Authors note: I am putting my note up here in hopes some of you will read it you tell me rudely to update simple if you do I won't. When you say update it gets me nervous like when people watch me draw in public I freeze it's unfair and very annoying. Keep in mind I study 38 hours a week, homework, driving lessons, freelance commissions, my sick rabbit and volunteering I am swept off my feet I write fanfics to relax and practice for future scripts I may write. If you make it feel like work I won't update. Remember I don't get paid for this….we do this for free. No money just doing it for the fun of it. We do this instead of working so don't tell me to update.
You tell me to update once more I'll move on to another story and cancel this one altogether.
Anything else? Oh yeah I did something with a date not to romantic just fun and sweet. The update for Numb will be here soon it's just a bitch to write because it's so long. Mistakes will be fixed later….
We landed in to what looks like a training camp. Okay not to question Nod and his dating ideals but I always thought that a date included sweeping a girl off her seat taking her out to dinner, a picnic or even a secret make out spot. But this was a training camp what were we doing here?
"Nod." I say "why are we here?"
"You'll see." He laughs getting off his bird then he offers his hand to help me down but I refuse I'm more then capable to do it myself. I slip off the bird after trying to get off the bird I land on my butt I groan hitting the ground. I rub my sore butt Nod offers me a hand and I take it.
"Yeah, yeah I know." I blush smiling while getting up.
"You know you're cute when you're all red in the face like that." He smiles back at me taking me in to his arms. He gave me a hug it was so relaxing. "Or you're just cute in general."
Now that had me blushing.
"So what are we doing here?" I ask again.
"Training you." He says. "You want to be a Leafwoman right? Well let's see if you have got what it takes to be one your majesty." He laughs
"That's M.K to you Mr. I get punched twice that's right I saw you." I say poking his gut. He steps back and pokes me back then starts the poking war. It was ridiculous how skilled he was at this he got so many in I thought I would bruise slightly.
When we finally mobilized me my back as to him our faces were so close I thought he would give me a kiss but didn't instead he leaves and grabs his bow "so I'm going to teach you the art of the bow." He says walking back over to me. "We'll start with the basics you shoot then we'll eat and well I can teach you to fight with a sword." He smiles.
I scowled "I can't lift a sword Nod."
He grabs my arm and starts wrapping something around my arm I whine a little as he tightens it up he sees the questionable look on my face. He smiles "this is an arm band it will protect you from the backlash of the bow. As for the sword you didn't have the right one you had one designed for males M.K."
"Really?" I ask.
"Yeah now get in to position." He says putting his bow around him he grabs me and moves me to the side. He grabs my thighs I blush a lot while he moves them he puts one straight on and the other to the back. Nod gets up he reaches for my shoulders and whispers flirting in my ear "good girl." I shivered as I felt his breath on my ear.
He feels me shiver "I never knew I had that effect on you."
"Put your arms around me." I blush.
Instead of fulfilling my request he takes the bow from around his body then placing it in my hand he hold it with me. He comes back to my ear and whispers in my ear "I can teach you this way and still have you close."
"Cheeky." I laugh slightly "but smart."
Nod brings me close his chest was to my back I could feel him slowly breathing but his heart was beating fast. He gives me an arrow "now place the arrow on the rest, right there." He says pointing to a certain part of the bow I did. "Good now back straight." He pushes his hands in to my back slightly pushing my posture up.
"What's next?" I ask blushing.
"Stretch out your arm out at the target." I nod at him stretching it out as far as it would go. "Okay now place three fingers like this." He said moving them in to a certain position around the end of the arrow. "Now pull it back it will be a bit tough it's you first time."
I grunted pulling it back towards my face "now use your cheek as a point to where your hand will be every time you shoot. It rests there at the perfect place." It was hard and tough it took a lot of my strength to do it. I put it to my cheek "now breathe in and shoot but make sure you shoot at the ground."
