Disclamer: I do not own Dragon Age, nor does Leo Lachance. But Mia is my character and Leo wishes she owned Zevran
I am writing this story with Leo Lachance, and she is the one that you should PM, not me. I never have any time. So PM her....
Chapter One
I had to do it. It was for the good of Ferelden, so why should I feel like this? I looked over at her. She was looking straightforward-eyes closed-praying. I gave a start of surprise. She looked at me in confusion. " I never knew you were the religious sort." I muttered and looked away. She smiled, "Well I guess Leliana just got to me then." She says. I gave a small sigh on the inside. She never showed very much emotion, it was mostly the smile she tried to keep in place for everyone, and the steely look she has in battle. Getting a genuine smile hard, and it was also hard to make her mad. Maker, why does Mia have to look so beautiful today? That just makes this even harder. Her rust-colored hair was shining as bright as the twin daggers on her back. Her bright blue eyes contrasted with her hair nicely. But I had to do it. "Mia, we need to talk," I began. Looking anywhere but at her, and hoping it wasn't noticeable. "You know how their needs to be an heir to the throne, and you put me on the throne?" she nodded her head. "Well with two grey warden's that's nearly impossible. I'm sorry but we can't be together. I'm sorry." As I said these words I could feel my heart breaking. Whatever emotion was on her face before vanished, and was replaced with a cold, indifferent expression. She took a step backwards. "I get it. I'll see you on the battlefield, Alistair." She started to walk away, then she stopped. She turned on her heel and started walking toward me. I almost cringed in fear. But she just took something out of her pack and put it in my hand. It was the rose I had given one day. " Goodbye, Alistair." She said again. And then she walked out of my life.
I woke up with a start, covered in sweat. I had never seen her after that, I only knew she was in the battle because I found one of her weapons stuck in the ground and her helmet next to a very large pit. Oghren, the only of my friends still here, remembered leaving Mia to fight a shriek next to the pit. I was the king of Ferelan. For the love of the Maker! Was their nothing that could cure me of these horrible nightmares?
I knew one thing that could, but that thing died in the battle 19 years ago. So I got up, careful not to wake Catherine, my wife or our fourteen-year-old son who was next door, Duncan. I got my royal armor on and strapped my sword to my back, then I went to the throne room to begin another day of punishing thieves and murderers, listening to complaints, and enduring pointless meetings with important people I had never heard of before.
The day went by in an agonizing slowness, until the guard next to me said. "This is the last prisoner my liege, a seventeen-year-old half elf. She's a real resister" I raised an eyebrow, "She's a fighter I take it?" the guard chuckled. "She broke the shopkeeper's nose and knocked out several guards before Colman got her." I laughed a bit "Three guards, wow. Was it bad guards or strong girl?" The guard suddenly looked uncomfortable. "It hardly had anything to do with strength, the girl fought strangely, like one of those Antivan Crows. It scared one of the guards so much that he nearly fainted. Be ready for anything my liege." I stiffened; I knew an Antivan Crow at one point. "Bring her in," I said to the guard and he motioned for the guards to bring her in.
She looked familiar, her hair was a fair blond and she had several tattoos. A small diamond on the center of her forehead as well as several diamonds to the side. She was defiantly half elf, considering her ears are slanted. The only injuries on her were a black eye that a guard had given her when he knocked her out. I was truly surprised however, when I saw her actual eyes. They were the exact same eyes I hadn't seen in 19 years.
The young elf was staring at the guard holding her arm with open hostility, not paying attention to me. I cleared my throat, "Charges?" I asked the guard the elf was staring at. " Theft, destruction of property, assaulting 9 guards and a shopkeeper, and several earlier thefts, and murder." My eyes widened, that many charges? "Well, what do propose we do about this?" I said, looking at the elf warily. " I say hang the bi…" He didn't get any further, because the doors swung open and a figure burst in; breaking one of the doors and making the other groan in protest of being opened so fast. "Eli!" The figure gasped, and broke into a run. It stepped into the light of one of the windows and every one in the room, save Eli, gasped. " Mia!" I said in wonder.
Mia looked up and her hands went to her twin swords, the ones that were supposed to be in the Hall of Heroes. "What are you doing here?" She growled, clearly angry at something. I shifted uncomfortably, I didn't see her mad often. " This is my throne room, I'm supposed to be here!" I muttered softly, trying not to let the fear I was feeling seep into my voice. It didn't work. "Well, if you don't mind, I'm going to take my daughter and leave." She said, grabbed Eli's hand and started to walk towards the door. The guards barred her way and poked her with their polearms. "She has committed so many crimes that I can't just let her go, she's going to jail." I commented dutifully, trying to sound like a king and not a frightened kid.
She looked at me with steel and razors in her eyes, and started walking forward. I finally got a clear look at her and was surprised, she looked incredibly different. Her hair was long, and she was thinner. Not painfully thin, but enough that she had clearly skipped one to many meals. She had new scars, as well. There was one on the corner of her jaw, and one on the bridge of her nose. She was standing in front of me now. I stood up to look her in the face, putting on my most emotionally devoid face I could. "She has to go to jail Mia, I'm sorry."
Anger and hatred flashed in her eyes, and she walked slowly over to Eli. She placed a hand on Eli's should and said good-bye. She then walked towards the door. As the guards stepped toward Eli though, Mia pulled out her twin swords and decapitated the guards nearest toward her. After that, everything happened at once. "Eli, run! Morrigan's outside!" Mia screeched and killed another guard. Eli ran out the hole where the doors once were, and the guards attacked Mia. Mia was a much better fighter than the guards, and she had the element of surprise. There were to many guards however, and the eventually surrounded her. So she switched tactics. She cut down a guard and ran toward me. She put one of her swords calmly against my neck and the guards stopped. "If you even think of chasing after my daughter I will kill your precious little king and come back from the fade itself to destroy whoever kills her." She stated calmly, and pressed the blade harder against my neck when a guard stepped forward. When a thin line of blood ran down my neck he stopped and backed up.
Commander Harveren, the head guard spoke up. " Mrs. Cousland, I am sorry but how are you alive? We found your body at the bottom of a pit. You're supposed to be dead." She looked at me, eyes gleaming with what looked like mischief, " You sent Leliana down to look for me didn't you?" I nodded, or attempted to for a blade was against my neck. "I convinced Leliana it was for the best if everyone believed me dead, she agreed and said she found my mangled corpse at he bottom of a pit. It was really an unfortunate soldier who caught me in a bad mood after getting shredded by a shriek." I nodded thoughtfully, and behind my back signaled the guards to knock her out. One of the guards snuck up behind Mia and knocked her out. I told them to send her to the dungeon. Even if she was the hero of Ferelden, she tried kill the king of Fereldan, she wasn't getting away with this!
We sometimes have trouble what with her addiction to video games and my frequent trips to the doctor/emergency room so sometimes it take a couple of weeks for a new chapter, sorry for the waits! We try to make the chapters good though to make up for it...