[Disclaimer: BioWare owns Dragon Age: Origins, not me.]

I'm surprised to find barely any Alistair x Morrigan fanfics on here. For some odd, ODD reason, I happen to love this couple unconditionally. I always thought of their banters as flirting. Plus, it doesn't hurt that I hate the Male Cousland x Morrigan pairing. And I'd think the sex scene between the two would spark some inspiration! But, alas, no.

Anyways, this is pretty much a bunch of little scenes my mind came up with, showing what I hope is their budding relationship straight from the beginning (kind of, skipped a few parts) to the end.. and epilogue, of course. Hopefully I captured their personalities correctly. I suck at that kind of stuff, after all.

I was planning on making this a one-shot, BUT, because there were so many scenes, I decided to split all the scenes into separate chapters. Anyways, please do enjoy. Title from one of their banters.

"I do wonder…" Morrigan's voice spoke.

Alistair lifted his head from where it was looking down at his armor to look up at the raven haired woman standing before him. Odd that she would walk all the way across camp to speak to him of all people. After all, it became established the moment he and Morrigan met that they would be rivals for the rest of their (his) short life.

Morrigan was looking down at him, no doubt waiting to see that she had his undivided attention. Once she realized that she did, she continued.

"Is it permissible for two Grey Wardens to…" Morrigan brought her index finger to her very full, plum colored bottom lip. "…what is the word I search for…?" she drawled out.

A moment passed by before Alistair realized he was holding his breath. He realized his throat was dry so he swallowed, then quickly licked his also dry lips.

"…caboodle?" he offered, voice soft but he hoped still had a joking sound to it.

"Fraternize," she said flatly, dropping her hand. Her eyes were cold as always, but Alistair was taken aback not by the stare but by what she meant when she used that word.

He stopped cleaning his armor and straightened his back, looking up at her defiantly.

"What's wrong with fraternizing?" he spat at her.

Morrigan's left eyebrow shot up for just a moment, obviously a little shocked that Alistair was actually giving her some attitude. Then her mouth started to creep into a sly grin and Alistair hoped she didn't see him gulp.

"It seems most… undisciplined-," Alistair opened his mouth to retort, but Morrigan quickly cut him off, "-for an organization that claims it will do whatever is necessary to end the Darkspawn threat."

Alistair pursed his lips. Clearly she was talking about how friendly he and Elissa had become. It was even clearer how she disapproved of it. Many snark replies came to his mind, but in the end, all he said was:

"One thing has nothing to do with the other."

That damnable grin on her pale face was still there.

"Oh no?" she asked, clearly enjoying his discomfort. "Well," she shifted from foot to foot, but not uncomfortably, "what if a Warden was forced to choose between the Warden he loved and ending the Blight?" her thin eyebrows rose up. "What should his choice be?" Her voice was calmly conversational, Darkspawn take her.

It threw Alistair back, though. At first he didn't know what to say, but even when he came up with an answer, he stammered over his words.

"Th-that," both of Morrigan's eyebrows rose upon hearing his stammer and clearly she knew he was cornered. He continued on anyways. "..is-is a ri-ridiculous question."

Morrigan's grin was replaced by a smirk.

"And I have my answer," the way she looked at him now was like a fox about to eat a rabbit. "Most kind of you," she said softly, her voice low with a tint of… Alistair didn't know what it was.

Without another word, she turned around to walk back to her campsite, and as much as Alistair despaired afterwards, he couldn't help but notice the tantalizing way in which her hips swayed.

No, the scenes are not so closely related to the banters in the game. I wanted this to be the first one because.. well it's where I got the title from so... yeah.