First off, I'd like to thank you all for reading this and putting forth the time needed to read through all of this.

Secondly, would you guys be interested in in me making this M rated and including lemons? Comments would be greatly appriciated :)

Thirdly, Im looking for someone to make cover art for me. This story doesn't currently have any. So If any of you would be interested in getting your picture of Irelia or Riven/Irelia over to me, I'll throw it on the cover and give you a huge shoutout. Feel free to PM me a link with the picture and I'll get it on the cover as soon as I can. Its a Win/Win :)

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Once, again, thank you, and enjoy the read

The two girls sat in the room together, each one waiting for the other one to engage in small talk. Irelia felt all over her body, looking for places where she felt pain. After being launched on the stage, she was certain that she had to have pulled a muscle somewhere. She found the burning sensation that she had been looking for in her shoulder blade, the pain heating up the muscle. She placed her hand against it, pressing it against it to test out the pain. Sharp jolts of pain shot up her spine, tingling her fingers. Her hands dropped away, the pain being simply too much for her to hide. She stood up and walked over to her sink, completely ignoring the other girl. They had agreed to talk just moments ago, but after that, the conversation had died, due to neither part willing to make the first words. Irelia walked over to her fridge and opened up the freezer, the cold causing her to shake ever so slightly. She reached into the back to find some solid blocks of ice, but none of which she could place on her back. They were all too weirdly shaped or too large or cracked or too small. Taking out one piece, she placed the solid, frozen block of ice in her hand and beckoned her blades over. This caught the attention of the Noxian, who asked across the room "what are you doing over there?"

"Just trying to cut up some ice. I think I pulled a muscle when we got launched on the platform. I just want to try and get some ice on it to see if that'll tone it down." It was now where she realized how greedy she was being. "Oh, did you hurt yourself? I completely forgot!"

"I think I sprained a few fingers, and pulled a muscle in my arm, but other than that, I'd say I'm doing perfectly fine. Thank you so very much for asking Irelia. You're too kind."

She threw across the room with a sarcastic voice and an obvious grin.

"Oh, well aren't you just hilarious. Are you actually hurt or are you just trying to get me all emotional?"

"Well, I did pull a muscle in my arm, but my fingers are fine. You're just too cute when you get all emotional."

"Riven, why are you all of a sudden so flirty?" Her blades chiselled away at the ice, cutting the large, uneven block into several small, useable chunks.

"Huh? You think this is flirting? I'm not even trying to flirt with you." Irelia shot tried to shoot back a menacing glare, but her face broke into a smile as she tried.

"Ok, now you're really just messing with me."

"How do you know? I don't take you for the kind of woman who flirts too much."

"Just because I don't flirt doesn't mean I don't know what it means. Can you stop distracting me? I'm trying to get this ice ready and you're distracting me."

"Oh, I'm so sorry that you can't talk and wield a blade at the same time Irelia. I'd just assumed that seeing as you were the will of the blades and such, that you'd be able to control your blades a little better. I'll leave you alone and let you cut your ice."

Irelia took the chunks of ice and wrapped them in a small cloth. She got a second cloth out and poured roughly half of the ice from hers into it. She folded it neatly, giving the larger one to herself before walking over and giving Riven hers. Irelia had been trained in some forms of medical assistance, but that wasn't her job. She had just learned the basics from her parents when she was a child, and a little more once she had begun to take an interest in the military. But most of the healing was done by Soraka, seeing as she did it so well. She could heal 100 wounds in the time it took someone else to do 1 person. She had even saved Irelia from the brink of death when she defended the gates to the Ionian government building.

"Thanks for coming back for me back there Irelia. I didn't think that you would." Riven asked after a few minutes, trying to start a conversation.

"I told you that I would save you. I promised it last night didn't I?"

"Well yeah, you did. But it's hard for me to really trust anyone. I just didn't think that you were really going to do it. I thought that you were just going to show up and try to comfort me. Seeing as we're enemies, its weird to think that you'd actually throw your reputation on the line for me, let alone be willing to die for me."

"All lives are worth saving Riven. It doesn't matter that at one point in time in the books of history that we were once enemies, right now, we're allies. The past is the past, Right?"

"Well, yeah. I guess. But you almost died fighting off my nation, and in a way, you really did. You're willing to forgive and forget that easily?"

