"Okay, now that she's gone.." Turan drew out, smiling at Tannia as he turned the page in his journal.

He opened his mouth, about to begin reading, when suddenly he stopped. His eyes were scanning the page, a slightly worried look on his face as he closed his mouth back.

Tannia scooted closer to him again, trying to catch what it was Turan was looking at. But when she came up against him, he angled the booklet slightly, so it was out of Tannia's vision as he read.

She sighed, reaching up to give his ear a small prick. "What's wrong with you?"

"Tannia.. let's please stop reading for right now.." Turan said. Tannia looked at him, surprised by the tone in his voice. He was basically pleading her.

"I told you not to worry about me, Turan," she said softly. She had lifted her paw and was stroking his wrist almost subconsciously. "What could possibly be so bad?"

"If you have to ask, you'll be surprised," he turned his bright blue gaze on her. This small action caused Tannia to take in a quick breath. She didn't know how he did it. But the saying that he could take her breath away was not only true, but literal.

She gave him a moment. Studying his eyes for a few seconds, she looked surprised again. "It isn't me you're worried about, is it?"

He bristled slightly. Never before had Tannia seen Turan this uncomfortable before... certainly never more uncomfortable than herself in any given situation. What was bothering him so much this time?

"Do you really want me to read it, Tannia?" He finally just asked pointblank.

"Yes."

"Then I will." So yet again he let his eyes stray from her's and fall back onto the scrawl of writing in his lap.

Day 5

Today was a very bad day. I only need to tell you about what happened when it started getting dark because that's when everything happened. Me and Dad were having our last training session out in the orchard, and then we heard a scream. Both me and Dad went running to see what happened. I got there before Dad, though, and I could tell what happened.

He stopped, hoping Tannia had already caught one before he had to continue. Biting his tongue, he turned back to Tannia. When she caught his gaze, she nodded.

"Go on, I get it."

I knew when I heard it was Tannia, but I didn't know why. I saw her curled up on the ground against the wall. She was shaking and crying, and her arms were over her head like she was blocking something. I saw that it was her dad, because he was bad just like my dad had said he was. He was yelling at Tannia and calling her bad names, and he was shaking his fist at her. I could tell he had already hit her, because Tannia was crying in pain and fear both. I told him to stop and ran after him, because that's what a warrior should do. But my dad came up too fast and pulled me backwards to keep me from trying to fight.

Tannia's mouth opened in disbelief at what Turan had just read aloud. "You tried to fight him? And you were eleven?"

"Yeah, well.." he said nothing more, wanting to get through this entry quickly. So he continued.

He whispered to me to get Tannia away and back to our room, and he would take care of Tannia's dad.

I was kind of mad, but then I saw Tannia there, and I felt bad even if she was just an annoying little girl. Dad took his sword and got him away from Tannia, and so then I ran over to her. I asked if she was okay, but she was still crying and her paws were still held up like she didn't hear me. So I knelt down so I could get closer and asked her again. She looked at me, and then looked around. My dad had taken her dad out of sight. She nodded at me to say she was okay, even though I knew she wasn't.

I told her she had to get up and come with me. I thought she would just sit there and be a baby about everything, but she nodded and tried to stop crying. She stood up and looked at me like she was waiting for me. I stood up, too and told her to follow me. I brought her to our room, and Mum quickly started taking care of Tannia. I came in my room and started writing this right after. I won't tell my friends, but I'll say here that I still feel bad for Tannia. I wonder what will happen.

Tannia didn't seem too upset by that entry. In fact, she sat back with a smile. "Hmm. I wonder. Quite a cliffhanger there, Turan." She said with a smile, looking at him.

But Turan wasn't paying attention. He was staring down silently at the journal in his paws. She was stunned to see the expression on his face. He wasn't upset. He was angry.

"Turan..."

"I hate him for that. Tannia, I hate how you were treated. It's not fair," he said quite obviously. Tannia raised her eyebrows at him. She was about to speak, but he kept going. "Maybe I didn't care as much then.. but now it would give me some satisfaction if I knew I had laid just one punch on him-"

"Don't say that," Tannia frowned. "You're better than he ever was."

"You never deserved that..."

"Turan, no one deserves that," she said quickly. She couldn't believe she was telling Turan this. He'd never seem so upset by something that happened in the past before. "But everything changed, you know that.. don't feel sorry for me if that's it."

He shook his head, closing his eyes. "I know, I know. I think it's bothered me more than it has you for the past few seasons. I just wish it could've been different."

"Well, don't wish.. I couldn't ask to have a better life now, so stop thinking about it." There was a pause, and she gently prodded him. "I said it changed.. so keep reading to remember how."

"I probably just called you more names..." he said slowly.

Tannia grinned. "Then give me another reason to make fun of you. At least this entry showed you had some compassion for others. Go on.. Day six, Turan." She reached over his lap and turned the page for him.

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A/N~ Wooh, two updates in two days! Let's give me a round of applause! Lol. Don't ever expect this again. This was a long weekend and I was really bored today. I should have my next chapter up next weekend. Thanks for reading. Please R/R!