Author's Note: This was written for the Goldenlake SMACKDOWN but I missed the flood days, so i'm posting this now.

I am not Tamora Pierce


Buried Secrets, PG13

Summary: The prince can do it, why can't they? All characters in this story at least 18 years of age. Warnings: Contains sexual references.

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They didn't mean for it happen like this. They knew it was wrong, unacceptable. If they were found they would be ridiculed and shunned. Cast out of their families, they would become a plague to the court and forced away from their lives.

Unless they had a powerful ally.

An ally like the prince.

They had heard the crowned prince and his squire. There was no mistaking what they were up to behind closed and locked doors.

It gave the men hope.

If the prince and his squire were involved in such taboos, they could be too.

So there passions; burned like the prince's behind locked doors bringing heat to cold nights. Closeness was excused by friendship. Embraces held in dark, lonely corners. Truth buried in secrets.