Anders looked down to where Leliana was brushing away the sand and reached for the towel. He smirked as he leaned towards her in a brief kiss. Taking the towel in his hands, Anders reached down lower and gave Leliana's bottom a brisk smack.
"Well, now that you mention it, that might be just the thing I need to do." He teased and started pull her closer towards him.
His eyes shifted towards the direction of their bedroom and started to lead her in that direction. To him, it had been too long since he was able to hold Leliana, and with the way she teased, he couldn't have the patience to wait. Taking her to their bedroom, Anders had sat down on the mattress and started to pull Leliana down with him.
"So are you ready for your punishment?" He asked in a light tease.
Leliana flinched due to the smack Anders provided to her rear but not of pain but from the shock of it. She wasn't expecting it even though she had clearly asked for it in more than one way. It hadn't taken long for her to shift her attention towards the mage a second later as one of her brows perked up in a inquisitive jester. "Here I thought you were a good boy…?" She teased back as she hadn't fought in the least when she was pulled in his direction.
After Anders movements were ceased to sitting on the bed, Leliana had placed a hand upon his shoulder where she had braced herself as she was being pulled in and climbing up onto his lap in a straddle position above him. All the while Leliana's other hand had reached out towards Anders features where she had begun drawing out the lining of his stubbled jaw while smiling softly to the touch. "Oh you could say I am ready… But are you? You know me I always have something waiting for you up my sleeve." Leaning in Leliana started to dip into the side of his neck where her breath had brushed across his skin first, before her lips puckered to a connection to Anders flesh.
Through her softly closed eyes Leliana had begun conjuring up another and possibly worse than what she had done yet for a prank on this poor mage. But she figured he'd either forgive her quickly and if not then she could make it up to him in their moment together with one another. As her face shifted further up so did her lips where she parted her lips and latched her teeth around the lobe of his ear, giving a little suckle at the end of her playful tugging bite. Between this time her hands moved between them and worked gently at the trunks of his shorts as she leaned back away from Anders side features, Leliana parted her lips a second time to speak as her eyes re-opened with them.
"Just be sure to be real gentle…" She instructed in a soft whisper towards him. Of course Leliana had to hold back the deep grin that would have looked as guilty as some child trying to tell a lie so Anders wouldn't have seen through her words and somehow she had done just this as she shifted her eyes between them and diligently worked at his shorts as some kind of distraction. "We don't want to hurt the baby."
Anders closed his eyes briefly and tilted his head slightly more towards her indications. The idea of actually proceeding with Lelina's punishment had seemed to dwindle and fade to the farther recesses of his mind for the moment. She had always proved to distract his thoughts towards other things that have been more appealing at the time.
His fingers were sliding up towards the strings of Leliana's bikini top and he started untie them from behind her back. He was hearing her words, but hardly really even listening to what she was saying. The mage lowered his head more towards her breasts, and he started to leave kisses on the surface of her skin. His arms tightened around her frame while his more curious hands continued to slide underneath the material of her bathing suit and slide it to one side.
After a brief rumbling sound of approval from his throat, Anders scooted Leliana more securely against his waist. It was a small grind but enough to relish in the feeling of her as he started to lean downwards. "The baby's fine. He has at least three sitters hovering around him as we speak."
Leliana hold upon Anders had tightened by her fingertips digging into his shoulder structure when she felt the warmth of his lips connect to her rising chest from the gasp she had taken in. Why did he have to make this more difficult than it had be? She had to have a clear mind if she was going to proceed with this little lie. Otherwise she would have started to being saying incoherent things and she didn't want to make a complete fool of herself, at least not now.
When she felt of the warmth of his body brushing against her own warmth that continued to grow, caused her brow to push against Anders where her eyes started to close and her lips blindly sought out his own. Though they didn't connect for Anders words brought her to cease in her act and open her eyes in wonder if he had even heard her right. After blinking a few times and feeling a rush of blood force to her cheekbones causing that familiar rosy pink to fill her cheeks is when she stared to part her lips again.
"Not Baelfire, love." She corrected in a soft chuckle, between them Leliana had taken her free arm and grasped onto Anders where she took his hand and gently placed it over her lower abdomen. "Don't tell me I need to give a healer like you so detailed explanations." She teased where she had leaned in to Anders own lips for the taking. Though she didn't expect them to meet for the shock of what she had just so bluntly told him.
He had only leaned back halfway before staring back at at his hand connected to Leliana's stomach. Anders had blinked a couple of times quietly while trying to shrug away the haziness from his emotions. His lips had tremebled rather nervously until he was able to understand at that moment.
"But… But when? How?-I mean, I know how-" He started to speak flatly, more to himself and glanced away. He felt his lips tug more into a grin even then. Naturally, he wasa little flushed from such news, but wasn't as if Anders was in any position to react negatively to the news.
