Hello's! Okay so here is the new chapter and it gets a little weird towards the end...Oh well!
OH! Has anyone seen The Departed? I swear to Tyr that Mark Weilburg(sp?) was playing Bishop. No really, if Bishop was a cop that was how he would be. Okay I'll stop fangirling.
Enjoy the story!
I apologize for any spelling or grammar mistakes.
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Chapter 2: Forgiven
"Alright lass!! You sure out did yourself!" The dwarf exclaimed, holding up his new robe and simultaneously hugging the sun elf. "Are their any surprises on this thing?" The sun elf smiled and shook her head.
"I'm not going to tell you, Khelgar. You will just have to figure it out yourself!" Exlen groped through the bag and her eyes lit up once she found the item that she was looking for. "And here is a new pair of boots for you." The young elf handed the boots over to him but Khelgar put up his hand to push the girl away. "What's wrong?" The dwarf looked to the floor and sighed.
"You can't just give all of this these things to me. I'd rather work for my rewards." Neeshka gasped.
"Did the stubby dwarf get mention the word work? Because if I remember correctly he has a gut the size of Bishop's ego and an appetite to match." The ranger, who was leaning against the wall next to the sitting sun elf, glared at her.
"Watch it." He spat with a murderous look in his eye. Exlen shook her head and pushed the boots into Khelgar's arms.
"You will take those boots, Khelgar, and you will like them. After I went through all of the trouble to carry everything back here. Then again," Her eyes dropped down to the wooden floor. "I did leave you all for months. Please, everyone, accept what I have to offer you…because it is one of the only ways that I can apologize to you all for my unannounced leave." Her hands were now balled up into fists in her lap and her frame shook slightly as she thought of what she had done to them all. "I disrespected all of you by leaving like that…I just…" The sun elf felt a strong comforting hand on her shoulder and she slowly lifted her head to look at the person.
"It is alright, m'lady." The paladin squeezed her shoulder gently, all the while staring into her emerald eyes. "You obviously needed sometime alone after the final battle. I cannot fault you for your actions."
She nodded and smiled. "Thank you, Casavir."
"You are welcome, m'lady."
"If you touch her again, don't expect to have hands for very long." Bishop hissed at Casavir stepping away from his wall and moving closer to the other man. Casavir stood his ground and looked at the ranger with distain.
"I believe that our leader is not your property, nor will she ever be anyone's property, ranger." The paladin watched as the ranger walked around the table and up to him.
"What did I tell you about defending her, paladin?" Bishop stepped closer to the paladin and cracked his knuckles. This paladin of Tyr always wanted to defend her when she could obviously defend herself and that just pissed Bishop off. He knew about the other's feelings for his woman and the paladin never masked it well. Just because the journey they took was over and Neverwinter was saved, doesn't mean that the paladin could charm the girl into being with him. Besides, she was never even interested in him. Casavir glared down at the arrogant man in front of him.
"Would you be kind enough to step away, Bishop, I'm not in the mood for your games today."
"Games?" Bishop was now fuming; usually he never got this heated when talking to the paladin, but now he was angry enough to slit the man's throat right here and there. "Do you want to live to see another day?" He grabbed the paladin's shoulders and pushed him away from him and the sun elf.
"Do you two always have to fight over the leader like two dogs scraping over a bone?" questioned Sand, who was seated at the table across from Exlen. "If you both are that pent up sexually…Then I advise you to ask the girl to take turns or have a threesome." There was a screeching silence as everyone within the establishment turned around to gawk at the moon elf.
Exlen blushed. "Sand…that really wouldn't be appropriate at all…" She said her voice barely above a whisper. The moon elf rolled his eyes and looked at his fellow elf.
"It seems to be the only solution to this little problem that the boys are having." The ranger growled at the wizard. "I'm sorry did I offend you? Or did you have trouble comprehending what I said?" Bishop now changed the target of his wrath from the paladin to that smart mouthed wizard who never knew when to shut his mouth. Before he could make it over to the wizard, small arms wrapped around his waist and held him back.
"Bishop…" Pleaded the sun elf's voice from behind him, "I really don't want any fights today so please calm down." The ranger grunted as the elf released him from her embrace and sat in the chair that the elf left vacant. She frowned.
"That isn't fair at all! I was sitting there!" He patted his leg with a devious smirk upon his face.
"You can sit right here."
