(a/n *sigh* I suppose I'll have to keep this story up since your all being so nice *sob* thankyou It's nice to know that you like my story and I suppose I am being a bit unfair because I know some people like it and I've decided Ti-Ti at the risk of sounding clichés all your story suck too. So instead of taking to insult me I'd concentrate on something more important!!! Anyway thankyou to all of you who reviewed to tell me not to take my story off it means a lot to as I've only just plucked up the courage to post them. Anyway thankyou again and I'll let you get on and read the next part of the story.)



Alanna cursed she was wasting time writing notes why didn't she just go vanish into the city never to be seen again, it was tempting but that would hurt Thom a lot if she disappeared completely, she sighed she just had to much to think about. She was so deeply enravelled in her thoughts that she didn't he the footsteps coming closer or the door opening until a voice cried "Alanna." She whirled it was Thom. Oh dear……….

"Thom." She whispered "What are you doing here, you, you were supposed to be at the ball."

"They let me out early, because my sixteen year old sister had gone missing." His eyes drifted to her packed bag. "You're leaving." He said his voice little more than a whisper it's self. "Why."

"I can't stay here Thom, I hate it." Her voice cracked and she looked down. "I'm sorry, tell your friends I'm sorry too, and tell Jonathan that I do like him, and I'll be one of his people when he's king, also tell Gary to stop flirting. I'm already taken."

He was quiet for a moment then he said in an annoyed voice "You can't go, where will you stay? You don't have any friends in the city."

"No." She whispered, "I don't have any friends I've got more. I've got family." She whispered. Then she walked over to Thom and said "I love you, if you need to see me go to the dancing dove and ask for the Lady Rogue." She gave him a hug then quickly ran out of the room and crashed straight into Jon. "Sorry." She called back laughing.



George was waiting for her when she got back he gave her a tight hug and then said, "How'd it go"

She groaned and said "I met Thom, he found me while I was deciding whether to leave a note or not, I didn't bother he'll make up a story for me."

He smiled a bitter smile and said "Are you sure you want to do this Alanna?"

"Yes, I do. George Cooper I love you and I like it here, so much nicer than the palace."

"Well I'm glad you love me enough, I'm going to see mother tonight and I want you to meet her."

"You do? Say George, does your mother know what we do for a living?"

He smiled easy and said, "Of course, mother is in a more honest profession however, she's a healer."

Alanna smiled "Really? She might be able to teach me a few tricks."



Thom however was not having as much fun. He sighed he couldn't believe Alanna would do this. He wasn't sure what The Rogue was either he'd decided to ask Jon.

"Jon what do you know about The Rogue?"

He looked up the question had caught him off guard. "The Rogue? He is the king of thieves, he killed My Lord Provost's son. Why?" Jon asked curiously.

"Is there a Lady Rouge?" Thom persisted.

"No, not that I know of unless he got married. Why do you want to know?" Jon asked again.

"I can't tell you, not now, not yet, I promise I'll tell you later."

Jon sighed he knew it was something to do with Alanna but it was obvious it was still too painful to talk about with Thom.



Alanna walked up with George to the small house, which was his mothers. The sign of a wooden cup circled once in red and once brown marked that a healer lived there. Alanna was nervous. Really nervous. George, being well, being George could tell. He silently gripped her hand.

She smiled at him "What's your mother like?"

"Very nice, honestly."

He walked up to the door and knocked. The door opened and there stood a woman with the same hazel eyes a George, she had chestnut hair with only a streak of grey.

"George." She said with a smile on her face. "And who is this?" She asked looking at Alanna.

"Alanna." George stated simply. "She's the lovely noble women who helped heal my wound."

Alanna blushed and looked down.

"So you're the one. Thankyou, that wound would have been fatal if you hadn't burned the infection out." Eleni smiled and said "You have incredible power young lady." "Welcome to my home." She stepped out of the doorway and into a small kitchen that was full of herbs.

George walked in and she followed looking around in wonder. "Wow." She whispered "I wish they had, had this stuff at the convent." She muttered. "Actually I wish they had actually taught me something at the convent."

"They did not teach you anything there, but you cleaned up my son wound well."

"I taught myself. They said that no noble lady could be a healer." She shrugged "But then again I'm not a noble lady anymore."

Eleni looked up from making tea "Your not?"

"No." Alanna "I got a life now and it's so much better than my old one."

"But you have a brother do you not?"

Alanna shrugged a said look on his face "2 years he'll be getting knighted I intend to be there." She sighed, "I'll see him again, but he won't know it's me."

"How do you intend to do that my dear?" Eleni asked.

Alanna smiled "I can change my eye colour with my magic."

Eleni smiled when George looked at Alanna with a look filled of love and nothing else. She gave them the tea and said to Alanna "So you're The Lady Rogue."



(a/n don't you just love the story? Of course you could tell me just how much you love it in a review. (Still hinting)