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A/N: I'm so sorry it's taken me forever to post another chapter. It took me a while to find time to type this chapter I had it written last weekend. I'm soooo sorry.
A few days later, Kel rode into the palace stables. Quickly dismounting, she handed her horse over to Brian, one of the stable hands. Grabbing her things she went to her rooms, which were fairly close to those of the King's Own, threw her stuff in a corner and gratefully lay down on her bed and drifted off to sleep.
(A/N: ok this is like a dream here so which explains why it's in italics) Kel looked around her, she could barely
see it was so dark. She struggled to
make out the forms of three men. "If
we're quiet we'll be able to take her by surprise" She turned around to see what lay behind her at first she didn't
see anything but slowly she recognized the outline of a wall. Quickly she climbed the wall and as she was
about to swing her leg over so she could drop down on the other side, she got a
glimpse of what was under her…nothing.
She looked back to the men they were running towards her, one of them
held a length of rope, another held a dagger.
She could do nothing but let it happen.
The man with the dagger knocked her out using the hilt. She heard a pounding noise…
Knocking on the door woke Kel a few hours later. "Kel, Kel are you there? I heard you were back KEL?" a voice called from behind the door. Groggily Kel found her way to the door. "What took you so long? I've been out here forever!"
"I was asleep"
"Oh… sorry I didn't mean to wake you up."
"Yes you did and you know it." She said, grinning as she met his piercing blue eyes. Well now that you're here do you want to come in and sit down?"
"That would be nice except at the moment I'm famished and I came by to see if you wanted to go get some food with me."
"Food, hmm…, I think that would be lovely."
"Well then my lady, let us be off for the mess hall" Dom said, mock bowing and offering his arm to her. Kel raised an eyebrow to Dom's actions and calmly walked passed him without taking his arm. Too shocked to move, Dom stood there watching her walk away then laughed and ran to catch up with her. "I see my dear cousin has taught you bad manners while you stayed with him."
"Actually he did nothing of the sort, that was to remind you that I am no lady."
"I already knew that," he said, blue eyes sparkling with mischief "anyway, how is my dear cousin? He hasn't lost himself in his books completely yet has he?"
"No, not yet. He's good a bit touched in the head though" but then so am I, Kel thought gloomily, this is impossible, I'm never going to be able to tell him.
"As usual," Dom said cheerfully as they walked into the mess hall
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"So anything interesting happen round here while I was gone?" Kel asked Dom later on while they sat in her room. She had spent most of the day with him dreading the moments that she knew would soon come to pass. He's not making this any easier on me going around and be so sweet. The longer I put this off though, the harder it will be to tell him.
"No, not really, we ran into a few spidrens here and there but that's about it. What about you?"
This is my chance, if I tell him now I'll be done with it and he'll probably want nothing further to do with me, but at least he will know the truth. She sighed, "Yes and no." Dom looked at her for a moment, not sure why Kel had become so…fidgety all of a sudden. Was it something I said, all I asked her was what she'd been up to lately. Did something happen between her and Neal? By the gods I'll kill him if he her, but…why would he hurt her, he is her best friend, at least he was last time I heard. I guess I'll find out soon enough. There was a knock on the door that brought him from his thoughts, "I'll get it," he called already walking towards the door.
"So it's true, my infamous former has returned." Lord Raoul said, filling the doorway.
"Of course, I've returned," Kel said merrily, her gloom of a few moments ago erased for the moment. "I couldn't stay way for too long."
"Good, good. Are you going to be her for a bit?
"As far as I know."
"Wonderful, I don't supposed you'd like a 'flying' lesson for old times sake?"
"I wouldn't miss it for the world."
"Well than I guess I'll see you later" Raoul said putting a large hand on her shoulder. He looked over at Dom and said, "Dom, my boy, don't make her cry."
I think I'm going to make myself and maybe Dom cry, Kel thought to herself. "Our lady knight never cries my lord." Dom assured Raoul.
"You mean our lady knights never cry. I don't think I've ever seen Kel or Alanna cry."
"Could we please stop talking about ladies crying?!?" Kel said pleasingly, "It's sort of a pointless subject and one that I would prefer not be discussed in front of me." Dom and Raoul turned to look at her. "What? Did I say something to offend you?"