Casavir was ready to hammer the ranger into pieces but before he could get the chance his heart stopped from the scene playing out before him. Exlen had sat on the rangers lap and not only that, the ranger began sucking on the girl's neck. Once again the Phoenix Tail was silent. He watched in horror as the ranger's hand wandered down the sun elf's arm and rested on her inner thigh. He turned away as the hand began caressing and gently squeezing the young elf's flesh. Bishop smirked knowing exactly how this was affecting the paladin. The woman he had feelings for was being pleasured by his rival right in front of him and he couldn't do a thing about it. Casavir who could no longer stand the sight of the couple, turned away from the two and stamped towards the door leaving the inn.
The sun elf's face burned with embarrassment. What was going through Bishop's mind to think that this was okay? Sure she had a relationship with the man but it was kept under wraps and if they did show any kind of interest in one another it was when they were opening flirting or having long conversations away from the rest of the group. Never had they ever displayed this level of affections in front of others. Bishop most likely did not care, since it was the sun elf who requested that their relationship never be brought into the light, he placed one last kiss on the young elf's neck before looking up at the petrified figures in front of him.
"Is there something you all need?" he asked sliding an arm around the waist of the also petrified sun elf. Exlen sighed and leaned back against the ranger, her head resting against his armor clad chest.
No use hiding it since they all know about it now…
"Yeah…actually." Neeshka sat across from the newly revealed couple and smirked. "When in the hells did this happen? Exleeen, you have something you want to say to us?"
"I agree!" shouted Khelgar. "Lass, you haven't been keeping a secret from us have you?"
Exlen frantically waved her hands in front of herself and laughed. "No…I-I have not!" The elf leaned forward and dug her hands into the huge grey sack again. "Here it's time to give Neeshka her presents!" The tiefling stood up out of her chair, her tail wagging with excitement.
"Really! What did you bring me?" The sun elf smiled and pulled out a set of black leather armor and matching boots.
"Here Neeshka, the man who give this to me said that the armor helps the wearer detect traps more easily and makes them seemingly invisible with low enough light. The boots have haste magic infused within them." She watched as the tiefling's eyes lit up and then ran out of the inn door, no doubt going to try out the items she had given her.
"Ay lass! That trick might have worked on goat girl but that won't have any effect on me." Sand nodded in agreement with the dwarf.
"I concur."
The sun elf sighed and looked at the two. She knew that they both wouldn't back down until they found out, especially Khelgar; he ran into the Temple of Tyr demanding that she make him her champion and she permitted him to do so. What could she do against such a stubborn little man?
"Well, I'm not telling you." She replied leaning back into the ranger's chest again. The dwarf slammed his fist against the wooden table, causing the table to nearly topple over from his assault. "It's none of your business anyway." The moon elf rested his elbows on the table and laced his thin fingers together.
"No it may not be…but it seems very strange that you and that beast of a man would be so close when you have only been in the Keep for not even a day. Would you care to enlighten us?" Exlen frowned.
"No I would not." The dwarf raised his hands to the heavens.
"Why the hell not?!"
"Are you deaf dwarf?" asked Bishop who had also had enough of their questioning. "Or did you not hear her say that this was none of your business?"
"Shut up ranger, I don't know what you said to force her into this but I'm not going to have it!" shouted the dwarf whose face was now red as a tomato. The ranger smirked and ran a hand down the elf's arm and ended the action at mid-thigh.
"You know damn well that I didn't force her dwarf. Are you upset because I'm her lover and not your good friend and fellow holy man the paladin?" he snickered as the dwarf punched a hole into the table.
"Don't you dare-"
The ranger laughed at the dwarf's anger. "Why so angry, dwarf? Is it because monks never get to lay down with a wench and paladins are so pent up that they are nearly bursting at the seams with need?" Exlen placed her hand over the ranger's.
"Bishop…" He ignored her pleas to stop continuing his verbal assault.
"Oh is the little dwarf angry? Well, why don't you find yourself a little dwarven girl and use her to still your anger…oh that's right you can't!" A loud boisterous laugh escaped from the throat of the ranger as his eyes looked upon the face of the dwarf. It was absolutely hilarious! His face was redder than the blood of the rabbit that Karnwyr slaughtered the other day. The elf on his lap bit her bit in frustration. On one side her friend was about to explode with anger and on the other her lover was going to pass out from laughing so hard. What could she do to stop this situation from getting any worst?
Khelgar, in one swift motion kicked the table in between. It flew sideways into the wall near the fireplace where it shattered into pieces of wood and dust.
"Ranger!" he growled getting into his fighting stance. Bishop stopped laughing and tapped the elf on the leg. She stood up and pressed her palms into the chest of the ranger who had just gotten up from his seat.
"Stop this! This is no place or time to fight!" A strong hand grabbed her wrist and threw her from the middle of the two.
