Well aren't you people lucky I have another chapter for you, I got really into the writing mood and out popped this one let me know what you think. I hope you enjoy it I'm not sure how much longer but I'm going to start getting the real story soon. It's just so hard when the characters start throwing thing like the last two chapters at you, there's just to much story to how that got to where they are. They'd hate to make it easy on me most of this chapter and the last one I hadn't even planed on it just happened, so let me know what you think and I'll keep pumping them out for you.

Kaleena looked in the mirror at her face even with the help of a healer you could still tell that she had been hit in the face but it wasn't anything other than a faint bruise. She knew that even if she could convince her family that is wasn't anything their was no way that Luke would buy the story tho. And she hated the thought of telling him the truth. The fact of the matter was that she understood how Jordan felt and she knew that Luke really had no clue about the way Jordan felt about him. She really didn't blame him Jordan for punching her she even kind of thought that she deserved it but damn if it didn't make things difficult for her.

After a while of staring in the mirror she ask Liadan to send someone for Luke so she could talk to him about it. While she waited for Luke she thought of how to tell him about this with out him getting up set about the whole thing. Just before Luke showed up she ask Liadan to see if someone could find Jordan, to which Liadan jokingly said, "Your really starting to abuse this friendship of ours."

When Luke came in she had her head behind a bunch of papers, "What's up, I thought we were just going to meet up at your families dinner?"

Kaleena looked up at him putting down the papers and said before he could speak, "Don't freak out but I need to explain to you this." She gestured toward her face, again cutting him off before he could speak she said, "I don't want you getting mad at him."

This time Luke managed to get a word in, he growled "Who did it?"

Kaleena glared at him, "I'll have you know I can take care of myself, and if your going to be like that I'm not going to tell you."

"Alright explain."

"Well it was Jordan."

Luke cut her off from speaking, virtually spiting, "Jordan did this." with such anger that Kaleena was a little scared.

So with just as much force she said, "I told you not to get mad, it's not his fault and if you do something stupid I'LL make sure YOU regret it. He just overly concerned with your happiness, so lay off him."

Just as she finished speaking Liadan showed Jordan into the room Luke threw himself at him the minute he saw him, Kaleena threw herself at Luke, Liadan moved away. Kaleena to the amazement managed to pull Luke off Jordan and knock the wind out of him at the same time. Putting herself between the two of them she looked at Luke and said, "What did I tell you, now both of you sit down you two have to talk, because I want this fixed for all our sakes. I've got to many problems as it is to have to deal with this too."

"Why are you doing this?" Jordan asked her moving over to a chair, he had a busted lip and a black eye.

"I'm doing this because I respect your friendship and the last thing I want is to start fighting with you again. If you two don't fix this then everything is going to get harder for all of as."

Luke looked at her like she was crazy, "Why aren't you mad at him?"

Kaleena shrugged, "It doesn't matter to me, other than the fact that I really don't want to have to come up with another excuse today it doesn't bother me. So are you going to fix this or am I supposed to bet the two of you up." she added the last part jokingly but there was some grain of truth to it tho she might not be able to actually bet them up she would give it one good shoot.

"Fine then," Luke said, "Why did you try to bet up my wife?"

Kaleena rolled her eyes as Jordan answered some what put out, "You were so upset last night, I just couldn't let her get away with making you upset."

Luke some what confused asked, "Why would you even think that it's no reason to fight her?"

When Jordan didn't answer Kaleena said, "If you don't tell him I'll tell him, is that how you really want it?"

He looked at her then to Luke after a moment he said, "Alright," he took a deep breath, "Luke, what Kaleena is trying to get out in the air is that, I, um, I ah. Oh Mithros help me this is hard. I , Luke I'm, I'm in love with you."

Luke just looked at him blankly not quite understanding what had just been said, "Like a brother right?" he said finely after a few minutes of confusing.

"No," Jordan said sadly, "More like I want to spend the rest of my life with you."

"This is some kind of joke, right?"

Kaleena looked at him and said, "Luke, he's serious. You have to understand this." As she was speaking Jordan started to make a run for the door. Kaleena then did something that she hated doing and always avoided she used her gift to lock the door so that no one was going out or coming in then she said, "sit back down Jordan, your not leaving till this is fixed."

Both men and Liadan looked at her only Liadan knew how much she hated using her gift the other two were just shock that she had the gift. "Kaleena," Liadan started, "I really think maybe you should give the two of them a little time with this."

