Author notes : I've made up a few characters over the last few chapters and upcoming chapters using the random name generator. They are mostly servants and unimportant characters that you may only see once. I just felt I should mention that. Also sorry it took me so long to publish this chapter, I had exams but hopefully I'll have more time for this now.
Varian
He opened his eyes slowly. The first of the morning light was coming in around him. He turned over and glazed at the beautiful woman sleeping beside him. Her long golden blond hair was flowing all over the pillow.
'How did someone so beautiful end up married to a complete prick like Arthas?' he wondered.
At that moment her eyes flicked open and she meet his gaze.
"Good morning" she said with a little smile.
"Good morning to you to" he replied a smile on his face as well. For him it certainly was a good morning. His day had not yet been ruined by Arthas and he had just had a wonderful night with Arthas's very beautiful wife. Soon he would need to go down stairs and face the tasks of the day but for now things were perfect.
"It's probably time to go down to breakfast" Varian informed her.
She groaned "Do we have to? Yesterday was such a disaster" she said.
"What will everybody think if we both don't show up to breakfast?" Varian asked.
"You mean Arthas don't you. I thought you wanted him to know?" she replied.
"Well yes, but what will everybody else think?" Varian said clarifying what he meant.
Sylvanas thought for a moment "I don't care. It's not like Arthas doesn't sleep around"
Varian smiled. She was right why did it matter.
'Casual and meaningless sex is definitely something I've been missing out on" Varian thought. Then he leaned forward and kissed her.
Arthas
He was having a terrible morning. Jaina was leaving in a few hours, so was Varian and his party but Jaina was the one that mattered. He had stayed up late trying to figure out where he had gone wrong but he had still to come up with anything.
'It must be Sylvanas fault, or Varian's or one of the annoying advisor' Arthas thought as he sulkily ate his breakfast. 'and where the hell are they anyway' he wondered.
Nobody was really saying much this morning much to Arthas's relief, although if they had spoken when he didn't want them to he would have ordered them to stop. An awkward silence seemed to hang over the table but Arthas barely noticed, he was far too wrapped up in his own thought.
"Where's dad?" Anduin asked.
'Good question where is the little annoying creatures father' Arthas thought 'but a better question would be why doesn't Lady Proudmoore love prefect Arthas'
"I'm sure he has a good reason for not being here" Jaina told Anduin.
"Yes and perhaps after yesterday he doesn't really want to come to breakfast. Maybe it's for the best" one of the General stated.
"Definitely for the best!" Arthas said loudly "He was being annoyingly whiny about something that happened years ago. I'm glad he's not here because he would probably just whine and hit my beautiful face again".
Everybody at the table shot him a disgusted look which he didn't notice before one of the Generals spoke.
"Yes my King I'm sure you're right" he said with a smile that showed he didn't believe a word of what he'd just said.
A few hours later Arthas stood preparing to bid a farewell to his guest. Varian had reappeared and thankfully was now going to be leaving.
"Jaina please don't go" Arthas said begging his love to stay.
"Why would I stay?" Jaina asked.
"Because I love you and I'm the handsome King of Lordaeron" Arthas said.
Jaina looked disgusted and said "Nope. I'm definitely not staying".
She climbed on her horse and rode towards the gate leaving Arthas wondering why that hadn't won her over. He watched as Varian climbed onto his horse. He looked surprisingly happy given how he'd been so angry yesterday and Arthas could not help but wonder why. As Varian prepared to leave he smiled and winked at someone slightly to his right. Arthas turned to see his wife smile back.
'So that's why they weren't at breakfast, because they slept together' Arthas thought.
For some reason that bothered him. He wasn't sure why.
'It's probably because they got some last night and I didn't' Arthas thought.
After their guests had left Arthas went down to the stables to see Invincible. He took Invincible out into the fields and rode for several hours. After riding Arthas stroked Invincible for awhile, he loved his horse and they had been friends since he was a child. Arthas found a bright red apple and feed it to his beloved horse. That he could have asked the servants to do but instead he did it himself. After Invincible had finished the apple he turned to the stable boy.
"Clean Invincible and then make sure that he is watered and feed" he said.
