Here comes Peter Cottontail Hopping down the bunny trail Hippity
Hoppity Easters on its way...Ok I wanted to get this up for Easter and I've
had that song stuck in my head all week. This chapter was written out on
paper first so I decided to make it Mucho Grande very big. It has some
fluff and if you want more detail or less please tell me.
Disclaimer Even though Easter is coming, I still am not the Easter Bunny, and I don't own any of Tamora Pierce's characters (alas). However on a happier note I do own the plot. No thank yous this time just a chapter, o and a dedication.
Okay This is for everybody who read this before I added the song I was sitting here trying to find a song for the next chapter when I found the perfect song to add to this one so the song in this is called "Heartbreak Hotel" and it is by Whitney Houston. O and if anybody was wondering yes there will be a chapter 7 I'm am working on it now. I also for this song left out one or two words for my purposes for the point off view it is meant in. I also didn't finish the song.
Dedicated to another of my best friends, Matt H. for being so patient in
waiting for this dedication.
Chapter 6
Breaking and Mending Hearts
A slight knock at her door made Kel look up from the book she was reading. Sighing she got up and walked over to the door. Curious to see who had come to her rooms at 11 o'clock at night, Kel opened the door.
Neal stood there looking awkward. "Kel I need to talk to you in private," he said fidgeting.
This is the Heartbreak Hotel This is the Heartbreak Hotel
This is the Heartbreak Hotel This is the Heartbreak Hotel This is the Heartbreak Hotel This is the Heartbreak Hotel
You said you'd be here by nine,
Instead you took your time.
"Why don't you come in Neal?" Kel asked her long time friend.
Neal walked into the room and turned toward Kel. "I need to ask you something," he said seriously.
"Neal you know you can ask me anything," Kel replied gently. "Come sit down."
Neal followed Kel to the couch in her sitting room. He plopped down on the couch.
"Kel, do you think I'm an insensitive jack ass who thinks he knows everything, but understands nothing?" Neal asked quickly.
Kel's mouth dropped open when Neal said this. "No! What would make you think that you were?" Kel asked forcefully.
"Yuki called off the wedding, she broke up with me, and gave that as a reason," Neal replied close to tears.
You didn't think to call me
Here I sit, trying not to cry
Asking myself why
You do this to me, mmm, ah, baby.
Since you're not around for me to tell you, baby face to face
I'm writing you this letter and this is what I have to say
Kel reached over and patted her friend's back, unsure how to comfort him. Neal leaned his head onto Kel's shoulder tears rolling down his cheeks. How could she do this to Neal, Kel thought, Yuki should know how sensitive Neal is. Kel's rage boiled inside her although she kept her Yamani mask plastered on her face.
"She's leaving tomorrow," Neal said trying to get his emotions under control, "Yuki is going to Port Caynn, and she's replacing me with...with...with Dom." With the name of his cousin Neal buried his face deeper into Kel's shoulder.
All I really wanted was some of your time.
Instead you told me lies when someone else was on your mind.
What you do to me, what you do
Look what you did to me, oh baby.
I thought you were someone who would do me right
Until you played with my emotions and you made me cry.
What you do to me.
Can't take what you did to me.
Kel pulled Neal close and comforted him. Wrapping her arms around her best friend's trembling body Kel said, "Everything's going to be okay, Neal."
"No it's not, Kel. She said she never wanted to ever see me or my hideous face again," said Neal tearfully.
"Neal your not hideous. You're more handsome than anything, but if you want reassurance tomorrow you can stay here tonight. You take the bed, I'll sleep on the couch." Kel said knowing how much her friend needed her. Kel also knew that if she didn't stay with Neal he could do something very stupid.
Now I see that you've been doin' wrong
Played me all along
Made a fool of me baby
You got it all wrong to think that I wouldn't find out
That you were cheating on me
How could you do it to me
"I would like that," Neal said quietly, "Though you don't have to sleep on the couch. You just got out of bed after the surgery. We can share the bed."
Kel was surprised by what Neal had said, but agreed. Kel stood up, and pulled Neal to his feet too. Walking to her bedchambers she said, "If you wake up, and I'm practicing my glaive try not to talk to me till I'm done."
Neal nodded and crawled under the blankets on Kel's bed. Kel herself followed his lead and crawled in the opposite side.
"Night, Kel," Neal whispered.
"Night, Neal," Kel said in return.
