A.N I wrote this chapter for all of you to make sure that none of you feel the need to kidnap me...I was a tad afraid that one of you might get that idea and then pass it on to everyone else....*is scared* *hears noise* *jumps*
Disclaimer: I do not own anything you recognise. Period. End of discussion.
I know this chapter is much shorter and actually looks long, but, alas, it is not. You would be fooled by two chapters worth of thank yous...So many thank yous...Not that I mind!!!!
All righty, this chapter is short because of the fact that it was originally attached to Ch. 11 but I decided being evil is fun, so I would make you wait for the exciting stuff next chapter! *evil cackles*
Also, I know many of you may note the fact that Alanna is often in a dress in this fic. Well, I don't know why, but maybe she's feels more feminine in a dress. I know I would...feeling masculine in a dress is wrong....If your wondering why this chapter and the next chapter are more depressing it is because I was listening to Edelweiss the ENTIRE time. I just kept playing it over and over again. Why Edelweiss you ask? One, Edelweiss is the song that my choir is singing for ISSMA contest. Two, Edelweiss is a slower, more sad song which helps me keep the mood. It just didn't help me keep the mood when A*Teens "Dancing Queen" which is perky and happy and fast starts playing. Bad things could've happened....Comical things might have happened where it should have been dead serious.
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Chapter 10
Alanna lifted up her skirts and ran hard through the corridor. She stopped when she found the door to her room. She grabbed her bag out from under the bed and opened. Opening the wardrobe door, she pulled out various articles of clothing. She stuffed them into the bag and went looking for other necessary things.
Suddenly, she stopped.
'This is folly,' the reasonable part of her brain said (this was the part that did not believe it love, so Alanna expected it to tell her to put everything away and go take a nap before she hurt herself). 'If you want to get to Jon as soon as possible, wouldn't it be better to take only the necessities? You could always come back and get your things *after* you tell Jon that you love him.'
Alanna thought this reasonable enough advice and put all the clothes back into the wardrobe. Afterwards, she sat down on her bed to think.
She had to go soon before something bad happened. What that bad thing was, we can only wonder.
She stood up, determination on her face, planning to go saddle Dark Moon right away, but then slumped back onto the bed. What about George? How could she forget?
'You're a horrible wife,' said the reasonable part of her brain which appeared to have a lot to say today.
"How so?" Alanna challenged.
'You're planning to run away from you husband! George! Not to mention that you are doing it for Jonathan of Conte, the man you refused to marry years ago. Why didn't you marry him then? Then we wouldn't have to deal with this. Then we wouldn't have to break George's heart. Or the hearts of your children! I blame this on you! See if I don't.'
"We said that to Jon once," Alanna replied. "Remember?"
'No,' it said haughtily.
"You do," she told the voice in her head. "Right after Jon found that we...wait...I was a girl."
'So? Alanna, what about your children? How will they feel? What about Alianne? She's marrying your "lover's" son! Remember?'
Alanna's dream of seeing the look on Jon's face when she road up and kissed him faded. Depression filled her. "You're right," she said, an unwanted tear rolling down her cheek, followed by another. And another. And another. She curled up on the bed, underneath the covers. "Leave me alone."
'Fine, be that way.'
***
George sat down at the dinner table in the hall. His wife had not arrived yet, so he sat patiently, waiting for her to begin dinner. Dinner tonight was Alanna's favorite, in honor of her returning home. George didn't much care for it, but anything for his Alanna.
A half hour passed until he finally saw Alanna's small figure enter the hall. Her eyes were blotchy and red, nearly matching the color of her hair.
George stood up. "Why are you crying, Alanna?" he asked, concerned. Alanna rarely cried. Never cried, was more like it.
She shook her head. "I don't want to talk about it." She sat down in the chair across from
him.
They began eating. Or, at least George did. Alanna merely picked at her food.
"What's wrong, darling? You don't seem yourself today," he asked, setting his fork down.
Alanna looked up. Her amethyst eyes did not show the confidence that they once had. They now looked lost and innocent. Like a young girl on her first night to court, nervous of what might be said and what might happen. Her hair fell around her face and down to the bottom of her rib cage, giving her the look of a sixteen-year-old girl.
"George, I need to tell you something," she said, her voice trembling.
"Of course, anything, darling," he replied, leaning closer to her and taking her hands in his.
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I hope you guys won't be too offended about how many times Alanna cries between now and the next chapter. She's like Niagra Falls, I'm telling you! It's the hormones..She must be having a hormonal imbalance.
Good news! I am ahead! I shall be starting Ch. 13 soon!!! This is amazing for me! I'm ahead!!!
