Disclaimer thingy: Ya ok if you want to know what it is check on chapters 1
2 or 3, sorry im too lazy.
Recap: Jon is at Roger's door and is kind of mad... if you want more read the last chapter over again.
***************************Chapter 4********************************
"Roger now is not the time for formalities, believe me I'm one to know. What do you want? Why do you want to live any longer, it just doesn't make sense." Jon asked, he was frustrated that Roger could be so calm at a time like this, he had guessed that several people's lives were on the line.
"Cousin I believe we have been over this before. I want to be given another chance at my life, and without the gift there isn't much chance I could use that against you. O yes and the second question, I think I'll give you the honest truth this time, just for a little fun. I want to live to get revenge, and I think you already have a good clue about who the revenge is on," Roger replied in a very bored manor, by this time these questions were just another part of his daily routine.
Jon was shocked at this reply and wasn't quite sure of what to do. Was this man being sarcastic or was he serious and just had such a sick mind as to tell him Alanna's fate. Instead of replying Jon walked out of the door and slammed it behind him, yes a childish response, but defiantly useful in these circumstances.
----Later----
She found her king-to-be sitting in his council chamber. He rose and gave her a quick kiss. "Thank you for coming," he said. "I know now that you've only just come back and your adoptive father is missing, but there are quite a few pressing matters at hand right now that need you."
She took her seat and they sat in silence until he asked her, "Alanna, even if our relationship does succeed and you do me the honor of marrying me I still need to know what kind of position you want in my reign. So far you have escaped my duties for you by being out on your travels, but I need you to decide before the coronation."
Not knowing how to answer Alanna stammered, "I'd never thought I'd hold any place, not really. Although I don't think I'd mind having something to do. It would be nice to have a purpose to my adventures."
"Ok, but please do consider it. Now I talked to my uncle, Duke Roger, earlier and he had some very interesting things to say, but I think we shall wait for everyone to arrive."
Just then Gary and Raoul walked in, with Duke Gareth, Duke Baird, the Provost coming in just minutes later. Myles was of course supposed to be there but seeing as his location was currently unknown they had to do without.
"Hello everyone, today there is an important issue at hand, earlier today I talked to Duke Roger of Conte. He said to me: 'I want to live to get revenge, and I think you already have a good clue who I want revenge on," Jon said, diving straight into the matter at hand, he paused to get a drink of water and see everyone's reactions. Everyone had look shock on their face and were staring at Alanna and Jon. "Now I know this comes as a shock and there is no real way to know if this is truth or not. But in case I think we need to add security to the most likely events for an attack."
"Jonathan, are you sure that he said this? We can't be taking any chances here, if this is true you can accuse him of treason," Raoul replied sensibly.
"However I don't believe that is the best solution, there is no tangible proof, all we have here is a good man's word. There are still people who like the Duke and would be suspicious if we accused him without more," stated the Provost simply.
By now Alanna was frightened for Jonathan, she couldn't loose him so soon, she grasped Jon's hands tightly underneath the table and sent loving glances towards him, but she kept her head saying, "That's right, its best to do this secretly, find out who Roger is working with and disable them first."
The rest of the meeting covered Alanna's position and shockingly they said they wanted her, the girl that had lied to them all for eight years to be the King's Champion. She was still so upset over Jon's news that she couldn't even be happy for herself. They also talked of how she would present the Dominion Jewel to the people on the coronation.
No one could get much of an opinion out of her, only the slight "Yes that will work" or "No". Gary looked at her and got worried, Alanna had never had to deal with something like this all of the attacks on had been a surprise so he hadn't had to worry. But now she knew that anytime Roger could try to kill her and she might fail. He had never seen her this worked up over anything, her mouth was clamped shut in a thin line and there were deep wrinkles forming around her eyes.
After this news she thought that nothing would ever faze her again, but like usual she was wrong. Jon had seen the worried glances from his friends towards Alanna and soon he caught on, but it wasn't until the end of the meeting that he could say anything and he did, "Don't forget everyone, there is a ball tonight. Everyone's attendance is required! Alanna would you please stay after I would like a talk."
