Cullen stood tentatively outside Emilie's door, his hand hovering in a fist ready to knock on it. He sighed and lowered his hand, he shook his head and rolled his shoulders to urge himself on. Before he knew it, he had knocked on the door.

''Who is it?' asked her polite voice.

Cullen cleared his throat, 'It's erm, The Commander, Cullen.' He said rather awkwardly.

The front door opened to her room and she stood smiling at the commander. She motioned her hand for him to come in.

Cullen looked at her stomach, he had no problem with a woman being pregnant but the sight of her pregnant belly made him feel incredibly uncomfortable. 'My Lady, if we could talk here? I do not want to intrude.'

'I am sorry Cullen, I mean Ser. My back is killing me and I would much rather sit down, if I may?'

Cullen swallowed and smiled a forced smile, 'Of course, my lady'

Emilie walked into the small room she was provided with. She sat on the bed whilst Cullen sat on a chair the other side of the room. Cullen noticed that she had brought little with her.

'You have not brought many possessions with you, were you not intending to stay long?'

Emilie looked down at the floor, 'Well, I wasn't expecting you to believe that this was your child. So, I wasn't particularly hopeful that the Inquisition would even help me.'

Cullen pinched the bridge of his nose. 'My lady, I am not the father of your child.'

'Then why are you here?' she asked sharply.

Cullen sat back quickly at the sudden change of tone in her voice. 'I do not mean to offend you. I came here to talk because this 'situation', it has and will have terrible implications for both myself and for the inquisition.'

Emilie bit her lip in thought. There was a silence that Cullen had to fill.

'The inquisition is happy to provide you and your baby some payment. None of us would wish you to suffer but you must understand that I will play no part in this child's upbringing as I had no part in, the conception.'

'How long have you been in love with each other?' Emilie asked bluntly

Cullen frowned, 'Excuse me?'

'The Inquisitor? Evelyn, isn't it? You care for her and the only reason that you are denying this is because it will end your relationship with her.'

Cullen's hand tightened on the arms of the chair, he had a surge of annoyance go through his body.

'I will say this one more time.' He leant forward 'I do not know you. I had never met you before you arrived here. And tomorrow morning, when you leave to go home, it will be the last time I see you.'

There was a silence as Emilie slowly raised her eyes to meet his. He expected her to cry, or plead, she didn't.

Her face turned into a smirked, ''We will see about that Commander.'

Cullen stood up and left the room, he closed the door behind him. He thought for a moment at her words, We will see about that Commander. Was it a threat? he thought, though the notion of a heavily pregnant, petite woman threatening him seemed all but ridiculous. He shook the thought from his head and made his way to the training grounds ready for daily training with the soldiers.

…..

Evelyn had been working all morning, report after report and she had had enough, she needed some fresh air. She noticed that the courtyard was taken up by Cullen and the troops training so she decided to take a walk along the battlements, she didn't mind, it certainly had the best view.

She stopped to take in the view, it was certainly beautiful. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath and let the clean mountain air fill her lungs. As she exhaled her eyes opened to a figure standing next to her. She jumped in shock, placing a hand over her chest.

'Emilie!...I didn't see you there' Evelyn stated trying to calm herself at the sudden shock.

'I'm sorry I didn't mean to startle you.'

'It is fine. Was there something you need?' she asked curiously. Evelyn was still, jealous, of Emilie despite the false claims of her carrying her lover's baby.

'Your Commander came to talk to me today. He was very rude and he made me cry.'

Evelyn turned to face Emilie and stared at her with a confused expression, 'He made you cry? That doesn't sound like Cullen.'

'He was extremely angry with me you see. He is still denying any responsibility of his actions and his temper shows that.'

Evelyn could feel her temperature rising and her hands getting sweaty, she really didn't want to hear any more of this.

'I have known Cullen for a long time now. We have a special relationship and he is not the type of man to give himself to just anybody.' Evelyn meant the harsh tone in her voice.

Emilie's jaw clenched. 'I thought you were smarter than that, he has played you.'

Evelyn's breathing quickened, 'What on Thedas are you talking about?'

'If I was just an anybody then why did he give me this?' She pulled something out of the pocket of her dress and put it into Evelyn's hand. Evelyn's heart sank and tears of heartbreak and anger began to fill in her eyes. Evelyn could not take her eyes off the silver coin in her hand. The exact same coin he had given her when they visited Honnleath.

A burning rage began to build inside her and she clenched the coin in her fist.

'I want you gone in the morning.' Evelyn spoke every word with venom.

She walked away from Emilie and headed to the battlements. Emilie stood there with a slight smile on her lips.

…

Evelyn stormed down the steps of the battlements and onto the courtyard. Furious did not even come close to how she felt, she could feel how red and flustered her face was but she did not care.

Cullen was on the courtyard, observing his men training.

'Good, very good. You have improved tremendously.' Cullen stated warmly.

The recruit smiled, 'Thank you Commander.'

Cullen walked around the mass of recruits who were training, giving advice where possible. He turned and saw Evelyn approaching him, he smiled until he saw the anger in her face. His own faced frowned as she came storming through all the recruits, not blinking or apologising when she barged shoulders with them. The recruits stopped in the presence of her and turned to look when she approached the Commander.

'Inquisi….'

'CULLEN RUTHERFORD, YOU ARE PERHAPS THE MOST DISGUSTING MAN I HAVE EVER MET.'

Cullen stood with a blank expression as Evelyn began her onslaught at him. He was suddenly very much aware of his recruits hearing this conversation. To make matters worse, all of Skyhold had been silenced by the Inquisitor's rage. Cassandra, Varric and Iron Bull had moved closer to the commotion and Leliana and Josephine had appeared at the top of Main Hall steps.

'YOU ARE A LIAR AND A CHEAT. I CAN'T BELIEVE I TOLD YOU THAT I LOVED YOU. ARGHHHH' She pushed him hard against his chest.

'Evelyn?' he tried to say as quietly as possible, 'What is going on?'

'I BELIEVED YOU. YOU TOLD ME THAT IT WASN'T TRUE. THAT YOU HADN'T GOTTEN HER PREGNANT.' Evelyn was completely hysterical.

'Evelyn! Calm down, let us talk about it in private' Cullen urged her. He was now quite afraid on what was going on and it was not made any better by the now sniggering recruits who found their Commander being scolded over personal matters to be somewhat hilarious.

'Calm down?!' she spat, 'Don't play the idiot with me. I thought you were different, I thought you cared.'

'What? Evelyn, you know I care. What is happening?'

'What is happening?' Evelyn laughed venomously, 'This is what is happening Cullen,' she threw his lucky coin at him. 'You gave Emilie this, the exact same coin you gave to me when you declared your love to me. It meant nothing!'

Varric and Iron Bull's eyebrows raised in shock, this certainly beat watching the tavern fights.

Cullen looked at the coin, he was blushing so red, he did not know what to say, he was so confused. 'Evelyn, I can't, I don't understand. She must have found this. It was only you. You must believe me!' Cullen leant forward to grab her arm but she forced him off her.

'You only talk to me on Inquisition matters from now on, do you understand?! We are done.'

She stormed off towards Leliana and Josephine and soon brushed past them towards her chambers. The pair looked at one another with concerned looks.

Cullen watched as Evelyn walked away, he was in complete shock at what had just happened. He didn't say another word, he walked through the group of recruits who were all speechless and made his way to his tower.

Cassandra walked towards them.

''Get back to training. All of you!''