The sun was shining brightly in the sky. It had been 2 days since they had stopped and rested. They decided to take a quick rest in their quest for the Stone of Tears to relax a bit and gather a bit more of supplies.
Richard was picking some peaches off of a tree he stumbled upon. Zedd was making a meal for him and the other members. Kahlan was sitting in the grass, while Cara was taking in the sights around them. There was a wide open field, grass with wheat and mountains with snow covered tips in the distance.
As Cara was scanning the horizon, her eyes passed by Richard climbing a tree reaching for the peaches, Zedd was stirring the stew he had made and Kahlan resting in the grass under a shadow a nearby tree casted.
Before Cara's eyes could reach the forest edge, she found her gaze going back to Kahlan. The raven haired woman was leaning back on her hands with her eyes closed as the wind blissfully blew by and through her hair. The scene before her looked so serene. She couldn't help but take it all in. The wind blowing through her silky long black hair, and the sun making her pale skin shine, so beautiful...this is absurd! What am I thinking?!
Before the Mord'Sith could do anything, Kahlan's eyes snapped opened upon sensing someone's eyes on her. Cara quickly looked in the other direction and went back to scanning the forest edge or at least tried to make it seem like that was what she was doing the entire time.
The Mother Confessor noticed Cara's head snapping in the opposite direction, and one side of her lips pulled up to form half a smile at Cara's not so subtle actions. Cara did a quick glanced back at Kahlan to see if she was looking at her or not. She immediately looked away when she saw the Mother Confessor looking straight back at her with a smirk on her face.
"I'm going to go bathe in that lake we saw earlier " she let out loudly with her head tilted down to avoid the weird looks the others were sending for her abruptness, which made Kahlan's smirk grow into a smile. Cara's face quickly became emotionless like it usually was as they all nodded at her to go; there really wasn't anything else better to do anyway.
Cara went back to her pack and grabbed a cloth and a bar of soap and took a few steps before Richard called to her, "Wait, here take a peach" Cara turned around and a peach was thrown in her direction. It was about the hit the ground but her hand swooped down and caught it before it could touch the grass.
"Nice catch", he said smiling.
"Mhm, what do you expect, I've got better hand-eye coordination than you" Cara said with that same emotionless face and glanced back at Kahlan for a few seconds before turning around and walking away back to the path they came from. Kahlan watched as she disappeared through the trees.
Richard walked over to Zedd and gave him the rest of the peaches except two of them. One he had bitten into already and the other, he walked over to Kahlan in the grass and handed it to her.
"Thanks" she said before taking a few bites into it. Richard nods and sits down beside her, putting an arm around her shoulders.
"You know, I think my life is pretty much perfect, I have a grandfather who's a wizard of the first order, I'm in love with the most beautiful woman in the world and she's a Mother Confessor", Richard said cheerfully kissing Kahlan on the Cheek, "and having Cara, a Mord'Sith that absolutely loves to kill join our quest was a great idea".
Kahlan grew uncomfortable. She wasn't sure how she really felt but she knew that her feelings had changed over the past couple of weeks. And she knew it was all because of a certain blonde Mord'Sith though. Everything feels so bizarre, when Cara first joined our journey, I wasn't so sure that was a good idea, but then as time and fights went by, what I thought about her changed drastically. Mother Confessors and Mord'Siths aren't suppose to get along but I can't help but to think that we've become friends in that short amount of time.
Kahlan just ended up smiling at him but in her heart she felt something was missing. She didn't feel like she use to when Richard would look or smile at her a certain way or when he would say something sweet or nice to her. But she didn't say a word; instead she stayed silent and looked to where Cara had disappeared into the forest for a second before she turned to look at the far snowy mountains.
"Come eat, the stew is done and it smells delicious with these peaches in it", Zedd said putting his nose over the stew and took a long sniff, "mmmmm".
They got up from the grass and walked over to Zedd and grabbed a bowl of his tasty stew. They ate while sharing stories and jokes. They laughed and smiled at the unusual but silly stories.
After they all finished their stew. Richard went to get seconds but his hand was smacked away by Zedd saying "Save some for Cara, she hasn't eaten yet", Richard looked at him pouting.
"That doesn't work on me anymore, boy", Zedd said smiling, Kahlan chuckled.