The next morning Kel woke abruptly. During the night Kel had somehow snuggled up against Neal's strong warm chest. Kel not wanting to wake Neal slowly slid out of her bed. She walked quietly to her dressing room, and changed into a white shirt, breeches, and her usual black boots.
Kel quietly snuck back into the room Neal slept in. Knowing he would wake soon Kel wrote Neal a note telling him to wait here because she would be back soon. Kel placed the sheet of paper next to her friend, hoping he would read it. Then she snuck out into the hall.
Since you're not around me to tell you baby face to face
I'm writing you this letter and this is what I have to say
All I really wanted was some of your time
Instead you told me lies when someone else was on your mind
What you do to me, what you do
Look what you did to me, oh baby
I thought you were someone who would do me right
Until you played with my emotions and you made me cry
What you do to me
Can't take what you did to me
Kel went to the kitchens and asked the cook there to get her a breakfast, with enough food for three people, ready in fifteen minutes. Kel left saying, "I'll be back for it then. Thank you."
Now she went to Neal's room and grabbed him some fresh clothes knowing he wouldn't care that she had gone without his permission. As an after thought Kel also grabbed his shaving things. Neal had started to look a little scruffy the day before. Then she headed back to the kitchens to get her meals.
Kel, knowing Neal had done healing on her the day before, also knew that even if he didn't want to eat he would need to. Taking a large tray from the cook she situated it so she could carry both the tray and Neal's things. She slowly stumbled back to her rooms hoping she wouldn't drop anything.
Once she reached her door Kel juggled all the objects in one hand as she unlocked her door. She walked into her suite of rooms locking the door behind her. She could hear muffled sounds coming from her bedchamber. Neal had woken up. Kel set the food down on a table and went to talk to Neal.
Neal, who was sitting on the end of Kel's bed, jumped when she walked in. "Where did you go?" Neal asked.
"I went to get you some food. I also got you some clean clothes," Kel said tossing Neal his bundle of things. "Oh by the way I thought you might want to shave, so I took the liberty of grabbing those things too."
Neal, who had been rubbing the stubble on his face, almost smiled. "Thanks, Kel. I don't know what I'd ever do without you," he said honestly.
"Well I do, you would sit around all day moping and getting fat," Kel said leaving her friend to change and shave.
"Tobe," Kel called knocking on the door that was the link between their two rooms. "Tobe, would you come in here please?"
Tobe opened the door asking, "Yes, Lady?"
"Neal's over here and he isn't feeling that great, so I got breakfast for the three of us. This way he doesn't have to face a whole lot of questions. Do you want to go to the mess, eat with us, or eat by yourself in your rooms?" Kel replied to the boy's question.
"I think I'll eat by myself, so I don't ask him questions," Tobe said.
"Alright, Tobe. I think since I'm going to try to get Neal's mind off Yuki and Dom, that you can have the day off," Kel stated.
"Okay, Lady," Tobe said taking his plate of food, and going back into his room. Kel locked the door behind her young friend.
Neal walked out looking for Kel. "What did you want to talk to Tobe about?" he asked looking much better now that he was cleaned up, but still quite depressed.
"Oh, it was nothing. I just gave him the day off is all," Kel said going to sit down at the table as Neal had just done. "I got you something special in you're breakfast." Kel pulled the cover off Neal's tray trying to keep his mind off Yuki by saying, "Vegetables."
Neal groaned, but let a little smile cross his face. "Don't I eat enough during my other meals?"
"Yes, I was just wanting to see what you would say," Kel told him as he looked down at a plate of waffles, eggs, bacon, and sausages. Kel poured them both a glass of cold orange juice pondering how she would keep Neal distracted all day.
He looks so sad, Kel thought seeing sorrow in Neal's eyes. I wish I could do something to help him get over Yuki. Yuki was one of my best friends, but she shouldn't have treated Neal that way. If Neal loved me I would never dream of hurting him.
Kel's thoughts stopped with the idea of her and Neal being together. She realized that she wanted Neal not just as a friend but in the way she had when they were pages. Wait, Kel, what are you thinking? Neal would never love you, she told herself, at least not in the way he used to love Yuki.
Neal glanced up from his sausages to see Kel deep in thought. I should be nicer to Kel, he thought guiltily. She has been doing her best to help me get over that little wench, Yuki. Why couldn't I see Yuki for the slut she really was? If I had been with Kel, Kel would have never done something like that. She would have loved me as I love her.
