Well here's the next chapter I hope you all enjoy it I'm plaining to have about one chapter a week up, I've finely gotten someone to prof-read for me so special thanks to that1girl as she's helped me get rid of my spelling mistakes. Please let me know what you think and I'll get that next one out just as fast for you.

Kaleena was more comfortable then she had been in a long time, she was half awake and not really sure if she wanted to wake up. She was sure that she had a hang over but for some reason it didn't really feel like it, which was weird. Normally if she had been drinking like she had last night she would have been in pain not just a hang over but many bumps and bruises from where she had fallen. Come to think of it she mumbled to herself, "why am I in bed? I never wake up in bed."

She shot up immediately only realizing then that there was someone in the bed with her and that the someone had an arm around her. And in her shooting up she had woken that someone up, the scene that fallowed would be considered a bit funny by anyone looking at it though for Kaleena and Luke it was not. Luke shoot up just seconds after Kaleena some how the two of them managed to get tangled up in each others arms and legs as they did so. The end result of this whole thing was Luke laying on top of Kaleena so tangled up that it took a good ten minutes for them to untangle themselves from the sheets and each other (don't ask me how a person can get that tangled I have no idea but they managed it.)

"I'm sorry," Luke said as he finished getting one of the blankets out of the problem.

Kaleena wanted so desperately to say, "Yeah you should be, this is all your fault," but when she opened her mouth this is what came out, "that's all right, it's not really your fault. But what are you doing in my bed?"

"You don't remember do you?" when all he got in response was an are you crazy look he went on, "Last night you got up and started wandering around, you tripped over me." A look of 'oh no' began to cross her face as he continued, "so I helped you back into bed, then you said that I should just sleep in the bed with you because you wander when you're drunk."

She cut him off before he could go on, "What a great way to start a morning," she mumbled. "Alright then I hate doing this but," she took a deep breath, "I'm sorry for the way I acted, although I'm not really all that sorry as you kind of deserved it given your behavior yesterday."

"Um, Kaleena, what are you apologizing for? Other than tripping over me nothing you did yesterday warrants an apology."

"Oh, well then I take it back." With that said she managed to climb out of bed and walk over to her desk. When she reached it she realized that she hadn't changed her clothes in almost two days and her hair felt greasy, and she didn't keep any clothes in her office other than one she might wear if she had some "work" to do. With a sigh she said, "I suppose you're going to stay here for a while."

"I hadn't intended to leave anytime soon."

"Fine then I'm going to talk to Liadan for a bit if you leave lock the door," with that said she left her office and walked down to Liadan's room and knocked on the door. When she heard Liadan ask "who is it?" she answered, "Kaleena, can I come in?"

The answer she got was a somewhat slurred, "Yeah, sure come in."

What Kaleena found when she opened the door didn't really surprise her Liadan was some still drunk from the night before, there was a bottle of some alcoholic beverage that she was sure wasn't even legal. Scratch that it wasn't legal, she remembered getting the stuff for Liadan about a year ago, it was a beverage for Tyra it was strong stuff but that's not why it was legal, the reason it was legal was the fact that if was full of a strong magic. Magic that gave the drinker a feeling of pure bliss and raised the level of magic that is if the drinker had the gift, which was the problem with the drink though people who drank it some times did really stupid and bad things. However, Liadan was good about it and never caused trouble when she drank it.

"What up, what do you need, how can I help?" Liadan was slurring.

Kaleena rolled her eyes, "I was wondering if I could get a bath and barrow some clothes? But maybe I should talk to one of your girls," she started to leave Liadan's room when she turned around and added, "You know you really should be careful with that stuff, it's not legal for a reason." With that said she headed out to find one of the girls to help her after about five minute of coming up with no one she walked into the kitchen there she found Beatrice the cook. "Beatrice, hi, you wouldn't happen to know if there's any extra clothes around here anywhere would you?"

"There are some things in the back room at the end of the hall and if you would like a bath I suggest that you take it now before any of the girls get up other wise you'll get stuck with cold dirty water. The bath is set up in the room right next to the one I told you to look for the clothes in, anything else you need?"

"Um, can I get something to eat when I'm done?"

Beatrice gave a laugh, "of course you can, anyone who stays in this house can eat, you silly girl. Now go before everyone wakes up."

Kaleena walked into the room that Beatrice had mentioned what she found was a little bit surprising the room was full of clothes for every country, shape, size and color you could imagine. Well to a point any ways after all they were meant for "ladies of the evening" but they were far better than anything she had up stairs, all she had to do was find the most conservative outfit in the room and she would be fine.

It took her a while to find one that she thought would work for her, finely she had settled on a dress that was only slightly lower cut than tasteful in polite society. The color was a bright red which made you stand out when you wore it, and not to mention that it clung a little bit more to every curve of the body a bit more than she would have liked. After she had the dress she went over to the bathing room luckily it hadn't taken her so long that everyone had woken up so she got to get a good bath in. Once she had finished and dressed she walked into the kitchen again to get some food, Beatrice was gone but there was food laid out so she grabbed enough for herself and being nice some for Luke and headed back upstairs to her office.

When she got back in Luke was making the bed with his back to her, "I'm being nice I brought you up some food," she said holding a plate out toward him as he turned around. Once he had done so his mouth dropped open and he stared at her. "Is there something wrong?" she asked some what crossly.

Luke blinked a couple of times before speaking, once he had gotten a hold of himself he said, "What are you wearing?"

"Is there something wrong with it?"

"No it's just…um… it's a bit… well I know where you got it that's all I'm saying."