"You wouldn't want your pretty little face to get scratched now would you? So move aside and let us men talk." Bishop smirked turning his attention to the fuming monk. "Come on you sex-starved bastard!" He raised his fist eager for the dwarf to come at him. With a loud roar Khelgar launched himself at the ranger, but before he could make it a cone of fire suddenly appeared, blocking his path to the ranger.
"By Tyr's right buttock," he cursed looking to the sorcerer. "You…?" He was at a loss for words. Did his eyes just fail him or did he see what he thought he saw? "Lass?"
"Stop it, right now!!" Exlen her voice was loud and slightly distorted, some what similar to that of how a dragon spoke. "Khelgar and Sand I am warning you, cease all questioning or I will burn you live!"
"Please avoid burning down my inn at all costs!" Sal shouted from across the room.
"You sound like that girl, Qara." Said moon elf and dwarf in unison. Exlen huffed clouds of black smoke pouring out of her nose before dissipating into the air, she stalked over to the grinning ranger, grabbed his hand and her fallen sack then left the inn.
Once outside she thrust the sack into the arms of the ranger and folded her arms, glaring at him.
"Why the hell did you do that?!" She screamed her voice still dripping with a draconic accent. "You knew that I wanted to break it to them in an appropriate place with an appropriate time and manner. Not by sitting on your lap and letting you have your way with me!" Luckily for the young elf not too many people were outside at the moment and the few that were, were either busy working or busy pretending to be working.
"You enjoy it." He commented throwing the sack over his shoulder, his cocky grin still plastered on his face.
"Cocksure asshole…" she replied her accent now completely gone. The ranger bent down to her level and placed her chin between his thumb and index finger, moving her face closer to his.
"Sure, I'll let you lick it," His voice now dropped to nearly a whisper. "Since your mouth is so talented at what it does…" Exlen gasped as she felt something soft and slick touch her cheek, then nearly moaned in realization of what it was. "See ya." Bishop left heading up the hill towards the castle, leaving an embarrassed and unsatisfied sun elf behind. The elf touched her cheek smiling before turning in the opposite direction and heading towards the fields.
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Exlen smiled up at the sky as she laid the small meadow just outside of the keep. She had returned to this place just yesterday and Lord Nasher must have already been informed that she was back at the keep. Soon she would be summoned to Neverwinter's Castle in order to receive her punishment or something, maybe they would just send it in the mail; the sun elf stared up at the sky wondering what was in store for her. Would Nasher actually go through with his threat that she would be imprisoned or would he pardon her because of her situation? She was scared and frightened not because of the deaths of her friends but because of….because of…
"Because of…"
"Because you knew that you could no longer hide…"
The sorceress gasped and sat up looking around frantically for the person that the voice belonged to. "Who's there?!" she shouted standing and preparing herself to attack. No one was around, the farmers had completed their work for the day and the Greycloak patrol passed minutes ago. She looked around again but saw nothing except the green fields around her and the keep's walls in the distance.
"Why so jittery? Are you scared of the truth? Or embarrassed because of it?" There is was again that voice, it sounded harsh and emotionless but also, it sounded like that of a woman's. "You really need to get over it and move on…"
"Be quiet and show yourself!" she snarled in response.
"As you wish." Then there was a burst of light. Exlen brought up her arms to shield her eyes from the brightness, soon the light dimmed and her eyes widened at what she saw before her; a woman, a woman identical to her. The sun elf's mouth was agape as she studied the form before her. Long amethyst colored hair flowed from her head and ended at her calves, her body was scarcely covered by black cloth. One piece of the material served as some type of top with no sleeves that covered only her breasts, leaving her shoulders and midriff bare. The last piece of cloth was wrapped around her waist and it extended down past her ankles in a diagonal matter, leaving a long bronze leg exposed. She also wore an assortment of jewelry, silver bracelets and anklets decorated her limbs and a long silver chain with a large colorless stone laid gracefully on her neck; even her ears were embellished with silver strings that dropped down to her jaw bone.
"What…who are you?" Asked the sorcerer, dropping her guard slightly, Bishop would have scolded her for this but what he didn't know could not hurt him.
"You think of him with everything you do." The woman stated as black wings unfurled from behind her extending out at least ten feet from what Exlen could judge. This creature had to be a demon or something from the Nine Hells itself!
Exlen jumped back and her hands started to glow with a blue light. "Go back to the Nine Hells demon, before I'm forced to send you to oblivion!" The woman simply smiled and opened her purple eyes.
"You could not defeat me if you tried. But I'm not here to fight at the moment; I'm simply here to talk to you since your, no, our awakening has been triggered." The woman looked around at the land and frowned in disgust.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Awakening, what was this demon talking about?
