Hello once again!! GUESS WHAT?! I AM ON FALL BREAK!! HURRAH!! I am sooo happy. But I feel bad for those of you who don't. o well...u'll survive. Sorry!! ;) anyways, I was a little afraid there wouldn't be an update today, but well, here it is!! Oh, this chapter has fluff!! Soooo hope you like it. My big thanks to:

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Numair sat under the shade of a tree. He was thinking of his Daine. Where is she? Is she ok? Is she afraid? Does she miss him? How can I save her?

The mage was interrupted from his thoughts when he heard footsteps behind him.

The lanky man jumped to his feet and whirled around summoning a ball of black fire.

There was someone behind the tree. Wait a moment. That hair, it was very familiar. Only one person he could think of had smoky brown curls like that.

"Daine?" he asked his hopes rising.

He heard a giggle.

Was it his love?

Daine stepped out from behind the tree.

"Daine!!" Numair couldn't believe his eyes.

"Oh Numair!! I missed you so much! I thought about you every moment!" she said tears in her eyes.

Numair felt his eyes fill with tears too. He bounded to her in one leap and swept her up in his arms laughing.

She began to laugh too.

She tangled her fingers in his black hair and lowered his lips to hers. They kissed until they ran out of breath and Numair's arms began to weaken from holding someone half his weight up in the air.

He put Daine down gently.

Numair cupped her chin in his hand and gave her a swift kiss.

"How did you escape?" he asked and kissed her again.

"Please. I'll tell you later. Right now I just want you to hold me."

Numair grinned.

He had no objections to this. He eased his lips over hers.

Then he gave her quick kisses on her eyes and hair until he found her lips again. He moved down to her neck.

Daine still had her fingers tangled in his hair. She pushed him gently until his back was to a tree.

Arms wrapped around each other, feeling each others bodies losing themselves in the passion.

A sigh of contentment escaped Numair's lips.

Daine smiled.

The mage slid down the trunk of the tree to sit at its base.

Daine moved to his lap and rested, cradled in his arms.

"Missed you, Magelet" whispered the mage before attacking her with his lips again.

The wildmage laughed.

They moved to a lying down position.

Each kiss lasted until they thought they would pass out for lack of air.

Once again the lovers were joined as one, perfectly happy.

"Daine?" asked Numair taking his lips away.

"Hmmm?"

"Will you-" Daine pulled him back.

After a few moments Numair tried again, "Daine? Will you marry me?"

Daine pulled him back again.

Numair wanted an answer though.

He sat up. "Will you marry me?"

Daine sat up too.

She looked a little cross at being interrupted.

"I'd like an answer. Yes, no. Please answer me?"

"Marriage is a lot to think about," said Daine. "Right now why don't we think about something simple and unimportant," and she pushed Numair back down and got on top of him to resume the kissing.

Numair wasn't content.

He sat up again. "It may be a lot to think about but it really is a yes or no question. Yes or no. At the moment is it a yes or a no?"

It was hard to concentrate on what he was saying since Daine was lifting off his shirt. He let her.

Daine traced his face and then his chest with a finger. It tickled. She laughed when he squirmed.

"And what do you mean unimportant. You think my love for you is unimportant? My love for you is what keeps me alive. You are my life, Daine. Do you even have somewhat similar feelings?"

Daine just laughed and began to unbutton his breaches.

"Stop," said Numair and he got to his feet.

Daine crossed her arms and pouted. "Oh come on Numair," she said, "Now come back down here," she patted the ground next to her.

Numair shook his head.

Daine got up and placed her lips on his.

Numair drew away, "Do you love me Daine?" he asked with a worried look on his face.

"How do I know you love me when you keep pushing me away like this!?" she snapped.

That cut Numair deeply. "Daine, I love you with all my heart and more!" he said hurt, "I would do anything for you!"

At that moment they heard some one coming their way.

Out from the trees stepped Lasku. Daine gave Lasku a big smile and walked over to him.

Numair looked bewildered.

The spy put an arm around Daine and pulled her close. Numair gave a strangled yell. He was too surprised and to hurt to move.

"Thank you for keeping him here, magelet," said Lasku.

That burned Numair.

Then Lasku said over his shoulder, "We got him Aeejah!"

Out of the trees stepped Aeejah. He looked exactly as Numair remembered him. Aeejah grinned.

"Hello Arram!" he said.

Numair stood open mouthed.

"Traitor!" he hissed at Lasku.

Lasku just grinned, "Hey, like you said, I'm a great spy. And great spies are great actors."

Numair lunged toward Lasku but Aeejah sent out magical ropes to bind him. The ropes were tight and they cut cruelly into Numair's bare chest and arms. He winced.

"Daine! Help me!" he pleaded, Daine only shook her head, "Sorry Numair, but I work for Tusaine now," she told him with a shrug of her shoulders.

"But, why?" he asked.

"Because, that's were Lasku lives." she answered and kissed the spy on the cheek. Numair might as well of died at that moment. He was being tortured beyond what he could bear.

"No!! No!!! I love you!! Come back!!" Daine and Lasku walked away leaving him with Aeejah.

"Well friend, we've got some business to attend to. You're going to become very accustomed to pain."

Numair awoke with a start (a/n: in case you didn't know, the whole thing was a dream and he is waking up now!!!)

He was covered in a cold sweat. There was a rustle in the leaves. He looked up suddenly. It was Lasku.

"Are you okay?" asked the spy looking at the scared, angry look on Numair's face. Numair shook his head.

