Author's Note: I'm sorry it has taken me this obscenely long time to update my story. I'm never home. I swear I am only home when I sleep.

Chapter 17

Numair had no where else to go. He was lost, and that barely ever happened, but when it did he basked in the challenge of finding his way. Only this time, he couldn't find his way again.

He put himself into a situation that would be hard to get out of. Very hard. Numair decided to get away for a bit. He would go to his tower a few miles off and give Daine her space, since that seemed to be what she wanted.

Numair was packing his bags and getting Spots all set to go, a Page came up next to him and began to speak.

"The Wildmage: Daine wishes to speak to you in her rooms. She said-she said to tell you she's ready to talk." He said nervously and walked away.

With the Page's words, Numair became very nervous. Was she going to tell him to never speak to her again? He was expecting the worse, and made his way to her rooms like he was approaching his own death.

Daine was afraid. She wasn't good at being open about her emotions and her feelings. But while being sick she had come to a realization.

When she heard the knock at the door, she hesitated, but held her breath and took the steps to the handle and opened it.

She looked into his dark eyes. They held no shine, no secret, no hidden smile. There was nothing but fear, but regret, only a shred, the last shred of hope he had left and he knew it.

She looked down at the floor unable to see his sadness.

"Hi" she said softly to her feet.

"Hello, Daine" he replied solemnly.

She led him over to the sofa in the sitting room and motioned for him to sit down next to her.

"Now, I have some things I want to say. Things that I want you to know, things that I need you to know" Daine said looking into his eyes.

Numair nodded softly, trying to avoid her stare.

"When we first discovered our love for each other, I thought I was afraid of you regretting your choice. But I realized, that that isn't what I am afraid of. I have never loved someone this much before. It is hard for me to even comprehend living my life with out you having some major part in it. And I want you to be in it. But for me to give you everything that I have and everything that I am and have you give it back, I don't think I could live through that again. It scares me so much that you have the power to hurt me more than anyone…" by this point Daine was crying. The tears were rolling slowly down her cheeks and she just wanted him to hold her.

"If we are going to try this again…." At those words that she said Numair looked up at her. Was she telling him that he had a second chance? "I need you to promise me that you wont ever do that to me again because…"

He cut her off, his lips crushed against hers. She laughed and embraced him, and was crying into his shoulder.

"I'm so sorry magelet. I promise to never hurt you again. I love you more than life itself, and I would give up everything to be with you. I'm so sorry."

He kept apologizing over and over until she had to calm him with her kisses.

They held each other for a long time. Just sitting and missing the feeling of each other near them.

They fell asleep wrapped up in each other's arms. It was an embrace of promise, of confusion, of the understanding that love isn't always easy.

ok. I think I might have like one chapter left in me. I hope this was decent. I hope you enjoyed it. If it's shit I apologize. Im a sad person lately.

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