Nervousness and fear were probably the two main things coursing in his mind at the time. Anders really hadn't been around much for Baelfire, as it was—and Anders knew it. There was no telling how much involved he could be with another child when he was just now attempting to rebuild what had been lost to him long ago.
Anders's eyes glanced back towards Leliana in a mischevious glance and tugged at her arms until he began to gently more again. He rolled along with her until she was underneath him on the mattress. "Naughty, naughty. Have you been taking advantage of me without my complete awareness, Miss Nightingale?"
Leliana had felt a tug at the corner of her lips when she saw the redness fill Anders cheeks as well. Her last (hopefully) trick on him had worked that when she had heard his broken words she had eventually felt herself easing in her own fluster as her fingertips had gently brushed against the back of his own. "Well I'm glad I don't have to explain..." She teased in a glance up towards him.
When she was asked when though she had begun to think of an answer. Clearly it would have been to early to tell from the night before of their love-making. So sadly she couldn't use that one for her excuse... There was only one other thing that came to mind, and even as dirty and far fetched it may have seemed... It was her only option. Then again she could have backed out of it all as well too. But that seems too soon at least for her.
After Leliana started to look up towards Anders she had frantically reached out towards him as in between her looking up she felt his movements turn her so suddenly that her reaction was to grab onto any limb she could have. Which was Anders's neck. After opening her eyes from the soft collision against the mattress, Leliana had started to wrap her long legs around and behind Anders torso, it was practically a tease since both of them were still partially dressed. Though she wouldn't have held Anders to firmly in case he wanted to slip past to have removed the swimming trunks the rest of the way.
Leliana had felt the reminiscing blush flush back to her cheekbones as Anders words filled her ears and in her only reaction was to have glanced away to her tracing finger that glided from the side of his neck and down shoulder to his arm. "I guess you can say I did..." She spoke back in a softer tone. "You were so tempting even when you were tranquil." She explained, though in truth she would have been shocked if he would have even taken the bait. Since as she thought as before, it was far fetched. Who knew though, maybe the shock would have fogged him.
"Now who's the naughty one?" She taunted back as she glanced back towards him.
"Hm… From the sound of things, still you." Anders chuckled and rubbed his nose lightly across her own.
He lowered down and kissed her in his growing passion. Pulling back slightly, he smiled down at her and reached for one of Leliana's ankles to loosen from the attachment to the small of his back. Leaving light kisses in his trail further downward, Anders had already begun to show signs of where he was going.
"Well, alright… Looks like I'll have to prove my clarity is far better than my tranquility." He sighed in a mild laugh; though his mind had seemed focused on initially one task.
His hands returned towards Leliana's breasts as he cupped them and started to massage them in his grasp. Giving each a light squeeze, Anders enclosed his lips around one of her tightening nipples to latch onto. He suckled one; curving his tongue against it and giving as much nurturing as he could to the other.
Sliding down carefully, the mage was continuing in his venture sought when he had his curiosities of Leliana's breasts sated. He hadn't bothered to replace her bikini top back over what they were protecting previously. Anders wanted to leave her nude form in all its splendor available for him to continue viewing when he pleased.
Though for the moment, he was kneeling back down towards the edge of the bed. He looked towards her mound and left traces of kisses along her thighs. Anders pressed his lips towards her clit and lightly trailed his tongue up and down along the nub to tease the muscle against his touch. His hands blindly searched along her round breasts to find her nipples and started give them each a light pinch.
"I can't be the only one to blame here." She pouted back at him and sighed some to his response back to her. When he had shifted down to meet her lips, Leliana had greeted him possibly in a more needy response as her hand from his arm shifted back to go around and behind his neck once more to bring herself in further and hold them both in place as she parted her lips in hopes to meet a tender muscle with his own. But none came but a suckle to Anders pout as he pulled away before she could have acted on thought. This had brought her eyes to open with it and look over towards the mage in curiosity to see where he was venturing.
It didn't take long to put the pieces together though and no matter how badly she had wanted him to still be above her so she could have given him attention or teases as she had done multiple times in the past, she soon found this was nothing more than a flutter thought as his simplest of touches brought her to raise her lower back in an arch off the mattress and quickly forget such a desire.
Just as she was about to respond, all the train of her thoughts and plans to continue with this prank were soon pushed out the window. How he had managed to have control over her like this was beyond her. At times she did have the willpower to have continued, but not this day. The only reason to guess why it would have been was because they had been separated for far too long… And just as Anders, Leliana was trying to make up not only time lost but also for what had happened between her and Fenris. She still felt this tinge of guilt even though she didn't know Anders could come back.
After Anders was beyond her reach and only her fingertips could have twisted and buried into his hair, so she had done just that. It was one form of release so her cries wouldn't have breached these walls. Leliana had tried to be as modest as she could have been, but it was almost impossible when Anders had put forth such skilled touches. The little goosebumps protruding on her soft skin had shown just this. In reaction to them, brought a little shiver to her small body, that when she had felt Anders hands Leliana had reached at least for one as her previous hand stayed entangled in his golden hair.
