A/N: This chapter was supposed to be a part of the previous, but I decided to split them and work a little more on this part.. Thats why Im posting it this quickly :) though the next one wont be up for some time (dont have the inspiration -.-)... Anyway, some of you may notice that Im a big fan of Blue, and that I really love their new song "I can" (they are definitely getting my vote at Eurovision ^^)... I just couldn't resist, had to put it in :)

Btw, the mission in question is 'On the loose'. Meredith requested from Hawke that she brings in 3 apostates, dead or alive.


Hawke was leaning on a wall at the entrance of the Alienage "What took you so long?" She asked the trio coming her way. Varric shrugged, Aveline rolled her eyes and Isabela smirked. Hawke winced when she saw Pirate. So, that's how you want to play this. She quickly composed herself "Let's go, Nyssa said that Huon would be back by now."

Hawke was the first one to round the corner and what she saw shocked her so much, she stopped in her tracks, Isabela slamming into her, making them both stagger nearer the great tree in the Alienage. "Andraste's ass, Hawke, why….?" Her mouth snapped closed when she saw two elves, male stabbing the female with a small dagger and smearing her blood all over himself like in some kind of ritual. "Why?" Hawke's voice was hoarse and Isabela could see how tense she was "She was your wife…. She loved you! Monster!" With that, she drew her blades and sprinted towards Huon, who was covered in his wife's blood, but just as she was to run him through, he disappeared. Hawke frantically turned around, looking for the blood mage, but the next thing she saw were corpses, rising through the ground, animated through Huon's blood magic. She dispatched two nearest quickly, running to help Varric, who was being attacked by five or six of the creatures. She hacked and slashed through them, when Varric yelled jokingly "Go find your own corpses Champ, leave mine alone!" Hawke laughed bitterly and complied to her friend's wishes, leaving him to deal with the rest. She just started towards Aveline, who was fending off at least dozen of them, when she heard a scream that froze her blood. She turned towards the sound to see Isabela, hovering in mid-air, with Huon's attention on her. Blood mage was chanting something and Isabela screamed again. Hawke's eyes widened with horror as she stood there, staring.

"GO! Help her!" Aveline's voice brought her back to the fighting and she dashed towards Huon, murderous glint in her eyes. But again, mage was one step ahead of her and he threw his left arm towards her, not breaking his gaze or stopping his chant, enveloping her in some kind of paralysis. She struggled against her invisible bonds "I…. can, I…. will….. " She gritted her teeth "I know I…. can…." No matter how much she struggled, she couldn't move a finger, but then she heard Isabela's third piercing scream, worse than before, an unearthly sound she hoped never to hear again, so she poured all the strength, physical and psychical in to one last effort. Please, hold on a little longer Isabela. And with that thought, she was free. Not wasting a moment, or letting Huon, who stared at her in amazement, gather his wits, she stabbed him one, two, three times, just to be sure he was dead. Not waiting for his body to hit the ground, she ran as fast as she could towards Isabela, who lay on the ground, pale and limp.

Hawke gathered the Pirate in her arms, cradling her, tears wailing up in her eyes "No, no, no, no, please, don't die, don't die on me now…. I need you, you stupid wench… I can't lose you too… I'm sorry, I'm so sorry… Please…."

She felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up to see Aveline. Then Varric was by her side, a red potion in hand. He opened it up, and poured it all in Rivaini's mouth, then forcing her to swallow most of it as some got spilled over her chin. After a few moments, potion kicked in, and the color started returning to her cheeks. When she opened her eyes, Hawke let out a sigh of relief. Isabela smiled weakly, and reached to brush a strand of Hawke's hair from her face "Well, aren't you the sight for the sore eyes?" Hawke grinned at her, still holding her "I just wonder, how, in Maker's name, did you survive three years without me?" Isabela chuckled, bringing Hawke's head closer, until their lips brushed, and whispered "Barely."

Their kiss was cut short by Aveline, who cleared her throat to get their attention "Now, since you are feeling all better, we could go and get the remaining two apostates" Guard Captain said with a frown. Isabela and Hawke smiled at each other and scrambled to their feet.