Kaleena looked at her then said, "I wish that there was time for that, but there isn't. We have to have both of you behind us on this one and to do that this has to get worked out so no one is leaving this room until you two," she said turning around to look at Luke and Jordan, "have to have some sort of understanding, I want you to on speaking terms."

Luke was sitting at the Cadder family table for the second time in as many days, being congratulated by everyone but Marcus about the wedding. After having had the afternoon that he had had he was almost relived to be with Kaleena's family, he and Jordan were on speaking terms but not much else, which was what Kaleena was just going to have to live with. The truth was that if he had learned about what Jordan had done he would have likely killed him so he supposed that Kaleena had done the two of them a favor by keeping him from killing Jordan.

Luke looked at everyone in turn accepting the congratulations form everyone in turn, he was a little taken back by the fact that everyone but Marcus seemed to be paying more attention to him then Kaleena. It hadn't been this bad the last time he had been there, but it was really starting to get on his nerves. He really loved her even if she didn't love him the same, after a good ten minutes of it he said, "Kaleena I was thinking that maybe we should get married soon."

"huh," Kaleena said caught off guard by the fact that someone was talking to her, if she had known that it was going to be like this she wouldn't have ask Thomas and Jeremy to be nice.

"I said that I think we should just go out and get married," he paused a moment then getting up said, "right now." He grabbed her arm pulling her up and out the door.

Kaleena just blinked rapidly not really understanding what was going on her family chasing after them it didn't take long to lose them in the city quickly running toward the closest temple. When they made it Kaleena asked, "What's going on?"

"I'm sorry I know this is rushing things a little but I couldn't take it I had to get you out of there."

Kaleena blink somewhat confused, "um Luke what are you talking about?"

"I couldn't take the way they were treating you other than your father none of them care about you."

Kaleena took a deep breath her hand going up to cover her eyes as she was thinking how to take this information, "Luke I understand what your saying but your not being rational about any of this. You can't act like this, especially if we're going to do this. You have to be rational about all of this my families not going to be anything compared to Mallard. Maybe I should have said this earlier but."

She was cut off by her family running up the way toward them as soon as Luke saw them he whispered in her ear, "Let's just say we did it, it wouldn't be a lie and it would save us the trouble." He slipped a ring on her finger just before her family was close enough to really see what he was doing.

Thomas was the first one to reach them panting he said, "what do you think your doing?" he was saying it to Kaleena which of course upset Luke so as the rest of the family managed to catch up he grabbed her left hand and thrust it out at them.

To say that Kaleena was mad was an understatement she was ready to kill Luke but she knew that she couldn't do that right now if they were going to do this like they were supposed to. So she smiled if anyone actually knew what was going through her head they would have been frightened, it was fortunate for Luke that he didn't.

"Oh Great Mother Goddess," her mother said when she caught her breath, "I wanted to plan a wedding."

Kaleena rolled her eyes frustrated and pissed, her father was upset almost sad about the whole thing, and Jeremy seemed taken back, "Your married now?" was all he said.

"I'm going to take her home now, we'll come by and get her thing tomorrow," with that said he dragged her off.

After a few minutes Kaleena yanked herself away and turned toward her office, that was the first clue that Luke was in trouble she didn't say a word. She angrily walked in causing people to turn and look at the two of them as they made there way up the stairs of the brothel. She didn't speak until after she was in her office with the door lock and extra sound proofing spells in place. Then she yelled, "What in Mithros name did you think you were doing? No, nothing you did today was, acceptable, if you can't handle the way my family acts toward me then there's no way you can handle Mallard. I haven't told you this but the whole reason I didn't want to work with him is the fact that it was clear to me that he had a thing for me. You can't be this over protective if we're going to do this."

"Not only that but I really hate what you've put my father through now, if you don't apologize to my father tomorrow I swear I'll kill you with my own two hands. I could care less about the rest of my family but my father doesn't deserve this. He's a good man, and I care about him, you have to make it right."

Luke was a little taken back by the way she was acting he had never thought she would take it like this but then again he hadn't thought he would act this way. For the first time in his life he hadn't been able to control himself and he knew what she was saying was true but he couldn't help himself. "I'm sorry," he said it and meant it, "I really couldn't help it."

"You don't get it, that's the problem, you couldn't help it."

