The Seven Realms Series Belongs To Cinda Williams Chima.
Han walked with Cat to the theater.
Han and Cat:
"Here we are.", Cat said. Han took a good look at the theater. It was big but not huge, could still fit a lot of people though. They were at the front entrance where a big dark wood door was in front of them. To the side, there were many posters saying; "Grand Recital Tonight! Come and Witness the Performance of a Life Time."
"Wow... this recital is bigger than we thought. I hope Cat can handle the pressure.", Han thought. He looked at Cat, she had a nervous look to her. Her right hand was placed on her left side of her chest and cling onto her shirt, tightly. Han hold Cat's hand tightly, hoping it would calm her down a bit. Cat didn't notice Han doing. One option Han could think of, and it was simple.
"Catarina.", Han said softly. Cat jumped a bit when Han said that. He hasn't called her that since forever. She turned her head slowly towards Han. Han smiled softly.
"Catarina, don't be so nervous about this performance. I bet it's like every other recitals you've been in. The others were smaller with less people, this one is bigger with more people but it shouldn't be any different. You'll be playing a song like you do at all the recitals, and I heard from Dancer that you never miss a note." Han thought about Dancer for a bit, he still needed to talk to him but he can't think like that right. This is about Cat now, Han shoke those thoughts away. "Also, I'll be there. Watching you perform, so instead of playing for the crowed, play for me." Han lets go of Cat's hand and grab her waist. "You'll have the rest of the day to practice, you can brush up on your skills untill then. Lastly, I know you'll be great up there, I just know it and you won't be alone, Annamaya will be right with you."
Like that, Cat's nervousness faded. Now replace with some relief. She smiled back at Han then wrap her arms round his neck in an embrace. Han did the same by wrapping his arms around her waist. "Thank you, Hanson.", Cat said. "Hanson huh? Been a while but it's nice.", Han thought. They continue to embrace for a bit before pulling away. "Alright, it's time.", Cat said, feeling a bit more confident. She gave Han one final kiss and went up to the front entrance. Before she entered, she took one last look at Han, she smiled and gave a thumbs up. Han did the same. Cat turn back to the door, took a deep breath and entered.
Later.
Han:
Han started walking back to his room so he can rest. He felt really tired after that "adventure" with Cat, and the fact he was sore, didn't help.
Han reach his dorm. "Finally!", Han said. He went up to the doors and open them. As soon as he open them, Micah came out and bumb into Han. It knocked back Han but he stood his ground, on the other hand, Micah fell flat on his behind. "Ugh... watch where you are going you sad excuse for a human be-." Micah stopped his sentence when he saw who it was and went wide eyed. "You!?", Micah shouted.
"Son of a bitch! He is the last person I want to deal with right now!", Han thought angrily. Han tried to compose himself but remembered the bad things Micah has done to him. Also, the fact that he was really exhausted and sore, didn't help with composing himself. "YOU watch where you are going you spoiled little shit!" Micah stood up, now with an angry expression. "How dare you-you demon spawn!" Han got into his face, "I do dare you prick!" Micah pushed Han away, he then took hold of his amulet. Han did the same as well. "Are you really that stupid enough to use magic on me in broad daylight?" Micah smirked, "I am sure my father will make your incident an... 'accident'."
Han laughed, "wow... such a daddy's boy. Does your daddy hold your hand when you're scared? Do you share the same bed too? Does he give you goodnight kisses? Micah was getting more furious. "Shut your disgusting rat mouth before I do it for you." Micah threaten. Then, something in Han changed him. He now looked at Micah with a cold stare, barley putting up a smile. He's eyes looked emotionless. "I like to see you try Bayar.", he said with a chilling voice. Micah felt cold, not just cold but fear. For once, he felt fear. He was fearing Han, which felt ridiculous. Micah, a noble wizard, fearing a street rat who turned into a wizard in only a short time? Micah has the experience, the power, everything while Han had nothing, only a few short mouths of wizard training, that's it. Yet, why did Micah feel like he was powerless against Han right now? Why?
