WASSUP?!?!?! Here's the next ch. By the way I obviously switched the title it used to be called Love? Anyway I don't own any of the characters cept Kieren Tamora Pierce owns them, DUH!!! Its a B/T romance/action fic, maybe a Evvy/Kieren fic also, if that's what u review.

Chapter 2~Conversations and Some More Meetings

"Oh, I guess you can handle an apprentice too. I found one too, come on in." Briar said bringing Tris inside with Kieren following. They walked inside to the kitchen where Evvy was looking around, cleaning up. "This is Evvy, she has magic with rocks. Evvy this is Tris and her apprentice Kieren. I'm going up to the roof, see you guys later." Briar continued as he walked up the stairs to the roof.

"Kieren you can do whatever you want. I'm going up to the roof too." Tris said following Briar. She wanted to see why Briar was so upset with her, or her apprentice. As she climbed up onto the roof she felt the summer breeze whip across her, she smiled, she loved weather.

"I guess Kieren cares for you a lot." He commented. He was at his old spot, right near the chimney. She sat across from him, the wind whipping at her face.

"I found him in the desert pulling water out of the ground. His parents died three years ago in a sand storm. He has water magic and found a way to survive on the little food he found and water from the ground and other things. I found him, found his magic, and he lived with me. I guess you could say he's taken the older brother part. He is cares a lot about me."

"I first thought he was... well...that you two were..." He blushed and stopped speaking. Tris thought of the way Kieren reacted to Briars name and laughed. Why were the boys so protective of me? Even if it was quite funny. Maybe they do have something in common. At this she laughed out loud.

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Why do I have to like her? Why does life have to be so complicated? Briar thought.

~Life isn't that complicated you know Thief~Boy. So stop complaining.~ Tris mind spoke.

~Hey that isn't fair. How did you do that?~ Briar almost shouted. ~I thought that. I didn't mind speak.~

~You learn funny things being a weather mage. Never doubt a weather mage and her powers.~ Tris commented. With that she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep. Briar sat awake watching Tris. She had changed so much. He was just the same old Briar. But something about her was different. He drifted off to sleep with pictures of Tris lingering in his mind.


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Kieren stood there for a second thinking the situation over. Should I go up and annoy the two "pals" or should I stick around down here? Evvy broke his thoughts.

"Do you want help with the bags?"

"Sure, where do they go?" He asked.

"Yours will probably stay down here until we find a room for you, Tris' go up to her room. So what type of magic do you have?" She asked sounding somewhat interested.

"Water magic. I can pull water out of almost anything, and I can control water. Somewhat like Tris. When I lived in the desert I pulled water out of the ground to survive, or I stored the water up inside things like rocks. What type of magic do you have?" Kieren asked, his eyes brightening at the topic of magic.

"I have rock magic. Where I lived there were gangs, and I lived in a rock cavern. I didn't know it but I magicked the rock in front of my 'room' so no one could see it, so no one came and destroyed anything, I also put light into some of the rocks, which I brought." Evvy informed him. "Wait, if you have water magic why are you with Tris?"

"She found me in the desert, so she became my teacher. I could ask you the same question." He answered tartly.

"Same. 'Cept Briar found the magic in me, I didn't know about, and I didn't even believe him. Here, I'll take that bag." The two apprentices carried Tris' four bags up to her room, then went back downstairs to the fireplace to sit down. Kieren took out a book that he wanted to read, and left Evvy to sit and think. They sat there for a while in total silence, every now and then the creak of pages being turned could be heard, but that was all. Then Evvy thought of something.

"I can't believe how talkative I am now. A couple years ago, I wouldn't say a word to a total stranger. Now I carry on whole conversations with them. I guess Briar brings out that side in people." She said.

"You think that's bad. Tris has to have the sharpest tongue in Emelan. And if that's not bad enough she has all of mother nature on her side. Once when I decided not to go to my lessons, which she took great care in giving me, she got a sand storm to come, pick me up out of my room and bring me right in front of her. When we were coming back here we needed a place to sleep at for a night, this one man wouldn't let us in his hotel because we were mages and he had some people that were afraid of mages, that was definitely not the thing to say to Tris. She took a lightning bolt and blew a hole inches from the guys feet, I swear he would have given us the whole hotel he was so afraid." Kieren responded, his eyes lightening at the memory.

"One day I refused to come to a lesson, we were just doing meditation, which I hate. Briar thought that if he got a vine to pick me up, bring me to him, and turn me upside down I would go, well he was right. But I think I got it easy. From what Briar said Tris is 'a fire by herself'. Personally I think he is to romantic (A/N This is Neal's meaning of romantic, not Kel's) for me. But that's who I got stuck with." Evvy said.

"Are you two comin' up with totally insane stories 'bout me an' my mate Tris." Briar said as he and Tris walked down the stairs.

"I know, mate means friend." Kieren mumbled.

"Now is that story about Tris really true, I mean did she really..."

"Make a sandstorm just to get the lazy bum up? Yes. He had missed three lessons in a row, just because he said it was to cold out. I had water mage sitting there for three lessons getting madder and madder. He threatened to stop lessons so, I decided to teach water boy a lesson. I found a stray gust of wind, made it into a small twister, and because we were in the desert it turned into a sandstorm. He was obviously in the middle, and he obviously isn't dead, so it wasn't that bad. But the mage was sure impressed with me. He gave us the rest of the lessons for free." At that Briar laughed. He knew Tris would do something like that if she got a student. "Kieren did you happen to bring my bags upstairs?"

"Of course Tris, know where do I sleep might I ask?" Kieren answered.

"Wherever you want. You could sleep down here if you want." Tris replied smoothly. "Oh, by the way Briar could you come with me to find Niko?" Niklaren Goldeneye was there old teacher, Tris' mainly. He had found Briar's magic and saved from ten years in the mines, and found Tris' magic, even if she refused and took her out of a school of people that hated her. Niko found Sandry in a magic hidden room, and also found her magic, he found Daja off her boat wreck, along with her magic. "And maybe we could go find Rosethorn and Lark." With that Briar had to agree. Although him and Rosethorn hated to admit it, they were a perfect teacher student pair. Lark had taught Sandry but she was extremely nice, and Tris promised her that she would come say hi to her when she got to Winding Circle.

The two 'mates' left their apprentices exchanging stories about their teachers old teachers, and who had gotten told they would get the worst punishment from Rosethorn, Tris or Briar.

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"I really can't believe you have that much power to make a sandstorm, I mean you could barely control a thunderbolt when you left." Briar commented, knowing exactly what that would make Tris do, but not the strength of it.

Tris checked to see that no one was in front of them first then put her hands in front of her, facing each other. Briar could feel the electricity around her. A light started to appear in her hands, it grew steadily larger until it was so strong Briar couldn't look at it. She took the lightning from her hands and threw it around a hundred feet in front of them, a large circle of sand turned into glass right in front of Briar's eyes.

"Holy shit! That was strong." Briar commented, as him and Tris walked to where the glass had formed. Then in the shadows they saw a person appear.

"Nice job Tris, I can't believe I doubted you could do such a job from so far away." The stranger commented. He had silver streaks in his otherwise black hair. He had on a silver robe, with a black stripe on the edge.

"NIKO!!!" Tris shouted and ran to her former teacher. Briar followed still wondering if it really was Niko.