Disclaimer: I own nothing but the great desire to cas-I mean kill *turns an odd shade of red* whomsoever invented the disclaimer. Oh, and I also own the plot, ^^.
Summary: Alanna is Alex's squire, and Jon is totally messed up due to Roger's influence, George makes his appearance in this chapter, capeesh?
A/N: I am REALLY busy right now, have been very busy for a long time, and will continue being busy for a LONG time. The only reason that I updated was cuz ppl gave me such nice reviews (hint hint, review!) and I felt so guilty that I hadn't updated for WEEKS! Okay, so, I know my story sucks, but I also know that there are some people out there who inexplicably LIKE it and review so I update. If anything here doesn't make sense I apologize cuz I never read through my work and I don't really want to have a beta reader so tough. I am also in a HUGE hurry because tomorrow I have a school trip I need to pack for and I am only half done. Oh, and btw, I LOVE YOU REVIEWERS!!!!!! This story has like one chapter less than my other fanfic but it has the same amount of reviews, I just love you people!
And felt the ground rush up to meet her…..
Alanna woke up to the sound of yelling. It was at first faint, but as she found herself waking it was as if a radio dial had been turned and the sound rushed into her ears, "whad'ya mean I can't see her? The lad and I have been friends for YEARS. About as long as she has known you 'sir' Tirragen. (lowers voice) besides, I know she's a girl and I know someone who will heal her."
"George," Alanna mumbled, causing the argument to stop as the two individuals turned to face her. Alanna winced as burning pain shot through her body grinding her teeth to stopper the pain, "Alex, meet my friend from the lower city, George. George, Alexander of Tirragen."
"why was I never informed about him Alanna, you obviously know each other very well if he knows you are a woman," Alex groused while, simultaneously,
"Lass, are you okay? So this is your knight master…..seems a queer sort….. can you tell him that he can trust me? You need to be patched up, you lost a lot of blood but Alex dared not let any place healers come near you, right now he is getting a reputation as a terrible knight master."
Alanna, unable to take the strain, passed out. Although I suppose if she had had more blood it would have been easier to survive the horrible ordeal of two friends verbally attacking her, but Alanna was dying and the Black God was near. She just couldn't take the strain.
She fell into what was to her a long, long sleep.
(A/N: to kill or not to kill, that is the question.)
When Alanna awoke she saw a pair of friendly hazel eyes peering at her, "Mithros, Alanna, I though you had died, here, have some water." (A/N: geez, he thought she was going to die but he said hey, have some water, some friend!)
Alanna thankfully nodded and then attempted to drown herself by drinking too much water to quench the terrible thirst that made her wonder if someone had placed burrs in her throat.
"Now then Alanna, do you wish me to summon your knight master who has been pacing up ad down the corridor ever since you arrived at my mother's place and introduce us?" George queried.
Alanna nodded mutely, still greedily guzzling down the restoring liquid until George gently removed it from Alanna's weak grasp and informed her, "Alanna, lass, I KNOW that you slept for weeks and that the whole palace is in an uproar….and that you came near to death-"
"WHAT?!" Alanna shrieked, unused voice cracking twice on that one word before turning into a harsh growl, "what do you MEAN?! You must be joking!"
"He is not," purred a black ball of fur with two purple eyes.
"What do you mean Faithful?" Alanna hissed after clearing her throat twice and getting into a coughing fit.
"I, myself, was wondering if you would ever get up. In fact, the Goddess herself wasn't even sure. A hair width any direction and you would be dead. It barely missed your heart thanks to your evasive maneuvering, but it came very close still and there was your lungs too. And when you shot up from the ground he managed to throw a poisoned knife at your side, nearly you're your stomach, and that would have been the end of you. It is a miracle that you are alive with that poisoned knife in you side. And don't worry about Alex and George, I told them what you would have told them about each other-"
Faithful's babbling, yes babbling, Faithful, the cat, the always calm, cool, and collected cat, babbling, Alanna was shocked into silence, was cut off but Alex's entrance, "Thief, you PROMISED you'd tell me when my squire woke up, but here you are CHATTING with her as if nothing is wrong."
