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CHAPTER ONE: GOING UNDER

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I noe, wot I've got up til now is partly hatemail cos I almost/did kill off neal (I'm not giving that away, u'll have to read it to find out!) But heres the first real chapter so REVIEW IT!!!!

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'Wake me up inside,

Wake me up inside,

Call my name and save me from the dark,

Bid my blood to run,

Before I come undone,

Save me from the nothing I've become'

Evanesence 'Bring Me to Life'

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Domitan of Masbolle looked gloomily out from under his helmet. He still had about 15 minutes ride before he reached the castle, and it looked like it could rain any minute. It was a crummy day to pick to win brownie points anyway. It was freezing... then there was the rain...Oh, and the fact that he was exhausted, covered in bruises and HUNGRY.

'Yup' he thought to himself 'No sane person would have volunteered for this job.' Unfortunately though, Dom did not always act entirely sane. Especially where his Cousin Neal's best friend-Lady Knight Keladry of Mindelan- was concerned. Even messenger duty in the freezing cold was worth it if it meant he could see her sooner. Of course, he was serving his country, and taking important news to the king and all, but somehow, when he thought about Kel, everything else seemed so....irrelevant.....

....and he did stupid things, like offer to ride onto Corrus at six o'clock in the freezing cold (and getting colder) to deliver a progress report that the king saying things he already knew, just so he could see her a day sooner.

He was really bordering on obsession here.

'Now' Dom wondered, pushing his long-ish hair out of his face, 'which back way is that shortcut to the castle??' there was no use dwelling on how stupid he was now, he decided, he'd surprise Kel first...maybe she'd have dinner with him?

Dom glanced down the next back way....And nearly fell of his horse

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Neal had decided that that there was some truth to old wives tales, even when one was at war with ones wife. In the moment he drew his dagger to his chest, he truly had seen his life flash before his eyes.

Except, according to his brain, his life seemed to involve an awful lot of Kel: Kel laughing, Kel telling him to eat his vegetables, Kel bashing up scanrans, Kel calling him meathead, Kel making out with Cleon, Kel making out with him....woah! Ok, where had that come from? This was Kel!

Neal place the knife up against his flesh. It didn't matter, in a minute; none of it would matter....

...Suddenly however, a new face seemed to have joined Kel in his memories; it was dark, big, male and sounded a lot like Dom...

...Oh, no it was shaking him, great, he was just about to have that memory, the one when Dom told his whole family about that time when they were little and...

...'Hey wait a minute' he thought 'the sound on this memory is pretty damn good'

"Neal, NEAL!!! FOR MITHROS SAKE SNAP OUT OF IT!!! WAKE UP!!!Oh Gods, wake up..." Dom was in tears now....Neal couldn't just commit suicide!!! If confident, wacky Neal felt the need to go suicidal, then what chance did the rest of Corrus have???

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Yuki tasted the salty tears as they ran down her cheeks. What was she going to do??? She was needed desperately in the Yamani Isles, there were.....'family' matters too attend too.

But Neal wouldn't go, and she couldn't leave him now! What if it didn't work out? What if they didn't pull it off and she didn't have Neal to turn too? Where would she be then? She had no help here except for Kel, and she could only help so much. She was surprised she could even remember telling Kel. She'd been quite delirious at the time.

No, she had to make this work...somehow...but it was almost as if Neal knew that she was hiding something...he'd been far more...irratable lately, as though something was wrong. And although he claimed that nothing was wrong, he had been going out walking a lot more than usual, thinking, she supposed. If Yuki hadn't known better, she would have said he was seeing someone else, or contemplating it...

But that was ridiculous! Who could he possibly want more than her? He married her, didn't he? And she hadn't noticed him hanging around with any new different girls to usual. He could he possibly like, Lady Alanna? Princess Shinkokami? Kel?

'No' Yuki decided 'Neal's just suspicious, everything will be fine...just fine'

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Yay!!!!! I'm finished....please review, I have no idea if peeps like it or not.....I'll review yours if you want, just tell me which story to do...yeah, thanx....I'll try to get the next chapter up ASAP!!!