Yay! I'm on a roll today! Okay reviews...

Kewix- Yes, I hate the mommy cat too... but hey, I needed to come up with a bad guy for the plot.

soundslikeliar- Actually, that comes up later. But I won't spoil it for you. )

PearlaH.Sweden- I dunno... Evil mommy cat (as I've come to call her) is all they've ever known.

Enjoy!

Hatred let out a gasp. "Brother, never say such things! If she comes back, you'll feel really guilty!"

"If she comes back," Evil hissed. "Come on, Sister. Let's go. I need to talk to you about something." He flicked his tail further into the forest. Hatred threw a glance behind her, but only for a second, and followed her brother.

"What is it, Brother?" she whined. "I wanna go home. Why are you going this way?"

"Because," he replied, "Mother isn't coming back. We need to find some cat who will take care of us better than she has."

Hatred tilted her head to the side. She sat down and wrapped her kinked orange tail gray-striped tail around her paws. She stared at him hard with her deep blue eyes. "Brother, tell me now, and I won't move until you do, why you hate Mommy so much!" she spat.

Evil sighed. "Please, Sister. It's a very long story- you wouldn't want to hear it. It's too boring."

Hatred's blood boiled beneath her fur. "I can handle whatever you want to tell me! Just because you were born first doesn't make you any more of an adult than me! You treat me like such a kitten!"

Her brother rolled his eyes. "We're both kittens," he murmured, but he told her anyway. "Well... there's this cat that I meet in my dreams... he's orange-"

"...with white paws," Hatred finished for him. "I know him! I meet him too!"

"Then... did Thunderstar tell you?"

"About ThunderClan?" she was bouncing on her paws now. "Yes he did! And he said we'd go there!"

"No..." Evil trailed off, looking at the ground. There was definitly something he didn't want to say.

"No?" his Sister pressed.

"No, I mean... about Mother..." her clueless expression must've been answer enough. "I mean, the way she claws us and yells at us isn't out of love. It is out of hate and spite!"

"Don't be silly," Hatred purred. "What on earth could make you think such a thing?"

"Because," he began, "Thunderstar told me... that what she does to us... just isn't normal!"

Hatred narrowed her eyes but didn't reply.

"Why do you think," he pointed out, "that she claws us? Why do you think she named us 'Hatred' and 'Evil?' She hates us, that's why! She's never wanted kittens. Never!" his eyes were piercing with rage.

Hatred was near to crying now. "But... all these months, I thought..."

"Don't worry, Sister, I have good news," he purred. "Thunderstar said that when we got to ThunderClan, we'd get a new Mommy! And she would love us, and we'd have more brothers and sisters, and we would all be a family! And we would have a Father, and..." he trailed off, staring happily at nothing in particular.

His sister thought a moment, looking at the ground with her beautiful golden eyes. Finally she was to her paws in an instant, darting away into the forest. "Hurry up, Brother!" she called over her shoulder. "We have a family to find!" She could hear him behind her, running just as enthusiastically as she was.