Alanna, having finally calmed down enough from Faithful's bout of out of character-ness was thrown back into shock with Alex's outburst and honest to joy anger written on his face. Alex, the calm one, the one that never lost his cool, not only raising his voice, but also showing anger in his face!
Alex turned toward Alanna and demanded, in this order, and very fast, words blending together, "Alanna, are you okay? Are you hurt? That's silly of me, of course you're hurt, I meant it as in….erm….do you feel okay? Have you recovered? Did this thief poison you? Did he tell you what happened after you passed out? Do you remember what happened? Goddess, do you have amnesia? Did you hurt your head when you fell? Are you no longer your bea-I mean, good at fighting self, may I cour-I mean kill the Tustane embassy for you? Can I-"
Alanna pulled her wits together and interrupted Alex, "I'm FINE Alex, calm down, please, don't make me bind and gag you. And why did you mess up so many times in your sentence? And-Alex, why are you turning red? An-George, why are you laughing? Is something funny?"
George smiled to himself, his lass could be so funny sometimes, and naïve, didn't she realize that Alex felt something for her? Did she realize that his laughter was an attempt to pull attention to Alex's love so that the lass that he loved with his heart and soul would realize that Alex loved her and fall in love and be happy? He knew that Alanna would never be happy as the wife of a thief and all that he cared about was Alanna's happiness.
"Alright," Alanna finally said, watching Alex turn a red that matched her hair while George got an odd look on his face and started to look at her sadly, "I want you two to put aside your differences and make peace with each other. From this day forth you are friends or I will challenge each of you to a duel."
Both of the men laughed at this and Alex snatched his protective mask out of mid air and placed it onto his face. He then looked the thief-no, George- up and down before grudgingly saying, "friends?"
George raised his eyebrows at this and thought, 'wow, this lad is truly in love with my lass to become friends with someone that he knows not of just to please her,' before saying, "nay, I couldn't be friends with a man that only chooses to befriend me for lo-I mean friendship of a woman." Smirking to himself as he watched the twitch of Alex's jaw muscle at his purposeful slip up.
Alex fumed at this man for a minute; he had nearly compromised his entire charade with that! Then he took another look at George and suddenly smiled, this man was worthy of respect if he had done that on purpose, "I apologize, George, if it sounded forced, I am rather worried about my FRIEND Alanna here."
Then, to Alanna's annoyance, they shared that smile between men that a female can never understand. Alanna was ready to swear that they taught men that, only, she as a pretend man had never learned that particular skill-goddess, what if it gave her away!
"Am I fit enough to leave?" Alanna asked of the two men who were sharing knowing looks with each other…..but was answered by Faithful, "you'll have to be because Jon is throwing a fit about your having killed Dain when he didn't even get a decent swing at him and is about to announce you dead and your squire-dom over if you don't recover in the next hour. Everyone has been asking questions since you 'disappeared' and almost everyone thinks that you are dead but the king and queen are covering it up because, the this reason is making the prince even harder to live with than normal, you are considered the best squire in the realm of Tortall you are supposedly the soon will be best knight in all the land. Oh, and the Prince can believe that you managed to somehow worm your way out of trouble over Dain's death, people think that you are a hero now for killing him."
"WHAT?!" Alannna yelped, "I KILLED him?"
"You didn't know?" Alex asked slowly….. "but….."
"ce'st eempossible!" Faithful muttered, "you sliced him from collarbone to stomach, how could he have lived from that? Do you even want him to have lived?"
"I fainted," Alanna snarled, annoyed that they hadn't told her earlier, "I don't know about you, but when I faint I don't remember what is going on about me."
"oops." George mumbled, "well, dear squire friend of mine, you had a deep knife wound on your side and a knife sticking out of what seemed to be your heart and yet you still swung and killed Dain before you suddenly seemed unable to move anymore and fell and hit the ground. Then people swarmed all around you and yelled conflicting things some of which were she is dead, she is fine, she will live, a goddess cannot get hurt, and, guess who said this, I could have done what he did without even touching a sword, the time I lost to Dain was just because I wanted him to get a good name having defeated the prince. It was nothing, absolutely nothing, I can't believe that Alan, lazy boy, never works out and misnames his cat, even got hurt."
Alanna raised an eyebrow, "wow, I better go back before Jon really looses his temper….but didn't Alex go back and tell them that I was alright?"
