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Carnagepanic had always known he was an inadequate mate for Valleyrose. She was amazing, and he was less than average, and after hearing her mother talk about her relationship so fondly, he doubted he had the courage to treat her right. He didn’t love the way that Oakshade did. How was he supposed to compete with that? He was pretty sure they weren’t meant to be, but Tinymutiny had given her blessing, and, well.... he was scared to tell Valleyrose but he was terrified to disobey her mother.
So the small calico tom waited anxiously for Valleyrose to join him at the site of their first date, fidgeting and praying she would come and hoping she wouldn’t. He should just go. He should run. Where could he run where they would never find him?
Valleyrose approached Carnagepanic and gave him a tiny peck on the cheek before he properly had a chance to register her presence. The beautiful torbie calico wore simple yellow paint accented with small swirls of red and orange. Framing her face were a half dozen or so white petals, a favorite of hers, completing her simple yet elegant look, "Hi there, cutie. How was your day today?"
His mismatched eyes closed at her touch and he purred contently, leaning in as she pulled away. He was the luckiest tom in the world to be sitting here right now, of that he was certain, and even if today went badly . . . even if she rejected him . . . he would remember her and feel lucky again. Even if he only held her attention for a moon, she was special. He wanted her forever.
“Hi,” Carnagepanic murmured, re-opening his eyes and smiling at her nervously. “It was... a little spooky, actually.” That was an understatement, his paws were still trembling a little. “But that’s, um, a story for later. How was your day?”
"You're too cruel!" Valleyrose laughed, returning Carnagepanic's smile, "Dangling a story in front of my nose then hiding it away... I won't pry, but I will hold you to your word about sharing it later."
After her laughter subsided, she cast her gaze toward the sky, mapping out her day thus far. It didn't take long for her to sigh and shake her head, "As for me, nothing notable. Just another day with the usual chores, although I'd like to note that the weather is beautiful. A great day to relax on some sunning stones and snooze the afternoon away..."
Was that a bit too clear of a hint? Probably, but Valleyrose was the type of cat who was honest to a fault. When prompted, you could expect her to say exactly what was on her mind or refuse to answer, there was no ambiguity in between. She sensed that Carnagepanic was a kindred spirit which was part of what drew her to him. The only difference was that he seemed to err on the side of silence while Valleyrose was more vocal, but there was nothing wrong with that in her mind.
She made everything so easy. So simple. Carnagepanic couldn’t describe it; there was just something about her that made all of his problems seem bite-sized. He could tackle them later, on his own time, after they were done lying here in the sun and having a laugh. Being around here just made him... less worried. Even about something as monumental as this.
“It would be,” he purred. “But first, there’s something I need to tell you. Two things, actually.” He fidgeted his paws, then looked up her and blurted it out before he could stop himself. “You should know I’m an elemental too. I haven’t told anyone that, it’s-its a bad one, but if we’re going to .... be together ... you should know the truth.” He hesitated, looking for the right words to explain. “Um... my siblings and I... we’re all twins. Four minds in four bodies and we can uh, move between them? But not right now. My brothers aren’t in the forest, and my sister... I don’t know where she is, but I can’t feel her. She’s not here either.”
Licking his lips, he took a half-step back. Was this the truth that was too much for her?
Valleyrose blinked in surprise, although not because of the content of his statement, but the way in which he delivered it. She lifted her snowy white front paw and booped Carnagepanic on top of his head, "I sort of figured as much. I was an apprentice when Vulcan and the four of your came to SunClan, remember? Vulcan was clearly an elemental of some kind, so it's not that big of a stretch to assume you are too... but..." And then her care-free expression faltered slightly, now reading concern, "... I don't really understand your element. You can move between what... your bodies...?"
But then shook her head and took a deep breath. When Valleyrose looked back to her mate, she was back to her usual self, "You know, it doesn't matter. I love you for you, everything else will work itself out!"
She... she knew? Carnagepanic was startled. Four identical cats didn't exactly blend in, but he assumed everyone would forget about them with time. They weren't very memorable, and his siblings had all departed soon after. He had planned on it too. Without his family, he had no desire to stay in this clan; he had only come to rescue Fawnpaw. SpringClan had never been home to him, but it was the best place he had lived up to that point, so he was preparing to go back when.... well when everything fell apart in the clan.
And now, strangely, he was finding the clan didn't seem very appealing anymore.
"R-Really?" His purr stuck in his throat as he blinked up at her hopefully. "You think that?" He bit his lip, tempted by the offer not to speak. What if she was scared of being with him once she knew that one day he might not be himself, and she might not even know who she was speaking to? But he had to keep going. "... Yeah. I guess moving bodies is one way to put it. If my sister was here, I could jump into her body and control it. And one of the others could do the same to me. Does that... doesn't that worry you?"
