Seeking Revenge/Chapter 11

 Chapter 11

All she could think about was how much she wished that she had put this off until the next day.

Unable to sleep, she had tossed and turned all night long, waking up Scratch a few times in the process. Every time she drifted off into a light slumber, she was plagued with images of that tom discreetly slicing down her mother's throat.

And every time, she snapped awake, the leaves of the bush seemed like grasping tendrils, waiting to smother her. She tried to dismiss her kit-like fears and just go back to sleep, but whenever she did that, the cycle repeated again.

So now she found herself trudging along the last filthy streets of Twolegplace when the sun was just peeking over the horizon. She let out a yawn. Then tripped over her own paws in tiredness.

"Come on Lily," Scratch grouched, helping her up.

Shaking herself off, she replied.

"Don't even use those names anymore. They were just what BloodClan used to strip us of our true identities. From now on, we're Susan and Jacques again."

Jacques didn't seem in a mood to fight it. He didn't quite agree either.

to be continued