Chapter 6

Strange feelings.

Disclaimer: Once again not owning warriors.

"Nice one, Brambleclaw!" Whitetail called.

"Yea, I'm finally getting fast enough to catch rabbits." Brambleclaw meowed, before picking up his newly-caught rabbit and padding over to Whitetail. He had gone hunting with her, and now they were heading back. "And my leg is all healed too."

"I can't believe Crowfeather actally thought I would need mentoring. All I needed was to gain speed."

"Yea," Whitetail agreed. They walked so close togther their fur brushed. Brambleclaw rememered doing that with Squirrelflight, and he imagined the envy on her face if she saw him now. But to do that with her again, would mean breaking the warrior code, and he was not about to do that. Then why did he feel guilty? 'She was your mate, mousebrain!' a voice inside of him growled. 'But you betrayed her, it dosen't matter! Your in different clans anyway!' Another voice protested.

'But you didn't have to fall in love again!' The first voice growled back.

Brambleclaw shook his head to clear is thoughts. It didn't matter if he fell in love, he couldn't love Squirrelflight. But guilt still hung in his belly, all the way back to camp.

When he got back to camp, they dropped their offerings to the fresh-kill pile. Whitetail headed to the old badger set, were the elders and queens with kits slept, to see the new litter of kittens the warrior Shimmerface had recently given birth to. Brambleclaw sat down in his nest, next to Tornear, who was thoroghly grooming himself.

"Webfoot was so wrong to say I couldn't be like a WindClan cat!" Brambleclaw exclaimed.

Tornear just nodded, to interested in grooming.

Brambleclaw decided to visit the kits. Whitetail was still in the nursery, having a chat with Shimmerface.

"You seem like good friends," Brambleclaw commented.

"We trained together." Shimmerface meowed.

Brambleclaw looked over her kits. "My, they are beautiful." He purred.

"Yes," Whitetail agreed.

"Who's the father?" Brambleclaw asked.

Shimmerface heisitated. "Webfoot."

"What?!" Brambleclaw exclaimed. He never imagined that cat could fall in love.

"He's only hostile to other clans, and besides he makes a great father." Shimmerface purred.

"Where is he now?" Whitetail asked.

"He's going to get me some fresh-kill. Oh look! He's here. Hi Webfoot." Shimmerface purred.

With a suspisious glance at Brambleclaw, he padded in and layed a rabbit down for Shimmerface.

Brambleclaw backed out of the nursery, and Whitetail followed. He took on step backwards and felt something jab into his pad. He whiped around and saw a thorn stuck in it. "Where in StarClan's name did that come from?" He wondered out loud. Limping over to Tallrock, he called to Barkface. The old tom popped his head out.

"What do you want, Brambleclaw?" He asked.

Brambleclaw lifted his hind leg to show him the pad.

"Come in, and I"ll fix you up. Now where did it come from, I wonder."

Brambleclaw sat down with his leg extended. Barkface yanked it out with his teeth.

"Now I'll put some cobwebs." Barkface murmered to himself. "There. Now don't walk on it for at least untill tomarrow." He meowed once he had padded it with cobwebs.

"Thanks." Bramleclaw meowed and limped out.

Whitetail ran over to him. "What happened?" She asked, he voice full of concern.

"I stepped on a thorn." Brambleclaw replied.

"Wanna share a rabit with me?"

"Actaully, I want to take a nap, but I will later." Brambleclaw limped to his nest and lay down. He fell asleep soon, but his dreams disturbed him.

Squirrelflight was in the middle of the clearing. They were surrounded by strange cats, chanting something unreadable. Brambleclaw took a step toward Squirrelflight. "You betrayed me." She whipered. Suddenly, the voices grew louder. "Traitor! Traitor! Traitor!" Louder and louder they chanted, untill they were screaming. "Traitor!!!!!!!!!" Was all Brambleclaw could hear. Traitor.