Shadow's Suffering

Chapter 23

"Brown, wait a moment. Mud told you that if anything happened to him you were to take care of me?" Shadow asked the tom just as he was about to leave. He turned to her and smiled.

"Let me give Muddle and Pebble their prey then I will come back and talk to you about it. Finish your sparrow. I know it's your favorite." Brown said with a wink and headed to get more prey then took it to the other two females.

Shadow's eyes widened a bit. Only Mud knew that a sparrow was her favorite prey. How much did her little crush tell his brother in case anything happened to him. Is that why Brown had been so nice to her since he had died unlike the beginning where he defeated her easily. She took a few more bites of the sparrow before finishing it quickly. She looked at the entrance of her den waiting for the tom to come back. Soon she spotted the dark brown fur of his come walking back in.

"So? Tell me about what he told you." Shadow insisted not moving from her nest as she looked at him with interest.

"He told me one of the first days you came here that if anything was to happen to you, I was the one that had to take care of you. He didn't trust Night with it or Pebble. I was usually around when you two talked but when the fox came, I went after you instead of him. I- I should have went after him. He would still be alive if I went after him instead." Brown said looking at the ground as he sat down and curled his tail around his paws. His eyes were different. They weren't usual for him. They were usually stern but at the moment they were soft.

"Hey, I would have died if you went after him. He might have killed you if you went after him. You could have died as well. It was my sister that might have killed him. I don't know, but I don't think he's dead. If he was dead, you would have found his body. Pebble said you never did and his scent stopped at the river. Before all of that happened, I noticed the river took you straight down to BoneClan's territory." Shadow explained looking at the male. Her eyes widened with an idea and she twitched her tail happily.

"You look excited. What is it now?" Brown asked a little sharply. She knew he was still grieving but she was taken back by it.

"BoneClan. I'm sure we could pull it off as a pair of rouges that want to join the clan. He could be living there! Your brother could be alive and he could be there! He said that day he wanted to get away so we didn't get hurt. He could have been too hurt to return or he doesn't know where he is. We have to go there Brown! We have to!" Shadow said getting up and tackling the big brown tom. He let out a small chuckle looking at her with admiration.

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We won't go to BoneClan till tomorrow so you have till Wednesday to get me over 150 reads. I am writing this on Monday and I'll update this at midnight I hope so you have all of that day.