I am so sorry that this is short it's just that it was comnbined with Ch. 11 but then I split them up. And I am so sorry that I completely forgot about the Thank yous!!! I shall do them now for Ch. 8 reviews!
Thankees to from Ch. 8:
punkrgrrl: That's me: Evil. Yup! I'm working on it! Thank you!!
Carrie-of-Pirate-Swoop: I was laughing so hard! That is hilarious what Jon said! I told my friends..but they didn't get it....Don't know why...It's HILARIOUS!!
fastflyer13: Thank you! And I am ahead! Woo!
Lady Arianna: Alas, Jon is not. He has pressing matters at home...Namely, the wedding of his son and the love of his life's daughter to work on. That should keep him busy...You'd think he'd learn and run after her? I mean, look what it got him before? He got him Thayet! Thayet, I mean, yeah, she's nice and all, but she's not Alanna! Jon!
Jon: Yes?
*wacks Jon upside the head* Go get Alanna! Don't make that same mistake again!
Jon: Ow...
He's stubborn as a mule...He won't move an inch from this spot! Jon, if you and Alanna don't get together this time, I'm blaming it on you!!!
Shelly Salmalin: Thank goodness.
White-wolf: Thank you!
Queenofilangees: Sadly, he does not. Though, if in WWRLAM or LM he had gone after her, I'd like to think Alanna would be touched that he cared enough to come back and might take him back...If he apologized...JON!!
Jon: *flinches*
Me: Go get her!!!
Lady Lucy A/J 4ever: I was, but I was allowed back on Christmas Eve, as a present to all of you!
veralidaine: That rule was made up so that Jon could not go out and get Alanna...Because I think Alanna should come back to him.
Keita: Alanna firmly believes that Jon will be able to figure out some way through this...Aw, heck, I don't even know how it'll end. I'm kind of nervous at to what will happen...Don't you love it when they're sappy and remorseful?
Jossie: Jon does not go after Alanna. Everyone seems to want Jon to go after her. What about Alanna? Is she not the very first lady knight in like a long time? In my opinion, if she wants him so bad she can get off her lazy butt and go get him, instead of playing hard to get, which she seems to be fond of. WAKE UP ALANNA!! I was suspended for Alanna: the First Adventure Chat. Keyboard chat style fic...Grrrr...I already got rid of George...Next chapter...I'm ahead!..What about Thayet? Oh well, as Alanna says, Jon'll know what to do...
Chopstix*: Don't you? It's kinda weird and funny at the same time. You know, I don't want Alanna to be rushing back to Jon right away because then that means I have to figure out what Jon's going to say to figure this whole mess out and I have yet to do that. So, I'm taking it slowly, hoping for a miracle to come in...If I can't find a miracle, I've got a back up plan, though it's already been used. I probably should fit in a Alianne/Liam chapter in here somewhere...I'm just so focused on Alanna and Jon...And George...He gets more appearances in the next two chapters. I am proud to say because those chapters are actually written!!!
Cami of Queenscove: No you didn't review!! Naughty! I think Alanna's was just confused...and angry....and all that... Funny!
CH. 9 THANK YOUS (Bout time...):
Chopstix*: You again? I just finished writing a very long thank you to you and here you are again! J/K! I care about reviews. I need to make 200 before the posting of Ch. 11 so I can finally have a fic knocked Cinderella: Tortallan Style from her perch at #1 with highest number of reviews per chapter in a many chaptured fic. Yeah...Yay! Thank you!!
veralidaine: yay! Tamora Pierce-y! Oh yeah!!!!! *is happy*I will!!!
Queenofilangees: LMAO!! For the whore part...LMAO!!! Heee!! Everyone feels so sorry for George. Maybe I should just knock him off before he finds out about this and it goes to his head...You never know...
Keita: You too! Everyone feels sorry for George...New TV sitcom! Everyone Feels Sorry for George..(You know, Everybody Loves Raymond..)
Lady Tarillyn: Oh no! This cannot be! You have nothing to say! *screams* *faints*
great goddess of the cows: Thanks! Yes, I emailed you. Did you get it?
Maria: I got George's life planned out, should anything happen. You will probably get your A/J wish, but fast...Well, considering I am lost as to how Jon is going to fix this mess...you're just going to have to wait..
White-wolf: Not another one! None of you are going to survive the next chapter with all this "poor George" stuff... I'm going to be up to my neck in "Poor George"-s.
Lady Lucy A/J 4ever: Jon won't be moving his lazy butt anywhere but around the palace. Alanna's the one who will be moving her lazy butt around. You shall find out in Ch. 11! Or you can email me. I just don't want everyone else to know..
