Raoul walked to the barracks where he would stay and went straight past his own room. Instead he went to Dom's.
'Dom, are you alive or do I have to do and check the local cliff?' he called through the door.
'The local cliff,' Dom yelled through the door. He was sitting on the floor with his head resting on the bed, Kel's pillow underneath his head.
'Are you decent?' asked Raoul.
'Am I ever?' Dom replied and Raoul shrugged in agreement even though Dom couldn't see him and walked inside. Dom hadn't bothered moving.
'What are you doing?' Raoul questioned.
'What does it look like? I am sitting here sulking about my whole life,' Dom sarcastically said.
'Oh get off your bum and do something!' Raoul yelled and watched as Dom didn't even roll over. 'The good old days when I would order you to do something and you would actually do it,' he muttered.
Dom looked up at him and then looked back again. 'I hate when I'm sober,' he muttered.
'I don't care. Do you have a headache?' Raoul asked.
'A really big one,' Dom glared back.
'Good for you!" Raoul said and walked out the room, pausing to see if Dom was following.
He wasn't.
'Stupid idiot,' he muttered so that Dom wouldn't hear and dragged the "stupid idiot" out the door and down the stairs on his knees.
'That hurts,'Dom complained.
'You have had worse when you were just training, get off your knees and actually do something other than mope,' Raoul yelled back and got prepared to drag him somewhere else again. 'I have had enough with you. Ever since she was taken you have done nothing with your life. If she were here right now and didn't know who you used to be, I do believe that she would not even bother looking at you even once! Get over yourself.'
'I think I have the right to complain,' Dom started standing up and facing Lord Raoul in anger. 'I have lost my dear wife. She has been gone for years and you expect me to get over her ever? To me that's the lowest kind of low. She doesn't deserve to be remembered like this. She was a here and yet you all are here pretending that nothing has happened and that she didn't even exist! Or worsse yet; she lived only in the legends!' Raoul smiled. Goal achieved.
'Do I have to get you angry to get you to do anything other than mope?'Raoul asked Dom. Dom just looked at him ashamed. He knew full well what he had done and that Kel wouldn't have liked it. He jumped when Raoul placed his massive hand on his shoulder and started leading him towards the mess hall.
'You can make up for all the wrong you have done for the rest of your life by not doing it again. We were scared Dom. We, especially Nealan - ' he was cut off.
'Neal!' yelled a voice from somewhere behind.
'Knew you were listening!' Raoul yelled cheerfully back and continued his earlier sentence. 'Especially Neal, thought that you were going to decide that you had enough one day and just try to kill yourself. Not that you already hadn't but you know,' Raoul hesitated here. Dom shook his head. 'More,' he finished and then dragged Dom over to the main post in the middle of the town.
'Let's see, you are to dig latrines in two hours and you have the first night shift and tomorrow you are going to help the carpenters.'
'I don't remember signing up for all of this,' Dom slowly said.
'I know,' Raoul replied. He seemed to be in a happy mood now and that was really scaring Dom even more than the yelling. After all, when he was heading one of the companies, he would see Raoul yell more often then he would see him this happy.
'Then who did?' said Dom saying the obvious question and still dreading the answer.
'Lerant,' Raoul said and left Dom there. After a slight pause, Dom turned around in shock. He paused again before yelling out.
'What?' he asked.
'Did you seriously think that I was serious?' Raoul grinned turning around to yell at him from a good distance away, not that any of the villagers noticed. They were used to it by now.
'Yes?' Dom replied.
'Didn't you learn not to answer a question with another question when you were training?' Dom half grinned and turned back to the board, whistling. He wasn't normal, but he was slightly on the way.
Hopefully I will be updating this story a lot more for the next month because I have decided that I am going to do the 750 word challenge starting from today, no matter what it says. :) So if this is a bit different to what my stories normally look like, DO NOT BE AFRAID! It is only for the month...
Aly