Sorry for not updating (again) but the past few weeks have literally been chaos!
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Hollypaw woke up with a smile on her face. She could feel the heavy form of Darkclaw wrapped around her, she could feel his chest moving up and down, she could feel the beat of his heart.
They had gone to sleep in a sheltered hole under a tree, finding warmth in each other's fur. She felt slightly guilty when she remembered the state her mother had been in last night. What if something had happened in the night? She had to get back to camp, if something had happened to Squirrelflight and she hadn't been there, she didn't know what she would do.
She got up and stretched her legs, letting out a yawn as she did so, the sleep had been refreshing and she knew she wouldn't have got it if she had stayed at camp. Darkclaw had this calming presence over her, he always made everything better.
As Hollypaw was thinking this Darkclaw started to move. He blinked his eyes open sleepily, resting them on her own, the connection still sending a thrill down Hollypaw's spine.
"Have you got to go?" He asked, he really didn't want Hollypaw to go yet, he hated being away from her, he didn't feel, complete, unless he was with Hollypaw.
"I've got to." Hollypaw said reluctantly, "I have to see how Squirrelflight is."
Darkclaw nodded, he understood, Hollypaw needed to be with her mother. He couldn't help but feel guilty, he knew he shouldn't but it was someone from his clan that had hurt Squirrelflight so badly, if it was anyone else he wouldn't feel so bad, but because Hollypaw was so close to Squirrelflight, Darkclaw could see that she was hurting and that hurt him. Not a physical kind of pain, it was a mental one, like his insides had tied themselves up in knots.
"See you tonight?" Darkclaw questioned, "Here?"
Hollypaw nodded, "Yeah, here, tonight." She agreed as she rubbed her fur alongs his silky pelt.
Darkclaw licked Hollypaw's head before taking a deep breath and saying "I love you."
Hollypaw looked into his eyes, all she could see was a warmth she had seen before, it was the way Bramblestar looked at Squirrelflight, how Birchfall looked at Whitewing.
"I love you too." She replied, still looking straight into Darkclaw's eyes.
Reluctantly she turned her head and made her way back towards her camp, casting one last longing look back at Darkclaw as she did so, a look he returned. It took all of her strength not to run straight back to him, to spend as long as she could with him until the other's realised she was gone, but she knew she couldn't. She had to go back to camp, she had to see how Squirrelflight was.
She hated to admit it, but she was scared, she was scared of what she might find when she returned to camp, she was scared to know what might have happened to Squirrelflight during the night and, finally, she was scared of someone finding out where she had been, more importantly who she had been with.
And she was terrified of someone finding out who she was so painfully in love with, because if that happened, she didn't know what she'd do.
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