It hit Neal hard and fast, what he had just thought. Did I just say I love Kel? It must be some way I'm using to try to get over Yuki. I can't be in love with my best friend.
Kel and Neal looked up at each other in the same moment, about to say something. They were interrupted by a loud knock at Kel's door. Kel sighed getting up form her chair, walked over to the door and opened it.
Merric stood there looking tired but worried. "What's the matter Merric?" Kel asked her friend.
"I just got back from border patrol, and I heard what happened. I wanted to come see how you were."
"Well I think I'm better thanks to Neal, he healed me both times," Kel replied.
"About Neal have you seen him? I need to tell him that Yuki is about to leave for Port Caynn," Merric said not having heard about the break up yet.
Kel went out into the hall closing the door behind her. Merric looked confused as she said, "Neal doesn't want to see Yuki right now. Yuki called off the wedding last night, so she could be with Dom." Merric looked thunderstruck, but Kel continued, "Neal is eating breakfast in my rooms right now. He didn't want to face a whole lot of questions."
"I didn't know," Merric said finally regaining his voice.
"You can come in and talk to him if you want to," Kel told Merric.
"No, I'll talk to him later," Merric replied walking off towards his rooms. Kel went back into her rooms closing the door and locking it. Turning back towards the rest of her rooms, she ran into Neal.
Neal, one of the few people who were taller than Kel, looked down into her eyes bringing his hand up Neal stroked Kel's cheek. Neal slowly brought his lips down to meet Kel's. Neal's lips caressed Kel's as he put his left hand a little lower on her back than was necessary. He pulled Kel close to him breaking off their kiss.
Kel breathless and wide eyed looked up into Neal's bright green eyes. "Neal..." Kel said hesitantly.
"Kel, I love you," Neal said holding her even closer. "I've always loved you. Breaking up with Yuki only made it clearer, who I should really be with."
"Neal I love you too," Kel said finally admitting it to herself as well as to him. Neal, all the sadness gone from his eyes, captured Kel's lips with his once again, and kissed her passionately.
A/N Okay yes I know this isn't that big but it is bigger than all of my other chapters. I'm not sure whether I should write another chapter or just leave it with this ending please give me suggestions. HAPPY EASTER EVERYBODY!!!!!
Bye Bye
Krissy
Disclaimer Even though Easter is coming, I still am not the Easter Bunny, and I don't own any of Tamora Pierce's characters (alas). However on a happier note I do own the plot. No thank yous this time just a chapter, o and a dedication.
Okay This is for everybody who read this before I added the song I was sitting here trying to find a song for the next chapter when I found the perfect song to add to this one so the song in this is called "Heartbreak Hotel" and it is by Whitney Houston. O and if anybody was wondering yes there will be a chapter 7 I'm am working on it now. I also for this song left out one or two words for my purposes for the point off view it is meant in. I also didn't finish the song.
Dedicated to another of my best friends, Matt H. for being so patient in
waiting for this dedication.
Chapter 6
Breaking and Mending Hearts
A slight knock at her door made Kel look up from the book she was reading. Sighing she got up and walked over to the door. Curious to see who had come to her rooms at 11 o'clock at night, Kel opened the door.
Neal stood there looking awkward. "Kel I need to talk to you in private," he said fidgeting.
This is the Heartbreak Hotel This is the Heartbreak Hotel
This is the Heartbreak Hotel This is the Heartbreak Hotel This is the Heartbreak Hotel This is the Heartbreak Hotel
You said you'd be here by nine,
Instead you took your time.
"Why don't you come in Neal?" Kel asked her long time friend.
Neal walked into the room and turned toward Kel. "I need to ask you something," he said seriously.
"Neal you know you can ask me anything," Kel replied gently. "Come sit down."
Neal followed Kel to the couch in her sitting room. He plopped down on the couch.
"Kel, do you think I'm an insensitive jack ass who thinks he knows everything, but understands nothing?" Neal asked quickly.
Kel's mouth dropped open when Neal said this. "No! What would make you think that you were?" Kel asked forcefully.
"Yuki called off the wedding, she broke up with me, and gave that as a reason," Neal replied close to tears.
You didn't think to call me
Here I sit, trying not to cry
Asking myself why
You do this to me, mmm, ah, baby.
