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Originally Posted by Panda
Chestnutkit frowned as his mother scooted the remaining mouse away from him. "I'll stop! Please? I want more mouse!" He pouted as he laid down and looked at the ground solemnly. "Please mommy!" His ears laid back on his head, and his tail curled around his small body. He refused to meet his mother's eyes as he continued. "You won't tell me where she is either?!" At this point, he had returned his mother's deadpan gaze, with his own fierce one. "Sweet-" He was about to call out Sweetwhiskers name, when someone brushed against his whiskers. His fur fluffed up in surprise, but it laid flat to him again as soon as he realized it was his older brother, Harrierclaw. "Well..." His fur along his spine began to prickle back up in awkwardness. "No, but I just wanted more mouse, and to see Sweetwhisker, but mommy said no." His orbs turned pleadingly to his brother as he leaned against his front legs.
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Originally Posted by Tavvi
Gorsebird shook her head frowning before lightly nipping Chestnutkit's ear again. "No, Chessie when you act this way you don't get tasty mice or to meet Sweetwhisker." Her voice was stern as she continued her deadpan stare. "Don't you 'please Mommy' me!" Gorsebird then scolded her fur bristling slightly as she started to get agitated. "And no! For the last time when you're naughty, you don't get what you want!" By now she had reached her boiling point starting to bare her teeth, as all the 'mommyish' softness she had previously melted away. She had been getting ready to lecture the kitten again before an all too familiar scent entered her nose and a rather slovenly grey and white coat entered her line of vision.
Deciding to make a move, she beamed licking Harrierclaw's cheek affectionately."Well, well, well, long time no see my little Eyass~ What have you been up to? Meeting with a silly she-cat or two, breaking hearts...breaking my heart because you haven't visited me or your new brothers and sister?" Gorsebird inquired, her tone certainly carrying a level of bitterness to it. "You know, Stormglare died...I could have really used you or Sweetwhisker to make my l-l-life a little e-easier!" She sniffled turning on the waterworks in attempt to pull a gulit trip. |
Chestnutkit's sappy look hooked the tom's heart, and he stifled a small chuckle as the brown tabby leaned against his toes. The little round face, the black-edged pink nose, bright round eyes... As much as Gorsebird chided him about starting a family, Harrierclaw was a sucker for kittens.
"Don't worry, I'm sure Ni.. Sw.. I'm sure they'll come over to see you too, Chestnut." He gave a nod and was about to look for the rest of the kit's mouse when his mother's tangy tone rustled his ear fur. Her first question had the warrior frozen on the spot and the second ensured that the tom wouldn't be able to meet her sharp gaze. What had he been doing? Newleaf seemed like a blur really, the same thing day in, day out... Stuck in a rut with no sense of time for who knows how long. But that wasn't something the tom could excuse himself for; he clamped his teeth down on his tongue and felt the base of his tail prickle. He was always one to fall into the torbie's paws, but that wasn't all.
At the mention of Stormglare, Harrierclaw did break away, his hazel eyes making their way to his Mothers'. The shock on his face was probably more emotion than he'd expressed in the last season. Was he really gone? He hadn't took the time to really get to know his stepfather, and now he was gone? The warrior's tail slumped into the grass with little sound. What could he say now? It would surely be too late for anything meaningful, but the bomb had been dropped and Harrierclaw was left wide-eyed like a fish.
"Mother, I..." He licked his nose in an attempt to stay composed, "I'm sorry you had to go through that without us."