Disclaimer-If I did own Warriors, Silverstream never would have died
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Spottedleaf felt like she was curled up in mid air, about to fall,
"She was with a tom? Really?" she asked, Cinderpelt shock her head,
"Yes",
"Who was he?"
"I don't know, but he had a dark coat, with white"
"My Starclan, this is not good, but how can you be sure that she was with this tom?" "Well, she was purring, and she licked his cheek" "my Starclan!" Spottedleaf piped,
"I know, I think you better go talk to Firestar".
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"Well?" Firestar asked Spottedleaf after she had demanded to speak alone in his den with him,
"Well," She began, now that she had gotten to talk to him, she could not bear to tell him, "if this is about Starclan letting you come back, then I don't want to talk about it, it's just too hard to part with Sandstorm"
"No, it's not that, but….."
"What then?" the flame colored tom asked, "it's just that…" Spottedleaf lost her voice,
'I can't, I just can't',
Spottedleaf pushed herself to her paws, "nothing", Firestar narrowed his grass green gaze at her, as if he knew there was more to what she wanted to tell him,
"alright, do you want to go on the sunhigh patrol with Thornpaw, Graystripe, Brightheart, and Brackenfur" "no thanks-" Spottedleaf stopped herself, was there a glint of relief in his eyes, was it possible that he did not want her to be with Brackenfur, after all, he had walked in when he had just asked to be her mate, maybe he did feel love for her?.
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Brackenfur pushed in to the entrants to the Thunderclan camp, looking around the camp, he found the lovely dappled of his one love,
Spottedleaf,
The beautiful tortoiseshell was grooming her forepaw next to Cinderpelt's den,
"Spottedleaf" he called over to her, she stopped washing at his called and let her eyes land on him,
when she found out who was calling her, she stepped up as if to go to him, but she rushed in to Cinderpelt's den, as if she did not want to see the golden tom-cat, Brackenfur brushed it off,
'I'll talk to her later,',
"Brackenfur!", he heard Brightheart call from across the clearing, "Firestar wants you to come on a patrol with Graystripe Thornpaw, and me, do you want to?, or do you have other things to do" Brackenfur turned to find the ginger and white she-cat smiling, her eye on Cinderpelt's den, a glint of mischief in her eyes,
"no, I'll go" golden tom said rather angrily, "hey, calm down, Spottedleaf's a great cat, and I'm happy for you," Brightheart told her brother, "but almost all the other toms want her to, so you better clime her first", Brightheart padded over to the rest of the patrol, "come on then, it's almost sunhigh, might as well get going".
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"What do you need?" Cinderpelt asked as Spottedleaf dashed in to her den,
"Just keep Brackenfur out of here, please" Spottedleaf pleaded, "more tom trouble?" Cinderpelt asked, her blue eyes shingling,
"And I thought Firestar was the only one"
"please don't go in to that" Spottedleaf said, ducking her head out of the den, she saw Brightheart next Brackenfur, she pulled her head back in as soon as she saw Brightheart turn her eye to her, "looks like Brightheart can take care of it" Cinderpelt said, pride for her sister in her eyes,
"just don't get mixed up with anymore toms, or Firestar might not even try" Cinderpelt giggled, Spottedleaf turned her amber eyes to the she-cat, "it's not like I want Brackenfur to like me, I don't even like him back, I just want Firestar to like me", Spottedleaf said, letting her eyes rest on the ground,
"Can I sleep in your den tonight?" Spottedleaf asked,
"Of course you can, just don't try to take my duties away from me" Cinderpelt chuckled.
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Graystripe claimed sunningrock's, he opened his mouth to take in the scent of the forest, and to find someone's sent,
'She's here',
He pushed in to the reeds to find a silver coated cat,
"Silverstream!" Graystripe purred, the silver queen lifted her head when she heard him call, her eyes brightened,
"Graystripe!" Silverstream purred, she pulled herself up, and nuzzled the gray tom-cat lovingly, he pressed his muzzle to hers in return,
"how are Stormpaw and Featherpaw?" he asked once he had finished his greeting to the she-cat he loved, Stormpaw and Featherpaw were his and Silverstream's kits, they had gone to live with their mother in Riverclan, for as she-cats do not have to tell who the father of their kits are, and so far Silverstream had been able to keep the secret from almost all most all of Riverclan,
only her best friend and child of her father's brother, Mistyfoot knew, "there fine, but when the fond me walking to get here, they pleaded with me to let them see their father, I just told them I was not going to see anyone, that mommy just needed her space, and they left me in peace, but only after Featherpaw pleaded, saying 'Mommy, don't leave me to be with Daddy, please', poor dear",
"Don't worry about it" Graystripe said, rubbing his muzzle on hers, he added, "with a mother like you, they grow up to be fine warriors"
"And with a father like you, they will fall in love with someone from some other clan" Silverstream teased,
"And with your looks, every tom will be on the hooks of Featherpaw's every claws"
"And with your coat, Stormpaw will have she-cats after him from dusk to dawn"
Graystripe padded his silver tabby mate on the head with his forepaw, "now Silverstream, don't make fun, after all, you're the only one who can have these eyes" Graystripe chuckled, "stop," Silverstream purred, pushing Graystripe in the face, she asked "so how is Thunderclan?"
