Author's note: Ok, first of all, I want to thank Odeveca. Thank you sooooo much. You gave me so many ideas cause, to be honest I was running out of them and I was so excited when I saw my first fanfiction actually had a review! Ok, once again I don't own anything. The characters, plot, etc. belongs to Sarah J Maas. Thanks for reading.

"Let this be a warning, to you," She whispered in his ear, "I don't tolerate rebels, especially not this close to me being invincible. The next time this happens I'll kill your precious ice princess. Kallias froze.

Viviane left the throne room of the small building in the middle of Invierno, the small city that Viviane had managed to save and evacuate most of the Winter Court into. She remembered how this all happened. After Kallias's message to her, Viviane got up and immediately ran to the palace and alerted Kallias's mother about what had happened. They both immediately ran to send out a message to the entire Winter Court. The message stated that everyone was to be evacuated to Invierno. Invierno was a small city hidden deep within the Winter Court. After they had gotten everyone settled in, Viviane called a meeting of all the remaining advisers, generals, and representatives. They all voted to name Viviane temporary leader because Kallias asked her to and she had leadership experience from leading all of the border patrols since she was 20 years old. The first thing she declared as temporary ruler of the Winter Court was that anyone who made it to the city was granted asylum. She wanted the city to become a safe haven and with that in mind she cast a protection spell over the whole city, it allowed people who needed a safe place to see it but kept anyone with bad intentions out. Every day more refugees came to Invierno. At the moment Viviane was headed home after arguing with everyone on what to do Amarantha. She wanted to find a way to free all of them and the rest of the leadership wanted to stay and wait. They had settled on sending a team to scout out the area and spy on Amarantha. Just then Kallias's mother walked in. they had been friends since Viviane's parents died and Kallias's mom had basically raised her and her sister since the age of 16.

"Hello dear," she said gently. " How was the meeting?"

"Ok," she faltered. "They don't want to rescue Kallias." Viviane was starting to feel very downtrodden. It had been almost 3 decades since Amarantha had cursed Prythian and she was slowly losing hope of getting Kallias back.

"It's going to be alright dear. I miss him too." Kallias's mom soothed.

"Remember that time when Kallias's and I were like 14 and we playing in the forest together and a family of arctic foxes came over to us," Viviane reminisced.

"Yeah, you two played with them all day. You were so happy and I could just tell that Kallias was smitten with you. Half of the reason that Kallias was happy was that you were happy."

"What! You knew!" Viviane cried out in surprise.

"Viviane, I'm his mother, of course, I knew though he did get better at hiding it as he got older. The reason I didn't tell you is that I thought he should tell you himself and I could tell that you didn't feel the same at the time, I thought you would eventually find out since you guys did spend almost every day together," she explained.

"Oh," Viviane said feeling a bit disappointed though she didn't know why.

"Wait a moment," Kallias's mom said with a dawning realization. "Do you love him?"

"Of course I love him," Viviane exclaimed.

"No not like that," Kallias's mother chided hitting Viviane on the knee. "Do you love him in the other way?"

"I think I might," Viviane whispered as if it scared her just to think about it.

"Well, some advice I could give you is not to go around in circles trying to figure it out in your head, do what your heart says to do." She said softly as she was leaving. "Just think on that." Viviane thought about Kallias. When had her feelings changed? When had she started thinking of him as more than a friend? Then it hit her, she loved Kallias. She didn't know how she couldn't have seen it before. She never thought she would feel this way about her childhood best friend. The one she had befriended at a ball because was was bored and lonely and he looked lonely and bored as well since it was an intimate party and they were the only kids. She loved hunting and since their parents were friends she knew he did too.

The next day she headed into the throne room and it was in complete chaos. Everyone was running around frantically. She immediately called the room to order and asked what happened.

"The party we sent out to spy was caught!" one of the generals said. "Amarantha tortured than until they told her they were sent to spy on her. She decided to interpret it as an attempt at rebellion and took a dozen children last night!"

"What!" Viviane froze horrified. "What can we possibly do now?"

Everyone was frozen and silent. No one knew what to do. In the end, they had no answer. Grief was a blanket that settled over the city for the next two months. They closed and created more protections around the city. It was times like these when Viviane was not sure if she could do this, lead a city. Then she thought of her longtime friend Morrigan. She didn't know anyone as strong as Mor. She met Mor when Kallias first became High Lord and he invited all the high lords to a dinner so he could get to know them and they could learn about the new High Lord of Winter. Mor had strutted in behind the High Lord of the Night Court. During dinner, they had become really good friends. They met up nearly every year and just talked to each other about what had happened that year. Viviane liked hearing stories about the War since she was not around when it had happened, but she had not heard from Mor since the curse had been enacted. Viviane hoped her friend was not Under the Mountain, but she could not think of anywhere else she could be. She fell asleep thinking about all the friends that were trapped and hoping the next day would be better and present some answers.

-Ok, I hope this was good. I'm thinking the next chapter they might reunite cause I think that is sticking to the timeline pretty well and I really just want to write that scene. Thank you all for reading this. Reviews are welcome. I hope you enjoyed it.