A/N ok, so apparently Lady Mage thought that me having a 'duhr' moment of accidentally Spelling Inness Iness was Kel's mom Ilane; I assure you it was meant to be her second oldest brother Inness, ok? You know? Cleon's knight master? I made a mistake, so lay off.
and to the people who think I'm immature or whatever, I'm not making you read it, so you can shut up, I know I'm immature, all my teachers, friends and well everyone says so, and you know what? I'm ok with that. But I have decided I'm not going to even read/care about your bad reviews
I don't care if YOU people think they are out of character, it's my story.
I have read the books but I choose not to do something dumb that everyone had done before, and you know what, I don't want to 'get a life'!
I did appreciate the positive critics on ways I could improve my story, as well as encouragement so I thank you, you know who you are.
On with the Fic!
Chapter #2- the next day.
Kel woke a dawn, as usual, for glaive practice, groaned, and pulled the coverlet over her head, then she remembered the night before, and smiled she tried to get up, but discovered that jump was sleeping across her feet, and had to carefully slide her warm feet out from under her silly dog. Kel stood and stretched, took her Glaive off the wall and started a pattern dance, one of the hardest she knew, as she finished her pattern dance with a flourish, she replaced her Glaive on the wall, and put on some sturdy wool practice clothes, while doing this she decided she would visit Dom so she could talk to him, and see if he wanted to go visit Neal with her and spar, she need someone to practice with, and she just wanted to be with him before she went to breakfast with the other Squires. Maybe he would know what she should say to them.
She snuck into his room, came up behind him and whispered in his ear, "Wake up!" when that didn't work her tried, shaking him, poking him and talking to him in a normal voice level, nothing worked! Then Kel had an evil idea, she leaned over him and pressed her lips against his that woke him up, he opened his eyes, sat up and smiled. "Get up, I want someone to spar with and I don't want to go to morning Glaive practice." She said while he was trying to wake up.
"Why can't you ask someone else, wait what time is it?!"
"Um, just after dawn, why do you ask?" Kel said in an innocent voice, even though her eyes were twinkling with mischief. "And why would I ask someone else? Everyone else wouldn't get up."
"I cant imagine why no one else would get up, really, I cant, not at all" he said while looking at Kel, she then looked down, disappointed, and he relented, "I'll meet you on the practice courts in a few minutes" he said smiling, she looked up, and started towards the door,
"If your not there in 10 minutes, I'll be back with some nice cold water….." she called over her shoulder as she walked out of his room.
Kel was stretching her arm muscles as Dom came out of the barracks, he stopped for a moment just to look at her, she really was beautiful. She sighed, and came up behind her, and whispered in her ear, "Did you miss me? I missed you." Kel jumped, she hadn't heard Dom come up behind her.
"Guard!" she said with confidence as she spun on her heel to face him, bear sword in her hand
Dom smiled and unsheathed his broadsword, assuming the guard position, waiting for Kel to strike while the circled each other, suddenly Kel darted forward to swing at his left side, as he blocked she said, "I don't think I'm going to be able to go to breakfast with the rest of the squires today, I'm so mortified." She said all this between bouts of blocking and attacking.
"I think you should go, hold your head up high, and let them know your not going to let this stop you," he stopped, sheathed his sword and looked her in the eyes, holding her hazel ones with his blue ones. He cupped her face in his large, gentle hands, and whispered "I know you can do this, your strong, don't let them get to you, whatever they say, just know its not true" he looked in to her eyes searching for some kind of confirmation that she understood,
Kel leaned into Dom, resting her head on his chest, hugging him tightly, and whispered just loud enough so he could hear, "I'm scared, I don't want to answer all the questions yet."
"Kel, your going to have to eventually, the sooner the better, just to get it over with and I can guarantee you'll feel better." He paused then added "besides Meathead might want to know if you're ok, he is your best friend, you owe him an explanation."
She looked up at him, smiled, and said "I know you're right, I just don't want to, you know? But I'll go, I've got to hurry if I want to be on time, I'll talk to you after breakfast, ok?" she stood up on her tip toes to get eyelevel with him, and kissed him softly before she pulled back, and whispered "for luck." Before she headed back to the palace for breakfast with the rest of the Squires.
As Dom watched Kel walk into the palace, he felt happy that she had come to him for advice about this, gods all above he loved her so much, he hadn't wanted that kiss to end, ever. But he knew inside she would need to face them all, sooner rather than later, he was proud she was so brave, he knew she had it in her, his Kel, he turned around to go to the Owns mess hall to see most of his squad's faces pressed in the windows facing the practice courts, damn, he thought, so much for keeping anything private around here.
Kel walked into the dining hall used by the pages and squires, after getting her food, to be met with complete silence, she quickly put her Yamani Mask on to hide her emotions, and walked over to where Neal and Merric and the rest of her friends were sitting, sat down and stared at her plate while she waited patiently for The Stump to come in, or her friends to start bombarding her with questions about the night before, and what happened. Suddenly Neal put a hand on her shoulder and said,
"Kel, I know what happened, I was there after you left, when Cleon confessed, you should have seen your brother Inness, he was furious, I don't think I ever want to be on the bad side of Sir Raoul, after how angry he got at Cleon," he paused "you did break a few ribs and his arm, I'm impressed."
Roald leaned over the table slightly and said "Kel, we never thought Cleon would do that, any of us," he took a deep breath "Neal told us his Duke Baird had to heal your arm, Kel, are you ok?"
Kel looked up at her friends, allowed herself to show a small smile, "I'm ok now my arm is healed, but I really am not looking forward to the trial, not one bit." She took a deep, breath, "I think I'll be ok, I'm just still a bit in shock, that's all." Kel looked up, and smiled a little, "well, life's improving, in any case" she said slyly, while they all stood for The Stump's prayer, and after they sat down Neal looked at her suspiciously, and asked,
"What d'you mean, 'life's getting better'? How can you be cheerful after the night you just had?" Neal asked, exasperated.
Kel looked at him nervously, "well, you see, umm, uh," she stammered in a panic searching for an excuse for her comment, "you see, I, um, well I'll tell you later, Neal. It's a long story." She told him quietly "after breakfast, perhaps?" she asked timidly.
"Ok, but now my scholarly mind is intrigued, and you'll have to tell me," Neal joked
In the mess hall of the King's Own
Dom was sitting there alone when suddenly, he was surrounded by Kel's other friends in the Own, and they did not look happy, not at all.
"So Dom, who did you bet that you could kiss Squire Keladry?" one asked in a threatening voice
"No one, if you hadn't noticed Kel kissed me." Dom said, annoyed that someone would even think that.
"Sure…So Dom, why would you even what to kiss her?" Learant asked in obvious disgust.
"None of your business, Learant, now will you all leave me alone? I have my reasons, and none of them are rude, or harmful to Kel in any way, so lay off, would never do that to Kel, I care about her too much." Dom got up and walked away, giving his tray to the dishwashers. The other men of the Own just stared, all wondering just exactly was happening between the Sergeant and Sir Raoul's Squire.
A/N; did you guys like it, I was thinking about going into the whole, Kel and Dom tell Neal and he freaks thing, but I decided to cut it off here.
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