leafpool obsessed

In this AU, Leafpool finds out she's pregnant and goes to tell Crowfeather. She doesn't really expect him to be involved with the kits, but she feels he at least has the right to know. Crowfeather reacts... less than pleasantly. Dude just freaks out. He just got his life in WindClan back in order and now he has half-clan kits!? He shouts at her and tells her to give up the kits at the twolegplace or worse, drown them. When she hears that, Leafpool snaps. How could he say that about their kits, HER kits!? And she doesn't really mean for it to happen... but off the ledge he goes.

Simultaneously, Squirrelflight, sick of Brambleclaw's bullshit, takes him out on a solo patrol and kills him. It's something she's been planning for moons, and is ecstatic. Finally, freedom! But then her dear sister runs over to her, panicked, half coherently babbling about a pregnancy and a murder and she didn't mean to do it. So now, they have two bodies to take care of.

Squirrelfight goes through with her plan with Brambleclaw, leaving the body at the foot of a fox den. As for Crowfeather, he's dragged over the Thunderpath. And Squirrelflight raises Leafpool's kits with them being "the last gift Brambleclaw gave her".

And they were my stars

Leafpool! I feel that when you read TNP, you either get super attached to Leafpool, OR you get super attached to Squirrelflight. Nowadays, Squirrelflight is my favorite, but I used to be SUPER attached to Leafpool purely because the fandom seemed to hate her at the time.

As for her design, I didn't know whether to go down the chubby/fluffy Leafpool route or the sleek Leafpool route that is shown in canon. I ended up doing a little bit of both, with some chest fluff and a thin tail.