Chapter 2 -

Vanora followed Aurora into her room. Aurora just had laid Alexander on her bed. She hadn't gotten a baby bed yet, but she also thought she didn't need one, cause he would needed a bigger one soon. A baby cradle would be too small for him then.

She was so confused and also a bit angry with Tristan. She wasn't really sure why she now was angry with him. He hadn't done something wrong. He just brought her son back, because she was too busy herself and had forgotten for the first time that she had a son. She was more angry with herself and transferred it on Tristan.

" What was that? Did you want your meeting with him this way? I don't think so, do you?" Vanora asked her.

Aurora jerked cause she hadn't noticed Vanora had followed her. She was once again lost in thoughts about Tristan. She decided to talk with him later or tomorrow and thank him for bringing her son back.

She turned to Vanora.

"No. Not really. I guess I overreacted a bit, didn't I? He didn't do anything wrong...I was just..."

"You've been shocked. That's just natural, if you remember whate you've gone through with him and even Galahad. So don't worry about how you've reacted. I think Tristan won't die from it. It will only make him only harder." She winked at Aurora and smiled.

Alexander gave a soft snore and turned on his other side. Aurora covered him up and said:

"Would you stay with him for a while? I wanted to look for Tristan and..talk with him."

"Do you really want to? "

"I don't know...I...yes I want to clear some things with him. Would you?" She pointed at her sleeping son.

"If you really want it than I'll have no problem staying with him. Then go and look for him. I think he'll be in the tavern drinkin' with the knights." She went over to the bed and sat down, watching Alexander carefully.

As Aurora was almost out of the room, she called:

"And what will you do if you meet Galahad? I think you'll have to clear something with him too, won't you?"

Aurora stopped. She had totally forgotten that Galahad would probably be with the knights. Now she was in trouble.

"Then I'll check first if Galahad is also there. If he is, I'll come back immediately. I don't want a fight in the tavern. I wanna talk with him alone and no audience. You understand that, don't you!"

"Of course I do. So hurry up or Tristan will be too drunk for a sensible conversation."

With these words Aurora walked out of her room and headed to the tavern. She looked around to make sure she didn't meet Galahad. She wasn't ready to meet him right now. She arrived at the entrance to the tavern, stopped and hid behind a shelf on her left. She carefully looked around to catch sight of Tristan. She saw him sitting in a corner, eating an apple. She remembered that he always was eating apples. She also wasn't surprised that he was sitting alone. He always have been the lonely guy. But this fact had made him so attractive to her.

Suddenly Tristan looked up and gazed right in her direction. Aurora was shocked and hid behind the shelve. She should have known it. Tristan had always known when someone was staring at him or spying him. He was a scout. She would liked to kick herself for forgetting what Tristan was like. How could she forget that?

Now she had to go to him. She slowly walked towards him, still looking for Galahad. When she arrived, Tristan cut of a piece of apple and put it into his mouth.

Aurora cleared her throat and stuttered more than speaking.

"Can..can we...talk?"

Tristan mumbled something, she couldn't really understand. So she enquired even more nervously than she already was.

"Sorry. What did you say? I...I didn't really understand...sorry." She felt herself blushing. Tristan stood up and Aurora automatically stepped back, not knowing what he would do next. She knew his incalculable character. But he didn't do anything evil.

"Follow me. I think you don't want to talk to me with audience, do you?"

Aurora wasn't sure if it was good to follow him into a dark corner, but she didn't want to stay here either. So she nodded and followed him as he led her out of the tavern.

He walked into the stable, because he knew that there was enough space and no one in there. For some reason he didn't want her to feel uncomfortable or afraid.

Okay...so you wanted to talk. Then talk."

Aurora cleared her throat and started.

" I wanted.. to thank you...you brought my son back. I didn't noticed that he'd left me for a discovery tour through the tavern. It so many things could've happened to him, if you hadn't caught him. It was nice of you. Thank you. It was weird that he didn't started crying as he always does with strangers around him. There must have been something about you that impressed him very much. I don't know. And ...yes...what did I want to tell you?..Sorry..I just arrived 2 hours ago and I'm very tired." She pushed her hair back and looked at Tristan.

He was serious as always. "I don't like children that much. They are disturbing in some ways. But what are you doing here? I thought you were never coming back again." Aurora was a bit shocked by his words but she also realized that he thought with her leaving he could have made a final stroke under their relationship.

And now she was back again. He still felt something for her. She felt sure of it.

Tristan was very confused that Aurora was back from Rome. He wished she would have stayed away, so that he could've forgotten her. But it wasn't that easy. She had touched something in him, nobody had done before. He had desired her for a long time. And soon after their first meeting they had landed in his bed. It had been the most beautiful night in his life he'd thought. She had also liked it. But he must have done something wrong. She had started dating Galahad as well. He had begun stalking her and had followed her wherever she had gone. He had almost caught them in intimacy, but he had fled from the place.

Now he was thinking that he had confronted her too late. She had evolved feelings for Galahad very early and he had been watching it without doing anything. It was his fault. And now she was back and Galahad absent, because he was on a mission for Arthur, but Tristan was there. He knew that she was still feeling something for him. He could see it in her eyes. Even though he'd been such a fool when she'd left. He wasn't there, because he couldn't stand that his only love was leaving him. So he'd stayed away. She didn't know this fact, and he didn't want to tell her. It would made him vulnerable. And he hated that feeling.

"I've been released by the Roman commander. He didn't need me anymore, so he allowed me to join the group riding here. And now I'm here. I...I was afraid of coming back. I'm still..." She noticed that Tristan was coming nearer to her. Since they were standing face to face, Aurora knew what would follow. She had benn in this situation many times before.