"No... no... no.. NO!", Micah thought angrily. "He's nothing... NOTHING! I'll show him what happens when he crosses me!" Micah's amulet began to glow, as did Han's when he saw the glow. Micah opened his mouth, "mors perc-"
"Stop!", said girl's voice.
Micah stopped with his spell and looked at the one who interrupted him. Han snap out of his cold trance and looked at where the voice was coming from.
It was Fiona, wearing Han's black coat, two book bags, one of which was Han's, and a short stack of books in her hands. She stood there, with anger in her eyes.
"What the hell are you two doing?!", Fiona shouted. She looked at Micah, "especially you Micah! You were about to use the killing spell on Alister, weren't you?!" Micah was taken aback. "Fi-Fiona I...he insulted me so I-." "And that gives you the right to kill someone over an insult? Grow up Micah!", she shouted angrily. "Why are you yelling at me, it was Alister that started it!", Micah shouted back. "That is what you always say when Alister does something.", Fiona said. Looking at the situation, she figure it out. "Looks to me Alister was defending himself. You must have started this." "I did not! He started with the insults, provoking me." Fiona rolled her eyes. "I bet you were the one that provoke him. Alister does not bite unless you bite first."
Micah gritted his teeth. "Why are you defending him? He's nothing but a street rat!" Fiona dropped her books, not caring if they were damaged. She walked up to Micah and grabbed him by the collar. "He's not the one acting like a child, throwing tantrums!", she yelled. "All you do is complain about Alister doing this, doing that! It never ends!" Fiona lets go of Micah and pushes him. "You are supposed to be the mature one in the family, I guess it's only me."
Han just stood there speechless. Fiona Bayar, putting Micah Bayar in his place, her own twin brother. "The Bayar family is more broken then I thought.", Han thought.
Micah was also speechless. He didn't expect Fiona to be like this. Like, this wasn't Fiona at all. "What has gotten into her?", Micah thought.
Fiona pushed him away and raised her hand to point at the street. "Why don't you go, you were leaving the dorm, right? Actually, this isn't your dorm anymore. Didn't you move to a different one when your room was infested with rats?", Fiona said. Micah stood still there for a few seconds before nodding his head in agreement. "Y-yes... I was-" "You was what? Going into Alister's room again? Searching for that item that he has? Or did you set up a trap for him again?"
Once again, Micah was speechless.
Fiona took his silence as an yes. "Leave Micah... or else.", Fiona said. Micah eyed her. "Or else what?" Fiona giggled chillingly. "Ooohh sweet big brother." She walked back to Micah and used her hand to grab Micah's face gently. "Or else Alister won't be the only problem you have to deal with.", She said, her voice cold. After hearing that, she lets go of Micah and went to the pile of books she dropped and picked them up. She turn back to Micah, "leave... now.", she said, her voice still cold.
Micah took an upset huff. He fixed his collar and started walking, not looking at Fiona. Like that, he was gone.
Fiona's cold expression was gone, now replace with her street face. She then turned to Han. Han was still speechless, kinda afraid to move. Fiona smiled, "well, now that's taken care of. I have brought back your things." "Wow... she moves on very quick.", Han thought.
Fiona walked up to Han.
"Can you help me with these, they are pretty heavy.", Fiona said. Han snapped out of his fearful trance. "Uh... sure." Han grabbed the books from Fiona hands. "Thank you.", she said. "Lets go to your room. I wanna make sure Micah didn't leave with any trap spells." Han nodded slowly in agreement. "Sure..."
With that said, they both went up to Han's room.
Fiona checked Han's door for any traps, Nothing.
She open the door slowly, once it was fully open, nothing.
She walked in, holding her amulet, speaking out charms quietly, nothing still
She checked the bed, the desk drawer, the window, the darwer, nothing.
She did notice some papers on the floor. "Was this here?", she asked Han. "No...", Han said. "Those were suppose to be in my desk drawer.", he then added. Fiona checked the desk drawer once more. She hold her amulet and spoke a charm. "Et occultatum revelare."
Then, the drawer exploded.
