Chapter 3 Relationships
Tia didn't know how long she stood in front of a fountain making out with Thom but it must have been a while because both Tia and Thom heard the midnight bell signifying 'all is well.'
Tia pulled away from her unknown half-brother and said
"I ...err, we better go to our own rooms." Tia said softly not wanting to break the passion of the moment.
"Yeah we better." Thom said scared over his own powerful emotions for the Shang Pegasus.
They left the garden holding each other's hand but no sooner had they done this, than they saw Alanna and King Jonathan from all appearances comforting each other.
In truth Jonathan was just comforting Alanna because she was in torment over what she had done.
Thom was the first to let go of Tia's hand and she was completely stunned (Thom took the situation the wrong way).
Colour rose in Thom's face as he regarded his mother and the King of Tortall, he just stood there watching his mother.
Tia was the first to act and casually walked up to Alanna and Jonathan and said
"For the sake of your country and your son, - " Tia looked at Jonathan then Alanna her unknown mother. "-I suggest both of you shouldn't do that at all."
Alanna and Jonathan jumped apart at the sound of her voice and both immediately regretted what they had both done.
Thom still stood there with his mouth open not wanting to believe what he had seen was true, it became to much for him and Thom ran for his room.
Tia said, "Now look what you've done." And left Alanna and Jon standing in the garden.
Thom opened his door in the Squires wing and was about to slam the door when Tia stopped it with her hand.
"Don't slam that door after all we've been through." Tia said slightly panting.
"O.K" Thom said before bursting into a furious rage.
Tia was at a lost of what to do but finally decided to move away and let Thom let all his anger and frustration out that had built up over his Knighthood training and what he had witnessed.
After about five minutes of this Thom was able to talk and all he could say was
"I can't believe she would do that...with him...my own mother." Over and over again.
Thom sighed and sat on his bed, head in his hands thinking after a few minutes Tia sat next to him and try and comfort him but it was useless.
Thom came to a decision he must not let the king get away with this and decided to go to Queen Thayet and tell him what he witnessed, hopefully Tia would come along.
"Tia I have a favor to ask, do you think you could come along with me to see Queen Thayet?" Thom asked hoping she would say yes.
"Why d-" realization dawned on Tia.
"I hope you realize the consequences of telling the Queen what we saw, if I know Queens King Jonathan's a dead man and why bother you most likely misinterpreted they whole hugging thing, you really need to ask you mother about it before taking any plan of action/revenge." Tia said wisely.
"You're right but if my mother's and the King's answers doesn't work out with each other's stories, I'm going straight to the Queen. Thanks for being with me Tia." Thom said the last softly.
Tia realized that she was in Thom's room on his bed, sitting next to him and suddenly felt the colour rising in her cheeks and felt rather than saw Thom kiss her gently, before she knew it all self control was gone and she was in Thom's arms making out with her unknown half-brother.
Both were kissing with all the passion in their bodies, Thom some how removed his shirt and his belt disappeared under the covers.
Tia felt the muscular chest of Thom press against her own chest unleashing held back passion her breath was coming faster and faster until she could barely breathe.
It seemed that Thom was having similar experiences and in a fit of passion ripped off Tia's shirt, Tia didn't seem to care the whole process only made Thom and Tia kiss harder and encouraged the use of tongue.
They continued like this for some time until both were exhausted and Thom and Tia fell asleep in each other's arms.
"Alanna I do hope you realize what Tia and Thom are do once Tia reaches her room." Jon said thinking and looking at the way Tia had gone.
Alanna's eyes widen and she was about to run to her son's room as Tia had done but was stopped by Jonathan.
"Don't worry this time tomorrow morning they'll be far too embarrassed to think of romance, it will all be taken care off as soon as I get to my office and do some things."
Alanna nodded and trotted off to the palace with King Jonathan discussing his plan.
The sun was shining through the blinds of Thom's room revealing two sleeping forms, Thom mumbled and tried to roll over only to discover that there was a weight on his chest, he looked down and to his surprise saw a beautiful sleeping Tia her black hair pooled around her head.
There was a knock at the door and one of the senior squires Matt yelled through the door to hurry up because today they get to see the Shang Pegasus and hopefully challenge her.
Thom sat up so fast that he woke Tia and what a surprise it was for her all the loud chattering squires (even though the door was shut) and the different type of pillow.
Matt continued to bang/knock on the door and since the lock wasn't that strong it broke and the door swung open to reveal almost all the squires of the Palace (Thom's P.O.V).
From the squires point of view what they saw was enough to make the whole Palace buzz with gossip about the pair: two purple-eyed people in the same bed, one a definite adult female, the other a young boy-man who looked older than he was (15).
When all the squires noticed who it was silence fell over the group and all eyes were on the pair in Thom's bed, one of them Thom himself many of the squires noticed, the other was a bit more hard to place and a if on queue the pages (who happened to be the same pages Tia taught yesterday) showed up and looked into the room that almost all of the squires were staring into and one of them said
"Hey that's Tia the Shang Pegasus." When her name was mentioned Tia tried to hide under the blankets regretting everything.
Then Thom not being a morning person yelled incoherently at them and threw various objects at the assembled pages and squires, all of the objects were dodged (Thom wasn't much of a thrower) but one of the pages got the idea and shut the door.
Almost immediately the sound of people gossiping about what they had witnessed started and grew louder and louder.
Tia and Thom felt so embarrassed and Tia mumbled something about she had a class to teach today and left via the window thinking maybe if I get back to my room with time to get dress and go to the practice fields people wont believe the true rumours, then again they probly will just to have something to talk about.
Tia managed to get back to her room in time to get changed and for the knock at the door
It was page asking if she did sleep Thom, Tia replied no and went to the training courts, all of the squires were assembled there chatting about what most of them had witnessed.
Tia sighed as she walked towards them it was going to be a long day.
Alanna was about to have a seizure when she heard the news, never had she thought that they (Thom and Tia) would sleep together she had always hoped to prevent that happening and was on her way to Jonathan's office when she heard the news and was going to have a shouting match with his Highness.
As she approached Jon's office Alanna heard George's voice and paused.
"- Spit it out Jonathan I have no time for dawdlers." Georges voice sounded thoroughly annoyed.
"You know how Alanna's being very secretive about anything that happened seventeen years ago especially about Liam Ironarm?" Jon said carefully picking his words.
Alanna tensed how could Jonathan do this to her? It was her place to tell George (if ever) about Tia.
Alanna had to do something, anything to stop this conversation but how?
She made up her mind and approached the door and opened it to see Jon sitting down and George standing face impatient both turned around to see a very angry Alanna walk up to Jonathan and slap him very hard.
George was startled he had never seen Alanna slap King Jonathan before; Jon himself was equally startled as much from pain as shock.
"What did I do?" Jonathan asked innocently voice shaking.
"You said you'd never tell but you were going to weren't you? Weren't you Jonathan?" Alanna said voice trembling with anger as she raised her hand to slap again.
Luckily for Jon, George acted quickly and grabbed both of Alanna's hands then said
"Why do you want to do that?"
"Let go George that thing over there-" Alanna gestured toward Jonathan "- was about to reveal the secret which I had worked so hard to keep from Tortall's nobles and my husband." Alanna said the last softly now aware that now that she had said that she was hiding a secret she would have to tell George.