"No, no of course not," Dom said, though his voice seemed distant.
I wonder what's gotten into them, Kel thought a bit confused by the two men's reactions to her request. "Look I've got some things to do I'll talk to you both later." Dom and Raoul started to get up when Kel stopped them, "Don't get up you're welcome to stay in my room. Until this evening then." Kel said politely bowing to each of them before striding out of the room to find a place to think.
A/N: Once again, I truly am sorry for not posting in forever. Thanks to all you people who reviewed. And since I wish to put off cleaning the house as long as possible I'm going to respond to reviews (I got this idea from punkpixie87)
Epitaph Munku-JGSPTV: Don't cry I 'm going to post more chapters. Don't worry. I'm glad you like the story.
Lady Gabriella of Queenscove: I have good news for you, at the moment I'm leaning towards making this a k/n fic. How can you not like Dom? O well. Good for you for draggin your friends into reading TP books. None of my friends read any books at all so they absolutely refuse to read what I read (plus they think I'm kinda weird o well)
Valeria: Good point. I'm glad u like the fic. I love k/n pairing, I don't know why I don't like k/c. I guess I just don't think that kel and cleon mix.
White-Wolf: You also need not worry, I'm leaning towards k/n, so be happy. I'm glad you like the story. When I wrote that Neal had a kid that was 15 it was like 1 in the morning and I was exactly thinking straight. I thought I wrote a note someplace else that said I messed up on that. Oh well…thx for reading
J: I wrote more!!!!
KeladryLadyKnight: I agree, there aren't enough k/n fics. I'm glad you think it's a good fic!!!! *blushes* I'm so pleased to see that so many people like it.
Aaminah Khan: Thanks for your idea. I'm considering it but I'm not sure what will happen yet so please don't be mad if that's not what happens.
Russetwolf713: *blushes* Thank you!!!! I didn't think I did that well on Neal's character but maybe I'm too critical of myself. Thanks for telling me. I'll try to keep it as good as it is but school starting…a.k.a. even less time to write ;(
Kit: Glad that you like it so far. I'm trying to put more action stuff into the story (I hope it will make it better) but I'm not that great at writing action stuff. I agree, k/d does have some interesting possibilities…
Lizzee/Lady Lizabeth: Yay!!! Another person sees the light (k/n is the best)! What pairing does your sister like??
Camp Writer: I'm leaning towards making it k/n so please don't flame me *cowers in corner*
Amelia from Ravenclaw: k/n seems to what the majority wants so it probably will end up being that. Glad u like the story.
Warren Peace: I thought the plot was rather interesting myself, I'm happy to see that someone else does too.
Wolf Speaker: Yeah, I did sort of put Kel in a sticky situation, two very attractive, funny, wonderful cousins…who to choose *sighs* I guess we aren't all as lucky as Kel. Glad u think it's sweet.
Rosetta: *blushes* I wouldn't say my story is the greatest of them all, but I'm glad you think so. Yes Neal is the best, then George, then Dom.
Ti-Ti: right, I'll remember that…*mutters to self* long is good, long is good…I don't know exactly what she's going to do about Dom just yet.
Angel of the Storms: glad to see that you like it. Do you still want to do that diary thingy we talked(emailed) about awhile ago???
Clarylissa: I guess I was wrong when I thought it was going to end up being a bad fic becuz so many ppl like it. thx for the review
Nytsua: I'm working on writin this story at some reasonable pace, but so far it hasn't worked. Glad u like it
Lady of Red Oak Forest: Sorry it's hard to read it. Thanx for telling me it's hard to read too…otherwise I'd never know.
ThePenMage: glad u like it. most people are voting for k/n so that's probably what it will be.
SportzGurl: I'm working on regularly updates but I haven't gotten there yet. Glad to see you like it.
The Charmed One: thx for the review. You think it's sweet?? My first idea for this fic was that it was going to be really sad but I've sort of had a change of heart.
Bird: I'm not sure if it will have a happy ending for everyone but I'll do my best. I like k/n too…thx for reading
A/N: OK that took forever but now…I'm done with that. Thank you all again for reviewing and I apologize once again for taking forever