Disclaimer - not mine just the AU and the setting.

A.N's - sorry forgot to put these in the last bit. This AU is mine at the moment you want to write in it please let me know.

Pairings - This is a SLASH story just in case you missed in on the blurb so Chris/Vin is a given and the others with various F. characters.

Later that day :

"Ezra ? Ez I know you are in here come-on I don't have all day." Chris said standing in his half brothers room.

"Chris? What do I owe this pleasure to ?"

"I need you to speak to your contacts in the city. A man helped me earlier when I had a little trouble with some of my own guards. I want him found and brought to me." Chris said

"Did you get a name?"

"No."

"How do you expect me to find him then?" Ezra asked practically

"I think he was injured. Tell them to check with the healers and the temples to see if a man in his 20s with blue eyes and shoulder length hair who is not a native to Four Corners has been for help with a wound of any kind."

"I will see what I can do, after all any man who saves the life of our royal prince yet leaves no name is someone I feel I should be meeting." Ezra said and with a slight smirk at the older man. Chris sighed as his half brother left the royal chambers, he should go and find his father Orin now and inform him off the attack but he knew that once the king knew then there was no chance that Chris would ever find out who had bribed the guards to try and kill him.

Nettie knew that the young man who was sleeping in her spare room was trying to avoid notice and when he did not come out for a couple of days she began to worry. Knocking on his door she got no answer,

"Vin?" She called cautiously as she entered the room smelling sweat as soon as she entered and seeing a lamp under a rug. She crossed to his side and pulled the rug off his head touching the young mans head she felt the fever that was consuming the young man. Swearing under her breath Nettie headed out for a healer Nathan who lived locally and who would help her.

Nathan looked at the young man now sleeping a bit easier, it was half a day since Nettie had arrived telling him that her young lodger had a fever. He had gone immediately and found the problem was a cut on the mans side which while bound up had gone untreated, using what herbs he had he had treated the man but knowing the less that ideal conditions Nettie lived in were going to prove problematic in helping the young man heal. His own few rooms for those seriously injured were filled which meant the only place he could think for Vin to go was to Josiah a holy man well thought of by the crown prince and a close friend of Nathan's.

"Josiah. I cannot tell you how grateful I am for you to take this man in. I honestly did not know where else to take him." Nathan said looking back at his patient from the rooms doorway.

"I will do all I can to keep him cared for." Josiah said resting one big hand on the mans shoulder.

"Thank you my friend. I must leave now I will be by tomorrow to check on him." Nathan said and hurried back to his small practice where he had left four patients with only his helper to look after them.

Chris and his sister Mary were sitting playing chess together when Ezra burst into the room.

"Chris, Chris I found him." Ezra said excitedly

"Who?" Chris said momentarily confused.

"The man who helped you. He is with Josiah, he has been there for 4 days. I only found out today." Ezra said feeling rather proud of himself.

"He is! Thank you Ezra. Excuse me Mary I got to go!" Chris said and without the usually clam member of the Travis family was gone. Leaving his sister and half brother laughing.

Vin was feeling much better now and the fever had almost gone, he was still week however and neither Josiah or Nathan were letting him out of bed for long something the young man found very annoying. Hearing voices in the main room he sat up.

"Josiah, you know me I don't want to hurt him." A voice was saying.

"Chris I can't let you back there."

"Please, I just want to speak to him for a short while then I'll leave if that's what he wants."

"A couple of minutes just remember he is still not recovered I don't want you wearing him out or Nathan will be after me." There was a loud laugh from someone then the door was pushed open fully and the blonde man Vin had helped before was standing there.

"I am sorry that you were injured helping me." The man said closing the door and sitting on his bed.

"I am fine now." Vin said oddly shy with this man who was looking at him so intensely and causing shivers to run through his body.

"I have been looking for you. Will you come back to the palace with me? Until you are fully healed anyway."

"Palace ? Who are you?"

"Christopher Travis, I'm the eldest son of King Orin." The man said.

"Your highness." Vin said trying to bow from his seated position and trying to work out if his father and Orin Travis had ever had much to do with each other.

"Please don't do that. Can I have your name ?" Chris said hating it when people bowed to him.

"Vin Tanner." He said looking up blue eyes meeting green in a connection forged at a first glance.

"Well Vin Tanner will you come with me ?" Chris asked breaking the locked gazes. He held out his hand to the younger man in a symbolic gesture and with only a slight pause Vin reached out and the two men shook hands changing the futures of two countries.

I know quite a few people have been reading this, could I have some feedback as I feel more encouraged to write more if I know people are interested in what I'm writing.