Surprised, Splashpelt started to step back. He couldn't talk to her! She was in another clan! She stopped him with a hiss, and then grunted with the effort. Sandfang wasn't even close to old. What could make her so tired as to wince after a hiss?
"Splashpelt, I'm having kits." She mewed, not gentle the slightest.
He almost yelped with fear, but they did need to talk, and he couldn't draw a cat to the conversation. "Sandfang, what? I told you to stop this madness! What do you mean your having kits?!" He cried. She sighed.
"I don't even know. I never wanted this either, believe me. Having kits means stuck in the nursery watching toms go in and out as they please, and looking after mewling scraps of fur. I can't take them, Splashpelt. The clan doesn't trust me. One of them scented me across a border. The whole clan believed her, the traitor. If I brought back kits with no father, they'd never accept me. They'd banish me!" She yelped.
Splashpelt noticed she hadn't exclaimed that the clan wouldn't accept the kits. She was worried about being cast out herself. Meaning she didn't care enough about the kits anyway. He'd have to take them. This wasn't the mother they wanted.
"I'll accept them. I'm a loyal warrior. I could think of something. Where are they?" He asked. She shook her head.
"Kitted them yesterday. They're in a rabbit burrow. Too short to climb out. I come every now and then to feed them, lick them, and tell them it'll be alright. I'll leave them on your side of the border sometime. Just pick em' up and take em' home." She mewed, grinning.
"Sandfang, I will accept these kits, but you can't change the truth. You shouldn't have kitted them, anyway." He turned and padded away without another word. He wasn't going to waste a breath on her anymore. She shouldn't have kitted these kits. Then he remembered his mother in the elders den. The clan needed these kits.
He would come every day, and every patrol to check for the kits. He would get them soon after they were dropped off. He didn't want them to ever end up learning who their mother was. He would make sure they wouldn't.
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SplashStar's Vision - Caves, Grass, Sea and Sky - Warrior Cats Adventure
FanficSplashkit has been born into Seaclan - one of the new clans of the area. His clan has just been made, with barely any clans. When Splashkit becomes an apprentice, he is visited in his dreams by a Starclan warrior, declaring he would see what no cat...