"Huh, that is quite worrisome," Valleyrose replied, although she didn't seem all that bothered by it. She was much more concerned about how it worked than what it meant to her and her mate, "Is there anything you can do to stop it from happening or regain control? Or is it all in the paws of the cat who instigated it? Oh, and where do you go when your body is taken over - into your sibling's body, maybe? Is there a limit on the distance or can you do it anywhere so long as you're within the boundary of the Enchanted Forest? Do you---"
She cut herself off, blushing brightly for maybe the first time. It seemed Carnagepanic had stumbled upon one of her more embarrassing traits, that she was an absolute nerd when it came to elementals.
"I'm sorry, you don't have to answer any of my questions if you don't want to. I just really like to learn about other elementals. Most of the ones I know of are the more secretive type, so..."
how dare you make me try and remember how my own power works
She had so many questions. It was a little overwhelming, but after all of his fears that she would just reject him or fear him, it also came as a massive relief. And.... it was so cute?
He had never seen her like this before, but a soft smile dawned on his face and he loved her all the more fiercely.
"I'll try to answer them all," he promised her, shuffling his paws as he tried to think back. "I don't know if I can stop it, I've never really tried? It just didn't occur to me. I've always hated that we can do this... my siblings get into a lot of trouble, and now they could pin it on my body... but they haven't tried very much." It helped that they were too far away to reach now. He missed his family, but at least he had peace of mind now. "Um... I haven't tried from very far either, sorry. But I can feel them anywhere in the forest, so I think I could try."
Okay so Valleyrose was very torn. On one paw she really wanted to see this power in action, but on the other she didn't want Carnagepanic to misconstrue her goal because from the outsider looking in she just asked her boyfriend to leave so she could talk to his brother. Kind of weird, right? Her sunstone eyes betrayed how eager she was to see the element activate even though what she said next suggested the contrary.
"We can try later after speaking to one of your siblings... after all, it would be pretty rude to just take them over without any warning, right? I'm sorry, I really took us on quite the tangent, didn't I? How about we just go somewhere and have some fun, your pick, it doesn't have to be anything fancy."
"Yeah, okay," Carnagepanic agreed, pretty sure that asking his siblings to possess his body was one of the last things he would ever do, but more than willing to put that potential argument behind them for now. Forever, hopefully, if he could convince her to forget he'd ever brought it up. It wasn't until she started to talk about tangents that he remembered his powers were just a prelude to his real question, and he had something far more important to ask her about tonight.
"Right," he breathed, still tempted to back out, but he had a tiny bit more courage now that she was with him. And his great fear of disappointing her mother certainly helped. "Um, right, there was another reason I brought you here. This was where we had our first date, remember? I hope so, it was like, almost our only date," he chuckled nervously but Sun God, that was a bad thing to bring up now, right?
Valleyrose didn't consider that their only date. She didn't like glitz and glamour or over-the-top events. No, when she looked for a mate she wanted someone who made her heart flutter just the same hanging out on a patrol as it did going the Lover's Lane. Sharing a piece of prey in the middle of camp meant just as much to her as a date. Bottom line his comment made her feel a little crestfallen - did he not feel the same way? - but she did her best not to show it and gave him a genuine, easy smile, "Of course I remember! Sorry, I guess I didn't realize you already had brought me someplace special. Sorry, I've been a little frazzled lately..."
"Don't be sorry!" Carnagepanic's eyes widened in horror. He was really making a mess of things. The last thing he wanted was to make her feel upset. Was he making the right choice? Shouldn't she be with someone who knew how to act around her? He liked her, he really did, but maybe he was making the wrong choice.
"I'm sorry. I'm doing this all wrong. I just wanted you to come out here because I thought it would be special, I thought maybe it would make you happy. It was already such a good place in my memories, I thought maybe you felt the same, and then when I proposed it would be even happier, or maybe unhappy, or---"
His voice cut off the moment he realized he had given it away. Mousebrain!
"Um. Forget I said that. We-Well, don't forget. Valleyrose, will you be my mate? Please? I-I asked your mother and everything."
Proposal meant something different than being mates in SunClan. It meant not only that he wanted to be mates with her, but that he intended to perform the Tying of the Knot ceremony with her. That wasn't something even the closest of mates talked about until well into their relationship; her own parents hadn't even committed to it before Oakshade had died.
"I want to be mates with you, too, but can we slow down a little bit? We're only gong on a few dates and while I'm not opposed to Tying the Knot someday, it's... well, it's a lot, you know?" She was trying to be nice but honestly freaking out a little bit. It ruined the otherwise dreamy moment she had been imagining for the day she finally found a mate. Her heart was certainly full but it was about 50 / 50 love and anxiety, "So let's start out as just mates... is that okay?"
Would he reject her? That was her greatest fear, but Valleyrose was honest to a fault, she couldn't just nod along and agree to this in ites entirety and she wanted him to understand why.
