What Am I To You? .xx.One Other Apprentice.xx.

[»m o rr i]

Now, If My Sky Should Fall, Would You Even Call? I Look In Your Eyes, I Can Feel The Butterflies...

Jasperpaw stepped from his den and yawned. The cold day time air darkened his already depressed spirits. The tom sat in the clearing alone, grooming his mottled brown pelt and muttering to himself every now and then. The medicine cat apprentice was just shrugging out of his early morning gripes-- that is, he was cursing everything he could think of to get it out of his system.

NOTE: The Lyrics are a link to a song.

[FawnStar]

Monkeypaw opened his little bright eyes and sat up. He looked around the camp and saw that all the other apprentices were still sleeping. With a bored yawn, the tom went into the center of camp. He looked around, hoping that someone was awake. Monkeypaw's eyes darted around the dens and saw that by the medicine cat den, Jasperpaw was awake. The little apprentice walked happily to his friend and mewe "Hi!" in greeting.

[»m o rr i]

By this time, JasperPaw had gotten rid of all of his grumblings and nodded politely to the other apprentice. "Hi," he replied quietly, curling his brown tail around his paws. He felt better after having griped a bit, and was more cheerful now; it showed in the way he sat, and then way he had responded to the other apprentice. JasperPaw took in a breath of air and realized it was MonkeyPaw, a cat training to become a warrior. "What're you doing up so early?" JasperPaw asked, his milky blue eyes traveling around him without much use.

[FawnStar]

Monkeypaw shrugged. "I donno. Acctually I usually get up around this time." he sighed. "But no one is ever up, so I just end up going back to sleep" the tom smiled. "I'm an earlybird" he mewed with laughter. Monkeypaw looked at the medicine cat apprentice "And you?" he mewed with curiosity, sitting down, wrapping his tail againts his legs

[»m o rr i]

Amusement flickered through JasperPaw's eyes. "Oh, I get up this early so I can gripe without anyone hearing me," he mewed, chuckling softly. The mottled brown tom finished grooming himself quickly and then meowed, "I also enjoy how quiet the morning is."

[FawnStar]

Monkeypaw nodded in agreement. "Yes It is quite peacefull and nice. The sun is warm, the birds are singing." his eyes shone, "I don't know why anyone would want to miss it!" he laughed.

[»m o rr i]

JasperPaw thought for a moment. "They're just lazy," he commented, purring with amusement. He stood and stretched, drinking in another gulp of air. If he had been studied, someone would have noticed that he did this often, just to get a bearing on his surroundings; of course, this was one of the few things that let other cats know that JasperPaw was blind.

[FawnStar]

Monkeypaw looked at Jasperpaw. "What's it like." he purred "Being blind I mean." the tom had always thought that being blind would be so hard, and boring. Nothing interesting to see, alwys black.

[»m o rr i]

JasperPaw stiffened slightly, but untensed his muscles. "It's not so bad, really," the tom announced. "You don't get to see the brilliant colors of the world, but my sense of smell is amazing. Right now, I can smell that dew on the leaf over there," he added, pointing in the direction. "And my sense of feeling is even greater. If you were to shift on your haunches right now, I would feel it," he meowed.

[FawnStar]

Monkeypaw blinked in awe. "Wow." he breathed. He looked down, shuffling uneasly "So...Is that why, you know. Became a medicine cat apprentice?" he asked "Didn't you want to be a warrior?"

[»m o rr i]

"The cat does not pick his destiny, Monkeypaw," JasperPaw replied swiftly. "I didn't choose to become a medicine cat. StarClan told me to. Of course I wanted to be a warrior --It seemed like a fair trade; my eyesight, a chance to become a warrior of ThunderClan. But," here he sighed softly, "life doesn't always turn out fair."

[FawnStar]

Monkeypaw nodded, sad for the tom. But, Monkeypaw figured that he'd handled it for this long, so he guessed Jasperpaw could handle it for the rest of his life. "It's something to be proud of, really. It's quite amazing"

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JasperPaw chuckled. "I'm glad someone sees it that way," he mewed. He felt... Happy at the moment. Of course he was normally happy, but he felt happier than he had in a while. Perhaps this talk with Monkeypaw had helped his mood.

[FawnStar]

Monkeypaw smiled. He saw that he had helped with the other apprentice's mood. "Good!" he chuckled. The tom looked at the sky. "What shall we do until those lazy badgers get up" he looked at Jasper =paw "By badgers i mean cats" he clarified