The Threads of Life: Chapter Four

A/N: Sorry this took so long. I've been really busy with end of school rush and suchlike. This will be another fluff chapter, then on with why someone wanted to kill her family, etc. Disclaimer: Not mine.

"What about this one? This one looks nice. Green brings out the green in your eyes. Oh! And look at this one! This one has SUCH a pretty shade of blue." Yuki piled two more dresses on Kel's ever growing pile of them. They were in Corus, at Lalasa's dress shop. Lalasa was out, and she told Yuki to look around for some dresses, and then wait till she got back to fit them. It wasn't that Kel minded dresses in principal; it was that she hated SHOPPING for them. She sighed, resigned to a few hours of torture before Lalasa showed up again.

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Kel looked down, swishing the swishable fabric around, delighting in the lovely sound it made. She loved this dress, and wouldn't have gotten any other. The only unfortunate point was that Lalasa had refused payment for it.

"Now, look at yourself in the mirror Kel." Yuki sounded like a mother hen when she said that, and because of that, Kel obliged.

"Wow, Yuki, you can really do hair!" Kel exclaimed, surprised, when she looked at herself in the mirror.

"Okay, but now its time to hide some weapons in all that fancy garb." At that, Kel turned serious. She knew that whoever wanted her family had to have had some reason for it, and they were likely to be looking for her too. They laid some knives out on the bed, ones that could easily be concealed, and put them on Kel. Forty-five minutes later, the door knocked and Neal's voice could be heard crooning through the door to Yuki.

"Oh, my beloved! How I waited this day for this very moment to arrive!" Yuki rolled her eyes and sighed, going to the door. A dramatic Neal seized her up and proceeded to exclaim upon 'how beautiful your eyebrows are looking this night.' Kel looked up into the grinning face of Dom, and her heart started to beat faster. 'Why?' she thought to herself. 'Why does he do this to me?'

"Hello Kel, I've come to save you from my moronic Meathead of a cousin."

"Did I just here the word Meathead, cousin? Because of course, you would never call me that," said a voice over in the direction of Neal.

"I wouldn't think of it," sniffed Dom, pretending to be high and proper. Kel and Yuki both giggled and tugged their respective men's sleeves, dragging them out of the room. They walked down the corridor, laughing at Neal's antics and sorry attempts at poetry. They finally reached the main doors leading to the banquet hall. Kel expected that they were going to pass these doors and go in the back way, since they weren't important enough to be announced. Her thoughts were wrong.

"You can go first Meathead," Dom said.

"You mean, we have to be announced?" Kel asked. 'This can't be good,' she thought.

"Ye-es...we have to, its only proper," Dom said, looking down at Kel's frightened face. "What's the matter? Its only a dinner party. You'll be fine."

"I can't go down there by myself," Kel said. Dom frowned.

"Who said you're going by yourself? I'm your escort, we go down together." Kel started to smile, relieved. At least she wouldn't be going down by herself. No, in fact she couldn't think of another person that she would rather go down with. At Kel's smile, Dom smiled too.

"Well, we better get going," he said. He offered his arm, which Kel took, hiding her eagerness at the fact that she could touch Dom. They walked through the doors and to a man who asked their names. Dom answered.

"Sergeant Domitan of Masbolle of the King's Own and Lady Knight Keladry of Mindelan." The man nodded and announced,

"Sergeant Domitan of Masbolle and Lady Knight Keladry of Mindelan." They walked forward, and Kel whispered,

"He forgot the King's Own part," and grinned. He pretended to be hurt.

"And here I was hoping that Lady Keladry wouldn't notice the shame that he put me through by not announcing my name." He smiled and they walked down the stairs, arm in arm, to the dinner.

A/N: Sorry, its extremely short, but I HAD to get a chapter up, its been almost a month....yeah I'm extremely bad... Don't forget to review. Constructive criticism is shined upon (shone upon?)