Read and review! Sorry I haven't been updating a lot, before I started writing I though "I'd be updating and writing all the time, it'll be easy" well it's not, so forgive me, plus I had a bad case of writers block and every time I tried to write it sucked….so I tried today and Walla! I'm back!Here's Chapter three of dying and crying he he, family time!

Yelena's POV

At first Nutty looked so scared I thought she was going to pee, ha-ha that's just wishful thinking on my part, in all honestly she'd try to kill him but knowing Valek, that wasn't going to happen. So anyways, she calmed down when I placed a hand on her shoulder, Valek's eyes met mine and he let her go and apologized. Nutty was shocked.

"Valek, the assassin, he he he j-j-j-j-just apo-pologized, what?!" She was very shocked that he would be so kind.

"Yes, Nutty, you can't just judge him without knowing him." I laughed and she looked at me like I was carzy, delusional even.

"How do you even know him Yelena? Last we heard you were in Ixia well...doing I don't know what." She stuttered a few times, but other than that she was pretty calm.

"Well my job up there was a food taster," she gasped, eyes wide, I just laughed, "nothing to be worried about, I'm fine, well Valek was my trainer or teacher, if you will, a lot has happened so we got to know eachother and..." I wasn't going to tell her we fell in love, not yet, she's calm I don't want her to get enraged yet. I told her that we'd tell her the rest when we got up there. After a few heart stopping moments she looked up, then back at me, put on a wavering smile and nodded. We all headed up, I went up before Valek so nobody would attack him, and, well, get hurt. When we got up we had everyone come to the big room and Valek, taking my hand(there goes the gasps and mocks of horror), stand with me in the middle of the room.

"Hello everyone, it's great to see you again, I missed you all very much. I've, well we've come today to tell you some very important news...Valek take it away will you?" My palms were sweaty, and I know he noticed cause he bit his lip, obviously trying not to laugh, and tightened his grip on me as if I'd run away or fall over, passed out. I wondered how he was so cool and collective, especially when he knew how their reactions would be and that he may have to hurt some people, though I prey that won't have to happen. He takes a deep breath, nudges me, and " As you can see," he starts, holding our hands up for everyone to see, " that Yelena and I have become very close, and you judge me by my reputation, but I hope you, like Yelena, will see through that and see the man I truly want to be. So we're here to tell you that, even though you may not approve, not yet atleast, I have asked Yelena to be my wife and she has readily accepted." he goes quiet, we look around. No one was rushing us yet. My mom stands up and walks over to us, she's a couple feet infront of us when she speaks, " We all congratulate you, now go prepare for our guest. Well now go, shoo!"

Valek and I exchange glances. "Mom your not mad?" She smiled and came closer, "No Yelena, If you love him we all will, it's your life and we have to accept him and if this man is true to his earlier words, and has all good intentions, then we agree." She leads us into our room, it's a guest room, the biggest one we have. It had a queen sized liana bed with extravagant bedding and curtains. Mother leaves and we sit.

"Well that was very, very unexpected." Valek says, breaking the silence.

"But I'm glad," he says and faces me. He takes my face into his hands and pulls me close. Right at that moment Leif bursts into the room.

We unravel ourselves until were only sitting side by side, his arms around me, maybe a little too protective. He was my brother after all.

"What is this, Yelena?! How can you love this man, this killer? I smell all the blood of his victems, it's tainted and stained on his skin, it's even rubbing off on you! I can sense that he'll still kill, do you really want a man who will kill without any remorse?" His face is red and his fists clutched tight into balls, knuckles white, pure hot rage. I stand and speak, " Leif calm down, I love him, for who he is and I will never care that he will kill, what if we need to in order to be protected? It's handy. And when we first met, you said bad things about me and how I reeked of blood and you didn't know me then. You got to know me and my story, now we love eachother, well pretty much," I smile, trying to break the ice, " Now get to know Valek, he's had a hard life and when you learn it and understand, you'll know why he has to kill, or had, and why he's an assassin with that reputation." I walk back over to Valek and Leif grunts in disgust, and stomps out of the room.

***The next day***

As Valek and I are sleeping someone continuously comes in our room, moving a thing here, something there, placing things down. I don't bother to get up, and even though Valek, with his light sleeping, didn't bother either, after all it was just our family. I smiled in my sleep at the thought. Valek must have been watching me and saw me smile cause he was running is finger along my lips to my jaw and back.

"Mmmm, good morning," I say as I start to open my eyes.

"Good morning, love, but you didn't have to get up just yet I just was admiring your beauty." I smile again, slightly shaking my head and open my eyes. The first thing I see are Valeks' brilliant eyes, if we had kids one day I'd hope they had his. He leaned in to kiss me but I pulled back.

"Valek, now that we're getting married, are we..um going to have kids?I mean I know you don't think you'd be a good father because of your job but," he stopped me with a kiss, I felt the smile forming on his lips as he lengthened it.

"Yelena, I knew you'd ask that, but if I knew you would want kids ,why would I have asked yout to marry me if I was going to refuse?" I lit up and he smiled a big pirate grin. Just as I leaned over my mother popped her head into the room. She came in when she realized we were up.

"Good you're up, now today's an important day, we need to start the planning if your going to get married and you must have a wonderous dress and," I put my hand up, "Mom, I know but can't Valek and I do some of this by ourselves, take some of the weight off of you guys?" She slowly nodded her head and looked from me to Valek. I nodded , "Thanks mom, so we'll get ready and we'll meet you down there in a few minutes. She smiled and left. We got up and Valek threw me some clothes as we got dressed. I looked down at my outfit.

"Why am i wearing a dress Valek?" I really didn't mind wearing it, it was pretty but it's not good for emergencies. Not that I would have one, but you know, Ixia's still in my heart.

"Yelena, what's wrong? And I know it's not the dress...Are you, maybe, homesick?Like your other home?" Valek seemed surprised, but I could tell he did. Ixia was truly his home, not mine.

"Yeah, Ixia is a huge part of my life, and everyone there is too, so I feel a little homesick...But probably not worse than you, are you dealing with it fine?" I hope he said yes, but I also hoped he wouldn't lie to me.

"Yes I am, I miss the Commander and Ari and Janco but I love it here, and being here with you, makes it all worthwhile." He took my hands and kissed my knuckles gently. "Well we have a busy day today, have fun love," he gave me a sly grin. Oh no is he up to something, or does he know how much I'm going to hate dress shopping?