"Okay." I whisper as I aim at the ground and shoot. As it leaves I feel my arm being hit I recoil as it hits the ground "owww." I whine.
Nod takes my arm lifting my sleeve "it's nothing it's just the recoil of the arrow you'll get a small or large bruise so look out for it." He says putting my sleeve back down.
"You could off told me." I say annoyed.
He leans down and gives me a cheeky smile "you want to shoot again?"
"Of course it was a lot of fun." I say loading another arrow in to the rest. Nod takes another stance behind me to help me. He puts his hand with mine on the bow and another on my ribs to help my posture again but this time it was under the armor I blushed as I reached out to get ready to fire.
With a nod of approval I fired to the ground again.
"I can feel your ribs." He says sounding concerned holding me close.
I gulp "I haven't been eating." I get away from him.
I turn to look at him; his face was stern "why not?"
"Well I didn't grow up here and well I am still getting used to the food here it's weird to me." I say putting my arms to my chest annoyed and upset.
"Well I have something you'll like but after you shoot more arrows." He says picking up and handing me the bow.
I hear my stomach grow "yeah." I mumble.
I go over to him and we shoot another few arrows at the ground even one at a target I missed by a long shot. "Now you see we take the arrows by the base as close to the ground as you can then pull." He says showing me "if you take them from the feathered tips it will break and these take forever to make I should know I made them." He says proudly.
"I doubt that Leafboy." I say grinning at him.
"Leafman." He says "you know that."
"I know I just like to annoy. Anyway you are one hot Leafman." I grin winking. Now Nod was the one blushing "so what's there to eat?" I ask.
"Well I went to your Dad's house to talk about you I mean what humans eat we have the things you call fruit and vegetables all over the forest." He smiles "and I found a strawberry and got some it was much too big to bring a long." He says heading over to his bird grabbing a small piece of a strawberry out of a bag. I walk over to him with a concerned look "just eat it trust me."
I take it and take a bite. Oh. My. Gosh. After a week of not eating it danced on my taste buds I felt so happy just being able to eat something without hacking it up I finished it as quickly as I got it.
I whimpered when I saw my hands were empty but the juice remained so I licked my hands "hey, hey wait I have more." He says taking out a leaf and unwrapped it revealing more yummy strawberries. I ate most of them Nod didn't seem to have much but he insisted that he would eat again later. So he let me eat it all concerned I wouldn't be able to eat the food.
After food we just laid on the hard wooden stump he was stretched out as my head was on his shoulder it was a warm day when the clouds covered the sun he would hold me closer to keep me warm.
"C'mon we should train again." He says.
"But I don't wanna to full." I said complaining stretching my arms I felt him move then I snuggled back up to him. "Please let's stay like this." I request.
"Sure." He says holding me. It was so soothing just relaxing not worrying about Moonhaven, being in his arms I felt so protected. But after a while he had to open his mouth and speak "I'm bored." He complained.
"Well what do you wanna do Leafboy?" I ask lazily.
"Tell me more about yourself." He shrugs.
"Like twenty questions?" I raise my head from his shoulder to look at him. He gives me a confused look "well we get to ask each other twenty questions so I ask then you ask."
"Okay I'll try." He says. "You start."
"What happened to your parents?" I ask.
"My Father died in battle with Ronin, my Mum died giving birth to me." He replies blankly. "What about yours?"
"I'm so sorry." I say then I gulp "well after my Dad became obsessed with the idea of an advanced society of tiny people living in the woods it ruined his marriage, his career and credibility. They had a fight one day while he was out my Mum and I left then a few years later she gets an aggressive cancer it was too late to do anything by the time we found out. She died a month later and then I came to live with my Dad. Favorite food?" I ask.
"That's an easy one honey. Yours?" He replies.
"You have honey here?" I ask him he nods. "I don't know there's more variety in the human world a lot of yummy things but I am thinking Ice cream. Most favorite pass time?"
