White Horse (Songfic)

A continuation of You Were Mine. Original artist is Taylor Swift.

"Mudpaw! Cinderpaw! Mudpaw! Cinderpaw!" I smiled absently as my Clan cheered on my kits new names. I cheered with them, but mostly, my eyes were watching their father, Cinderfoot, for any unusual reactions. After all, he'd all but forgotten about his kits and me after he found Shimmerpelt. Now she was in the nursery, with his kits growing inside her. Thank StarClan I would move out today and back into the warriors' den. But Cinderfoot didn't look proud of his kits at all; he looked as if it was just another pair of kits, not his own. My tail drooped as the cheering died away and my son and daughter bounded out of camp with their new mentors. I sighed dejectedly and turned to make a new nest in the warriors den.

"Quailsong?" I turned. Cinderfoot was standing there, looking at me, hesitating.

"Are you talking to me, Cinderfoot? Save your breath. I've nothing to say to you." Proud of myself, I turned to go, but he stood in my way. "Move!"

"Give me a second!" He begged, his blue eyes hurt. "Listen, you have every right to be mad at me..." He trailed off and inspected me, waiting for my reaction. I only twitched my tail, a sign for him to continue. "And I just want you to know that Shimmerpelt will never be what you are to me. You'll always be my one and only." The nerve of him! I had to dig my claws in the soil to keep from raking them across his face.

"Oh, really? I'm your one and only? That's why you've ignored me for countless moons, never spoke a word to me, found Shimmerpelt, and turned around and mated with her?" I knew I was hurting him, but I didn't care. What was scaring me was that I had believed him for a heatbeat. I still loved him, and that would never change, but I would never love him like I once did again.

"I...I don't know what to say. I guess...I'm sorry, Quailsong."

"I don't accept." WIth that, I shoved past him and bounded out of camp.

Say you're sorry, that face of an angel

Comes out, just when you need it to.

Cuz I paced back and forth

All this time, cuz I honestly believed in you

I always thought that when he came back to me, he'd have forgotten all about Shimmerpelt. That he'd say he'd never loved a cat as much as he loved me. That he'd ignore her kits when they were born and start playing and visiting Mudpaw and Cinderpaw with me. But now, I wasn't going to let him. He would say he was sorry now, but would that stop him from loving Shimmerpelt?

Holding on, the days drag by

Stupid girl, I should've known, I should've known

I'm not a princess, this ain't a fairytale

I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet

Lead her up the stairwell

I was eating a mouse when he stopped me again.

"Look, I'm sorry, but I can't stop loving Shimmerpelt, so don't expect me to! I don't get why you're so upset!" My blood boiled and I leaped to my paws, sinking my claws into the mouse.

"You forgot me! You forgot out kits! You probably forgot Our Tree! You never gave me the time of day! I made a mistake in loving you. Because you'll never understand true love. You'll treat is as you'd treat a piece of fresh-kill; it's good, you eat it, it's gone."

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