Mockingjay padded into the leaders and deputies den. Bloomstar was laying on her moos bed. She looked up. " Yes Mockingjay? what do you need?" She asked sitting up and facing Mockingjay.
" Its nothing Bloomstar. you may go back to sleep." Mockingjay told her padding to her moss bed.
" I can sent you have something to say. You won't tell me. Why?" Bloomstar padded over to Mockingjay and sat.
" I........ I'm expecting." Mockingjay said slowly. She was scared Bloomstar wouldn't approve and she wouldn't be deputy anymore because of her pregnancy. Her leader shot up with disbelief.
" Who's kits are they? Why would you do this? Deputies cannot have kits and you know that." Bloomstar said surprisingly calm.
" Its a........He's a loner," she paused and looked into her leaders eyes," Its stripes kits. the one that saved me from the twolegs before I became deputy."
" This doesn't explain why you would do this. Mockingjay, you should have known not to mate with him, and especially when he isn't even in the clan. "
"I know, Bloomstar, and I'm sorry, but it wasn't supposed to happen." Mockingjay looked at her paws. " Does this mean I'm no longer deputy?" she asked. Bloomstar was silent for a while because she was lost in thought.
" No, you are still deputy, but I hope you understand that you won't be able to go out of camp until the kits are born and become apprentices." Bloomstar finally said.
" Yes , Bloomstar I understand." Replied Mockingjay. As Bloomstar padded back to her moss bed, Mockingjay lay her head down. A while afterwards, lost in thought of the kits and her forbidden love ,Stripe, she fell asleep.
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Mockingjay was now in the nursery with her 3 kits, Whisperkit, Featherkit and Stormykit. Something was wrong with Featherkit and Stormykit, but neither Dogpelt nor Loyalpaw could figure out what.The next day, Stripe came into the clan to see his kits and Mockingjay.
" How are you doing, Stripe?" Mockingjay asked stripe as they walked out of the camp. Dogpelt was watching the kits so the two could talk and catch up on things.
" I've been well, Mockingjay. I've been thinking about asking Bloomstar if I could join the clan, so maybe when the kits become apprentices, we could mentor them." Stripe said, smiling at Mockingjay. " Plus I wanted to spend more time with you."
" That would be great! It would be good for the kits and both of us. I would love that~" Mockingjay started but was cut off when she heard her name. Loyalpaw was running towards her and Stripe. He looked stressed.
" Mockingjay, Mockingjay! You have to come back to the camp right away!" He said frantically.
" Whats happened? Is it Bloomstar?" Mockingjay asked jumping up from where she was sitting. Bloomstar was very old and she knew one of these days she was going to go to starclan.
" Bloomstar is fine. Its your kits! We have to hurry!" Loyalheart said and ran towards camp. Mockingjay followed and looked back to see if Stripe was following, but he wasn't there. Mockingjay didn't want to waste any time going to look for him so she kept running and ran into camp. She ran to the medicine cats den to find Dogpelt crouching over Featherkit and Stormykit, who were no longer breathing.
" What has happened to my kits?!" Mockingjay crouched down and buried her nose into Featherkit's white, cotton-like fur and then Stormykit's gray, fuzzy coat.
" I turned my back for a second to ask Loyalheart if he could go fetch more herbs when they yelped, and when I came to see what had happened~" she sighed. " I tried so desperately hard to keep them alive Mockingjay and I failed." Dogpelt stared at the kits. The image burned into her head before images flashed into Dogpelts head. She saw Mockingjay nealing over Bloomstar sharing tounges with her for the last time. She saw Mockingjay in the nursery with a kit including herself and Rainbowheart with newborn kits. her vision cleared and she saw Mockingjay sharing tongues for the last time with her kits.
" Mockingjay, Starclan has spoken." Dogpelt said staring off into the sky.
" What did they say?" Mockingjay asked Dogpelt not daring to look away from her kits thinking they would vanish in seconds like they had earlier.
" They have said multiple things." Dogpelt paused " Shadowblood will be your hero. more kits will come. and ~" she stopped herself before saying more,
" Yes Dogpelt? what is it?"
"There will be a great sickness in frostyclan, and Mockingjay, you will become leader very soon."
