Author's Note: Sorry it took so long for me to publish this chapter! Hope you enjoy it though! Also, The next chapter happens a month later, after the gathering, and around the time Leafpool has to go to the moonstone (oops, spoiler alert, if you call it that.)

Crowfeather's POV

Jealous, did I hear that right? "Jealous?" I echo surprised. I knew Leafpool loved me, but this... this is... hard to explain. I search her eyes for an answer, but she seems uncomfortable and I don't want to be the cause of it. "Why don't we talk about this. I'm pretty sure you'll want to see your kin once their born so 2-3 moons and then we'll leave. Can you hold out that long?"

"Y-yes. I want... I want to be there to help when Squirrelflight's kitting happens, and I do want to see the kits, but are you sure you'd wait that long? Are you sure I wouldn't want to stay there once the kits are born?" She asks, a serious expression on her usually calm face.

"You just told me you were jealous that Squirrelflight is pregnant and now you think staying to see the kits once they're born will tear our relationship apart? Leafpool, I will always love you, no matter what. Remember that, okay?" I meow and then walk away. I hate being torn apart from her, expecially when I know she needs me, but if I stayed any longer, someone would surely find out.

As I enter WindClan camp Ashfoot, my mother and also the WindClan deputy, walks up to me. "Crowfeather! Go on a hunting patrol with Nightcloud and... I'll come with you. We're heading over to the forest on our territory and see what we can catch."

"Sure, let me go get Nightcloud." I meow walking over to the warrior's den. I poke my head in and meow, "Nightcloud, we're going on a hunting patrol!" I pull my head out and wait for Nightcloud at the camp entrance with Ashfoot.

Nightcloud padds out of the warrior's den and bats her eyes at me, oh dear. I forgot that she has a giant crush on me, I should have let Ashfoot get her. I head out of camp with my patrol following, over to the ThunderClan border.

Where the moor meets the forest we slow down, alert for any signs of life. I catch a whiff of squirrel scent and crouch down to find my prey. I follow it's scent and spot it eating a nut beside a tree. Slowly, I creep forward, keeping my eye on the squirrel and soon I pounce on it. Mouse dung! I misjudged my jump and now it's charging up a tree! I am about to climb after it when I see something else in the tree, Nightcloud! She sits on the lowest branch and snatches it into the air with her front paw. It lands with it's neck in her mouth and she delivers the killing blow, then jumps from the tree.

"Nice catch, you two work well together!" Ashfoot meows and I turn red. Thankfully Nightcloud saves me from further embarrassment by saying. "It was just a coincedence, nothing more than that. Right Crowfeather?"

"Y-yes." I meow, looking at the ground. I then walk away meowing, "What are we waiting for, a squirrel alone isn't going to feed the clan!"