A/N: Hey guys I'm actually writing on a laptop in Vernon-visiting grandparents. So since I don't have my stories with me (I started the next chapters) I'll simply make another one. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I'm gonna dress like Tammy and pretend I'm her so I can get the credit for the great books. Of course this isn't mine!

Falling forever.

Chapter 1: Arriving Home

She sighed. The last time Dom had come back was 2 weeks before Midwinter, which was in a few days.
She already has his gift all wrapped. Along with Owen, Neal, Yuki, Shinko, Jon, Alanna...everyone. But Raoul and the Own went on a mission and she couldn't come along. So she was stuck in New Hope making reports for Lord Wyldon. The clerks were in sick, most likely tired of writing the reports and just looking for an excuse to stop writing, which is what Kel had to do. But since she was so tired of writing, she decided to go out and take a walk along the borders of her town.

He was supposed to be back in a few days. Just in time for Midwinter's eve. This is when she would tell him her feelings. Truth was, she always loved him, but hated to think of what he'd say if she told him. 'Oh good one Kel, just like you to joke with me when I came back!' He'd say. She wished he would return her feelings. How great would that be? She stepped forward and looked over the walls.Tobe and his friends from the village sat there playing with the mud that the previous rain had caused. She smiled, happy that her town was coming along quite well. Although, it would be much better and easier to enjoy with Dom around... or maybe at least the clerks doing their job. Dom.

He grinned. Such a great day to come home, back to New Hope. Back to...no, he wouldn't say it. He wanted to say 'his Kel', but not ever would she be his. She was a lady knight, free and uncaring about the things around her, except how she always protected everyone, and cared, the way she loved the things she did, how pretty he was and loyal, brave...He just sat there with a goofy grin forming on his face. Raoul looked at Dom oddly,"Dom, you okay? You look..." he smiled,
"Loooovesick!" Dom came back from his world with Kel and looked at his commander. Rauol looked ahead of him, speaking to Dom, "Who's this lucky lady who seems to have captured your tamed heart"
Dom blushed a bit.

"I don't feel like saying. I mean, it's not like she cares. Well she does, she cares too much. But, she'd never like me back. Maybe as a friend, but not as in...love." he sighed adding," I would never tell her how I feel! I might be whacked in the head." He imagined telling Kel how he felt.
'Oh Dom good one, just like you to joke with me when you come back!' and she'd laugh, maybe whack him with her glaive if she had it with her.

Raoul laughed lightly, jumping over a log on his horse, "Dommy boy, this can't be any ordinary court lady could it? I mean, you have no problem escorting court ladies around..." He grinned foolishly.

Dom just looked at him with an odd look. Holding his breath he said," No actually it's not some "court lady", she's more...well, manlier you could say. More fun to be with."

Raoul gasped and looked at his friend with a face that looked like 'that's wrong, just wrong!' saying suprised, "YOU FELL IN LOVE WITH ALANNA!!!"

Dom snorted and asked who would, and Raoul answered "George, the man has something wrong with his brain, or maybe it's his eyes."

Alanna, who had been traveling with the Own, came up and whacked Raoul in the back of the head, "Buri must also have bad eyesight, and a screwed up brain." Acting serious, she asked Dom," So who's the girl?"

Dom muttered something. When Alanna gave up she went to see if the knocked out Raoul was alive still. Whispering a few words she made it so he'd wake up in a few minutes. Dom said he'd ride ahead because he was anxious to see the 'new things' in New Hope. He just really wanted to see Kel.

That night

Dom raced to New Hope, Raoul and Alanna right behind him. Alanna muttering insults and Raoul, she yelled to Dom that New Hope approached. As happy as ever. Dom pranced through the gates and saw Kel, handing in her reports for the day, looking as gorgeous as ever. She smiled and waved at him. He smiled back and ran to her, picked her up, and kissed her.
Surprisingly she kissed back. But soon after a big hurricane came out of no where and Kel turned into an ugly man.
He heard his name... Kel was screaming in pain, waiting for him but he did not know where she was...

Gasping, Dom woke up to find his sleeping bed (AN: what did they have back the?) a total disaster. Raoul and the Own must have made camp somewhere else, because he was alone. He sighed and looked up. Suprisingly he found out it was about noon.He got up and dressed, packing his things, and jumped on his mare. "Okay, let's head home"

"Lady, lady!" Tobe yelled to Kel, who was in her rooms writing a letter to Jon, telling him to keep the Lioness for she was causing a few injuries to the people of New Hope, "Hey Tobe what's wrong?" She asked him concerned.

"Lady them Own 'as com' back!" Tobe said in a hurry. Kel's eyes widened and she got up, raced to the gates, and told the men to open them. Happy as she could be she saw Dom heading her way, smiling as he saw her, "Dom you're back" She cried, happy. He came up to her and let Tobe take his horse. "Dom you weren't supposed to come back for another few days!"

He grinned, "Well with our amazing Lioness we killed the last of the Scanrans and came back early." Clutching his heart he asked with a hurt tone, "Why my dear, were you hoping I'd stay away from you?"

Kel looked at him awkwardly, "Why yes I was!" She laughed a bit and poked him, "Hey you, we have 2 missing clerks, welcome to your new job."

He put on a lop-sided grin and, without knowing it, leaned down and kissed her.

A/N:haha I wanted a cliffy, and well I guess I kind of rushed it. next chapter will have some actual action in it!yay me!!

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