The Trip Part 1

The trip to Silvermoon will be a long one. We will take the ship from Booty Bay to Ratchet in The Barrens then travel to Orgrimmar, following the road through The Crossroads and Razor Hill. Take a Zeppelin to Tirisfal Glades and ride through the Plaguelands until we hit Southern Quel'Thalas (now known as The Ghostlands), then we will ride to Silvermoon City. The whole trip will take close to a month if we went by foot, luckily we're not, so it shouldn't take any longer than a two weeks at most.

"Couldn't we just take the Translocator Orb in The Ruins of Lordaeron to Silvermoon?" asked Thalina.

During the time she stayed with us in Booty Bay, I kept getting flashbacks to a past that is becoming clearer each time. The last one I had before we spent the night in bed together was the strongest one yet, bringing on raw emotions from that time into the present. I found out how much I cared for this woman and how much pain I must have put her through these last five years.

"We could, but since we're on a task to kill someone in Silvermoon, we don't want to draw any unnecessary attention to ourselves by using it." I said to her.

"Wait, you have an orb that transports you from one city to another, halving the time of the trip and you're suggesting we don't use it?" Clara shook her head. "Seems like a waste of time doing it all by horseback."

"For reasons I just explained, we're assassins, we don't do things because they're convenient. We do things that won't draw attention to ourselves. Besides, we're not on horse back now." We were on a ship heading towards Ratchet from Booty Bay, this will take us at least three days to arrive there.

"Bah, who cares." Elaria shrugged, "Just means more time seeing places other Alliance members won't be as lucky to see outside of war."

"Aren't you going to kill a Horde member in a Horde city?"

"Listen, Thalina, what we're doing isn't about Alliance or Horde. It's just a job that needs to be done by certain skilled people. It just so happens that my race is affiliated with the Alliance." Elaria sat down and started eating. Waving a chicken leg around, "Besides, if what I've heard about Silvermoon is true, it's a beautiful city... Despite the recent encounters in the past."

In the corner of my eye I saw Thalina's head shoot up from the book she was reading. "I can take you to all the good places when we get there." Her smile was beaming, "The city was my home whilst I was studying to be a Magister."

"I won't turn down that offer." Elaria looked at Clara, "What do you say? We could make a day out of it, just us three."

"Sure! But wait, what about Athrodar?"

"What about me?"

"Don't you want to join?"

"As much as I'd love to join you on a girls day out, I'm going to be gathering information on our target."

"See, like I said, just us three. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to chow down on this food."

The rest of the trip towards Ratchet was full of similar conversations. Thalina telling them about Silvermoon most of the day and what time she had left, she spent with me. As we arrived in Ratchet, I could see the population was predominantly Horde. Although it was a neutral town, I still had an uncomfortable feeling two of our members weren't welcome here.

"Hoods up, stay alert."

Everyone nodded and complied, mounting up and making our way off the boat. I could already see several glares coming our way, most of them aimed at Elaria and Clara.

Elaria steered her horse towards me and Thalina, her voice was low "Let's not linger here any longer than is needed."

I nodded, "Agreed." I replied in a similar tone. "We'll stay here for the night, gather any supplies that we need and head off in the morning."

We arrived at the inn and bought two rooms for the night. After making our way to the rooms and settling down for a bit, we decided to take a trip around the town, Elaria going with Thalina and me with Clara. This way we have mixed groups and will have less likely of a chance to be attacked by anyone daring enough to do so.

"So, how are you two doing?"

"Thalina and I?" She nodded, "As well as could be expected, considering the circumstances."

"Oh? Care to explain?"

I stopped walking, Clara stopping shortly after and turning to look at me. "Well I know how I feel about her, those memories came back."

"But?"

"When she starts talking about the past we had, however short, I can't remember most of it."

"I see."

"Do you?"

"Well, I may not fully understand what you're going through, but I can hazard a guess as to what she's going through."

"And what do you think she's going through?"

"If I was to guess, she's happy you remember your feelings towards her, maybe even ecstatic. That's a great start."

"But it's not enough."

"Of course not. I'd also have to guess that it's killing her that the man she loves is only a fractured version of the one she fell in love with."

I said nothing else until we arrived at a market stall that had some supplies we needed. I left Clara to it whilst I wondered a few steps away, looking at a weapons store. I needed new knives as mine were getting a bit out of shape.

"Move out the way, pink skin." I looked back and saw an Orc push Clara out of the way so he could get to the front of the line.

She walked back to the front of the queue and yelled at the orc. "Listen here, Green skin, I was at the front of the queue, now be like the bone head you are and wait your turn!"

