Hey everyone! This is my first fanfic and it is about my favourite pairing Te'ijal and Galahad. I had a lot of fun writing this so I hope you enjoy it. For some, the characters may be too fluffy but I am a fluff lover, so yeah. This is a chapter about how Galahad realises that his in love with Te'ijal, so it's going to be probably the longest. I believe that they are the most interesting couple in the Aveyond series. Also there is going to be some RhenxDameon, just saying. I am thinking about making this a story of multiple chapters.
Also shout out to my favourite authors that have inspired with their stories : Purpuhl , Queen-of-Ice101 , EsmeAmelia and Iyraonyx.
Disclaimer : I do not own Aveyond. I'm just writing silly stories for you to read. :)
So after the blah blah and the "review if you liked it" thing let's go onto the story! ^_^
Chapter 1 : You've Proved It
The night had fallen quickly. Rhen's room was very dark, even if the moon was sending his glow through the windows of their Sedonian home. She tried to get comfortable in her bed but she found herself sitting up instead. The moonlight was reflecting on her wedding ring. She smiled and stroked the ring. She was happy. Why? She was engaged with Dameon. Her life was finally coming to an order. He was romantic and protective. With other words, the perfect man for her. She tried to remember the last time she had been this happy, which was probably before she got kidnapped. When her life was calm and perfect.
Her happiness washed away when the worries came to her mind. The troubles were not over. Ahriman was not defeated yet. And he may never be, if they don't succeed. She angrily made her way out of her room. Thinking was the last thing Rhen liked to do. While she was walking through the hall she heard footsteps and saw Elini walking in John's room.
"Not you again woman!" John's shout pierced through her ears.
Rhen left out a small sigh and shook her head in amusement. She ignored them and decided to make her way towards the kitchen. The sword singer didn't even walk a couple steps when voices were heard again. But this time it came from another room. What the heck was going on in this house? Did anybody sleep?
"Wife, come on. Something troubles you."
"Galahad, why this sudden worry?"
"Well, I can see how you're acting lately. Now, tell me."
"And even if something was wrong. Why do you care about me?"
Rhen couldn't here more talking. This made her concerned about Te'ijal. She was always teasing and being sarcastic and this change of mood, was certainly, not good. She sometimes looked pained. And if Galahad was worried about her, then something was definitely wrong with her.
'I'll try and talk to her later..' Rhen thought.
She reached the kitchen and decided to make a cup of tea, since there was no way she could fall asleep. John's and Elini's shouts could still be heard. As she reached to take a mug, she slipped and fell down, causing the cup to shatter οn the floor. She stood still for a moment, thinking how Dameon and Lars could sleep while this chaos was going on. Rhen stood up while the sun was slowly starting to rise through the window.
"Stay still, you thief or I'll strike!"
Lars showed from the hallway holding his staff up. Soon he was joined by everyone else.
"Calm down northerner, is just the clumsy sword singer." Elini exclaimed bursting into laughter.
"Put the staff down sorcerer. We want her alive." The vampiress said.
Rhen stood up. "It's okay guys. I just wanted to make a cup of tea that's all, sorry for waking you up."
Dameon was standing behind everyone. He ran to Rhen when he spotted blood on her arm. He supposed she cut herself and had to help.
"Rhen you're bleeding, let me help!" He said taking her arm into his and casting a healing spell.
She blushed. "Thanks Dameon, but I can take care of myself you know." Even if they were engaged, his touch was making her heart pounding.
Dameon blushed as well. "What a gentleman!" Lars exclaimed ironically laughing.
"Well, let's make breakfast since we are all up." Elini said breaking the awkwardness. "Besides it's going to be morning in a little."
The party sat down at the table while Dameon was preparing breakfast as usual. Galahad and John were tired and didn't talk much, since they had a difficult night. Rhen couldn't say the same for Te'ijal and Elini though. There were whispering to each other and chuckling. They seemed that they had a good time tormenting them. These women were literally crazy. She looked at Lars, who was reading a book and ignoring everyone as usual. This boy would never change. What did she expect? He was Lars after all.
While the food was being served, Elini saw a brochure laying on the counter. The others started eating. She reached for the paper and when she started reading it her eyes widened and a huge smile crossed her face.
"Elini, what is this?" Rhen said after taking a sip of her tea.
The demon summoner shouted in excitement. "There's a new tavern that just opened in a nearby forest! Why don't we go to have some fun tonight?"
"Are you crazy? You want to have fun while Ahriman is after as?! We need practice." Lars said almost spitting out his tea.
