Getting older.. {Kiki/Open}

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He sat there, not really sure of what to do now. The tom was getting old and he knew it. He was still himself but was calmer than usual. Tigerfang layed along the frost covered ground were the snow hadn't reached looking out onto the frozen river beside his and his mate's willow tree that was their home. In his mind he had given up on Skapha ever since their encounter. He had done damage to the old brute. Scars held across Tigerfang's body each marked a memory of his past and had a story to tell.

He rested his head on top of his paws and sighed. He slowly blinked as he thought over of how his life had passed him by. He didn't seem to of liked the way it had turned out with all the unfortunate events that had accrued throughout his life. First his parents leaving... it led to depression then to meeting Skapha then starting to kill. Then everything that happened with Leafheart. He only had one kit left. Lavenderpelt.. she didn't even like him. The only thing that seemed to be going right in his life was his beloved Kiki. He soon heard the sound of paws pattering from behind him.

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"Tigerfang?" The call seemed to echo off of the empty space, filled only with ice and snow and bitter winds. The area around the bracken river was mostly barren, now, as the water had frozen over and now prevented any hopes for fishing for prey. But life still remained, if only in just a few sources. One such source could be found in the black she-cat with the brown underbelly making her way through the snow, coming up over her paws, in order to make her own way over to where the other loner resided by the frozen riverbank. Her normally wide yellow eyes were narrowed against the icy wind that bustled the fur around her face. But as she drew nearer, her face seemed to relax, a smile even forming around her jaws.

Finally besides the tabby-striped tom, Kiki sat down beside him, and reached out to lick his shoulder with care. "Well, there you are," she mewed with a bit of a laugh thrown in. "I was looking for you." The loner she-cat smiled a bit more, then looked over the icy river. If one looked closely enough, one could see the water still swiftly moving underneath. There was still life under the layer of death. "What are you doing just laying about out here? Aren't you cold?"

[Tanglekit]

The striped Shadowclan female picked her way to the underbrush scenting around trying to pick up on her father. She hadn't been to see him in so long, being preoccupied with Brokenflame, and her clan-mates. And although she didn't like the tom, he was her father and she couldn't help but love him. When she found him laying in the dirt covered in scars, she gave a little hiss. She padded over to him ignoring Kiki, worry for her father pulsing over her pelt. "Tigerfang, What has happened to you?", she asked, she had an inkling that this was because of her mother mother's ridiculous set of feelings for the alley trash tom. Her mother had never told her what had happened in the alley's that day, and she growled thinking of the ways she would kill her mother's new love, for this. Tigerfang was blood, and the only kin she had besides her mother, and she wasn't about to let the alley leader do this to her little family.

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Tigerfang let a smile come across his face as he turned to see Kiki coming towards him. He sat up and stretched then sat back down. Licking her on the forehead back as his welcoming. " No my dear I am fine, I'm just relaxing" he mewed closing his eyes tight trying to catch focus he hadn't been seeing to well either but he didn't want to say anything at the moment to worry her. He soon heard a familiar voice come from behind them. He lit up at the sight of Lavanderpelt he turned himself to face her. By her question he had guessed that she was referring to the scars "There nothing to be concerned with.. what are you doing all the way out here?" he replied he wasn't going t bring up about how they almost had killed him.

[Tanglekit]

Lavaendarpelt shook her head. "I really am curious about how you are so surprised when I visit, even though I told you I would.", she mewed,getting a little confused herself as the words spilled from her mouth.

Sorry about the short reply!!

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At the tom's reply, the loner she-cat gave an unsure smile. Kiki had guessed that there was more to his current condition than what he was letting on. After all, neither of them were as young as they had once been. She could recall very clearly how he had been cut up and bleeding not so long ago. The older a cat got, the harder it was to recover from things like that, it seemed. But that didn't make them elders quite yet, either. No, the two loners still had time. But that didn't make the black and brown she-cat any less concerned.

The she-cat would probably have said something in response to the tabby tom, but before she achieved the chance, a familiar, unwelcome scent wafted across her nose. Her yellow eyes immediately narrowed as she turned to look for the source. There, coming closer, was none other than Lavenderpelt, Tigerfang's kit. Disgust rolled around in the she-cat's belly for the young ShadowClan warrior. There was no doubt in their mutual dislike for each other, but it only seemed to grow worse with each moment that Kiki had to spend in her presence- or that of her mother's, for that matter-, and the way that Lavenderpelt padded carelessly around her made her claws prickle in their sheaths. There was no way that she could attack the she-cat, unfortunately, as that would never sit well with Tigerfang. But the desire was still there.

As the two cats began to exchange a few, short words, Kiki stood back up on her paws and twitched the tip of her tail back and forth as she watched Lavenderpelt with a glare. When the she-cat had finished, the black loner decided it couldn't hurt too badly to throw her own voice into the conversation. "Its not as if you seem to care much about him. You visit him at most once in three moons time. Besides. You Clan cats don't approve of the company of outsiders, do you? Family or not, I'm sure your leader wouldn't approve of finding you here."

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Tigerfang could feel the tension in the air but he kept his mouth shut silently looking from one she-cat to the other. He hoped they wouldn't start to argue like they normally did, and then there would be blood.. or just bits of fur lying on the ground. " I'm just a bit surprised because you hardly come around..." he said calmly.

[Tanglekit]

Lavendarpelt smirked at Kiki's comment on her frequency of visits. "I would almost have the opinion that you like it better when I am only around once in awhile.", she mewed towards Kiki. Her interest in clan affairs was starting to sound like she cared whether or not the warrior got caught visiting her father. "Well I know that I don't visit that often but at least I visit.", she mewed sourly. She had been spending so much of her time trying to figure out her feelings for Brokenflame that Tigerfang was not a priority on her list.

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Kiki's yellow eyes continued to narrow at the young she-cat's smart response. "Guilty as charged," she sighed in boredom, giving a shrug of her shoulders. Cheeky little Clan cat. So smug. A little brat. But the darkly colored loner kept these thoughts inside her mind. She only betrayed these thoughts in her grin.

"But anyway, did you plan on just standing there for your visit, or did you have anything worthwhile to say rather than wasting our time?" Kiki's tone was patronizing, as if she was making a bad attempt to humor an annoying kit. The sooner this little brat was gone, the sooner the black and brown loner could cool her nerves.