"Is it that bad I thought I'd found one that would be alright, after all it's not like there's very much that's conservative in there."

"Well it will work fine, it' just makes you stand out something awful that's all. You could even wear it to a royal ball, that is if you wanted that much attention. This might sound a bit weird but you stand out in that dress more than any other person would if they wore it."

"Well than I'll just make sure to wear my cloak when I go out to get my thing, now here," she said thrusting out the plate, "eat this we need to talk"

Once he had grabbed the plate and sat down in a chair by the fire, his eyes never once leaving her she went on some what self conscious. "Well now that you've sped thing up a little have you even thought about where it is that we'll be living? We can't very well live at The Dancing Dove and even if we could we're not living here."

"Well believe it or not but I actually have thought that far ahead. The only problem is that I moved a little faster than I had planned so the place isn't ready yet."

Kaleena rolled her eyes, "how long till it's ready?"

"Two weeks."

"Two weeks!" she yelled then calmed herself down and went on, "and what will we do till then?"

"I was getting to that; I hate to say this but my mother's."

"Your mother's," she said then she realized, "I've never met your mother."

"Yes, well I'm sure you'll get along fine. After all you're not a thing like the girls she's used to seeing me with, and she could never stand them so I'm sure you'll be fine."

Kaleena was uncomfortable as she hadn't gotten a chance to get her things from her parent's house, she hadn't gotten to change her clothes and now she was standing in Luke's mother's house while Luke explained what happened. She was a little surprised at the fact that he told her the whole story straight back to five years ago and to what they were up to now. His mother Madeline hadn't said a word or showed anything of what she was thinking once he had finished thinking she said. "Well you've really made a mess of things this time haven't you? I suppose I ought to say yes, but what's in it for me?"

Kaleena smirked, she liked Madeline already, whether or not Madeline liked her had yet to be seen. Luke then said, "The love of your only son and the public image of you new daughter in law."

"That's not good enough for me, I'll let you stay if, and this is a big if, you tell this sweet young girl the truth about how you feel about her."

"I've already told her."

"I don't doubt that you told her some but I want you to tell her the whole truth."

Kaleena blinked a few time as Luke took a deep breath then said, "Fine." he turned toward Kaleena and said, "I'm not just in love with you, and I'm so in love with you that some times I can't even think straight. I can't always stop myself from doing things and it's killing me a little each day not really knowing how you feel about me."

Kaleena blinked again several times in a row trying to help her brain process what it had just heard. When it looked like she wasn't going to say anything Madeline said, "Now you have to tell him or I will never be able to think well of you."

Again more blinking her brain was really having trouble with this one for some reason she just couldn't understand what she had heard, she just kept replaying it over and over again in her head. Both Madeline and Luke were staring at her now wondering what was wrong other than blinking she wasn't moving at all after a good five minutes Luke asked, "are you alright?"

Again just more blinking it took almost an hour after Luke had said that to her that she finely was, able to come back to the world around her. She was sitting in a chair with a concerned Luke, Madeline and a healer around her. She scrunched her forehead then said, "Why is there a healer here?"

"Oh thank Mithros your all right," said Luke, "We thought you might have a problem."

Some what angrily Kaleena said, "Haven't you people ever seen a person in shock before? You didn't need to get a healer." To the healer she said, "shoo, get out of here we don't need you around here." (One would almost think she didn't like healers)

After the healer left Luke said some what skeptically, "That was shock? And why would you go into shock?"

Kaleena rolled her eyes, "Well maybe you hadn't realized this but it's not like it's every day that someone says something like what you said. And so what if it takes me a little longer than other people to process the information, is that a crime?"

"No," said Madeline, "You two can stay here till you get your own place. I like you," she said to Kaleena, "you torture him, not enough people do that. Now, are you two hungry I was thinking about re-heating some meat for earlier and I've got some great potatoes in the garden. Wouldn't take me more than a half hour to get a good meal on the table."

"I would love some," said Kaleena.

"Well then, Luke, why don't you get the two of you situated in your old room while I get dinner ready."

With that said she hurried out of the room to start cooking. Luke looked at Kaleena then said, "Um, I'm sorry about that."

"Don't worry about it; it's not really your fault. So where are we going to be sleeping?"

Luke led the way to a back room and opened the door; it was a small room just barely big enough for the bed that was in it which was a small bed barely big enough for one person. Kaleena raised an eye brow then asked, "We have to share this room?"

"It's the only space in the house."

"Can a person even fit on that thing?" she said gesturing to the bed.

"Actually it's bigger than it looks, you can fit three people in it if you'll believe me. If it will make you happy I'll sleep on the floor."

She sighed, "Does it get cold in here? Isn't there a fire place?"

"It can, I don't think the spells have been updated lately."

"Well than I guess we can share the bed, I hate getting cold and it would be warmer that way."

Luke nodded then closed the door to show her the way to the kitchen once they were in the kitchen Madeline said, "I know it's not big but it's all I have."

"That's fine, I'm sure it's almost too big for just one person."

"Yes, but it has such fond memories that I can't bring myself to part with the place."

Kaleena thought for a moment then said, "Have you ever thought of taking someone in to help you, I know of at least on kid who wants to get out and get some kind of work. He's the middle child of a family of thirteen."

"I've never thought about it, that might not be a bad idea, although I'm a little old to have a kid running around the place."

"Oh but that's where you're wrong, he's a very hard worker and I'm almost sure that you would end up telling him to go out and play for a while because he won't stop working."

"Well… maybe. I'll have to meet him first." With that said she started dishing food on to plate for them, "Here now you two eat up."

"Yes ma'am," they said in unison digging into their food