So, 'Lo, once more peoples! I'm sorry about the sucky filler chapter... I know how short it was and blah, but I didn't know what to do! :( But, I think maybe I know how I wanna take this story and finally give it a happy ending... Or kill them all... I'm still debating... JUUUST KIDDING! I just need to figure out what to do with this chapter to get it flowing along... (Hey, Gift. SHUT UP!) Geez, don't listen to her. She likes telling me what to do! (Get out of my head, and stop telling me what to do!) I know I said, this wouldn't be a cliff hanger, but I lied!(On with the story!)
Chapter 18
Deryn pushed away from Alek, staring up into his eyes, shocked.
"You're the barking mysterious prince I'm being forced to be ladylike for?" Deryn demanded, anger flooding into her tone.
Barking spiders! Alek had seen her covered in sweat, mud, and many other undeniably foul things, and she had been coerced into wearing a barking dress!
She was furious.
Alek, on the other hand, was amused. Deryn's head wound was wrapped with an old shirt, her short hair sticking out at every odd angle imaginable, and had on a pink, frilly dress that someone, probably Deryn herself, had butchered and then sewn back together. Deryn's boots topped off the ridiculous ensamble.
It was so completely Deryn.
"What is so barking funny, you dafty? I was kidnapped, forced to wear this... thing, and now I know it was all for you!" she ranted, pacing around, ignoring the new blood staining her wrappings/shirt.
Alek grabbed her arm right above her elbow and pulled her toward him, happy for a moment that he had managed to grow taller than her.
He leaned his face close hers, watching as Deryn's face turned an amusing shade of pink, before whispering "I like the change."
That's all he got out. The cold, hard edge of something hit him in the back of the head, and he fell. Alek lay on the ground unseeing for a moment, hearing one last sound before he completely blacked out...
The sound of Deryn's enraged cry.
Okay, so I know Alek went a little OOC (You're stupid! He went a lot out of Character!) (Hey, shh! I'm speaking here! It's rude to interrupt!) and I'm sorry. Also, I got soo tired of the person in my head telling me ideas, that I decided to let her speak in my author's notes. Please, feel free not to read them! (What are you talking about? I make you're story interesting!) (Uhh, no. Deryn and Alek do that with their adorable selves!) Well, next chapter out soon!