Name: Wait For It

Word Count: 452 words

Description: Write about how someone falls in love from outside the clan. Even though their partner won't (can't) join the clan, they'll still love them because they are the only good thing left in their life. That they are willing to wait for a million moons if it means spending the rest of their lives with them.

Extra: Pretty much unconditional love.

Time.

She had promised to wait forever for him.

But as the seasons went by, and she waited eagerly in the stars, it soon became clear that it was not forever that she would wait.

It would be an eternity.

With every new arrival, her green eyes searched the ranks, but he was never there. Once, a flash of a cat who looked like him, but then he was gone.

She struggled on.

Hope.

He had heard her promise, and vowed to keep it.

He waited, pleading the stars in his mind to let her come to him, but with each new kit he heard, she was never there.

After ages of waiting, he finally accepted that it wouldn't be a week.

It would be more than a thousand lifetimes.

Love.

He was the last good thing left in her (after?) life.

Her group-mates... long gone. Faded.

Part of her willed herself to fade, but she steeled herself.

Eternity? That wasn't that long. She would wait.

Pain.

It was painful, to not feel her against his flank.

It was searing, to watch his family find love, but to have none of his own.

And it was torture to feel the seasons go by, watch his brother's kits grow up, and to have no comfort.

Now he knew how his mother had felt.

Fade.

She could feel herself flickering, in between fading and living.

She could feel the toll being taken.

She could see the pity in her Clanmates' eyes.

But no. Soon.

After all, beauty is pain, and there's beauty in everything.

What's a little bit longer?

Death.

He felt himself fall.

He felt the darkness consume him.

At first, sadness overcame him at what would have been if he stayed.

But there she was.

He breathed her in, and ran.

Stars.

They twined their tails together, watching spirits leave and come.

There was anger, that the stars had torn them apart for so long.

There was sadness, that the eternity would never be recovered.

But there was joy, and elation, and delight, and love.

They knew that it was useless to remember the bad times,

because they were here,

and they were together,

and they were happy.

Spirits.

StarClan let spirits go, and let spirits come.

But cats were never far apart forever.

Cats would come together eventually.

StarClan was a place of peace and making up your differences.

It was a place where cats could heal their minds and spirits.

And it was a place where cats could be happy.

Which was exactly the state that Jayfeather and Half Moon would stay in-

until the day they faded peacefully, and their stars winked out.

I want to tell you guys, I am usually SongofThunder, but I am currently ILoveWingDoveWing thanks to a dare from the great Goldenheart215. Haha, cheesiest and funniest name ever xD