Luckily, it was a weak explosion. It only blew up what ever was in the drawer. It wasn't that loud too. The outline of the drawer was leaking out black smoke a little.
"Huh... guess he did leave a trap.", she said. Fiona looked back at Han. "I'm sorry Alister. Whatever was in there, must have turned to ash. Hope you didn't leave anything important."
Well, there was something important.
Han set the books on his bed and rush to the desk drawer. "No no no!", Han said repeatedly. He opened it, black smoke coming out. He fan away the smoke and dig in the drawer. "Alister?", Fiona said, confused. Once Han was done digging threw, he pulled out a book and a locket.
"No...", Han said, feeling sadden.
The book Han had was very charred, like it was burned before but worse. The locket was okay, it was a little dirty but okay. But that wasn't Han's focus. It was the charred book. The book cracked a bit before crumbling to ash. The ash fell threw Han's fingers. Han lowered his hand, his face now upset. Looked like he was about to cry.
Fiona felt worried. "H-han... it wasn't just a book, was it?", She said softly. Han shakes his head slowly. "No... no it wasn't." Fiona was hesitant to ask this question but...
"What was it?", she said. Tears were slowly coming down Han's face. "It.. It was my sister's. Before I left, my sister, Mari wanted to read this book to me. She wanted me to stay, so she can show me how good of a reader she is. I told her another time and left." Han rubbed his hand, where the ash was, slowly. "A few days later... when I came back, she went ill. So I uh... went to a place where this doctor was, who was said to be the best, and used all of my savings and brought him to my house. She was starting to feel better a little, but it wasn't enough." Fiona stepped closer to Han. Han took off his serpent amulet. "I remembered having this, and thought how much this could be worth."
Han squeezed the amulet in his hand. "So I uh... went to a "friend's" store. When I showed him the peace, he was willing to buy it. I told him I was going too sell it for 100 girles, he wanted to lower the price but I told him I would sell it to other buyers. He agreed and told me he'll fine someone." Han chuckled a bit, it didn't sound good. "When I came back the next day, He was waiting for me. He ask if i had the amulet, I told him no but he then proceeded to push the subject further of where it was. I let slipped it was at the stables, where I lived. That's when he showed up." Han's face turned to anger.
"Gavan Bayar", Han said chillingly. This made Fiona nervous. "The buyer that wanted to buy the amulet was Lord Bayar. My "friend" tried to make a run for it, but Bayar burned him before he could touch the nob to the back room. Bayar then explain that the amulet belonged to him, and wanted it back. I told him I didn't have it, said it was somewhere else. He then mention the stable." Fiona felt like where this story was going, it made her sick. "He said he sent soldiers to the stable, I told him he was looking at the wrong place. He asked me to show him where it was, otherwise, he would take me to his dungeon and torture me."
Han looked up to the ceiling.
"I knew he was gonna kill me if I showed him whereit was. So I... took out my knife and ran for the door, he tried grabbing me but I stabbed him in the side. He then shot a fire ball at me, it kinda missed me. As soon as he was down, I ran back to the stables where my mom and sister were." Han lowered his head down, and tears started to pour. "When I... I reached the stables, I was... too late. The stables were on fire, it was no small fire, it was... huge." Han put both hands on his face, with one hand covered in ash and the other with the locket and amulet. "I asked what happen, someone said that the gaurd were looking for something. I ask... if anyone was inside... they said the soldiers... were questioning two people... the soldiers asking about me. They said the two people were a mother and her daughter, they said they didn't know who I was... The lieutenant, Gillen, didn't believe them... and ordered the house to be torched... with the mother... and daughter inside."
When Fiona heard that, she was beginning to cry as well.
"I tried going... to save them but... Cat and my former Raggers stopped me... saying it's not worth risking my life. I didn't listen, and tried to get pass them but they hold me down and wouldn't let go. All I could do was watch as the stable house was buring to the ground. I just... fuck..."
Fiona slowly put both hands on Han's shoulders. Trying to comfort him in some way.
