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I LOVE DOM!

Chapter 8

"Wha…What happened?" Kel asked groggily.

"Kel, you're awake!" cried a very happy Dom.

"Thank the Gods Kel, you're awake! We heard you scream and rushed into see a person running away and you covered in blood," Neal told her.

"It was terrible lady mother. There was so much blood," Tobe broke in crying.

"How long was I out?" asked Kel, while wincing slightly as she tried to sit up.

"Four days, but that's only because I magicked you to sleep. You needed it because the blade was poisoned and had cut an artery," this from Neal, who Kel now realized looked tired himself.

"Are the babies okay? Were they hurt? When I saw the dagger coming towards me, I knew that it was going to end up in my stomach, so I twisted my body, I knew I had to protect them," Kel told the cousins.

"The babies are perfectly fine, in fact they may even have a natural resistance to certain types of poison. Now if you don't mind, I'm going back to sleep. I had to work a major healing on you, so you should get some more sleep as well. Also, if I catch you doing anything more than kissing my cousin in the next few days, I will make sure that those are the only two children he ever has," with that Neal left the infirmary, dragging Tobe along behind him so as to give Kel and Dom some privacy.

"I was so worried Kel! I came in here to see you covered in blood, knowing that you might be dead…" he trailed off and shuddered at the thought.

"Well don't worry, I'm going to be okay, Meathead said so! Now I'm cold, what are you going to do about it?" Kel asked him. Dom lain on the bed next to her and she fell asleep soon after she had snuggled herself against his side. Not long after that Dom, too, fell asleep, unaware that they were being watched.

"Now what to do about that? He is going to get in the way. But all I know is that those children cannot be born!" a voice half whispered to itself. It was a strange voice neither male nor female. The owner of the voice drifter away in the shadows.

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Ella didn't know what to do. Someone had tried to kill her mistress, and what happened if someone thought she was that person? After all the lady had almost been killed after she came, and as far as she knew, no one had tried to assassinate the lady knight before. She would just have to hope for the best and that the would-be killer was soon caught- and that no one wrongly accused her!

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"Dom, Dom wake up," Kel told him.

"I'm awake, I'm just too comfortable to get up," said the sleepy head.

"You have work to do sergeant, so you better get moving," a grinning Neal told him. Dom got up and left saying that he was going to go get some breakfast, as Neal checked on Kel's arm. "You can walk around a little, but no weapons of any kind! Do you agree to these terms Lady Knight Keladry of Mindelan, Protector of the Small and mother-to-be?" Neal wryly asks Kel.

"Yes I accept your terms Meathead," was the answer he got. Annoyed, he just turned around and walked out the door. "Good riddance," Kel said to his retreating back.

She easily sat up then slowly got to her feet. It took her half an hour to get to the mess, instead of the usual 5 minuets, and not just because people kept coming up to her to see if she was okay, it was because it was kind of painful to walk (it jarred her arm, which was in a sling). Finally she made it to the mess, and one of the soldiers got her some food. It didn't take her ling to eat because she was ravenous, it felt like she hadn't eaten in weeks. Suddenly a pair of arms enveloped her from behind. She screamed, knowing only that it wasn't Dom's arms that were enveloping her. She struck back with her fist, then looked back to see who it was she was hitting. "Raoul! I'm so sorry," she told the huge man behind her, who was rubbing his cheek.

"That's going to leave a mark," he tells her, making her laugh. "Kel, I brought you a present," he says with a mischievous look on his face.

"I can't do anything with weapons, milord, Neal said so."

"Don't worry, it's nothing to do with weapons, now come along, close your eyes," he laughs.

Kel, by this time was scared, 'what could he have brought?' she thought to herself. She was led out of the mess and told to open her eyes. "Mamma, father! What are you two doing here?" she asked, very surprised to see her parents.

"Well, when we learned that our baby girl was getting married and was pregnant, we just had to come," her mother told her youngest daughter.

"Now, where is this young man who got you pregnant and is now marring you? We haven't met him, if you didn't remember, and I, for one would like to know who the father of my grandchildren is," Her father told her as colour rose in her cheeks. She had forgotten that her parents hadn't even met Dom yet.

"I'm not sure where he is at the moment, but I can have a sparrow find him. Nari, please find Dom," she asked of the sparrow on her shoulder.

Soon enough he came walking up and taking her in his arms, he asked her "Kel, do you need something? This little feather duster wouldn't leave me alone till I came."

"Dom, I want you to meet my parents, Baron Piers and Baroness Ilane of Mindelan. Mamma, father, this if my fiancé, Sergeant Domitan of Masbolle," she shyly told her parents.

"I certainly hope so, or else I might wonder why a strange man was hanging off my daughter," her father told them. Dom and Kel both flushed bright red.

Just then Tobe came up saying "Milady mother, some of the refugees would like to see you in the mess," he told his mother.

"Thank you Tobe, why don't you go and work on your archery?" she asked him. "Okay, mother," was his reply.

"Would any of you like to accompany me to the mess?" she asked of the people standing with her.

"Of course," her parents and lord Raoul said at the same time. "Sorry, I have watch," Dom said apologetically as he untangled himself from Kel. He gave her a kiss and went back to watch duty.

As the four of them went into the mess a group of refugees hopped up and said "SURPRISE!" as Kel looked around in surprise.

"What's this?" she asked them.

"It's a baby shower!" some of the refugees shouted. "Lady Kel you sit here.." said another refugee as she was led toward a seat, and people started handing her presents.