Revenge (ALL OF RIVERCLAN MUST REPLY!)

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Hawktalon looked down at her words, the no emotion hurting to hear. Did she really want to go out of camp with him? He had never felt more outside of her life than right now, and after he had worked so hard to get in it before. "Maybe not...but I can try.." He murmured quietly to himself, knowing that even if she didn't return them, he would always have some feelings for her. "Alright. Just go wherever you like and I'll follow." He said softly, glancing to her. "Would you like to invite Ravenstone...?" It wasn't a challenge but actually...he wondered if she'd be better off with the black warrior. If he was what made her happy...

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SnowFeather cringed. And just stood. She didn't answer his last question. She didn't want to. She wanted to be alone with HawkTalon now. But you know, she was starting to get prickly. The two toms liked her, maybe even loved her, but she just couldn't do this no more.

"Screw it."

She muttered under her breath, her teeth gritting against one another.

She looked back to look at HawkTalon, then at RavenStone, but right after that, she just dashed out of camp. She didn't know where she was going, her eyes were closed shut, and she was moving as fast as she could. Thing was.. where was she going to end up?

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Trying To Find A Way Out

His green eyes flashed in alarm when the warrior saw her take off in a blind desperation. For a heartbeat he wanted to run right after her, to try to apologize for what he felt was right. But that wasn't possible. He could tell that Hawktalon was already onto them, how he didn't understand. But however he knew, if anything was left between them, Ravenstone had to take extra caution.

The warrior padded over to Hawktalon with an awkward feeling in his belly. "Hey," he mewed, thinking it along as he went, "I just wanted to say that there's nothing to worry about between me and your mate. She just needed another cat to talk to recently. I guess you'd know about that nightmare she'd been having... About Needleheart." His ears angled toward the cream colored she-cat a little ways off. "Please don't over-think it. We're just friends."

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Hawktalon watched her go, unsure wether he should go after her or not. Did she want him to? Or did she want to be alone...His thoughts were interrupted as Ravenstone spoke up and he turned to the black warrior, raising a brow as he spoke. What was he trying to do? "Ravenstone..save your breath. I'm not a mousebrain, but I'm not angry." He said calmly, tail twitching behind him. True, he wasn't angry but...he wasn't all that happy with the tom.

"I know about her dream and I understand it's been hard for her. But don't treat me like a kit and think I haven't seen the way you look at her. I have looked at her the same way. And I'll support whatever her decison is." He said, meeting the eyes of Ravenstone with an unreadable expression. "But I loved her first and will always watch out for her, don't forget that."

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Since of their little chatter, they didn't notice this she-cat limp over to them. She eye'd thim, and growled.

"Oh shut it. If you want her so bad, use claws and teeth. Stop with the chitter chatter, it disgusts me! Go follow and fight. That's the only way."

Her eyes narrowed a bit.

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Everything Goes Wrong

Well, he had been hoping those words wouldn't come out of the warrior's mouth. But they were out in the open now. And instead of feeling the old sense of guilt building up in his belly, it was something closer to rage. Why couldn't he have been more careful? He'd promised himself that he wouldn't put Snowfeather in this position, but here they were- right between the toms she was splitting herself between.

"Look," he sighed, not looking at Hawktalon directly. "I don't know what Snowfeather is going to do now. But I told her from the beginning that I didn't want her to get hurt." Ravenstone dug his claws into the earth. Not out of tension or anger toward the other warrior tom, but just at the situation. "Maybe it would be best if... No. It would be best if I back off. I'm sorry."

At the new voice, Ravenstone glanced over to see the she-cat that had caused Snowfeather's nightmares. His eyes narrowed furiously. "Oh, just get out of here. You have no business in this."

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NeedleHeart looked at Ravenstone, her whiskers quivering.

"I will not. I don't want to hear two toms bickering over one she-cat. You fight, morons, you don't bicker. That isn't how things solve, it is by blood."

Her eyes narrowed a bit, for that was partially true. I mean, isn't it? She made almost no sign of aggression for once, but her tail kept flickering back and forth.

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Hawktalon glanced to the rough she-cat that padded over. Needleheart. He frowned, shaking his head. "I will not fight my own clanmate over such matters. We don't need to shed our own blood when we're about to go to battle." He said, glancing to Ravenstone.