"After the fire cleared, I went in the burned ruins. I found their... charred bodies... they were unrecognizable. But my mom had this locket around her neck... so I knew it was them. I found the book as well... close to my sister... I kept them both... to remember them by."
Fiona got down on the floor where Han was kneeling and embraced him from behind. She embraced him tightly, never wanting to let go. Fiona never felt sad for someone, it was strange but... right to her. Han cried now, tears pouring out. He tried to brush them away but realized he has ash on him, it made his face dirty. Fiona continued embracing Han for what felt like hours. She didn't want to let go, Han wasn't resisting. He didn't want to. Han lets go of both amulet and locket to the ground. The locket opening, revealing a picture of Han, his mother, and his sister.
They sat there, crying, embracing. No talking, just silence.
Cat:
Cat was really nervous about this recital tonight. It was gonna be big, really big.She took many breaths to calm her self, she succeeded... for now. She was in front of the door that leads into the stage. She took one final breath, then entered. Inside, she saw the stage, it hand many instruments and many of the temple students there. She looked closely, and saw Annamaya was already here. Cat smiled, knowing that her friend was here. Annamaya was sitting on the stage, talking with another student.
Cat walked towards the stage. When she got close enough, Annamaya spotted her. "Cat!", Annamaya said. She got off the stage and rush towards Cat, hugging her. Cat hugged her back, "Hey Anna." They both let go. "I'm glad you're here Cat.", Annamaya said. Cat smiled, "me too, I'm glad you're here as well." Cat looked around the stages and rows of chairs. Most of the temple students were sitting in the red chairs, talking, just hanging out. Some were on the stage. talking as well, some were tuning their instruments. Cat looked confused, "What's going her? Ain't we got practice?"
Annamaya giggled nervously.
"Yeah... well.. the conductor who was suppose to be here is running late. The carriage carrying the conductor, broke down. Wheel broke on the way, the ones responsible for the recital say it could take maybe another hour or so." Cat sigh, annoyed. "Really?! Ugh... this is getting ridiculous!" Annamaya put her hand on Cat's shoulder. "I know Cat... I know." Cat sat in one of the chairs in the front row, leaning on it. "I could have spend more time with Han."
Annamaya remembered something.
"That's right, you went after him. I was wondering what you two did after." Cat blushed at the memory of her and Han having sex in an alley. Annamaya saw the blushed on her face and blushed as well. "Oh, I see." Annamaya smiled, "you two just can't help yourselves can you?" She then laughed softly. Cat just sat there, thinking. "More like I couldn't handle myself. I drag Han into an alley and... well." Annamaya went wide eyed. "In an alley way?! Cat, you're so bold." They both started laughing.
They continued talking for a bit before hearing the doors all the way behind them. "Guess they are here already. Finally!" ,Cat said, relief. She got up from her chair to turn and see this conductor. When she saw the person who came in, her heart stopped.
"Dancer!", Cat thought.
It was Dancer, wearing a grey coat, black dress shirt and dark grey vest underneath. Wearing black trousers and black boots. Dancer's short black hair is more fixed then this morning. He had a serious look in his blue eyes. Dancer scan the room, looking for something... or someone.
When he saw Cat, he walked down the aisle. "Cat! We need to talk.", he said. This spooked Cat. "Wait! Right now?! I'm not ready for this yet!", Cat thought, panicked. Cat started to move her feet. Dancer was nearing Cat. "Dancer what are you- Whoa!" She didn't get to finished her sentence. Dancer grabbed her by the arm and led her to a side door that said exit. Like that, they were out the door. Everyone in the theater stood there, confused at the situation. Annamaya though, was shocked.
"... Uh oh..."
In a small alley way.
"Dancer, wait!", Cat shouted. Dancer stopped and lets go of Cat's arm. "We need to talk.", He said. Cat rubbed her arm, "w-what about?" Dancer turn towards Cat, hands in his coat pocket. "About you and Han." He thought for a moment, "and about us." Cat looked down a bit when he said that. Honestly, she didn't want to deal with it right. She wasn't ready"Dancer... now's not the time. Can we do this tomorrow?" Dancer shakes his head, "It's better if we do this right now... to get it out of the way."