StarFire: Join the club...J/K. What confused you? Did you like countless others think that Jon would actually get off his lazy bum of a butt and go get Alanna? Yeah, everyone did. Don't feel bad. (I feel like being cruel and sarcastic today..Must be because I'm sick with a fever and there are a bunch of red itchy spots all over me and had to miss my final in Tech Ed today and had nothing better to do but write Ch. 10, 11, & 12 for this fic and for everyone who reads it!)
Shelly Salmalin: YAY!!!!!!!!!!
Lady Arianna: Yay for symbolism! Yay! Don't ask me where the purple water came from....It just....appeared in my head.....Yeah....*eerie music is played*
a fan of ur story: Here you go. Nice name.
Jossie: What a long review. Well, to be honest I have been working on this chapter since the 13th. Thank you, no problem with the email! So many questions! Okay, I have George's life partially planned out and let me say you need not worry about him. I am so glad you like the ocean of love sorta thing! I was very pleased with the way it came out on screen. (I never write on paper, so when I type it it's seeing the light for the first time.) Their kids are 17 and 20 so I think they'll live. The gods? Hmm...Maybe they want them together. We must see if maybe GMG makes a visit. I don't know yet. She's very persuasive so if she wants to she probably will visit, but I don't know. Ah, the controversy! I love controversy. I really don't know how it will end. Alanna doesn't either. She hopes Jon will know what to do, so we shall see. I think you are getting ahead of yourself. I think Jon will leave Thayet for Alanna, but that's just my opinion. I mean, Jon doesn't always listen to reasoning. So, we'll see. (Okay, I know your probably think I know what's gonna happen, but in all honesty and truth, I only know up to the 12th chapter and at that time Alanna is still at Pirate's Swoop, so...) I think I answered most of your questions, not very well, but hey, I'm asking myself the same thing....That's so sad. Whew, that was long..
coppercurls: Oh good! A short thank you! ThAnK yOu!!!!
Cami of Queenscove: Naughty again! For all the things you said that were naughty! Jon can be a major ass and maybe he will be at the wedding. Who knows? I sure don't...*looks innocent because she IS innocent*
*pants* Finally....done....*pant* So many...thank...yous....need...water....*wheeze* *grabs glass of water next to arm* *guzzles* Need...food.....*crawls around*
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I am going to ask for AT LEAST 200 reviews for this chapter. IT IS VITAL!!
Lady Alanna Salmalin of Conte, the Queen of Fluff
Disclaimer: I do not own anything you recognise. Period. End of discussion.
I know this chapter is much shorter and actually looks long, but, alas, it is not. You would be fooled by two chapters worth of thank yous...So many thank yous...Not that I mind!!!!
All righty, this chapter is short because of the fact that it was originally attached to Ch. 11 but I decided being evil is fun, so I would make you wait for the exciting stuff next chapter! *evil cackles*
Also, I know many of you may note the fact that Alanna is often in a dress in this fic. Well, I don't know why, but maybe she's feels more feminine in a dress. I know I would...feeling masculine in a dress is wrong....If your wondering why this chapter and the next chapter are more depressing it is because I was listening to Edelweiss the ENTIRE time. I just kept playing it over and over again. Why Edelweiss you ask? One, Edelweiss is the song that my choir is singing for ISSMA contest. Two, Edelweiss is a slower, more sad song which helps me keep the mood. It just didn't help me keep the mood when A*Teens "Dancing Queen" which is perky and happy and fast starts playing. Bad things could've happened....Comical things might have happened where it should have been dead serious.
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Chapter 10
Alanna lifted up her skirts and ran hard through the corridor. She stopped when she found the door to her room. She grabbed her bag out from under the bed and opened. Opening the wardrobe door, she pulled out various articles of clothing. She stuffed them into the bag and went looking for other necessary things.
Suddenly, she stopped.
'This is folly,' the reasonable part of her brain said (this was the part that did not believe it love, so Alanna expected it to tell her to put everything away and go take a nap before she hurt herself). 'If you want to get to Jon as soon as possible, wouldn't it be better to take only the necessities? You could always come back and get your things *after* you tell Jon that you love him.'
Alanna thought this reasonable enough advice and put all the clothes back into the wardrobe. Afterwards, she sat down on her bed to think.
She had to go soon before something bad happened. What that bad thing was, we can only wonder.
She stood up, determination on her face, planning to go saddle Dark Moon right away, but then slumped back onto the bed. What about George? How could she forget?
'You're a horrible wife,' said the reasonable part of her brain which appeared to have a lot to say today.
"How so?" Alanna challenged.