His ears flattened and Carnagepanic stared at his paws. His anxiety was gone in an instant; all the hot, cramped nerves in his belly dropped into a depressive spiral as her words sank in, piece by piece. She wanted to slow down. She didn't want him, she didn't want to tie the knot and be his mate. Carnagepanic couldn't blame her. He was so ordinary and insufficient and he paled in comparison to her glory and a naive part of him had hoped that she wouldn't care, that maybe she would be okay with this because he was trying to do things right, he was trying to be a gentleman, be better, but she saw through his facade, and maybe it was his insecurities or maybe he just wasn't enough, but he didn't want her. He had the guts to face her and ask, but now his courage was drained from him, and he did as all cowards do: he fled.
"I'm sorry for wasting your time," he replied numbly, turning his paws away from her. "Yeah. We can slow down." He knew what that meant. A slow, painful, drawn-out end to spare his feelings. Her words echoed in his head as he walked away. She didn't want to tie the knot. She didn't want him. She wanted to be just mates. Just mates? Friend mates? Did she want to be his mate?
He was halfway through the bushes when his mind finally finished loading. "Tying the knot..." he repeated softly. "Tying the Knot." That was--- that was the ceremony Bloodystar wanted to perform. The bonding ceremony had been interrupted by Littlestar's return. Oh Sun God, he didn't want that, he was bound to three other souls already, he couldn't handle one more. That's what she thought he wanted? So... so she still wanted him?
Carnagepanic didn't think. He spun around, crossing the few lengths between them faster than he had moved in his life, and knelt down at her paws.
"I'm-- I'm so sorry! I didn't mean that! I just-- I just wanted to be mates, I didn't want to do-- to do that! I'm sorry I messed this up, I-I didn't mean to do that, and then I left, oh," he groaned in horror at his own actions, he couldn't blame her if she didn't want him now but he had to try, "please don't go, I-I do want to be your mate if you'll have me. Please. No-- no tying the knot."
When Carnagepanic made it back to Valleyrose's side, the calliby she-cat was sobbing. Crystal-like tears poured down the white fur of her cheeks dotted the group around her, and you could see them clearly because her element encouraged clovers and grass to grow. When she was emotional, she always had a harder time controlling her abilities, a tell-tale sign that she'd been shaken to her core.
"What...?" She wiped the latest tears from her eyes and gave Carnagepanic a bit of a quizzical look. She'd understanding thought things were over and had only just started to process that fact and here he was back again, begging for forgiveness. Her heart was doing backflips at this point. After a few more seconds of mental processing she let out a breath she hadn't realized she had been holding, "I-I think I understand. I misunderstood you earlier, you were proposing being mates, not getting married. Oh Sun God, I'm so stupid!"
She was crying, and it was all his fault; Carnagepanic felt so wretched that tears were rolling down his face too. Clovers sprang up around his paws and he buried his face in them as they grew, wishing they might just swallow him entirely. It would be penance for his sins if he just melted away, but the Sun God had other plans for him, and in all her grace, Valleyrose was offering him another chance.
"It's-- it's my fault," he stammered, blinking up at her. "I've been here long enough, I should have known... I should have thought... I shouldn't have run away." SpringClan was the first time he had a real taste of what romance and love were all about, his parents had never been around as an example, and there a proposal simply meant becoming mates; they didn't have the unique binding ceremonies that SunClan did. But he had lived here for moons, he should know.
"Um-- so-- if I'm asking you to be my mate, not to tie the knot, would you... would you say yes?"
"Of course," Valleyrose breathed and in seconds had Carnagepanic wrapped up in a tight embrace. In that moment the clovers surrounding the two of them blossomed into tiny purple-and-white pom-poms, emitting a simple but pleasant aroma reminiscent of the summer that had just recently come to an end. The calliby she-cat burred her head into Carnagepanic's shoulder and held him close for a length of time that may have felt either too long or too short then drew away, "I love body-paint, I really do, but it's not very conductive for snuggling..."
Her face was smeared in a mix of her paint, her tears and Carnagepnaic's paint. She looked a mess and he probably did too. But that's was okay, nothing could ruin this moment for her - she had a mate!
"... Why am I talking about body paint!? I have a mate! We're mates! I can't wait to tell my family!"
Carnagepanic purred and snuggled her close, inhaling her sweet scent as it mingled with the flowers around them. He was her mate now, he had accepted him, the realization made him want to cry out in relief and joy. They had nearly ruined this, but now they never would, they were mates now, and the word just kept echoing like a dream in the back of his mind. He was her mate, he had never ever anticipated someone would want him, and she did.
"Sorry," he mewed sheepishly as she pulled back. He wanted to say the paint looked good on her, and it didn't look bad, but it wasn't very ornate either. He shuffled his paws then reached up, vainly trying to gently brush some of the paint off her cheeks.
"Ye-yeah, you're family," he mewed slowly. Facing her mother had been terrifying, but she had so many siblings he had to talk to now too. He was going to have to meet all of them, wasn't he? He wanted to tell his family too, but he hadn't felt his brother and sister in so long, he wouldn't know where to look. His father might be easier to find, but what would he say to him?