They tracked down Evelina next. Turns out, she was an abomination and they had to fight her too. This time, Hawke didn't charge in recklessly, she left that to Aveline, who was making as much noise as she could, trying to draw the bulk of the enemies towards her. Hawke and Isabela were circling the battlefield in shadows, on opposite sides, trying to get as close as they could to Evelina. Unfortunately, Hawke was still weary from the battle with Huon and one of Evelina's abominations saw her, so she soon found herself surrounded with four of them, with her back against the wall. Isabela was by her side immediately. "What do you think you are doing?" Hawke asked, annoyed at the grinning pirate by her side "You should have went straight to Evelina when you had the chance" "What, and let you have fun with this many tentacles whipping around you? Not a chance, sweet thing!" Isabela replied, her signature smirk on her lips, as she stunned one Abomination and then stabbed other from left side, while Hawke did the same from the right. Hawke grinned at her Pirate. MY Pirate? No, Isabela belongs only to Isabela, no one else. She shook her head at the thought, while finishing off another abomination.

Soon their path was clear, and they dashed towards Evelina side by side. Hawke went for the head and Isabela for the torso. The abomination that was Evelina fell backwards from the force of dual attack. Isabela winked at Hawke, who smirked in return, and went back to fighting, to help Aveline dispatch the last remaining Shades.

Isabela sat on some crate, catching her breath, as she was far from fully recovered. Health potion can only do so much. She watched the Champion, as Hawke danced from one enemy to the other, distracting them long enough so Aveline can kill them. She was so elegant, jumping so high like she was soaring through the air, then crouching so low, it looked like she was crawling. Isabela knew that Hawke was born for this, born for battle, even though she has such a gentle heart, that only her friends know about.

"That's quite a sight, eh Rivaini?" Varric said with a knowing smile. Isabela smirked "Oh indeed, Hawke has a very sexy butt" they both laughed at the comment "Have it your way Rivaini, have it your way." "Oi! If you two are done lounging, then we should move out. We have one more apostate to bring in." Hawke yelled annoyed at the two rogues. "Aye aye Champion!" said Isabela, with a mocking salute. Hawke just rolled her eyes, unable to contain a small smile.

As they were waiting for Emile de Launcet to finish his… business upstairs, Hawke and her companions were sitting at the table in the Hanged Man, playing Diamondback "You know, this is much more interesting when you play with stripping" Isabela said with a smirk directed at Hawke. Even after everything Hawke's been through with the alluring pirate, she blushed a little at the comment. Aveline scowled and muttered something that sounded awfully like "whore". Varric ignored them, placing his cards on the table "Watch and learn kids, this is how a dwarf plays" he said with a satisfied smirk, reaching for the winnings. Aveline sighed as she and Hawke placed their cards on the table, but Isabela frowned at the dwarf, catching his hand. "Not so fast" She said as she showed them her cards. Varric's smile fell and he scowled at the pirate as she was collecting her winnings, putting them in her large bosom. She noticed Hawke watching her cleavage, so she leaned towards the other rogue, revealing it even more and whispered in her ear "You know, Emile won't come down until dawn, this is his first and probably last night with a girl." Her lips brushed Hawke's ear "we can go to my room to… relax a little" Hawke was now crimson in the face as she looked over to Aveline and Varric. Aveline was glaring at the pirate, but the dwarf winked at Hawke "Go on you two, I need to talk to our Guard Captain about some business anyway." Aveline turned to frown at the dwarf "What are you… Ouch!" She jumped a little when Varric stomped her foot under table, not taking his smile off of two rogues. Hawke looked a little unsure "Are you sure that's alright?" Varric's smile broadened "oh course Champ! We will call you if Emile gets back before you" "You do that!" Isabela exclaimed, grabbing Hawke and dragging her up, towards her room.

When Hawke closed the door behind them, she leaned on them with a smirk on her face, as she watched Isabela, who was now laying on the bed "Well, Champion, what are you waiting for?" She licked her lips seductively, as she watched Hawke's hungry eyes roam all over her body. Then Hawke closed her eyes "You really haven't slept with him?" She asked hopefully after few moments, not daring to look at the pirate. She heard Isabela's annoyed sigh "This again? No sweet thing, I haven't slept with Zevran, or anyone else for that matter, except with you, since I got back." She said firmly, successfully ending that discussion. Hawke smirked as she approached the bed. "No one at all? My my, I feel so special" She whispered the last word in Isabela's ear, crawling on the bed, on top of pirate. Isabela grabbed Hawke's ass, rolling her eyes, making Hawke gasp a little "Oh shut up and kiss me."