Title: The Traitors in Our Midst
Author: Pickzee (sound it out you'll get it) formerly The Lady Rogue Rating: PG-13
Genre: Action/Adventure/Romance
Pairing(s): Kel/Cleon, Kel/Dom
Summary: In her first year as a knight Kel discovers a bit more about traitors than she ever wished to know. She finds that in the war against the Scanrans one of the most trusted of her friends is really the most traitorous of enemies. To make matters worse her relationship with Cleon deepens and in a moment of distraction the one she finds most traitorous is herself.
A/N: I beg of thee REVIEW! If you care a wink about this story REVIEW! I got eight reviews for the last chapter so far, yay! I'm exceedingly, sincerely sorry for the format problems last chapter, I was trying it in HTML format for the first time so my italics would work and the spacing codes decided to rebel against me and really piss me off. I'll try and fix it when I have time, right now could someone please explain the meaning of the word? purty please? I'm already rushing to get this chapter out before vacation and school comes around but that gives me eh a day and FF. net is switching servers (Gah!) so I won't be able to do it anyway. As the writers of Spongebob would say: Hey! Do you think that's funny? In a twisted cosmic sorta way, yes. Need 'nother Frappachino, gah I'm a Starbuckian and I don't even really like coffee, just chocolate Frappachinos, yumyumyum. Your author is hyperactive and on caffeine/coffee surge. Expect a rather light(ish, nothing in this story is very light, except short humor spurts I decide to add.) part in a manner of speaking. It is really fun to write about the gossips, hehehe. Question: LK is out. It doesn't mesh with this story. Do you want me to continue? I was gonna add K/D any way once my brain clicked in a bit more.
Disclaimer: All rights reserved for Ms. Tamora Pierce. I am not Tamora Pierce, one I'm not that gifted and two if I were the all mighty Tammy do you really think that Neal would be demanding that I raise Joren from the dead so they can play cards until his next scene?(It won't happen. I'm not Thom, I don't go around resurrecting people just for the heck of it. Thom's dead anywho so I can't hire him.) Now that we've got that cleared up on to the legal crap. These are only being borrowed for the amusement and enjoyment of the author and the readers of this fan fiction. No money is being made off the distribution of this story and even if money was being made I have no money for a lawsuit.
Chapter 4 (Screw chapter titles, I just had Latin homework, I don't want to translate more.)
"Really, did you hear about the new pages? That Keladry girl must have really set a trend there are five girls."
"What is the court coming to? They let girls into the warrior business, I can understand misfits like that Keladry or the Kings Champion wanting to be suicidal like that but normal girls could never want to be knights, they must be very confused about the world and their place in it."
A gaggle of about ten gossiping ladies was wandering through the palace gardens comparing the newest rumors and scandals they had heard from "reliable" sources.
"I heard the most interesting gossip about our newest lady knight. I heard she was sleeping with her knight master when she was a squire and that the stories of the Lord Raoul sleeping with the Commander of the Queen's Riders was just a facade so that no one caught on to their scandal."
"Whoever told you that is either insane, lying or incredibly dense." The gossip who suggested the idea that Kel was Raoul's secret lover blushed suggesting that it had been her who created that rumor. "I heard from Butchard of Stone Mountain that the Mindelan girl is pregnant. He said that when he was in Lower Corus on business he saw her coming out of a midwife's yelling at Sir Cleon of Kennan for getting her pregnant."
"Cleon of Kennan?! Isn't he betrothed to an heiress?"
"The lady knight pregnant hmm? Seems to be the best scandal I've heard for a long time. Does anyone else think we should go enlighten the rest of the court about this?"
A chorus of yeses erupted from the group and they all went their separate ways to find someone who would be interested in their latest gossip.
~
In six hours nearly everyone who resided in the palace who didn't know Kel's impending child. The only ones who didn't know of the new center of gossip were the center herself, Kel and the Lioness who had just returned from Pirate's Swoop with Baron George in tow. Hidden in the folds of a warm woolen cloak Kel made her way down to the rooms where her idol was staying while at the palace. Having taught Alanna how to use a glaive had made the two close friends and it was in Alanna that she would seek advice. She was pounding on Alanna's door in a matter of minutes. When the door opened inwards Kel fell inside, obviously she had been putting more weight on the door than she had thought.
"Kel? What's the matter? I've never seen you this upset." Alanna had caught Kel in her fall and immediately knew something was wrong. What exactly was wrong she did not know.
"It's a long story and one I'd rather not tell while standing in a door way." Alanna gestured for Kel to sit on the sofa and after closing the door Alanna joined her.
"What has you so worked up that you nearly broke down my door to talk to me?"
Kel related the whole story of her and Cleon spending the night together and the healer's knowledge that she was pregnant.
"Well, you really stuck your foot in it this time. Don't you have a pregnancy charm?"
"I had one yes, but in bed it came off. I never wanted to become pregnant. Never!" Kel exclaimed vehemently.