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Leaving The Pain

Ravenstone muttered an agreement. "Someone like you couldn't understand, Needleheart," he finished with s growl. "Would you?" It seemed as if the tom did still have something left in him after all. But he still felt horrible. He could sense Hawktalon's gaze burning holes into his pelt like fire and found he couldn't meet them.

I think I'd better get away from them, he thought to himself with his tail falling to the ground. Maybe I'll stay in the warriors den until it's time to go. The black tom gave into these weak thoughts, and began to pad toward the den with stones in his paws.

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NeedleHeart looked at RavenStone, and growled.

"You think I haven't loved at cat? WRONG! I have, RavenStone, and you know what? He's dead, because of ThunderClan's deputy."

Her tail lashed back and forth, and she bared her teeth.

"I may not of had to fight for him, and I may not of shown that I did love him, but I did. I know how it feels, I know the pain. I know that you want to tear every root out of the ground to prove it. I know that it is unbearable, I know that it hurts to lose one. And now here you are, saying that I don't know?"

Her eyes narrowed darkly, and her ears pinned back against her head.

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Not The Same

The black warrior stopped in his tracks, not turning around to face the she-cat, but just standing. He knew what cat she was talking about of course- Froststorm, killed in a fight with Riddlehawk. Ravenstone had never been a fan of the dead tom. He'd seemed too eager to spill blood, too edgy. The fact that Needleheart claimed to love him came as no surprise.

Now he did turn his head round to face the cream-colored warrior with a cold look in his eyes. If there was ever to be a RiverClan warrior he didn't like, it was this she-cat right here. "I highly doubt someone with a black heart could love anyone truly. That goes for you and for Froststorm." His tail-tip began to twitch behind him. "The only thing Frostorm loved anyway was blood. I saw how he fought, and it wasn't for the sake of defending RiverClan. He just wanted to kill."

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NeedleHeart took a few paces toward to tom, or would I rather say, Limped. She rammed her nose almost right in his, and she growled.

"Don't tell me that I didn't love him truly. It seems like you, here, are the one who doesn't know what love is. Just because he went in for the kill each time, it doesn't mean I didn't love him. There could always be one cat who loves one, but that cat doesn't love you back, hun."

Her tail now lashed back and forth behind her, staring RavenStone dead-on. It looked as if she was challenging him.

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Wanna Bet?

Ravenstone's expression didn't change as Needleheart got right up in his face. His eyes remained narrowed and defying. Of course, that didn't mean that her words were ringing in his ears, screaming the truth.

He took a deep breath through his nose before speaking. "You're right about that last bit. Maybe Snowfeather doesn't love me. Maybe it was just a fling. But I already know that. It was me that started this mess, and the only way for me to clean it up is to leave her alone. Hawktalon will take care of her." His green eyes flashed to the warrior, as if to say, ' You'd better '.

He then looked back to Needleheart and felt his jaws clamp together. "I love Snowfeather enough to let her go. That's more than you can do for Froststorm. He's dead! You're just keeping a sick, romanticized version of a dead cat in your head."

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NeedleHeart suddenly snorted, and still stared at him.

"'Scuse me, hun. I know better. You will still be tryin' to get a nip at her tail."

At the last bit, her tail started to twitch back and forth. How to reply to that? Oh she knew how, for it was so simple to.

"First of all, I know you would do the same. What if little miss White cheeks, SnowFeather, died? Wouldn't you be saddened? Wouldn't you want to cry each night? And if someone killed her, wouldn't you want revenge? Hun, get in my paws, and I swear you will see the truth. Secondly, I don't think he is dead, but either way, he aint much like him."

NeedleHeart's gaze soon moved over to IcePaw, and then back at RavenStone.

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Ravenstone just lifted his chin. "Of course I would. If anything happened to her, I'd be devastated. I never said I'd stop caring for her. I can't just change that, now can I? But I can give Snowfeather the space she needs, time to heal, and I won't be there to open old wounds. That is what I plan to do for her."

He followed his gaze to where Icepaw remained, and almost snorted in disbelief. "So now you've gone so far over the edge that you think Froststorm is standing over there? He may look like your dead friend, but that doesn't mean anything. That's like saying all white cats are related." His whiskers twitched. Was this she-cat loony? "Icepaw is not the cat you're obsessed with."