Author: Revan-sama.
Game: Dragon age origins.
Pairing/character: Leliana x Male Cousland and One-sided Leliana x Marjolaine.
Summary: Before the deadly game, Nothing was uncertain, her blindness and admiration made sure of it.
Marjolaine made sure of it. However after a fateful meeting, the rules of the game has been rewritten.
For the first time, not only she doubt her methods but also her heart.
-The heart of the marionette-
She was everything I wanted to be.
Everything I wanted...
And I knew that I loved her for it.
But what does it mean to 'know'? Those knowledge are merely vague concepts. And it could all be an illusion...
Everyone lives in their own perspectives without knowing what is real or a lie.
Even if I misunderstood her, it was okay if I had the wrong impression about her.
My feelings, my thoughts, my hope and dreams...
She would carry them on as long as time would allow it...
But then how come?
How come you mere presence make my heart doubt?
Chapter one: A rewritten beginning.
Darkness...
Leliana could move around it without being detected by anyone.
As she walked in the shadows, she was following her prey quietly and gracefully like a cat.
Her enemy was indeed very skillful and very well protected but that wouldn't stop her from reaching her goal.
Slowly as she moved quickly toward her target's room while avoiding the guards, she remember her earlier conversation with her Bard mentor, Marjolaine.
"The next target is a noble man coming from Denerim, he has in his possession documents that I need you to recover." The older woman smirked and asked : "Think you are up to my little game?"
"I'm ready for anything, you know that. But those documents must be very important, if they weren't there wouldn't be so much guards around the target's room.
Marjolaine, It's been the third time that I have to recover some documents, first Antiva then Nevarra and now Ferelden? Can't you tell me anything more?"
Marjolaine's smirk grew even bigger. She gracefully came toward Leliana and put a hand on her cheek.
"Leliana? Do you trust me?" Whispered the Bard Master.
The younger woman could hardly breath.
"Yes..."
Marjolaine's gaze became even more intense, it was as if she was reading her entire soul like an open book.
"Do you believe me?"
Again, Leliana answered : "Yes..."
She let go of her cheek, smiled and said:
"Then you have nothing to worry about."
Yes...There was nothing to worry. As long as Marjolaine would be there.
The woman with red hair finally founded the room, the guards knew about her presence.
They believed that she was a mere thief but still, they were too much to handle herself.
She had to do this quickly.
She entered the room and began to search after the documents her mentor wanted.
Normally they were here...But after ten minutes of searching, she found nothing.
Could it be, the noble man took them with him?
But Marjolaine told her that they were in this room. She was rarely mistaken.
She was going to search once again the whole room but suddenly :
"Did you found the thief?" "No Ser, should we continue to look around?"
The voice behind the door seemed now agitated and even more angry.
"Of course we continue to search, you Moron! I just hope we won't wake up the Arl's important guest from Highever."
After listening for a while, the voices has stopped. The guards had left.
Leliana exited the room and decided to return to Marjolaine to tell her about the missing documents.
Well...Easier said than done.
She had a hard time to escape the guards and it became very desperate.
Maker's breath, What was Marjolaine doing! ?
She decided to hide in a room, not too far from the exit. And wait until the guards has left the corridor.
She entered the new room and locked the door.
She thought it was safe for now, until...
When she turned around and noticed she wasn't alone.
There was a man, sitting on a chair, reading a book, with a surprised look on his face.
She has been caught! Marjolaine will be angry with her.
For a few moments, they both said nothing.
She noticed, that man had beautiful green eyes, also dark brown mid-long hair.
He had a light armor and a two daggers.
For some odd reason, he didn't unsheathed them.
The Silence didn't last...
"My Lord! Are you quite alright? ! We saw someone coming in your room!"
Those guards...how persistent...
The man recovered from his surprise, gave her a small gentle smile and said:
"If you are in such a hurry, maybe you should try the window, Miss."
Leliana was very surprised. Wasn't he going to stop her?
Surely he knew that she killed a few guards (because of the blood on her dagger) and that she was a thief.
No...
He was just standing there, with a small smile and pointing the window.
But Leliana didn't have the time to be surprise.
She ran toward the window, opened it and was already outside.
She heard the guards enter the room and asked:
"My lord, are you alright?"
She heard the man saying:
"Why, yes, I'm totally fine."
The guards were confused:
"But...We saw someone coming in your room."
"Oh...That would have been me. See for yourself, there is no one here."
The guards seemed to believed him, and decided to leave.
"I see...Well, excuse me my lord for the bother, we will leave you alone."
Leliana sighed in relieve when...Marjolaine appeared from the shadows :
"There you are. Now is not the time to sigh, we have to leave immediately before others guards arrive."
She began to run toward the exit. Leliana was going to do the same thing...But she still looked at the window where the man, who helped her, was...
"What are you doing? Come quickly!" Marjolaine called her again.
This time, Leliana came back from her reverie and ran.
As she was running, she couldn't help herself but looking back at that window.
And this time, the man was at the window, biding her goodbye always with that same smile.
She didn't know if it was because she made an effort by running or if she was blushing.
But still, that man had something different from those she had already met.
Something she never thought seeing again in a person.
A true gentle innocent smile.
END CHAPTER ONE.