To Love a Prince
Chapter Five
Disclaimer: see chapter one.
Author's Note: thanks to wild-wizard-women I turned of signed review, it's weird, I could have sworn I already had, but evidently not. Sorry I didn't do it before. Okay, on with the chapter!
Kate and Jayne wondered into the training yards, Jayne holding a borrowed sword, they were going to meet Kel in a few minutes. "Do you want to wait here while I get warmed up or come with me?" Jayne asked.
Kate pulled a face. "After being my sister for sixteen years I would have thought you knew the little secret about me… I can't use a sword!" "Well, that's no reason to shout at me" Jayne replied in mock anger, "If you change your mind, I'll just be over there."
Kate smiled but went over to a bench nearby and glanced around, she watched Jayne warm up for a few minutes then Kel came up.
"Hello, Kate, how are you going? Do you want to practise with us?" She asked.
"No, I'm a terrible swordswoman! I am just too clumsy! I was thinking of going over to the archery range in a while, though."
Kel smiled broadly, she had been thinking that Kate was one of those prissy girls who were afraid to lift a weapon in case they broke a nail and she was sincerely glad Kate wasn't like that.
"Well, feel free to, now I'm going to go beat your sister senseless…if you wanna watch…?"
Laughing Kate shook her head. "Good luck, but be careful, she's better than she looks!" Kel laughed to then went over to Jayne.
Kate watched as they assumed the guard position (A/N I hope that's the right position) then began to fight.
Jayne was quite skilled and was giving Kel a good fight but Kel was obviously going to win the match, even if it would take a while. Kate got a bit bored and decided she would go and practise her archery. Looking over her shoulder Kate saw Jayne and Kel still fighting so she headed off.
Halfway there Kate stopped when she heard some one call out her name.
Looking around she saw Roald coming towards her. Kate could barely keep herself from gasping. Before he had been handsome as the neat and tidy prince, now that he didn't have a shirt, sweat was glistening on his chest and his hair was tousled he was nothing short of gorgeous. Kate shook herself, one couldn't have such daydreams about the prince, he was going to marry some beautiful princess not her!
"Hello, how have you been?" Roald asked.
Cursing the blush that was surely staining her cheeks Kate replied "I, um, have been pretty good. And yourself?"
"Not bad, I've just been practising my staff skills." 'Gee, I hadn't noticed!' Kate thought, 'why does he have to be so good-looking?'
"I'm heading off to the archery range." She said, in what she hoped was a calm voice.
"Do you mind if I come along?"
Kate almost snorted. "Absolutely not!"
Kate had a wonderful afternoon, the high point was when Roald said she was a good shot. Her, Kate, a good shot!
Kel, Jayne and most other people had already gone back to their rooms when they parted.
"Bye, Roald."
"Goodbye Katie, see you tomorrow."
"Yeah. Wait! What? Tomorrow?"
"Oh, there's yet another ball tomorrow, I forgot you don't have to go, unlike me."
He gave Kate such a woeful look she said "I'd love to go, if only to save you from three hours of misery!"
"Thank you, very much, I own you!" With that he pecked Kate's cheek, blushed, and scampered away, leaving Kate standing in the middle of the Yard wondering what on earth had just happened. The least innocent part of her smirked and said something that shouldn't be repeated, Kate reprimanded that part of her mind but smiled nonetheless.
By the time she managed to find her way back to her room Kate's head was in the clouds, she was dancing on air.
Jayne, Marge and Emma were dining upstairs rather than going downstairs to eat.
"Oh, where have you been, girl, we saved some food for you, but I expect it's stone cold by now, you must come back when Jayne does from now on, you can't just go of whenever you want, I was worried you had wondered of into town and been kidnapped…" Kate barely heard Aunt Emma's ramblings as she sat down and started eating. She did however hear Marge. "I bet it's a boy, look at that dopey smile, c'mon, Kate, tell us!" Kate jerked back into reality to find all eyes on her. "Umm, I'm not really hungry…" A chorus of groans and humphs followed this statement.
"Now, girls, if she doesn't want to tell us she doesn't have to… but if she doesn't we'll have to beat it out of her!"
"Why, Aunt Emma, I've never seen you like this!"
"I'll tell you later, I want to go to bed."
With much grumbling and further questioning they let her go and Kate fell asleep doing a very non-Katish thing; planning what she was going to wear to the ball tomorrow.
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