Disclaimer: The land of Tortall (and the surrounding countries) belongs to Tamora Pierce along with all the characters except for Luana.

Title: Rise of a commoner

Summary: A young female thief must rise out of the levels of thieves and commoners to help save her country. But the questions is will she decide to help her country or will she watch it crumble and those she was taught to distrust? Please RR!

Characters: King Jon, Thayet, George, Alanna, Kel, Neal, Raoul, Daine, Numair, Buri, Luana (own character), and a few others

Time: After TC and TQ.

Genre: Action/Adventure most likely some Romance but with who?

Here is the fourth chapter of Rise of a Commoner. Answers to reviews will be at the end of the chapter, thanks to all those that have reviewed! I hope you enjoy this chapter!

Last little paragraph of the last chapter

She lay there for hours; contemplating on ways to get out of this cell put she knew it was pointless. The palace was infamous amongst thieves for its top notch prisons. It was well past midnight before she slipped away into sleep. She did not notice the door swing open and admit three well dressed men.

And it ends now...

A light shone into the cell causing Lua to open her eyes quickly. She stood up so to show that she would not bow down to her captors, her sapphire blue eyes stared at them defiantly, her chin was held high.

"Luana Smith," Lua slightly acknowledged this with an incline of her head, if the speaker noticed this he did not give any notion of it. "You are charged with attacking soldiers of Lord Provost and avoiding detainment by two loyal citizens of the law," with this Lu tried to compress a snort but failed, awarding her glares from the three men in the shadows.

"However His Royal Highness King Jonathon is willing to forgive you of these acts against the law if you will obey his terms."

"And, what are his Majesty's terms?" Luana drawled, keeping her eyes of the men's faces.

The men looked at each other, a look of shock was on their face, and they obviously had not expected her to even ask what the terms were.

"Follow us and you shall see," one of the three said. Luana winced, it could be a death trap she thought to herself, but on the other hand, her more joking hand, they are really nice and...

She followed them across the gardens, now she could get a better look at who she was with. Lord Provost had coal black hair, his body was muscled and tanned, he walked with ease and his grass green eyes flitted from person to person, Myles of Olau was dressed in common clothes and the former thief George Cooper was also dressed in breeches and a tunic.

They walked through the palace, ignoring the glances of nobles and servants until they reached a door to the suite. This was Lua's first time in the palace and she was enjoying every minute of it. Her eyes darted from place to place taking in everything from the servant's cleaning to pages going outside for their afternoon lessons to stuffy conservatives starting gossip about the female warriors.

Upon entering they saw King Jonathan having a quiet (although it was quickly rising in volume) conversation with his Lioness. The red head and black haired king quickly quieted when they saw the visitors. Stamping off the Alanna nodded to Luana and slammed the door.

Baron George Cooper grinned at Jon and motioned for Luana to sit in a chair. The four men surrounded her, like an arc. Smiling timidly, trying to play the thieving game, Lua waited for them to talk first. George smiled he knew exactly what she was trying to do, as did all the rest of the men in the room, playing along.

Lady Smith," Lua smiled and nodded her head in the direction of George, "We'll set you free, if you abide to His Majesty King Jonathan terms."

"And what," Lua said daintily, cleaning her nails and pretending to look uninterested, "Are his majesty's terms?"

Lord Provost took a piece of parchment out of a drawer. He passed the parchment to her and let her skim it over. The four men watched her face turn from amusement to disgust.

Terms

I shall swear loyalty to the new King of Thieves.

I shall obey any order given to me by Lord Provost, King Jonathon, Baron George and Sir Myles of Olau.

My service will belong to the Crown.

When Luana finished she eyed them coldly. Deciding to still play the game she quickly removed her look of disgust and replaced it with a smile.

"The last two are very clear," she murmured, "but the first one does not make much sense."

Sorry it is short, I just wanted to update because there seems to be a whirl wind of new fics! I have a couple of question that I would love if you guys could answer (if you don't know don't worry) (also you don't need to answer). First of all what does Lord Provost look like? How old do you think that Roald (the heir) was during Trickster's Queen? And would you mind reviewing this story? Sorry is this chapter was weird and if George, Jon and Myles (and Lua) were OOC. P.S Next chapter there will be more explaining about Lua's past.

Here are my replies to the reviews (thank you so much for reviewing, it put a smile onto my face when I saw "Review Alert!):

jollyrancher-j2k: Well I hope that you found out! Thank you so much for being my first reviewer!

jes: Thank you so much for reviewing, was this fast enough?

Clair-a-net: Thanks for the review and the ideas (I really like the one about the new King of Thieves for the Romance part)! The reason she was on the wanted sign was because of the terms that was the king gave her. It was really just a way to get her in because they knew that she wouldn't come on her own free will.

Cede: Thank you for the review (the two kicks, two kisses is a really cool idea!). As for the two kicks I hope that they author's notes are better. I have a rough plan for the romance (thanks for the tip.) Thanks for the two kisses (they made my day!)! Don't worry about spelling (all my reviews are atrocious).