"Anders… Must you?" She gasped in a pleading tone as she fought back every urge to have stilled her body from jerking either away from the overestimation or towards him for more. Between her seemingly to ask this question her fingers had laced with his own.
"I love you… I never ever want to be without you again." Leliana confessed and with a slight squeeze of his hand. She soon found out that being quiet wasn't quite working in her favor, as soon her cries out for her lover had been made in a instant of his more forceful actions. Right then her shy nature not seen by many had come over her and brought the blush that was previously filling her cheeks soar down her chest. She would have bitten onto anything during that sudden outburst but since her hands were tied she had figured biting onto her lower lip would help in further whimpering sounds that may have come.
Anders had closed his eyes to the sounds Leliana was rewarding him with. It brought his smile to broaden before enclosing his lips more firmly around her smaller hardening nub. He suckled the flesh there in his attempt to return it to being tender once more. Anders lifted one hand so that he could finally prod a finger gently into her center.
"There's no reason to rush, is there? Besides, we've been without this for too long." He teased in recognition to her pleading before returning to his actions.
He enjoyed making her squirm underneath him and in his efforts, Anders attempted to cause her to call out his name even more. Though what he really wanted, but hadn't voiced it, was to have cleansed Leliana's lust in all possible forms that he could. Not once would Anders ever have to wonder whether or not she might have thought of someone else when in actuality of being with him. He wanted to be more than enough of what she could have ever wished to have.
The friction he had given from rubbing his finger along her inner walls had started to increase to the rapid sensation of his tongue and lips enclosing at Leliana's clit. This was done in his dedicated mission to bring her to a climax. There had been so much more he wanted to feel and taste; though with this new information of Leliana possibly having another child did leave him hinged on a few things.
Feeling her hand clasp around his left that remained up high to tease her breasts, beckoned him to return that secure hold. It was almost done to reassure her that he was actually there and not some half vivid dream left to stir her wandering thoughts. Though from her spoken current ones, Anders was compelled to lift his head up and tilt his lips back towards her inner thighs once more.
"I love you too." He answered and curved his hand so that his thumb returned back over Leliana's clit in replace of where his tongue seemingly wished to have remained. He looked back at her form though half lids and smiled down at her. "I truly am the luckiest man alive to have someone so beautiful wanting me and having my children. I aim to keep it that way now and forever."
Even though he may have been right that they had been without each other for so long it didn't stop that she wanted to feel his body against her own. She wasn't given that the night before since they were unable to have been unclothed like they could have been now. So to have the chance was almost too tempting to have waited for. Of course the other night was magical, one that she wouldn't have changed even one bit, there was just far more things she wished she could have done openly, but of course the privacy thing.
Just when she didn't believe her senses couldn't have been heightened from his softer or rougher touches, they had. Against the palm of Anders hand, in the center of her mound she felt the tender flesh harden if they hadn't already due to Anders taunting flicking touches. Then after feeling his protruding finger slip between her folds could have melted her that her hand around his had pulled until it could have extended comfortably as far as it could have before she tilted her head forward some to have gently placed a kiss to the back of his hand, on his knuckles. Though this had been brief as Anders friction brought her to have rested back down to the mattress.
Leliana believed she had control of her body and what it had and had not done, but she couldn't have been more wrong. The more Anders had simply touched her brought her body to twitch, but more importantly she felt with each propelled thrust of his finger moving or heightening caused the red head to have gasped as with each one brought her yearning inner walls to clench around what was there. She was climbing to her peak with each whimpering plea or sigh for him to have either continued or slow down to where she wouldn't have broken so soon.
She had tried to reach for his face or hand, releasing his hand in doing so. As she felt her climax slowly climbing to a point she could no longer control. Her only hope for control was that her body wouldn't have given in, but by the sounds emitting from her were proof enough she was close to where Anders had wanted her. Though she wasn't quick enough as the more he had played with her throbbing nub it hadn't helped as the with the scruff of his facial hair brushing across the softer flesh and his tedious suckling and flick of his tongue brought her movements to a standstill and with it brought the release Leliana tried to fight and what Anders sought for.
Bashfully Leliana began to turn her head to one side as her hands had smoothed across Anders own skin blindly until her hand had joined his own again. Between this time she had been catching her breath but she had felt Anders movements turn towards her thigh and being as ticklish as she was there she jerked her leg away, the culprit being his beard scruff. Leliana would have scooted away in a small giggle but his hold on her kept her still, at least this was until she had felt the second touch against her nub of Anders thumb pressing against the still recovering area. In her reflex, Leliana had reached down and had given a light flick of her index to the back of his hand playfully as she looked down towards him with a smile of his responded love towards her.
