cynthia was in love with him, not just her wild, but she herself was in love with him. In love enough that she trusted him with the one thing she wouldn't give to anyone. For StarClan's sake he couldn't remember the last time he had heard one of the girls say that Cynthia had a crush other than him! "Cyndy…" He cooed softly, his amber eyes were sad now, glinting with remorse for his upcoming actions.

Cynthia sobbed, pushing her ears firmer against his stomach, "Yui niaka seraii xiji nia inasinkakc yui" [I won't make it if you reject me!] her tears was dripping down onto Leon's socked feet, but he didn't notice, "yuliania! Yui aiwa jiacua yania nusia yaui" [I love you! I want to be at your side forever!] she was sobbing harder now, thank StarClan she wasn't speaking English, otherwise it would've been a mess of slurred sounds and words. "Yui aiwa nia jiacua thiasi yuwuia yui waiusa sa xisiausi jiadiu aikua yunia lijuasa jia suasakias Lio!" I want you to be there when I wake up in morning ever after we get out of highschool Lio!]

Leon felt tears pricking at the corners of his eyes as well, feeling emotional at the things she was saying. The next sentence almost broke his resolve. Cynthia treasured having a family of her own one day like it was her only wish in the entire world, and it was something she was super passionate about, babysitting when she had free time, watching over her siblings, and on occasion the female wild went with one of her parents and looked after some of the orphan wilds, teaching them the way of life as a wild. Her next sentence involved one of the things that Cynthia had never mentioned to him but he knew about.

Cynthia gave a heaving sob and pushed her face into his shirt, "yui aiwa jia haisia kcanisura jinusia nia!" [I want to have a family with you!] she blubbered in a half wail, "yui aiwa jiakia nia hiaius yuna soin oa dausia, zijayui aiwa jiakia nicua jia yuna sondias xaiadiu!" [I want to see you holding our son or daughter, and I want to see you be a father to our kids one day!] The female wild pushed her face further into his shirt, struggling to stop crying as she waited for him to decide, unable to completely stop crying with how scared and frightened she was.

Leon looked down at her, regret glinting in his eyes as he knelt down in front of her, tears beginning to surface in her amber eyes, "I'm so sorry," he whispered to her as he took her face in his now shaking hands, and opened his mouth again. The first phrases he spoke to her in Wivano was likely going to be the last sentences she was ever going to hear in that tender and loving language. "Yiu soceuo Cyliani, Yiu soceuo..." [I'm so sorry Cyliani("My Beautiful Love"), I'm so sorry…]

Cynthia looked at him, her sapphire blue eyes scared, and full of tears as it clicked in her mind what was going on. She gave a heaving breath like she was stifling at sob, closed her eyes and pushed her head against his, resting her forehead against his with tears beginning to trickle down to her cheeks and down her nose to land on Leon's face who's own tears threatened to break free. "Yuliana..." [I love you…] she murmured in Wivano, her tone shaking during the sentence, "Yuliansa mias..." [I love you so much...] she breathed, quietly breathing in her partner's special cinnamon and mint scent for the last time. "Yuwia yaui liania..." [I'll always love you…]She promised with another suppressed sob, trying to keep it together for one last moment where she could tell her partner goodbye before he left her completely.

Leon squeezed his eyes shut momentarily against the tears pressing against his eyes and tenderly held Cynthia's face, his hands gently cupping her face in a tender grasp, his left thumb gently stroking her skin, feeling the soft texture of her skin beneath his rougher skinned hands. "Nuo du liunuo," [I do love you,] he told her softly in Wivano while opening his eyes and gazing softly at Cynthia's freckled face, "Nuo yoxo mius ciuo pursoni yuo hoisu jiokion, zija nuyo pusoinu Svioni fluki zija juiso." [You are the most beautiful person I have ever seen, and you are perfect Svioni("Forever My Sweetheart") flaws and all.]

Cynthia was trembling now, the female wild could only hold herself together for so long before she fell apart and before Leon said the actual words. She quietly took one of his hands from her face and pressed it to the marked spot of her neck before leaning back slightly and opening her eyes to look at him. Her voice trembled, but she still spoke anyway, "Yi-Yiia yaui nias," [I-I'm always yours,] she said in a trembling voice, "Na m-mairua waiua, Yiia nias." [no m-matter what, I'm yours.]

