Author notes: The reason for this Anduin, Arthas thing in this is to address the fact that Anduin looks nothing like Varian and to give Varian another reason for naming Arthas the ultimate traitor. As for Arthas I kind of could see any other way of making this story work with making him totally evil which will come across within the next couple of chapter if you don't think he is really evil already.

Sylvanas

Sylvanas watched as her horrid husband went to embrace his friend. They didn't need to stand outside for long as some servants came forward to show Varian and his little blond son to their rooms. Sylvanas was standing beside one of the Marshal's daughters but she hadn't paid much attention to the young woman till she spoke to her.

"Isn't the little prince so cute? He kind of looks like a little Arthas" the young woman said.

Sylvanas hadn't thought about it like that before but now as she looked she could see the young woman was right, the young prince looked a lot like Arthas.

"Yes I guess he does" Sylvanas replied trying hard to keep the shock out of her voice.

They moved into the dining room for breakfast next. Sylvanas hadn't been in this room of the palace since she and Arthas had started taking meals separately. Thankfully they were sitting at opposite ends of the very long table. However if she felt the urge to throw something at him she was pretty sure she could easily hit him. Throughout breakfast she couldn't help but look at Arthas and Anduin. She needed to know the truth.

"Arthas may I speak to you for a moment?" she asked.

The look on everybody's face suggested they were worried she might try to kill him.

"Of course my Queen" he replied as he got to his feet and followed her into the corridor outside.

When they were alone she turned to him "Did you sleep with Tiffin Wrynn?" she asked.

"I don't see how that any of your business" Arthas answered.

"Did you?" Sylvanas asked again.

"What went on between us is our business but since you're so interested yes I did, several times actually"

"How could you! Varian is your friend and she was his wife!" Sylvanas said. 'Could he go any lower this husband of mine' she thought.

"We had fun and I know it was kind of wrong but Tiffin was beautiful and she wanted me so yes we snuck around for a bit behind Varian's back" Arthas replied with a smile.

Sylvanas heard a noise behind them back at the door to the dining room.

"HOW DARE YOU! AND YOU CALL YOURSELF MY FRIEND" Varian roared.

Sylvanas turned to see Varian standing in the doorway to the dining room his hands clenched in a fist. She quickly moved out of the way as Varian charged at Arthas.

Varian

He hadn't been at all prepare for what he'd just heard. When Jaina had asked him to go and make sure they didn't kill each other he never imagined he'd find out his best friend had an affair with his wife. Now he was furious, he charged toward Arthas and punched him in the face. He went to punch him again but this time Arthas was ready and he blocked the punch and delivered one of his own. Varian barely felt it he was far too angry. He kicked Arthas in the stomach and tried to punch him repeatedly in the face.

"STOP IT BOTH OF YOU!" Sylvanas yelled but Varian was far too angry to stop.

In between the punches he gave and the punches he took he saw the other guests and marshals coming out of the dining room.

"VARIAN, ARTHAS STOP!" yelled Jaina.

"DAD NO!" screamed Anduin.

Varian was on top of Arthas now and in a good position to beat Arthas and wasting little time he wrapped his hands around Arthas throat.

"HOW DARE YOU SLEEP WITH MY WIFE!" he yelled.

Before he could finish choking the piece of slime on the floor in front of him he was pulled to his feet and away from Arthas by two of the Marshals. Arthas made a move to come at him again but two marshals grabbed him as well.

"BREAK IT UP, PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER YOU'RE THE KINGS NOT TWO DRUNK SMALL TOWN BRAWLERS! NOW WHY DON'T YOU BOTH GO BACK TO YOUR ROOMS AND COOL OF" the marshal holding Varian to the left yelled.

Varian wanted to hit Arthas again but he knew the marshal was right.

"Fine" he said and when the marshal released him he turned and headed to the chambers that Arthas had provided him with.

Sylvanas

Arthas and Varian each went their separate way to cool off and the guests returned to breakfast and they all seemed to want to discuss what had just happened. Sylvanas however was not listening to the discussion. Being married to Arthas she was not at all shocked by the fact that he'd slept with Varian wife, disgusted was the word she'd use not shocked. She was also not surprised by Varian deciding to hit Arthas or it turning into a fight like the other guest seemed to be. To her neither man appeared to have much anger management control so the fact the a fight broke out was unsurprising, that fact that it stopped was far more surprising. However what surprised Sylvanas the most was that she'd told them both to stop fighting not yelled something like 'come on Varian kick his ass'.

"You'll have to forgive my husband" Sylvanas announced to the table "He has very poor impulse control. Although knowing him he probably wanted Varian to fight him so he could get out of doing any work for today".

