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Jayfeather was sorting herbs when Berrynose walked in complaining.
“Jayfeather, my pad hurts.” Berrynose complained.
Jayfeather stiffled a groan, as he walk towards Berrynose and was inspecting Berrynose’s pad. Berrynose looked at Jayfeather’s gray tabby pelt, his eyes glowed while looking at Jayfeather’s shiney pelt completely lost in thought.
“All you have is a scraped pad.” Jayfeather meowed.
Berrynose snapped out of his thoughts.
“I’ll put some marigold on it.” Jayfeather meowed, padding to the back of his den, to get the marigold.
Berrynose sighed, he knew he shouldn’t stare at Jayfeather like that, Honeyfern’s death wasn’t even a moon ago! A-And medicine cats can’t have mates or kits. That of course, Jayfeather padded back, chewing the marigold into a pulp, and rubbed it on Berrynose’s pad.
“There, your good to go.” Jayfeather meowed.
“Nah, I’ll stay for a while, I’m not needed right now.” Berrynose mewed, not realizing what he said when he said it. Jayfeather groaned, Berrynose expected a snap or a rude response in return.
“Alright, fine, you can stay for a bit, nothing more.” Jayfeather hissed.
Jayfeather was gonna mentally gonna claw himself for the reply but felt waves of happiness flood off of Berrynose, and he thought he could sense something more but brushed that off. Berrynose went and sat in Jayfeather’s nest.
“Where’s Leafpool?” Berrynose asked.
“Don’t you remember?” Jayfeather meowed. “Leafpool became a warrior, stepping down from her position as a medicince cat.”
“Oh right.” Berrynose meowed. “Anyways, do you want to go hunting with me?”
Jayfeather thought for a moment before replying.
“Yeah, sure I got to stock up on some herbs anyways.”
Berrynose got up from Jayfeather’s nest, and padded over to him.
“Come on! Lets go.” Berrynose meowed.
Jayfeather and Berrynose walked out of the medicine den, and headed for the thorn barrier. The two toms walked about, stopping ever so offen to hunt and gather herbs, Berrynose had caught quite abit of prey, and Jayfeather got quite a few herbs. The two hadn’t talked much during the journey. Berrynose walked close to Jayfeather who smelled of different herbs, their pelts almost touching, Berrynose kept glancing at Jayfeather, who seemed not to notice or if he did notice he wasn’t showing it. Once at the camp, Berrynose put his prey in the freshkill pile and then padded off to the medicince den, where Jayfeather had left off to.
“Jayfeather, can I sleep in here tonight?” Berrynose asked.
“Why? Did you get hurt?” Jayfeather meowed.
“No, I just wanna sleep in here, with you.” Berrynose meowed, muttering the last two words.
Jayfeather thought for a long moment, which made Berrynose’s stumpy tail twitch, jayfeather sighed.
“Fine, I guess you can sleep in here tonight.”
Berrynose was excited, to stay in the medicine den more than ever. He was gonna sleep near or with Jayfeather, which that made him excited.