Author: Revan Sama.
Game: Dragon age origins.
Pairing: Younger Cousland x younger Leliana.
Summary: There was a time where everything was pure white, innocent time, no betrayal of the person you admired so much or no family betrayed and slaughtered.
They both met at Lothering during the blight...but what if they met before such dark time?.
Disclaimer: doctorwho173 own the character Ryan Cousland.
She felt her own lips trembling against his, it was the ultimate bliss, her mind reeling with thoughts of him, him, him.
Leliana didn't know when it had happened; when she loved Ryan Cousland, her noble Grey Warden to the point of obsession.
She would watch his gentle, loving blue eyes gazing upon her with a love equal to hers.
His very being put Leliana in a different world, free to live and be safe. Ryan felt the same.
He loved her soft, pink lips, fixated on how they moved, pursed, and flitted in her many expressions.
They were each other light, in each other arms they could forget the darkness of their lives.
There was more than hate and revenge in this journey.
To have met Ryan at Lothering like this, to have befriended him, to have gained his love...To Leliana it was truly a miracle of the Maker.
But without knowing, his heart was already hers and hers was his.
They have both forgot about it, but their hearts haven't.
Their forgetful pure childish love has matured to something much stronger.
A precious memory of their former innocence was still alive inside their hearts.
-The Youth of the lord and the bard : Last Chapter-
"Y-you're...You're leaving?" asked sadly Leliana.
It's been three weeks that the Cousland family had stayed in lady Cecillie's estate.
But now it was time for them to leave and return in Ferelden, in Highever. That would also mean that Ryan would have to leave too and Leliana disliked that.
"Y-yeah, Father said that we stayed enough and he still had many things to do at home. Sorry Leliana..." Ryan also disliked to leave his special friend.
During the three weeks, Leliana and he became very good friend. She would tell him a few tales that her mother told her before she died.
He would willingly listen to them, there was so many tales he hadn't heard about before.
Leliana would watch Ryan train with his older brother Fergus.
He would always try a special move to impress her but Fergus would always win and tease his little brother much to Ryan's embarrassment and Leliana would just giggle.
Sometime the younger Cousland would try to show the young red haired girl how to use a sword.
They knew each other only for three weeks but...Their little friendship has become something quite special.
"..." Ryan began to panic a bit when he saw tears in Leliana's eyes.
"Ah, But, you know...You can come with us if you want!" Said Ryan with a big smile.
"I can't do that. What about Lady Cecillie? I can't leave her alone." answer Leliana.
The younger Cousland was a bit disappointed but he nodded anyway.
"...Ryan..." Leliana called out his name in a low voice.
She seemed more upset than before.
"Y-Yeah? What is it?" he asked nervously.
"...Do you have...others girls friends?"
"Uh? What?" He was confused by her question.
"W-Well if you do have some...I don't think I'll like that..."She said. Her cheeks became red.
"Well I do know a few girls...why?" Why did she seem even more upset than before?
"Is...That so."
"...Leliana, why are you upset?" She turned her head to the other side. She wouldn't look in Ryan's eyes.
"I'm not upset..." Why did he think that she was cute when she was sulking?
"Does it bother you so much that I'm friend with other girls?" He asked with a small grin.
At the question, she began to turn more red. After a few minutes she nodded:
"I'll only forgive you if you say 'I like you Leliana'."
This time it was Ryan's turn to turn red, he avoided her eyes for a bit and mumbled :
"I...I like you..."
"What? I didn't hear that."
Then he stared back at her. Still embarrassed.
"A-Anyway, even if I do know a few girls, Leliana is still my special friend and that won't change..."
"...? Really?" Her face was as bright as the sun.
She took his hands in hers and said with a big smile.
"Me too!"
Her smile was really infectious, he couldn't help but smile back.
"Ryan? It's time! We must leave!" His father was calling, he had to leave.
But even if he had to leave, even if he should forget about his words, even if she should forget about it too. Her heart wouldn't let her do so.
That memory of their short time together as children would remain unconsciously.
Until they meet again.
END
"I came to Ferelden and the Chantry because I was being hunted. I walked where the Maker led me and he has rewarded me for my faith. I found you."
Again...