It had been three years since Lord Rasler Heios Nabradia had passed away, not long after his marriage to the Princess Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca, and a year since that same Princess had finally moved on, finally taking her rightful place as the Queen. During that year, she slowly found herself falling for one of her teammates, but the fear that they would die and leave her just like Rasler has long since prevented her from telling him just how she feels. Now just as she feels as though she is ready to tell him just how she feels, someone sends her old wedding ring back to her, and thoughts of her long dead handsome husband come back to her, preventing her from moving on. So when her teammate tells her that he has certain feelings for her, will she fully leave her past behind? Or will the thoughts of her beloved Rasler leave her stuck in the past.

Disclaimer: I do not own FFXII or any of the characters and that, they all belong to the ingenious people at Square Enix.

Note: This is my first FF fic so it's probably going to be pretty bad, and as of right now I have no idea whom I want Ashe to end up with.

Queen Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca, it had been a year since she had been crowned with that name, but still it sounded extremely weird to her, she was sued to people calling her Princess or even Amalia like she had once been known as, but the idea of her actually being a Queen still hadn't quite hit her, even though it had been a year since she'd been crowned, but she figured that it was because of the fact that her friends were now calling her 'Queen' and she absolutely hated that, she didn't want her friends to be so formal with her, it just didn't seem right, not after everything that they had been through together in the past year. Sighing softly to herself, she bit her bottom lip gently and glanced down at her hand, her sapphire eyes landing on the simple gold band that she had on one of her fingers.

Looking up suddenly when she heard a knock on her door, she tilted her head to the side slightly Who could that be? She thought to herself with a small smile visible on her lips as she did. Brushing a stray look of brown-blonde hair out of her eyes, she lifted her chin slightly "Enter!" she called out in a rather imperious tone, the way that Basch, correction Lord Gabranth had taught her to, he had said something about not acting too friendly with the servants or something like that. Looking down at her hands again, she closed her eyes for a minute waiting for the person to come in since she had told them to, and she really didn't want to wait for them.

"Well someones a little formal!" came an extremely familiar and perky voice. Looking up when she heard the voice, her eyes widened slightly at the sight of her friends, they were all there; Vaan, Balthier, Penelo, Fran, and even Larsa. Biting her bottonm lip gently, she looked down at the ground for a second before looking up again and giving them a bright and friendly smile extremely glad to see all of them here "What are you doing here?" she asked them curiously, tilting her head to the side slightly as she looked at them "Because we know today is your birthday Queen Ashelia!" she heard Vaan saying to her putting emphasis on the word birthday "And how could we not come and see you?" he added giving her a rather fond smile. Laughing softly, Ashe's eyes widened slightly as she looked away from them, hiding a faint blush that was appearing on her cheeks, she wasn't used to people actually caring about these sorts of things "How did you know?" she asked them "Basch told us!" Fran responded in her usual monotonous tone that she almost always used, no matter what her feelings were and that.

As she was looking at her friends with a fond and loving smile on her lips, she heard another knock on her door and looked over at it "Who is it?" she called out in a rather musical tone that showed just how happy she was feeling right now, forgetting the fact thats he wasn't meant to answer her door like that, but at the same time not really caring, that was until she heard a slightly annoyed voice on the other side of the door "Thats not what your supposed to say my Queen!" she heard the familiar voice say to her in a rather gruff tone. Walking over to the door, Ashe shook her head slightly with a smile on her lips as she opened the door "My Lord Gabranth!" she said to him in an impish tone as she gave him a small curtsy, with a small twinkle of amusement visible in her eyes "How kind of you to join us!" she added before wrapping her arms around him in a hug, she was extremely fond of Basch right now, after all he had done a lot for her and her family "It's good to see you again Basch!" she said using his old name rather then calling him Gabranth or something like that.

Pulling away from him, she looked over at the others, her sapphire eyes shining with happiness as she took his arm and led him to where the others were sitting, making sure to keep close to him. When they reached the others, she gave them all a small smile, before giving Basch an especially fond one, not noticing the odd looks that were on the faces of Vaan and Balthier, her eyes instead trained on Basch wondering just why he was here since, there hadn't really been any reason in his coming to look after Larsa because he was very much safe where he was right now since nobody would even dare to think about doing anything to him. Narrowing her eyes slightly for a second, she tilted her head to the side slightly before shaking her head and giving him another smile.

"So how come you came?" she asked him curiously looking at him closely "I didn't think you were going to since Larsa is very safe here!" she added glancing at the others "Yeah, we told you there was no reason to come!" Vaan added to her comment in what could be taken as a mean tone even though he himself wasn't quite the mean type of person. Glancing at him quickly, Ashe raised one of her eyebrows at him before looking back at Bash whens he heard him talking to her again "I came to give you this my Queen!" he said to her, holding out a small envelope that held something that she was extremely confused about since she hadn't expected anything "I found it this morning!" he added giving her a small shrug.

Taking the envelope form him, she took a deep breath looking at it closely for a minute before slowly opening it, her eyes landing on what was actually in there, a hand going up to her mouth as she started to fight back tears Oh it can't be! She thought to herself, shaking her head rapidly before running out of the room and into her bedroom, closing the door behind her as she ran over to her bed, hoping that no one would try to follow her or anything like that.

Okay so that was kind of worse then I expected, and shorter then I meant it to be, but please R&R, all constructive comments are welcome (as long as they are constructive .)