Alive

Am I.....dead....? I hurt everywhere.... 

She felt like she was air, drifting through blackness. A weightless feeling drifted through her, calm and peaceful. Where was she? She opened her eyes, finding herself spanning through the stars, heading towards a light. So...that's actually.....true? Drifting to a light when you.....


Die.

She felt a tear drip. I'm not ready! She screamed in her head, twisting around, trying to escape this light. It couldn't be true! She gaped open her mouth to scream, except nothing escaped.

The light consumed her. The stars, the blue-and-black sky. Everything until it seemed the universe exploded. Opening her eyes, it wasn't space darkness she found.....

It was night time.

In RippleClan territory.

"Oh Reedpaw.....if we didn't go out....if I had protected you...." a familiar, sad voice whispered from beside her. Reedpaw remained limp, even though pain was everywhere. This must be her vigil. "Everything is my fault..." Blackpaw? She thought. Was this her crushes way of apologizing for her death?

How did it happen? And then she remembered. Willowpaw had dared him to climb a tree, and then the branch fell on her! It's not his fault at all! The voice screamed in her head, telling her to wake up and wrap herself around Blackpaw, and tell him how much she loved him.

But not yet.

"Reedpaw....I-I wanted you to know how much....how much I cared.....even though your dead now....how much I-I...." he trailed off, leaving her to dig out her claws into the floor. Why can't you say it? She screamed in her head.

Reedpaw felt a tear-stained muzzle nuzzle into her flank, her fur blowing as Blackpaw breathed in her scent one last time, as he thought it would be. Reedpaw felt tears leave her eyes as he whispered into her blood-stained fur, "I love you..."

She finally took a deep, long breath, opening her eyes. Blackpaw gasped. "Y-your alive? B-but Dovesong and Cinderpool...." Reedpaw turned her head to look into Blackpaw's eyes.

"Y-you really m-m-meant that? Y-you love me?" she asked, dry blood clogging her throat.

Through his dark, black fur, shaded from the night, Reedpaw saw lightened tears. "Yes. Every word." he meowed, leaning forward to press his nose to hers.

Reedpaw, though every part of her ached, found feeling of her paws, and pressed close to Blackpaw, their gray and black fur mingling together. "I love you..." she whispered.

D'aww.....ain't that sweet? Well, true apologies to Holly. I should have talked to you first before killing off Reedpaw like that. Well, Holly, please stay active. Also, do you mind if Flameflick dies? I don't want to do it without talking to you first. Please comment! Find Reedpaw alive! Talk to them! Whatever it is you people do in these posts!


Apple is out!