"For your information I'm not a demon. I'm something of another sort but this is not the place or time to speak of it. I'm here to speak of your relationship with that man." The elf narrowed her eyes a bit.
"What man are you talking about?"The woman in front of her flipped her hair out of her face and rolled her eyes.
"You know exactly what man I'm talking about. The rough looking man with the tattoo on his neck and whose appendages you like to put your mouth on."
She blushed a bit. "You mean, Bishop."
"See, how you say his name. You have fallen hard for him, have you not?"
"That is none of your business!" She shouted, turning her back on the woman and leading towards the keep.
"You must have. You are not the only one who feels that way about the one they love…" There was a brief silence before she continued. "And would allow them to do anything to you, forgiven."
"Huh?" Exlen whipped around only to see that the woman was gone. What did that woman mean by that? I'll ask…No. I won't tell anyone about this for it probably was a hallucination or something of that sort. The young elf glanced back at where the woman formally stood before walking back to the keep and pondering what she said.
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After her encounter with the demon or woman, Exlen went straight to her room in the castle and refused to come out, ignoring all of the summons and calls for her. Now she sat in her room feeling more than little lonely. She rested her chin on her knees and leaned back against the space between the desk and the wall, hiding her from whoever might burst in and find her. Tears clouded her eyes as she rolled up her sleeves exposing the purple marks of bruising flesh on her wrists; she ran a finger over the wounds wincing. Her wrists, her hips, and even inside of her ached. Her stomach began to turn as she was reminded of what the cause of it all was. She felt so dirty…
Knock. Knock. Knock.
The young elf jumped at the sound of the knocking and hurried to pull her shirts sleeves down. "I know you are in there, open up." One giant tear slid down her cheek as she whispered a spell to unlock the door. The owner of the voice walked into the room and shut the door behind him locking it again. "What the hell are you hiding for?" inquired the voice as he moved closer to where the elf was hiding. Exlen whined a bit and wiped the tear away but it was too late, the ranger already saw.
Bishop put his back against the wall and slid down to floor next to the elf. "Stop crying." He ordered but the elf just covered her face with her hands.
"I'm sorry, Bishop…I c-can't." He rolled his eyes and grabbed both her wrists, pulling her into his lap. Exlen grabbed onto his shirt and buried her face within it.
The ranger put an arm around her waist and used a hand to lift her face up to meet his eyes. "Don't tell me this is what you did for nearly a year? Sitting in a forest by yourself crying. Hell, girl, if I knew you would have turned out to be such a crybaby I would have cut out your eyes when I had the-" The sound of flesh hitting flesh rang through the air and after the sound dissipated it was replaced by another; the voice of a furious woman.
"Shut up! Can you actually act like you care about me for once!" she yelled tears pouring out of her eyes. "I show affection to you, I always have! But you never show any to me…I just want to be held, Bishop! For once just your goddamn foul mouth and hold me!" After her outburst she melted back in her puddle of hurt and misery, Bishop snorted looking down at the woman.
Women always want to be so goddamn affectionate, he thought smirking. That was not in his nature, but since this elf was slightly important to him he might as well humor her. The ranger kissed the crying elf on her lips, gently pushing her back and pinning her to the floor. He continued kissing the elf until her sobs quieted and her body relaxed against his. Bishop's hand slid down her body until it found the hem of her robe's pants pulling them down. His mouth traveled down to her neck where he placed soft kisses, causing the elf to moan slightly. He grinned as he began opening the robe of the elf. Exlen wrapped her arms around his neck as he settled in between her legs; she arched her back, her mouth meeting his in a passionate kiss. The sun elf closed her eyes as she felt his tongue explore her mouth and his teeth scrape against her lips. Unconsciously, her hands traveled down to his hips and she pulled down his pants, her hands resting on his bare bottom. Bishop unclasped his lips from hers letting out an animalistic sound close to that of a growling wolf.
Bishop looked down at the woman before him, she hasn't said it once. Not once, since she came back has she called him that stupid nickname. It was stupid that he had grown accustomed to hearing her speak it. His amber eyes locked with her emerald ones as the elf began removing his shirt. Soon the both of them were completely naked and the tension between them was building. Exlen pushed her hips up grinding against the hardened flesh of Bishop's member; she smiled as she felt some of his precum slide down her legs. The ranger growled moving his hips against hers, their bodies burning for one another. The elf wrapped her arms around his neck; again their lips close enough for another kiss. For moment they both stopped moving, their hearts pounding as they stared at the other, they both were so close to becoming one. Exlen's eyes smiled as Bishop's pleaded for something, she grabbed his hand and laced their fingers together.
"Go ahead, my wolf."
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And that's a wrap. Please review and the next chapter should be up soon.