At the mention of a ball there were many moans and groans, but people's frowns were eased as they saw Alanna groaning with the rest of them. Some dismissed her worries as typical of anyone who knew that people were out to kill them, but her true friends knew that this was different than the Alanna they knew and loved.
She had tried walking out the door with everyone else, but Jon had expected this and grabbed her to sit back down. Knowing her better than anyone else he decided it was best to ask what was wrong, "My Lioness, You shouldn't be worried about Duke Roger, you should know that you can beat him alone and this time many others will be looking out for you."
"Jon, this time he's going to come prepared, he knows what we're capable of and he will take advantage of that. Please let us not talk about such depressing topics. I have a ball to get ready for," she said with sarcasm.
As she walked out the door Jon followed, "I know that dear, and that's why I arranged to go with you, we will pick out the perfect dress and no one will be able to smirk at you for not acting like a true lady."
The look on Alanna's face was priceless. Never did she think that Jon would accompany her, her plan was to get some fancy breeches and wear those, but now it was all ruined. Jon smirked and joked as they walked down to the city, gazing through the shop windows.
It took long enough to find a dress making shop that could make a dress on such short notice, but after much searching they found a place that would do. The dressmaker chose a lavender color for a dress that matched her eyes.
The death glare had become a common thing in the past little bit for Jon, and as Alanna was being stuck with pins he decided to make his escape. He needed to get something special for Alanna, it was the least he could do after putting her through this torture.
It wasn't long before he had ventured into some lesser-known streets, as he rounded the corner in a deserted ally he saw someone laying knocked out on the street. Worried for the man Jon walked up and recognized him this was George. He looked blackout drunk. This was very concerning because knowing George he knew that he was one to drink very responsibly and if he was going to get loaded he would do it in somewhere with people around.
Standing over George he shook him and yelled, "George!! Wake up, why are you lying here???"
Apparently George didn't want to answer because all he did was roll over and throw up on himself. Completely disgusted, Jon took out his Wakeflower
(A/N ya I think that's wut its called, you know dreamrose and wakeflower from the immortals series?) and shoved it in George's face this. Only seconds later was he on his feet cursing at Jon, if he hadn't been the King-to-be he suspected that his fate would have been much worse.
As soon as he calmed down, and Jonathon decided it was safe they started talking. George said that he had been sad, he loved Alanna so much but she never loved him back. This made Jon proud, she had never been unfaithful to him, but it was also a very uncomfortable subject. The lady he had had was also the lady one of his best friends wanted.
"George, you need to get your mind off of things, I think you should go and help Myles, he has been out there for a day and who knows what kind of assassins he has met. For once Alanna was right, he isn't young anymore and could use some help. You are the kind of person that could get your spies to help you find Thayet," Jon interrupted, he was desperately tiring of this conversation and hoped this would get George away.
"I don't know Jonathon, I feel like I can't do this right now," George hesitated.
"By Royal command, I the King-To-Be ask you to find Myles and help him on his task."
At this George groaned and slowly walked off in pain, he had a horrible hang over and wanted to lye down, but now he had a quest. If he had the chance one day he would get Jon back for this.
Realizing how long he had been away from Alanna he returned to the dressmakers shop, where she only saw the seamstress. Wondering what had happened to her he asked, "Miss, A lady with copper hair and violet eyes was in here earlier. You couldn't miss her she probably complained the whole way."
"Yes, she mentioned that you might come by, she said to tell you something along the lines of, you will pay and I've gone back to my room so I could get dressed and plan my revenge," The lady replied hesitant, some men would hurt the messenger and all she could do was hope that this man wasn't one of them.
"Thank you." He said as he walked away. This was going to be a very interesting night.
***Thayet***
"Hello lady, are you Princess Thayet jin Wilima of Sarain? Let me introduce myself, I'm your personal assassin for today," The man in a dark cloak sneered sarcastically.
As Thayet rose out of her seat she took her lemonade and threw it in the man's face and ran towards the door. Running past the man she stepped especially hard on his toes and stopped only to open the door.
