Chapter 26

"'Can't'? What do you mean by that?" Mercoledi asked. His eyes were big and hurtful looking,

"Col." She sobbed. "Please don't get like that. You know I hate it when you do."

"Please Lana. Talk to me. If you're nervous or-"

She gritted her teeth. "I'm not nervous!" she felt a tear rolling down her face.

"Col, look. I…married someone else." She looked up at him fearful.

"Why Lana….Oh why?"

"Because I've never loved you." She looked down.

"Then did you say you did?"

She looked up harshly. "Did I? No. I have never said I love you. You took my words and twisted them to suit your want."

Thinking back, he realized she was right. "But why now? Why not yesterday, this morning, a week ago? Why now?"

"I didn't have the heart to tell you. I know this is breaking your heart. And she already hurt you once, I didn't want to hurt you again."

"Lana." His voice turned ugly. "Get out."

"What?" her tears stopped.

"Get out of my sight now."

"Col!"

"Never call me that again. Good-bye Miss Adair, you whore." He hissed at her.

Lana felt more tears run down her face as she burst into tears. She threw her bouquet down and picked up the front of her skirts. She ran down the temple and out the front entrance.

She looked around for a second. Kayl sat outside on a bench, elbows on his knees, and his jaw on his fists.

She ran to him, twisting in front of him, with her skirt catching wind, and expanding out behind her.

"Kayl! I'm sorry! I couldn't do it! I couldn't marry him! It's wrong and I love you! I can't live without you!" she fumbled quickly around her neck for her necklace. She ripped the chain off and put the ring around the necklace on her finger. It was her wedding ring to Kayl.

He watched her speechless.

"Kayl! Say something! Please! Tell me you'll take me away from here! I can't live without you!"

He looked at her almost distantly.

She stared him, confused by his silence. She bent her head forward and cried into his lap. "Kayl" she sobbed.

He spoke then, but his voice sounded almost crying, full of pain, and ready to kill someone.

"Do you realize what you've put me through? I. almost. Died. today."

She sobbed harder. "I'm sorry! It's wrong! I should have made a decision! Please tell me it's not too late! Please?" the last was a whisper; Lana, daring to hope. She stared at his cold face, tears running slowly. Every second was a thousand years for her. Every moment killed her again and again. Her crying slowly stopped as she neared hyperventilation.

She hiccupped, breathless, and asked again. "Please? Tell me it's not too late…"

He opened his mouth, staring down at her, down his nose. His voice thick, he sobbed almost. "I love you. And I can't live without you. But do you realize what you put me through?"

Lana tried so hard to hold back, but she couldn't. She burst out crying with relief. She bawled, feeling the relief pass over her. "I don't. And I never can. But please forgive me! I love you! I'll do anything! Take me back!" she knelt, and then sat back on her heels on the ground, crying into her hands.

Kayl kept staring at her. But he couldn't take it any longer. He loved her too much.

He knelt down at her level. "Lana?"

She stopped her crying and looked up into a warm face.

"Come." He said simply, bringing her back up. She wrapped her arms around his neck, hugging and crying harder. Although this time, she was crying from relief.

He let her cry there then put his arm around her waist, and escorted her away from the temple.

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"Mercoledi! What happened?!" people flocked him, as they watched him stand for minutes, in shock. They saw as his face turned form hurt to pissed and then back to hurt and then he was mad. He stormed down the aisle, ready and wanting to kill.

He stormed down the aisle. Every step just got him madder and madder. He followed the path that he assumed Lana took. He breached outside and stood still, fuming while he looked around. He saw Lana crying over some man and started to walk closer. Soon though, he stopped. He decided to see what she said.

He tiptoed quickly around them and sat behind them. He heard every word. He was sadistically happy that this guy wasn't giving in to her. But then, he heard him speak. His vice had been wonderfully loving, but hurt. Then he heard him take her back.

"Lana. Come." He had said. That broke the control point for Mercoledi. He leaped up and started running towards the pair.

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Lana rested in his arms for a bit. Then Kayl started to direct her off to another place. She quietly heard thuds and turned around. Mercoledi was running fast, with a look of pure evil on his face.

"Kayl!" Lana cried. She clung to him tighter than before, and he turned. He pushed her away roughly as Mercoledi came up on him. Driven by anger, he failed to see the fist shoot up from Kayl. Mercoledi's was thrown backward as his jaw was hit. He fell flat against the ground. He groaned and sat up and put a hand to his head.

"I'm gonna kill you, you fucking little bastard." He got up, a bit woozy in the head and tried to stand still. The world kept spinning. He walked a step, and teetered, and then another, but soon, he collapsed on the ground.

Lana hiccupped as she saw this. She saw Mercoledi fall, and then gently got up. She walked over to him, and smoothed the hair from his eyes.

She leaned over his ear and whispered, "You were the best friend I ever had. Just don't forget that." She got up and took her veil off. She laid it on his chest and Kayl came next to her. He grasped her arm carefully as he picked her up and hugged her. She sobbed and he then quietly carried her away from her homeland.

She would never see home again.

A/N:: So ends part one!!!! I don't know how far along I am, could be another half just as long! I expect it will be shorter though. Anyways, normal updates! Reviews are nice!