Alanna sighed deeply. "There's nothing I can do for you. I know how to make a pregnancy miscarry but if I use it you'll most likely never be able to bear children and at sometime you will want a child. Even I wanted children after I married George," here Alanna gave a wicked grin. "You may not thank me now but later you will. I'm sorry Kel."
~
Several days ago Cleon had ridden out from the palace to fief Kennan to speak to his mother about his impromptu proposal. Now he was there in the sitting room with his mother waiting to hear what he had to say.
"Mother, you remember the girl Keladry I told you about, right?"
"The lady knight," the lady of the manor stated with obvious distaste.
Cleon took a deep breath. "I proposed to her."
"You did WHAT? You mean you asked that unnatural woman to marry you? When you know you are betrothed to an heiress?"
"I'm sorry mother. I know you never liked the idea of our relationship but it was important. For her honor."
"You impregnated that whore didn't you? I forbid you to marry her. Did you happen to see how the fief is? We're as good as commoners with a fancy name. You must marry the heiress."
"But-"
"No buts, you will marry the heiress if you want to or not."
~
"Kel, I'm sorry. I don't have a choice. Not only are my people dying but if I don't marry the heiress I'll be denounced."
"You should have never started anything between us. You knew in the end that you would have to marry the heiress instead of me and now look at where I am, pregnant, honor less and heartbroken." Kel was fighting to keep her Yamani mask up and she was on the verge of losing.
Cleon shrugged, "I thought what we felt for each other would pull us through but I was wrong. I'm sorry. I thought Mother could be convinced if I pleaded enough but it didn't work."
Ah, the winds of war. Kel was having no problem with her mask now. "Cleon, go. I can't look at you any more." Each word was perfectly dictated and emotionless.
Cleon left the room pausing slightly in the door frame. "I am really sorry Kel. I hope you know that."
Kel gave one short sob when he was out of the room and settled herself to tidying her room. She knew that I marriage between her and Cleon would never work out, their views were too different and he wanted her to settle down and be ladylike more that she could tolerate.
But still he was her first love and she was carrying his child. A part of her would never quite move on but she knew that if she met her someone she would be ready for them.
She did not know how soon that would be.
~
A/N: If you're happy and you know it press review If you're happy and you know it press review If you're happy and you know it and you really want to show it I you're happy and you know it please review.
I can't eat tomorrow so give me reviews for sustenance. I find out that I didn't make the play on Tuesday so give me reviews for hope against hope.
Author: Pickzee (sound it out you'll get it) formerly The Lady Rogue Rating: PG-13
Genre: Action/Adventure/Romance
Pairing(s): Kel/Cleon, Kel/Dom
Summary: In her first year as a knight Kel discovers a bit more about traitors than she ever wished to know. She finds that in the war against the Scanrans one of the most trusted of her friends is really the most traitorous of enemies. To make matters worse her relationship with Cleon deepens and in a moment of distraction the one she finds most traitorous is herself.
A/N: I beg of thee REVIEW! If you care a wink about this story REVIEW! I got eight reviews for the last chapter so far, yay! I'm exceedingly, sincerely sorry for the format problems last chapter, I was trying it in HTML format for the first time so my italics would work and the spacing codes decided to rebel against me and really piss me off. I'll try and fix it when I have time, right now could someone please explain the meaning of the word? purty please? I'm already rushing to get this chapter out before vacation and school comes around but that gives me eh a day and FF. net is switching servers (Gah!) so I won't be able to do it anyway. As the writers of Spongebob would say: Hey! Do you think that's funny? In a twisted cosmic sorta way, yes. Need 'nother Frappachino, gah I'm a Starbuckian and I don't even really like coffee, just chocolate Frappachinos, yumyumyum. Your author is hyperactive and on caffeine/coffee surge. Expect a rather light(ish, nothing in this story is very light, except short humor spurts I decide to add.) part in a manner of speaking. It is really fun to write about the gossips, hehehe. Question: LK is out. It doesn't mesh with this story. Do you want me to continue? I was gonna add K/D any way once my brain clicked in a bit more.
Disclaimer: All rights reserved for Ms. Tamora Pierce. I am not Tamora Pierce, one I'm not that gifted and two if I were the all mighty Tammy do you really think that Neal would be demanding that I raise Joren from the dead so they can play cards until his next scene?(It won't happen. I'm not Thom, I don't go around resurrecting people just for the heck of it. Thom's dead anywho so I can't hire him.) Now that we've got that cleared up on to the legal crap. These are only being borrowed for the amusement and enjoyment of the author and the readers of this fan fiction. No money is being made off the distribution of this story and even if money was being made I have no money for a lawsuit.
Chapter 4 (Screw chapter titles, I just had Latin homework, I don't want to translate more.)
"Really, did you hear about the new pages? That Keladry girl must have really set a trend there are five girls."