John was the one who talked. "Come on Lars, we have been practicing all this time. For once I agree with the lass. I hadn't had a drink in a while."
"A drink doesn't sound bad. Perhaps we could relax for today." Galahad said trying to come fully awake.
Rhen suddenly looked as excited as Elini. "It is agreed then. Te'ijal?"
The vampiress talked in amusement. "I don't think I could do else anyways. Judging by Elini's will, we are going either we want to or not."
Lars opened his mouth but Rhen talked first. "Shut in Lars. You have no choice."
Elini chuckled. "Face it. You are coming with us."
He sighed. There was no way he could persuade Elini - or any woman in this team - to listen to him.
An hour had passed when the sun was shining brightly through the window.
…A couple hours later…
It was almost night time when the sun went down. Before leaving Sedona , Galahad wanted to check on the equipment and he said he would meet them in the tavern. He entered the shop while the others were leaving.
'I was sure that the demon spawn would want to join me.' He thought.
But much to his surprise, Te'ijal didn't go with him. Something was wrong with her and he couldn't figure out what. He started looking for armor lost in his thoughts.
'Why do I care? She treated me terribly but, but…'
He left out a sigh. He didn't loved this woman - or so he thought so - and that's why he begun wondering why he cared, while she did this to him. The woman who was married to. Who always thought her evil, wasn't that bad after all, he thought.
'Do I have feelings for her? And does she really love me?'
Galahad knew the answer to the second one already. No matter how hard he tried not to admit it. He knew that Te'ijal loved him, even if she had a weird way of showing it. She had always protecting him during their journey. She would not live, with him being dead. As for the first question. He tried to resist this feeling rising inside him. This feeling he wouldn't call love, even if he knew it was. This feeling he could not control. This feeling for… Te'ijal.
He shook his head angrily and made his way to the armor station of the shop.
The party made their way through the forest. The reached the tavern quickly, in only a few minutes of walking.
The vampiress and the sword singer walked in first. The place had low lighting and barmen were serving ale. There were a lot of people in there. More that they expected actually.
Everything was going on nicely… for now. Lars, Elini and John went to order a drink. Te'ijal sat on the bar table too with Rhen and Dameon. After she ordered a drink for herself, she sighed and drank it all in one shot.
"Te'ijal!" Rhen pried the glass from her. "We just came and you are going to get drunk already…" She didn't answered. "You never drink. Now really what's wrong?"
The vampiress hesitated. "It's.. it's just Galahad."
Rhen looked at her with confusion. She never thought that Galahad could make her sad. She always enjoyed it when he was yelling at her.
Te'ijal's expression pained and she suddenly felt the need to talk to Rhen. "As much as I don't want to admit it, it hurts me when he rejects me. I wouldn't fall in love if I knew it hurts so much."
A bloody tear slipped down her face. "You, humans say it's a wonderful feeling. I just wished he would care for me. Even a little.."
The sword singer looked shocked. She didn't knew Te'ijal felt this way about the knight.
"I think he does."
"What?"
"I think he does care."
Te'ijal left out a sigh. She couldn't believe her.
Romantic music started playing. While Elini was trying to get John to dance with her by dragging him to the dance floor, Dameon offered his hand to Rhen. She accepted it and followed him. One of the boys that were in the tavern was eyeing Te'ijal romantically by the time she walked in, which Rhen found insanely amusing. Mainly because her heart was belonging to the one and only paladin.
The boy was about twenty, as much as Te'ijal was in terms of human age. While she and Dameon were dancing the boy reached for Te'ijal and sat beside her. The vampiress had already drunk three ales, when the alcohol started hitting her. And she was slightly annoyed by the boy's presence as well.
"Let me introduce myself, I'm Daniel." The boy said smiling like a flirtatious school boy.
Te'ijal was getting dizzy from the alcohol but she knew she had to respond, if she wanted to eventually leave her alone.
"Well, I am Te'ijal."
Rhen was watching chuckling while she was dancing with Dameon. The young man had asked Te'ijal at least twenty questions in the last minutes, in an attempt to flirt with her.
Galahad approached the tavern. Before he walked in, he looked inside just to make sure he was in the right place. His eyes fell on Te'ijal, who was not looking that good, talking with a boy. He started walking in when he froze.
Te'ijal was feeling dizzy, so she closed her eyes shut for a little, just to relax. The boy took advantage of the moment and with a sudden move he kissed her. She pulled back angrily but before she could react, Galahad had stormed into the room and punched the young man in the face knocking him down. Her dizziness washed away and tried to realize what had just happened. Rhen and the others were staring frozen while the knight was on top of Daniel.