Cat sigh.
"What do you have to say then?", she said. "Do you love Han?", he said bluntly. Cat was taken aback with the question. "I do, Hayden." Cat sigh, "if that's all then-" "What happen with us?", he said. "What about us, Hayden?" "You know what I mean Cat. The time we spent together, our chats, all of that. What changed now?"
Cat didn't really know how to anwser that. She was planning on figuring that out tomorrow. But now, nothing. She tried thinking of something, a simple anwser for now.
"I just don't... feel the same way about you anymore.", she said. Dancer just stared at her. "I love Han, that's it.", she said. "Why?", he said.
"Hayden... I just do. He... brought back feelings that were hidden away. Feelings... I thought I forgot." Dancer felt hurt but tried to not show it. "Then... what were those feelings you had for me? Were they all fake?" Cat felt a bit guilty, "I...", Cat took a deep breath. "No Hayden... my feelings were real. I never thought of it as fake. I really did cared for you. You're really sweet, you listen to me, you were there for me. I really appreciate it. But with Han... I just can't get him out of my head. Back then, he knew me so well. I loved him so much back then. When we broke up, I still couldn't get him out of my head. I wanted him back, I needed him. When I met you, and gotten to know you well, I felt like I could move on from him."
Cat tighten her grip on her arm. "But after that kiss last night, it brought back memories of him and I. Memories of the good times we had. Just like that, my feelings for you faded. My feelings for Hanson grew back, stronger than ever. I don't think that will ever changed." Dancer was speechless. He just keep staring at her with that blank look. Deep down, Dancer was hurting. Someone who he was falling for, stopped falling for him. He couldn't accept it, he had to try something. Something that would give him an answer.
"I need to try something.", Dancer said. Cat looked at Dancer, confused. "What is it?" Dancer went up to Cat, put both hands on Cat's arms. "To get my anwser.", Dancer lower his lips onto Cat's lips and kissed her. Cat was very shocked about this. She tried pushing away. "H-hey! What are you do- mhmmm?!" Dancer continued kissing back. Cat tried resisting but can't. Dancer felt like he had his anwser.
Or so he thought
SMACK
Cat smacked Dancer across the face hard. Everything went quiet, no sound could be heard. Dancer put a hand on his right cheek. It stings, buring. Dancer looked at Cat, she had frighten look on her face. Dancer reached out to Cat but she moved away from him with each step he took. Dancer stopped moving. "I'm sorry Cat I... I just wanted to know, and I got my anwser now." Dancer turned around. "I'll be... going now, goodbye Cat." He walked out the alley and left.
Cat stood there, paralyzed. she couldn't moved. She stayed like that for a minute before moving her left hand close to her face. She stared at it, tears beginning to fall from her eyes. She couldn't comprehend what happen.
"Cat.", Annamaya said.
Cat didn't bother to turn around to see her. She stayed were she was. Annamaya went up to Cat slowly from behind. She hugged her from behind, Cat didn't resist. They stayed in that position for a while before Annamaya lets go and grabbed Cat's hand. "Let us go back inside.", Annamaya suggested.
She gently pulled Cat with her inside the theater, Cat followed, with the door closing behind them.
End of Act 1.
Act 1 has come to a close.
Next Act will focus on the recital.
I originally wanted to do the recital in this chapter, but it was too long to go into, so it needs its own Act.
As plans for the charaters roles, of course Han and Cat are the main protagonist.
But they both have their solo chapters.
Meaning, they will need a deuteragonist type.
So, here they are:
Han's deuteragonist is Fiona.
Cat's deuteragonist is Annamaya.
Every main charaters has to have someone supporting them threw tough times.
What to expect:
Fights, duals, arguing, love scenes, many more.
When will Act 2 come out?
When it does.
Anyways, That's all I have to say.
Thank you for reading Raggers's Heart Act 1.
It has been a blast.
Please, review and tell me what you think.
Pm me if you have any questions.
Goodbye, see you later.
-isTrickster
Raggers's Heart Act 2
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