AN: Hi I'm sorry about this chapter I personally didn't like the way it was written the first time so I've redone it here.

Murtagh's head began to spin slowly. He had left Nasuada with this nurse who seemed to be somehow associated with Galbatorix and as more than just an employee. He started to back away from the door. Imagine she had done something to Nasuada that would put the sick girl into even more pain. He turned around now and started running towards the infirmary.

He reached the infirmary and crashed through the doors barging in through Nasuada's curtain

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Nasuada hadn't taken the herbs the nurse had given her that morning. She had known they would make her sleep and had not thought it wise to let herself be drugged in the castle. Though she had not slept that night she would need her wits about her. The nurse had come in to check on her after she was given the drugs and she had pretended to be asleep...and fallen asleep in the process.

Now she awoke to the sound of the door bursting open and footsteps hurrying towards her. Her heart beat sped up. The curtain around her bed was thrust open and Murtagh stood looking at her worriedly. His breathing was hard and his eyes drank her in. She looked at him silently trying to figure out what he was doing there.

Murtagh eyed the drowsy girl checking that there was no blood and that she didn't look hurt. His eyes soon fell on hers and he felt his stomach contract at the questioning expression on Nasuada's face. Nothing was wrong with her and she looked as if she had just woken. He must have looked like such an idiot running into the infirmary like that only to find that nothing was wrong. "Are you hurt?" he asked any way turning around to hide his red face.

"No. Nothing more than my injuries of yesterday why do you ask?" her voice had an odd lilt to it, like she was smiling as she spokes She wasn't sure herself why she was teasing usually in a situation like this she would be straight and severe but she felt somehow less bound to formality when she was with that boy. That's all she told herself she saw him as just another boy but she could feel her arteries insides knotting warmly when she saw him. She must be sicker than she thought. Murtagh turned around to see her face. She lips were serious but her eyes sparkled with mischief. He raised his eyebrow feeling his foolishness being overridden by his pride and grinned. He walked slowly over to the chair at her side and sat down

"Had to check on my prisoner," he whispered like it was general knowledge.

"Ahh yes," she whispered back, "the prisoner who you promised to escape with." She grinned with him. "He killed your father!" her mind screamed through the fuzz the boy created in her brain but her heart ignored it. "So what have you been up to while I've been stuck here?" The events of the morning played in Murtaghes mind and he mentally edited his tale leaving out the encounter with the soldier and turning it into a simple "breakfast". He told her that he had seen the nurse in her formal attire and followed her to Galbatorixe's room leaving out his emotional eruption. "And then I came to check that you were all right seeing as to how I left you with the nurse who I now suspect of spying on us to her king," he finished in a growl he didn't want the girl to think he cared to much.

Another slam was heard and the two looked at the door snapped out of their straying thoughts. The nurse had come in again. Her face was red and she muttered as she walked past them quickly avoiding there glances. Murtagh stopped her. "Hey nurse can I ask you something quick," he said standing up. "What were you doing this morning? I mean you look really good in that dress." He had decided to take the nice approach seeing Nasuada safe had calmed him. But the nurse's face told of something different her plump features were rigid and controlled as she turned stiffly toward them. "I had an important meeting," she said calmly. "Nasuada you didn't take the herbs I told you to if you had you would have still been asleep and the bruising would have been reduced." Nasuada blushed but did not feel remorse for her desicion. Murtagh gave the nurse a queer look. "You see," he said deciding on a more direct approach now "I saw you go into the king's room this morning and I was curious as to what you were doing there? Cause I mean not many of his subjects are even allowed in that room." The nurse's jaw clenched and her eyes held Murtagh's. She knew she would have to reveal her secret to them. She had been hoping to keep it to herself longer as she could not be sure of their trust once she told them. "Come," she said looking at them both and walking swiftly towards her office at the back.

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Nasuada and Murtagh stood in the small room looking around in awe. The walls were covered in blueprints of the castle with notes scribbled over them."Where did you get these?" Nasuada asked walking around the room and examining the blue prints. She was quickly storing the information, noting secret passages and general layout. "Sit," said the nurse gesturing to two chairs opposite her. She was sitting in an armchair near the window staring out of it with distant eyes. Murtagh glanced at Nasuada and took a seat. The girl dragged herself away from the outlines and sat next to him. She had walked on her own to the office and refused Murtagh's help. Her legs had not been badly hurt during her beating and only her muscles and rib ached now. After awhile the nurse spoke her voice was strained and she looked older than usual. "I am married to the king." Murtagh frowned and opened his mouth to interject but Nasuada placed her hand on his arm gesturing for him to remain silent. "I was forced to by my father. He was ruler of Dras-Leona and thought he would get more power and money from the marriage...all he got was a death sentence," her voice had turned bitter and a tear ran slowly down one cheek."He left me in the castle and I took on the position of nurse as a retreat from my husband. I spent a lot of time with healers before that. I had run away from home when I was young and travelled with a group of gypsies. My father hadn't thought it would be good for our reputation .His daughter a common gypsy. He tracked me down killed the people who had become like family to me and took me to Galbatorix to be married," she sighed as more tears slithered down her old face. "The outlines are what I do in my spare time. They are all theories. I never tried to escape really my position in the castle has become comfortable. I have my infirmary and no one dares disturb it. That's why none of the soldiers have come for you here Nasuada."

Nasuada tensed from the mention of the soldiers and closed her eyes clearing her mind. The politician in her soon kicked in though and her reponse was colder than she had meant for it to be "I'm sorry for your life story but you have given us no real reason to trust you," The nurse chuckled darkly "Trust is not the easiest thing to gain when your Galbatorixe's wife but let's see if it can be done." Murtagh had been silent for a while and his face was creased in concentration as the nurse shuffled in the drawers near her bed.

"There's more to that story," he said quietly and the nurse looked up from her scrabbling.

"So you remember," she in a voice so soft the wind could have snatched it away.

"You were my nurse," Murtagh whispered his eyes distant as he remembered the young lady with the same stormy grey eyes that had cared for him in the past.

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