(A/N: I have a bit of language in the beginning of the story guy, only one word but it's not the nicest thing in the world, sorry {~,_~})
Brotherly love
Thom walked out of his sister's room. She seemed quite happy to what she said to the prince, and honestly Thom wasn't surprised that she said what she said. She did have a bit of a short temper.
Walking down the hallway, Thom came across Ralon of Malven.
"Oh lookie what we have here. A good old Trebond. I heard your sister was here. A bit of a slut I was told," Ralon sneered.
Thom fought down on his anger. He always thought violence never got you anywhere and he still did, but sometimes it was hard to stick to what you believed in.
"Yeah, the way I hear it, she gets around a fair bit, if ya know I mean," Ralon said with a deep throaty laugh.
Thom felt his face burn with anger. One gentleman should not hit another, or so they said.
"I bet you even got some, didn…"
Ralon didn't even get to finish the sentence. Thom's fist went straight to his stomach.
"Ahh! You little…!" Ralon said trying to tackle Thom, but missing and hitting the ground with a 'Thud'.
Thom went over a stood near Ralon's head. "Don't you ever insult my sister!" He growled angrily before Ralon pulled his legs from under him.
Everything went black with a sickening crack.
*
As Thom came to, he saw Alanna looking over him.
"What happened?" She asked resignedly.
"I fell down," he muttered not meeting her eyes.
She snorted. "Really? I would have never guessed that!" She replied sarcastically. "That's why I found you on the floor! You fell! And I bet that would explain your three broken ribs and black eye?"
"Huh?" Thom choked. "Ralon didn't hit me there…"
Alanna raised an eyebrow. "I thought you fell down," she told him smugly.
Thom sighed. He never won, he was never too good at lying, or Alanna was too good at tricking him into telling him what she wanted to know. Probably both.
"So this Ralon character hit you?" she asked.
He nodded.
"Wasn't he the one who was on your back when you first came here? Until you made him see snakes everywhere?"
He nodded again. He had told her everything in his letters to her.
"And why did you get into a fight with him now?" She wanted to know. "I thought you got used to his tormenting?"
"He was insulting you with something I wont repeat."
Alanna was bright red with anger. She did not like people standing up for her one bit.
"And then he said something to me that was insulting us both, that's when I hit him, so it was as much for my own dignity as it was for yours," he told her a matter-o-factly. He hated it when he had to lie to her. But it was better this way, because now Ralon could live a few days longer. And a few more days Alanna could stay out of prison.
"What he say Thom?"
Thom tried to get up.
"Thomas! What did he say!?"
Thom finally stood up. Everything span. He swallowed. The nausea got the better of him. But luckily before he could be sick (And before Alanna could get what Ralon said out of him) he fell back in a dead faint.