The boy nodded and set himself to the task that Arthas had given him. Arthas wandered back to the palace still wondering why Jaina didn't want him. It was Sylvanas fault he decided. Part of the little war going on between them. However it was his turn to make a move, one that would hopefully crush her more than Jaina not wanting to be with him and he had just the thing in mind. Hurrying up to her room and finding the jewelry box on the draw he quickly found the item he was looking for. The necklace Sylvanas had once told him had come from her missing and presumed dead sister. He was surprised that he remembered that. He would have the necklace melted down into another piece of jewelry to give to one of his other girls. He smiled as he left her chambers holding the necklace.
Lor'themar
The sun was high in the sky over Quel'thalas and Lor'themar sat at a restaurant table reading Sylvanas's latested letter and completely ignoring the women sitting opposite him. When he read that Arthas had thrown a candle at her he felt like getting on his Hawkstrider and riding to Lordaeron to kill him. However killing the King of Lordaeron was not a particularly good idea, especially if you didn't plan on being executed.
"It's a nice day isn't it" the woman sitting opposite him said.
Lor'themar looked up he had completely forgotten her "Huh, oh yes it is. I'm sorry but what's your name again?" he said 'Shit she's going to think I'm useless. Why did Halduron make me do this'.
She stood up "Look I'm going to go now, clearly you're very busy. It was nice meeting you Ranger General"
'Oh thank god' Lor'themar thought "Yes I'm sorry about this" he said.
She left and Lor'themar paid the bill.
'Good I can return to work now' Lor'themar thought as he made way through the street.
An hour later Lor'themar was leading a small squad of Rangers including Halduron through the Eversong woods. They were going in search of the Trolls that threatened the safety of Silvermoon.
"So how was your date?" Halduron asked as they walked.
"Do we need to talk about this?" Lor'themar asked him.
"So that badly huh. What was the problem Azalia seems like a nice girl" Halduron said.
Some of the other Rangers were laughing slightly by now.
'Why does he have to embarrass me?' Lor'themar thought. "Her name was Azalia?" he asked.
"Oh jeez you're useless no wondered it didn't work out. I told you that like ten times before you went to lunch" Halduron said.
"Well sorry I was distracted by reading" Lor'themar said.
"Reading what?" asked Halduron.
Lor'themar paused "A letter from Sylvanas" he replied.
Halduron looked at for a moment with a look that suggested that he thought Lor'themar was insane.
"Oh god not again. You're telling me you messed up a perfectly good date with a perfectly good girl for a letter from someone that got married five months ago to someone else. Lor'themar we discussed this remember you're suppose to be moving on" Halduron said.
"Yes, but it's not like she's happily married or anything" Lor'themar replied.
"So? Seriously what are you going to do? Ride down to Lordaeron and fight him for her?" Halduron asked.
"I don't know" Lor'themar answered.
Halduron sighed "You're not going give this up are you? You're such an idiot".
Lor'themar turned away from him and continued through the woods.
'I may be an idiot' he thought 'but I'm not willing to let go of my feeling for Sylvanas that easily'.
Malfurion
It was a nice day in Darnassus. Malfurion looked out of the window and watched a leaf drift on the breeze. He had a lot of work to do for the training of the student Druids and he also had several letters to read through. It would be a long and busy day. However he still found himself admiring the day even though he didn't really have the time. There came a knock at the door to his office.
"Come in" he called in as positive a tone as he could 'I don't have time for this. Please don't be bring more work for me'
The door opened and Tyrande stepped into his office. Just seeing her made his heart rate increase a little, he was sure of it.
"Tyrande how nice to see you. What can I do for you" he said with a smile. He always smiled for her.
"It's about Illidan. I still can't get him to stop using arcane magic" she said with a sigh.
"What can I do to help?" Malfurion asked her 'Damn it Malfurion your suppose to be getting out from under all this work not finding yourself more tasks'
"Thank you Malfurion. I was wondering if you could talk to him. Maybe he'll listen to you" she said.
'Stop and think, you have a lot of work to do you don't have time of this. Why are you always jumping to help them' he thought "Of course Tyrande I'll see him soon okay" he said with a smile.
