Grrr…I started typing this last night, and I was almost done! I saved my work and everything! When I woke up this morning and went on the computer, it was gone! So now I have to re-write the whole chapter! Oh fun…

Chapter 2

Arkarian

Isabel's eyes close as she falls backwards onto my bed. I pull the covers overtop her and then flop down myself. At that moment, Matt's voice rings through my head. Arkarian? Is Isabel there with you?

Yes. But she's asleep.

Oh. Well, wake her up and tell her to come home.

Why? Did something happen?

It takes a while for Matt to respond, and when he does, he chooses his words carefully. Sort of…

Matt, tell me what's going on so I can prepare Isabel.

Nothing like that! Ethan is here and wants to talk to her.

Well, what does he want? I can tell her right now.

Silence for a moment. Then, He won't tell me, but he says it's urgent. He really wants to talk to Isabel. Just get her to come home please.

Okay. I gently shake her and her eyes flutter open. "Morning already?" she asks.

"No, not yet. But Ethan is at your house, wanting to talk to you."

She flops back down on the bed. "Can't he come here and talk to me? I don't feel like leaving just yet."

"I'll check," I say. Isabel doesn't want to leave, I tell Matt. Is there any way that Ethan can come here instead?

He's coming, but he's going to use his wings, so he'll be there soon.

"Ethan's coming," I tell Isabel. She groans and sits up.

"It's a good thing I'm still in my clothes," she says with a smile. The two of us go towards the entrance, where Ethan is walking up.

He sees that I'm coming, and stops. "No. I'm not going to say anything unless only Isabel is here," he says stubbornly.

I sigh. "Ethan, you know that she's just going to tell me what you say later. Why not save her the trouble, and tell us both?"

"Because."

His thoughts aren't very well guarded, so I see that he doesn't want everyone to know what it is that he wants to say. "If it's anything serious, you know that the Tribunal will be told, don't you?" I ask.

He tries to leave, but I stop him. "What is your problem?" he yells.

"I'm only trying to help."

Ethan pushes me out of the way. "I'm leaving. Not just here, but all of Angel Falls. I'm leaving and not coming back." And he does. Isabel is standing a few feet behind me, a shocked expression on her face.

"Why?" she whispers softly before running after him, her long brown hair trailing behind her.

A few minutes later, she comes back. Seeing as how Ethan's not with her, I assume he's gone already. I take her in my arms and we walk back to my room. I hold her for a while, neither of us saying anything, then I ask her, "So he really left?"

She nods, tears filling her beautiful eyes. Before long, she's sobbing in my arms. "I d-don't understand it!" she says, "I thought Ethan was tougher than that! Why would h-he just leave like that?"

"Well, he has gone through a lot. His sister dying, then you on your first mission, his mom almost…" I trail off, realizing what I said.

Isabel looks at me. "What did you say?"

Uh oh. Ethan and I swore never to tell her what actually happened that night. "Uh…his mom almost died?"

She shakes her head. "No, before that."

"Uh…his sister?"

"No! The one in the middle!"

I'm trapped. "The…one about you?"

She smiles slightly. "Yes. Now we're making some progress."

"Uh…okay, I'll tell you." And I do. Surprisingly enough, she's not as shocked by the news as I thought she would be. Especially not the part about me being her soul mate.

"I knew that something must have happened, because after that night, I started thinking of you more often. As in, I thought about you before I went to sleep each night."

Now there's something cliché for you. "So…no hard feelings about not being told earlier?"

She smiles. "None at all. Though I must know why."

I run a hand through my hair. "Well, I think it's pretty obvious, really. We didn't say anything because we thought that knowing you had died would kill your adventurous spirit and make you not want to go on any more missions."

She laughs. "As if! I love being with the Guard, and I always have. Nothing could ever make me leave."

Isabel wraps her arms around my neck and leans in closer to me. Brown eyes meet violet, but only for a second, because I decide to kiss her. She is caught slightly off guard, but returns the kiss with passion.

Just then, Matt appears at the door. Isabel pulls away, staring straight at him, while I'm looking anywhere but. Matt looks at his sister, then at me, then back at Isabel. "You…he…you…what's going on here?"

Isabel steps forward. "What's going on? I'll tell you what's going on, Matt. Arkarian was comforting me, that's what, because you seem to think that telling the Tribunal what Ethan did is more important than me!"

"No, Isabel, that's not true! You're my sister, and I love you."

But she doesn't want to hear that. "Oh yeah, like that's true. If it were, you'd have simply told the Tribunal through your thoughts instead of actually travelling to Athens in order to tell them!"

"Isabel, calm down," Matt tries, but we both know it's useless; once Isabel is upset, it takes more than that to calm her down.

"No! All my life since Dad left, you've tried to get me to open up to you, to trust you. But now, the one time I'm actually trying to do just that, you won't listen to me!"

"Isabel-"

"I came to you seeking comfort. Failing that, I went to the only person I knew would give it to me."

"Isabel-"

"If you have a problem with that, then too bad. Arkarian and I love each other, and there's nothing you can do about it!"

Brother and sister stand glaring at each other, gradually calming down. Although Isabel looks like she's still ready to kill if Matt says anything else wrong (not like it would make a difference seeing as how he's immortal), Matt goes over to her and gives her a hug. "I'm sorry, Isabel," he whispers.

"It's okay. I'm the one who should be sorry."

Wow. They made up quickly. Matt hears this thought and grins. We've had worse fights than this before, he tells me, but she's my sister, and we always make things better in the end. "So," Matt says to Isabel, "are you going to stay here for the night or come home?"

She thinks about it for a while. She opens her thoughts to me but not to Matt, and I see that she's torn; she wants to go home with Matt so her mom doesn't worry, but at the same time, she wants to stay here with me.

"Just go, Isabel," I tell her. "I'll see you tomorrow."

Grudgingly, she nods. "But before I go…" she comes over to me, right in front of her brother, and kisses me. Matt stands looking impatient, and Isabel pulls away. "Bye, Arkarian," she says as the two of them leave.

"Goodbye," I say back

Well, I'm screwed. I wasn't supposed to make Arkarian tell Isabel about that first mission until chapter 10, but I suppose it works here too... I'm sorry if Arkarian is slightly OOC, but you have to cut me some slack. After all, this is my first GoT fic. No, I'm not sorry that Ethan is OOC, because that's how I wanted him to act Review and you'll get a pickled cucumber (A.K.A: a pickle) and the chance to tell me how insanely crappy this story is! Won't that be fun...