Jeanette's POV
As the Great Prince, Mena, Friend Owl, and I watched Bambi run off, I felt very hurt and disowned by the fawn's words towards me. I also felt angry at the Great Prince for keeping a secret of sending his son away to another doe. I just didn't know who I would tell off.
"Oh, my, my, my!" Friend Owl said with a shake of his head and a look of disappointment, "Well, I've certainly made a muddle of things."
"It's not your fault, Friend Owl," I said as I tried to hide my feelings of guilt, betrayal, disbelief, and anger.
"No, this is my fault," the Great Prince said as he regretted not telling his son about his plans sooner, "Bambi needs a mother. And I think Jeanette should try and find her own path, too."
I frowned at him as I felt tears in my eyes, but I nodded with an understanding feeling, knowing that foxes usually lived alone.
The Great Prince then frowned, "A prince should not be raising a child!"
As he stormed off, I glared at him, "Fine! I don't need your help either! I can find my own way home, and I can tell you that I'm not who you think I am!"
I was expecting him to tell me off, but he paid no attention to me as he kept walking away.
I finally couldn't hold back my tears as I ran off far into the deep grass to find somewhere to cry in private. I soon found a little area beside a bush and began crying into my paws. At one point in my meltdown, I looked up at the sky and asked out loud, "Why? Why does everything happen to me?! First, I fall down a hill and turn into a fox, and now the only animal I had left to trust just abandoned me and Bambi! It's not fair! I should've been shot last winter – not Bambi's mother! This is all my fault!"
Then, I went back to sobbing my eyes out. As I cried, I thought with sadness and regret, I should've told Bambi my secret when I had the chance – back when Willow was still alive! How am I gonna explain now?
Third Person POV
Meanwhile, Bambi was standing in front of the Great Prince's den, breaking the sad news to his friends that he was going away with a new doe. "I'm sure gonna miss you guys," the fawn said sadly.
"Don't worry," assured Faline, "We'll see each other again."
"Uh-huh!" said one of Thumper's sisters, "We'll come visit you – if it's not too far!"
"But Mama says it is too far," another sister said sadly.
The other cream-colored bunnies shushed her.
"And if you ever get a-scared," Thumper said to Bambi, "Just be scarier than whatever's scaring you!" He did a little growl and made Bambi smile a little.
"Bambi!" the Great Prince called to his son, "It's time to go!"
"I'll never forget any of you," Bambi sadly told his friends as he went to join his father.
"Course not!" Thumper said, "You can't forget your bestest friend!"
"What about Jeanette the fox?" asked Faline.
Bambi frowned and said, "That fox was just like all the other foxes in this forest. She was playing tricks on me the whole time, and she said I should have a new mother, too!"
Thumper and the other animals just watched with sorrow as they saw Bambi walk away with his father.
As the father and son walked through the forest, the Great Prince explained to his son, "Being a prince means sacrifice. He must ignore his feelings, and do what is best for others." He looked down at his moping son with a little bit of sympathy in his eyes as he finished, "Do you understand?"
Bambi nodded, without looking at his father.
"I'll visit you soon," the Great Prince said to the fawn, "And I'm sure that Jeanette will, too… be good for Mena."
Bambi looked up, and saw Friend Owl and Mena the doe looking at him.
"Where's Jeanette?" Bambi asked.
"She ran away, young prince," Friend Owl said with a sad shake of his head, "It seems she was quite upset, too."
"I'm sure she'll get over it," the Great Prince said with a sad look as he lowered his head. He turned to Bambi again and told him softly, "And never forget, Bambi. You are a prince."
Bambi lowered his head, and then he held his head high, trying to be brave for his father. He then slowly walked over to Mena, who smiled at him. Bambi returned his own (reluctant) smile, and then followed his surrogate mother. But the fawn stopped to look at his father again; he sprung over to the big buck and nuzzled him on the chest with love and sadness. Then, he ran off to follow Mena again.
The Great Prince just watched with regret over his decision with parting with his son. Then, he turned back in the opposite direction of the trail.
Meanwhile, after thirty minutes of crying, Jeanette sniffed back the last of her tears and wiped her face with her paw. She took a deep breath and said to herself, "Maybe sending Bambi to a new mother WAS the right decision, after all?" But then she shot up as I remembered the fawn and his movie's midquel, Bambi II, and said, "I've got to find him! If I remember correctly, he couldn't have gone too far!"
So, she sprung to her feet, and ran off to find Bambi. "Bambi!" she called, "Bambi, I'm sorry! Your father and I just want what's best…" She looked up and saw Friend Owl still sitting in his tree. "Friend Owl," Jeanette asked him, "Do you know what happened to Bambi?"
"The Great Prince just sent him off with that doe Mena," the owl explained to her, "They went right down this very path."
"Thank you!" the girl-turned fox smiled at him, "I'll find him and tell him I'm sorry for what happened earlier, and that I wish him best of luck!" So then, Jeanette ran down the path, hoping to find Bambi and Mena.