Leliana had listened on what Anders had said and with it had brought her smile to have broadened across her features. "I think I'm the lucky one…" She replied back, though while she laid there she gave a little tug to his arm and hand to have instructed him to have rested back on top of her, where she had wanted. "I have you back, which I never thought would be possible… And yet after everything, you still had taken me back." She confessed and after a reach towards the nape of Anders neck Leliana began tangling her fingers in his hair once more as she concluded in tease towards him. "So I win."
He chuckled some and glanced towards Leliana's swatting against him. It almost had went unnoticed; given that Anders wanted to wait for a little while before returning his touch over her again. However, she was already pulling Anders back on top of her; in which case, the mage was being careful not to have crushed her. After listening to her, Anders lowered his head and kissed her once more.
"Damn right, you do." He answered upon his brief withdraw and shifted his eyes from hers to look over the rest of her features; as if taking them all in at once for a memory. "When were you going to tell me that you were pregnant? Was I cursed to find out supposedly after noticing the sexy bump you'll be getting again?"
Anders tilted his chin more along Leliana's neck and lightly rubbed his five o'clock shadow against her skin there afterwards. "You know how much I love guessing games… So, how far along do you think you are? Six weeks? Thirteen? It couldn't be too far along or else my wandering eyes surely would have noticed by now."
He had found himself talking more on just the thought of Leliana being pregnant again. It arose many curiousities for him, but also proved to have been a pleasant topic to remain on while giving Leliana her needed moment to rest. It wouldn't have been before long that Anders was going to tilt his hands back town towards his goal and continue his previous given cycle anyhow.
"Sexy bump huh? It might have been sexy but it was a pain to get back where I once was." She explained in a playful wiggle of her brows towards him.
Leliana had almost completely forgotten about her lie she had told Anders. That when he had begun asking her when she was going to tell him she had buried her face into the side of his own features or wherever she could have hidden. After all she wasn't expecting for him to have been so open to the idea of having a second little him and her running around causing even more havoc.
Though truthfully Leliana wouldn't have had it any other way, since having a large family was always her aim in life. Since growing up with no siblings, father or practically mother. Brought her to have wanted that. But she had known it was near to impossible to have children when one of the spouses was a Warden, so for them to have Baelfire was a true gift from the Maker and that had just meant the boy would have been more spoiled. Which was a good thing in her eyes.
After feeling Anders stubble, Leliana had raised her shoulders some while a soft giggle slipped past her lips as she leaned back to the bed. With her already separated legs, Leliana started to hook her ankles to Anders legs as she had slowly started to shift her eyes from his chest where one of her fingers had traced and slithered down until each one of her fingertips had glided across his sides in the attempt of tickling him in the same manner he had done to her.
"About that…" She whispered in a soft tone. If she was to come out with the truth she might have done it now instead of waited. Oh how she wished this prank didn't backfire on her. In attempt to have readied him for her confession, Leliana reached out for Anders. Where she wrapped both of her arms around his core and leaned in towards the mage to gently press her lips against his own briefly before pulling back. "I'm not with a child… It was my last joke on you." She explained and between every three or so words she had paused to have placed a kiss trailing from his cheek to his ear and neck.
"Okay maybe not the last… But I just had to see your reaction if we ever did get pregnant again…" She admitted sheepishly in a glance away from his set of eyes.
Anders looked down at Leliana curiously. Though nothing had seemed to have really been made clear until after the rogue had confessed to him. Of course it would have made a bit more sense to him now. The only thing he could have done was smile a bit more in relief. While he would have been mildly disappointed that he wasn't given another child, Anders had actually expected as such. Still, he was happy just to have had one.
"Oh, I see. So this was more like a test then, was it? You've sure been asking for a lot of spankings today." He mused in his tease and tilted his head towards her cheeks to leave a kiss or two where he could. "Oh, what ever am I to do with you?"
He attempted to have lifted his body away for the moment, but Leliana's leg remained wrap around him. So, at best, Anders was able to shimmy out of the wet swimming trunks and discard them to the floor at the edge of the bed. His hard-on had smacked against his belly and rolled a bit more to rest on Leliana's thighs as he continued to move back into his previous comfortable position.
"I hope I've proven that I passed the test at least. You know you really should give me fair warning of these things anyway. Or could you have just missed all of this too much?" He questioned and glided his hand down in between the both of themselves and reached more for his hardened member to caress back against Leliana' s clit once more. Lowering his head down, he enclosed his lips back around Leliana's neck and he proceeded to bite and suckle the warmed flesh.
"A test?" Leliana gasped teasingly as she took one of her hands and briefly placed her fingertips to her plump lips. "I would never ever do such a thing. You know me. As innocent as… Uhh…" She began to think if there ever was such a time. Sadly there wasn't… That during her silence she had caught onto the suggestion of spankings and with it brought her hand to slip past her lips as her index finger had reached and brushed up and down the bridge of his nose. "Now is that really a punishment?"