"I never really assumed that you were going to be this sentimental Riven. I always took you for being the kind of really strong, independent warrior type who doesn't really talk much."

"There are always two sides to every coin Irelia. Many people just don't know the second side of my coin. I trust you enough to be able to talk to you like a human being. You haven't given me a reason not to."

Irelia felt herself get a little warmer inside. She never even thought about Riven being anything more than what she had heard from others. She was a killer at heart who abandoned Noxus after the Ionian-Noxus war. She never even considered that Riven had a personality to even begin with. Her body began to fill with self inflicted guilt. How could she have been so self centered?

"Thanks Riven, I appreciate it."

"Is that really all you have to say? I give you this heartfelt message and all you say is thanks?" Riven appeared to be trying to be serious, but she was not the best liar that Irelia had come across. Her voice was too high and she spoke too fast to even give the appearance of being annoyed.

"I'm just thinking about something alright?" Irelia said as she got up and walked back over to the counter. Riven continued to sit, poised with her back against the wall.

"What are you thinking about? Are you trying to impress me this hard Irelia?" The quick joke seemed to brighten Irelia's mood. Riven seemingly had a positive aura around her, despite seeming so cruel and cold at first glance. This was never once how she had imagined her.

"Oh yeah, that's clearly it. You've caught me red handed. I surrender."

"You're not as stubborn as I thought you were. You're way more open to your feelings than I thought."

"Hey. Don't get your feelings up quite yet there Riven. I'm not being flirtatious." Then she whispered under her breath "yet".

"Hey, what was that last part? I couldn't quite hear you."

"You weren't supposed to. Are you hungry?" Riven looked back, her face clearly annoyed. But it looked so weird on her face that Irelia couldn't help but let out a chuckle.

"Yeah, I guess that you could say that. But I guess it all depends on what you have to eat." Riven stood up and walked over to the fridge, opening it and looking inside. "You guys eat this stuff? You guys really eat this stuff?"

"Hey Riven, it's what you've got to eat. You can either eat it and stop complaining, or not eat it and stop complaining. Those are your options."

"You're really lucky you're cute Irelia, or I wouldn't hesitate to give you a nice hit to the side of the skull right now."

"Oh, I know. And I quite enjoy doing so. Now are you going to eat it or are you going to suck it up?"

Riven took a small chunk of meat out of the fridge and examined it closely. She glanced over the whole thing before deciding to sit down. Irelia decided she had better things to do other than watch somebody else eat something, so she walked back over to her bed and sat down. The curtains only blocked some of the light, so the room was filled with a golden glow. Effects danced across the floor as the wind threw the blinds side to side.

"Riven, we've almost died too many times in the last few days, haven't we?'

A few seconds passed before a reply came back from the out of sight Noxian

"Way to change the mood huh? Just a few minutes ago you were trying to be all happy and cute. Now you're going all sentimental."

"Yeah, but I've just been thinking. I don't want to live that life anymore. I gave up the life on living on the edge. Waking up everyday and thinking you might die. I don't want to experience that feeling anymore."

"Is that why you joined the league of legends? You are too afraid of dying everyday?"

"I just want my life to mean something. I want to wake up every morning and have something that I feel I should live for. Have someone to live with me. Maybe raise a family one day. I'm not going to be able to experience any of that if I'm dead. I don't want to live that way anymore."

A short silence filled the room

"I never thought someone like you would ever say something like that. You're the will of the blades. And you don't like living every day like you're going to die?"

"Yes, that is exactly what I mean Riven. I don't want to live every day like there's a chance that I am going to die… I don't want to live every day knowing that there's a chance that I won't wake up tomorrow, that I'm leaving the life that I fought for and tried to create to go down and be worth nothing. I want to live my life with a purpose and die with a purpose. That was how I was raised. But there's no reason that I should die before my time has come."

"You're strong willed Irelia. You didn't cave into me. You are a strong woman. I wish I had your form on will. But I don't. I simply hide the fact that I am weak."

"I don't get what you're saying. You are strong."

"Irelia, we all wear masks. We all try to hide who we truly are and we try to be what others want us to be. You should know this of all people. We are who others want us to be. Not who we truly are."

"Yeah, you're right. We aren't really who we want to be, are we?"

"Yesterday, before you left. You said that there was something that you wanted to tell me. What was it that you wanted to say?"