"What in the name of god is taking Cara so long, it's going to get dark soon", concern was shown through his voice, he looked at Richard and Kahlan but they just shrugged.
"Go check on her", Ricahrd and Zedd both said at the same time to Kahlan.
"Why me?", She said back to them.
"Well would it really be appropriate for us to go while she's bathing?", Richard said smirking.
"She is a woman and we are men", Zedd added.
"Right...", Kahlan said as she got up and walked into the woods.
Cara had her eyes closed her back leaning on a boulder in the lake. It was so quiet and peaceful and her mind dozed off into deep thoughts. What has been wrong with me lately? I need to stop ogling her. Yeah she has a slim, fit..hot body, and I bet her skin is so smooth...Stop it! What are you doing? She is already with someone! She's with RIchard. I can't betray him, he's the new Lord Rahl.
As Cara's mind was wandering, Kahlan kept popping up and her bright smile. Remembering the Mother Confessor's smile, Cara smiled automatically.
"What are you smiling about?" Kahlan said smiling at her.
Cara eyes snapped open and she jumped up in startlement hitting the boulder behind her that she forgot was there and glared at whoever had bothered her daydreaming.
After realizing it was Kahlan, Cara's cheeks turned a slight shade of pink and said "What are you doing?" Cara spat out before she could stop herself. Cara gave her a smirk before getting out of the water.
"It's going to get dark soon, and you were taking so long and we were worried about you" Kahlan said in a low voice, her cheeks began to heat up as she watched Cara's nice toned body slowly coming out from the water with little droplets dripping off of her.
"Worried? There's no need to be worried" Cara laughed sarcastically. "I can take care of myself", she turned to face the Mother Confessor grabbing the cloth she brought in her hand.
Kahlan couldn't take her eyes off of Cara's perfectly curved body. Cara noticed this and her smirk grew noticeably larger, but Kahlan was too busy staring to notice. She slowly brought her eyes up to Cara's face finally noticing her smirk. Kahlan blushed not knowing what to do.
Cara slowly walked toward Kahlan. Kahlan's heart was speeding up, Cara could tell because of the look on Kahlan's face and her feet seemed to be rooted to the spot because she didn't move an inch as she moved closer to the Mother Confessor.
"You like what you see?" Cara slowly breathed out.
"You didn't answer my question, what were you smiling about when you were in the water?" Kahlan said, ignoring her, trying to change the subject.
Cara smirked again. "You didn't answer mine" she let out and stopped half a foot in front of her. They stood there, neither moving the slightest, just gazing into each other's eyes.
So much emotion passed through their eyes but neither could read it. So Cara decides to do something about it. She wanted to know if there was indeed something going on between them. Come on, move! Since when were Mord'Siths scared!?
Kahlan swore her heart stopped beating when Cara smiled at her and moved in a little closer, she was still naked but her body was dried off. She tilted her head forward and their lips were about a centimeter apart, when suddenly, Cara bent down a bit and reached her arm around Kahlan to grab her leathers on the rock behind the Mother Confessor. Cara smiled at her desired effect. Kahlan grew confused for a second, before she connected her lips to the ones in front of her.
There was a slight pause before Cara gripped her leathers tighter and brought her arm to wrap around the other woman's waist. Their lips moved smoothly together but two seconds later, Kahlan pushed her off.
"I-I'm sorry", the Mord'Sith's lips curved up into a small smile but Kahlan was looking at the ground, so she didn't see it. "I'm-I'm gonna go" and she hurried off back toward the way they made camp at.
Cara's smile faltered a bit, but she gathered her things and put on her leathers. She wanted to chase after her, but she knew she needed to give her some time and space because of what had just happened. Even though Kahlan had initiated the kiss, she didn't regret kissing her back.
Kahlan got half way into the forest when she veered to the left and stopped a couple yards from the main path and went behind a large tree, so that she was out of sight to everyone. She leaned against the tree and slid down to the dirt with her hands covering her face, trying to make sense of what just happened. She was panicking as million thoughts were running through her head. What the hell just happened?! Why did i kiss her? Why did I even have an urge to kiss her?! This is not suppose to happen. We're suppose to hate each other! Since when did you start listening to what other people say?..what?..ugh..this is not helping. And my God her lips were so soft, I could kiss them again...what?...
