I Never Meant For This To Happen[Icepaw/Open]

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Twtichpaw watched Icepaw before sighing, "Best just to ignore them since it is clear that they are making you uncomfortable." She smiled, "Are you hungry? I can fetch you a bird or something else." She mewed, sitting down near the apprentice, wanting to keep him from looking at the others and becoming more unset. "So, what's it like to swim? Does the water feel good on your fur?" She really wondered since she didn't know if she would have the heart to brave the running water of the river.

(Think she might be able to get on a somewhat good side with him?)

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Riddlehawk's eyes narrowed and a steady growl rumbled from his chest as he shrugged past Rainwing. He looked at the cat who spoke to him and nodded. "Alright...." he said, still highly aggitated. Starclan only knew what would happen when this tom truly snapped. There would be some sort of massacre on someone's hands when it did. Hopefully it wasn't any clan they were allied with, or worse one of his clanmates.... He padded away from camp, away from the medicine cat's den. He had only tried to help the little tom by not leaving him there for the foxes and badgers to get at. But what thanks did he get? A cat he thought that would be on his side yelling at him and no thanks at all. He kept up his grumbling and growling, his fur never completely flattening and his tail continually flicking back and forth in heavy irritation.

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((OOC: I think she could. ^^ Icepaw's not really that bad, just around the cats he hated in a past life... xD ))

BIC: Icepaw sighed and responded in a low voice. "Yeah, I guess. They don't make it easy, though." The pale tabby glanced quickly to Riddlehawk before giving his good forepaw a few quick licks. "But no thanks. You can keep your furry squirrels and feathery birds." He wrinkled his nose. "Seriously, I don't see how you ThunderClan cats can eat that stuff. Mice are okay and all, but wouldn't you choke on the stuff?" A small glimmer of amusement flickered in his eyes. His paw didn't seem to hurt that bad while he was distracted.

Her next question almost confused him, until he realized that RiverClan were the only cats who dared set paw in the water. The tom tilted his head in thought. "Well, its not half bad, really. I don't see why all you other cats hate getting your fur wet. It makes your fur all cool, and I guess like a fish." His grin grew a bit. "Its also pretty fun when you go in the direction of the current. It kind of carries you. But you have to be careful, otherwise you could crash."

Icepaw couldn't help but look back over to Riddlehawk as he exited the den. A feeling of relief washed over his pelt. One pair of eyes gone. The bigger tabby had seemed so flea-bitten, though. He couldn't place a reason. He still didn't really understand why Riddlehawk had brought him here at all. The question still buzzed in his mind. What was the deputy playing?

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Foxflight smiled his thanks and allowed his gaze to travel to Icepaw once more as if in question. He then backed out and began to walk towards the grumbling deputy.

The tom sat by Riddlehawk and turned his gaze on him. "It's funny to see a grown tom so worked up on a little apprentice."

His smile was still on his impassive face at the moment. Foxflight began to lick a paw and groom his white and red fur while waiting for a response.

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Rainwing watched Riddlehawk go with a frown before he shook his head, sighing. What was he thinking? Even if Icepaw had started it, the little apprentice was no match for the trained deputy, Riddlehawk should have known that something like this would happen if he engaged in battle with him. He let his fur lay down and his nerved cool off, not liking to raise his temper at those he cared for. But something was going on with the Thunderclan deputy lately and Rainwing didn't like it. Glancing back to his apprentice and Icepaw, he could tell that the Froststorm look alike was opening up a little.."Twitchpaw, could you help me splint his paw real fast? We don't want it to heal wrong." He meowed calmly, his green eyes more peaceful now.

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The once mellow tom had become oh so much more tempermental in the past few moons. He glanced back at the medicine cat's den, licking the profusly bleeding injury on his foreleg. He had to hand it to the little tom. He sure was a scrapper. "It irritates me whenever other cats just look at me as though I'm a murderer....." He grumbled at Foxflight, his single gold eye narrowed in frustratioin.

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"Sure," Twitchpaw mewed setting out the materials so that they would be easily grabbed as needed. "Icepaw, this is gonna hurt but it shouldn't take to long," Twitchpaw mewed, gently pulling Icepaw's paw away from his body so that they could work quickly for his sake. She looked to her mentor to start since she didn't know what to do yet and she really didn't want the to have to do it twice.