"I wasn't really ready for it but I will be ready for it. Well we'll work on it we still have at least a month or so before we'll have to deal with him."

Kaleena shook her head, "No, we don't more like half a month."

"What are you talking about?"

"Luke I've dealt with him before I went to a lot of trouble to get rid of him, I also have someone keeping an eye on him. Someone once told me that my network is better than any other spy network out there. He's going to be back in about half a month, your going to have to get your act together fast. So fix things with my father fast."

Luke wasn't sure how to take everything she had just told him but he was happy that she wasn't going to kill him if he fixed things with her father. He did wonder though how she had such a big network were some of his people working for her maybe some of the royal spy. "So are things fixed now?"

She glared at him, "Do you honestly think things are fixed?"

"Ok, point taken, I'll tell you what I'll go talk to him now." He quickly made his way out the door as Liadan made her way to the door.

"What's going on is everything all right?"

Luke quickly rushed past her Liadan closed the door behind herself. "What's going on?"

"Nothing, did you know that Luke get really jealous some time?"

"No, why?" after just a moment she said, "what he do?"

Kaleena spent the next hour telling Liadan what happened after she had finished Liadan said, "I knew that he really like you but I never thought that he'd act like that. Do you think that he'll be able to handle this?"

"I have no idea, but I hope so, I let him talk me into this he had better get his act together."

"Well since you're here do plan to stay here a while," Kaleena nodded, "I heard you stayed the night with Luke here."

"Yes, I did, I had him sleep on the floor. But why do you ask if I'm staying a while?"

"Because I really like knowing who's here and I was wondering if you'd have drinks with me and Rose she's taking the night off and she wanted to talk to you." Kaleena gave her a look asking what about, "I have no clue but I think she want you to get her something."

"Fine why not I haven't got anything else to do and drinking always helps me claim down, you want to drink up here?"

"I'll go get her and I'll even bring up the good stuff while I'm at it."

Luke had just finished talking with Marcus, he hadn't been happy about what Luke had done but he understood once it had been explained to him, he even said that he wouldn't hold it against him. So as far as Luke could tell things had gone over really well given how they had started. Once he had gotten back to Kaleena's office to speak to her things were a little bit different though, he found her drunk with Liadan and one of Liadan's girls drunkenly rambling on. Once Liadan had noticed him she slurred, "Come on in, have a drink with us."

Luke look each one of them over before saying, "I think you guys have had enough, Liadan she can't even sit up with out falling over," he pointed toward Rose. "And your not in much better shape yourself there." After about ten minutes of urging he finely manage to get them to let him carry them to their rooms, by the time he got back up to Kaleena's office she had poured herself another glass and was drinking it down. "And how are you handling your drinking tonight?"

"Fine," she said without slurring but her eyes had a drunken glaze to them and she spoke a little slow.

He closed the door and locked it then walked over to her saying, "I'm sorry about the way I acted, it was in bad taste. I did manage to smooth things over with your father though."

She looked at him with glassy eyes and said, "That's good."

Then she tried to stand up but fell Luke caught her before she hit the ground, "I think it's time for you to go to bed you've had more than enough to drink for one night." He then carried her over to the bed and laid her down tucking her in nice and neatly saying, "Good night Kaleena, sleep well." Then he grabbed the blanket he had used the night before and laid himself out on the floor.

Some time about three hours latter Kaleena still drunk half woke up groggily pulled herself out of bed and stood up trying to look around the dark room. When she realized that it was to dark to see she started stumbling around the room till she managed to trip over Luke sleeping on the floor. Luke shoot up looking around then realized that Kaleena was on top of him said, "What are you doing?"

Groggily she mumbled, "I'm trying to figure out where I am, where am I?"

Luke shook his head tiredly saying, "Your in your office, let me help you back into bed before you hurt yourself."

He helped her walk back to her bed and lay back down, he was just on his way back to where he was sleeping when she said, "You know you can lay on the bed too, it's weird you sleeping on the floor."

"That's alright I don't mind the floor."

"No it's not, here," she said forcefully as she pulled back the covers and scooted over giving him room to get in. "I'm drunk, when I'm drunk I wander something awful, so if nothing else you can keep me for getting up any more."

Luke wasn't sure if it was the best idea but the bed was far more inviting than the floor and if what she said was true about her wandering as it seem from her tripping over him then it would be just as much a favor for her as a soft bed for himself. With that thought in his head he climbed into the bed and feel asleep.