Just then, she heard footsteps walking on the main path. She peeked over the side of the tree trunk and saw Cara strolling through in her red leather. Her heart stopped as soon as she saw her with her hips swaying from side to side as she walked. She was kind-of disappointed that she was in her leathers, she wanted to see her toned body again. What? She gave herself a confused look. She quickly pulled her head to hide back behind the tree.
Cara noticed a movement but didn't think much of it, thinking that it was just a rabbit. She would've tried to catch it but she didn't have any of her tools with her.
The first thing Cara noticed when she entered into the camp site was that Kahlan wasn't here. She saw Richard and Zedd laughing at each other. They turned and saw Cara, "we left some stew and some peaches for you over there by the fire", Zedd said and noticing Kahlan wasn't with her, Richard noticed too.
Richard got up and went to Cara to ask where she was but Cara put up a hand and said "Don't worry, she's fine, she'll be back soon" , giving him an annoyed look.
He backed off and the Mord'Sith walked to the fire and picked up her bowl of stew and ate a spoonful before Zedd said "It takes much better if you eat it with a peach" while smiling at her but you could still somewhat see a concerned expression on his face.
Cara took a bite of the peach and put a spoonful of stew in her mouth, chewing and then swallowed, before saying, "Not bad, Wizard".
"I'm not just a great wizard from the first order, but I'm also a great cook too!" he said triumphly with pride in his voice and eyes. "And a great grandfather!" Richard added smiling, which Zedd had smiled back too.
"Yeah, and a great pain in the rear half the time" Cara added. They ignored her comment and she continued eating.
As she was eating her stew with the peach, she couldn't help but wonder where Kahlan was, she thought maybe that rabbit she heard while walking back to the camp was Kahlan and now to come to think of it, she was sure it must have been her.
Kahlan looked up from the trees and bushes she had been staring at and realized it was getting dark. She's had a lot of time to think, she was there most of the late afternoon just trying to make sense of things. And she thinks she has too. So she gets up, pulled herself together and started her walk back to the camp site.
I liked the kiss. Cara was so gentle. Richard's kisses were usually prickly because of his facial hair, but I grew use to it. Ehh...but I like Cara's kiss way more, it was also so soft. When we kissed, it was like my chest was about to explode with emotion. Is this what was missing when Richard had kissed me on the cheek? Even Cara's close proximity to me caused to me makes my heart beat so fast. Ugh, why is this so confusing?! I shouldn't feel like this, but I do. I heard somewhere that 'You should always follow your heart and not your head'. Well my head is telling me that it's wrong, but my heart, it's pointing in the direction of Cara.
I made a plan. I plan on just acting like it didn't happen and just let whatever play out, to just play out. I'm going to wait till Cara makes a move first because I'm not so sure if she's feeling what I'm feeling because I was the one who kissed her first..but she did kiss me back⦠or it could be that Cara was just really aroused that she kissed me back because she hasn't gotten to bed anyone ever since she joined on the quest. And Mord'Siths are known to have sexual relations with both women and men. But I really hope that is not what made her kiss me back. Ugh.
After a few moments of silence they all heard stumbling in the forest. They looked up and saw Kahlan stumble out of the trees. They all let out sigh of relief when they saw her. When she met Cara's gaze, a small little smile was playing at her lips.
Richard, who was worried sick, asked, "Where have you been?"
"Oh, I just got a little lost on the way back", Kahlan said calmly looking into the fire.
"You were lost? ", Cara laughed. Kahlan looked up and glared at Cara.
"Lost? How can you get lost in these woods, it's like the smallest and safest forests out here", Zedd asked with a confused expression.
Richard just chuckled and went to take a seat beside the Mother Confessor. "Don't worry" Richard said while taking the Mother Confessor's hand in his, "I'll always be here to show you the way" he smiled sweetly at her. Kahlan looked down with a fake smile on her face.
She looked up across the burning fire and saw Cara's gaze was fixedly on her with emotion in her eyes. She wasn't quite sure what it was, but if she could guess, it kind-of looked like she was a little jealous. Her eyes dropped down to look at Kahlan's and Richard's clasped hands and she looked back up to Kahlan's face.
"What's wrong? ", Richard asked sensing something was up.