The people back in the inn were all confused at the ladies reaction, and the few that had over heard what the man had said were shocked that she was so calm in her escaping. The man, Jacob Milton, that had been sent by Buri to watch over Thayet came out of hiding with several wrist knifes in hand he ran over to stop the dark man from following Thayet.
It was blow for blow, and to the bystanders that hadn't run for fear of being hurt it was obvious that both men had talent. Jacob Milton had sweat dripping down his forehead and knew that he was matched in talent and weight, although he still had some tricks from Buri that he knew would take this assassin down. The dark man faked left and Jacob Milton saw an opening so he kicked at the throat, crushing his windpipe. Dropping down cold, the dark man landed straight on his weapon.
Arazo was shocked. 'Where had Lili gone? Who was this Thayet, was she Alanna's friend, her name sounded strangely familiar.' He ran out the door, went to look for Lili.
Thayet had gone straight to Buri, she needed to know about this. What would they do now, an assassin had found her and what if someone sent more when they found out this one was dead. She just wanted to give up for the first time in her life, as long as she could remember there had always been an easy way out, but so far she couldn't see any solution.
Standing at the gate as a guard today Buri was just relaxing and having another uneventful day, until she saw Thayet running towards. "Lili! Come on over," one of the guards called, happy at seeing her so soon, as she grew closer they realized that something was terribly wrong. Thayet's face was pale white, and she looked panicked.
Buri ran over to her wondering what could be wrong, "Lili, what is it? You look like you rose from the dead, your deathly pale."
Taking a few seconds to catch her breath, Thayet sat down on a bench nearby the rest of the guards. "I was in the inn--, but assassin," she gasped. "He knew me tried to get me."
"Hold on let's talk about this somewhere else," Buri replied, clearly concerned but not wanting any of her friends to overhear.
Walking aimlessly through the town Thayet told Buri everything that had happened and how she was so scared, and there will be more assassins. Buri kept her head and thoughtfully comforted Thayet, "Listen now we know about these people and can be prepared for them. There's no reason to worry."
"But what about our friends like Arazo, and Julia, and Jacob Milton, and Woody, and everyone? I don't want to be the reason they get hurt! I just want to leave."
"We aren't endangering them yet, and if we tell them what is going on they will help us out, I don't think you realize how much the people of Table Rock like you, many people here would give their life for you. Especially Arazo, he loves you Thayet."
What had happened to Arazo, she had completely left him back at the inn, and without any explanation to Buri, she broke into a run. Buri was left clueless to why Thayet may have left her so suddenly. Her first instinct was to chase after her, but after some thought she realized that maybe Thayet needed some time alone with someone.
Bursting into the inn, there was a crowd of people around something lying on the ground, she had the unpleasant suspicion that it was a dead body. All she could do was to hope that it wasn't Arazo. Shoving her way through the crowd of people she realized that she loved him, she wanted so badly to see him again and tell him how she felt, but she couldn't do that if he was dead.
Finally Thayet had gotten through the massive crowd, to find that it was the dark cloaked man lying on the ground with a small pool of blood around the shoulder, he had landed on his own knife. But she wondered where the person that killed this man was, because nowhere around did anyone else have a knife out.
Her eyes peered around looking for a familiar person who she could ask what was going on, but there were so many people around it was hard to see over them. Seeing Josh she yelled over to him, "Josh, have you seen Arazo? I ran out on him in all this mess."
"Sorry but last I saw of him he was running out the door after you, well after Jacob Milton gutted this man in the middle of my floor," Josh stated clearly very agitated at the mess he would be cleaning as soon as the place cleared out.
'Where would he have gone, he really deserves an explanation. He probably won't want to talk to me again, I lied to him. He thinks I'm Lili, well he did up until earlier.' Thayet decided it would be best to look for him later, for now she really needed some rest. This had been a very trying day
As she came up to her room, she realized the door was unlocked. This was especially unusual, because she took care to lock the door every time she left. Maybe because she was curious, or maybe she was just scared but Thayet still opened the door and walked in.
