A/N: Well here is some baby Jack and Momma!
Phlox's ears twitched as she heard a sniffle, her head swinging around from the plants she was tending to her kit. His eyes wide and sad as he slowly hopped his way over on three paws with a little whimper, his white fur a dusty brown and messed.
"Oh my little hellebores, what happened?" She gasped out while racing to his side and lifting him into her arms. She noted that she wouldn't be able to do it soon; she was barely able to fit in them now.
"I wanted to play with others; they wouldn't let me because I'm small. They pushed me and I... And I fell in a thicket!" he cried holding up his injured paw that had thorns in it. Phlox nudged her nose against her son's hair and snuffled as she carried him into the burrow, she would be speaking to her mate about finding out whose children had harmed hers.
She carefully placed him on the bench and began to gather the supplies to bandage the wound. Her ears and whiskers twitching in her rage as she pushed out her magic senses, stopping when she felt the hope in her little boy shrink.
"Oh my little kit, don't lose hope." She crooned softly while stopping before her son.
Hellebores looked up into the deep blue and powder purple of his dam's eyes, "I won't grow, no one will play with me an-and I won't have any friends!" He cried out.
Phlox quickly gathered her son in her arms and snuffled the top of his head to calm him as she hummed the lullaby she sung to him every night. Her heart was breaking to see her overly joyous boy crying and so hopeless.
"Hellebores Jack, I want to tell you something okay? Shh now, it will be alright." Phlox told him as she pulled back to look in his eyes, they were a brilliant blue a perfect blend of hers and her mates.
"Now, I know you are small now my little kit but your Da was short at your age too." She whispered to him, smiling when her sons face morphed into shock and disbelief. She felt his hope rise once more and couldn't help but smile wider.
"Really? But Da is huge! He's bigger than the other adult's!" Hellebores yelled excitedly, if his Da was tall now and was his size at his age then he would be that big too!
"Yes my sweet kit, you will be close to his size when you reach of age. You'll be reaching your growth spurt soon and you will finally get your beautiful clan markings." She cooed, ruffling the fuzz between his ears. Tecomanthe nor she could understand how or where he got the fluff, but Phlox was secretly glad; she loved to run her hands through it at night and when he was a baby.
"I can't wait! I'll grow and then I can be a warrior like Da!" He happily cheered out causing Phlox to laugh at his joyous chattering.
"We'll see Hellebores; I think a nice safe hobby would be you like gardening." She chuckled causing him to scrunch his nose.
"But Dam I want to be a warrior like Da! He told me he would even teach me how to fight with a bo staff like his!" Jack whined causing her to shake her head, boys will be boys.
Chuckling again she lifted him off the bench and placed him back on the ground. "Okay my little warrior, go on and play." She told him, nudging him to go back outside.
"Okay!" Jack said before hopping towards the door, stopping when his dam called him.
"And Hellebore?" Phlox called.
Looking over his shoulder Jack cocked his head to the side, ears twitching in waiting for her words. "Yes Dam?"
"Remember Hellebore; always have hope, for without hope we have nothing to hope for. Don't let bullies destroy that hope, now go, be back by supper." She told him, the motto of her whole race were sound words; they were the keepers of hope.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed it!