I had silently begged Timberleaf to take me training a second time today. What I didn't know is that I'd either soon regret it or love it even more. I like to think of it as both. We ran to the training hollow together and he was going to work with me on scenting prey and enemies. When we got there, we quickly practiced my hunters crouch then got to scenting.

"What do you smell?" he asked me.

I sniffed the air and caught a familiar scent. I sniffed again and still caught it.

It couldn't be him. My father probably found out already and killed him... But what if it is him? Hen I'd get to see my brother again. The one that risked his own life to protect me.

I looked up at Timberleaf with a hopeful expression.

"Did you smell another cat?" he asked.

I nodded excitedly and ran in the direction of which I smelt my brother.

"Quietpaw, wait!" the Timberleaf called to me nervously.

I soon ran into my brother. I looked up at him excitedly. He was alive after all! He started to back away, but I took a step towards him. Timberleaf came up behind me. Thankfully Pine introduced himself.

"I'm Pine, her brother." he meowed, gesturing towards me, "No, I haven't hunted on your territory."

Timberleaf dipped his head, "I didn't know Quietpaw had a brother. Then again, she doesn't talk."

Pine looked at me questioningly, but said nothing about it.

He gasped as he noticed my healing wounds, "Who did this to you?"

Timberleaf glanced down at me and I nodded slightly.

"My evil brother did it to her." he meowed painfully.

Pine sighed, "Well every family has at least one evil member."

I lightly hit my brother and he laughed. I gestured for them both to follow me to the training hollow. They both did. Timberleaf let Pine come with. I showed Pine what I had learned, it made me excited to see how happy my brother was for me.

After a while of training with Pine, he had to go. I tried to get him to stay, but he refused.

"Goodbye Quietpaw." he meowed.

I'm so glad he didn't call me Rain. Rain, like the tears that used to pour down my face when my father wasn't around. I turned around to walk back to Timberleaf after saying goodbye to my brother. As soon as he got there, he asked me a question I was hoping he wouldn't ask.

"What did he mean by at least every family has one evil member?"

I shrugged but he gave me a disbelieving look.

"Quietpaw, did anyone in your family hurt you?"

I shook my head. It was a lie, but I didn't want anyone else to know. I signaled for us to go back to camp and he gave me the 'this isn't over' look and headed back to camp with me. I sighed in relief when he went to talk to Silverbreeze.

Blizzardflame came over and sat down by me.

"So, why did Timberleaf look frustrated when you two got back and, not that I care, why didn't anyone else force you to let them come along?"

I just shrugged. I knew very well why he was frustrated, and why nobody else came along. Nobody else came with because we snuck out. He was frustrated because he knew that I lied to him. He just didn't know how much I had lied to him. What he didn't know was that I could talk, I just didn't want to risk telling anyone about my father.

I slightly shuttered at the thought of him. Blizzardflame looked down at me, but said nothing. I went to the prey pile, grabbed a small mouse and went back to eat. I ate it quickly and went to the apprentices den. I curled up in my nest and thought of my brother.

It was nice of him to check up on me.

Although I was afraid of what I didn't know on why he came. I sighed and fell asleep.

My father had offered to let everyone hunt. It wasn't often that we got to hunt because he liked to do all the hunting for us. I was going to be the last one to leave. As I tried to leave, he shoved me against a wall. I gasped I pain. He never did this before! I was always late and he never got this mad before!

I got up and tried to walk away, but I soon felt his claws digging into my back. I gasped in pain as he ripped at my flesh. I shouldn't have been late. If I wasn't late, this wouldn't have happened. Would it? I shook my head. It was bound to happen sooner or later. This was the side of him that he had kept hidden.

He bit down on my left leg. Hard. I gasped in pain as there was a snap. I felt my leg collapse beneath me. I tried to get up, but I couldn't. My father came over to me, smiling.

"If you tell anyone about this, I will kill you. Don't even start to talk about it. I know what you saw me do and if you tell about that, I will torture you to death."

I stared at him shock. I had forgotten what he did, until now. Technically he attacked me for no reason, but now there was a reason. The reason to get me not to tell. He glared at me.

"Get that stupid look off your face." he growled.

I looked away from him as tears started to come. My mother came back soon after and gasped.

"What happened?" she asked while running over to me.

My father spoke before I could, "She said it was a clan cat."

"No… They never acted that vicious before…"

Well I guess thats the story we're going with...