Next chapter up! Thank you to: edward'shappyending for submitting the chapter idea...
I have a few things to say before I start that I am sorry I forgot to add before...
1) I decided to write this to give myself a challenge. I thought, people give me kel couples and situations and I try to write a story around these ideas. It was kind of a Creative-Writing challenge for myself. The idea wasn't to try and be original. The idea was to try and help put other's ideas onto paper and maybe add a few of my own ideas along the way.
2) I have good spelling. I do not say this to brag. If I was bragging I'd say: I am a fantastic speller! But I won't say that, I'll merely say that I am good. Always have been. But I have a new keyboard and typing is hard on it. plus, I can proofread really well, other people's work, but for some reason, i cannot proofread my own. Sorry if my spelling bugs you! Plus I'm tired...
3) I keep forgetting my disclaimers: I am not Tamora Pierce, never have been, never will be. All the characters are hers, the plots are mines and my fellow authors'.
Thank you to all my reviewers! You are fantastic! PLEASE SEND IN YOU KEL-COUPLES AND SITUATIONS!
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Onwards with the story!
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Kel/Wolset: Anyone But Him...
Submitted by: edward'shappyending
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She stared out at the green grass as she sat under her favorite tree at the palace. She couldn't stop herself from thinking back to her conversation with Dom just two days previous...
"Dom?"
"Yes Kel?"
She had finally convinced herself of her feelings for him and had finally drawn up the courage to actually tell him how she felt. it had taken many weeks of emotional preparation.
"How do you --feel about me?" she had asked awkwardly.
He frowned a little red around the ears; "What do you mean?"
"What I mean is, well, Dom, do you like me? You know, in that way?" the words felt all wrong the moment they had left her mouth.
"Kel. I love you, as a friend. Nothing more. I can't, you know,be anything more. I just, don't, uh, like you that way."
He tried evasively to not hurt Kel's feelings. They were close friends, but nothing more.
"Oh, okay." was all she had said. She still hit herself mentally now, two days after, for her stupid response.
So, after weeks of planning, it hadn't worked. This is why Neal had never told his crushes that he liked them, this is how rejection feels. Now she really couldn't blame him for keeping his mouth shut. She had never imagined that rejection could hurt so much.
She stared out at the grass, still thinking back on that uncomfortable discussion.
Suddenly she felt a presence beside her. She looked up to see corporal Wolset's wickedly grinning face.
"Hello Wolset." Her voice sounded flat even to herself.
He frowned thoughtfully at her. "You haven't been yourself lately, oh protector of the small, what could be bugging you now? Is it perhaps a certain blue-eyed sergeant of ours?"
He sat down beside her and caught the glimpse of hurt on her face before she hid it behind her mask.
"Dom? What'd he do now?"
"Nothing." Kel answered evasively.
Wolset grabbed her chin gently and turned her face towards his slowly.
His eyes widened in a slight shock: "He didn't... did he?"
Kel nodded miserably, he still had her chin in his hands.
"Hm, I always said there was something wrong with our dear sergeant." his voice sounded brittle.
Kel quirked an eyebrow at him. A trick she'd picked up from Neal.
"See, the whole Company says he's going crzy. It appears he's going blind as well."
Kel still had no clue what he meant.
"Only someone blind could not see your beauty.."
Kel froze in shock. He hadn't just said what she thought he'd said.. had he?
"Wolset--"
She was cut off by a pair of lips on hers. Warm and soft, gentle, yet firm. Careful and yet passionate. Kel noted in surprise that she didn't completely hate the feeling of his lips on hers.
Of course, she had never even considered courting Wolset. the irreplaceable, always up to something, Wolset.
He pulled back slightly, leaving her in a daze.
"For some reason, I don't mind that he turned you down." he whispered in her ear sweetly.
He kissed her very softly.
"I wonder why?" Kel answered sarcastically, the effect ruined by the fact she was panting slightly and her breath was ragged.
She just leaned against him under the tree.
"Do you think there's something wrong with me? Am I ugly or something?" She hadn't meant to actually ask that but Ii had blurted out anyways.
"No. We love you just the way you are. And you are the farthest thing from ugly that I have ever seen."
She snorted in disbelief.
He looked at her with one eyebrow raised; "Do you find yourself ugly?" he asked, genuinely intrigued and slightly amused, a twinkle in his eyes.
"Well, I'm not beautiful I'll admit to that. My sisters always said I was built like a cow..." Kel trailed off lost in her thoughts.
"You're actually serious aren't you?" He asked exasperatedly.
"Yes."
"Kel. Look at me."
She obeyed.
His lips found their way to hers for the third time. There was a little more passion, the kiss was a little harder. As if he was trying to convey something.
"Dom's loss is my gain, Squire Kel."
Kel smiled, dazzled by his unusual charming demeanor; "What? Did you just call me by my real name?" She asked, mock-shocked. One hand in front of her mouth in fake awe.
He laughed, a laugh she hadn't heard before. It was a sound even Wolset was surprised to hear. There was an edge in his laugh that betrayed something he hadn't ever felt before.
"Oh yes, my protector."
"Your protector? I always knew you were 'small' on the inside..."
He half heartedly glared at her. He couldn't make himself glare at someone so beautiful.
"As I said, Kel, everyone in the palace loves you. With some very few exceptions."
"And you, do you love me?"
He looked at her for a moment in silence. She felt hurt and betrayed. She straightened herself off from his chest and looked away.
"Kel --of course I love you. Stop being silly."
"Then why'd you pause?" she sounded hurt still but had relaxed against his chest once more.
"Declaring my love isn't something I do everyday you know..."
She snorted and looked at him.
"I think I love you too."
"You think?" Wolset asked amused.
"I do. I really do love you."
"Good." he pulled her into another kiss.
Kel thought to herself puzzled; 'how did I go from being head over heels for Dom two days ago, to being in love with Wolset? Am I really that fickle?' 'It doesn't matter' she decided silently, I knew one thing for sure, I actually do love Wolset... of that I am, certain.
This kiss didn't break off like the others it didn't stop at all, they broke off, if you can call it that, for very brief gasps of air. They leaned against the trunk of the tree for support.
Yes, definitely my favorite tree at the palace, Kel mused to herself.
The kiss kept going, growing in passion.
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A group of people were walking back to the barracks of the Own when the leaders of the group stopped suddenly.
"What is it Neal?" Raoul asked. Neal stayed silent in shock.
Raoul followed Neal's gaze and felt his jaw drop.
"Oh no. Anyone but Wolset." he pleaded out loud to himself. Some people chuckled most stayed open mouthed, as their commander did. The lady squire and the corporal were kissing under a tree! Kel! Wolset! It's not natural.
"Not him." Raoul groaned again. Wolset was going to be a pain, and he was probably going to teach kel some of his tricks that he constantly used to trick his commander.
"Anyone but him."
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Here you go edward'shappyending, hope you like it! I actually did, a lot. If you want, I can rewrite it, but personally, I think it was good.
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