~Ok so that was a little long. Don't worry people it will get fluffier I just had to set it up and all. I do have plans for the next chappie I promise you!~
Recap: Jon is at Roger's door and is kind of mad... if you want more read the last chapter over again.
***************************Chapter 4********************************
"Roger now is not the time for formalities, believe me I'm one to know. What do you want? Why do you want to live any longer, it just doesn't make sense." Jon asked, he was frustrated that Roger could be so calm at a time like this, he had guessed that several people's lives were on the line.
"Cousin I believe we have been over this before. I want to be given another chance at my life, and without the gift there isn't much chance I could use that against you. O yes and the second question, I think I'll give you the honest truth this time, just for a little fun. I want to live to get revenge, and I think you already have a good clue about who the revenge is on," Roger replied in a very bored manor, by this time these questions were just another part of his daily routine.
Jon was shocked at this reply and wasn't quite sure of what to do. Was this man being sarcastic or was he serious and just had such a sick mind as to tell him Alanna's fate. Instead of replying Jon walked out of the door and slammed it behind him, yes a childish response, but defiantly useful in these circumstances.
----Later----
She found her king-to-be sitting in his council chamber. He rose and gave her a quick kiss. "Thank you for coming," he said. "I know now that you've only just come back and your adoptive father is missing, but there are quite a few pressing matters at hand right now that need you."
She took her seat and they sat in silence until he asked her, "Alanna, even if our relationship does succeed and you do me the honor of marrying me I still need to know what kind of position you want in my reign. So far you have escaped my duties for you by being out on your travels, but I need you to decide before the coronation."
Not knowing how to answer Alanna stammered, "I'd never thought I'd hold any place, not really. Although I don't think I'd mind having something to do. It would be nice to have a purpose to my adventures."
"Ok, but please do consider it. Now I talked to my uncle, Duke Roger, earlier and he had some very interesting things to say, but I think we shall wait for everyone to arrive."
Just then Gary and Raoul walked in, with Duke Gareth, Duke Baird, the Provost coming in just minutes later. Myles was of course supposed to be there but seeing as his location was currently unknown they had to do without.
"Hello everyone, today there is an important issue at hand, earlier today I talked to Duke Roger of Conte. He said to me: 'I want to live to get revenge, and I think you already have a good clue who I want revenge on," Jon said, diving straight into the matter at hand, he paused to get a drink of water and see everyone's reactions. Everyone had look shock on their face and were staring at Alanna and Jon. "Now I know this comes as a shock and there is no real way to know if this is truth or not. But in case I think we need to add security to the most likely events for an attack."
"Jonathan, are you sure that he said this? We can't be taking any chances here, if this is true you can accuse him of treason," Raoul replied sensibly.
"However I don't believe that is the best solution, there is no tangible proof, all we have here is a good man's word. There are still people who like the Duke and would be suspicious if we accused him without more," stated the Provost simply.
By now Alanna was frightened for Jonathan, she couldn't loose him so soon, she grasped Jon's hands tightly underneath the table and sent loving glances towards him, but she kept her head saying, "That's right, its best to do this secretly, find out who Roger is working with and disable them first."
The rest of the meeting covered Alanna's position and shockingly they said they wanted her, the girl that had lied to them all for eight years to be the King's Champion. She was still so upset over Jon's news that she couldn't even be happy for herself. They also talked of how she would present the Dominion Jewel to the people on the coronation.
No one could get much of an opinion out of her, only the slight "Yes that will work" or "No". Gary looked at her and got worried, Alanna had never had to deal with something like this all of the attacks on had been a surprise so he hadn't had to worry. But now she knew that anytime Roger could try to kill her and she might fail. He had never seen her this worked up over anything, her mouth was clamped shut in a thin line and there were deep wrinkles forming around her eyes.
After this news she thought that nothing would ever faze her again, but like usual she was wrong. Jon had seen the worried glances from his friends towards Alanna and soon he caught on, but it wasn't until the end of the meeting that he could say anything and he did, "Don't forget everyone, there is a ball tonight. Everyone's attendance is required! Alanna would you please stay after I would like a talk."