'You're planning to run away from you husband! George! Not to mention that you are doing it for Jonathan of Conte, the man you refused to marry years ago. Why didn't you marry him then? Then we wouldn't have to deal with this. Then we wouldn't have to break George's heart. Or the hearts of your children! I blame this on you! See if I don't.'
"We said that to Jon once," Alanna replied. "Remember?"
'No,' it said haughtily.
"You do," she told the voice in her head. "Right after Jon found that we...wait...I was a girl."
'So? Alanna, what about your children? How will they feel? What about Alianne? She's marrying your "lover's" son! Remember?'
Alanna's dream of seeing the look on Jon's face when she road up and kissed him faded. Depression filled her. "You're right," she said, an unwanted tear rolling down her cheek, followed by another. And another. And another. She curled up on the bed, underneath the covers. "Leave me alone."
'Fine, be that way.'
***
George sat down at the dinner table in the hall. His wife had not arrived yet, so he sat patiently, waiting for her to begin dinner. Dinner tonight was Alanna's favorite, in honor of her returning home. George didn't much care for it, but anything for his Alanna.
A half hour passed until he finally saw Alanna's small figure enter the hall. Her eyes were blotchy and red, nearly matching the color of her hair.
George stood up. "Why are you crying, Alanna?" he asked, concerned. Alanna rarely cried. Never cried, was more like it.
She shook her head. "I don't want to talk about it." She sat down in the chair across from
him.
They began eating. Or, at least George did. Alanna merely picked at her food.
"What's wrong, darling? You don't seem yourself today," he asked, setting his fork down.
Alanna looked up. Her amethyst eyes did not show the confidence that they once had. They now looked lost and innocent. Like a young girl on her first night to court, nervous of what might be said and what might happen. Her hair fell around her face and down to the bottom of her rib cage, giving her the look of a sixteen-year-old girl.
"George, I need to tell you something," she said, her voice trembling.
"Of course, anything, darling," he replied, leaning closer to her and taking her hands in his.
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I hope you guys won't be too offended about how many times Alanna cries between now and the next chapter. She's like Niagra Falls, I'm telling you! It's the hormones..She must be having a hormonal imbalance.
Good news! I am ahead! I shall be starting Ch. 13 soon!!! This is amazing for me! I'm ahead!!!
I am so sorry that this is short it's just that it was comnbined with Ch. 11 but then I split them up. And I am so sorry that I completely forgot about the Thank yous!!! I shall do them now for Ch. 8 reviews!
Thankees to from Ch. 8:
punkrgrrl: That's me: Evil. Yup! I'm working on it! Thank you!!
Carrie-of-Pirate-Swoop: I was laughing so hard! That is hilarious what Jon said! I told my friends..but they didn't get it....Don't know why...It's HILARIOUS!!
fastflyer13: Thank you! And I am ahead! Woo!
Lady Arianna: Alas, Jon is not. He has pressing matters at home...Namely, the wedding of his son and the love of his life's daughter to work on. That should keep him busy...You'd think he'd learn and run after her? I mean, look what it got him before? He got him Thayet! Thayet, I mean, yeah, she's nice and all, but she's not Alanna! Jon!
Jon: Yes?
*wacks Jon upside the head* Go get Alanna! Don't make that same mistake again!
Jon: Ow...
He's stubborn as a mule...He won't move an inch from this spot! Jon, if you and Alanna don't get together this time, I'm blaming it on you!!!
Shelly Salmalin: Thank goodness.
White-wolf: Thank you!
Queenofilangees: Sadly, he does not. Though, if in WWRLAM or LM he had gone after her, I'd like to think Alanna would be touched that he cared enough to come back and might take him back...If he apologized...JON!!
Jon: *flinches*
Me: Go get her!!!
Lady Lucy A/J 4ever: I was, but I was allowed back on Christmas Eve, as a present to all of you!
veralidaine: That rule was made up so that Jon could not go out and get Alanna...Because I think Alanna should come back to him.
Keita: Alanna firmly believes that Jon will be able to figure out some way through this...Aw, heck, I don't even know how it'll end. I'm kind of nervous at to what will happen...Don't you love it when they're sappy and remorseful?
Jossie: Jon does not go after Alanna. Everyone seems to want Jon to go after her. What about Alanna? Is she not the very first lady knight in like a long time? In my opinion, if she wants him so bad she can get off her lazy butt and go get him, instead of playing hard to get, which she seems to be fond of. WAKE UP ALANNA!! I was suspended for Alanna: the First Adventure Chat. Keyboard chat style fic...Grrrr...I already got rid of George...Next chapter...I'm ahead!..What about Thayet? Oh well, as Alanna says, Jon'll know what to do...
