Sorry about the spelling. I'm am horrible at it; always have been, always will be.

Also, these will be short chapters and the story will go rather fast. Not a lot of fluff, more to the point and it is set in ITHOTG. The book ends the same, and not a lot changes. Only that Raoul and Gary both find out her secret, and she didn't tell em.

Disclaimer: I don't own Alanna, Jon, Raoul, Gary or any of the original character, Tamoria Pierce does; she also owns Tortall and all that.

CHAPTER 1

Alanna was slowly waking up. She was warm, and happy. It took her a moment to realize there was an arm around her waist and she didn't have any clothes on. That's when the event of last night came flooding back to her. Jon, Deila, the dress, the garden, knocking on Jon's door, his bed, pain and blood, bliss, cuddling, Jon. She had sex with Jon, her knight master.

Suddenly she started to panic. What if Jon only wanted her for one night? What if things were awkward now? What if he thought she went soft? And what in the world was she suppose to do now?!?! She had never spent the night with another person, she didn't know what happened when you woke up in the morning.

Looking out the window she noticed that it was almost dawn. That meant she needed to practice her weapons. As she moved to get up, Jon's arm tightened around her and he mumbled, "Stay, this is so comfortable."

"I can't," She whispered back.

"At least for another half hour, the maid won't come in to wake me up for at least an hour."

"Jon, I have to practice."

"This early?"
"Every morning."

He signed, "All right. But I'm going back to bed."

"Ummm….Jon?"

"Ya, Alanna?"

"You're arm."

"O right. Sorry."

She mumbled something he didn't catch as he reluctantly moved his arm. Sleeping next to her just felt so right. As she moved out of the bed he sat up and watched her gather her closes.

"Alanna?"

"Ya, Jon?" She asked looking up at him. He was watching her intently.

"You don't have any regrets do you?"

"About what?"

"Last night."

She blushed fiercely, "No, you?"

"Never."

He got out of bed and walked out to her. Putting one hand under her chin, he tilted her face to his and repeated, "Never" before he kissed her. And she kissed him back.

"Hey, Raoul," Gary called. "Guess what?"

"What," Raoul asked sitting down in the mess hall with his food.

"Jon wasn't alone last night." Gary looked overly happy with this news.

"Probably just Deila. Wouldn't be the first they had sex. And how would you know to start with?"

"Wasn't Deila."

"And you know that because?"

"Cause she was still at the ball when I walked past Jon's room and heard."

Raoul perked up, "Wasn't Deila?"

"That's what I said."

"Wonder who it was."

"I don't know. But it's someone he hasn't told us about."

At that moment Jon and his Squire Alan walked though the door's to the mess hall. They got their food and went to sit with Gary and Raoul. The easily started talking, and when the conversation moved to last night's ball Gary asked Jon, "So who did you spend the night with?"

Raoul noticed Alan's slight blush, and Jon replied, "No one."

"Don't lie," Gary said.

"I'm not."

"Yes you are," Gary said smugly. "I heard you last night."

At this Raoul noticed that Alan slightly paled. Odd he thought. Jon signed, "Ok, so maybe I wasn't alone last night."

"Thought so."

"Shut up."

"So who is she," Raoul asked. "Is she pretty?"

"I'm not telling you her name. And yes she is really pretty, beautiful even."

Again Raoul notice Alan's weird reactions, he blushed again. I'll tell Gary about it.

"Come on why not a name?"

"Because she doesn't want anyone knowing."

"That's never stopped you before."

"Well I'm respecting her wishes and you won't get anything more out of me." With that he promptly got up and left. Gary and Raoul turned to Alan to get answers.

"Did you hear anything useful through the door?"

"Nothing."

"You had to have heard something,"

"Of course I heard something, just nothing useful."

Raoul noticed that Alan was bright red and awkward, "Did you see anything?"

"Nothing."

"You know something," Gary accused.

"Why you don't you come down to the fencing court with me and we'll test that theory." Alan snapped. Gary paled at the thought. Alan was one of the best fencers and would cream him. When nether of them responded Alan got up and stormed out the mess hall.

"Wonder what they're hiding," Raoul commented.

"Something big,"

"Did you notice Alan's reactions?"

"You mean how he blushed when I mentioned who shared Jon's bed? And how he got really red?"

"Ya, and when you said you heard him he paled."

"I noticed that too."

"Wonder what it means."

"I don't know. It sure was weird though."

"You don't think Jon and Alan are….you know"

"Of course not. Jon's been with a lot of women. And I definitely heard a woman's voice."

Raoul looked relieved at that, "I wonder what they're hiding."

"I know, it's bugging me."

"I wonder who this Lady of Jon's is."

"So do I."

"How can we find out?"

"We follow Jon around and look for clues."

Raoul nodded his agreement. And they started planning.