At the mention of a ball there were many moans and groans, but people's frowns were eased as they saw Alanna groaning with the rest of them. Some dismissed her worries as typical of anyone who knew that people were out to kill them, but her true friends knew that this was different than the Alanna they knew and loved.
She had tried walking out the door with everyone else, but Jon had expected this and grabbed her to sit back down. Knowing her better than anyone else he decided it was best to ask what was wrong, "My Lioness, You shouldn't be worried about Duke Roger, you should know that you can beat him alone and this time many others will be looking out for you."
"Jon, this time he's going to come prepared, he knows what we're capable of and he will take advantage of that. Please let us not talk about such depressing topics. I have a ball to get ready for," she said with sarcasm.
As she walked out the door Jon followed, "I know that dear, and that's why I arranged to go with you, we will pick out the perfect dress and no one will be able to smirk at you for not acting like a true lady."
The look on Alanna's face was priceless. Never did she think that Jon would accompany her, her plan was to get some fancy breeches and wear those, but now it was all ruined. Jon smirked and joked as they walked down to the city, gazing through the shop windows.
It took long enough to find a dress making shop that could make a dress on such short notice, but after much searching they found a place that would do. The dressmaker chose a lavender color for a dress that matched her eyes.
The death glare had become a common thing in the past little bit for Jon, and as Alanna was being stuck with pins he decided to make his escape. He needed to get something special for Alanna, it was the least he could do after putting her through this torture.
It wasn't long before he had ventured into some lesser-known streets, as he rounded the corner in a deserted ally he saw someone laying knocked out on the street. Worried for the man Jon walked up and recognized him this was George. He looked blackout drunk. This was very concerning because knowing George he knew that he was one to drink very responsibly and if he was going to get loaded he would do it in somewhere with people around.
Standing over George he shook him and yelled, "George!! Wake up, why are you lying here???"
Apparently George didn't want to answer because all he did was roll over and throw up on himself. Completely disgusted, Jon took out his Wakeflower
(A/N ya I think that's wut its called, you know dreamrose and wakeflower from the immortals series?) and shoved it in George's face this. Only seconds later was he on his feet cursing at Jon, if he hadn't been the King-to-be he suspected that his fate would have been much worse.
As soon as he calmed down, and Jonathon decided it was safe they started talking. George said that he had been sad, he loved Alanna so much but she never loved him back. This made Jon proud, she had never been unfaithful to him, but it was also a very uncomfortable subject. The lady he had had was also the lady one of his best friends wanted.
"George, you need to get your mind off of things, I think you should go and help Myles, he has been out there for a day and who knows what kind of assassins he has met. For once Alanna was right, he isn't young anymore and could use some help. You are the kind of person that could get your spies to help you find Thayet," Jon interrupted, he was desperately tiring of this conversation and hoped this would get George away.
"I don't know Jonathon, I feel like I can't do this right now," George hesitated.
"By Royal command, I the King-To-Be ask you to find Myles and help him on his task."
At this George groaned and slowly walked off in pain, he had a horrible hang over and wanted to lye down, but now he had a quest. If he had the chance one day he would get Jon back for this.
Realizing how long he had been away from Alanna he returned to the dressmakers shop, where she only saw the seamstress. Wondering what had happened to her he asked, "Miss, A lady with copper hair and violet eyes was in here earlier. You couldn't miss her she probably complained the whole way."
"Yes, she mentioned that you might come by, she said to tell you something along the lines of, you will pay and I've gone back to my room so I could get dressed and plan my revenge," The lady replied hesitant, some men would hurt the messenger and all she could do was hope that this man wasn't one of them.
"Thank you." He said as he walked away. This was going to be a very interesting night.
***Thayet***
"Hello lady, are you Princess Thayet jin Wilima of Sarain? Let me introduce myself, I'm your personal assassin for today," The man in a dark cloak sneered sarcastically.
As Thayet rose out of her seat she took her lemonade and threw it in the man's face and ran towards the door. Running past the man she stepped especially hard on his toes and stopped only to open the door.
