Chapter 13
Sorry for the long wait. I had a few problems after the power cut. This is typed on my laptop with what charge I had left so I can't respond to the reviews because I haven't seen them. Anyway, this chapter and the next two may be a little shorter, but you'll have to bear with me, I'm trying to do all this in the next five hours. Anyway, here is the next chapter.
'Arya. I know how much you want children, but… I don't think I can give you that,' he said in an embarrassed manner.
Arya looked at him slowly. 'Why?' she asked.
'I… I'm…' he stuttered.
She then took his hands in hers and bent onto her knees. 'Why Eragon? Why not?' she asked; her voice thick with emotion.
Eragon looked away before saying, 'I'm not a human. I'm not an elf. I'm something in between. Whatever Umaroth and the other Eldunari did to me during the Agaetí Blödhren, has caused me to become more elflike than the Riders are supposed to be. Take for example Murtagh. He is a Rider, just like me. We've both been Riders for more or less the same amount of time: two hundred years next to a few months is nothing. Anyway, he has pointy ears, like Brom told me Riders eventually had. However, they're not as profound as mine. I am faster than him. I am stronger than him; after the tweaks Galbatorix made on his physical features faded away. I'm more elf.'
He then looked at her in the eyes. Her gaze pierced him like a cold blade entering his body during a warm summer. He ignored it though and then explained his point.
'Arya. I am not something normal. I have the mentality of a human and the features of an elf. I don't know what I am. I have heard tell of human Riders mating with elves, but I am not just a Rider. I am different. Nothing I do will change the fact that I don't know what will happen if I mate. I already have with you, but… I didn't want to voice my concerns lest you should become fearful of mating with me. I later realised that what I did may have been harmful to you.'
Arya hadn't made any interruptions during his explanation. She then stood up and slapped him again: on the left cheek with her palm.
'Ow! What was that for?' he asked. This one was softer than the other two… but it still hurt.
'For trying to make me believe that choosing you as a mate had possibly been a bad idea. I understand that not having children may disturb our relationship, but it will not stop me from living my life without you Eragon. I try to picture me without you but I can't.
Eragon was bamboozled like WTF. Despite Arya's love for children, she would rather have him!
'I wonder what good I did to deserve you,' he said in a wondering tone.
Arya laughed and jumped onto his lap. Eragon tensed waiting for a heavy landing, but it was lighter than he was used to with the infant dragons of his elven bodyguards.
'We seem to have totally ignored the reason I hunted you down.'
She tickled him for a moment and when Eragon thought she wouldn't stop, she planted a kiss on his mouth, wetting his dry and cracked lips with her tongue. She begged entry into his mouth but Eragon was lost in the ecstasy of her kiss that he almost forgot. He opened his mouth and she kissed him senseless. Eventually, she broke off from him, panting with her still on his lap: legs draped over each side of his own.
Eragon wanted to kiss her again but didn't dare. Arya seemed to notice this.
'What? No kisses from my mate?' she asked in a playful tone.
'I…' he began but broke off.
Arya sighed and her voice became abruptly serious. 'Eragon. You have every right to be scared of me but please don't be. I understand what I have put you through and I regret it all. Don't ever fear to approach me. You have me now, so what is stopping you?'
'Old habits die hard I guess.'
She sighed and gave him a chaste kiss on the cheek before making to get off but was stopped by slow to react Eragon.
'You're not going to go anywhere,' he said before pulling her onto his lap again and lying down with his back on the bed and Arya on his chest. They then became lost in engaging their lusts.