Hi everybody! Well's here's Chapter Two, as requested. Thank-you to everyone who read this story (it's only my second ever fanfiction) and an especially big thank-you to everybody who reviewed! Also, special thanks goes to lady dove of the green eyes who inspired me to write in the first place and so graciously agreed to check over this story to make sure it didn't suck. Read hers, they're great! So, thanks everyone!

Chapter Two: Start at the Beginning

Kel stared at the space that Raoul had just occupied, dumbfounded. She remembered the grin on his face when he gave them their punishments and unconsciously drew the sign against evil on her chest. Heaving a great sigh, she turned to Dom, figuring that they'd better get started as Raoul hadn't exactly given them much time to get the job done. Seeing that he was still trembling and staring at the wall, she shook her head and waved a hand in front of his face.

"Dom. Dom! DOM!"

"Hu-huh?" Dom squeaked, swiveling his head around to stare at Kel, eyes wide and panicked.

"Come on Dom, snap out of it. We've got a job to do and I hate to think what Raoul would do to us if we didn't get it done. Not to mention what Yuki would do if we don't find Neal."

"But Kel! He could be anywhere! And we could have done anything last night! How in Mithros' name are we going to be able to find out everything that we did and fix it up?"

Kel rolled her eyes at the normally calm Sergeant. She had no idea why he was all of a sudden acting so panicked, but she had better get him to calm down if she wanted any help from him today.

"Don't worry Dom. We can do it. All we've got to do is start at the beginning and follow the trail from there. I'm sure someone will have seen what we did to Neal, or at least heard him squealing. So, go to the Own's barracks, get cleaned up and meet me at the palace gates in half an hour, okay?"

Seeing that Dom's breathing seemed to be evening out, Kel walked away towards her rooms, shouting "And don't be late," over her shoulder.

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The members of Third Company of the King's Own were baffled and incredibly amused to see their beloved Sergeant Domitan stumbling into the barracks at noon looking like he had slept in a ditch last night. Which, Wolset mused, he probably had.

"Have fun last night Dom?" Wolset asked sweetly. He tried to look innocent, but the stupid grin on his face gave away his amusement. All the members of Third Company knew that Dom had gone out with Lady Kel and Sir Nealan last night.

Dom glared at his corporal and, now feeling much more like himself, growled at the snickering men.

"Oh so you all think my headache is funny do you? Sure, you laugh now, but I bet you won't be laughing when I wake you all up at the crack of dawn tomorrow to train with Kel."

This had the effect of shutting the men up rather efficiently.

"Yeah, that's what I thought," Dom said smugly, and stumbled over to his bed to try and get cleaned up so he could go meet Kel.

"Wow," whispered Lerant to Wolset, "he must be really hung over coz that threat was low. Real low."

"Uh-huh," agreed Wolset, staring at Dom in a kind of horrified awe.

Dom ignored the whispering that had sprung up at his last statement and proceeded to wash his face, clean his teeth and attempted (unsuccessfully) to wash the worst of the dirt out of his hair. The men watched their Sergeant's preening with varying degrees of hilarity and confusion. Finally Lerant remembered who Dom had been with last night and an evil grin (marginally eviler than Owen's, as he too had no jollyness, but slightly less evil than Raoul's as he didn't have as much practice. There was potential, though) spread across his face.

"So Dom," he murmured, "going out with Lady Keladry again, are you."

"Yeah," Dom replied distractedly, trying to pull on a clean pair of breeches and a shirt. He stopped, however, when he realised the implications of that statement. "Raoul's orders, that's all." He looked down, a blush beginning to creep onto his cheeks.

Wolset watched him try to brush his hair amid the sniggers of the rest of the men.

"Uh-huh. And we believe you Dom. Really we do," he drawled, watching as Dom's face turned a rather interesting (and potentially dangerous) shade of red.

Dom growled at his men once more, then grabbed his knife and money bag and stormed out of the barracks, slamming the door behind him.

Wolset smirked.

"Oh he's got it bad. Poor Kel won't know what hit her."

Lerant snorted.

"Poor Dom you mean. Lady Kel is the type to hit back, and she hits hard."

"This is going to get interesting."

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Raoul and Alanna spent at least another fifteen minutes or so rolling around the floor in laughter, before realising that this quite possibly made them certifiably insane. They stopped for all of about a minute before realising that they were quite possibly certifiably insane before anyway and continued on in blissful laughter until Alanna got an idea.

"Raoul? I have an idea."

"Well that can't be a good thing."

"No, probably not. But, nevertheless, I'm going to tell you my idea, and you're going to listen, or you're going to find yourself at the very pointy point of the end of my sword."

Although Raoul didn't fully understand what Alanna just said, he heard the words 'my sword' loud and clear and gulped audibly. Alanna smirked.

"Good boy. Now, what I was thinking we could do was…"

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Dom arrived at the palace gates huffing and puffing exactly 31 minutes and 10 seconds after he and Kel had separated. Spotting her leaning against the wall, he attempted to straighten himself up and catch his breathe. He then attempted to strut over to her looking for all the world like he had meant to arrive at that precise moment, but he knew it didn't work. The huffing and puffing kinda ruined the effect.

"You're late."

"I am neither late nor early. I arrived precisely when I meant to." (A/N: Lord of the Rings)

"So you meant to be late then."

He coughed, and gave Kel his most charming smile.

"Something like that, yeah. I would have come later, but I knew that you would pine if you were away from my wonderful self for too long."

Kel shook her head at him, her smile growing.

"You're incorrigible, you know that?"

"You wound me fair maiden. I doubt I shall ever recover. In fact, I think it's fatal. Good bye dear would. Tell…..Neal…..ungh," Dom swooned dramatically, fainting in what he thought was Kel's general direction.

Unfortunately, he didn't count on Kel stepping out of his way. The ground was a rather hard thing to land on.

"Riiiight. Moving swiftly on. Can you please get up so that we can go? Or else we'll never find Neal."

"A dreadful fate to be sure. Were exactly are we going, anyway?"

"The beginning, like I said."

"And the beginning would be?..."

"Why, the Dancing Dove of course."

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Wolset chuckled as Raoul and Alanna left the barracks. Their plan was ingenious, really. And Third Company still owed Dom for that time he woke them all up by poring ice-cold water on them. He turned to the rest of the men and grinned.

"This is going to be fun."

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Well there you go! The second chapter. Hope I didn't disappoint. The third should be up soon.

HiddenPortrait: Can I just believe that it was all my story that had you on the ground in laughter? Glad you think it was funny though.

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anonymous girl: Yeah, your right Neal deserves it all. I still love him though! How can you not? Hola dance? You'll have to teach me that sometime.

strawbeby: Raoul's a pretty clever guy. He was smart enough to ask Kel to be his squire. Hahaha my mind works in pretty insane ways. I can't keep up with it.

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