Lowtown, night.
It was dusk in Lowtown, and Bethany still ran towards the Hanged man in hope of running into eighter her brother or Kaiden. She was partially worried for both of them, both of them are exeptionel warriors with fighting with 2 handed weapons. As she ran, she bumbed into an person and turned to apologice, only to find out it was Anders, but she still said sorry.
"Bethany, why are you in such a hurry?" He asked confused
"*Gasps* My brother, and *gasps* Kaiden" She manage to say between the gasping
"Ok wait a secound and get your breath" He advised her. She did as he said and relaxed to get some air.
"Ok. Well this might sound crazy, but my brother and the hero of Ferelden are meeting at the hanged man, and i got to stop them" She said. This caused a very confused Anders of balance when she mention Kaiden.
"Wait, wait for a secound. The hero of Ferelden?" He asked. She nodded in respones.
"As in the warden commander of Vigils keep?" He kept asking and she nodded again.
"And the slayer of the archdemon, but thats not the point" She said
"How come you know he and your brother are going to meet up, and why do you have to stop it?" He asked with great curiousity.
"Listsen i explain later, but i have to get to the hanged man before its to late. You wanna come?" She asked, starting to walk off. He did not answered but followed her.
The Hanged man.
"What ya mean you dont got anymore available rooms? You just said to the last drunk that you had plenty?" Kaiden asked a little outraged at the bartender.
"Then let me put it this way. I got no more room for fereldrens dirt licker. Now sod off before i call the guard!" The bartender warned the young warden.
Kaiden turned around only to find Garret right up in his face.
"No more rooms i guess" He said with a smug expression on his face.
"I guess not, maybe Bethany can help me then" Kaiden responded with an equal smug expression while Garret's face turn from smug, to mad.
"Listsen here, slayer of archdemons or no, you stay away from my sister" Garret orded him.
"What makes you think im going to hurt her?" Kaiden asked a little curious.
Just then Isabela came down the stairs and saw the two men argueing, she quickly recognize the man in the silverite armor.
"Kaiden is that you?" She asked surprised to see him
"Isabela? you sure look diffrent" He noticed
"Dont we all. You look diffrent too by the way. Last i checked you were on a quest to overule the mighty Loghain, and slay the archdemon after. What brings you to the city of chains?" She asked
"Wait, how do you 2 know each other?" Garret asked switiching looking at Kaiden and Isabela.
"He convinced some thugs to leave a whorehouse back in Denerim a while back, and we met after 3 guys ran off after they realised i didnt owed them money" She giggled at the end
Just then, Bethany and Anders came in and saw the 2 guys at each other with Isabela. As the went over to them, Kaiden looked at their direction and saw Anders.
"Anders? Didnt though i see you again" Kaiden said with a sly smile
"Same to you Kaiden, when i heard you were in town i just had to see it to belive it" Anders responded
This started to frustrate Garret abit as two of his friends knew Kaiden.
"Dont tell me you 2 also know each other" Garret asked
"He kind of the reason i am a grey warden" Anders said
"How come?" Bethany asked, joining the conversation.
"Well i just escaped from the circle tower and made it to Amaranthine. The templars managed to catch me and we were on the way back to the tower. We stopped at Vigils keep to rest and resupply when the darkspawn attacked. He found me roasting a few darkspawn and i tagged along. After the attack, King alistair came with his guard and a few templars at the keep. The templar recognize me as an apostate and swear that i will never be able to escape again. Since it was templar buisness, the king could not interfere, but the warden here, invoke the right of conscription to become a grey warden, so the templars could leave me alone" Anders explained
"I also did it partially cause i needed a mage" Kaiden admitted
"Still, they might have made me tranquill if you let them have me both times" Anders pointed out
"Both?" Isabela asked
"When we were in Amaranthine, we came across a warehouse where me phylacticer (I dont know how to spell it alright). Turned out to be a templar trap. He could have turned me over and saved himself the trouble, but refused" He explained
Then Varric join the party, hearing that this might go down dirty.
"Varric if you and him also know each other from old times, im going to kill you" Garret said frustrated.
Varric looked at what he meant and saw Kaiden and recognize him from the tales about him.
"Oh you mean Kaiden? He and i go way back, we met in cadesh thaig where he and his friends explored the ruins but were overwhelmed by darkspawn. I was out looking crystals my brother wanted me to find so he stop nagging me. I saw them from a far and knew i had to save. Just as his end was near an darkspawn's axe, I use my perfect marksman skills to kill the darkspawn" Varric told them
They all knew it was a tattletale, but Garret was not in the mood for it. He then turned his attention to his little sister.
