The God's Pugna – the Tusaine Rogue
By Imperfectionist
A big message to all my readers from me:
THIS IS A J/K FANFIC!! And I thought maybe another character would make their already complicated relationship a bit more complicated and interesting. Don't you like a bit of difference?
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Felix held on tight to the firm arm holding onto her from behind. For once in a long time, she has ever felt secure and assured that nothing could go wrong today. She wonders what sort of quest is Joren and Kel is going on and what were the consequences.
Also what about Joren and her? She grinned mischievously at the certain activities that occurred in the last few nights. She wonders about the future of them both, will it last till the day that they die or they will go their separate ways shortly. Felix doesn't know and it will lay a mystery till it happens.
She gazed around the capital of Tusaine; it looks the same since she left the city. The familiar sight of her home city was comforting, yet it brought back so many painful memories.
"We should look for an inn to be staying at." Shouted Joren to Kel over the rowdy crowd.
"I know there is a reliable inn near here." Replied Felix, it was a good place to go but also a place where she dreaded in going. Two horses trotted their way through the overcrowded market into some dark thin unpopular streets led by Felix. They reached there in a while and found a small ordinary inn with a stable in good conditions.
Kel got to work with unsaddling the two exhausted horses. It's been a long time that she has slept in a bed and she can't wait to jump into the warm cosy sheets. She was alone with Hoshi and Katura, Joren and Felix has gone inside to get two rooms. She sighed at the thought of the two lovers. It's not like she wants to be like them, to have someone to love. It's just that it's much more boring, there is hardly any interesting conversation she's involved in to let time past whilst she's doing something. She finished her chore and went into the inn, and to find it a rowdy place filled with the smell of men.
She sat down at a deserted table in the corner, while she waited for Felix and Joren to bring dinner over. They did find her eventually and they settled down and got into an interesting discussion.
"Look we don't exactly have enough money to last us for a long period of time and we need to somehow fatten our purse to last us." Said the frustrated Joren.
"Yes Joren, I find that ever so easy. What are we going to do? Rent out armours?" A sarcastic remark from Kel; in her opinion Joren's task would not be easy.
"Well if I sold you here in a dress, I would be better off."
"Yes of course, make me a man's toy. You know that is very old?"
"If both of you be quiet and think instead of yelling at each other. Maybe we would get somewhere!" Shouted Felix, she decided to keep quiet but it just got frustrating. She doesn't like getting angry or frustrated, it didn't suit her, but sometimes life living between the knight and his squire was more than she could bear. Kel and Joren avoided eye-contact with each other and became interested in their food or a fingernail.
"I have a few connections here in this city. Maybe I could get some help." She got no reply so she continued, "If you both retire to your rooms and leave the problem to me. I'll get it sorted out by tomorrow morning."
Joren whined audibly, a rare vocal sound to Kel's ears. "Well if you're going to be working tonight. What about me? I'll get cold tonight."
Felix smiled; it's nice to think a man needed you. "You'll manage without me. Or if you are definitely sure about freezing, you can find a replacement."
She got out of her seat smoothly and kissed Joren on the cheek before walking silently in the shadows and into the back courtyard. She looked around cautiously and laid her small hand on a stone in the wall. She removed her hand and slowly the stones in the wall started to produce small black flames but soon disappeared revealing an entrance to an oiled lamped corridor filled with shadows.
Felix walked in with no hesitation and the entrance was then sealed back with the previous stones. She walked down to the end of the corridor and appeared was a sturdy oak door. She knocked and entered a too familiar room.
The room like the corridor was dark filled with shadows. It was furnished with plain oak and silver ornaments. It was a plain room yet it held the air of wealth and treachery in it. Felix drew out her daggers and laid them on the table and focused her eyes to a pitch black corner.
"It's been a long time since we last met my dear." Greeted a strong masculine voice from the shadows.
"Yes it is," answered Felix plainly, she stood still and held posture.
"I told you not to return. Why did you?"
"For the same reasons why I left."
"But there is something more in you. Something more you want with me."
"Yes there is, but nothing that will do you harm."
