A/N: It took longer than I anticipated for me to get the chance to do this...I'm warning you now, this chapter is rather...suggestive. Which will cause anger in some Dannyl/Tayend lovers. I've basically just told you what happens. I'm now hoping for the first time that you readers don't read author's notes. Please review, thank you so much for the previous ones, I really appreciate them!

"Come on, Aurelia, it's a Freeday! Shouldn't you be doing something?" Sonea's constant fear was that Aurelia would be like her, and have no friends among the novices. Aurelia did nothing to discourage these thoughts – here she was, on a sunny Freeday, sitting playing with her baby cousin instead of spending time with her friends!

"I'm fine here, honestly" Aurelia threw a pretty beam at her mentor, though the smile did not reach her eyes. She had seemed sombre and thoughtful the past few days, but Sonea thought that that might be because Dannyl had not visited them for the past week. She had warned Aurelia that he was a lad, but if she wanted to carry on on this foolish route, that was up to her.

"What about your friend Elle?" Rothen queried, looking up from his book, "She seems like a nice girl. Is she busy already today?"

"I'm not sure" Aurelia looked up at him thoughtfully. She had been waiting for this moment. She hadn't wanted to lie to them outright, but they were pushing her now, so it wasn't really lying...was it?

"I might go and see if I can find her" she said, making a great show of getting up and stretching, "It would be nice to see her out of lessons"

"Exactly" Sonea beamed, relieved – she wanted to look after Aurelia because she liked her...but also because she felt that if she didn't, it would be letting Akkarin down. And she could never do that.

"See you all later then" Aurelia kissed Lorkin and waved goodbye to her two mentors. Once outside, she checked furtively around her, and, upon seeing no-one, started towards the magician's quarters. She hadn't seen Dannyl since the...kiss. But she was sure of what she had to do next.

She knocked tentatively on Dannyl's door.

"Who is it?" he called, warily. She couldn't say that she blamed him for his caution.

"Aurelia" she replied, "Please, let me in"

Dannyl heaved a deep sigh before opening the door, "You'd better come in, I suppose"

He had spent the past week as far away from Aurelia as he could possibly get. There was an instinct within him that was urging him to kiss her again, so he thought it was best to keep far away enough to stop it from happening.

"Hi" she looked around his room again, smiling slightly, as always, " I just came to...talk to you"

"I'm not sure you should be here" Dannyl responded wearily. Aurelia shook her head, her golden hair swaying over her shoulders, around her face.

"I know you don't want to talk to me. But I really think that we should talk about this rationally...about what I said"

"What you said was wrong" Dannyl retorted sharply. Aurelia looked him right in the eyes.

"I don't think it was. You enjoyed it when I kissed you, you can't deny that. And you came away from your home with Tayend, and haven't yet returned"

"I came here because my duties as an Ambassador made it necessary, and I wanted to see how Sonea was holding up. I haven't yet left because I'm enjoying being back here"

"More than you enjoy being with Tayend?"

That inquiry, put so politely, sent a silence creeping over the room. The sentence dropped like a stone into water, making an impact on the surface, and deep within. Dannyl stared at Aurelia.

"I don't – "

"You told me that you would stay for true love. You haven't left. That suggests that you've found it"

"Aurelia, don't be ridiculous" Dannyl's face was reddening with annoyance, "Not only are you female, for goodness sakes, you're a novice! If anyone even found out that you are in here, you'd be in trouble, let alone mentioning the kiss"

"Let alone mentioning the kiss..."Aurelia repeated, looking unconcerned, "Or this"

"Or what?" Dannyl frowned at her, completely lost. She swallowed audibly, and untied the sash of her robes. They fell to the floor with a dull thud – she wore nothing underneath. Dannyl's eyes widened.

"Aurelia, what the hell do you think you're playing at?" he asked, but his voice had somehow lost all conviction. Aurelia looked him square in the face, unembarrassed.

"You refuse to believe me when I tell you that you're not a lad. So I'm going to show you instead" she stepped towards him, "You going to pretend that you don't want me now?"

Dannyl gulped, "No" he couldn't help it, his eyes roamed unceasingly over her body. He had to admit that he had never seen a woman naked before, and he was slowly beginning to regret that fact. The one thing that worried him slightly was that Aurelia did not look nervous or awkward or naive – she'd done this before. She knew exactly what she was doing.

She kissed him again, interrupting his thought process, and removed his robes as she did so. She looked pleased only now that he stood naked in front of her. Aurelia guided him towards his own bed – she was pressed so close to him that she could feel his heart pounding erratically against her chest, as well as the rhythmic thud of her own lustful heart.

And Dannyl's doubts were soon forgotten.

Hours later, Dannyl had dressed once again. He was seated on the edge of his bed, waiting for Aurelia to wake up from her light snooze. What the hell had he done?

He felt movement on the bed behind him and Aurelia moved towards him from behind. She leant her head on his shoulder; she was still naked. He felt her breasts press against him, smelt the scent of her that was now already familiar to him as she kissed his neck, wound her arms around his waist.

"You must understand what I meant now" she whispered.

"Hm" Dannyl mumbled non-commitally, concentrating on ignoring the warmth of her body and the softness of her lips.

"Do you want to do it again?"Aurelia asked persuasively. It took all Dannyl's willpower to then shrug her away.

"I think you should leave, Aurelia" he handed her her robes, not looking back over his shoulder. Aurelia moved away from him quite abruptly; he felt the icy chill of being without her body.

"What? You've had your way, and now you want me to leave?"

"If I remember correctly it was your way, Aurelia"

"Oh yes, and the fact that you were screaming my name totally meant that you didn't enjoy it" she sounded absolutely furious. He heard the rustling as she pulled on her robes, and came to stand in front of him. He could not bring himself to look at her.

"I've done everything I could to prove to you that you're not a lad. And at first it might have been a stupid game, a foolish need to show someone that I'm not stupid, that I can read people, but it's not anymore. I've fallen in love with you, couldn't you tell? I've done everything for you. And now I'm done"

Dannyl buried his head in his hands as she stormed out. What the hell had he done?