"I just wanted to let you know that… I want to let you know that I think you're a great person. I'm glad I took the time to get to know you. You're not like I expected you to be."

"That is what you wanted to tell me?"

Irelia fought against her emotions. She was telling the truth. She just wasn't telling the whole truth.

"Yes. That was what I wanted to tell you" her hypocritical words rolling off her tongue as smooth as an undisturbed pond.

"Irelia, before I leave for the day, there's something that I need to tell you. Promise me that you will keep this as a secret between the two of us."

"Why would I ever tell anyone else your secrets?"

The Noxian walked around the corner, her posture strong. Irelia realised that she was slumping against the wall, as though what she had just said had taken her energy out. She stammered up, trying to sit up as straight as she could.

"Irelia, I love you." Rivens message came out quick and to the point.

"Riven, I'm not quite…" Her sentence stopped. She had to try and word her sentence so that she didn't sound blunt. Maybe Riven just got all riled up after their conversation. She had to be prepared for whatever the situation might be. "I'm not quite sure how to feel about that."

"It doesn't matter. It wasn't for you to respond to. I just wanted to let you know exactly how I thought about you. Don't feel rushed to respond, and don't think that you're being forced to respond. I just wanted to let you know."

"But we're both women. That goes against what I was raised to think."

"Then you don't have the feel the same way about me. I just wanted to let you know that you mean something to me. If I didn't say how I felt, how much of a hypocrite would I be right now?"

"Thanks Riven. But I'm not quite sure I feel the same way about you. That one time in the hospital room was… It was just because of how escalated things were. It felt like something. But now, I just don't feel the same way. I'm so sorry."

Rivens eyes shot to the floor before returning back up. "It's fine. I thought that maybe you might've felt something for me. I thought that maybe we would've had something after all that happened. But I know not that there is no way I'm going to break your will. You know what you want, and I trust that."

"Riven, I'm so sorry. I didn't want to have to hurt you this way. But, emotions are all weird, and I'm not quite sure how to do this without hurting you."

"It's fine. I'll just leave. We cannot go back to the way that we were before, now that you know how I feel. But can we try to be as normal as possible? I can't make you feel the same about me, but maybe someday, you will. People need dreams to give them reasons to carry on."

Irelia stood up and walked over to the Noxian and wrapped her arms gently around her shoulders, pulling the Noxian closer and placing her head on the shoulder. She turned their heads away and closed her eyes. The Noxian returned her grasp, pulling them close together.

"Riven, I'm still trying to find out exactly who I am, what I am. Don't give up on your dreams. If you give up on them, how will they ever come true?"

"Thanks Irelia. You really are a great person. And thank you for not putting it rudely"

The two sat embraced for what felt like hours before Riven eventually released her grasp and took a few steps back.

"Don't give up on my dreams huh? Can I at least have some confirmation that there are hopes for us? Maybe one day, you'll change your mind?"

"Yeah, there's always a chance. You've just got to promise not to give up hoping, and one day, maybe there will be something between us."

"I'm going to head back to my room. Hopefully I'll find you tomorrow."

"Yeah, let's hope."

Riven walked out of the room, closing the door with almost no noise at all. Irelia just stood in the middle of her room, unsure of exactly how she was supposed to feel about this all. She walked over to the door, made sure it was locked, and then walked into her bathroom. She let all her clothes slip to the ground before turning on the water. As she stepped in, her mind was immediately filled with memories of what had just happened.

"How am I supposed to feel about you Riven? What am I supposed to feel?"

She smashed her arms against the wall of her shower, trying to make sense of it all. She wasn't sure how she felt. A part of her wanted to love Riven. They had something together. Why had she fought to save her life so hard? Why did Riven have the strength to admit this to her? Why had she not contested back in the hospital room? So many questions flowed through her head, but answers didn't. She left her room and threw on a change of clothes before leaving her room and walking down the hallway. She walked down the hallway until she came to a room with a small symbol of Demacia sitting on the door. She gave a quick knock and waited for the door to open.

"Hey Irey, what brings you here?"

"Hey Lux, mind if I come inside for a few minutes? There are a few things that I want to ask you about real quickly."

"Sure. You're always welcome here" she said before opening the door and beckoning Irelia inside. The door closed behind them.