"Returning here has already harmed my heart. I feel the pieces shatter at the sight of you. It did me better to know you were not with me."
"I understand, but it shatters my heart for me to know you were not with me."
"Times like this are not safe for you to stay under my wings. I don't want to take risks in loss."
"But I wanted to take risks."
"For what? For the sake of pleasurable times with an elder you love? It would be more profitable for you and me to stay apart."
A tensed silence draped around the room, neither of them spoke. It was until Felix realised a silver tear ran slowly down her cheek.
"If it pleases you, I shall ask for your leave." She curtsied low and turned to the door.
"Until you ask me what you wanted of me, Escalina Felix, my daughter, heir of The Rogue."
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Joren took a warm bath in a small tub in his room, he scrubbed the piled up dirt and sweat off his skin with satisfaction. He relaxed as the hot steam engulfed him and his thoughts drifted off to… a knock on the door.
The groaned with displeasure and jumped out of the tub. He unsheathed his sword.
"Who is it?" He asked cautiously.
"It's your damnable female squire!" Shouted Kel's voice through the door.
He opened the door for her and she slipped in without taking a glance at Joren himself. He closed the door behind her and sheathed his sword back into its scabbard.
"I was wondering if I could…" Kel turned round and was shocked to find her knight master standing in no clothes in front of her. She turned away and blushed furiously. She told herself it was only a male in front of her; she spent four years with them all the time so it was nothing interesting.
"If you could what squire? If you could stare at me like I'm some weird creature?"
"No it's not! I wanted to ask if I could order a tub of water so I could wash." She found it was really hard to yell at Joren without looking at him. Joren thought this was very amusing and he thought he might wind her up a bit.
"No but you can share mine." He smirked at her shock.
"If so, then I prefer not to wash." She answered back coldly.
"I'm not saying the truth; you have my permission to order a tub of water. I believe you are now dismissed." He opened the door and she walked out avoided looking at him.
She walked down to the bar and ordered a tub of water and cold soothing lemonade to calm her furious heat in her cheeks. She then returned to her room and washed the week grim before settling into an over-exhausted sleep in a warm bed.
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Felix slid soundlessly into her room and changed into her nightgown. She had had a hard night and she wanted to rest. A pair of firm arms wrapped around her waist and she felt soft lips kissing her neck, immediately she relaxed.
"I thought you were asleep."
"I wanted to wait for you." Joren mumbled. "What did you do?"
Felix wanted desperately to tell him her identity, yet she doesn't know him well enough to. Though they went all the way, she wasn't sure if she could trust him. She spun herself round and gazed into the depth of ice blue eyes.
"Would I be able to trust you?" Startled by Felix's question, he nodded slowly and placed his brow on hers.
"There is something you don't know about me."
"I know I don't know everything about you." He kissed her gently on the lips.
"I'm really serious, well, I lived in this inn. I used to anyway; my father and I were really important people in this inn and city. My father he is still here and he -"she looked down and broke the close eye contact between her and Joren. "He is The Rogue of Tusaine."
She looked up and half expected Joren to sweep her off her feet and half expected he will get angry and leave, never to see her again. But he didn't, he continued to gaze into her with millions of questions swarmed around his head. Finally he spoke.
"Then tell me about yourself, are you a thief like him?"
The word thief felt bitter to Felix's ears but she still answered.
"It was once what I did for a living. I was told to be gifted with snatching men's purses."
"With sweet charms like yours I doubt it. How did you learn etiquette? It's definitely not from the streets."
She giggled softly, "I used to pretend I was noble and went to convent for three years. It came handy when I spied inside the palaces."
"I'm amazed; I have a little Rogue in my arms to my little collection." Joren said with amusement.
"I never knew you had a collection Sir Joren of Stone Mountain. And even so I'm not willing to join the club."
"Well you will be afterwards."
And so the moonlit night went on, Joren and Felix spent the rest of the night in pleasure with each other.
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YAY!! End of chapter!!! I know it took a long time but GCSE is so evil to me that I'm spending my night writing this. *yawns*
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