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winterclan's leader and mistakenly caught floaty thing
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Post by simplylight on Nov 8, 2019 17:12:05 GMT -5
"Well, uhhh..." She glanced away, feeling a bit flustered at the question. How long have you felt this way? That question seemed to echo through her chest. It made her uncomfortable and slightly irritable to confront her emotions this way. She had always preferred hiding them away and putting on that oh-so-familiar mask of bitterness. It was easier that way. She scuffed one paw against the ground. "It's been...a while, I guess." Pygmyprawn started just as cautiously as he asked, outlining a leaf with one black claw. "How could I say anything? You know me. I don't fall into those kind of feelings easily, so I figured it wasn't right of me to. When you met..him, I just wanted you to be happy. If you found joy with him then I figured I'd be alright in the end." Oh, how wrong she had been. Wright had simply been a desperate jump to remove those feelings for Chim. She couldn't bring herself to tell him that, though. "I couldn't put that kind of pressure on you, or Doestar. What kind of friend would I be to dump unwanted emotions on the both of you?" It stung to tell the truth, and it all felt awkward coming out of her mouth. While it felt nice to get it off her shoulders, she also felt that since of regret for letting go of information she had held on to and tucked away for so long.
She'd loved him since Doestar... at the latest. Chim let out a slow breath as he processed this. His relationship with the other leader had been a secret -- the worst kept secret in the clans, it seemed, but the young cat had never been much for subtlety -- and he still didn't know how to define it in his mind, even a few moons after they'd met. It didn't matter anymore, not really, it was just another complex he could leave resolved in the back of his mind, right beside his grief for his parents and his sister and the loss of all he'd ever held dear. Chim himself was surprised he was still standing. He had lost everything with the flood.... except he hadn't.
The ginger tom laughed shakily, glancing back up at her with a heavy darkness in his eyes. "I really thought I might love him. I mean, he was everything, wasn't he? Everyone loved him." His grimace twisted in bitter mirth. "Thought I could spend the rest of my life with him, and what a sick joke that was. Because it wasn't him I was worried about most, who I wanted to see when everyone else died. I was willing to live the rest of my life in the ruins of my clan without him... but I couldn't live with losing you, and Tuskblood, and my sisters. I couldn't live without my friends. Some happiness he must've brought me, huh?"
winterclan's leader and mistakenly caught floaty thing
2,485 posts
Post by simplylight on Nov 16, 2019 20:02:10 GMT -5
Pygmyprawn's eyes dulled with grief, but it wasn't so much her own. He had been through so much, but didn't allow himself to process it (not that she was much better). She wished again that she could take every ounce of pain from him and carry it on her own shoulders. Somehow through this whole mess he managed to still blame himself. "I saw it. It was the joy that filled your eyes. Maybe it was just a seed, but it was there nonetheless. Was your heart willing to leave him? I don't know if we could truly answer that, Chim, because you don't listen to your heart." She responded, a little more blunt now. "I just know the way you two looked at each other. It was different... unreachable." She let out a long sigh, feeling a sudden tired from the flood of emotions over such a short time.
"I don't know," he shrugged, unconvinced, or maybe trying his best to be. It was so much easier to say he'd never loved than to admit the bitter truth. Loved and lost, again, because his life was some sick joke and wouldn't it be so funny if he lost everything and everyone? No, it was better to pretend there had never been a future for them, a fantasy his companion seemed determined to ruin. He jerked his chin away sharply, staring at the ground as he fought against the grief rising in his chest.
"'S not like my heart ever did anything for me either," he answered quietly. "Why the hell should I listen to it?"
winterclan's leader and mistakenly caught floaty thing
2,485 posts
Post by simplylight on Nov 23, 2019 21:27:41 GMT -5
A guilt washed over her like a wave of cold water. She had caused the pain in his eyes by going too far. Pygmy brushed her cheek against his for a moment then turned around. "Come on, let's keep walking before we both catch a gloom and turn into rain clouds." She snorted, trying to convince herself that it was all okay even though inwardly she was beating herself for such a careless mistake. "Hearts truly are troublesome. Too bad we need them to live or I would have left mine in that musty prison for Meepo to experiment on." It was a weak, light bit of humor that made her whiskers twitch. Somehow she couldn't imagine that little nut doing any mad experiments. The humor quickly faded into a dull ache she tried her best to cover up for Chim's sake. Unreachable. That is what she had decided long ago when she began pushing those feelings away. Unreachable for me.
Too late for that, he mused, but he just snorted and plodded obediently after her. He was blinking hard against the feelings choking his throat, determined to let them go, wishing it was so easy. Other cats never seemed this emotional, why did he have to be? A small part of him wanted to keep going, to talk until there was nothing left to say, to get everything outside of his head so he could forget and erase his burden. He never could. It wouldn't work, forgetting was never so easy, so he kept it all locked up tight inside where no cat could find his feelings in the dark but himself. Not even himself, often.
Oh, right, they were supposed to be avoiding the doom and gloom.
Ridiculously, he felt a faint smile flicker across his lips at the familiar name. "You know, I almost miss the little guy," he admitted to her. "He was a lot to deal with, to be sure... but I don't know, there was just something about him. His eyes, maybe, or his smile." Chim always had a weak spot for soft cats. He hadn't fallen for this one, but he had a special warmth for Meepo all the same. He would never admit it to the little tom, but he'd grown to enjoy his company, just a bit. "Shame we couldn't take him with us. He might grow if he saw the sun once and a while."
