Friendly Gossip Hour

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"Dahri!" 
Tarmac called out as he walked around the places that the older she-cat usually hides out during the day. He had big news to share with his friend, that he had been holding in for what seemed like days. It had been a long time since he had talked to the she-cat and he hoped she hadn't upped and changed locations on him. She has been known to do that in the past, yet somehow Tarmac always seems to bump into her again. It's kinda like they were connected in some weird way, he shook his head, laughing at the thought. 

He continued looking around for his friend, he was going to give up and leave but what he had to share was just too important. "I know you are around here somewhere!" The tom shouted out, taking a chance on the fact that maybe she was hiding from him too. "but I'm not leaving till I talk to you!" With a childish huff he sat on the ground, looking around him. Sighing when she didn't answer right away, he began to groom his tail proving that he wasn't moving anytime soon. 

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Dahri laid snuggled in her little, cloth and dirt nest in the back corner of her little shed. Her large body was somehow tucked under large pieces of scrap metal, rocks, and old farming tools despite the somewhat narrow opening to her nest. but she had managed to fit for as long as she had been there, which must have been...how many moons now? Well, she had moved around a bit in the past, but she always ended up back here. Eventually, she just accepted that it was where she was supposed to be.

Her ears pricked as she heard a familiar voice call for her. "Ah, not right now. I'm sleepy," She said almost inaudibly to herself. The voice continued to blabber on, and she stuck her head into the cloth in an attempt to drown out the voice. Her efforts were to no avail, and eventually, she squeezed her fluffy self out of the little den she had created. She stood near the edge of her shed wall, watching from the inside as Tarmac began grooming his tail. I guess he's not moving... The she-cat perked herself up as much as she could, raising her tail in a friendly manner and pricking her ears cheerfully. She then padded out of her shed and to Tarmac. "Good morning," She mewed,"What is the thing you need to tell me?"

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Tarmac whipped around, giving a half smile to his friend. He rolled his eyes the moment he noticed she had been in that stupid shed she always slept in. He hated that shed, it smelled gross and it was extremely hard for him to get in and out of it without ripping his hair out. but he supposed that's why she liked it there, no one could bother her easily. "Don't act like you aren't happy to see me!"He teased her, going back to grooming his tail.

"Anyway, I do have somevery important news to share with you.He meowed glancing over at her to see if she was even the least bit interested yet in what he had to say. "First off, I met a she-cat I rather like, but that's not the big news. He simply stated, he had never talked about any she-cat before when he talked to Dahri, but then again crushes weren't really what the two ever discussed. They usually sat for an hour and talked about big living changing things. To Tarmac a crush or mate even weren't as life changing as the real news. "I ran into my little brother."The spat the sentence out as if it had been a piece of fresh kill crawling with maggots. His eyes were full of anger as he turned his head to look at his friend. He angrily snorted before turning forward again watching the treeline.

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The she-cat blinked warmly and sat down, her long, fluffy tail wrapping around her paws daintily. Well, as daintily as possible for such a big cat. She gave her paw a quick lick and brought it over her ears, hoping to flatten some of the fur that was with no doubt standing straight up. Her ears perked and she settled her paw back down as the tom continued to speak. If Tarmac had been so desperate to tell her this, it must be very interesting. She wanted to catch everything.

Her eyes grew wide for a moment, and then she could not help but to prance her front paws and purr with amusement. "Oh, I do believe that this is very big news," She mewed, her whiskers twitching. "So...what's her name?" She sang, almost teasingly. Oh how she loved love. They had never talked about the tom's crushes before, and this was something that she was glad to change. She would take any excuse to muse on and on about how beautiful love could be if the two right cats were together.

but the tom continued, and her whiskers stopped twitching. She could almost feel the disgust and anger radiating from her friend. She sat and listened, and was unsure how to react. If it had been her, she would have been thrilled to meet a long lost relative. but, based on Tarmac's history, she had known he would never be happy to meet up with one of his siblings. "What happened?" She asked solemnly. For a moment, she wondered if the tom would think that she was too prying, but then again, he had never minded her revealing questions before. Her ears flicked back in a sign of shared anger. Poor Tarmac.

