A/N: This story just seems to get even more annoying at the second... also very hard to write beginnings. I feel like all of the first sentences are the same and they're going to get boring after a while. What do you think? Tell me the truth, please. I don't know how to make this more interesting.

Abiona Marchand

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Kaden walked dazedly out of the healers office and walked out the door, unaware she had forgotten about Ambrose who, by the way, tagged along behind her, trying to catch up, and all the while saying Kaden's name over and over. But Kaden didn't hear her. All she heard was the healers voice, haunting her, saying those dreaded words, again and again in her head. They relayed again: "Kaden, I'm proud to announce to you that you're pregnant!" It wasn't what she had wanted. It wasn't what she had intended; to get knocked up by the next man she had bedded. The only man. Now what was she going to do? Taking care of a baby at 17 wasn't exactly what she had wanted to do. No more adventures, no more freedom, trapped in a marriage for the rest of her life.

How was she going to tell everyone? She wouldn't. Her parents would freak out, her family back in Blue Harbour would be shocked and probably freak out, too. Maybe she'd even be abandonned by the King and Queen, them not wanting her to have a child so soon. And with the man Kaden's father thought was evil.

Eadulf. His name echoed through her very bones. He would never want to see her face again, ashamed that she would even forget to put her charm on. She would be the laughing stock in all the realm.

"KADEN!" Ambrose shook her friend as hard as she could. "WHAT HAS POSSESSED YOU!" Kaden just stared back at her in disbelief. For a second she forgot what she was thinking, where she was, even who she was, but all the terrifying truths came back to her. She wished that she could have stayed the dazed girl, who didn't remember who she was, where she was or what her thoughts were. "Kaden? Are you back yet?"

"Yeah, I think..." She smiled and put her mask on, continuing on down the hall.

"Kaden, what happened in there? Are you going to tell me at all?" Ambrose said from behind her, completely confused.

"Oh, she just said it was a stomach ache. That's all. Nothing to worry about!" Kaden smiled and started walking off down the hall again.

"You're joking. You can't be serious, Kaden! All that possessed crap and now you tell me it was a stomach ache?" Ambrose stood in the hall, practically in tears.

"What? Is there something wrong?" Kaden asked innocently. Ambrose stared back, angrily.

"No, nothing at all. I think I might need to see the doctor myself seeing as I'm the crazy one here. See you around." Ambrose walked stormily off down the hall. What had just happened? Did being pregnant make you dillousional? Kaden couldn't believe that she had just lied to her friend, which she had to do, but what would she say when she started to show? She would just have to wait until then.

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When Kaden got back to her rooms that night with Eadulf, after having been taken out to dinner and such, she was even more tired than usual. They got into bed and shut off the lights, both of them too tired to speak. It wasn't much past the bell that she dozed off. When she woke a few minutes later, Eadulf was just slipping out of the room. He closed the door, unaware that Kaden had been up. She sat there for a few minutes, contemplating what he was doing this late and where he was going. Her father's voice echoed in her head like her concious: 'Kaden, go find out what he's doing. You are the royal spy. I need you to know what he's up to. You have suspicions already, go ahead? It's a small chance you'll get caught this late at night! Come on!'

Kaden silently wondered if pregnant women heard things like this, but got up all the same and slipped out behind him, following the sound of his footsteps.

Kaden followed Eadulf down hallways, up flights of stairs and through rooms. Finally, she saw his shadow down the hall, going through another door. She quickly followed and hid behind a bookcase right beside the door. The door shut loudly behind her, making Eadulf turn abruptly and making Kaden hold her breath. He just turned around in the dark room.

Immediately, Kaden recognized the room. The King's study. Kaden knew already he wasn't just going to the bathroom or for a walk, but what was he doing here? She peeked an inch more, and saw him rooting through his desk, looking for something. He found a key, which he grabbed and left through another door. Kaden had to run to keep up, but she made before the door closed. Inside this room was a series of doors in which Eadulf tried the key into every door. It fit one, he turned the key and slipped inside with Kaden at his heels.

Kaden had heard of the object lying on the small table in the small room. It had great powers in which you could control a whole kingdom and every aspect of trouble could be fixed. In the wrong hands, it could destroy the whole kingdom and the people. Kaden shuddered with fear. She watched as Eadulf picked it up and fingered it, his eyes glowing in the faint moonlight. The only thing that puzzled Kaden was the look in his eyes. The same look he had some days with the strange eerie sensation. In his eyes were greed, hatred, fear and anticipation. This scared Kaden.

He heard a noise outside the room, and shoved the jewel back into the bag it wa sin on the table. He walked almost silently to the door and rammed into Kaden. Eadulf had caught her.

"Kaden? How - what? Where did you come from?" He rambled.

"I - I didn't know where you were going, I was... scared, I -"

"You didn't see anything, did you? If you did..." He looked extremely mad. "You don't know what will happen to me if I'm caught. Don't you dare tell anyone, alright?" He looked at her with such hatred, she cringed. He put his head in his hands and sighed. "Back to the rooms, get!" He whispered loudly.

"I'm sorry... I didn't mean to..." She apologized back in their room.

"Shut up! Don't you dare tell me you're sorry, because it doesn't matter now." He was so mad that he was pacing back and forth. Finally, he turned and faced her, a glint of violence in his eyes. "Why were you really following me, huh?"

"I, I was following you because I was scared..."

"No you weren't! You were spying on me, weren't you?" She turned her face away from him, scared that he was going to hurt her. "Answer me! You were!"

"No! No, why would I do that?" He walked closer and closer still, getting into her face.

"Oh, you know, to frame me, maybe even for the king! Is that why?" She let the tears fall, terrified of the man she once loved. He slapped her on the face, making her fall to the ground and her face stinging.

"Damn you!" He yelled as loud as he dared seeing as it was past midnight. He left the room, Kaden still on the floor crying her heart out.