Since you're not around for me to tell you, baby face to face
I'm writing you this letter and this is what I have to say
Kel reached over and patted her friend's back, unsure how to comfort him. Neal leaned his head onto Kel's shoulder tears rolling down his cheeks. How could she do this to Neal, Kel thought, Yuki should know how sensitive Neal is. Kel's rage boiled inside her although she kept her Yamani mask plastered on her face.
"She's leaving tomorrow," Neal said trying to get his emotions under control, "Yuki is going to Port Caynn, and she's replacing me with...with...with Dom." With the name of his cousin Neal buried his face deeper into Kel's shoulder.
All I really wanted was some of your time.
Instead you told me lies when someone else was on your mind.
What you do to me, what you do
Look what you did to me, oh baby.
I thought you were someone who would do me right
Until you played with my emotions and you made me cry.
What you do to me.
Can't take what you did to me.
Kel pulled Neal close and comforted him. Wrapping her arms around her best friend's trembling body Kel said, "Everything's going to be okay, Neal."
"No it's not, Kel. She said she never wanted to ever see me or my hideous face again," said Neal tearfully.
"Neal your not hideous. You're more handsome than anything, but if you want reassurance tomorrow you can stay here tonight. You take the bed, I'll sleep on the couch." Kel said knowing how much her friend needed her. Kel also knew that if she didn't stay with Neal he could do something very stupid.
Now I see that you've been doin' wrong
Played me all along
Made a fool of me baby
You got it all wrong to think that I wouldn't find out
That you were cheating on me
How could you do it to me
"I would like that," Neal said quietly, "Though you don't have to sleep on the couch. You just got out of bed after the surgery. We can share the bed."
Kel was surprised by what Neal had said, but agreed. Kel stood up, and pulled Neal to his feet too. Walking to her bedchambers she said, "If you wake up, and I'm practicing my glaive try not to talk to me till I'm done."
Neal nodded and crawled under the blankets on Kel's bed. Kel herself followed his lead and crawled in the opposite side.
"Night, Kel," Neal whispered.
"Night, Neal," Kel said in return.
The next morning Kel woke abruptly. During the night Kel had somehow snuggled up against Neal's strong warm chest. Kel not wanting to wake Neal slowly slid out of her bed. She walked quietly to her dressing room, and changed into a white shirt, breeches, and her usual black boots.
Kel quietly snuck back into the room Neal slept in. Knowing he would wake soon Kel wrote Neal a note telling him to wait here because she would be back soon. Kel placed the sheet of paper next to her friend, hoping he would read it. Then she snuck out into the hall.
Since you're not around me to tell you baby face to face
I'm writing you this letter and this is what I have to say
All I really wanted was some of your time
Instead you told me lies when someone else was on your mind
What you do to me, what you do
Look what you did to me, oh baby
I thought you were someone who would do me right
Until you played with my emotions and you made me cry
What you do to me
Can't take what you did to me
Kel went to the kitchens and asked the cook there to get her a breakfast, with enough food for three people, ready in fifteen minutes. Kel left saying, "I'll be back for it then. Thank you."
Now she went to Neal's room and grabbed him some fresh clothes knowing he wouldn't care that she had gone without his permission. As an after thought Kel also grabbed his shaving things. Neal had started to look a little scruffy the day before. Then she headed back to the kitchens to get her meals.
Kel, knowing Neal had done healing on her the day before, also knew that even if he didn't want to eat he would need to. Taking a large tray from the cook she situated it so she could carry both the tray and Neal's things. She slowly stumbled back to her rooms hoping she wouldn't drop anything.
Once she reached her door Kel juggled all the objects in one hand as she unlocked her door. She walked into her suite of rooms locking the door behind her. She could hear muffled sounds coming from her bedchamber. Neal had woken up. Kel set the food down on a table and went to talk to Neal.
Neal, who was sitting on the end of Kel's bed, jumped when she walked in. "Where did you go?" Neal asked.
"I went to get you some food. I also got you some clean clothes," Kel said tossing Neal his bundle of things. "Oh by the way I thought you might want to shave, so I took the liberty of grabbing those things too."
Neal, who had been rubbing the stubble on his face, almost smiled. "Thanks, Kel. I don't know what I'd ever do without you," he said honestly.
"Well I do, you would sit around all day moping and getting fat," Kel said leaving her friend to change and shave.
"Tobe," Kel called knocking on the door that was the link between their two rooms. "Tobe, would you come in here please?"