Leon looked at her, he didn't doubt that he looked more than upset to everyone else, and gently curled his finger tips around the back of her neck before gently pulling her into a kiss. This one was a little clumsy since neither of their wilds had the strength to guide them in how to do it this time, but he didn't care. He wanted Cynthia to know that respite that he was rejecting her, he loved her and that she was very loved by her partner. He knew that despite all of the reassurances it would still feel like she was dying every day, but he wanted to try. The kiss itself was cut short by Brad beginning to pace in irritation, but Leon didn't mind as he pulled back looked at Cynthia who still had her eyes closed, clinging to the feeling of the kiss like it was her lifeline. Actually it probably was. "I want you to know that you are loved," he spoke softly to her in the wild's language before letting her go and scooting a few steps back. "Are you ready?"

Cynthia nodded, taking a deep breath and looking at him, her blue eyes were already starting to take on an emotionally deadened look, "Yes," she gazed at the floor near them, her cheek facing Leon, "I'm sorry for whatever I did wrong," she murmured in a trembling rumbled before Leon steeled himself up for the actual rejection.

Leon looked at her and murmured, "Yiu soceuo..." [I'm so sorry…] before he reluctantly slapped her, making Cynthia's head snap to one side before he spoke in a deeper and louder tone, "I am not your partner, Cynthia Casi Lawson."

Cynthia trembled in response to the words and she ducked her head, gripping her knees and leaning forward slightly, trembling as tear droplets started dripping down onto her jeans. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" the wild sobbed, starting to fall apart at hearing the words, "please don't finish it!" she practically begged Leon, unable to help herself with the terror reflooding her veins and the pain she and her wild was suddenly put under, "I'm sorry! I'll do anything!" She sobbed looking at him, "please!"

Leon forced himself to not respond to her desperate words nor look at her and finished the rejection, his voice shaking in multiple places. "I don't want you. I-I don't want you as my mate."

Cynthia gasped and one of her hands flew up to the marked area of her neck which was throbbing horribly and beginning to burn, "it hurts!" She gasped out in a wail and before Leon's eyes the fully conscious female wild slumped to the floor, blood trickled from the corner of her mouth and it stained the carpet and Cynthia's hand red from the mark at her neck suddenly swelling with blood at each of the carved designs. Her blue eyes were slightly cracked open, but her eye color had change to an icy blue a sign of her wild being in distress and that the wild's distress was surfacing in the form of Cynthia bleeding from the corner of her mouth and strangely bleeding at the mark Leon had given her.

Leon fell to his knees and extended one of his arms to touch her but Brad caught his wrist, preventing him from touching his partner while the process of the rejection solidified.

Bracken knelt next to his daughter, his amber eyes distressed as he put one hand on his daughter's back as she seized up and gave a agonizing moan, her blue eyes still a very bright icy blue color.

Leon watched, a few tears trickling down the athlete's face as he watched his new partner go through something irreversible and something that would honestly make her feel like she was dying every day from how much pain she was suffering under.

A few moments later Cynthia's body went slack, the visible part of her irises faded to azure, her muscles went lax, and she didn't move, not breathing for a heart wrenching period of time. But she did eventually breathe in a shuddery breath and cough before partially opening her eyes to gaze at Leon.

Leon's heart clenched, the pain in his rejected partner's eyes was already tearing him apart, her usually vibrant azure or sapphire blue eyes were now dulled, lost most of the color vibrance and had gained an agonized touch, like it hurt just to open her eyes. The vibrantly blue tinted skin of her mark was fading lightening to her normal skin colored until it lightened more into a semi white looking scar, the design clear and crisp but uncolored due to the rejection.

Cynthia's eyes quickly shut however and she moaned another agonizing moan of pain before finally passing out, giving the female wild peace in the blackness of being completely unconscious.

Ugh, life is a pain -_- My health is having issues (apparently I'm a mystery cause medical people can't figure out some of the things that are wrong with me) and I'm busy in general. But I enjoy writing these, so here's a new chapter! And this one has a language I've designed as well! Dang I've been in the mood for wilds chapters lately I've noticed :P