The Princess and the Mercenary

Lyndsay: A new chapter everyone! I am going to hate this one.

Me: Why?

Lyndsay: I am going to get yelled at by Soren.

Chapter 6

*** Soren and I walked back into the medical tent and he turned to face me.

"Ok, first of all, why the hell did you keep that away from me all these years?" Soren asked me. I sighed and put my head down.

"I didn't want you getting mad at me. I knew you would react like this!" I told him.

"Not if you would have just told before I came here. Maybe I wouldn't have left." He tells me.

"Yeah right." I muttered.

"What?" He asked.

"You wouldn't have left? That is such a lie, Soren." I told him.

"Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But, dammit, you need to start telling me this stuff." He told me. I rolled my eyes.

"I cant just tell you anything. You try living as a girl with two older brothers. It's defiantly not a walk in the park."

"Well, I don't know how that's like, but I certainly know why you rebelled against mom and dad." Soren sighed. I chuckled nervously.

"Yeah, of course." I told him quickly. He couldn't know about mom yet. Not yet.

"I think I'll leave now and explain everything to the others. Are you coming?" Soren asked, just as he was about to leave the tent.

"Nah. I'm gonna wait for Roy to wake up. Remember, don't give them too many details. No talk about royalty." I told him. He nodded and left the tent. I sighed.

"Cmon, Roy. Wake the hell up." He was just laying there, breathing normally. He had to wake up soon. Hopefully, sooner than I hope for.

Mist POV

Soren walked out of the tent, with no Lyndsay. She's probably worried about Roy. They seem close. I can ask her about it later

"Soren, can I ask you something?" Shinon asked. Here it comes.

"What?" He asked, as he sat on the log.

"Why didn't you tell us you had a sister AND a brother? Are you ashamed of them or something?" Soren looked like he was going to strangle the hell out of Shinon.

"Of course not. I told you why." He growled at him. Everyone was staring at him by now. I got up ad headed towards the medical tent, with Rolf and Ranulf close behind. We entered the tent and Lyndsay was sitting in the chair by Roy's bed.

"How's he doing, Lyndsay?" Ranulf asked.

"He's still breathing, if that's what you mean." She chuckled. I went by her side and laid a hand on her shoulder.

"Are you an Roy really close?" I asked. She sighed slightly.

"He has been there for me most of my life, so yeah we are really close. We used to pull pranks on some of the servants and ended up getting in trouble. We didn't care though. It was still fun." She told us.

"When he wakes up, do he think he will be a little freaked?" Rolf asked. I was slightly confused.

"What do you mean, Rolf?" I asked him.

"Well, what if he waked up and sees all of us looming over him?

"That is true. Roy would probably punch us or something." Lyndsay chuckled nervously.

"I'm sure he will wake soon. Why don't we all go to bed?" Ranulf offered.

Lyndsay POV

"I'm gonna stay here with Roy." I told them.

"Ok. Tell us if he wakes up. Goodnight, Lyndsay." Rolf then left the tent.

"Goodnight Lyndsay." Mist soon left the tent.

"I think I'll turn in too. You know where to find me." Ranulf then left the tent. I sighed and looked back at Roy. I then heard the tent flaps open again. I looked past my shoulder and saw Ike, smiling at me.

"Hey, Emily. Anything yet?" He asked, as he sat next to me.

"No, he's still sleeping like a log." I told him. He chuckled.

"I'm sure he will wake soon. He took quite a beating." He laid a hand on my shoulder. Without thinking, I leaned my head onto his hand.

"Yeah, I hope so too." I told him. He chuckled and took a seat in the chair next to me.

"If you don't mind me saying, you and Soren don't really look alike."

"That's cause we have different moms. The only thing that tells were siblings is this birthmark." I pulled down the top of my dress slightly to show him a red branded symbol in the shape of an 'L'

"Roy has one on his arm in the shape of an 'F' We got it from our father. He was branded and he passed down the symbols to us." I told him. He nodded slightly.

"Do you know why Soren wouldn't want to tell us about you?" Ike asked. I blushed slightly and looked down.

"When we were younger, I was supposedly the most beautiful girl in town. All of Soren and Roy's friends had huge crushes on me. Roy didn't mind it all, but Soren wasn't too happy about it. Everytime one of his friends tried making a move on me, he would use his wind magic and blow them away. Either he was embarrassed by me or he was caring for me. I don't really know. Soren is a hard person to read." I chuckled nervously.

"That might explain why I kept seeing Soren evil glare Boyd, Oscar, and Gatrie." Ike mumbled to himself.

"Yeah. Mist and Rolf told me about that. I don't really mind it. I just hope they know I only see them as a friend." I told Ike. He moved a strand of blue hair out of his face and smiled at me.

"I'm sure they do. They meet a lot of pretty woman when we go on our adventures and I'm sure one of them will fall in love with them."

"Has that ever happened to you?" I asked him. He laughed nervously.

"Define falling in love"

"Is there anyone out there that you can have a true conversation with, a person that makes you feel like yourself, a person out there who makes you smile constantly." I defined.

"Well, there is one person." He told me.

"Who?" I asked.

"I'm staring at her." He told me with a coy smile. I blushed about 3 bazillion shades of red.

"I hope you don't see me as the rest of the guys out there. They only like you for you body and looks. Trust me. I overhear their conversations." He looked a little disgusted and angry at the same time.

"No. Well, not really." I told him.

"That's good." He got up and headed out of the tent.

"Let me know when he wakes up." He told me.

"I will, commander." I told him with a nod.

"I think you have the privilege of calling me Ike from now on." He shot me one of those smiles and disappeared out of the tent. I smiled like a moron to myself and was able to surpress one of those fan girl squeals. I looked back at Roy, who was still passed the fuck out. I grabbed his shoulders and started shaking him violently.

"Roy, WAKE UP!" I yelled at him. He groaned slightly.

"Five more minutes." He muttered. He's awake!

"It's Lyndsay, Roy. You need to wake up now." His eyes slowly opened, but shot open when he caught a glance of me.

"Holy shit! Lyndsay! What the hell? Where the hell? How the hell?" He babbled. I smiled and let his shoulders go.

"Roy Tennaka, you have A LOT of explaining to do."