Missing You

(based on the lovely image by the same name by JuliPwnsAll on deviantArt)

Prologue

She curls up around her kit protectively against the cold. His eyes are still shut, his breathing slow and steady. His tail twitches, just like his father's used to when she saw him sleep. Her heart aches with loss.

She sighs. That's the only feeling she has now; loss. She pulls her kit closer to her, gently so as not to hurt him. Perhaps his life will be filled with a little less sorrow than hers has. All she can do now, like she does almost every night before closing her eyes to sleep, is pray to StarClan that this hope will be recognized.

And that the others will not find out who her kits father really is.