"Thank you so much Malfurion" she said and she smiled back at him before she left his office.
'Crap, now how will I get all this done and deal with Illidan as well' he thought.
As he returned to his work he wondered again why he always jumped in to solve their problems. For so long he told himself that it was because he wanted his brother to be happy but that was a lie. He did it because he wanted Tyrande to be happy.
'Falling in love with your brother's girlfriend is a great way to really mess things up' he warned himself.
Sylvanas
The afternoon sun was a great orange ball in the sky. She stood out on a balcony that overlooked the city. The city was full of noise as people moved about their daily business. Sylvanas smiled, she was in a good mood. After last night and this morning she was happier than she had been in months. Arthas slept around so why shouldn't she hook up with someone every now and again. She liked to think that Arthas would be upset and jealous if he knew what her and Varian had done the night before but she seriously doubted it. It probably won't hurt him in the slightest but thinking that it could made her feel better.
"My Lady" a servant said coming up to her "The jeweler is here, he wish to speak with the King about a project he's just been given".
"Then speak to the King about it, not me" Sylvanas snapped turning her attention back to the view of the city".
"But my Queen the King appears to be busy at the moment" the servant said.
'Wonderful. I get to do that oafs job again. Seriously how did I end up married to the laziest man alive' she thought. "Very well, I'll speak with him in the throne room" Sylvanas said doing nothing to hide her irritation.
She hurried down to the throne room to hopefully cut the visit with the jeweler short. When she reached it she found the jeweler waiting for her.
"I'm sorry to trouble you my lady" the Jeweler began
"Yes, yes what is it?" Sylvanas snapped.
"This morning the King brought me this necklace to be crafted into something new but he didn't chose a new design, I've taken the jewel from the necklace and began melting down the chain but I need to know what to do next" the Jeweler said.
"Necklace, what necklace?" she ask although she had a feeling that she already knew but she hoped she was wrong, that Arthas wasn't that cruel.
The Jeweler drew a jewel for his pocket and said "This was the jewel part of the necklace my Queen".
Sylvanas screamed. It was like Arthas had stabbed her in the heart. The necklace was all that she had left of her sister Alleria and he had ruined it. She wanted to call the guards and order the death of the Jeweler or better yet kill him herself but she realised that he had just been doing his job, Arthas was the one she needed to kill.
"RESTORE THAT NECKLACE TO THE WAY IT WAS AS BEST YOU CAN!" Sylvanas ordered the jeweler then she strode out of the throne room without waiting for a reply.
Sylvanas hurried upstairs to Arthas room one hand on her sword the whole way. When she reached his chambers she didn't bother knocking she just kicked the door open. Arthas was in his bed kissing a women with long blond hair, both of their clothes forgotten about on the floor. Sylvanas was too angry right now to care what she had walked in on.
"WHY DID YOU DO IT?" she screamed at him.
Arthas took his lips away from the blond womans mouth and turned to face her "You're going to have to more specific" he answered.
"THE NECKLACE! YOU RUINED IT!" she screamed so loudly she was sure the whole castle could hear her.
"Oh that, I thought it would make a nice gift for someone" Arthas answered "Now can you get out, we're busy"
'I can't kill him. At least not at the moment, the whole kingdom would know it was me' Sylvanas thought. She would kill him eventually, she would make it look like an accident but for now she would just hurt him the way he'd just hurt her. She'd make him feel like she'd stabbed him in the heart and she knew just how to do it.
"YOU'RE EVIL AND SICK" she told him before she left.
Sylvanas hurried as she left the place. The last of the day's light shone down upon her. All would turn to night soon. She'd collected her bow and several arrows although she really only needed one for this. As she neared the stables she saw that either Arthas or the stable boy had allowed Invincible to stay in the small paddock and why not it was a beautiful night. The fact that the horse was in the paddock only made what she was about to do easier. She pulled an arrow from her quiver and loaded the bow. Then she raised the bow and aimed it at the horse, the afternoon sun almost set behind her. The horse showed no sign that it knew what she was about to do and she supposed that it was easier that way. Sylvanas took a deep breath the anger flowing through her body and then she released the arrow. The arrow soared through the air and hit it's target with a thump.