"What is the court coming to? They let girls into the warrior business, I can understand misfits like that Keladry or the Kings Champion wanting to be suicidal like that but normal girls could never want to be knights, they must be very confused about the world and their place in it."
A gaggle of about ten gossiping ladies was wandering through the palace gardens comparing the newest rumors and scandals they had heard from "reliable" sources.
"I heard the most interesting gossip about our newest lady knight. I heard she was sleeping with her knight master when she was a squire and that the stories of the Lord Raoul sleeping with the Commander of the Queen's Riders was just a facade so that no one caught on to their scandal."
"Whoever told you that is either insane, lying or incredibly dense." The gossip who suggested the idea that Kel was Raoul's secret lover blushed suggesting that it had been her who created that rumor. "I heard from Butchard of Stone Mountain that the Mindelan girl is pregnant. He said that when he was in Lower Corus on business he saw her coming out of a midwife's yelling at Sir Cleon of Kennan for getting her pregnant."
"Cleon of Kennan?! Isn't he betrothed to an heiress?"
"The lady knight pregnant hmm? Seems to be the best scandal I've heard for a long time. Does anyone else think we should go enlighten the rest of the court about this?"
A chorus of yeses erupted from the group and they all went their separate ways to find someone who would be interested in their latest gossip.
~
In six hours nearly everyone who resided in the palace who didn't know Kel's impending child. The only ones who didn't know of the new center of gossip were the center herself, Kel and the Lioness who had just returned from Pirate's Swoop with Baron George in tow. Hidden in the folds of a warm woolen cloak Kel made her way down to the rooms where her idol was staying while at the palace. Having taught Alanna how to use a glaive had made the two close friends and it was in Alanna that she would seek advice. She was pounding on Alanna's door in a matter of minutes. When the door opened inwards Kel fell inside, obviously she had been putting more weight on the door than she had thought.
"Kel? What's the matter? I've never seen you this upset." Alanna had caught Kel in her fall and immediately knew something was wrong. What exactly was wrong she did not know.
"It's a long story and one I'd rather not tell while standing in a door way." Alanna gestured for Kel to sit on the sofa and after closing the door Alanna joined her.
"What has you so worked up that you nearly broke down my door to talk to me?"
Kel related the whole story of her and Cleon spending the night together and the healer's knowledge that she was pregnant.
"Well, you really stuck your foot in it this time. Don't you have a pregnancy charm?"
"I had one yes, but in bed it came off. I never wanted to become pregnant. Never!" Kel exclaimed vehemently.
Alanna sighed deeply. "There's nothing I can do for you. I know how to make a pregnancy miscarry but if I use it you'll most likely never be able to bear children and at sometime you will want a child. Even I wanted children after I married George," here Alanna gave a wicked grin. "You may not thank me now but later you will. I'm sorry Kel."
~
Several days ago Cleon had ridden out from the palace to fief Kennan to speak to his mother about his impromptu proposal. Now he was there in the sitting room with his mother waiting to hear what he had to say.
"Mother, you remember the girl Keladry I told you about, right?"
"The lady knight," the lady of the manor stated with obvious distaste.
Cleon took a deep breath. "I proposed to her."
"You did WHAT? You mean you asked that unnatural woman to marry you? When you know you are betrothed to an heiress?"
"I'm sorry mother. I know you never liked the idea of our relationship but it was important. For her honor."
"You impregnated that whore didn't you? I forbid you to marry her. Did you happen to see how the fief is? We're as good as commoners with a fancy name. You must marry the heiress."
"But-"
"No buts, you will marry the heiress if you want to or not."
~
"Kel, I'm sorry. I don't have a choice. Not only are my people dying but if I don't marry the heiress I'll be denounced."
"You should have never started anything between us. You knew in the end that you would have to marry the heiress instead of me and now look at where I am, pregnant, honor less and heartbroken." Kel was fighting to keep her Yamani mask up and she was on the verge of losing.
Cleon shrugged, "I thought what we felt for each other would pull us through but I was wrong. I'm sorry. I thought Mother could be convinced if I pleaded enough but it didn't work."
Ah, the winds of war. Kel was having no problem with her mask now. "Cleon, go. I can't look at you any more." Each word was perfectly dictated and emotionless.
Cleon left the room pausing slightly in the door frame. "I am really sorry Kel. I hope you know that."
Kel gave one short sob when he was out of the room and settled herself to tidying her room. She knew that I marriage between her and Cleon would never work out, their views were too different and he wanted her to settle down and be ladylike more that she could tolerate.
But still he was her first love and she was carrying his child. A part of her would never quite move on but she knew that if she met her someone she would be ready for them.
She did not know how soon that would be.
~
A/N: If you're happy and you know it press review If you're happy and you know it press review If you're happy and you know it and you really want to show it I you're happy and you know it please review.
I can't eat tomorrow so give me reviews for sustenance. I find out that I didn't make the play on Tuesday so give me reviews for hope against hope.