After Anders movements were made to have removed his shorts, Leliana had at least loosened her own hold against him but not completely as she still wanted some kind of hold on him. It wasn't as she was afraid he'd run away but more-so knowing he was still here with her. She was afraid if she didn't hold on that this moment that seemed too good to be true would have been just a dream. She could have been reassured a hundred times and then told herself that nothing bad was going to happen again but that would only help slightly, she had figured it would have just taken time to have more security about it all after everything that had happened.
Suddenly Leliana was pulled out of her own dazed state as her bright optics had shifted back to Anders own lowering form over hers. From there she had reached out towards the back of his neck where one of her arms wrapped behind his neck while the other stayed to Anders lower back. She would have leaned up towards him in a greet of their lips but Anders's words brought her to nod her head some to his questioning. "I guess you could say that I missed it almost as much as I missed you." She admitted in a glance his direction from which she could before he dipped down towards her neck.
"So you wouldn't mind having another mini-you running around?" It was a hesitant question and one she wasn't certain that would have been answered as each of their objectives were elsewhere. But it didn't cease the curiosity no matter how fogged her mind may have been.
Leliana only whimpered in the back of her throat due to his tease, as she couldn't deny her clitoris was still tender from Anders previous actions. It didn't stop her hips though from rolling back enough just so her readied center had taunted his urges of how inviting it had seemed and how close yet how far they were to be joined. She would have even gone as far as teasing him with allowing the tip of member in, but before any movements could be made by one or the other. Leliana had relaxed her hips enough to where they rolled again. This was done just so she could easily reach between them and have enough room to have done so.
Her hand slipped from his lower back and between them to have gently grasped around his hardened muscle and above his hand, where she gave soft strokes. Between each breath of hers, she started to turn her head to one side as her slickened lips had pressed to Anders neck and ear giving off little tendrils of kisses along any opening provided. "I don't think you'll be able to spank nothing from this position though." She informed in a slight tease, Leliana didn't expect for him to have carried out the spanking threat so she figured pointing it out wouldn't have hurt any.
Anders closed his eyes; feeling the soft rumble in his throat in response to Leliana's assumed control. She had attempted to take more of such than Anders had clearly wanted to allow, but he hadn't said much since she seemed to enjoy taking the lead in things where she could. He felt a wet warmth near him and tried everything within himself to keep from buckling into his own needs so quickly. There had been so much more he wanted to tease Leliana with, but she was proving too much for him to handle.
"Oh, you don't think so?" He questioned but found himself already dipping more into her.
The movement had been slow; more-so to have kept the feeling of having her filled to have lasted longer. Anders's hips had started to move more of on their own accord. His hold around Leliana had seemed to have tightened more in a hug still. However, from each rocking gesture, his right hand had started to sink farther down towards Leliana's rear instead.
He palmed one cheek blindly into his hands and lightly tapped the soft flesh in a mild tease. Kissing along her neck, Anders had felt his mildly growing moans to have quickened and he started to lightly graze his teeth along the tender flesh in a mild love-bite. Even though it was far from the true idea that the mage had in mind, it was still a light reminder that he remained conscious enough to have done what he pleased.
Leliana had smiled in hearing the soft noises coming from Anders. In a little coax to have him voiced a few more noises she had nudged Anders cheek in a little push with her nose before brushing her nose against his. Her lips had parted next where at first her breath had bounced off his lips, before her mouth separated further so she could have latched her pearly whites along the edge of Anders's pout in a teasingly tug and ending suckle. Leliana had heard Anders words but though her closed eyes her mind was more focused on Anders touch against her that seemed practically magnified.
After Leliana had felt Anders taking control of entering into her slowly, that she had started to slip her own hand from his girth so she could have wrapped her arm more comfortably around him. In time her breathing had caught in the center of her throat when she felt herself stretching to have accommodated for Anders size. It wasn't until his gentle push of his hips against her brought her to awareness that her breath was regaining again and with it brought the soft sounds of her own pleasurable cries.
Leliana had hardly felt the solid connection against her ass, that only a little jolt of her body had budged some to the side. As with the smack and Anders movements brought her to been a bit surprised when she realized he had carried out what he had threatened her with. In approval, she had only giggled some and curled her shoulders some towards him in his hugging hold against her. "You sure have to prove me wrong, don't you?" She teased towards him as she separated her legs further for him and shifted her hips back so she could have aided in another way to their love making.
Leliana though had almost forgotten though of how sensitive she still was and with each thrust and panted sigh she had reached for Anders where her hand had searched for him and cupped to the back of his scalp where her hand had buried into his hair and gently tugged and pulled at his tied back hair, loosening it enough to have fallen some and since he was already bent down towards the curve of her neck she had felt the small sweeps of the ends of his hair brushing across her skin and bringing a smile to her lips once again. In a little hum from the back of her throat, Leliana turned her head to one side which brought her lips to connect to where they could reach and venturing down to his own nook of his neck, to have put forth what she received by him and also quieting her own sounds to a lesser than louder ones.
