My Lady

By: Keshoo Neko

A/N: Oh boy already at the 5th part of the story! Wow never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that it would ever do this well or get quite this far. Thanks to everyone who has reviewed it. I promise you'll be well rewarded by doing so. Anyway I hope you all like this chapter I wanted to show you all that I don't hate on characters. So read and review and tell me what you think. As always I'm opened to anything you have to say. Oh by the way about the cliffhangers…Yuh huh huh …they will get worse. Anyway here we go!

Healing by a Miracle

          Borus stood on the western bridge of Brass Castle staring out into the forest Roland called home. The blonde knight sighed as he sat on one of the benches in the little alcoves on the bridge. His thoughts weren't if the breath taking scene before him but on Chris. When they had gone back in to check on her a second time they found she was gone.  Even though Borus wanted to go after her Salome had told him not to. She needed to do whatever she needed to alone.

          So now he was forced to wait here for Chris' return. Not that it mattered much if she saw him. No, he now knew where her heart lied and it wasn't with him. "Lucky bastard." Borus muttered to himself.

          He remembered back to the first days when he met Chris and what he and Percival had said about it. They had challenged each other over who could win her heart first. *That's why he said I won. Now I remember. But I haven't one have I? I've lost Percival. You are the one who has lost * he thought inside of his head.

          Now there was no way he could ever be with his beloved Lady Chris. She had chosen Percival. At first he didn't know why and he couldn't understand. He didn't want to believe that she had fallen for him. That she had no chosen his undying loyalty and respect and love. Still looking back he could see before what his love struck eyes could not have. An unspoken bond of love that perhaps they themselves never realized.

          They were always teasing one another, poking fun at whatever irritated the other. Even though she never showed that love it always came out in the way she acted. She never teased him like she did with Percival and even though he never traveled with her the way that he had she had trusted him enough to let him take care of everything she left behind. That unspoken love they had yet never truly expressed. Why had he been so blind to it?

          Borus now understood why and he now knew that nothing would ever come between them, not even him. He leaned back on the bench stretching his legs before him, his arms across the back of it, his face skyward. Nothing would ever come between them. Borus felt ears eat away at him. He should be happy, happy that Lady Chris had found joy. She deserved it. She all the happiness this world could offer. He wanted that for her.

          He wasn't happy though. The pain that dwelled inside of him threatened to tear him apart. It wasn't fair to him that when he loved her so fully with all of his heart and soul that she choose another. No he wasn't happy, he was jealous beyond all reason, and there was nothing he could do about it. He loved her enough that he would never do anything to harm her happiness. Borus would just have to let her go, forever. But that was the hard part wasn't it? Letting go and somewhere in his grief stricken mind he just couldn't do it. How could he? How could he move on with her or her love?

          Borus ran his hands over his face. It always seemed like fate was going agianst him. Why couldn't he just be happy? "I… excuse me… L… Lord Borus, sssiirrr?" a very small stuttering voice called to him.

          Borus sat up fully and turned to face the speaker. It was a young woman, one of the many nameless people who loved here at Brass Castle. However something struck him funny she was familiar but he couldn't quite place it. "Yes?" he answered softly not wanting to scare away the already frightened and nervous girl.

          She trembled from head to toe grasping a wrapped parcel for dear life. "Umm…L …Lord Borus… I got this for!" she finally blurted out shoving the parcel at him out to him. She blushed furiously and looked away from Borus' confused look. He accepted the gift and turning his gaze from the young maiden opened the parcel. It was a bottle of expensive wine. "I was told you collect wine and Louis told me what happened with you and Lady Chris…I wanted to…I..I…I wanted to c.cheer you up.." she whispered avoiding his eyes her beautiful face still scarlet.

          Borus smiled elegantly at her for he couldn't help but smile at her antics and then it hit him. She had lived here forever but she had also been to ever play he had been in at Lakeside Castle. She was always there wherever he had been. He looked up at her catching a glimpse of her brown eyes. "What's your name?"

          "Meru….Me…meru Kayru…." She blushed again. She was pretty, not too tall but she had a lovely figure. Her short brown hair blew in the wind as it ran across the bridge. Her doe brown eyes looked up into his own and looked away.

          "Meru." He repeated, as his handsome grew serious. " Why did you want to cheer me up?" he asked her and she looked away.

          "I…I…I think that…tha…" she trailed off.

          "You think what?" he queried softly not wanting to frightened the already timid girl away.

          "I think that you don't deserve to be sad like that." She called out finally letting go of her thoughts. "I think that you should be happy and you aren't. You deserve better, better than Lady Chris who makes you sad. You should be entitled to someone finer than her…someone who will make you feel happy no matter what the cost!" she let those heated words out.

          Borus sat back and looked at her. Beneath that shy exterior laid a passionate young woman who was almost hot headed as he was. He grinned at her, "And you think you are that someone?"

          "I…umm…I am sorry Lord Borus I was wrong…please excuse me." She finished hurriedly and turned to leave but Borus grasped her small wrist. She turned around and Borus could see fear in her brown eyes but not just that but also love.

          "Lady Meru would you care to take a walk with me?" he offered her his arm.

          Meru blushed at this most gracious address. To her it was if all her dreams had come true. She nodded sheepishly and placed a quivering hand upon his arm.

          Smiling warmly at her they walked off into the forest for an afternoon stroll. Borus glanced over to Meru who was giggling at one of his stories, his mind not on Lady Chris but on her. It seemed to him that the Goddess was telling him something and he thanked her for it. He couldn't lament on lost love for the rest of his life, not that he was in love with this maiden yet. No, deep in his heart he still loved Lady Chris, perhaps he always would but he could try to learn to love another. He could learn to let go and find joy once again. He smiled at Meru as she told him a tale of how she had gotten lost on the way to Lakeside Castle to see him perform with a girl named Viki. Yes, he could learn and try to find love again. Already he was finding the blinding pain he felt earlier lessen its grip on him as he walked further into the forest. Love had come to heal Borus and had found him, and somehow, he prayed it would grant that same reprieve to Lady Chris.

End of Part 5

A/N: Heh heh thought I was going to go back to Chris and Percy did you? See I told you I don't hate Borus, I actually like him. Well now did you like it? Review and tell me what you think. The next Chapter is going to be so bad. You all are SO going to hate me and no I won't tell you why. You'll just have to wait till next week. Thanks for reading! Please review! Ja na!

Next week: Part 6: Confession of Love

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