"because," Faithful patiently murmured, "had he done so he would have been unable to come back to see you whether dead or alive without running the risk of alerting the duke Roger of Conte of your friends, their hideout, and where you go during your free time."
Alanna sighed and thought this over before saying, "will all the males please clear the room so I can change?"
Oddly enough, the only male who hurried out of the room was Faithful; the other two men walked slowly and gave her oddly regretful looks as they passed by her.
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Jon strutted back and forth past his mirror….or should I say mirrors…..or should I just say he strutted around the room in his chambers that had mirrors for a floor, ceiling, and walls….admiring his new clothes and singing in an out of tune voice about how handsome he was when Duke Roger walked into the room.
"Ah, your royal majesty, pri-I mean KING Jonathan the first, handsome blue eyed ruler of Tortall. Hi royal snot-I mean highness is one of the most prestigious…." And this went on for about thirty minutes; you see why Jon loves him, right?
"…..may I have the honor of informing you that our plan to kill the not as handsome and …..twenty minues later(A/N: twenty minutes later, hgosh, I am making jon a prick)…. Father and mother of yours is on it's way."
A/N: I LOVE cutting off in the middle of the best part. Yup, that's the plan. Next chapter I am going to go more into WHY jon and Roger are working together, so Narao, it's okay, I changed my plot (what plot?) and I'll just tell you earlier….or maybe not…..
Okay, I am really tired and I have a LOT to do so if you flame me I am going to hunt you down for the rest of your days. Now, I love my reviewers, it makes me feel all warm inside. I am sorry if I made any mistakes, but I had a little trouble trying to calm down enough to type. I know this chapter really sucks and makes no sense whatsoever, but I am really busy and I kinda don't have enough to make a nice chapter, sorry oh faithful reviews that this chapter is so bad, I am just too tired, couldn't fall asleep last night, is messing up my head!
Now, to thank my reviewers!
Gray-rain- I love Alex and Alanna too, I can't believe that no one does them these days! They totally kick butt!
Narao- I don't know how you do it, but I am so thankful that you review almost every time! I totally love having long reviews and you are one of those people who give me them, ^^. Don't worry about the giving things away part, my story sucks as it is, giving things away won't hurt my story, my story, after all, can't get any worse….and DIE DIE DIE Jon, take THAT for being so mean to Kel!
Phycolioness13- thanxs, not that great idea, but it's nice to know that you think it is!
Lady of the Willows- omg, that is a really long review. How did you do it? I am totally shocked. Bad story but very good review, you are officially my reviewer that gives out the longest reviews….how do you shorten that? I think that you have an error. I do not mean to sound picky, but for the phrase "arrogant sneer plastered on face" should it be "Jon with an arrogant sneer plastered on his face?" I just mentioned this because I didn't exactly understand it the first time that I read it through. Actually, it is a little weird, but it IS still correct grammer. Had I thought of that earlier I would have changed it but it's kinda too much work for lazy me to do so….but thanx, I'll refrain from making long complicated sentences form now on, I kept on loosing points for that in social studies last year. *pouts* you don't LIKE seeing Jon that way? Aw….. how mean of me!
Moonlightgoddess- nah, if I were mad at you I would have said something rude, but you're right, sarcasm sounds weird online. I was being sarcastic back, lol. Sorry that this chapter isn't as good *hangs head* as the last one, but you know what school does to people, *shudder*. *falsely sweet voice* wou fwel wuved? Aw….how sweet….I feel SOO gwad fwor wou. *cracks all her ribs laughing and is unable to duck the flying projectiles sent toward her head*
Amanda- If I weren't a female I would say I love you cuz you review EVERYSINGLE ONE of my chapters and that makes me sooooo touched (in the head). No, seriously, I really am touched that someone would take the time to do so. I hardly ever review these days so I know what I am talking about. I have to seriously LOVE the story to do so….so thanx
Sorry if I missed you, please tell me if I did!
Now, to finish this off, if you kill me I can't update so ha ha. Of course, there are some people who probally wouldn't CARE if I update, and there are people who would kidnap me and force me to type day in and day out….oh BEEEP I told you how to make me update, AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am SOOOOO dead, I mean, in trouble now!