"Have to… keep you in line…somehow…" Anders mentioned between rasped breathing as he started to pick up his pace from within her.
Normally his reasons for have holding himself back had originated from the idea that Leliana aws pregnant. He didn't want to excite or prod where he probably shouldn't have. Though that notion had dwindled with the more arousing thought that Anders had needed to remind her of who was the person making the decisions from within the house.
"you know… I only tease—Oh, Maker..! Maker, I've missed this too much." He said and arched his head more towards Leliana's face within that moment and finally had stole another kiss.
His hand that covered over Leliana's rear end and gave her frame another light squeeze, in between of his movements. Anders had found himself calling more for the Maker within each time that he moved, that he wasn't certain that if it was due to more of his movements or of Leliana's own. Once his pace had increased, Anders had hiked up Leliana's left leg more into his right forearm.
Granted, he had been giving Leliana a light smack now and then, but Anders had been more focused in giving Leliana everything that he could within that moment. The bed shook and bounced against the frame of the wall once Anders had started to pick up his pace. When he felt that he couldn't have climbed any higher, his kneese had buckled from underneath himself and Anders's waist hat started to fall forward. Still finding himself still deeply within his connection of her, the mage returned a loving kiss.
"I love you… So much… So much, I—don't believe my life could ever had as much meaning without you.." Anders said once he looked back down at her at last. He placed his right hand towards her kiss and lightly started to leave trails of small kisses along her forehead. After such deep and meaningful lovemaking to him, Anders could feel his eyes beginning to collect tears.
"And you know how much I love your teasing…" She spoke back towards him, while tilting her head to one side so her words would have better reached his ears between each heated rasp. Leliana would have voiced out to him even more but after his lips connected with hers and she melted into the mattress. Slowly her clench around his cranium had released and slipped down to where the palm of her hand had cupped at his jawline to have led him into a deeper kiss when her lips had parted for him.
Of course they had to part ways though for the moment to catch air in their lungs. So with it brought Leliana's desperate moans to have been pushed out of her with each connection of their hips had made. It was almost a tease when he begun lightly spanking her rear end, that she whimpered towards his lips in a deeper growing need which required more of him to have put his hands elsewhere. Just when she believed as well that their love couldn't have felt more exquisite as it had now, Anders maneuvered her in such a way that he proved her wrong.
In almost a quick reaction of him raising her leg and plunging deeper inside her, Leliana's chest had risen off the mattress and brushed up against his own bare one. The connection had stilled her bouncing breasts slightly, if for a moment. But the penetration was so deep and she couldn't have squirmed away at all, so all she could have done was release in one of the few ways that came naturally. "Oh Anders, please don't stop…" She pleaded towards him in her own set of mingled whimpers that filled the room and bounced off the walls. She no longer cared who might have heard her any longer, she couldn't have held back if she wanted to.
Leliana's fingertips had dug into his flesh then as she felt within her the contraction of her walls vice around him needingly, she was nearing her second climax. One which she wanted to hold out on, as she wanted Anders to have joined her in such a glorious moment. Her sweated brow bent forward then to press towards his shoulder as her lips gave off sweet little kisses, though after her third reached one to meet his skin again she found herself calling out Anders name and arching back against him when he buckled down towards her. The wall she had up not to have broken just yet had done just that and with it came her second release. To silent any form of sound that came with it, she had turned her head some to have found Anders already sought out her lips, which she greeted with the same passion given.
"I love you too…" She confessed back to him when her lips were her own again. "Promise me nothing will ever come between us like that again?" Leliana asked towards him, even though they weren't certain what the future may have held for them… Leliana still wished to know he'd always be there, for without him she'd be lost and she couldn't imagine losing him again.
After reopening her eyes to his kiss to her brow she had teasingly moved her hips against him even though she had been still recovering. But as she looked towards him she had noted the glistening tears collecting in his eyes and in her own concern she reached from his neck previously and to his cheek where her hand had cupped so her thumb could have caressed underneath his socket gently. It was one of the few things she would have to get use to of Anders being more emotional about certain things. So right now she didn't voice what she had seen but instead leaned up towards him and met her lips with his.
"How long do you think we can stay here in each other's arms before Rhy's and Evangeline try and find us?" She questioned in a gaze to him through her long full lashes. "Because I think I want to stay and be here, than anywhere else."
Anders reached up and started to rub away the rest of the tears that started to pour more freely. Once he felt the sensation overwhelm him, to his surprise—he couldn't seem to stop. Her question had caused him to look more In her direction while in the meantime of finally relaxing back into her arms.
