If nobody votes, I'm going to make the deputy Berrynose! I am not joking! The only official votes I have so far are from Islanda and katienicole426! So please vote! In the meantime here is the next chapter; it's a lot longer than the last one so don't worry! Also when you're done don't forget to vote!
Lionblaze was shocked. Why did he meet her again? The other time was probably just a coincidence but this was going a little too far. Every time he went to the tunnels he met Heathertail. Lionblaze couldn't help wondering: Are we meant for each other?
"Get out! I don't want to see you," spat Heathertail. As usual, Lionblaze noticed the cold hatred in her eyes. But this time there was something else mingled in with the hate; pain and was that sorrow?
"I don't know why I have to," replied Lionblaze. "This land doesn't belong to any of the Clans."
"I-it belongs to DarkClan. So just go away!" hissed Heathertail, but the sorrow was clearly there in her voice now.
Lionblaze raised his eyebrows. "DarkClan?" he meowed mockingly. "I've never heard of it."
This time there was nothing but pain in Heathertail's eyes now. "Are you sure? You seemed ready to tell me the last time we met. Why not now?" begged Heathertail.
Why was she suddenly acting so… hurt? Isn't that my job? "Wait. One second you're ready to chase me out and now you're begging me to believe in our, I mean your, old "Clan"," meowed Lionblaze. "Why?"
Heathertail hesitated. "B-because I've been thinking about you and… I don't want to be apart from you anymore. I want to be together again," she whispered.
Lionblaze was taken back. Could this be real? Was he hallucinating? No, this was real. Heathertail had confessed her love of Lionblaze to him.
"How do I know-," "That I'm doing this for personal gain? For WindClan?" Heathertail mewed softly, cutting him off.
Lionblaze grew a little hot because although he didn't want to accuse Heathertail of that, it was a possibility.
"I liked how we battled Breezepelt together. It seemed like the old days," murmured Heathertail. "I want every day to be like that from now on. I want us to be together. Please Lionblaze," pleaded Heathertail.
"But we can't!" meowed Lionblaze desperately. "ThunderClan already looks weak because of Leafpool and all of the kittypets! This won't be overlooked Heathertail." Although Lionblaze wanted exactly what Heathertail wanted, he knew that it wouldn't be accepted.
There was hurt and sorrow in Heathertail's eyes. Her tail drooped in defeat. "So, I guess you never wanted us to be together," she whispered.
"No Heathertail. I want more than anything for us to be together," murmured Lionblaze and pressed his flank against Heathertail's.
"I'm sorry, Lionblaze. But if you… say no… I guess we were never meant to be," mewed Heathertail. She turned and started to pad slowly back to her Clan.
"Heathertail wait! Don't go!" called Lionblaze. He realized that this was exactly what Cinderheart had wanted him to say to her and yet here he was saying it to Heathertail.
"Let me think about it. Meet me here again tomorrow at sundown," he meowed. Instantly, Heathertail's eyes brightened and she let out a loud purr.
"I'll be there," she promised. Heathertail ran over to Lionblaze and pressed her flank against Lionblaze. Lionblaze purred and licked her ears.
"Good bye Heather-," Lionblaze stopped. Then with a grin he finished: "-star of DarkClan. Until tomorrow," he meowed.
(New POV)
He actually considered it! Heathertail felt like she could fly to StarClan. Finally, he was going to be hers and only hers.
Heathertail had seen that gray she-cat named Cinderheart padding around right next to Lionblaze with a moony and longing look in her eyes. Anger swept over Heathertail and she pushed away the thought of whats-her-face Cinderheart.
Heathertail knew that it would be hard. It would be hard for her to meet Lionblaze every other night. What would happen if she had kits?
Still, if StarClan didn't stop them then, there was a chance that they could change the warrior code, right? Heathertail sighed.
Everything was so perfect now. Yet she wondered if it would fall apart like the last time. "No! I won't let that happen," she hissed out loud.
A startled rabbit ran straight into her paws. Heathertail killed it with a sharp blow to its head. She quietly entered the WindClan camp with her rabbit in her jaws.
Heathertail put the rabbit down in the fresh-kill pile and padded quietly to the warriors den. She saw Whiskermask and was about to go next to him when she heard a small voice. "Psst! Heathertail! Over here!" called a voice quietly.
Heathertail turned to see Emberfoot. She groaned inwardly but padded over to the other warrior. Heathertail noticed that Emberfoot's eyes gleamed when she pressed next to him for warmth.
Oh no. Don't tell me that there's another tom padding after me. I knew that it went too easily. Thank you StarClan, she mewed inside in her head sarcastically.
(The next day)
"Sandpaw, your mentor will be Sedgewhisker," yowled Onestar. The two cats touched noses with each other. "What about me?" meowed Windkit loudly.
Heathertail started to purr along with the other WindClan cats. She heard Leafpool hiss with annoyance and Crowfeather jump to his paws.
"I didn't forget about you Windkit," Onestar meowed with a slight trace of a purr. "Your mentor will be Ashfoot."
Windpaw squeaked with excitement at getting the Clan deputy as her mentor. Heathertail yowled the new apprentices' names along with her Clanmates.
"Sandpaw! Windpaw!" they yowled. Leafpool was yowling the loudest of all with Crowfeather matching her voice.
Heathertail's heart ached as she saw Leafpool and Crowfeather together. Some cats were just meant for each other.
I wish I could be that way with Lionblaze, she thought. Then Heathertail remembered that Lionblaze would tell her his decision tonight.
Heathertail wanted for it to be yes so badly. She wanted to be with Lionblaze.
The rest of the day crawled by slowly, like a rabbit with a broken leg. Heathertail could be found hissing in frustration often.
Finally, sundown came and Heathertail made up a stupid excuse to get out of camp. She raced to the tunnels and into the place where DarkClan had once lived.
"Lionblaze?" she called quietly, wondering if he had even bothered to come. Her heart leaped for joy as she saw the familiar golden pelt in the fading light.
"You came!" she meowed happily. Lionblaze turned towards her and she nearly fainted at the happiness radiating from him.
"Of course I did. I couldn't have my mate waiting," he meowed with another one of his (oh my StarClan) handsome grins.
Heathertail was certain that she had heard it incorrectly. "Mate?" she echoed. Lionblaze nodded.
"Y-you want to be my mate?" she asked again. Lionblaze rolled his eyes with a sigh. "How many times do I have to say it?" he mewed.
With a loud purr, Heathertail ran over to him and knocked him over. "I love you," she whispered in his ear happily.
Lionblaze returned the purr. "I love you too," he replied. Heathertail licked his shoulder with nothing but love and happiness in her eyes.
"You know, you really shouldn't be doing this," meowed a cat, a tom, loudly. The two cats whirled around in shock to see a tom standing in the shadows.
Caught! Bam bam bam! A slight cliffhanger I guess. It's a lot longer right? I really want a new deputy before chapter 10! If not, Berrynose will be the new deputy! ThunderClan will be shamed! Beware…