Chopstix*: Don't you? It's kinda weird and funny at the same time. You know, I don't want Alanna to be rushing back to Jon right away because then that means I have to figure out what Jon's going to say to figure this whole mess out and I have yet to do that. So, I'm taking it slowly, hoping for a miracle to come in...If I can't find a miracle, I've got a back up plan, though it's already been used. I probably should fit in a Alianne/Liam chapter in here somewhere...I'm just so focused on Alanna and Jon...And George...He gets more appearances in the next two chapters. I am proud to say because those chapters are actually written!!!
Cami of Queenscove: No you didn't review!! Naughty! I think Alanna's was just confused...and angry....and all that... Funny!
CH. 9 THANK YOUS (Bout time...):
Chopstix*: You again? I just finished writing a very long thank you to you and here you are again! J/K! I care about reviews. I need to make 200 before the posting of Ch. 11 so I can finally have a fic knocked Cinderella: Tortallan Style from her perch at #1 with highest number of reviews per chapter in a many chaptured fic. Yeah...Yay! Thank you!!
veralidaine: yay! Tamora Pierce-y! Oh yeah!!!!! *is happy*I will!!!
Queenofilangees: LMAO!! For the whore part...LMAO!!! Heee!! Everyone feels so sorry for George. Maybe I should just knock him off before he finds out about this and it goes to his head...You never know...
Keita: You too! Everyone feels sorry for George...New TV sitcom! Everyone Feels Sorry for George..(You know, Everybody Loves Raymond..)
Lady Tarillyn: Oh no! This cannot be! You have nothing to say! *screams* *faints*
great goddess of the cows: Thanks! Yes, I emailed you. Did you get it?
Maria: I got George's life planned out, should anything happen. You will probably get your A/J wish, but fast...Well, considering I am lost as to how Jon is going to fix this mess...you're just going to have to wait..
White-wolf: Not another one! None of you are going to survive the next chapter with all this "poor George" stuff... I'm going to be up to my neck in "Poor George"-s.
Lady Lucy A/J 4ever: Jon won't be moving his lazy butt anywhere but around the palace. Alanna's the one who will be moving her lazy butt around. You shall find out in Ch. 11! Or you can email me. I just don't want everyone else to know..
StarFire: Join the club...J/K. What confused you? Did you like countless others think that Jon would actually get off his lazy bum of a butt and go get Alanna? Yeah, everyone did. Don't feel bad. (I feel like being cruel and sarcastic today..Must be because I'm sick with a fever and there are a bunch of red itchy spots all over me and had to miss my final in Tech Ed today and had nothing better to do but write Ch. 10, 11, & 12 for this fic and for everyone who reads it!)
Shelly Salmalin: YAY!!!!!!!!!!
Lady Arianna: Yay for symbolism! Yay! Don't ask me where the purple water came from....It just....appeared in my head.....Yeah....*eerie music is played*
a fan of ur story: Here you go. Nice name.
Jossie: What a long review. Well, to be honest I have been working on this chapter since the 13th. Thank you, no problem with the email! So many questions! Okay, I have George's life partially planned out and let me say you need not worry about him. I am so glad you like the ocean of love sorta thing! I was very pleased with the way it came out on screen. (I never write on paper, so when I type it it's seeing the light for the first time.) Their kids are 17 and 20 so I think they'll live. The gods? Hmm...Maybe they want them together. We must see if maybe GMG makes a visit. I don't know yet. She's very persuasive so if she wants to she probably will visit, but I don't know. Ah, the controversy! I love controversy. I really don't know how it will end. Alanna doesn't either. She hopes Jon will know what to do, so we shall see. I think you are getting ahead of yourself. I think Jon will leave Thayet for Alanna, but that's just my opinion. I mean, Jon doesn't always listen to reasoning. So, we'll see. (Okay, I know your probably think I know what's gonna happen, but in all honesty and truth, I only know up to the 12th chapter and at that time Alanna is still at Pirate's Swoop, so...) I think I answered most of your questions, not very well, but hey, I'm asking myself the same thing....That's so sad. Whew, that was long..
coppercurls: Oh good! A short thank you! ThAnK yOu!!!!
Cami of Queenscove: Naughty again! For all the things you said that were naughty! Jon can be a major ass and maybe he will be at the wedding. Who knows? I sure don't...*looks innocent because she IS innocent*
*pants* Finally....done....*pant* So many...thank...yous....need...water....*wheeze* *grabs glass of water next to arm* *guzzles* Need...food.....*crawls around*
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I am going to ask for AT LEAST 200 reviews for this chapter. IT IS VITAL!!
Lady Alanna Salmalin of Conte, the Queen of Fluff