"Hopefully long enough to allow us some rest-Maker's Breath-I can't remember the last time we've ever had peace and quiet after being together like this." He sighed and rolled more towards her side to cuddle against her. "Nothing is ever going to keep us apart, I swear to you."
He closed his eyes, nuzzling his whiskers lightly against her shoulder a bit while attempting to fall asleep. Though this hadn't lasted for only a few hours; about the time when the sun had finally started to settle down. There had been a knock at the door; causing Anders to grumble some in his sleep. The knock came again and he opened one eye in a slight glare towards the wooden door. His arms around Leliana remained secure until the third knock.
At least whoever it was, had the decency not to just barge in like some of the house guests use to do…
Anders grumbled in his thoughts before finally shifting in the mattress in order to sit up. A slight chill coursed through his spine; remembering that they did enter the room with wet clothes from the beach earlier. Water and cold air equaled an almost frozen bed. Anders was going to have to remember that from now onward.
After pulling the blankets back over Leliana and searching for a warm robe to wear; Anders went to the door and started to open it; but only at a sudden crack. Peering out to the other side, he grumpily started to raise his voice to the other person.
"What is it this time?" He all but barked the question at the other Mage in front of him; who happened to jump a little and inch slightly back.
"S-Sire… I - Well, actually the Court… wishes to hold a meeting, please." The mage answered and stiffened his back straight upon his presence.
"Oh, that's right…" Anders responded and felt his half lids lower down in thought.
Of course they would have wanted to speak to him. He had been probably "out of commission" for too long of a time and to suddenly show up again would demand questions. If he didn't satisfy them now, there probably would have been even more complications from them later. Anders nodded some to the conclusion and looked back towards the man once more.
"Fine. Gather in the foyer and I'll be out in a minute." He said and quickly closed the door before the other mage could get another word in. Anders pressed his back to the door and rubbed his face deep into both palms of his hands. After a brisk slap to his cheeks in order to wake himself up, Anders started to groan a little.
"Okay… Time to be—" He started to grumble before suddenly lifting his tone into something more pleasant and rather surprising while removing his hands away to reveal a bright and optimistic expression. … One that would have screamed abnormality if anyone saw his previous grouchiness. "Nice."
Leliana had felt her heart beginning to swell with happiness after hearing Anders reassuring words towards her. After all its what she had needed more than anything else he could have given her and she couldn't agree more to his statement that it had been too long since they were given such a chance to be together like this.
When Leliana felt Anders facial hair brushing across her more sensitive areas she had giggled some and tightened her arms around and over his. Her hand reached out for his next so her fingers could have laced with his and brought his hand to her lips, where the rouge had given a longing kiss to the back of his hand before resting their joined hands back to her chest where he could have felt the rhythm of her beating heart.
It hadn't been long before Leliana had found herself resting warmly beside Anders, still in the secure hold he had her in from when they first laid down. For once Leliana's dreams were pleasant ones, as she wasn't lying when she had told Anders about her worse dreams of losing him even in her dreams. But this time, the dreams were as they were before Anders had even left and everything had went downhill. In her sleep had shown such contentment. As the small smile had smeared across her lips in a little fashion.
Leliana had hardly felt Anders departure, as the only thing that brought her to scrunch up was the cold air where Anders was blocking before brushed across the small of her back. Instinctively Leliana had clenched at the sheet and brought it closer to her chest in her sleep. If it wasn't for Anders more stern words, Leliana wouldn't have stirred at all when she had heard them. Though she didn't open her eyes at first since she still believed to have been in nothing more than a dream state still or hoping to have gone back if she wasn't.
As she was being pulled in and out of her sleep, Leliana had hardly caught onto much of the conversation. Until after the door had closed Leliana had rolled to one side to have realized Anders did actually get up and in her own annoyance that they were possibly interrupted from their rest together she had started to open her eyes as she raised up into a sitting position in the center of the bed. The sheet had fallen down and with her skin being exposed to the cold air, Leliana had quickly woken from her drozey state and reached for the sheet in a flustered little girlish squeak.
Leliana had looked up after covering herself once more to have narrowed her sights on Anders and from his words to himself she had given a little smile and tilt of her head to one side. "Don't tell me you have to leave me already?" She asked in almost a pout without even noticing it until she had said it. With a scoot off the bed, Leliana had stood to her feet and after wrapping the sheet around her like an oversized towel she had stared to trail over towards the mage with the sheet trailing slightly behind her. "Here I was hoping to have gotten you into those renegade robes." Leliana teased towards him with a poke of her finger to his chest from her free hand.