"What's going on?" he asked.

"I was just on watch. Are you sure you're okay?"

Numair didn't know what made him say it, "How do I know I can trust you? How do I know that your really are on my side?"

Lasku was a little surprised. He shrugged, "You don't know. You just need to take my word. How do I know that you aren't planning on trying to kill me again because you're suspicious of me really being on your enemy's side?"

"What?"

"Well you already tried to kill me once and I'm still sore,"

"It's to late to understand what your saying," said Numair, "Sorry, I just had a dream, and..." the mage trailed off.

"Don't worry about it. I understand completely,"

"Really?"

"No," They both laughed.

Numair got up.

"My turn for watch" he said,

"But I still have about an hour left!" protested Lasku,

"Yes but I tried to kill you remember?"

"Good point,"

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Tillie paced her rooms.

"What should I do?" she thought. She was excited at saving Daine. She was probably the most hopeful of the two groups.

"Hmmmm, Should I tell Numair that I can get to Daine? Should I tell him that the real Lord Henry is prisoner too? I should probably tell him that incase he tries to kill him. Now, should I tell Daine that Numair and Lasku are planning on saving her? She probably knows that already. But should I carry messages between the two parties?" the girl smiled.

"No, maybe not. That way it will be a total surprise when they see each other!! Anyways I don't want to get anyones hopes up." Tillie frowned.

"This would be so much easier if stupid Eurianne hadn't sent her for a visit with a friend on the other side of the fief!!! It's not like I can tell anyone else either even though Numair took the spell off me. They wouldn't believe me or tell da and then he would do something awful!!"

The girl looked at the clock.

She had to go plot some more.

Which group was it again?

She walked among the trees. Her dress was in tatters and her stomach growled.

She still couldn't believe she had escaped her captors.

"I can't believe he would try to do this to me!" she said to herself. "I thought he loved me!! What happened to, 'I love you with all my heart Elsinore'? What happened to, 'I would die if anything happened to you'? I hope I never see him again!! No I take that back. I hope I see him again so I can tell him how much I love him!!!"

Elsinore heard some one coming her way.

She dived for cover and watched as a young girl walked through the trees.

She looked familiar.

No, could it be? After all these years?

"Oh, gods" she whispered.

Daine was weak from hunger, but not as weak as she could be.

Thanks to Tillie, she and Lord Henry were better then they should be. She hoped her friend would come today.

Or was it tonight, or did she last see Tillie months ago, or was it only hours.

The wild mage had no sense of time in the dungeon. She was just there.

She was grateful that she had company though. Lord Henry kept her from insanity.

"Poor Henry!" thought Daine, "He was already starving when I got here!"

As if answering her thoughts she could hear her friend's stomach growling.

"I hope Numair comes soon," she thought.

Thinking of Numair made her happy and sad at the same time.

She missed him terribly. But at the same time all she wanted to do was think abut him. The way he looked. The way he walked. The way his smile made her insides flutter. The way his hair was held back from his face with his tie. The way he looked when his eyes were on her own.

That expression that told her that he would do anything for her and that he would love her until the end of time. She couldn't wait until he held her in his arms again. Until she could fling her arms around his neck and never let go. Until she could talk and laugh with him again.

She thought of his proposal to her. It seemed so long ago. Did he feel that way still? She hoped he did. Her thoughts were interrupted when the door to the dungeon was opened.

She hoped it was Tillie.

It wasn't.

Aeejah was laughing, "Ahh my dear, how are we feeling today? Not hungry? That's a shame."

Daine ground her teeth. She wanted nothing more then to plug up his mouth with her fist.

"Guess what. I got your mage friend," Daine looked up sharply. She screamed her fury and leapt to her feet. Her rage powered her weak limbs. She lunged toward her enemy, fighting her chains. Her finger tips just brushed his shirt.

"You know something else? I lied!"

The mage laughed looking at the look on his prisoners face.

"You're sick!!" she said still struggling to reach him.

"Hmmm, you seem to care for your teacher. Or is he more then your teacher?"

Daine's face betrayed everything.

"I see it in your face. You love him don't you? Does he return your feelings? I had a hunch that he did. This makes it so much easier. You can kill two birds with one stone when you hurt someone that you love."

After he said that Aeejah got quiet.

His face lost his sneer.

"Hurt the one you love," he murmured, "hurt the one you love. Nory,"

The mage shook his head and regained his evil sneer, "I am going to have so much fun once your love joins you. It will squash any hope that you have for sure."

The imposter took a few to many steps backwards. Lord Henry leapt on him from behind.

But it was no use.

The noble was far too weak.

Aeejah broke his grasp and turned and struck him across the face. The prisoner fell, crumpled to the ground.

The imposter didn't stop there. He began to kick the other man over and over without mercy.

Each time he made contact, Henry gave a cry of pain.

He tried to stifle it but it was no use.

"Stop!! Leave him alone!!!" screamed Daine.

To her surprise he did.

He turned and walked over to her.

The wild mage stared unflinchingly into his eyes.

"When Numair comes, you will be sorry. Have you ever seen him really angry? I once destroyed the palace in Carthak because I thought he was dead. That is nothing compared to what he will do when he knows what has happened to me."

Aeejah was taken aback by these words, "That is true love." he thought, "I once had that didn't I? Or do I have it now? Nory!"

Aeejah didn't know what to do. He wished those eyes would stop boring into his head but they didn't. He knocked down the girl and turned on his heel and stormed out of the dungeon, never once looking back.

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