(A/N:) Bleh! I know I should be working on my other stories, but I'm like hooked on this one! I hope you invisible readers are too! You got two chapters in one day, don't expect me to do that often. I think this is the longest chapter yet. Awesome. I kept writing on the bus and during school, I'm that hooked. ANYWAYS. ENJOY THE STORY. :) I'm going to be mean and not post more until people review!!!! REVIEW!! :} (The Valentines Day special! I was going to post this, valentines day or not, but now I have an excuse!)

Chapter Four: The Barn

Ravenpaw and Blizzardpaw turned around from the lightening sky to look at the big barn entrance. They looked at each other, and entered the barn. Blizzardpaw's first overwhelming feeling was hunger. She desperately wanted to chase mice, but knew it would be rude to barge in and take fresh-kill without telling Barley.

While Blizzardpaw was pondering about mice, Ravenpaw went in search for Barley. He had always known not to take fresh-kill that wasn't your own. When he found Barley, the black and white cat was obviously asleep. It was, after all, only dawn. Ravenpaw couldn't blame him. But the two, now loners, were starving. They had walked all night, without eating anything on the way. They had been so scared. Tigerclaw was terrifying if you knew his secret. Ravenpaw's hunger couldn't take it any longer, and his stomach growled really loud. Loud enough for Blizzardpaw to giggle, and Barley to wake up.

"Huh? Who're you two?" he asked, quite confused. After all, no one had told him that two clan cats were going to move in with him. Both clan cats didn't plan on telling him why, or at least the full story. Blizzardpaw padded up to the two toms, and started to explain.

"Well, we're from ThunderClan, and something... um... really scary happened, so we wanted to stay here until the scary thing went away," she sort of explained. It was the truth after all. It went well with both Ravenpaw and Barley,

"Yes! That's what happened," Ravenpaw approved her statement with a small smile.

"Well then you can stay here. It's got plenty of mice," Barley told them.

"Yeah, we've smelled them." She then turned to Ravenpaw, "You're going to have to teach me how to do the hunter's crouch. I haven't learned it yet, remember? I've only learned how to fight. And here, it's not that useful."

"Alright, then when do you want to start?" Ravenpaw asked. Blizzardpaw yawned,

"Oh, after about a moon's worth of sleep," she joked, "No really, how about at sunhigh?" He nodded. She yawned again, and despite her hunger, she fell asleep.

*Dream*

An orange cat and a gray cat slunk in the clearing. A brown tom noticed, and ran into a hollow rock. Coming out, the brown tom and a blue she-cat came out. They padded forward to meet the orange and gray toms.

"Why were you out?" Bluestar asked.

"They were obviously doing something bad." Tigerclaw interjected, "Why else would they have to sneak out in the middle of the night?" he sneered.

"In the middle of the night, we both needed to use the dirtplace tunnel. We heard a quiet scuffle, and went to check it out. Ravenpaw was fighting a poisonous snake! But by the time we got to his side, he was dead, and he was in no condition to be moved, so we buried him there. When we got back to the apprentices' den, Blizzardpaw was gone." Both Firepaw and Graypaw meowed. Graypaw added in a downcast look to the ground, Blizzardpaw was one of his best friend after all. Bluestar looked convinced. Tigerclaw looked suspicious of them.

"We will hold a ceremony for Ravenpaw at sundown. Since we are not sure about Blizzardpaw, we will wait before we are sure she's... dead also," Bluestar 'reassured' them.

Blizzardpaw woke, her belly growling more profusely. She stood up to see a mouse near where she had made her nest. She ate it gratefully, her hunger now relieved. She looked out to see where the sun was in the sky. It was sunhigh. She ran to go find Ravenpaw, finding only Barley.

"Where's Ravenpaw?" she asked, dying to feel like a real apprentice. He pointed with his tail towards a bare patch of earth with some jutting above. She ran towards the familiar black shape.

"Hey!" she yowled, almost there. She froze.

There was that oh-so-familiar reek of Twoleg and their monsters. She turned her head to see a giant monster with huge black back paws. It was green, but it didn't have something over it. It was moving at a fast pace for Blizzardpaw (A/N: Lol, I could just see the farmer's perspective xD), and was coming at her. She couldn't move for fear. She was so fearful; she didn't see Ravenpaw darting over the mounds of earth, running like a WindClan warrior, straight for her as well. He got to her, grabbed her scruff in his teeth, and gave a powerful jump that hurtled the both of them towards the wheat field. Blizzardpaw lay there, panting. She shivered in spite of her self, and started to get up. When she looked up at him, he was hardly a mouse-tail away from her. She started to blush.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

"Oh.. Um.. Yes, thanks to you. Ravenpaw, you're my hero," she stammered, her heart pounding. He had indeed saved her life. Without Spottedleaf here to give her medicine to save her, his quick action had saved her. He really was her hero. She started to purr uncontrollably. She couldn't help it, without him, she wouldn't be alive.

"Well? Are we going to just stand here and stare at each other, or are you going to show me the Hunter's crouch?" she meowed. If they didn't go now, they would probably just stare at each other until moon-high. He blinked, swearing he smelled something familiar.

"Oh, yeah. Come into the wheat field, there'll be plenty of mice there," he meowed, a sudden look of remembrance on his face. He smiled, looking slightly down at her, realizing what it meant. They both padded into the wheat field. Blizzardpaw was so caught up in learning to hunt and being saved, she didn't smell the smell of heat coming from her body. (A/N: Now class, who knows what heat is? Yes, that's right Billy! Heat is what she-cats go through to mate! The heat cycle turns on when they're near a tom they like. (Just in case you didn't know, lol))

Blizzardpaw couldn't believe what had just happened. She had been unsure whether she had loved Ravenpaw or not, and then her body goes and practically forces her to admit to herself that she did indeed love him. It was a little mind-boggling, sure, but when you thought about it, it was rather... interesting. But nonetheless, she was carrying Ravenpaw's kits. (A/N: Hey, they're like 8 moons :P) And quite frankly, she was scared. She didn't know what to do... What if her milk ran dry, or if she was too weak to feed her babies? She needed help... help that could only be provided by a medicine cat. What she could do, she didn't realize until she and Ravenpaw were out gathering things to make their nests softer, mostly for the now pregnant Blizzardpaw, near sunset. They knew it wouldn't be for a long time, but they wanted to be safe, being new parents and all.

"If only we had a medicine cat with us when the time came. You never know what happens," Ravenpaw meowed, breaking the silence.

"I know, but it's so random if only we knew—Wait! I just thought of something! When it's time, you can run down to WindClan, since it's closest, and get Barkface!" she exclaimed, feeling good for thinking up a brilliant plan. Ravenpaw licked her ear affectionately before meowing,

"Beautiful plan. So simple, but effective," he praised her, "All I have to do is look and sound pitiful, and Tallstar's heart will surely go out to us." They padded back to the barn, slightly leaning on each other. Blizzardpaw noticed Ravenpaw nudging his nest closer to his mate's. They were near the middle of the pile, but not too high up, on an almost ledge, tucked to the side. They started to add moss and crow's feathers to their nests, making blacks and greens stand out from the golden hay. Blizzardpaw circled in her nest, falling asleep in her first night of almost being a mother.