When Neal Gets Bored
Chapter One: A Letter from Milord
One summer after Lady Knight, Neal gets bored and decides to hook up Dom and Kel. Hilarity ensues when Dom and Kel are already hooked up and conceal it from Neal…
Sir Nealan of Queenscove was bored.
He was not bored in the traditional sense of the word, where one pines and whines while staring out the window. No, he was much more bored than that. It was almost as if the entire country of Tortall had conspired to make him bored. The peace with Scanra had been signed a month ago. Kel had come into the infirmary looking happy that morning, so he couldn't tease her about her Yamani face. Roald and Shinko had gotten married and off out of reach on their honeymoon. His wife, Yukimi was off in the Yamani Islands to gather furniture for their new home. (Could anything be more boring than that? He thought to himself at the notion of his lovely wife going on errands.) There was nothing to do!
The boredom had been amounting for a while now, but it was today that it had reached an unbearable height with the heat. The crops were in the fields and nothing could be done yet save sit around and stay indoors out of the sun. Curse the Gods, Neal had not known it could get so damned hot up north. It was the fault of the altitude, he supposed, together with the high summer sun. Everyone was cross and bored, and with the heat, everyone was lazing around and getting mad at each other.
But the worst of it had come in that morning with the nastiest of Neal's problems in the infirmary being a bloody nose. A bloody nose that was barely even bloody! Now that was the outside of outrageous for a man who'd spent his life fixing people's broken limbs and torn muscles.
But what could he do? He could start a party, but no one was really in the mood. He could bug Merric, but something told Neal that he would probably get a bloody nose for his pains, and a real one at that. He paced around the infirmary, banging the walls until someone on the other side shouted for him to shut up. Obviously that wasn't an option anymore, so now what?
Neal decided to read his mail, or, rather, Kel's mail that she had left behind earlier when she had come to see him. It is a mark of how terribly bored he was indeed that he picked up a missive from my lord Wyldon of Cavall and began reading. The letter was addressed to Kel and began relating details of military strategy and nonsense that he had no patience with and already knew besides.
About to set the letter down and go begin composing poetry in honor of the latrine (or something equally as dire, such as the ugliest of the kitchen help) Neal spotted his cousin Dom's name amid instructions in Wyldon's letter to Kel. Domitan of Masbolle and his men will be staying at New Hope for the summer to help survey the area and to ensure that the remnants of Scanran skirmishes are gone...read the letter.
Neal sat bolt upright. This was the perfect solution! He would bet all the furniture that Yuki was bringing home that Dom fancied and/or was in love with Kel. And, quite frankly, somewhere in the back of his mind he had an idea that Kel liked Dom.
Well, if she didn't like Dom, she would soon! Neal sat back, enjoying his sense of purpose. Kel and Dom just didn't know what was coming to them.
A/N: This story was actually a submission for a scenario in 'What Would Kel Do' but I felt that it's possibilities couldn't be covered within the scope of the What Would Kel Do boundaries.
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Lady Mage