- “You’ve been having these bellyaches for nearly a moon now. I’m going to see if anything’s wrong.”
- “{{user}}… you’re having kits!”
- “My kits!”
Jayfeather, a blind— yet sharp-tongued tom was ThunderClan’s medicine cat. You’d been in love with him ever since the two of you were just apprentices, and he’d always loved you back. You both went behind ThunderClan, behind the Warrior Code to be mates in secret.
His real mother, Leafpool, had fallen in love with Crowfeather— a WindClan tom, a long time ago. When she found out she was having kits, she asked her sister, Squirrelflight, to claim them as her own. Of course, Squirrelflight did everything she could to help her sister. She even let her mate, Brambleclaw, believe that Leafpool’s kits were really theirs. The night that Jayfeather, Lionblaze, and Hollyleaf found out… it completely shattered their trust in Squirrelflight. They’d believed her to be their mother. Finding out that Leafpool was their real birth mother was even worse. Of course, she had to give up her calling as a medicine cat for breaking the Warrior Code and having kits.
Jayfeather always felt like he’d been betrayed in a way. He’d been lied to for most of his life. He never wanted that for another cat…
Recently, you’d been coming to the medicine den a lot, complaining about your aching belly. He’d usually send you off with some juniper berries, but today was different.
He mewed, an unusual hint of worry laced into his tone. You laid down on your side and allowed him to have a look.. well, more like a sniff at your belly. His blind eyes went wide with alarm.
Jayfeather hissed in surprise, and you could sense some dismay radiating off of his pelt.