The people back in the inn were all confused at the ladies reaction, and the few that had over heard what the man had said were shocked that she was so calm in her escaping. The man, Jacob Milton, that had been sent by Buri to watch over Thayet came out of hiding with several wrist knifes in hand he ran over to stop the dark man from following Thayet.
It was blow for blow, and to the bystanders that hadn't run for fear of being hurt it was obvious that both men had talent. Jacob Milton had sweat dripping down his forehead and knew that he was matched in talent and weight, although he still had some tricks from Buri that he knew would take this assassin down. The dark man faked left and Jacob Milton saw an opening so he kicked at the throat, crushing his windpipe. Dropping down cold, the dark man landed straight on his weapon.
Arazo was shocked. 'Where had Lili gone? Who was this Thayet, was she Alanna's friend, her name sounded strangely familiar.' He ran out the door, went to look for Lili.
Thayet had gone straight to Buri, she needed to know about this. What would they do now, an assassin had found her and what if someone sent more when they found out this one was dead. She just wanted to give up for the first time in her life, as long as she could remember there had always been an easy way out, but so far she couldn't see any solution.
Standing at the gate as a guard today Buri was just relaxing and having another uneventful day, until she saw Thayet running towards. "Lili! Come on over," one of the guards called, happy at seeing her so soon, as she grew closer they realized that something was terribly wrong. Thayet's face was pale white, and she looked panicked.
Buri ran over to her wondering what could be wrong, "Lili, what is it? You look like you rose from the dead, your deathly pale."
Taking a few seconds to catch her breath, Thayet sat down on a bench nearby the rest of the guards. "I was in the inn--, but assassin," she gasped. "He knew me tried to get me."
"Hold on let's talk about this somewhere else," Buri replied, clearly concerned but not wanting any of her friends to overhear.
Walking aimlessly through the town Thayet told Buri everything that had happened and how she was so scared, and there will be more assassins. Buri kept her head and thoughtfully comforted Thayet, "Listen now we know about these people and can be prepared for them. There's no reason to worry."
"But what about our friends like Arazo, and Julia, and Jacob Milton, and Woody, and everyone? I don't want to be the reason they get hurt! I just want to leave."
"We aren't endangering them yet, and if we tell them what is going on they will help us out, I don't think you realize how much the people of Table Rock like you, many people here would give their life for you. Especially Arazo, he loves you Thayet."
What had happened to Arazo, she had completely left him back at the inn, and without any explanation to Buri, she broke into a run. Buri was left clueless to why Thayet may have left her so suddenly. Her first instinct was to chase after her, but after some thought she realized that maybe Thayet needed some time alone with someone.
Bursting into the inn, there was a crowd of people around something lying on the ground, she had the unpleasant suspicion that it was a dead body. All she could do was to hope that it wasn't Arazo. Shoving her way through the crowd of people she realized that she loved him, she wanted so badly to see him again and tell him how she felt, but she couldn't do that if he was dead.
Finally Thayet had gotten through the massive crowd, to find that it was the dark cloaked man lying on the ground with a small pool of blood around the shoulder, he had landed on his own knife. But she wondered where the person that killed this man was, because nowhere around did anyone else have a knife out.
Her eyes peered around looking for a familiar person who she could ask what was going on, but there were so many people around it was hard to see over them. Seeing Josh she yelled over to him, "Josh, have you seen Arazo? I ran out on him in all this mess."
"Sorry but last I saw of him he was running out the door after you, well after Jacob Milton gutted this man in the middle of my floor," Josh stated clearly very agitated at the mess he would be cleaning as soon as the place cleared out.
'Where would he have gone, he really deserves an explanation. He probably won't want to talk to me again, I lied to him. He thinks I'm Lili, well he did up until earlier.' Thayet decided it would be best to look for him later, for now she really needed some rest. This had been a very trying day
As she came up to her room, she realized the door was unlocked. This was especially unusual, because she took care to lock the door every time she left. Maybe because she was curious, or maybe she was just scared but Thayet still opened the door and walked in.
~Ok so that was a little long. Don't worry people it will get fluffier I just had to set it up and all. I do have plans for the next chappie I promise you!~