Author's Note: I'm finished my exams!!! So I decided to give you guys an update. Don't hate me for what happens in this chapter. And don't forget to review when you finish reading!

P.S. This was supposed to be posted yesterday, but the site wouldn't let me upload anything so...

Chapter Four – I'll Kill Him

Dom and Neal nodded as they watched her cross her room and fall asleep fully clothed on her bed. The two passed time by playing chess. Neither could help but let their gazes drift to the sleeping from on the bed. Dom could see the brotherly love in his cousin's eyes. Neal couldn't quite figure out what his cousin saw, could it possibly something more than friendship?

"Dom? Dom it's your move," Neal told his cousin, noticing how his gaze had once again averted to Kel's slumbering figure.

"Sorry, what was that?"

Neal had an idea, "I said you love Kel."

"Of course I love Kel, how could I no-," Dom's face flashed with horror, "Neal, don't –."

Neal nodded his head and stood. He briskly walked to the door. With a smirk he opened it without a sound and closed it just the same. As quietly as Dom could, he pulled a chair over to beside Kel's bed.

"I want them found! And I want them found NOW!" Raoul roared.

Jon, Raoul and Thayet stood in Jon's office. Raoul was over the top angry, Thayet had silent tears gliding down her face and Jon was speechless. All three of them turned their heads when a knock sounded on the door.

Raoul, who stood closest to it, opened it. Wyldon stood there, a silent rage on his face.

"Sire, Sir Alanna has just informed me of the – incident – and I wish to be of service in finding the culprits." Wyldon said, trying to keep his voice even.

"Raoul, find me the Watch captains, Wyldon you've known Keladry since she arrived here, you wouldn't happen to have any ideas as to who would do such a thing to her?"

Kel woke with a start. She could feel the tears swelling in her eyes. The sheets she was swathed in were soaked in sweat. It was dark in her room, which didn't help her state of mind. It looked like someone had drawn a chair up beside her bed.

Kel remembered that Dom and Neal had promised to stay with her, "Dom?" it was barely more than a whisper, "Dom?"

The person in the chair stirred and looked at her. When she heard his voice she felt all of her worries melt away.

"It's okay Kel, I'm right here," Dom told her, his voice husky.

Kel noticed that she hadn't gotten changed before she'd climbed into bed. She slowly slipped from the bed, knowing that Dom watched her. She walked in her stockinged feet to the chest at the end of her bed. She pulled out a nightgown and walked to her dressing room.

Dom sat in his chair, waiting for Kel to return. He felt awkward; he knew that it wasn't proper for him to be there.

Kel returned and climbed back into the bed. Dom couldn't help but notice how feminine she looked. When she wasn't dressed in breeches and a shirt she looked quite feminine. Not that she's not beautiful when she is dressed in breeches and a shirt, he told himself.

"You'll stay?" Kel asked timidly.

"Of course," Dom whispered.

He watched as she drifted back to sleep. Once he was sure she was asleep he rose and gave a kiss on the forehead.

Alanna knocked on the door to Kel's room. She heard someone get up, footsteps coming towards the door. She was surprised when Sergeant Domitan opened the door, not her own squire.

"Where is she?" Alanna asked.

Dom let her in and pointed to the bed. Alanna could see the girl was sleeping, which actually made it easier for her. She approached the bed, Dom followed her.

Dom watched as the Lioness's glowing purple hands rested on Kel's stomach. He heard the woman's sharp intake of breath and watched as her face grew paler and paler.

Alanna moved away from Kel and stood still for a moment. Dom watched as she abruptly turned on her heel and fled the room. Dom was confused and didn't understand what had just happened.

Neal marched towards the royal quarters, Roald at his back. Fury had enveloped him. He knew what had happened to Kel, he had figured it out. The bruises, the way they'd found, how she couldn't bare a male to touch her. Whoever had kidnapped her had raped her. Neal wasn't completely sure about his suspect, but he knew if he followed the line of suspects he'd find out who did it.

Roald stepped in front of Neal, opening his father's offices. The two young men entered the room. King Jonathon was alone at his desk, sorting through papers.

"Roald, Squire Nealan?"

"Sire, it was Joren of Stone Mountain." Neal burst out.

"That is a serious accusation Squire Nealan, do you have any evidence it was him? Did Keladry make a confession?"

"No, but he's the only one sick enough to something so horrible!"

Alanna approached her friend's office. She had to tell him of the fate that had fallen upon the only female squire. She heard someone yelling, and this someone's voice sounded very much like her squire.

"It was Joren of Stone Mountain!"

Alanna knocked on the door, not waiting for a reply she walked right in.

"Neal, get out!" Alanna ordered her squire, with an expression that dared him to argue.

"Roald," Jon said, his son noted the dismissal in his voice.

King and Champion waited for the young men to leave. Alanna looked at her king.

"She is as we feared," Alanna told him.

Jon sent blue fire to the walls and doors of the room. He did not want Keladry's friends to hear what misfortune had befallen her.

"She's pregnant with that bastard's child," Alanna said, tight-lipped.

"Can you tell who fathered it?"

"It's too early, but the moment I can, I will and I will find that monster and kill him!" Alanna said, her temper beginning to rise.

Kel sat up in the bed. The dim predawn glow was gray around the edges of her shutters. She saw Dom sitting in the chair next to her bed, asleep. She slipped from her bed and grabbed a clean set of clothes.

She came out of the dressing room and saw that Dom hadn't moved an inch. Kel looked around her room, nothing had changed it was still the same. But yet it looked very different to her. She grabbed her practice glaive off of the wall and started a simple pattern dance. All of her muscles protested.

Dom woke up to see Kel swinging her glaive around the room. She was just a blur of cloth, teak and steel. She looked like her old safe again. When she stopped, he clapped for her.

Kel looked over at Dom who had woken up at some point during her pattern dance. She blushed when their eyes made contact and he gave her one of his winning smiles. Her growling stomach interrupted their moment, making her blush even more.

"Let's go find you some breakfast," Dom laughed as Kel put away her glaive.

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