Alanna and the Frogs
Disclaimer: These characters belong to Tamora Pierce
A/N : Humor, with a little B/R. This is my first fic, so no flames ! It's just a short one, PG-13 to be safe.
Chapter 2. Alanna, the Frogs, Gary, Raoul and Buri
It was 10:00 and Alanna and Gary were hidden in the hedges, preparing to scale the wall. Alanna had spelled it so they wouldn't fall. Gary took a bag of frogs and Alanna took the other and they started to climb.
Meanwhile… "Raoul " Buri whispered " Someone's outside" Then she grabbed a blanket and her dagger. She crept quietly to the window and heard Raoul following suit. Someone opened the window and slipped through with a bag. Buri put her dagger against his neck.
Alanna and Gary reached the windows and slipped through them. Then Alanna felt a dagger press against her neck and a memory flitted through her mind…
" Tell the big one to drop his blade or I put a bolt through you"
"Buri?" She whispered, shocked for a moment and then realized Buri and Raoul must have been in a meeting developing some new strategy and heard them coming.
"Alanna!?!" exclaimed Buri, just as surprised. Across the room Alanna heard Gary say:
"Raoul it's me, Gary"
"What are you two doing here?" asked Buri.
"Well…" Said Alanna, then she thought she'd better stall for time. "Just as second I'll light a fire."
"No!" said Buri " That's really not necessary." But it was to late. Alanna had already shooed flames to the fireplace and candle, revealing Buri in a blanket and Raoul in his loincloth.
For a moment Alanna just stood there shocked and then something clicked. She laughed and said "Good one! You nearly had me for a second ." Gary stumble over to her looking pale and asked
"What are you talking about?"
"You see Gary, somehow, Raoul found out about the frogs and got Buri to help him play a trick on us instead."
"Oh!" said Gary with obvious relief as he regained his colour. "Yeah, good one guys!"
" What frogs?" whispered Buri.
" They must have been planning to put frogs in my bed , because I left them with those ambassadors." Raoul whispered back, then added, " I think we're in trouble."
"Oh yeah" agreed Buri. " well might as well get this over with" she said and pulled Raoul to the middle of the room. " Okay you two, listen up." She swallowed before announcing. " Raoul and I are lovers."
That just brought out a burst of laughter from Alanna and Gary before Alanna said
"Jon's hiding behind one of those portrait's isn't he." And Gary added
" How much money do you have riding on this bet anyways?"
" We're telling the truth!" said Raoul.
Alanna and Gary responded with " Prove it." So Raoul leaned down and gave Buri a small kiss.
"Gee" thought Alanna, "they sure must have bet a lot of money!"
"That doesn't prove anything," said Gary "that wasn't a real kiss."
Then suddenly Alanna realized that they weren't faking at all when Buri said
" Kiss me like they aren't there" and she saw them hold each other close and kissed passionately. Beside her Gary fainted and she caught him just before he hit the floor. She glanced back at Raoul and Buri and noticed they were still kissing, so she announced dryly:
" I don't know about Gary here but you certainly convinced me." Raoul and Buri Broke apart blushing and then they saw Alanna holding Gary up and laughed. Alanna grinned and produced a bottle of wakeflower.
"Ooh, that smell." said Gary then he looked up saw them and seemed like he was going to faint again so Alanna said
"Put your head between your knees Gary." When he looked back up again he half-smiled and said
"Sorry about those frogs." Everyone laughed.
" What are we going to with the frogs now though?" Alanna wondered aloud. It seemed like a shame to waste them
Buri suddenly had an idea
" Well, seeing as Jon been being such a prig recently…" she began
" That's a great idea!" interrupted Alanna. " And I have an even better one! Gary come with me , Raoul, Buri meet us in front of Jon's rooms n half an hour" she started to leave when Raoul asked
" How are we going to get in though?"
" I'll just put everyone in the area into an enchanted sleep." She replied "actually I should have thought of that earlier, it would have saved a lot of trouble."
" I'm glad you didn't" remarked Gary " I probably would have fallen right out the window."
" Come on Gary" said Alanna "We've got work to do."
A/N So what's Alanna's great idea ? Well you'll just have to wait until next chapter. Please Review!