Live life on Edge

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Dreamwhisker's whiskers twiched. "I trust who I know" she meowed simply,"You do not know me and I don't know you". She took a quick glance around hoping to see Darkshard fur weavering in the distance. A question that she been wanting to ask came out her mouth in a embarrassed slurr "Why did you leave Riverclan?" her ears went red and replied quickly after with "I know that you said because you think we are weak but I don't believe you would just give up your lifestyle just for the sake of some cats who you barely know"

[Brambleclaw]

"When I was an apprentice, I was shy and silent. Sparrowfeather took me under his wing, and we've been friends since." Pebblefur said with a sigh.
"I want to prove I'm worth something. I want to be more than a shy little kit." Pebblefur said deeply. He wished now, more than ever, for he pretty Dreamwhisker's trust. It meant he was doing something right for a change.

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"But..." her mouth shut aburtly. She was shy when she first meets a cat but tends to trust them from the start. She stilled wondered why he left Riverclan but pushing the subject wasn't going to get answers. Pushing agaisnt the hard dry ground she leaped to a low branch of a tree. A nest of two semigrown owls slept in peace. She knew of the nest but never seen the mother owl anywhere. Stalking softly over the branch a loud snap woked the owls. They started to flap there wings but she already had them both as she jumped toward them midair. Her board paws made a soft thump on the ground as she made a amazing fall. "Two less enemies to worry about for kits" she meowed smiling

[Brambleclaw]

"Watch out!" Pebblefur cried, knocking Dreamwhisker out of the way as the mother owl ducked in after the enemy cat. He swiped at the owl, being hooked by her claws. Dragged up into the air, he clawed at her underbelly. His face was met hard with a sharp talon, which only barely missed his eye. He scratched blidnly, biting at her foot, realizing that she was gone. And he was falling. Then he noticed that the owl was dead in his claws, and she was about to land on top of him. She could crush him.

Plummeting to the earth, the owl landed a few tail-lengths away from him, havign fallen with him some distance. Winded and in pain, he looked up at Dreamwhisker and felt his heart beat fiercely again. He suddenly began to lose control, and spoke without thinking.
"Dreamwhisker, I'm sorry..." He said, shaking the owl off him dazedly. "You are the most beautiful she-cat I've ever met. When I see you, my heart pounds like a bird in a cage. I can't talk, and I feel like I could fly. Darkshard is the luckiest tom alive to be near you so often, and I'm jealous of him. If you feel anything for me at all, even a friendship of sort, I need to know. I'm not strong enough to be lead blindly." He said, resting his head on the ground as he breathed heavily. He might die.

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Dreamwhisker stared in completed shock as he laid there blurting out his feelings. She went over and started to lick the wound on his face roughly then tried to lift him but he had to help some. "I can't see any cat hurt." she meowed sweetly but tension made it sound rough, "can you walk?" she whispered in between licking another wound. He had to get to a medicine cat quickly. Another effort to push him up failed once again.

[Brambleclaw]

Pebblefur shook his head.
"Hope..." He said softly, spitting out a pool of blood. He looked at her eyes, smiling softly. He didn't mind death if it meant she knew how he felt. But only reassurance and hope could save him now. And only Dreamwhisker was around to give him reassurance. She could only speak friendship of a sort to him, and he knew she didn't trust him. He was dead anyway. But at least she knew he loved her.

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Dreamwhisker stared at the tom in pain, the second cat to be lost to death who was held highly in her heart. She wouldn't let it happen! Running to a old log she ripped off a long peice of bark that stood out. She also greabbed some spider webs and a tough root. She put the spider webs where the bleeding was going worse and pushed the tom with a might heave onto the bark. She fasten the root into a hole in the bark then clenching with all her might she moved. Slowly at first each step taking more then a effort that she never knew she had until it came easy. Her paws felt like they were floating running in speed she never knew then stop. They were at camp. She locked her jaw around Pebblefur scruff dragging him like a helpless rabbit to the medicine cat den. "Help" she yowled only to get caught by the thick fur in her mouth. "Help please" her eyes feeling with a plead. to the medicine cats.

[Brambleclaw]

Thyme remembered this part very well. Pebblefur, the new tom, loved Dreamwhisker. And she wasn't about to admit love, or even friendship. He sighed, shaking his head and patting Dreamwhisker softly with his tail.
"I can try to heal him, but even without an emotional attachment he has no reason to live. He will die with honor, a brave cat, like he wanted." Thyme said softly, looking at Pebblefur with a soft sigh. Like Dreamwhisker was about to find a way for him to be emotionally connected to the world. Looking out the den, Thyme watched sadly as Sparrowfeather dragged three owls onto the freshkill pile, taking a mouse and eating in solitary in a corner. The tom was too ignorant. Turning back to his dying patient, he looked expectantly at Dreamwhisker.