This time he hit her with the back of his gauntleted hand, she stumbled back before falling to the floor. "Stay down, pup."

I started making my way towards the orc, hand on my sword and a dagger in case anything more happened.

She got back up, defying his orders to stay down, which is when he went to draw his weapon. I was already there.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." I had a dagger lined across his throat.

"You'd defend a pink skin?"

"Would I defend a pink skin? No. Would I defend a friend? Yes. Now do as the lady says and wait your turn."

"Pointy eared fuck," He snarled. "You're not worthy of the Horde."

I added a bit of pressure to his throat. "That's not a smart move my friend. See, from where I'm standing, I could easily slice your throat open and kill your friend over there," I nodded to where his friend was standing, axe in hand. "Before you even have a chance to react. Now you will wait your turn whilst she gets what she needs. Understand?"

He tried to nod, but realised that would be a fatal mistake. "Y-Yes."

"Good." I removed the dagger from his throat, cutting it a little so some blood drips out. I made my way over to Clara, I put a hand on her face and was lightly brushing my thumb over her cheek that was quickly bruising. "Let's get what you need and leave. I'd rather not be out in the open like this any longer."

She nodded and bought the supplies. Making our way back to the inn she stopped walking and pulled on my arm. I stopped and turned around to her. "Thank you."

"For what?"

"Standing up to him. Who knows what would have happened if you weren't there."

"I'm sure you could handle yourself."

She shook her heard and looked up at me, tears visible in her eyes. "I-I don't know if... I probably.."

I extended out my arms and she walked into them, crying once I put my arms around her. "You're safe now."

"Thank you." She repeated.

"You've said that already," I joked, "Pick something else to say."

She laughed whilst still crying, then shook her head. A few second later, Elaria and Thalina found us, Clara still crying in my arms, albeit not as much.

Elaria made her way to use quickly before taking her from me. Seeing her face, Elaria asked me what happened to her and I nodded towards the Orc.

"I'll have his hide for doing this to her!" She cried.

"Relax, I've already dealt with it."

"He's still breathing, so clearly not!" She snapped at me.

"It's a neutral zone. I won't spill blood here unless we're being attacked."

"And you're telling me she wasn't attacked!? Look at her face!"

"Elaria, I'm fine."

Elaria looked down at Clara, putting her hands on her face. "I just don't like seeing you hurt. I know I tease you but I don't want to see you hurt."

Thalina made her way to me and whispered, "Are you sure they're not together?"

I chuckled and put an arm around her, "I'm sure." I looked at Elaria, "You should take her to a healer, see if they can do anything about that."

She nodded, bringing Clara with her whilst Thalina and I made our way back to the Inn and got settled in for the night. A few hours later Elaria had returned with Clara, who looked a lot better than she did.

As both Thalina and Clara went to sleep for the night, Elaria and I rotated night watch duty, sleeping in between shifts. This is was to make sure whomever that Orc and his friend were, wouldn't come by to try and hurt Clara.

Luckily nothing happened that night, walking into Thalina's room the next morning, I noticed she was already awake. "Had a good sleep?"

She shook her head. "Couldn't sleep without you here."

I smiled, "Well you can lean back against me and sleep whilst we move to our next destination. I'll make sure you don't fall off."

She yawned whilst nodding.

Making our way to the horses we had stabled away, Thalina was clinging to my arm to stay up right, she looked exhausted. I wonder if she slept at all last night.

I pulled myself up onto the horse then pulled her up after, placing her in front of me. I wrapped an arm around her waist whilst my other wrapped itself around the reins. She leaned back against me whilst I put cheek against hers. She looked up and kissed my ear, making it twitch, she smiled when she saw it then closed her eyes. "I love you." She whispered.

I kissed her temple. "I love you too"

We left in the early hours of the morning, giving Elaria and Clara plenty of time to drink the potion I gave them so they could be disguised as a Blood Elf. We rode for over ten hours before reaching Razor Hill. By the time we got there, Thalina had just woken up and saw we were already at Razor Hill. She would have fallen off the horse with shock had I not been there to hold her up.

"How did we get here so fast?"

"It's quite simple really, we took a detour. It was a little rough at first, but we made up at least a days ride." I looked at her. "Good morning. Or is it afternoon now?"

She smiled, "Doesn't matter. I woke up in your arms, so that makes it good no matter when it is." She leaned into me, "I also had a good dream." She winked at me, her voice was low.

"We know." Came a voice belonging to Elaria.

Thalina sat up straight quickly, I could see her ears twitching, same with the corner of her mouth. "You... know?"