That started a whole new round of talking about both Arthas and Varian for some reason. Sylvanas excused herself from the table with the excuse that she had a lot of important things to do. As she stepped out of the dining room the advisor named Brendon Godwin, or as Arthas liked to call him the annoying big nosed one came up to speak with her.

"My Lady, is it true that the King has been injured in a fight with King Varian?" he asked her.

Sylvanas nearly laughed 'injured he says that as if it was a training fight and not Varian hitting him because he deserved it' "Yes, Arthas and Varian fought and they are both back in their chambers now" she told him.

"Oh how dreadful and with our gracious King wounded who will listen to the people's problems today" Brendon said.

'Jeez no wonder Arthas calls him the annoying big nose one' Sylvanas thought 'and as if it's not obvious he's trying to get me to to fill in for Arthas. Thought I don't know why he's that bothered by Arthas being unable to talk to the people today, it's not like he ever did a particularly good job'

"Yes it tragic isn't?" Sylvanas said her voice full of sarcasm.

"Well perhaps you could fill in for him my lady?" Brendon asked.

Sylvanas thought for a moment. She was going to say no but she was as much as she may currently hate it she was Queen of Lordaeron.

"Fine" she said.

"One more matter" the advisor said.

'Isn't there always' Sylvanas thought.

"This fighting between the King's is not good for the Alliance politically. We need to stop this fighting between them. Do you think maybe you could speak to King Arthas?" the advisor asked.

Sylvanas laughed, she'd managed to contain it the rest of the discussion but that was just to funny.

"No" she said "Now if you'll excuse me advisor the people are waiting for me" and then she walked of leave him looking shocked and disappointed.

Sylvanas tried her best to listen and come to the correct solution as the people of Lordaeron come to her with their problems. Although not everything was resolved to a satisfying conclusion she was certain she was doing a far better job than Arthas and that was important, that she was better than him. She kept thinking about what the advisor had said about fixing things between Arthas and Varian before the Alliance was effected. Arthas would never be sorry however and Sylvanas didn't imagine that Varian would ever be forgiving.

"Thank you my Queen" the woman that was currently speaking to her said.

That drew her out of her thought "Yes of course, It's my duty to help the people of Lordaeron" she replied. 'What was I discussing with this one again?' she wondered.

The woman bowed and left. Sylvanas decided she'd go speak to Varian, at the very least she could apologies for Arthas's behaviour for the people of Lordaeron and explain to him it wasn't the citizens fault that they were stuck with such an asshole of a King and therefore continuing the alliance was for the benefit of all despite his personal problem with Arthas. If they were all very lucky Varian would get rid of Arthas and leave it at that, but it was very unlikely. She left the duties of speaking with the citizens with the advisor Arthas liked to call the useless fat one and hoped he didn't live up to that name.

"You've done well my lady. I swear you've seen more people today than Arthas in the whole week" the advisor told her as she left.

'That's because Arthas is the most self involved laziest man on the planet that I just had the misfortune to marry' she thought.

She reached Varian's chambers and knocked on the door. He opened it after a few seconds.

"Lady Sylvanas. What can I do for you?" Varian asked.

"May I enter? I wish to speak with you about this morning" she said.

"You may" Varian said and he stood aside to allow her in.

Once she was inside the room she turned to him and said "Listen I'm sorry about this morning you should never have had to find out like that. He's a terrible friend but the Alliance still needs to remain strong"

Varian gave her an odd look and she wondered whether he was even listening to her.

"How do you stand being married to him?" he asked "I mean I've heard rumors that you're having difficulties in your marriage and that he's slept his way round several houses in the city but how do you stand it?"

She sighed "I don't really. I hate Arthas. There is nothing I regret more than marrying him".

He nodded and moved closer to her "You wish to hurt him?" he asked.

"Yes" she answered. It was the truth there was no point denying it. She was so angry with the way things were that she wanted to hurt him. Varian clearly wanted to hurt Arthas to, so there was no point denying it. Varian took another step closer to her until he was almost touching her. Then he gently place his hand on her cheek and his lips to her's. She could have pulled away if she'd wanted to, but instead she returned the kiss. He was angry with Arthas and he wanted to hurt him the way he'd been hurt and she perfectly understood that. She wanted to hurt Arthas to. Then for some reason she remembered what Lor'themar had said to her before her wedding "Are you sure about this?".

That made her pull away "No, don't" she said and she headed for the door.

"I'm sorry I -" Varian began but she didn't hear the rest, she had already left the room.

Arthas

He sat alone in his room. He didn't want to be alone, he wanted Jaina. However she didn't seem to be all that interested in rekindling their relationship. Arthas suspected that it was mostly due to the fact that he was married.

