Ivyleaf is getting ANGRY! Ha… Yep. So I think this chapter will probably be a longish-medium one, since there's gotta be an argument and stuff. It's going to be all dialogue pretty much. COOL!
YOU DID THIS TO ME!
Tigerheart's eyes shot open wide. What had he done to Ivyleaf? Dovewing had gotten over they were together hadn't she? Maybe that was it and Ivyleaf blamed Tigerheart for making Dovewing hate her.
"Did what to you?" Tigerheart asked, worry in his voice, "What did I do?"
"You," Ivyleaf snarled, "made me fat."
Tigerheart stared at her a little weird. Made her fat? How could he make her fat? She would've been the one eating too much. If anyone had done this to her it must've been someone who had been mean to her. Tigerheart wasn't mean to her.
Ivyleaf scoffed, seeming to sense Tigerheart's confusedness… Is that a word?
"I'm expecting kits."
Tigerheart continued to stare at her.
"PREGNANT!" She yelled at him.
Now Tigerheart seemed to be unable to answer. He just… kept staring at her. How could she say kits like they were bad? Kits were good, they helped the Clans grow.
"Do you not like kits?" He asked her.
"Of course I like kits," Ivyleaf answered, "I just don't want to have to give up being a warrior for them. I'll be stuck in the nursery for a moon doing nothing but waiting for these kits to be born. And they'll be half-clan. Do you know what happens to half-clans if they're found out?"
Tigerheart decided not to say anything and let her go on ranting about whatever it was she was talking about.
"They'll get teased, mocked, scolded, and they just want to go and live as loners. I have kittypet blood in me! Kittypet blood! No one ever teases me and Dovewing about it because I'm sure they've forgotten it themselves." Ivyleaf stopped and glared right at Tigerheart, "So if they're found with ShadowClan blood too, it won't be good."
"But they won't be found with ShadowClan blood!" Tigerheart promised, "Who could find out?"
"The question isn't who but how?"
"Well how then?"
"I don't know maybe… maybe someone saw us meeting! And then they knew I was expecting so they think-know the kits are yours."
"We can't stop that from happening." Tigerheart answered, "But it won't."
" We can stop it from happening."
"What? How?" Tigerheart's eyes went a bit bigger.
(New POV, Ivyleaf)
"Maybe we shouldn't see each other anymore." Ivyleaf meowed, then continued, "For the sake of the kits-"
"I thought you didn't care about the kits?" Tigerheart challenged.
"Well I do!" Ivyleaf yelled back at him. "I care about them because they're not going to spend all the time they will inside me then when they're actually born be treated like mouse-dung. Maybe you were raised that way but that's not how my mother raised me."
"Tawnypelt didn't treat me that way. And I'm not saying you should treat our kits that way. I just didn't think you cared what happened to them, that's all." His voice got softer as he spoke.
Ivyleaf took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down. She silently prepared herself for what she would have to do next. The hurt she would send herself and Tigerheart through. The heartache…
"I'm sorry."
"For what?" Tigerheart asked, confused.
"We can't see eachother anymore. Really. We can't take the risk, I want the kits to have normal lives. Not be outcasts in their own Clan."
"I understand." Tigerheart said after awhile.
Ivyleaf brightened. He got it! She didn't have to explain any more, try to not break down right there. And say what she really wanted was him. Just Tigerheart. But the kits were more important than a little fling.
"My mother kept being stared at and treated like she was Tigerstar when she was in ThunderClan. But she wasn't Tigerstar, she was nice and pure. They didn't treat her like it, so she left. I get it, trust me. You don't have to explain anymore."
"I'll miss you." Ivyleaf told him, pressing her cheek against his. Her throat tightened and she drew back carefully. Her face still hovered close to his.
"I'll miss you too." Tigerheart said in a low voice, and gave her cheek a lick.
Ivyleaf turned and ran back to the thick covering of trees where he couldn't see her anymore. She ran so she wouldn't look back and see his face, and see the hurt on it.
Whitewing once said that everything happened for a reason. Maybe everything does.
A sigh left her mouth as she thought about it.
Our love just wasn't meant to be.
So is it good? Tell me if you like it, this argument was always going to lead to a saddish realization. Maybe, they just weren't meant to be. ARE THEY? REVIEW! Scribble down a few little words and tell me what you thought. If you're a fast typer it won't take long!