Tobe opened the door asking, "Yes, Lady?"
"Neal's over here and he isn't feeling that great, so I got breakfast for the three of us. This way he doesn't have to face a whole lot of questions. Do you want to go to the mess, eat with us, or eat by yourself in your rooms?" Kel replied to the boy's question.
"I think I'll eat by myself, so I don't ask him questions," Tobe said.
"Alright, Tobe. I think since I'm going to try to get Neal's mind off Yuki and Dom, that you can have the day off," Kel stated.
"Okay, Lady," Tobe said taking his plate of food, and going back into his room. Kel locked the door behind her young friend.
Neal walked out looking for Kel. "What did you want to talk to Tobe about?" he asked looking much better now that he was cleaned up, but still quite depressed.
"Oh, it was nothing. I just gave him the day off is all," Kel said going to sit down at the table as Neal had just done. "I got you something special in you're breakfast." Kel pulled the cover off Neal's tray trying to keep his mind off Yuki by saying, "Vegetables."
Neal groaned, but let a little smile cross his face. "Don't I eat enough during my other meals?"
"Yes, I was just wanting to see what you would say," Kel told him as he looked down at a plate of waffles, eggs, bacon, and sausages. Kel poured them both a glass of cold orange juice pondering how she would keep Neal distracted all day.
He looks so sad, Kel thought seeing sorrow in Neal's eyes. I wish I could do something to help him get over Yuki. Yuki was one of my best friends, but she shouldn't have treated Neal that way. If Neal loved me I would never dream of hurting him.
Kel's thoughts stopped with the idea of her and Neal being together. She realized that she wanted Neal not just as a friend but in the way she had when they were pages. Wait, Kel, what are you thinking? Neal would never love you, she told herself, at least not in the way he used to love Yuki.
Neal glanced up from his sausages to see Kel deep in thought. I should be nicer to Kel, he thought guiltily. She has been doing her best to help me get over that little wench, Yuki. Why couldn't I see Yuki for the slut she really was? If I had been with Kel, Kel would have never done something like that. She would have loved me as I love her.
It hit Neal hard and fast, what he had just thought. Did I just say I love Kel? It must be some way I'm using to try to get over Yuki. I can't be in love with my best friend.
Kel and Neal looked up at each other in the same moment, about to say something. They were interrupted by a loud knock at Kel's door. Kel sighed getting up form her chair, walked over to the door and opened it.
Merric stood there looking tired but worried. "What's the matter Merric?" Kel asked her friend.
"I just got back from border patrol, and I heard what happened. I wanted to come see how you were."
"Well I think I'm better thanks to Neal, he healed me both times," Kel replied.
"About Neal have you seen him? I need to tell him that Yuki is about to leave for Port Caynn," Merric said not having heard about the break up yet.
Kel went out into the hall closing the door behind her. Merric looked confused as she said, "Neal doesn't want to see Yuki right now. Yuki called off the wedding last night, so she could be with Dom." Merric looked thunderstruck, but Kel continued, "Neal is eating breakfast in my rooms right now. He didn't want to face a whole lot of questions."
"I didn't know," Merric said finally regaining his voice.
"You can come in and talk to him if you want to," Kel told Merric.
"No, I'll talk to him later," Merric replied walking off towards his rooms. Kel went back into her rooms closing the door and locking it. Turning back towards the rest of her rooms, she ran into Neal.
Neal, one of the few people who were taller than Kel, looked down into her eyes bringing his hand up Neal stroked Kel's cheek. Neal slowly brought his lips down to meet Kel's. Neal's lips caressed Kel's as he put his left hand a little lower on her back than was necessary. He pulled Kel close to him breaking off their kiss.
Kel breathless and wide eyed looked up into Neal's bright green eyes. "Neal..." Kel said hesitantly.
"Kel, I love you," Neal said holding her even closer. "I've always loved you. Breaking up with Yuki only made it clearer, who I should really be with."
"Neal I love you too," Kel said finally admitting it to herself as well as to him. Neal, all the sadness gone from his eyes, captured Kel's lips with his once again, and kissed her passionately.
A/N Okay yes I know this isn't that big but it is bigger than all of my other chapters. I'm not sure whether I should write another chapter or just leave it with this ending please give me suggestions. HAPPY EASTER EVERYBODY!!!!!
Bye Bye
Krissy