"Flying you?" He asks.
"Hmmm." I tease tapping my chin. "Spending time with my Mum she would take me out to cafes, bookstores, sports games and things like that." I sigh.
Nod gives me a half hug. My eyes are closed fighting off those tears again about my Mum I felt his lips gingerly kiss my forehead. My eyes remained closed as Nod's hand caressed my face tenderly then moving on to my hair, my bangs his fingers played with them.
My heart was beating so fact. My stomach was swelling with a warmth I never felt before. My cheeks were burning. I finally opened my eyes to see those big brown eyes just staring at me, I felt a little intimidated under his stare his lips were pressed in to a fine thin line then he broke out in to a big heartwarming smile.
"You know you beautiful right?" He says still playing with my hair.
"Is that a question?" I ask blushing.
"No just a fact." He says. As his hand moves to cup my face and it does. Nod slowly moves closer towards me I could feel his breath on my lips, my breathing hitched as his eyes started to close. I felt my head being pulled closer.
My close my eyes. His lips were on mine with in a heartbeat. It was lazy, messy and slow but it felt so special so sweet so, so good. We were just exploring faintly. My arms wrapped around his neck as we continued. I really didn't want it to end but it felt it was over much too soon for my liking. Once he left I whimpered slightly to show my massive disappointment. He laughs a little to taught me.
"So what are we?" I ask biting my lip nervously.
"Well you kissed me first so you tell me." He says.
"Well I think maybe we could be girlfriend boyfriend and see how it goes." I say twiddling my fingers. "I know we haven't known each other long but it might be fun to be able to kiss and cuddle and hold hands." I say blushing.
"So you want to part take in a courtship?" He asks.
I nod at him "what's it like here?"
"Well a couple goes on flights together riding and sharing the air." He says looking up at the sky. "And the queen has to give the couple her blessing."
"I see." I say.
"What about you world?" He asks.
"Well we would go out on dates, ask parents and stuff." I say shrugging.
A shadow casted over us all of a sudden we both get up too look to the sky. They were bigger then humming birds, but still a type of bird only a few of them.
"M.K." Nod says "we need to get out of here now." He urgently got up in a panic. "Come one." He says annoyed at my lack of movement.
"Nod what is it?" I ask.
"Boggan's come on we need to hide. Get low and keep to the ground." He growls at me. I was a bit taken back from his sudden change in attitude towards me. I get up and follow him sneaking around on my feet keeping low.
He grabs his bird and moves her to a hole she hops happily after her owner while I trail behind them both. He puts the bird in to the hole but there isn't enough room for us all he ties her to a planted twig then he grabs me by the arm and runs us both to a wall. He pushes me to it then covers me with his body. I couldn't help but blush profoundly at how close we were stuck together.
It was really uncomfortable.
My face was rubbing against his armor. I whimpered at the pain that came from it he just told me to be quiet only to breathe through my mouth. Of course I was terrified but I wasn't useless Nod tried to hide me so he could fight freely just in case.
I refused to be hidden away like a damsel in distress.
I can see him getting annoyed at me for it I didn't care. He was telling me to stay hidden more like commanding. I still refused. The Boggan's landed on the log I held on to Nod for dear life I refused to let him go to fight without me. His breathing was long and shallow as we stayed quiet we heard their unhealthy pants.
"Keep quiet." Nod begged. I nodded at him. He was still covering me with his body I could hear his heart it was beating rapidly, I could feel he was trying to control his breathing. "M.K listen I need you to look over my shoulder and tell me how many Boggan's we have to take on okay?" He says.
"Okay." I say scooting up against the wooden wall I gritted my teeth from the pain. I looked over his shoulder let's see one, two, three my breath hitched.
"M.K what's wrong?" Nod asks.
"It's Mandrake he's back." My eyes widen just from saying it.
At first I didn't feel as it was real but saying it.
It felt real.