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Tarmac sent the she-cat a puzzled look. Why was she acting so strange about him liking a she-cat? It wasn't that big of a deal. Or maybe it was? "I gave her one of the mice I caught earlier today,"He begun his eyebrows knitting together as he watched his old friend, trying to figure out why she was acting so strange about this. He shook his head, she hadn't asked how he meet her but what her name was."I mean her name is Lullaby."The moment her name left his lips his whole body seemed to relax, his eyes even softend a touch. It would seem like a very small change, almost not there to someone who didn't know him. but to anyone close to him the change was monumental.

His demeanor changed once again though at the mention of his family. "He tried to apologize!"The tom hissed out his tail swishing wildly back and forth behind him. "Can you believe that!"Rage had completely taken him over, the thought of the people who betrayed him asking for forgivness made him want to kill. Of course, he had more control than to lash out at someone like Dahri who had done nothing but be there for him.

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Dahri listened intently as he spoke about this new she-cat he had found, her whiskers fluttering with amusement and curiosity. Awe, he gave her a mouse, she mewed in her head, "That is just adorable!" Her voice was light but passionate, her demeanor completely changing from her serious self that she had been just moments before. "Maybe you two will become mates some day! You can raise a big family together and always be by each other's side. And nothing will ever split you two apart." The she-cat was looking off to the side now, imagining four kittens tumbling over each other. Tarmac stood a bit off to the side, his eyes wise and his posture displaying his strength, and Lullaby, who Dahri imagined as a gorgeous silver tabby, sat elegantly with her tail wrapped around her beloved mate. Dahri was in the scene as well, of course. She was playing with a kit, her tail becoming a fluffy piece of prey that the kit was all too interested in catching.

but Tarmac's voice brought her back to their conversation, though the fantasy was still playing on repeat in her mind. "How dare he!" Dahri growled, her tail fur rising to match the intensity of Tarmac's anger. "What a badgerface!" The she-cat's tail gave a lash, and her ears flicked backwards angrily. Her claws unsheathed slightly, poking at the ground beneath her. "I can't believe that he could think that an appology would make up for anything, that foxhead," She hissed. "If I ever find him, I'll be sure to give him a good whack to the head! I'll say, 'that's what you get for being a badgerface!'" The she-cat glanced at Tarmac, hoping to get confirmation that this, in fact, was an ok thing to do to Tarmac's long lost brother.

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Tarmac's head fell to the side in confusion as he watched Dahri seem to fall in love with his musings about Lullaby. He didn't understand what was the big deal. It was just a she-cat that he got along with and liked. Liked a lot. "Dahri, it's not that big of a deal,"The large tom started, watching his friend with confusion still ever present in his eyes. He was about to object to the whole mates and kits thing, especially since families weren't his thing, he didn't have very good luck with them, when he saw her face. She was off somewhere, a dreamland probably. He knew that look because he had seen it on each of his siblings right before they left. It was the face of someone thinking of a better life, or rather a happier place or idea even. Tarmac's mouth lifted into a small smile, he couldn't say anything to her about it now, it wouldn't even matter if he did.

The tom continued to watch his friend, the anger slowly rolled off him as he watched her get all riled up. Someone backed him up, that was weird, he had forgotten what that felt like. For a few short moments he stood there. Just watching how Dahri reacted, he wasn't listening to her words, not really, he new she was insulting his brother and that was all that mattered. He saw her glance over at him for confirmation, "Yeah, yeah you can do that." It was slightly detached, not like the normal voice that Tarmac talked in. It was different, mostly because no one in a very long time had cared about his problems not like Dahri and he was just now beginning to see that. "What would you do? If you had family that wanted to see you again?"