Chapter 1: Back Away Slowly.
It was a beautiful, sunny morning. But that bright morning was nearly the end of our young prince's status as a revered royal. It was because of the wonderfulness of this lovely morning that Raoul and Gary, who both woke up far earlier than either would've wished out of habit, decided to take a dawn ride.
But really, what's a dawn ride without one's dearest friends, the prince Jon, and his squire Alan? So it was decided that they would go burst into Jon's room and yell to wake him up. Alan, they knew, was a light enough sleeper that an extreme commotion in the next room should wake him up.
So, we find our young knights down the hall from Jon's room.
"So the plan is to jump into the room and yell like hell until they wake up, right?" Gary was clearly having way too much fun with their "scare-the-hell-out-of-Jon-and-Alan-by-waking-them-up-really-early-and-loudly" plot.
"What if he pulls his sword on us?" Raoul wonders
"Alan would help?" Gary points out.
"Nope" They both add together. Alan wouldn't be awake enough to help, and since they were terrorizing Alan too, he probably wouldn't be on their side anyway.
"Oh crap, what are we supposed to do about the guard?" Observant Gary had just noticed the guard at the opposite end of the hall. "What if he tries to stop us?"
"You go down there and explain things to him, and I'll burst in." Raoul directed. "If he hears what we're doing before we do it, he's bound to stop us, but if we don't tell him at all, he'll probably try and kill us."
"Wouldn't he recognize the prince's friends by now, and let us be?" Gary, thinking too much as usual.
"Naw, this one's new, can't you tell? It's in the way he stands." Raoul added.
"Yeah, ok, I'll go talk to him, but make sure you remember Jon's face!" Gary was disappointed at missing Jon's expression, but he would still be going on their ride, which was the whole point of this anyways.
So Gary went to talk to the guard, and Raoul, poor, poor Raoul, went to throw open Jon's door, jump inside, and yell so loud it would scare the bejesus out of Jon.
Fortunately for Raoul, a split second after he threw open the door, and a split second before he yelled, he saw a sight he never expected to see. He never wanted to see. He really didn't want to see. Alan was in bed with Jon, and they were both sleeping in an … intimate position. Poor, poor Raoul turned very very pale, and grabbed the door before it slammed against the wall, and he slowly backed out of the room and closed the door.
Gary, of course, was by now finished talking to the guard, and was more than a little confused to see Raoul back out of the room and close the door, then turn around and find him very very pale. Gary laughed, "We forgot he might be in there with some girl, right?"
Raoul, still very very pale, shook his head slowly, and moved his mouth like he was trying to say something, but couldn't quite manage it.
"What!" Gary was dying to know whatever it was he had seen. "Tell, tell!"
"Bad,bad,bad. Not good! Jon, Jon… not right! He. bad prince! Bad,bad,bad." A very very pale Raoul babbled. He was more than slightly disturbed at the thought of the Crown Prince of Tortall being…odd. Jon would need a queen soon, what would happen then? The nation wouldn't like a queer king. The court wouldn't either. What should he do? Should he tell?
No, he would keep this to himself until he could talk to Jon about it. That was only fair to his friend. But what should he tell Gary? Raoul was being looked at very oddly just then.
"um, it's a wife…I think? I could be mistaken?..." Gary seemed unaware of how uncomfortable Raoul was at this time.
"oh well, we can always get Alan instead!" Gary suggested eagerly.
"No! I mean, Alan would be like to kill us at this time of the morning in his room. Probably we should just knock." Raoul knew very well that Alan wasn't in his room just then, but in Jon's.
"All right, all right, but you're taking all the fun out of this." Gary punched Raoul in the arm.
"yeah, well…"
Gary and Raoul proceeded to bang on Jon's door loud enough to wake the dead, and presently they heard a commotion inside and Jon yelling at them.
And so it was the Gary, Raoul, Alan, and Jon set off on their dawn ride, and Raoul made a note to himself to corner Jon later that day and clear some things up.
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A/N: yay! So, for those of you who are wondering, this is my answer to all those fics where Alanna gets found out. Just once, I think Jon should get in some trouble. And besides, Jon being gay (I think) would be easier for Gary to think of than Alanna being a girl. Anywho, I think this story is original, except, of course, those things borrowed from the great and wonderful TP, but please tell me if it isn't. Also, REVIEW! I can't tell how well I wrote this until I know how well you understood!
