Post by Justice on Mar 14, 2019 0:25:10 GMT -5
Newleaf 4
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Grief. Loss. An ending to things one was used to and had been around for as long as he could remember. But that happened. It was the way their lives were. It was part of the greater circle, the unspoken part of the Code. It was okay to be sad, to mourn for those lost and to seek higher meaning either within oneself or outside it from those around, but what Firestar had done enraged him. It went against everything his father had stood for.
Love, devotion, loyalty and protection. Family before all else. She'd forgotten! She'd forgotten all of it, but then she'd been slipping since...since...he shuddered but didn't stop, his pawsteps quick and purposeful. Cats got out of his way, the dangerous look in his eyes telling them to stear clear or get rolled over the hard way.
He was built more like his father, sturdy and strong and handsome, and that meant that when he approached Firestar he bodily shoved her back, using his size and her still thin body to maneuver her straight into her den. He didn't give her a choice.
As soon as they were in the privacy of the leader's den he did something he swore he'd never do to a female, he swiped a paw right across his mother's head, batting her there without using his claws. "Wake up!" His tone was harsh, and in that moment he realized how much like his father he sounded. "Do you think dying for him is going to bring him back?" His fur was stood on end, and he felt the sting of tears. "Do we mean so little to you that you'll let yourself do this over and over until you join him in StarClan? I know you died. I know you lost a life, rumor or not. I loved him too, he was still my father, even if we didn't see eye to eye. I miss him, and I miss my sister, and I couldn't do anything for either of them! I'm not watching another cat that I love leave me behind because she can't handle it! Things die! It hurts and its unfair and I hate it, but it happens!" He didn't realize he'd started crying. Him, a grown tom, and the look of pain he gave his mother he'd hidden away since Mapleheart's death. He'd been strong for them while their father lay dying, while Firestar fell apart, while she died and let herself get thinner and thinner. She didn't have to tell him she'd lost a life, he just knew.
"He wouldn't want this, he would hate seeing you like this. I see your ribs mother, you're so thin it pains me." He strangled, head dropping. "I'm sorry I couldn't save him, I'm sorry I was so caught up in myself that I failed to protect Mapleheart. I miss my sister, and I miss my father, but...mother you still have three living offspring that need you. It hurts seeing you like this. What do I tell them as we watch you waste away again? How do I comfort them when we aren't enough, when we combined can't love you enough to make you stay just a little longer?"
Hellion
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Grief. Loss. An ending to things one was used to and had been around for as long as he could remember. But that happened. It was the way their lives were. It was part of the greater circle, the unspoken part of the Code. It was okay to be sad, to mourn for those lost and to seek higher meaning either within oneself or outside it from those around, but what Firestar had done enraged him. It went against everything his father had stood for.
Love, devotion, loyalty and protection. Family before all else. She'd forgotten! She'd forgotten all of it, but then she'd been slipping since...since...he shuddered but didn't stop, his pawsteps quick and purposeful. Cats got out of his way, the dangerous look in his eyes telling them to stear clear or get rolled over the hard way.
He was built more like his father, sturdy and strong and handsome, and that meant that when he approached Firestar he bodily shoved her back, using his size and her still thin body to maneuver her straight into her den. He didn't give her a choice.
As soon as they were in the privacy of the leader's den he did something he swore he'd never do to a female, he swiped a paw right across his mother's head, batting her there without using his claws. "Wake up!" His tone was harsh, and in that moment he realized how much like his father he sounded. "Do you think dying for him is going to bring him back?" His fur was stood on end, and he felt the sting of tears. "Do we mean so little to you that you'll let yourself do this over and over until you join him in StarClan? I know you died. I know you lost a life, rumor or not. I loved him too, he was still my father, even if we didn't see eye to eye. I miss him, and I miss my sister, and I couldn't do anything for either of them! I'm not watching another cat that I love leave me behind because she can't handle it! Things die! It hurts and its unfair and I hate it, but it happens!" He didn't realize he'd started crying. Him, a grown tom, and the look of pain he gave his mother he'd hidden away since Mapleheart's death. He'd been strong for them while their father lay dying, while Firestar fell apart, while she died and let herself get thinner and thinner. She didn't have to tell him she'd lost a life, he just knew.
"He wouldn't want this, he would hate seeing you like this. I see your ribs mother, you're so thin it pains me." He strangled, head dropping. "I'm sorry I couldn't save him, I'm sorry I was so caught up in myself that I failed to protect Mapleheart. I miss my sister, and I miss my father, but...mother you still have three living offspring that need you. It hurts seeing you like this. What do I tell them as we watch you waste away again? How do I comfort them when we aren't enough, when we combined can't love you enough to make you stay just a little longer?"
Hellion