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Icepaw yelped a little when the she-cat reached out for his paw. It still hurt worse than anything he could imagine. The distraction had only been able to work for so long. The pale tabby wanted to pull his leg back immediately- not considering that doing so would hurt just as much as extending it- but knew it would be best to just get it over with. "With any luck," he commented with a little wince of pain.

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Rainwing worked quickly, not wanting to keep the young tom in pain for two long. Once done, he examined the leg again then nodded with satisfaction. "That should heal as good as new. You're lucky with that." As he said this, the medicine cat turned to get some more poppy seeds, his limp really noticeable from his old injury. Who would have thought that he would be the one helping the Froststorm look alike who had an injury quite similiar to his.

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Icepaw grimaced as Rainwing worked with the bonding. His leg felt like it was being burned and prodded each time it came into contact with one of the medicine cat's paws or supplies. He would have hissed from the pain, but he held it in as he didn't want to look weak in front of the ThunderClan cats. Another moment of relief came once the tabby finished up, but his leg felt more irritated after the procedure. "Thanks," he mewed again, still not all that loudly. Help or not help the young tom still felt a lack of ease in the medicine cat's den. Perhaps not so much around Twitchpaw, who he had nothing held against, but Rainwing still had something about him that he Icepaw couldn't shrug off.

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Twitchpaw smiled before leaving the den, getting a few mice and a bird from the freshkill pile before heading back, dropping a mouse in front of Icepaw, "Here, enjoy." She brought the bird over to Rainwing, thinking eating something would help ease his temper. She smiled before settling down near Icepaw, eating her mouse happily, "So, when do cats from your clan start to swim? When your kits or after you start training? It must take some time to ease the new apprentices into the water.... but maybe not since your clan is use to it...." Twitchpaw started to ponder the idea, still chewing her mouse before looking at Icepaw, wondering if her questions where annoying him. She wasn't trying to but she couldn't help it, she was curious.

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Icepaw looked down at the mouse awkwardly. It felt weird- the idea of eating another Clan's food. Sure, RiverClan cats ate mouse along with their supply of fish, occasionally. But it was ThunderClan prey, not his. The young tom would have refused, but just then his stomach rumbled underneath him. His ears suddenly felt hot, and he swallowed his earlier feelings and replaced it with a bite of mouse. It tasted a bit like ThunderClan, but he could ignore it for the most part.

He looked up at her question and swallowed what was in his mouth. "Well, kits aren't allowed to go in the river, since the current's too strong. But they go ahead and find puddles to splash in whenever they find 'em." The pale tabby took another bite of mouse before continuing, his hunger getting to him. "Once they're apprentices and are big enough to swim the river, they practically hop on in." Icepaw purred as he recalled seeing Dappledleaf's kits try it a few times. "By then they've seen older cats do it and want to size up to them, I guess."

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"Oh... that's cool," Twitchpaw mewed, having finished her mouse, yawning before looking at Icepaw, "Need some more poppy seeds or bedding?" She wanted to make sure he was comfortable since he wasn't from her clan and didn't want him to go home and tell them that he didn't get treated properly. She stretched, thinking that she could make a trip to Riverclan to tell them about Icepaw since she didn't want them to think that captured him by force... other then to treat his paw.

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Foxflight set his gaze on Riddlehawk and understood the deputy's feelings a bit. When he'd been an apprentice, he'd almost killed a cat in his first battle and the gazes had continued for a long time. They questioned him as if asking if he would try to kill them too.

He worked his claws in and out of his paws a bit at the memory. It still stung, but his mentor had helped qualm all the hurt waiting to be unleashed. The warriors' tail gently ran down the deputys' back to show he felt for him.

"What's best is to think of the gazes of cats' who don't look at you that way. Even though it might feel like it, not all the cats here in Thunderclan are scared and question your place everyday. Many accept you Riddlehawk and you should take pride with that and not let these measly others hurt you so or you'll be hurting more than just yourself later on," he mewed thoughtfully and with a smile at the end with ears flicking.

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"I know." Riddlehawk said, feeling the other tom's tail. "Come....let's hunt.." he muttered, getting up and flicking his tail back and forth.

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