Third chappie up already! Gosh I need to chill out with the chapter thingy :P Thanks Willowsmoke of ShadowClan and Lights darkness (guest) for reviewing :) Enjoy!

"Hello?" a sharp voice pierced through Heidi's conscious. She groaned in pain, becoming aware of a dull throbbing in her paws. "Hello-oo?" the voice called once more. Heidi fought against the pressure on her eyes, opening them to a blur of dull colors.

Slowly, the blur became replaced with the face of a tortoiseshell feline. Her bright green eyes stared into Heidi's own. "Oh! Finally, you're awake!" the cat crowed. "Everybody is so excited to meet you! Especially Nettlefang. She saw what you did, back in the forest."

"Wha-" Heidi started, only to be interrupted by the tortoiseshell.

"You were quite banged up after facing that dog," she commented. "Your paws were bleeding, and you'd lost quite a lot of blood through that cut." Heidi turned her head, glancing at the gash that ran from her shoulder down to the base of her tail. It was covered in some leaf paste and cobwebs.

"Oh, that was from a fight with my... friend," Heidi explained softly. She licked one gray-blue paw self-consciously.

"Doesn't really sound like a friend to me," the cat mused.

Heidi nodded distantly. "Not a very good friend," she agreed. The two sat in silence for a while.

Heidi looked around her at where she lay. It seemed to be some form of rock cave, enclosed and dark. An opening yawned at one side of the den, with bramble tendrils hanging in front of it.

A rustling from behind her interrupted Heidi's inspection, just as a dull-colored tom pushed his way out from a crack in the wall of the den. He wandered around the den aimlessly for a few moments before realizing Heidi had come to.

He gazed at her with dull amber eyes, an unreadable expression in them. "So you're awake," he finally said in a raspy voice.

Heidi nodded shyly. In the short time since the tom had entered the den, the tortoiseshell had moved away from her.

The tom limped over to where she lay, as if his back leg was crippled. She glanced curiously at it, but the tom glared at her with enough ferocity to silence any questions.

"That's Stonegaze, my mentor," the tortoiseshell energetically commented, seemingly not affected by the inclement atmosphere in the den. "Oh! I'm Turtlepaw, by the way." Heidi nodded tensely, still not breaking eye contact with Stonegaze. Something about the tom unnerved her.

"Turtlepaw," the tom growled. Turtlepaw snapped to attention. "Go tell Eaglestar that she's awake." Turtlepaw hesitated, taking a slow step towards the bramble-covered opening, presumably the entrance. Stonegaze stopped glaring at Heidi for a heartbeat, whipping around to face his apprentice. "Well? Are you waiting for the grass to grow?"

Turtlepaw scuffed the ground, finally managing to say, "I was wondering if she has a name..." The tortoiseshell kept her eyes averted to the ground, allowing herself a quick glance up at Heidi.

"I'm-" Heidi began.

"Just tell him she's come to," Stonegaze interrupted. Turtlepaw ran off at his words. Stonegaze returned his eyes to Heidi's.

"Why don't you want her to know my name?" Heidi asked suspiciously, after Turtlepaw left.

"What do you plan on telling the Clan? About your... history with ThunderClan?" Stonegaze countered Heidi, following a long moment of silence.

"What do you mean?" Heidi asked slowly. How could this tom know who I am... I've never seen him before in my life.

"I mean what made you think you could come back to ThunderClan as a completely different cat and not be recognized as who you really are? The kittypet who abandoned her clan in leaf-bare because of some helpless rogue begging for mercy. You don't honestly think they'll accept you back as the warrior you were when you left, do you?" Stonegaze fumed, dull eyes suddenly blazing with cold amber fire. Heidi flinched, her own dark amber eyes glazing over with hurt.

"I'm not a kittypet," she hissed, hurt clear in her voice. "And Harvey was the one for me. But cats are mortal." The fire in Stonegaze's eyes remained as cold as ice. A tone of confusion entered Heidi's voice. "How do you even know that?"

The fur on Stonegaze's shoulders relaxed ever the slightest. "I have my ways. But don't expect the Clan to just take you in because you used to be one of us. You're one of them now. So I'd watch what you tell my family."

"They're my family too, Stonegaze," Heidi countered. "I loved this place when I first saw it, and I didn't stop loving it when I left. But I wasn't about to tell Turtlepaw my real name. I'm leaving the old ThunderClan warrior behind and returning as a rogue who isn't staying here."

So there you go! POV is back to Heidi again :P Not the best thing I've ever written, but hey, c'est la vie XD Anyways, a comment or some concrit is appreciated :)

Keep your pens at the ready, fellow FanFictioners!

~Munchie