"What are you doing here beth?" He asked
"I came to make sure nobody gets hurt" She answered
"Nobody is hurt, yet" Garret said while giving a deadly look to Kaiden
"If ya going to fight, do it outside!" Yelled the bartender
"Shall we?" Garret asked gesturring to the exit.
"Listsen Garret, i dont want any trouble tonight. I just want a bed for the night, not a fight" Kaiden said, trying to calm him down.
"If so you better stay away from my family then" Garret demanded
"Brother listen, i know you want to protect me, but Kaiden wont do us any harm. He is fereldren like us and has only done good things for us" Bethany cut in, trying to solve this mess.
Garret then seemed to think for a moment and then said "I know who he have been traveling with doing the blight, one of them a templar!" He pointed out
"Hey, he was a templar in training but never took his wows, and he is king now remember" Kaiden informed the group
This leaved some of the others with confused looks.
"Were king Alistair a templar in training?" Anders asked
"Yeah until Duncan, our mentor, recruited him into the grey wardens. Alistair does not have the same view points on mages as some other templars do" He said
"Still does not change the fact that you are not nearing my sister and family!" Garret told the young Cousland
Bethany was started to get frustrated by her brother's need to be overprotective towards her when it came down to Kaiden. She wont admit it to anyone beside herself that she has taken a liking of the young man.
"And what will you do, keep and eye out after him everyday as long we are in Kirkwall?" Bethany asked rather angry
"If i must" Was all Garret said before turning to Kaiden again.
"Why dont you two just fight about it?" Isabela asked. Garret seemed rather fund of the idea while Bethany and Kaiden did not. "If Garret wins, Kaiden leaves Kirkwall. If Kaiden wins, he gets to stay if he wants to" She added.
"I agree to the terms" Garret said with no sign of regret in his voice.
"But i still need to accept the challenge, which i will not" Kaiden said determinated with his arms crossed. Garret just chuckle a bit, until he tackled Kaiden to the ground and threw him out of the inn. Bethany quickly rushed outside to tend to Kaiden who got up with ease, all the others followed after Garret as he came out with his two handed sword in his hands.
"Brother please" Bethany begged her older sibling
"Stay out of it, eighter he dies now unless he accepts the challenge" Garret told Bethany, who then looked back at Kaiden.
"I guess there is not much choice, you have to fight him" Bethany said to Kaiden with sadness i her tone.
"Guess there is no way out then. Fine i accept your challenge ser Hawke. But just so you know, doing my travels, i learned how to master techniques with weapon and shield, and two handed weapons" Kaiden warned his opponent
Garret already had his 2 handed blade out in his hands, and Kaiden began to take out his family sword and shield, refurbished into silverite plating instead of grey iron. They began circle each other waiting for the other one to strike, much to the gathering crowd's dismay. Before anymore could happen, Aveline and some of her guardsmen and women came to stop this.
The crowd slowly began to walk off since nothing was going to happen anyway.
"Garret, what is going on?" Aveline asked the agitated Hawke.
"Just settling a score here" He answered with his sword still in his hands. Aveline then looked at Kaiden and asked
"Has this man done any illegal?"
"No, he has not" Answered Bethany
"Then i see no reason to allow this Hawke" Aveline said firmly
It pissed Garret off and he began to walk home in frustration, not caring if Beth followed him or not. Aveline then took her guards and continue their patrol through Lowtown.
"Arnt you going with him?" Kaiden asked Bethany who now stood beside him.
She just shook her head and said "He just need to rest" She then stood face to face with the warden "Dont blame him, he is just not used to have someone eles taking care of us, other then him since our father died"
"Well if you get the chance, can you maybe tell him im not going for to replace him in anyway?" He asked the young mage
"I try, dont know if he would listsen" She said. "I guess you have not found a place yet to rest for the night?" She asked
"No, i dont want to risk running into your brother again, and that stupid inn keeper wont let me stay cause im from Ferelden" He answered a little annoyed
Bethany thought hard to think of a place where he could stay, suddenly she got an idea, not one she is proud or happy about but felt like she had to suggest it.
"Um i may know a place you could stay" She said a little nervous.
"Im listning" Was all he said as he looked at her with a curious look.
"Well this might not be a good idea but, what about the blooming rose?" She asked with her face slowly going scarlet. This caught Kaiden off guard completly, he heard of the blooming rose to be a whorehouse.
"Um if its ok, why are you suggesting a whorehouse?" He asked really confused and curious.
"I know it sounds crazy, but they got beds and with the right coin, maybe you could ask them to let you sleep there for a night, with no company at all" She said
He started to see the sense in her idea, through he wish it wernt a whorehouse.
"Wait are you worried if i get company?" He asked with a smug smile.
This left her almost speechless. "What? n-no" she stuttered. "I just thought you wanted a night to rest" she added
"Course" He said "Okay, lead the way miss Hawke"