A/N: Thanks so much for all the great reviews! I will do my shoutouts and make everybody happy.

Lela-of-Bast: I am so sorry! You were my first reviewer! Thanks for the review! I am so pleased you liked it! Here's more!

tortallanrider: Yes, I wish Neal could too. He could, but he's in Corus. That's waay too far away!

Thayet1231: What's moght? I didn't know I said that... thanks! I hope it's good!

Fauna Greywolf: It's not a keldom, and you don't have to worry, it will never be! I really get mad at those keldoms and kelneals and everything else. There are waay too many that are all the same!

Pink Squishy Llama: We could, but we can't. Actually, there will be death... I think... heheh.

strawbeby: Thank you, thank you. I hope it was better than the last. The last was just boooring.

Thanks again for the reviews! Keep it up!

-AM

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Kel was just about to go to the infirmary to check up on Dom when she saw him walk up to Mandi with a sling for his arm and a grin on his face. He shook her hand with his good one and she saw him laugh. It made her sigh. What was she going to do? She liked him enough to get jealous when he was with another one, especially a dumb blonde like this one. (Sorry for the insult. Blonds aren't dumb!) She scowled and retreated to her tent. If she was to leave today, she had to get packing.

"You packing?" Dom asked, startling her from behind.

"Yes, are you? You should get to it, we're leaving later today." She turned to look at him. "They have you in a sling. Did they heal it completely? I know Neal's the best there is for that sort of thing, but he's not here. They must not have healed it completely which sucks for you. If the Scanrans attack,"

"I won't be able to fight, I know. It sucks. I've been told so many times." He smiled warmly at her, and for a few moments, she wanted to lean up and kiss him. She stood there, staring into his dark eyes, and then snapped out of her trance.

"You should go pack." When he didn't budge, she shooed him out. "Go! We're leaving soon! Come one, Dom, stick with it!"

She stepped back into her tent and finished the little packing she had to do.

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Dom watched as Kel got on Peachblossom and smiled at one of the knights next to her, talking and laughing. She was flirting, if you could see that. Dom had to admit that he was a little jealous. Okay, a lot jealous, but what could he do? Confess his undying love to her and have her reject him? He wasn't about to do that. He was smarter than that, and if he knew Kel didn't love him the way he loved her, he wasn't about to jump out and do anything about that.

He jumped into his own saddle and sighed, cringing when his arm brushed up against the side of his horse. It still hurt him to touch his broken arm or have it touch something. Sometimes he'd wish Neal was here to heal it, but then he mentally scolded himself for it. Neal was on his honeymoon. He should be happy and not have to worry about certain stupid cousins.

Dom straightened and looked Kel's way. She was looking at him, and when he saw her, she looked away as if she shouldn't have been looking at all. Just for those few awkward moments, they were silent and they both were speechless. Then he stole a look at her out of the corner of his eye. She was mounting and they were getting ready to leave Giantkiller and head back to New Hope.

"How's your arm, Dom?" Mandi had crept up behind his on her horse, he was surprised to find she could ride.

"It's fine, if it doesn't touch anything. Sometimes it aches."

"Doesn't sound too good. Can I take a look at it?"

"Go ahead." He glanced up at the riders, who were already going. "We're moving." He said silently, mostly to himself.

"We are. I won't take a look at it now, we'll be moving and that's not so comfortable opening a bandage when you're on a horse." Dom laughed slightly but secretly, his mind was somewhere else. Somewhere it shouldn't have been.

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Kel could sense Dom looking at her from behind where she was seated. She didn't know why she could, or how, but she did, and it was uncomfortable.

They were camped out in the woods, ready for combat if the Scanrans attacked but also ready to sleep. Kel was about to eat her dinner when Dom came and sat beside her. They were silent for what seemed to be forever, until Kel couldn't stand it anymore.

"Spill, Dom."

"What?" He looked startled.

"What's wrong? There's something wrong or else you wouldn't be so quiet."

"Nothing."

"There's something wrong. Tell me."

"There's nothing wrong."

"I'm gonna keep bothering you until you tell me what's wrong."

"It's just my arm, don't worry." He looked away and tried to look occupied, but it didn't seem to fool Kel.

"Dom..." She sighed. "Sometimes I wonder if you hide things from me because it's for my own good, and other times I wonder if it's all a joke. I don't know what to think of you."

"Well, that's what friends are for, right?" Dom got up and stretched.

"No, the saying doesn't go like that! You're supposed to say - never mind." There was a long silence and Dom was just about to leave, but Kel stopped him. "Dom, will you be alright? I don't know what to feel when you're in this mood. You've never been before."

"I'll be fine, don't worry. Like I said, I'm perfectly alright." And with that, he walked off.

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Dom walked away, feeling guilty about all of it. He thought he should've told her, he should've said that he liked her, andtold her everything, but somehow he couldn't bring himself to.

He walked away with his head down and his guilt making him want to beat himself up about it. Slipping into his tent, he heard a voice outside say his name. It was Mandi.

"Hey, Mandi."

"How's your arm?" She went up to him and checked it out. It was dark enough outside that she found it hard to see.

"Come in, it's too dark outside to be able to see." He said. Dom lit a few candles and they sat on the bed while Mandi took off his bandage and took a look at it. It seemed she was a healer as well as a professional horseback rider and clerk.

"How does it feel?"

"It's fine right now." He said when she began to put the bandaging back on. He looked into her eyes, the blue in them looking like the ocean, swirling around.

"Are you okay? You seem really upset." She looked up in his eyes, and what she saw was a look of want and need. Some hurt and some love in there, but it wasn't something she should have done. Looking into his eyes was the first mistake. He leaned in and kissed her with sweet lips, lips that had longed for someone else, and had been rejected. They came up for breath and she looked at him again, puzzled. She opened her mouth to talk, but his finger went over it.

"Don't talk. I need you right now." He leaned in to kiss her again, and this time more passionately. "Trust me."