Overworked:

It was later that day, after having passed out at the edge of the river that ran with the northern border of the town, that Thea woke up with a pounding head. The sensation of water sprinkling on her face was the reason for her premature waking. At first she thought that it had started to rain but her assumption was promptly corrected when she opened her groggy and tired silver eyes. Her vision wavered but not before she was able to make out a hand that was in front of her face, dripping with water.

When she was able to gain enough energy lift her head back to see whose hand it was, she realized that her head lay in that someone's lap.

"What, please tell me, made you be so stupid as to fall asleep in the open, when you know very well that renegades are still roaming these woods?"

At the sound of the prince's angry voice, Thea shot up into a sitting position that she regretted immediately, for her head was not in favor of that particular movement. It took a moment before the dark clouds cleared out of her eyes and she could dimly see Jason's face. Twilight had ascended upon the land while she was in the land of the oblivious.

"Where?" was all that she was able to get out of her chapped lips. It took her a moment but her mind soon answered the question for her. She remembered running and then coming across the river. It had been about 10 in the morning at the time and having pushed herself beyond her limits and without a morsel of food she had quickly succumbed to the darkness that insisted on temporary possession of her mind. It seems she had been unconscious four about eight hours.

"Here drink this"

The prince handed her a flask of brandy that had immediate soothing effects on her muddled mind. "Now answer my question, Why are you sleeping out here?"

"If you must know I wasn't sleeping, I overworked myself a little." with that she made a attempt of standing up, but failed miserably. The prince, having caught her in her descent toward the ground, picked her and carrying her toward his patiently waiting stallion. "I am not even going to comment on such folly" he mumbled as he mounted up behind her and kicked his mount towards Forbidden Fortress. She didn't hear what he had mumbled loud enough for her to hear, because she had already fallen back into a peaceful state of oblivion.

When she next woke up, Thea was aware of the her soft bed beneath her and also she was aware of the people that were quietly conversing around her. Her eyes opened slowly to identify the quiet voices belonging to the price, Gabi, Pete, Alanna, Lance and the King. She heard Pete telling them about how this happens every year but he could not tell them because it is you to her to tell who she wants.

Prince Jason was the first to notice that she was awake and he quickly directed Pete's attention to her. Pete made his way slowly to her side and said "Again?"

"Ease off Petey, you didn't doubt it would happen for a second"

"Well I had hoped. And I think it's about time that you tell them, I mean you can't keep running from your past."

Thea looked down at her forest green bed cover, her eyes a deep brown of sadness.

"I don't know if I can Pete"

Sorry its been a while but my computer's mother board blew so i had to wait awhile.and sry its short but i don't have much time these days Enjoy