The Escape from The Fire -private rp with leafygreenss-

[leafygreenss]

Juhi nodded, smiling as the young cat leapt away from them. She turned her attention to Maple. She wrinkled her nose. "Absolutely not." She said, "Never. Not once. No." She turned her nose up. "Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew." She gazed back at Clover, who, unfortunately, was now stalking a squirrel. The she-cat had minded Maple's advice, and now she was downwind from her prey. She caught it easily. When the she-cat returned, Clover was beaming. "Good job." Juhi said, "Disgusting, furry prey, but your stalking was perfect. Balanced." She turned her gaze to both of them. "Now each of you should find a bird. They're quite tricky to catch, they can fly, and squirrels, clearly, cannot. The bigger the bird, the harder the catch." She said simply, "Please don't fall out of the tree." She joked, "That would make me quite sad."

[Abbster]

Maple sighed. “Ok” she said, looking around, until she found a bird. “Oh good catch by the way Clover!” Maple purred, as she stalked up the bird, going down wind from it. She crept closer, and slowly when she was close enough, she leapt through the air and landed on the birds wings, killing it swiftly, picking it up, she padded back to her best friend. “How was that?” Maple asked, sitting down and putting the bird down a t her paws.

[leafygreenss]

Juhi watched both of the she-cats as they stalked their prey. Maple went after a small thrush, Clover after a common house sparrow. Both fine birds, neither large enough to cause either of the cats to tumble through the branches to the ground. Maple slunk amongst the branches well, as did Clover. Still, both of them were stiff, unaccustomed to having so little choice as to where to place their paws. Both caught their prey with ease, and when they replied, she loosed a loud purr. "Well done, both of you. The only thing that'll make you better is time now, time and comfort." With a nod to Maple's thrush she commented with a smile, "There is no way i'm carrying that squirrel, i've got your bird. That's enough for today."

[Abbster]

Maple snorted a bit. “Ok” she said, nosing the thrush over to Juhi, and picking up her squirrel. She then jumped off the branch and landed swiftly on her paws at the bottom of the tree. She waited for her friends to join them, and then padded back towards the barn. “Oooo” sunrise, a golden tabby she cat said, as she padded from the den. “Caught me some breakfast, have we?” She joked. Maple purred. “Here.” She said, nosing the squirrel towards her. “I had my breakfast for the morning.” Maple said as she padded back into the barn.

[leafygreenss]

Juhi snatched up the thrush happily, following Maple down the tree alongsides Clover. She landed with ease, although she would rather travel through the trees. It was safer there. Sometimes dogs frequented this section of the woods, and she had no intentions becoming the prey. As they padded back to the barn, she noted the sun, the day was moving quickly. It was past sunhigh. "Oooo," Juhi flicked her ears as Sunrise padded towards them, giving the tappy a swift nod as she watched Maple pawn the squirrel off to her. "Not much of a breakfast, the sun will be setting in a few hours." she mumbled through the feathers as followed Maple into the barn. She didn't hesitate to leap up the boxes, she dropped the thrush on the loft floor and stretched out her paws. "Still want to hear my story?" She asked Maple somewhat softly, "It's not a very fun tale to hear."

[Abbster]

“Juhi” Maple said. “You’re my best friend, I’m always here for you” she said. “I would love to hear your story, and besides…I didn’t tell you my whole story” she said, as she placed the thrush in her nest and waited to eat it until after her friend had shared her story. She curled her tail around her paws, and looked at Juhi. “I’m ready when you are.” She promised, licking her friends ear and waiting for her to tell her story.

[leafygreenss]

Juhi nodded, her expression somber. "I'm not going to tell every detail, it'd be far too long for that." She said with a faint laugh as she settled in her nest. "I was born in a barn far, far away from here, to two barn cats. When my littermates and I weaned, the owner of the barn gave his close friend a pick of one of us- of course he picked me, for some unbenounced reason." She said, rolling her eyes, he took me back to his farm and practically dumped me in his barn, where I found a group of four other cats. Three toms, one she. The other she-cat was young and had just arrived, and like me, was only about seven moons old." Her expression grew strained. "The toms were much older. Slightly crazy. I'm not going into details on their habits with females. Only that as a moon passed, each of them harassed us regularly, they were crazy, I tell you." She hissed, "We had no choice but to listen to them. We were outnumbered and inexperienced. So we stayed. We did as they wished. The other female was expecting kits by her ninth moon. That's when we left. Walked off into the woods and didn't come back. Somehow, by some miracle, we found Sabra. She brought me here, and the took other female to her own farm." Juhi shrugged, "I got lucky. No kits for me." She laid her head on her paws, closing her eyes. "That's why i'm never sharing a nest with anycat ever, no matter who they are. I'm never having kits. I'm never taking a mate. It'd just be too much."

