A/N: ok, so this happened tonight when I was ahem, "sleeping" AKA reading under the covers, sooo, these are alternate scenes in the Tortall books, WARNING: THEY WILL NOT BE IN ANY SORT OF ORDER, AT ALL, I MIGHT SWITCH BOOKS AND SERIES ON W WHIM, BEWARE! THIS IS A CERTIFILEABLE CRACK FIC!!
ON WITH THE FIC!!
Page, POTS, chapter 8, messages,
Kel, when did you turn into a real girl? (PS this will not be exact, I don't feel like typing it exact, its just supposed to et the idea across, if you want to you can read it its on PG 125-126)
"Say Kel, will my lord let me sponsor my cousins? One of my cousins? This is Iden of Vikison and Warric of Mandash, they're both my cousins. This is the tremendous girl I told you about, Keladry of Mindelan"
Kel rose and bowed, trying not to grin at Owen's tumbling chatter. When she straightened she was startled to see his eyes bulge "Mithros's spear, Kel! When did you turn into a real girl?
"You said she was a girl already" muttered one of Owens cousins
"But not a girl-girl, with a chest and all!"
Lalasa had talked her into donning lighter cotton shirts, that draped like silk "I've been a girl for a while Owen"
"I never realized, it's not like there melons or anything, there just noticeable"
I had to look away, that was when she realized Neal was standing in the door, about to speak: "Owen! What are you saying? How could you not notice such a beautiful and perfect specimen of beauty!" he drawled, and looked at me as he said "we need to teach him tact."
It was then when I found my voice again I took a deep breath, and said "Owen, why don't I give you a…refresher course on the practice courts?" I reached up to grab my Glaive as Owen paled and was at a loss for words as I turned after removing my Glaive and grabbing my sword, I found Neal standing behind me, and gasped, him being so close still did strange things to me. Neal smiled as he looked down at me
He slowly turned to Owen and said "its really not that hard, she is a beautiful girl, I think you're the only one not to notice, or at least, that last one."
he then turned to me as I started towards the door, and grabbed me by the waist, spun me around, and in one swift, graceful movement, leaned me back, (just like in the old movies) kissed me gently on the lips, and as he did, righted me to a normal standing position, and blushing crimson, released me.
For a second I stood there, pole axed. Then, I raised my hand to my lips, just covering them with my fingers, stunned, then thanks to my Yamani training, quickly recovered and whispered softly "wow", I then looked around the room, and to the doorway to discover our little argument had drawn quite the crowd, the Prince was standing there looking as stunned as I felt, Cleon was shaking with what I thought was rage, from the expression on his face, he was crimson with fury. Seaver was looking behind him at Merric, who was lying on the floor, I think he fainted and I said,
"Is Merric ok? Neal, you dolt you're the healer, see if he's ok." I gave him a stern look, one that said, 'we WILL talk about this later.' And he grinned at me sheepishly, and loped gracefully over to where Merric was lying, while he was walking Dark Green fire collected around his hands as he prepared to scan Merric for injury, as he neared Merric he kneeled next to him on the floor and placed his slender fingers on Merric's temples, and a few seconds later looked up,
"He's fine, he just fainted, he'll have a bruise, but he'll be fine."
i bent down to pick up my Glaive from where I drooped it on the floor, and turned to Owen and said
"we have some unfinished business, you and I, go get your sword, I'll meet you on the practice courts as soon as you get it, and no dawdling!" I brushed past the group of people at my door, with jump at my heels, and Neal put his arm around my shoulders as we turned down the hall to go to the Practice courts