Everybody Loves Kel

by an anonymous geek

A/N: ya know what? I'm getting rather sick of my penname. Maybe I'll change it to Kristin of Queenscove. lol. Anyway, sorry all you Kel/Joren fans, I'm a freak and I changed the schedule. Kill me and flame me if you want to! Joren's story will come next, but I already had Dom's written and I told you guys that I'd have a new chapter up this week. So, sorry!

My life totally stinks. I was looking at this website and it was for all these stupid stories that people had written. Guess what? I found one of mine there. Yeah, the person who had put it on was totally flaming it. AAAAH!

Hey, I wanna thank all you dudes who have been reviewing this and my other stories. You guys all rock! I wouldn't survive without you.

25 more days until I meet Tamora Pierce!!! YAY!!

okay *cough* on with the story. . .

disclaimer- I don't own nothin'

One more thing: I can't write Dom! well, technically, I can't write anything, but I'm not going into my self-pity mode right now! Oh, and a warning, this is gunna be wicked short! Sorry.

Chapter Two: Dom

{Missing part of Lady Knight. Night of the attack on Blayce's castle}

Kel knew she was supposed to be resting, but she walked outside anyway. She was wondering if she was doing everything right. If all went well, they would take the castle in a few hours, without much trouble. But anything could happen. A guard could notice them and sound an alarm. A refugee child could be a little too loud, and they would be caught by the soldiers. Thoughts of death arose. What if she died? What if Stenmun killed her, and Blayce got away? What would everyone do then?

She was so deep in her thoughts that she did not hear him approach.

"Kel? What are you doing out here? You should be getting some sleep." The voice startled Kel out of her thoughts. She turned around and came face to face with Domitan of Masbolle, known as Dom to his friends.

"I-I just needed some fresh air," Kel stammered as she found herself falling into the depths of Dom's deep blue eyes. Her first thought was to look away, but then she decided that she did not want to. "And I needed to think. Why're you here? You need your sleep too," she reminded him.

"I couldn't sleep, so I decided to take a walk, and I found you here."

They stood together in silence for a long while, until Dom said, "So what're you thinking about?"

Kel paused. She did not like to talk to others about her fears. She did not want people think that she was a person who worried all the time. But she felt different about Dom. She felt as if it would be nice to talk to him about her worries.

"I'm just worried that we'll fail," she explained to him.

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Dom looked at Kel in surprise. He had suspected that she would not answer his question. Kel was such a stable person. It had never occurred to him that she would have worries. He looked at Kel, who was now looking at the ground. She was not a very beautiful girl, but there was something about her that had intrigued him ever since he had met her. It was like a fire burning inside her that gave her a certain glow (A/N: don't ask. I just write the strangest things and don't have the slightest idea of what I'm talking about). Kel kept her face down and continued what she was saying.

"What if I do something wrong and endanger the mission and the lives of the refugee children? What if I mess up? What if I really wasn't supposed to be the one to do this? I just feel like I'm a failure. Maybe I wasn't cut out for these kinds of things. Maybe being in command is just not for me."

Once again, Dom was taken aback. Kel was being so brutally honest. And with her fears, which was even stranger. He recovered and said, "Kel, you're not a failure, and you were born to be in command. You won't mess up tonight. I know it. I have faith in you, Kel."

She looked up at him, and Dom saw that fire in her eyes. He decided that it must be emotion. Emotion that even her Yamani mask could not hide. "Really?"

He put a hand on her shoulder. "I am as sure as I've ever been in my life."

Her eyes showed great gratitude, but something else. Something that surprised and confused him. Her mouth twisted in a smile that brought feelings back to him that he had been trying to hide for a long time. He had been in love with Kel for awhile, but then one day Neal had told him that Kel was Cleon of Kennen's. This news had made Dom quite upset, but he would not let this ruin the great friendship that they shared. Then the news that Cleon was betrothed had come. That, too, had come from Neal. When he heard this, he was sad for Kel, but in some ways, happy for himself, that he might still have a chance. But no. He did not have a chance. Kel was too good for him. He did not deserve her. So, once again, he had hidden his feelings and never told Kel about them.

Now, his feelings were resurfacing, but with greater strength, and he was fighting to hide them. His face was so close to hers. Close enough that he could kiss her. The temptation was too great to pass up. Without thinking, he pushed his face closer and kissed her with a gentleness that surprised them both. Subconsciously, Dom knew that he shouldn't be doing this, but he pushed this aside, and deepened the kiss. Neither wanted to pull away, but it had to happen sometime. Dom pulled back and looked at Kel. She certainly looked surprised. Suddenly, she did something that astonished him more than anything else she had done that evening. She wrapped her hands around his neck and pulled him closer. They shared more kisses and their newfound love for one another.

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EEEWW! I can't believe I wrote that! ew, ew, EW. Well, personally, I kinda liked it. hehe. But I know I stink at fluff. It's not as if I have any personal experience with this kind of stuff. I've never been kissed before, so how am I expected to write about it?!

Well, review and tell me how much you hate it!

~*~the unloved geek~*~