Thorns

[goldentail]

Splinter was walking. Every step he took felt like thorns digging into him. Not only that but it was continuously bleeding. He also felt like there were thorns in his heart. Meer would be all alone and it was his fault. He felt horrible.

[Meerful]

[shadow=white,left,300]Meer was sitting gingerly in the snow, setting one paw under the other to try to keep her small body warm. Even if she was warm physically, her heart was cold. Cold as in lost, confused, and hurt. Why did everything she ever cared about leave her? This...It just wasn't fair.

Clouds rolled viciously in the sky, as storms threatened the already darkened area. Winds swept through the forest, spreading the snow on the ground, making it look like eroded marble stone. It was beautiful... To the darkened hearts[/shadow].

[goldentail]

"Hello Meer" meowed Splinter. Everytime he saw her his heart filled with guilt and sorrow. He didn't want to cause her pain or leave her. He wished that this confusion would just end.

[Meerful]

[shadow=white,left,300]Surprised, Meer whipped her head around. Although she hadn't heard his greeting, she had felt his presence by the vibrations that tremored up her leg. Meer barely looked at him before turning around in sadness. Her small body shook with rage.

What did he want? He was leaving her, abandoning her! Meer couldn't raise three kits on her own, and she sure couldn't hunt for herself. She only had three legs, and whenever she tried hunting, the prey could easily hear her slide her back leg up to keep her balanced.

"Go away" She mewed. It was hoarse, as if she'd yowled to the moon a dozen times. Her mind was filled with the same antagonizing hate she felt for everything. Why? Because everything left her, or tried to kill her. Nothing was long term or commited. Meer wished she could just elave all of this and continue walking down the thorn path she had entered this forest on.[/shadow]

[goldentail]

Splinter could see Meer was hungry. He heard a mouse and stalked it and killed it. "Here Meer eat this" he whispered. Then he licked her ear. "Meer I am not dying anymore I promise see my paw. It keeps twisting to punish me instead of killing me. Goldenpaw and Steps Soft told me that I would not die. Goldenpaw said that she is going to do something to prevent it." He killed another mouse for himself. "I love you and I love our unborn kits. I wish you would go back to your normal self."

[Meerful]

[shadow=white,left,300]Words twisted in the air and turned into letters in Meer's mind as she watch intently at Splinter speak to her. Meer barely understood because her heart was so broken, she could'nt think, couldn't eat, not that she did anyways, and sometiems tried not to breathe. Life was just too much to bare. She did so much that should kill her, yet she still lived and breathed and existed.

Meer stared at him. Then she looked down at the disgusting mouse in front of her, but delicious prospects of eating filled her midn with horror. I can't eat, I don't need to. My kits wont be mine anyways She sighed, and pushed the dead prey away from her. She just couldn't to provide for her kits. Her kits wouldn't even be with her for her to nurse. Her milk was dried up, they would die.

"Splinter, look. I cannot do this. How do I know whether you'll die or not? I've been told you will, you tell me you wont. Your freaking former lover wants you with her, so when we're both dead, who will you choose then? Even when you die, I still live. I don't know why, but everything seems to die before me. I wish that I could die now. As for the kits, I've assigned them different mothers for I am leaving" She mewed, as if she didn't care about life anymore than she cared about the mouse she pushed away.[/shadow]

[goldentail]

"I already told you my paw is twisting so that only I feel pain. Steps Soft understands true love she only wants to cause me pain not you. My kits must live and so must you. I love you so much and yet I feel that you hate me" meowed Splinter. He licked Meer's ear.

[Meerful]

[shadow=white,left,300]Meer turned away, then got up. Thorns stuck to her fur, and clung to her paws as she walked a few feet away then sat back down, staining the snow red with her blood. The wind blew in her face, adn made a tear sting in her eye.

"I don't hate you, but I have every right to." She mewed stubbornly. Her body shivered. "I don't care about what happens to my kits, they'll all die anyways. And, you'll die just before I do." Meer's body quivered in anger. "I can't live like this[/shadow]"

[goldentail]

"I AM NOT GOING TO DIE" Thundered Splinter. He spoke loud enough for Meer to be able to hear him.

[Meerful]

//she's deaf. she can't hear//

Meer turned over on her side and began to shake with fear. She hated this. Most of all, she couldn't take being yelled at, it semed to kill her.

[goldentail]

Splinter lay down. His paw twisted.

[Meerful]

Meer didn't, couldn't turn around to look at Splinter. He had hurt her beyond all reason. Why would he yell at her liek that if he lvoed her so much?

[goldentail]

[glow=purple,2,300]Demonheart was walking. He scented loners. He walked over into the bushes. He watched the loners.[/glow]

Splinter walked over to Meer. "I'm sorry Meer" he rasped.

[Meerful]

Meer hadn't heard, she was deaf. She didn't see, didn't comprehend. Meer didn't want to live. There was too much death, sorrow,m and sadness. Had she ever even experienced happiness?

[goldentail]

[glow=purple,2,300]Demonheart leapt out of the bushes. He leapt at the cat named Meer. [/glow]

[Meerful]

Meer felt claws grip her. She sat still, didn't even jump, shriek in pain, didn't acknowledge a cat was on her.

[goldentail]

[glow=purple,2,300]Demonheart flipped Meer over. He prepared to sink his teeth into her.[/glow]

"Get off her" yowled Splinter. He pulled Demonheart off of Meer.

[Meerful]

Meer rested on her back. Suddenly she felt a jolt in her lower abodmen. She shrieked.
ohh, my gosh, this hurts... What did he do to me? all sense but pain left her as another jolt of pain lashed through her like lightening.

[goldentail]

Turning away from Demonheart he ran over to Meer. "Meer are you ok?" he meowed nervously.

[Meerful]

Meer began yowling in pain as more pain lanced through her. Her eye closed tightly, trying to hold back tears. She clamped her jaw shut, trying to hold back another yowl, but it broke free and she growled. Meer twisted in place.

[goldentail]

Splinter licked her head. "Meer Meer whats wrong" she meowed. He licked her head again.

[Meerful]

Meer thrashed her front paw, her insides were squeezing together!
"Splinter, I think..." She couldn't finish her sentence, she began shrieking in unbelievable pain. As her stomach contracted again and again.

[goldentail]

"The kits are coming" shrieked Splinter. "Oh no oh no oh no. Do you need any help?" meowed Splinter.

[Meerful]

Meer yowled in pain, trying to claw the ground tog et rid of the pain...

[To be continued in a different thread]]

[goldentail]

(where?)