A/N: Thank you for the lovely reviews! Sorry this is so late. Work has been crazy of late. This is a past missing scene fic.

Many thanks to my beta, Tripp3235, who was kind enough to suffer through so many chapters.

Disclaimer: Not mine. All Reign characters belong to Laurie McCarthy and Stephanie Sengupta and The CW. I'm just playing with them.

Y is for Yearning

Kenna was sitting with Mary and the other ladies-in-waiting in Mary's room chatting like the old days when her mind drifted to Bash. He had been away for several weeks now putting down a protestant uprising in Champagne. She missed his presence in their bed at night. She missed taking her meals with him. She missed checking on how he looked before he left the bedchamber every morning. She missed him.

"Kenna!" said Mary, smiling. "You're miles away."

"She's just thinking of Bash," Greer teases. "He's been quelling the protestants in Champagne for two weeks now and she misses him."

A blush bloomed on Kenna's face and she decided to ignore Greer. "I'm sorry, Mary. What were you asking?"

"We were talking of the nobles who have come to court of late and the fashions they bring," said Mary. "I was hoping that all of us could go on an excursion to Paris and was wondering what you thought. I need a diversion and a few days in the city should be just the thing."

"I'm for a visit to the city," said Kenna eagerly. "When were you planning for us to go?"

"The Spanish Ambassador is arriving tomorrow for a week long visit," said Mary, looking around at her ladies. "But Francis is planning to schedule the trade negotiations to the end of the visit, so I was thinking of going when those negotiations start."

"Will you mind if I were to bring the baby and his nanny?" asked Lola. "I've not been away overnight from John before and I'm still nursing."

"Of course," said Mary. "We can pinch his chubby cheeks when he's awake."

Before Lola could thank Mary, there was a knock at the door.

"I wonder who that could be?" asked Mary. Speaking a little louder, Mary called out. "Come in!"

The door opened and Bash appeared from the other side of the door. "Your Grace. My apologies for the interruption, but I was wondering if I might have a word with my wife." Bash looked only at Kenna when he spoke, which was very poor form of him, but he didn't care. He hadn't seen her in nearly a month and he was drinking in her features.

Kenna desperately wanted to run over to Bash but protocol that had been drilled into her since birth made her wait for Mary's response. But nothing kept her from beaming at Bash.

Seeing the way Bash and Kenna look at one another, Mary knew that he would want more than a word. "Go to your husband, Kenna," said Mary with a grin. "I have no need of your services for the remainder of the day."

Kenna quickly glanced at Mary. "Thank you, Mary! I'll see you tomorrow." Without another word, she nearly sprinted to her husband.

Once they were out of the room, she asked, "How are you home so early? Your last letter said that it would be a week yet before you could return."

"The uprising was subdued earlier than expected," said Bash, barely looking at where they were going. "I thought coming home was better than writing another letter."

"I'm so glad you're here," said Kenna with tight grip on his arm. "I've missed you so much."

Bash leaned down to whisper into her ear. "I can't wait to spend the day in bed."

A/N2: Thank you for reading. Just one more to go and then we'll head off to the continuation stories. :) Please let me know what you think.

If anyone is interested in a continuation of any of these chapters, please let me know as some had to be ended rather abruptly to keep to the word count limit. I will start posting those after the end of this fic.