In the same time Te'ijal and Lars – who was reading a book the whole time – rushed over them. The sorcerer pried the boy away and the vampiress pried away her husband. When the men relaxed, Te'ijal stormed out of the room into the forest upset. Galahad could not speak. He felt like he had lost this ability. Everyone was staring in shock.
"Are you crazy?" Lars shot Galahad a dark look. He hadn't realized the kiss probably and he didn't know why he acted like this.
"Galahad what the..?" Rhen managed to murmur in confusion. Still shocked.
He left the tavern to search for Te'ijal. To apologize for his action, even if this idiot deserved it. He was angry. A lot. But at who? Te'ijal? No… At the boy. He felt that this wasn't fair. That he could crash him for doing that when he didn't know her. For doing that to his wife.
He started walking in the forest.
'Am I jealous? How could I be?'
That feeling.. He felt that this should have been his kiss. His moment. But didn't he hated her? No. He could not hold it back anymore. That feeling was love. He should have kissed her, not a fool-flirtatious-school-boy.
'I was too slow.. I realized to late that I loved her.'
He walked through the woods carelessly.
'How was I so stubborn? Why I didn't realized it earlier?"
He couldn't reject this feeling but he won't admit it either. He stopped walking.
'I need to found her.'
After searching for a couple minutes he found her leaning against a fence near Sedona.
"Te'ijal!" He shouted and took her in a hug without thinking about it.
"Te'ijal I'm so sorry, I just couldn't stand seeing this idiot kiss you, I.." His words flew out off his mouth with no control.
The vampiress was shaking from the unexpected hug and the reference of her name. Galahad had never called her by her proper name before.
He pulled out of the hug, still holding her tightly. "Please forgive me.."
"Forgive you?" The vampiress said while her eyes started to fill with tears.
He wiped her tears away with his hand on her cheek. "You're not angry with me?"
"What? I thought you would be angry with me for drinking. It was my fault. You just acted like any honorable husband would."
"Te'ijal.. But he took advantage of you. You didn't deserve this, wife."
Her eyes filled again. "Don't pretend you care, Galahad."
"What?" He looked her in the eyes.
"I know you hate me. You never cared. You never loved me. And if you could, I doubt you would want to."
Galahad felt remorse and pity. He couldn't see her crying while it was his fault.
"But Te'ijal.."
She tend to leave, that was enough for her. She wanted to die. The only man she loved, would do anything to get away from her. She thought he acted like that because of honor, not because he cared. And certainly not because he loved her. If she only knew how he actually feels.
He tightened his grip on her and didn't let her escape. "Wait!"
Te'ijal closed her eyes shut. Tears were falling and she was avoiding to look him in the eyes.
"Listen to me carefully. I wouldn't believe I could ever say this.."
The vampiress raised her head to face him.
"Te'ijal.. I do care. I do love you. I just couldn't admit it to you."
He kissed her forehead, pulling her close. He talked again while she was looking at him with shocked wide eyes covered with tears.
"I couldn't even admitted to myself.."
"You.. you really care?" She couldn't believe it. "Don't mess with me, Galahad."
He whispered in her ear. "Let me prove it then."
In a sudden move he grabbed her chin and kissed her. She made a noise of surprise.
He pulled out of the kiss. That kiss that lasted ages for him. This kiss that was finally his. He held her close.
"Do you believe me now?"
"I.." A tear slipped down her face but she was smiling. She still couldn't believe it. She undid her soul pendant and in one move she put it around his neck.
"Te'ijal what the…?"
She interrupted him quickly. "It's yours. You are finally free. I want you to be happy. Go home if you desire."
Galahad froze but smiled.
"I am home." He murmured.
He kissed her again and she melted in his arms.
Fortunately or unfortunately for them the party had just arrived searching for them, and they were watching with their mouths dropped to the ground.
Elini coughed so the vampire couple would realize their presence. The others chuckled while Te'ijal and Galahad were watching them with embarrassment. Their cheeks were red, even if vampires couldn't blush.
Rhen talked. "Well what are you waiting for?"
"Yes let's go back to the tavern. The music is really good." Dameon said calmly.
They were acting like nothing had happened which made even Lars laugh. They made their way back. In their way Galahad slipped his hand in Te'ijal's. Elini thought that these two looked like a teenage couple and chuckled.
Te'ijal shot Elini a look and she chuckled.
The demon summoner talked smiling.
"I think things have worked out your way, sister."
The vampiress nodded and smiled. She kissed her husband's cheek and whispered.
"You've proved it."
Galahad kissed her.
"I'm glad. I love you."
"I love you, too."
And the others continued chuckling.