"Just fine, I think Spottedleaf may win the love war yet" Graystripe purred,
"And why don't you side with Sandstorm?" the silver tabby asked, "because Spottedleaf is a lot sweeter, and I find her to be much better for my best friend"
"Well, I think Sandstorm needs him more, she has been trying to get him for moons",
"Just like you were trying to get me for moons?" Graystripe mummer, "your dead!" Silverstream growled playfully.
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Brightheart pushed the fresh-kill she had to Brackenfur,
"eat it" she told her brother, the golden tom just laid his head on his paws, "look, you can't go moping around like this, Spottedleaf won't fall for a loser, she fell for Firestar because he's brave, if you can show her your braver, then she'll fall head over paws for you",
"But I already asked her to be my mate, she said no",
"You took it to fast, first you have to show her your better for her", "but won't Firestar hate me for that?" "He has Sandstorm, why would he care?" the ginger-and-white she-cat asked, "um….." Brackenfur was at a loss for words, but somehow, he knew Firestar would prefer to give up Sandstorm to keep Spottedleaf.
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"So, what did you want me here for?" Spottedleaf asked in puzzlement, for after she had asked Cinderpelt if she could sleep in her den, Firestar had come in, and told her she could sleep in his,
"Oh, nothing" the ginger tom said, he licked the top of her head and purred, "at least, nothing you need to know about" he chuckled,
"Tell me" Spottedleaf said while probing Firestar with her forepaw, "please" she asked, pleading in her amber eyes, "only if you do something for me" the green eyed tom said, "okay"
"Tell me what you wanted to tell me when you came in to my den before" he demanded, "I know it's imported, so tell me now",
"No, I could never do that to Sandstorm" Spottedleaf said, Firestar growled, he knew something was very wrong, and if it had something to do with his clan, with Sandstorm, he needed to know
"Tell me"
"No"
"Tell me"
"No"
"Tell me"
"No"
"Tell me!"
"No!"
"If you don't tell me, I'll tell Bluestar that I don't want you anymore!" Spottedleaf gasped, he did not want to spend time with her anymore? She pelted up and dashed out of the flame colored toms den,
"Spottedleaf!" Firestar called after the dappled she-cat, "come back!" after he saw it was no use, he slumped in to his nest, he never meant to say those things to her, he still wanted to spend time with her, he did not want her to hate him, he laid his head on his paws, he loved her to much to let her go, he loved her, he loved her very much, he paused, maybe he loved her even more then Sandstorm,
He jumped up and rushed out of the camp, after the she-cat he loved.
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Sandstorm groomed her ginger coat, the warriors den was lonely, only the sound of Dustpelt snoring made her sure she was not the only one in the den, she looked over to the nests around her, Brackenfur and Brightheart's nest were cold,
'They must be still up',
Sandstorm got to her paws, whatever they were doing had to be more fun than this, she pushed her way out of the warriors den just in time to see a ginger cat pelt pass her,
'Firestar?',
She pushed the thought from her head, she wanted nothing to do with the ginger warrior until the problem with Spottedleaf was gone, and she opened her mouth to taste the air,
'Firestar, Spottedleaf, Brackenfur, and Brightheart',
She fallowed the ginger-and-white she-cats sent to the small river that ran near to the camp.
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Brackenfur was sitting near the river with his sister, Brightheart, pretending to protected her from a dog,
"get away from her you worthless monster" he growled at nothing, he stiffened when he heard a cat giggling, Sandstorm fell out of the bush from giggling so hard, what in the world was Brackenfur doing?, he could never take down a mouse like that,
"She's right, you're going to have to do better than that" Brightheart said, laughter in her green eye.
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Spottedleaf masked her sent with ferns and leafs, she knew very well that if Cloudtail tried to find her, he would very easily, but Firestar was more likely to just go out and find her himself, if he went after her at all.
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After pelting past many trees, Spottedleaf stopped to taste the air, Windclan, she froze, bad, very bad,
'Why do I care?, Firestar does not care about me, why did I come here?, how could I even think I had a chance with him?',
"I just want to go to Starclan!" the dappled warrior whaled to Silverpelt,
"I don't think you should want to go to Starclan just yet" called a voice from behind her, she turned around,
She froze.
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After his meeting with Sandstorm, the black loner felt so wonderful, the pale ginger she-cat was the love of his life, even if she said that her heart belonged to the leader of her clan, he paused and opened his mouth to taste the air,
'Mouse',
He told himself, he stacked in to the undergrowth and pounced on the small brown animal,
He purred as its sweet blood pooled in to his mouth.
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After getting done with his meal, the black cat walked back up the moor land, it would be dark very soon,
He padded slowly as he watched Silverpelt claimed the sky for another night,
He pricked his ears when he heard the soft whaling of a she-cat, he made his way to the sound, only to see a dappled she-cat whaling to the sky,
"I just want to go to Starclan!" she called to the sky, the black cat paused, why did she want to go to Starclan?,
"I don't think that you should want to go to Starclan just yet" the she-cat turned at the sound of his voice,
She stiffened when she saw him.