"Nothing", Kahlan replied not even looking up to see his face, "I'm just tired".
Cara quickly got up and said "I'm going to bed, it's late and we have to wake up early tomorrow".
"Yeah, we have to be on our way by sunrise" Richard said as he got up and pulled the Mother Confessor up with him.
Pulling her gaze away, she pulled out her bedroll from her pack and laid it three feet away from the blazing fire. At night, it could be a bit chilly but during the days of spring, it was warm and occasionally the wind would come blowing by with a nice breeze.
"Uhmm, I'll keep first watch and I'm going to finish my delicious stew with these juicy peaches" Zedd said already digging into his stew as the others got ready to go to bed.
Richard chuckled and said "You don't really have to keep watch, it's the safest forest here", he smiled "get some sleep, grandfather" he said assuringly.
Richard set up Kahlan's bedroll a few feet away from Cara's by the fire. And he set his bedroll on the other side of the Mother Confessor.
Cara laid facing away from everyone else while Kahlan watched the blonde's chest move up and down as she inhaled and exhaled. She could only see the side of her sleeping form but it was still beautiful with the moon's bright light shining down on her. Kahlan moved to lay facing the night sky and Richard slept facing her. Zedd was by the fire eating his stew peacefully. They were all sound asleep within a few moments.
"Ahugh" Kahlan mumbled barely awake. She was slowly getting waking up and when she was trying to get up, she caught a glimpse of blond hair in front of her and noticed that her body was pressed against someone with their legs intertwined and her arm draped over the side of their body.
As Kahlan fully awoke, she realized that the body lying peacefully next to hers was Cara's. She was shocked and couldn't move for a few seconds, she was mesmerized with how peaceful and calm the blonde looked compared to when she was awake and had a scowl on her face most the time and she stared at the blonde's body seeing her red leather hugged her in all the right places, showing her perfect curves and flat stomach. Enough with the staring...come on, before someone see's you!
She tried to pull her arm back and free her legs from Cara's. Trying not to wake her in the process, as she moved slightly, she felt her legs being held tight and being pulled back to where they were before she woke and something grasped her arm and tugged her back down forcefully.
Kahlan instantly shot her eyes to the Cara's face, seeing an amused smile, the corner of her own lips began to tug up into a little smile. Cara turned so she was fully laying on her back with Kahlan halfway hovering over her. Cara's hand was still gripped softly around Kahlan's arm, "Where do you think you're going? ", she said playfully.
Kahlan was surprised, she had never seen her act like this, carefree, enjoying anyone or anything other than killing or torturing them. She didn't know what to say, but her heart was beating faster and faster like it had the day before by the lake. Holding each other's gaze, Cara found her other hand coming up to the Mother Confessor's waist and the hand that was previously holding onto her wrist, slowly made its way up Kahlan's arm. Gently sliding it up, feeling how soft Kahlan's skin was beneath her fingertips. Their eyes fluttered closed with the morning sun shining warmly on both their faces.
Kahlan lifted her free hand, since the other one was lifting her up to hover over the blonde and caressed the Mord'Sith's cheek. "You're so beautiful" Kahlan whispered out softly. Not knowing what got into her for saying that, but she knew herself that that was true.
Their faces were inches apart, the both of them inched closer and closer as the seconds passed. Their lips were millimeters apart and was just about to meet when they heard shuffling. They quickly pulled away from each other. Kahlan shot up and whisked back over to her own bedroll. Cara let her go, and shifted and rolled back to the other side facing Kahlan as she hasten a couple yards away. She let a small smile graze her lips before turning the other way around to get some more sleep before they had to wake up and depart.
"Where did you go?" Richard asked tiredly, not even opening his eyes to see the worried look on her face, she wasn't sure if he saw what had just happened between her and Cara. Most likely not.
"Nowhere, I was just thirsty so I went to get some water" she said calmly. Kahlan looked over passed Richard's shoulder and saw that the wizard was sound asleep.
The Mother Confessor was now laying in her own bedroll just a few feet away from the blonde; she looked at her backside and thought about what was just about to happen before they were interrupted. She began to get irritated at Richard for disturbing their moment even if he hadn't known what was going on. Still facing the blonde in the red clad leather, Kahlan fell back asleep.
