I woke up from a bad dream. A bad dream caused by yesterday's events. I got up and walked out of the den. I saw Timberleaf on the other side of camp. I ran over to him, excitedly, remembering that I managed my pounce yesterday. I veered slightly to the right and crouched down, lifting my tail off the ground. I crept forward and playfully pounced at him. He jumped out of the way just in time.

"You were too loud, I could hear you creeping up on me." he meowed.

I frowned.

"Don't worry, that's what we'll be working on today."

I jumped up and smiled. I gently grabbed his scruff and tugged towards the camp entrance.

He laughed, "Okay! Okay, bossy we can go."

Yay!

He got up and we jogged to the entrance, but we were cut off by Silverbreeze again.

"Sorry again. No training alone either."

"What?" He shouted, "I hate that stupid fur all of a brother."

"Timberleaf, don't get too mad. You can't blame someone for thinking that when they see one half bloody apprentice."

"He's not thinking it, he's making it up!"

I felt myself start to shake. I didn't like yelling, it scared me.

"You have no proof that he's making it up."

"Quietpaw knows."

"But she can't testify that."

He sighed in defeat and I stopped shaking. He gave me a concerned look, but he ignored it.

"Fine, you can watch the training sessions."

With that he walked out of camp and I followed close behind him. Silverbreeze sighed and followed close behind me.

"Timberleaf, you aren't supposed to treat your deputy that way." she called after him.

"I don't treat you like a deputy, I treat you like a friend." he called back to her.

I smiled. The one thing I didn't like here was all the labels they had. We walked in complete silence the rest of the way to the training hollow, but I could see relief in Silverbreeze's eyes. When we got there, she silently walked to the side of the clearing. Timberleaf turned to me.

"Okay show me your hunters crouch." he meowed then turned to Silverbreeze, "Everytime we've worked on her hunters crouch, it was off balance and we couldn't fix it, so we came up with a solution."

He crouched down in front of me and I shifted a little to the right. I slowly crept forward, carefully placing my paws. I wriggled my haunches and pounce 'forward'. Obviously my crouch was off balance, so I landed on him. Joy flooded through me, but faded when I saw concern on Silverbreeze's face while I got off of Timberleaf's back.

Sadly, Timberleaf saw the joy turn to a mix of sadness and failure. He turned to Silverbreeze, glaring.

"What?" he asked.

"I just think that it will affect her assessment."

"It works for her. She'll still be able to hunt and battle!" he hissed.

I pressed up against him, hoping that he'd stop yelling.

"Quietpaw is my apprentice. I get to train her, using what works for her, not others." he said matter-of-factly.

I smiled, it made me very happy that he didn't want to change me. I looked at him questioningly, as in, aren't we supposed to work on my stalking skills being quiet?

He laughed, "Yes, we can work on that now."

Silverbreeze looked at him curiously, "How'd you know what she meant?"

"You have to get to know your apprentice, Silverbreeze."

"Right. Sorry, go on."

He demonstrated how to creep up on someone or a piece of prey without them hearing you. I tried it about 50 times before getting it. Once I finally got it, he had me sneak up on Silverbreeze so he could watch how I did. The three of us walked back to camp happily.

"Timberleaf, do you want to come eat with me?" Silverbreeze asked him.

"Sorry, but I'm going to eat with Quietpaw." he responded.

Silverbreeze walked away with regret showing in her eyes. I glared at Timberleaf.

"What?"

I gave him a push in the direction of Silverbreeze, but he still didn't get it. I got up and grabbed him by the scruff. I started lightly tugging him in Silverbreeze's direction.

"Woah!" he meowed, shocked when I made him fall over.

I laughed and started pulling again.

"Okay! Okay! At least let me walk and you can show me."

I rolled my eyes as I let him get up. He picked up a piece of prey and followed me to Silverbreeze. I layed down near her and motioned for him to do the same, then motioned for him to stay as got up and left.

I don't need someone showing me pity just because I won't talk. Silverbreeze deserves him, I don't. I'm just a selfish cat that doesn't want to remember her past. I sighed, and skipped prey for the day. I walked to my den. I curled up in my nest to fall asleep, but Dustpool came in. I was in the apprentices den early so nobody else was in here. Just me and Dustpool.

"Hello young Quietpaw. So you tried to disobey me and tell someone the truth?"

I nodded, I was used to this. I probably shouldn't be, but I am. He's a younger version of my father.

"You know that if you do it one more time and they come close to believing you, I will kill you."

He unsheathed his claws and hit my face. Then he walked out of the den.

I felt the blood drip down the side of my face, but I didn't want to do anything about it. Ignoring the fact, I got up and left the den. The blood still dripped of my face, but I ignored it. Some cats stared at me shocked and others looked pleased, but who cares?

Timberleaf ran over to me with a concerned look on his face.

"What happened? Are you okay? Who did this?" he rambled on.

I nodded my head. Sadly, I could only answer one question.

"Did Dustpool do this?" he whispered.

I nodded my head.

Timberleaf glared at his brother, but Dustpool met his glare evenly, mouthing the words 'you're next'.