'It's all Sylvanas fault that she doesn't want to be with me. Many things are Sylvanas's fault' he thought.

He often wondered what madness had lead him to marry her. He had hoped that given that he was King of Lordaeron he could come up with a better answer than 'because she is beautiful'. Sadly however he couldn't. Arthas got up and decided he couldn't spend another moment sitting alone in his room. He got up and headed down the stairs, he would go speak with Jaina.

When he wasn't that far from Jaina's chambers he almost walked into Sylvanas as she was hurrying away from the guest chambers. She glared at him as they approached one another.

"What are you doing here?" she snapped at him.

'Why is she getting angry with me? I'm the one that should be angry with her, she's the one ruining things between me and Jaina' he thought "Why shouldn't I be here. It's my palace" he replied "What are you doing here?"

She gave him a really sour look and Arthas, although he was bad at noticing others feeling started to wonder if something else was bothering her.

"I came to clean up your mess like I always have to! I spoke with Varian, seriously Arthas how could you!" she just about screamed at him.

Arthas thought for a moment. He was beginning to understand what else was bothering her.

He laughed "Let me guess he wanted to get back at me for sleeping with his wife by sleeping with mine".

Sylvanas looked really shocked "How did you know?"

Arthas shrugged "It's what I'd do if I were him. So did you sleep with him?" he asked her.

Now she looked horrified "No, do you really think I'd sleep with someone to help them get revenge on you?"

"Shame, that would have made us even and give Varian nothing to complain about" Arthas said and he watched as the horror turned to pure disgust. She slapped him hard across the face.

"YOU ARE THE MOST HORRIFYING, AWFUL, EVIL, DISGUSTING MAN EVER!" she screamed at him as she hit again.

As she went to slap him a third time he grabbed her wrist in a hold so tight that he was sure if he squeezed any harder her wrist would snap.

"Don't you dare raise a hand to your King" he told her.

She glared at him with a fiery rage in her eyes as she tried to pull her wrist away from his near bone breaking hold.

"YOU ARE NOT MY KING!" she yelled at him her other hand falling to a dagger at her waist.

Arthas was pretty sure things were about to escalate to a whole new level of a bad marriage when Jaina interrupted them.

"Arthas, we were going to go up to your meeting room and discuss the trade route problem" Jaina called out to him.

'What trade route problem? Is she just saying this so we can go somewhere private?' Arthas wondered. He released Sylvanas and turned to see not just Jaina standing at the foot of the stairs but the marshals, the ugly bald advisor and several servants who had come out to see what was going on. Clearly they had been drawn by Sylvanas's yelling. He took one last quick glance at Sylvanas's murderous gaze before departing with Jaina. He was now relatively certain that one of them would probably kill the other soon.

He and Jaina made there way to the meeting room. As soon as he shut the door Jaina turned to him.

"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!" she yelled.

'Damn, so we're not coming up here to hook up and why is everybody yelling at me today? ' Arthas thought "Nothing's wrong with me. The correct question is what's not right with me and the correct answer is nothing because I'm so perfect" he said.

Jaina looked horrified "First you fought Varian and then you hurt Sylvanas. You're sick and I don't know how I was ever in love with you" she said.

Arthas was shocked "Firstly the fight was his fault not mine. Second she hit me first. Third how could you say that, I love you!"

Jaina stared at him "I could never love you again. After everything since I've been here I have decided to leave Lordaeron tomorrow morning. Good bye Arthas" she said and with that she strode out of the meeting room.

'Where did I go wrong?' Arthas wondered 'Why doesn't she love me?'

Sylvanas

She sat in her room and thought. It was several hour since her argument with Arthas and she was still very angry. Her wrist had been bandaged up by the castle doctor but it still hurt a little. She was not sure that she'd ever understand why she'd left her home, her family, her friends and her position as Ranger General for this nightmare. She was alone and trapped in a terrible nightmare. She made her mind up and rose to her feet. She hurried through the darkening corridors passed the spot where she and Arthas had argued earlier and into the guest wing. It didn't take her long to reach her goal. When she did she hurriedly tapped on the door. A few seconds later Varian opened the door.

"Lady Sylvanas, about earlier I'm sorry that was not what a King should do, that -" he began but Sylvanas held up a hand to silence him.

"I was wrong" she said.

Varian looked mildly surprised. This time she started the kiss. They both smiled when they broke apart. Sylvanas realised that currently they had more in common than she had thought. They were both really mad with Arthas but also they both had been lonely for a while. However both of their loneliness would end, even if it was only for that one night.