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Author's Note: Well, Tori's story is it real or not? Well, you'll find out soon enough. Thanks for everyone who has read and reviewed. Sonata's Moonlight hope you enjoy this, and anyone else who thought about this idea.

A Surprising Revelation

A few days later

Tori sat down in an empty room. She was quite glad to be alone. She couldn't find Kelly anywhere, which had happened a lot in the past couple of days. Luckily there were only a few days left before she could go home, she had been avoiding Blake, after all that had happened Tori thought it was best just to not worry about any of that. Sure she'd have to live with him for the rest of her life, but castles were big.

"Can I sit?"

Tori looked up to see Blake standing above her, "Um…sure."

"Thanks." Blake sat down. There was silence between the two for a few minutes before Blake spoke up again, "I'm sorry, about the walk."

Tori was shocked, "Really?"

"Yeah. Look maybe we can start again?"

Tori thought for a few minutes and then slowly nodded, "Alright. Sounds good."

As soon as Blake smiled Tori felt that fluttering in her stomach that she had tried to ignore in the past. "So, listen, I'm sorry about not showing up that first day we met."

"Thanks. But I'm not worried about; it's not a big deal."

Why hadn't Tori noticed how nice he was before? Blake opened his mouth but before he could say anything a maid appeared at the door and curtsied, "Your Highness."

Blake looked at her, "Yes?"

"Your Mother and Father wish to have a word with you."

"Right now?"

"Yes."

"Alright. Thanks." The maid curtsied again and left. Blake looked at Tori, "Sorry, I'll talk to you later?"

She smiled and nodded. He stood up and his hand brushed past her shoulder causing her heart to race. Tori watched as he left and then allowed herself to break out in a huge grin. This was silly and yet, she didn't mind. Standing up Tori decided to go and look around the rest of the castle.

Blake slowly exited his parents study. As he did he ran into Hunter who looked a lot happier then he'd looked in a while.

"Hey, did something happen?

"I should ask you. Why were you in Mother and Father's study?"

"They wanted to ask how things were going with Tori."

"And you told them fine?"

"Of course. Like I'm going to go into detail on that."

Hunter nodded, "Makes sense."

"Where've you been?" Blake asked.

"Around."

"Come on Hunter, we never used to keep secrets like you've been doing. You disappear and then show up acting like nothing's happened."

Hunter put a hand on Blake's shoulder, "Hey, I didn't mean anything by it. I've just been…"

Blake looked down the hall to make sure no one was coming; he then turned back to Hunter, "Is it because of Elizabeth?"

Hunter gave a half smile, "Thanks bro, but I'm not still in mourning for her."

"What do you mean?"

"Look, I still don't know what happened, but it's not like I was in love with her or anything. I just know what happened was wrong."

Blake frowned, "But Hunter, you only remember you, her, and being by the cliff."

"But why would I have gone to that cliff? It doesn't make any sense. I wouldn't have gone there, besides, I don't think we were alone."

"You never told Mother or Father, or any one else."

"Think about how that would sound."

"True."

"Plus, I should have anticipated it."

"What do you mean?"

"I should have been more aware of things that were going on around."

"You said that no one else was there."

The older man shrugged his shoulders, "I know I shouldn't blame myself, and yet…"

"You do."

"Yeah."

"I'm sorry."

Hunter began walking off, "Mother and Father don't think I'll marry."

Blake quickly joined him, "What? Why not?"

"Because who would trust their daughter with me?"

"I guess that's their thinking, it just doesn't mean that they're right. Do you want to marry?"

"None of the princesses really seem appealing to me. Leanne and Elizabeth were the only ones I was able to hold a decent conversation with. Leanne's more like a sister and Elizabeth is…"

"Dead."

"Yeah."

"Well…I'm sure you'll find someone."

"Come on Blake, is Tori any better?" Blake looked away from his brother causing Hunter to stop and place a hand on his younger brother's shoulder, "What?"

"It's just, well…we decided to start fresh."

"That's a change."

Shrugging Blake continued walking, "Yeah well, better than the alternative. We're going to be married, might as well be at least on speaking terms, otherwise it's going to get awfully lonely."

"So you're talking to her because you don't want to be lonely?"

"Look, I don't know. She did manage to make it back from the walk just fine, maybe she's not like every other princess."

"I bet she would go crazy if something got on her dress."

"Been around those princesses before. Besides she's better than April."

"I'll give you that."

The boys got to their rooms and said good night.

Blake woke up in the middle of the night. He looked around but there wasn't anyone there. He shook his head and sat up. Yawning he looked outside to see that it was still dark out. He didn't feel like going back to sleep so he went ahead and got dressed and decided to take a walk. He made it outside without anyone bothering him, he had decided against waking Hunter because he figured he needed some extra sleep.

As soon as he got outside he heard a horse, it sounded like his! He hurried down the steps in time to see his horse heading into the stable. On it sat, not a soldier, and not a servant, but a girl. Her long blonde hair was flowing behind her. That couldn't be…was it really her? He shook his head and closed his eyes but when he reopened his eyes the door to the stable was already shut. He quickly made his way to a tree so that he could easily watch the person without being spotted.

After about twenty minutes the girl emerged and he watched her go to the area next to the stable. He then watched her pull out a sword and she started doing exercises. Blake headed closer staying within the shadows of the trees. He had to see who the girl was. He wasn't sure if he was seeing what he wanted to be seeing, or if the girl that he thought it might be was really indeed there. The girl had on pants and not a dress which was different in itself. As he got closer a smile was brought to his face when he realized that it was indeed the girl he had hoped it would be.

Tori finished putting the horse back in the stable and making sure that it didn't look like someone had just ridden it. At least she could do this without being interrupted. She always felt free. She headed outside. One of the things that wasn't good about being here was that she didn't have a sparring partner. But that wasn't going to stop her from doing some exercises; so she took out her sword and began going through the motions that Cam had first taught her.

She was coming near the end of her exercise when she turned her sword held high in the air. Instead of finishing, she froze at what she saw.