Rating: PG-13

Chapter 9

Lex was standing in the middle of all his knights but felt alone and cold. Last night in his dream he had seen how Chloe and a man he couldn't really see because he was dressed in black, rode away and left him heart-broken.

While Lex knew it was just a dream he also knew that this could really happen because what he felt for the princess he had never felt before. Sure he had lain by many women but usually just so that he could satisfy his needs.

He had never slept with a woman who he was in love with and so it couldn't hurt him if the woman afterwards hated him. Lex knew that with Chloe was another thing.

What is when she doesn't love me? What I'm supposed to do if she refuses me? Thoughts like those were going through his mind.

He was sure that Chloe heard a lot about his habits. Some of these rumours were true but not all of them but how was the best way to explain this to the blond?

He became a headache from all the thinking about the blond so he decided to listen to his knights who were trying to persuade him to train with them.

"Alexander common we need to train. We are knights what are we supposed to do if we don't train?"

Maybe if he would train then he could forget Chloe for a while and have a little peace, he thought.

"Alright we train but not in the castle, there are too much people who could get hurt!"

He took his sword and then went with his men to a little place outside of the castle but near enough that if anything would happen he would be there in less then five minutes.

It didn't take him long to came into his rhythm and he was moving his body in total equality with his sword. He and his sword were one and the same and pictures from all the battles and wars he had fought together with it came to his mind.

Today Lucas was his enemy and while the pictures in his head continued he grew more aggressive. With each stroke that was made by Lex, Lucas was forced farther and farther into a corner from which he couldn't escape.

Lucas saw the far away look in his friends eyes as he countered each stoke from Lex with one of his own. He knew that if he wouldn't stop Lex soon he would be a dead man because Lex was in a trance-like stage and couldn't see that it was Lucas who he fought against.

Lex past was very difficult mostly because of all the rumours and his habits with women but he had grown up.

He deserved to be happily married and to have children but if Lex would continue like this and with him ending up in pieces, he would come back as a ghost.

Lucas would hunt Lex until he was dead and then when Lex would be in the next world Lucas would beat the crap out of him.

All around them were standing knights, Irish and English together were looking as the two continued to fight.

Clark was one of them but soon he saw that Lex acted strange so he took his sword and run up to him and Lucas.

As he reached them Lex had Lucas pressed up against a tree because Lex was to far gone he hadn't noticed that Clark was standing behind him.

Clark saw his chance and took Lex by his arms this leaded to Lex breaking out of his stage and looking confused around him.

He saw Clark behind him and Lucas in front of him with his sword pressed against his neck and he knew that he was overwhelmed by the pictures again. This was the seventh time this had happened and he was lucky to have friends like Clark and Lucas.

Both his friends knew that Lex mental cuts hadn't healed completely and that for Lex to finally heal he needed to be loved.

Sure his parents loved him but Lex needed the love of his wife of a woman who loved him with all her heart and as much as he loved her.

They were broken from her thoughts as Lex spoke: "Thanks Clark and sorry Lucas I'm sure it won't happen again now that I got a lovely wife even if she doesn't love me yet she will be soon and if it is the last thing I'm going to do."

Clark and Lucas looked at each other and then back to Lex and then burst into tears because they laughed so hard.

"You know Lex if you making her love you is the last thing you do I'm not sure that you get a lot of her love before you die but it is always got to try." laughed Lucas.

Lex now too laughed and punched Lucas lightly in the arm before he and the other two left the field on which they had trained and returned to the castle.

TBC

This chapter was really depressing to write so I needed to make the end a little bit lighter. Hope you liked it. Have fun everyone! Oh and tell me how you liked it of course!