[mkgb]

"Fix him" she hissed pain plusing her body staring at the tom. "Hes my friend and he needs to live!"

[Brambleclaw]

Thyme shook his head softly, but sighed and turned into the Medicine leaves anyway. He'd ease the tom's suffering into StarClan. Patching the wounds with more cobweb, he gave Pebblefur some herbs and help him swallow. The bleeding and swelling would have to go down, too. But happiness was most important.
"But does he know that?"

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Dreamwhisker got by Pebblefur bloody body not caring about her white fur getting red. She licked him ear softly and whispered into it,"Please stay, unless you want to go" she forced herself to say remember the shy tom. "Come on" she whipered in pain. She got closer so there fur mixed together her eyes watered in sadness.

[Brambleclaw]

Thyme smiled, nodding.
"You can stay if you like. Or go. He'll be fine, I promise." And once he had healed, he would go on falling in love with Dreamwhisker. But she would save his life in more than one way, whether she knew it or not. Thyme sat down in the far corner of the den, his face cold and emotionless as he watched his healing patient. Pebblefur would be fine. Thyme knew so.

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She decidied she was going to stay, she was responsible for him being attack. Itwas suppost to be me she thought scared. She licked his fur where blood stained it in feirce licks then rested her head agaisnt him but ended up falling asleep. She was in a dream darkness everywhere and rain fell down, pools of water tinted with blood sat everywhere. Her eyes wet set emotionless to a small body that laid across the puddled place. "Songheart" she cooed as she rushed over to her fallen mother. Next to her sat another tom, husky and black, "Soul" she asked as she remembered stories of her father. They both looked at her but didn't move, didn't breath, didn't even blink. "What the matter with you" she meowed cautiously not aware of movement behind her. She turned to see her brother who has died long ago after moving in with some twoleggers. "Stolenclaw!" she meowed but was then sent down as his front claws slid across her face.
"You selfish mousebrain!" he hissed "You can never make up your mind, thats why you are so weak"
"Atleast im not dead" she replied back tasted the blood running down her face.
"Go back to your percious Pebblefur and Darkshard but no good can come from showing feelings to both" and the big tabby tom disappeared into the undergrowth.
She woke to Pebblefur fur tickling her nose

[Brambleclaw]

Darkshard padded cooly into the den, looking Dreamwhisker over.
"Mousebrained tom, did he hurt you?" He hissed, shoving Pebblefur's limp body away from Dreamwhisker protectively. "If he did I'll kill him now."

[mkgb]

"i'm fine, he actually saved me from the same fate." she meowed scared. She gazed into Darkshard eyes with a worried look, it was her fault the tom was almost dead. Standing she hoped the blood didn't go in to much. "Going to take me forever to get this blood out" she meowed giving herself a stren licking

[Brambleclaw]

"This tom is nothing but trouble. If you hadn't been out with him this would never have happened. Leave while I finish him off." Darkshard hissed darkly, letting his claws slide silently out. He motioned for Dreamwhisker to leave and hissed dark and menacingly.

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Jumping infront of Pebblefur her eyes seemed betrayed. "I made a mouebrain mitake to kill two owlets, the mother wanted to kill me. He had enough done to him why hurt him any further he basicly a lump of fur right now, it would be a unfair fight" Dreamwhisker spoke with a shaky voice.

[Brambleclaw]

Darkshard shook his head, bewildered.
"Oh, I see. Well if you want to be with this tom I see where your loyalties lie. I thougt I loved you, but I was wrong." The tom hissed darkly, turning and stalking out of the den. Thyme touched Dreamwhisker's shoulder.
"He will still be your friend. But he is too dark to be more than a friend." The apprentice spoke wisely and with many more years of wisdom than his own age depicted.

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Illusionpool seen Darkshard walk out the medicine cat den. She seen the trail of blood and a pure hate come from the white tom. "Can i speak to you" she whispered to the tom. Waving her tail to a quiet corner that no one really went but gossiping aprentices.

[Brambleclaw]

"Sure." The tom shrugged unhappily, padding over to it and glaring out at any cat who looked at him. He was in no mood for talking, but maybe Illusionpool could help. Maybe. Probably not. But she could be very helpful. He'd never know. Maybe...