"Honey, we could hear you moaning in your sleep." The voice came from Clara this time.

She turned her head slowly and looked at me, eyes wide. I could only smirk at her and nod. Embarrassed, she tried to make her way behind me to hide. I laughed before helping her out. Once behind me she clung to the back of me tightly, almost like she was trying to hide inside of me. I put my free hand behind me and rested it on her leg. She put a hand on mine, interlocking our fingers.

We made our way into Razor Hill and as usual, we rested at the inn there. Staying only one night to get refreshed and to buy any additional supplies before making our to the next destination in the morning.

Once we all got to the room we were sharing for the night, we noticed it was smaller than we had hoped. There was only one bed over all with one chair and one couch.

"I call the bed!" Before anyone could argue, Elaria ran into the room with the bed in and dived on top of it.

Clara took the couch and Thalina took the chair. I didn't mind this as I was going to share wherever we were going to sleep with Thalina. Although it had to be the smallest out of the three, I'll try to make it work.

Once we all got settled in, I went to find a herbalist to get more ingredients for the potion that made Clara and Elaria disguise as a Blood Elf.

After returning with the herbs, I collapsed into the chair. "Remind me to get lighter coloured clothing next time we're in Durotar. Black is not helping me cope with this heat." I removed my cloak and dropped in on the floor next to me.

Thalina came over and sat on my lap, facing me. She then cast a spell that almost instantly cooled me down. "Better?"

"Better." I pulled her close to me and kissed her. "Thank you."

"You're welcome." She rested her head on my forehead and laced her arms around my neck. "I missed you."

I chuckled, "I was gone for an hour, maybe two at tops."

"I know, but I still missed you." She kissed my ear.

"Well," I kissed her ear. "What," then her temple. "Are we," her cheek. "Going," the corner of her lips. "To do," under her jaw. "About it." finally kissing her neck, causing her to moan lightly.

Trying to compose herself, "W-Well if you c-carry on with this, I know what we c-could do about it."

I moved a hand down to her lower thigh, slowly moving it up, I was watching her reaction the whole time. She was biting her lower lip and started to arch her back the further up my hand went.

"Do you two need some alone time?" Came a voice.

Thalina screamed and fell off my lap. Causing Elaria – The owner of the voice – to double over in fits of laughter.

Clara rushed into the room, looking ready for a fight. "What happened? I heard a scream."

"I caught them both in an intimate moment and she fell off his lap." Elaria was still laughing, tears rolling down her face.

"It's not funny!" Thalina offered me her hand and I took it, pulling her up. "It's not nice to spy on people, especially if they're doing... stuff."

"Oh come on, it was hilarious." She wiped a tear from her eye as she stopped laughing. "I'll leave you two alone now." She took her leave, dragging Clara with her.

"Thalina," She folded her arms and looked down at the floor, embarrassed. "Come back here."

She shook her heard.

"Come on" I pulled at her arm until she came back to me, sitting on my lap once more. She curled up on me, the side of her head resting on my shoulder whilst she looked up at me.

"How long do you think she was standing there?"

I couldn't lie, "About five minutes."

"What! You knew she was there!?" She cried, sitting up and glaring at me.

"Well, yeah. It's part of my job to know my surroundings."

"And you just carried on?"

"I mean, I knew she would interrupt, I was going to see how far I could take it before she did." I rubbed her arms. "It was funny though."

She got off me, "I'm leaving."

I laughed, "I'm sorry, but it was." I stood up. "Come on, come back here."

She ignored me and walked into the bedroom, shutting the door and locking it afterwards.

I sat back down in the chair, getting comfortable and closing my eyes. "Ah well, might as well sleep now." I said to myself quietly.

A couple of hours passed of absolute silence, until I heard the bedroom door unlocking and opening slowly. She was looking into the room, noticing me on the chair feigning sleep. Of course she didn't know that. She gradually made her way towards me until she stood directly in front.

Like a cat pouncing at a mouse, I grabbed her arm and dragged her down onto me, kissing her deeply and she responded by doing the same before pulling away. "I-I thought you were sleeping."

"Aren't you glad I wasn't?" I winked at her.

"I'm still mad at you for not telling me she was watching us."

"So... You don't want to be intimate with me tonight?"

"No." I was disappointed, something she picked up on instantly. "But I will sleep here with you. If you want that of course."

"Better than not being with you."

"Good." She went back into the same position she was in before she left the room. I put an arm around her shoulder, moving her until her head lay on my chest.

I kissed her forehead as she drifted off to sleep. I followed shortly after.