[Abbster]

Maple blinked. “Juhi…” she whispered. “I….I’m so sorry.” She said. She knew what she was about to do, would make her best friend the most uncomfortable ever. Maple stood up, and walked over to her friends nest, settling down beside her, and she began to lick her ears. “With me here, I promise no cat will hurt you” she said, licking her friend again. “Please…just…give me a chance to share a nest with you” maple said. “You know you trust me. And if you really don’t want to, I understand.” Maple said. “Do…do you want to hear my story?” Maple asked.

[leafygreenss]

Juhi was still, unmoving. Her friend grooming her ears was supposed to be a calming gesture. Her body, her instincts didn't expect that, she flinched. "I told you just now. I'm never sharing my nest. It's not a thing I will do. Ever." Her voice shook a bit, and she fought to level it. She lifted her head, stood, turned around once, and sat down once more, now facing Maple. "I will listen." She said, her voice steady now. "I would love to hear. Just please do not touch me, not now. I'm tired." She curled her tail tightly around herself and flicked her ear once.

[Abbster]

“Ok…” maple said. “But, my story is…sadder than yours.” Maple said, then she stiffened. “Ok” she said, stiffening again. “Well, for one thing, I never met my father.” Maple said. “I told you that I saw my mother and littermates die when I was about 6 moons old” she said. “I was born in another barn, just like this.” She said, shaking her head a bit. She blinked a bit. She was telling her story…no cat had ever heard. “Juhi….” She said. “When I ran into the forest, I was alone….until about….a year, maybe a year and half.” She said. “That’s when….when I met Peanut.” Maple said, hissing a bit. “I thought…I thought he was the sweetest tom I had ever met.” She said. “Unlike you…” Maple stopped. “Unlike you, I did have kits.” Maple said, her eyes clouding. “It was right before I met you” she said. “The kits father…he ended up forcing me to have his kits, even though I didn’t want to” maple said. “He didn’t care.” Maple said. “When I became pregnant with his kits, he almost killed me.” Maple said. “And the kits, he tried getting me into the tunderpath….so I would be hit by a monster, and both me and the kits would die” maple said. “I…I managed to run away, but he followed me. Some how, I again, managed to get away….and then my kits were born” maple said. “After what Peanut had put me through….all three of them were dead.” She said, as her voice broke. “I buried them…and then I met you” Maple whispered, looking at her paws.

[leafygreenss]

Juhi blinked sympathetically. "No cat should have to go through that." She murmured, "I am so, so sorry." She glanced up at Maple then, a slightly crazed gleam suddenly entering her gaze. "I'm going to kill him." She said, raising her hackles slightly, "I'm going to kill him and he will regret anything and everything that he ever did in his awful life." She dug her claws into the hay, "I will flay him. I met you on the northern border right? I'll start there. Then i'll work outwards. I will make him regret being kitted." She hissed. "I've killed toms before. I can kill again-" She broke off, noticing her confession. She shook her head and continued her ramble, "And when he's dead he's going to descend to the darkest corner of Demons, where he will rot, forever."

[Abbster]

Maple let out a purr, and she pressed against her friend. “Thank you” she said, she pulled back as her paws shifted. “But that won’t bring my kits back” Maple said. “I miss them…” she whispered. “I…I had given them names before I buried them” she whispered. “Would you like to hear them?” She asked.

[leafygreenss]

She muttered something about killing him anyways. Then Juhi cracked a small smile, "I would love to hear their names." She said softly. "It's okay to miss them. If you didn't miss them, I think i'd probably be more concerned." She tilted her head to the side, then touched her tailtip to Maple's. "I think you would like to meet the other cat I told you about, us three have more in common then one would assume."

[Abbster]

Maple smiled. “I’d like that” she said, then she sat down. “Well. I had two she-kits and a tom” Maple said. “I named one of my girls Sunshine. Because she was the cutest little orange kit you’d ever seen” maple said. “Then the other she-kit, I named her Blue. Because she had the prettiest blue eyes ever.” Maple said. “And then…for my Tom kit….I named him Squirrel. Because he had the fluffiest tail ever” she said, her eyes clouding and she looked down at her paws, her ears pinning in sadness.

[leafygreenss]

Juhi tried not to reel at herself in horror. The names were adorable. But Juhi had spent years of her life cursing squirrels, hating them for their dense, fluffy fur. She had groaned anytime Maple had asked her to catch one. She swallowed. "Those are beautiful names." She forced out, her voice cracking, she couldn't meet Maple's eyes. " I don't think i'd be as against squirrels if you would've told me before." She said, her voice shaking slightly. "I'm sorry." She took one breath. Another. "My friend is named Tern, she has two surviving kits, both fully grown now. We could go visit her, in some time at least."