Ch.12 rain, rain and more rain

(JAY's POV)

Jay's mount snapped it's teeth in anger, and Jay did not blame it one bit. For the last two days they had been riding towards the coast, two days in a never ending rain. A messenger had shown up at the gate of haven the day he had been planning to move out, so in interest of not losing the chance for more force they had changed plans.

Vivienne and Cassandra with a small group of scouts were heading to Redcliffe to scout out the situation, while Jay and his team moved out to meet with this 'Iron Bull'. The entire group was soaked when they finally reached the scout camp, even Harding seemed to hate the weather. After storing their gear and checking over the reports the group began heading for the meeting place.

(Ironbull's POV)

Bull smashed another Zealot with his maul, he had not intended to fight these guys just yet. But the damn vints had somehow stumbled on them, while trying and failing to spy on the inquisition. He raised his maul to crack another's skull, when a ice blue streak passed through the vint and kept going. The zealot was turned to ice, when his maul hit it the vint exploded into a pile of shards.

Glancing around Bull saw a third group had joined the fight, the streak finally stopped after making a few more vinticles. The streak was a human mage wielding a staff coated with ice, the ice was in the shape of a barbed spear head and it cut like one to.
They these new fighters help the vints fell quickly, Bull watched the human mage shatter the ice on his staff before placing it on his back. The man walked up to Bull and something about his eyes just set bull on high alert, nothing he could pin down told him why though.

"I see why the chargers are called what they are, Jay Trevelyan." Jay said extending a hand.

Taking it Bull nodded. "Yeah, the horns usually give it away, come on let's grab a drink and talk." Bull said lead the man over to some rocks.

Krem came up and brought the report with him, after telling him to break open the casks he turned to Jay. Taking a seat on the rock behind him brought him eyelevel with Jay, for his part Jay leaned against the rock next to him. Krem came back was mugs for the trio, Bull took the largest and krem offered the remaining one to Jay.

"No thanks." Jay refused politely, Bull smirked at him and decided to test this guy.

"Ah come on, everyone likes drinking after a battle! Besides it helps negotiations go smoother!" Bull joked, pushing the mug towards the mage.

"Yes, but most of those people can drink that stuff. With my condition it is harder to drink than I would like, I need to treat it with a mix of my draughts but then it just weakens the kick." Jay explained shrugging, Bull looked closer at the man before shrugging.

Jay proved to be a very skilled negotiator, refusing to just blindly hire them and leave their ambassador to deal with them. Bull spent the next two hours sitting in the rain, as they bickered back and forth over price. By the end of the two hours, they had a deal and were on their way to haven. The chargers were happy, as they had just finished off the casks of drinks.

(Leliana's POV)

Leliana lay on the stone floor of the chantry dungeon panting hard, she had spent the last hour sparing with the Dwarven vampire and felt it. Luka stood leaning against one of the pillars, sipping from her blood canteen smirking at her. Leliana struggled to sit up and grab her own canteen, glad that they had such different shapes for the vessels.

"you really are strange, you know that right. I mean your aura is so soothing" Luka taunted her.

"How does that make me strange?" Leliana asked, Luka looked at her like she was mad.

"I mean your aura is almost vampire, guess that explains how you caught the attention of two of the rulers of the night." Luka said as they climb the stairs.

"Two which two?" Luka looked at her when they stepped out into the sun, her expression was one of confusion.

"Jay and lark? Who else, you do realise that they each hold more power than most kings right?" Luka explained, Leliana paused to accept a report before turning to her trainer.

"I knew Jay was the ruler of the costal regions of the marches, but Lark is a lone dalish wandering vampire is she not?" Leliana asked.

"Yes and no, Lark is the queen of the wilds covens. That includes a large territory, all elder one are rulers of their stomping grounds." Luka explained, Leliana nodded and turned to focus on her work.

Leliana walked into the war room and saw Jay, hunched over the war table reading report written with a slanting scrawl. He waved a greeting without looking up, with the other hand he began writing out notes without looking up. Leliana walked around the table to look at what he was working on, it appeared to be a report from Vivienne.

"Is something the matter?" She asked gently, Jaw sighed and stood up rubbing at his eyes.

"My homeland is causing trouble again it seems, a Tevinter magister has swooped in and stole the mages from under us." Jay explained, Leliana frowned.

"What are you going to do?" she asked, Jay sighed before looking at her. "Go and put on a false smile, snoop around then come back and figure out how to kill the man and steal the mages back." Leliana smiled at his plan.

"But first I am done with this for tonight, care for a walk with me?" He asked extending an arm, she took it like a lady at court. "Why yes my lord I would."

Together they walked out of the war room, Leliana saw the door to the ambassador's office open just as they came out. Leliana cringed at the sight of Josie's wide beaming smiled when she caught sight of their joined arms, Josie winked at her and disappeared into the office again. Jay looked bemused at the office door.

"I think that I may be grilled tomorrow about this." Leliana sighed, Jay got a sly smile on his face at that.

"Well then, how about we give you two something to gossip about?" He suggested, Leliana did a double take at that.

"Teasing a lady like that is not polite my lord." Leliana kept her tone neutral, trying to gauge how honest he was being.

"I was not teasing. I would even allow you to pick the place." Jay's face became serious and Leliana flushed slightly.

"Really? And if I said that I wanted you to bend me over Josie's desk and fuck me until I screamed?" Leliana teased, before she could blink she was over his shoulder.

"As my lady wishes." Jay said, Leliana started mildly panicking when she heard the door to Josie's office open.

"My dear ambassador, I hope you don't mind Leliana and I using a portion of your desk for a bit." Jay called to the ambassador, Leliana froze unsure of what Jay was playing at.

"I believe I can spare most of it, I am just drafting a letter to my parents." Josie responded, Leliana was about to try and break free when she was throw over onto the desk.

"Leliana asked my to, how did you put it? 'Bend me over Josie's desk and fuck me until I scream' was that it?" Jay asked her, and Leliana flushed red at the shocked look on Josie's face.

"I was joking!" Leliana cried as she felt Jay's cold fingers start to pull her pants down, thankfully they stilled.

"So, is there somewhere else you would rather we do so?" Jay taunted, Leliana glared over her shoulder at him.

"My bed now!" she snapped and Jay shrugged and picked her up bridal style.

"Pardon our intrusion ambassador, I will leave you to your letter." With that jay carried her out, the moment the door was closed the world blurred.

When it cleared she was in her room, Jay leaned against her desk. "Last chance to back out." He offer and she shook her head, Josie would already be teasing her for this for the next year so she might as well enjoy it.