Can I just say that you need to go and re-read chapter... 2 onwards. I changed it a lot. So much that I think that I need to go and change other chapters... I'll do that now. shieldlessknight said that it was better now than it was before! (I added anther Neal. And now you are confused and you wont know until you read it! [by the way... this wont make sense unless you have read it as well!])

DONE! :)

On with the story... (I own nothing other than... Nothing!)

And all I can taste is this moment,

And all I can breathe is your life,

And sooner or later it's over,

I just don't want to miss you tonight.

Dom ignored Neal leaving and sat down next to the woman. She was sleeping off her healing.

Dom looked down at Kel sleeping on their bed. It was their second day of being husband and wife and he didn't know what he had done to deserve this all.

As Dom watched Kel sleep the sun slowly rose.

She looks so beautiful when she sleeps. Dom grinned. And I'll be able to tell her that for the rest of her life, our life, together. Kel woke up.

'It's past dawn,' he informed her.

She groaned back. 'I don't want to get up. That and I have a headache from all the alcohol that I have drunk in the past couple of days. How do you drink that much?' she asked him.

'You just need to drink more often,' he told her back and leaned in to kiss her forehead but ended up kissing her mouth. 'Sneaky,' he accused.

'Yep, if that is what happens always when you drink until you get used to it, never again am I going to touch it again,' she replied. Dom laughed and kissed her again.

'I'd take you to see Meathead but I don't think that you would appreciate trying to get around all those little ones this early in the morning with a hangover,' Dom said. It was Kel's turn to grin and then she leaned into him.

'I'm quite happy to stay here,' she admitted and he pulled her in even closer.

Dom shook himself awake and felt sad that he wasn't lying next to Kel. Then he noticed that the woman was awake. She smiled and then stopped frozen. Dom pretended that he hadn't seen it and continued with what he was planning to say before she woke up.

'What's your name?' he asked her.

'I don't have any life worth living that needs a name,' the woman said and turned her head away. Dom felt his heart kick. Why am I feeling this? he asked himself. He felt as though he had just been rejected. Again.

'Why not?' Dom asked. 'You named your son. And after someone in a legend as well.'

'The difference between legends and life is that the people you hold close are real,' said the woman and looked away to hide the tears in her eyes.

Dom remained silent for a little while until he realised that she was too busy trying to hold in her tears to actually continue the conversation.

'Mistress, you need not hide your tears from me. I used to have a wife as well,' Dom said, trying to get the woman to open up a bit more to him.

'I never would have guessed. At the moment you are acting like a complete idiot, making everyone else do all your jobs for you!' she snapped at him.

'How do you know that I haven't acted this way before when I had her?' Dom asked, his eyes narrowing accusingly.

'Because you don't seem like that type of person!' she said before her eyes widened considerably and she looked away.

'What is it with you?' Dom continued asking the questions. 'You say something like you know me better than the rest of the world and then you hide your head in shame and pretend that you are mute or something!'

The woman raised her head, her eyes burning. 'Maybe that's because I did know you! Maybe that's because I might have considered you a friend beforehand but now I can just see how much of an idiot you can act!'

Dom stopped. 'Where have I known you from?'

'A place that I am not going to tell you,' she snapped back. Dom could see that once the woman got angry, she was angry.

'Please, Sir, can you stop getting angry at Mummy? She is very sad at the moment,' Neal said and pulled on Dom's sleeve.

'But she said something mean to me. I couldn't help but get angry at her back,' Dom gently said.

'No. You started it!" the little kid insisted. Dom groaned as he remembered what little children were like in the way of arguments.

'If I say that I'm sorry will it be alright?' Dom asked.

'Not if you say it to me. You have to say it to Mummy!' Neal said with a smile.

'I am so sorry, ma'am, but I really do need your name. We need it for other things not only something to call you by,' Dom apologised.

'I can't hold a fight against you,' the woman muttered, not loud enough for Dom to hear, and he didn't question it. 'I never could.'

'My name is Lalasa,' she said. Dom let out a great fake laugh.

'Mistress, I know the real one and you are defiantly not her. You really do have a thing for the Protector of the Small legends don't you?' he said. The woman hid her head.

'I guess I do,' she said, 'I guess I do...'

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