It had been 9 months since Ebony had barged in on all the Knights lives. For some reason no
one knew what made her change in such a drastic way. She became a silent reserved person
who was a ruthless killer. This rapid change worried the knights and every one else who
loved her. Ebony's smiles and laughs grew rare, and all her time was spent training. Most of
her time was spent with Dagonet learning about herbs and how to heal people when she
wasn't training. Tomorrow they would be on their last mission to collect Bishop Germinus
and then they would have freed dome.
Ebony who had just gotten back from training with Arthur was now searching franticly for
Lila her black kitten who had disappeared during the time she was gone. Tearing her room
apart hoping to find her merely sleeping she couldn't find anything. This made Ebony panic
knowing how large the manner was and almost impossible it would be to find a small kitten
in this huge fortress.
" Better start now" she grumbled
Running she did a quick lap around the east wing figuring there was no way that the kitten
could have gotten into any of the rooms because most people where still working and such.
Nothing was there no noise or anything so she headed toward the knights corders where.
After checking most of the rooms she heard a small meow. When she looked at the room it
was coming from she sighed. Out of all the rooms in was in the one place she never wanted
to go near again. Especially the person that owned it, Tristan.
" Damn cat" she muttered
Opening the door and peeking in Ebony thanked the gods that wasn't in there. Walking the
rest of the way into the room She quietly listened to where the cries of the kitten were
coming from. When she finally located the sound she once again sighed. The noise was
coming from the open window cell. Walking toward the window Ebony's eye's widen when
she saw the position Lila had gotten her self into. The kitten was trapped on a small ledge 4
feet below Tristan's small Balcony. The only way to retrieve the cat would be to lean over
the Balcony and collect it very carefully. Cursing that she had to do this chore in a dress
Ebony took off her boots and carefully hosted herself over the Balcony. Slowly she crawled
over to the other side of the Balcony wrapping her arm firmly around the pole connected to
the ledge she gently slid her self down.
" Come here Lila" Ebony said reaching out her hand
The kitten carefully crawled over to were Ebony's waiting hand was. As she had a hold of
the kitten she gently lowered her self down to be standing on the ledge. Both feet planted
firmly on it she gently put the kitten on the balcony and when she was sure it was over she
started to hoist her self up.
" What the hell are you doing!" Tristan exclaimed
Not hearing him come into the room and then having him yell startled her. In a almost slow
motion way Tristan watched as Ebony lost her footing and fell back then just in time grab
the ledge. Both felt as there hearts stop. Tristan in fear she would drop and Ebony scared of
dropping. With scared eyes Ebony silently pleaded with Tristan to save her. Quickly he
rushed over the balcony and grabbed her hand. As he started to pull her over her dress got
snagged onto rock pulling her down and him with it. This made Ebony go from swinging
from a ledge to swinging in mid air. Both of there hearts where racing Tristan knew he
couldn't let anything happen. Thankfully Tristan was able to stop himself from going all the
way over. Gently tugging her up he felt as the dress held her down. Tristan knew that the
only way to get her up was to have the dress come off.
"Ebony I need you to find a way to pull the dress off it's the thing holding you down, the
fabric is to strong to rip I can't bring you up with it on" Tristan said
" Ok it only has a tie so I should be able to slip it off but how am I going to switch hands to
do the other side with out you dropping me!" Ebony exclaimed
"Trust me kitten I would jump myself before ever dropped you" Tristan said
" Fine" Ebony said
Slowly she began to untie one said and let it slide down giving Tristan a tantalizing peep of
her skin. Knowing this was definitely the wrong thing to think about especially when she
was hanging 100 feet in the air. Tristan went back to watching her hands and was ready when
she switched them to get the other side of her dress untied. Tristan pulled her up and the
dress fell down her body but he tugged a little hard and it landed him on the hard stone and
Ebony on top of him. Enjoying her warm body Tristan held her there while Ebony simply
stayed because she needed to catch her breath. They stayed like that for a while a small meow
pulled them out of the trance. Ebony finally realizing what she was doing jumped off of
Tristan.
" Kitten" Tristan said confused getting up also
" Um I have to go" Ebony said starting to turn around to leave
This was when Tristan noticed all the cuts and bruises lining Ebony's arms which she must
have acquired from her fall he also noticed how much she was shaking. Gently grabbing arm
Tristan stopped her mid stride.
" Do they hurt" Ebony asked
" A little" Ebony said
With out a word Tristan gently traced the bruises and cuts but when he heard Ebony gasped
from the pain he switched to kissing the cuts with her lips. He was startled when Ebony
pulled her arm away.
" I can't do this Ebony" said rushing out of the room but not before collecting Lila in her
arms
This left Tristan standing there looking truly confused. All the fighting he had been doing
against his feelings had finally came crumbling down. He needed Ebony he loved her and
would be damned if any one stopped him…