Change Your Mind

 c h a n g e y o u r m i n d  

a one-shot by stork

''enjoy! <3''

preface
"I don't need you to respect me, I respect me I don't need you to love me, I love me But I want you to know you could know me, If you change your mind, If you change your mind, If you change your mind, Change your mind..." - Zach Callison, "Change Your Mind" from the season five finale of Steven Universe

change your mind
The night is young as the Clan is called together by Streamstar.

"On this day, a year ago, we witnessed something that changed our lives." Her voice is loud, clear, and vibrant; it echos loudly in the camp. "Someone in our Clan revealed something we'd never thought we'd ever have to deal with."

"For those who don't know the tale, allow me to being." Next to Streamstar stands her deputy, Gorsewhisker. "Those of you who have been with us through this will remember Egretsplash."

*

Egretsplash realized everything was wrong when he saw the state of his group.

The group had tried to become a new Clan - consisting of members from the old lake Clans, they'd all been driven out for trying for a brighter future. So they decided they'd do it themselves.

However, there was a fatal flaw in all of them - none of them had any sense of good in them. And it wasn't like they'd all come from ShadowClan, either - they were all from different Clans.

Many of them had pent up anger inside of them, just waiting to go out. Some were upset over old mates and lovers. Some were upset that they'd been exiled, their views firmly on the fact that only they were right. And some had done actually terrible actions - Egretsplash himself had accidentally drowned someone while trying to escape from a raging river.

He didn't really like acknowledging that. It was just an accident. The guilt still boiled in his throat, though.

The snowy white tom was just trying to make everything okay. It wasn't their fault that these cats just wanted revenge - right?

He approached his friend Streamwing and murmured, "Are you still upset about your family?"

"Of course I am," she groaned. "I bare kits in my apprenticeship, then I find that the tom's betrayed my trust as soon as I hit warriorhood?" She sighed. "It's hard for me to get over that."

"Hey... come on, Streamwing, you'll get over that.."

She inhaled, but didn't say anything. Her eyes scrunched closed and she dug her claws into the ground. "I... I don't know how to get over it."

"Well," he murmured, "talk to me. I'm sure you'll feel better if you talk to me."

"He and I were so close as kits. Even though he was so much older than I am, we were still close." She paused. "He wasn't that much older than me. Anyway, when he pulled me off to the side and said he wanted kits, I... didn't argue." Her ears flattened. "Then two moons later and I'm literally about to give birth and he leaves me."

"Keep going."

tbc