Looking over her shoulder, Leliana had set her sights out the window to have seen how late it was and seeing as how the sun was already set she sighed before turning back to Anders. "Who do you have to see anyways? Doesn't anyone believe in leaving you be even at night?" She groaned in her annoyance, but it was lesser than that of Anders own grumpiness that he had shown moments ago. Leliana had an idea of who it was that wished to see him though, since so many of the Cabinet and many others had so many questions. After all they were without their icon for some time now. "Do you need to go with you? After all it might help you being 'nice' if I'm there." She teased towards him in a little with a nudge of her nose against his own.
At first, Anders appeared as though he was going to refuse the offer but then he actually gaveit more thought. He then wrapped his arms back around her and gave her lips a quick kiss. "It might do some good actually. Lets hurry then. The sooner we greet them the sooner we can tell them to leave us alone."
Which hadn't been truer words spoken from him at the time. Anders had clearly wanted to have gotten this particular meeting over with, because he could practically see the distrust in everyone's eyes. Then again, it all could have just been in his over-reactive head by now. His primary target, was the small group of magisters sitting at the table across from them. From the other side, there were the mages of Kirkwall and their current soldiers. Aveline wasn't among them of course; but Anders couldn't remember if it was because she was killed or if she had ran away. He liked to have thought that it was the later option, but had a sinking feeling that it was the first.
Anders had finally wore the renegade robes just to please Leliana and to remind the people from Tevinter of who he was. Certainly more than just one Circle had to have been questioning his return though. Looking to his left, he had seen the Resolutions and members of the Union. It was an entire circus under one roof; and Anders didn't like it. He wasn't certain; but he would have almost predicted an assassination being taken place here-here, among the many leaders of fraternities and mages that were underneath one roof. Who would be at fault then-? A templar, a Seeker, or perhaps a fellow mage or mage hunter? Possibilities were endless…
However, most of the leaders had just sat there astonished to have seen that it was in fact their Icon. They were more inclined to have been begging for him to start taking action again rather than running anymore tests on him to see if he was under any spiritual possession or magic. Of course, Anders wasn't –but he was certainly a loose cannon since the last time any of them really had the chance to speak to him.
"We—We were going to start by reviewing with you of the city's main concerns." The city guard remarked and quickly ducked his head back down towards the papers in his hands. "The taxes have rose up to twenty percent in the past year, the jailors have been full of those who continued to speak of treason within the kingdom, and most of the people cannot support this baptized war."
"The people have to be given a greater incentive in order to give us support then." Anders stated and rested his hands flat onto the table in front of him. "Now… Gentlemen… I realize that our coffers are not as deep as they use to be, and our resources are in short supply, but if we can reach the quota within our tax budget, there may be a slim chance that we can buy off a Lucrosian Fraternity, which will replenish that debt ten-fold."
"We don't see ourselves reaching that goal any time soon, Sire." The City Guard mentioned and flipped one of his pages as he looked down at another. "And most of the people… would blame the Queen—"
"Oh, they'd blame her for anything!" Anders abruptly shouted and stood back to his heels. He turned towards the windows and pointed towards the clear sky. "They'd blame her if it rains! They'd blame her when the soil turns to ash, when they stub their toes, and when their tummies ache from eating too much—'It's all the fault of Our Lady.'"
The City Guard hadn't said anything, but must like the others at the time being—he still had kept his head lain low.
"Mark it down, that if I hear of such blasphemy, I'll consider it treason and have the ones who are aged over fifteen killed. Any of those younger than that committing the crime are to be exiled." Anders concluded and finally fold his arms. The feathers from his cloak ruffled around his neck and chin for that moment. "They don't have to go north; but they can't stay here."
After getting dressed into her proper attire to have met with the City Guard and whomever else was there waiting for them Leliana had followed in suit beside Anders to the foyer to have seen why they needed to speak at them at such an hour. Then again if it was important, which she believed it was then she couldn't have been still angered since she had wanted to make Kirkwall a better living place for those in it, as she had promised them the night Anders had said his speech. One which she could have pushed another pie in his face for since with it came so much responsibility and work to please so many people. Never did she think she would have been looked to for such answers and if she wasn't lucky than she knew she would have sprouted out a grey hair or two by the stress that came with it. Which didn't sound to appealing in her mind that she had shudder to the thought.
Leliana's eyes had shifted from one person to the next as she sat silently next to Anders. Not out of fear what they might have said but out of respect for what they wished to say. Since they were they're people and they had to give them room to speak if they were to fix anything. In the moment the City Guards words breeched her ears, Leliana had perked her head up some and turned to have looked towards him as he spoke. She felt her eyes flinching at what he was speaking of. The coin issue, when such topics were brought up many had been quick to argue. Which Leliana wished to avoid, but she knew that it wasn't impossible. So she had just leaned back into her chair glanced towards Anders from the corner of her socket while she still listened to the male speak.
Leliana had smiled some to the suggestion Anders had made. That she was tempted to have backed on what he was stating but the guards words brought her to a cut off with only her lips half parted. It was then as if the man had taken all hope out of the room of stating they couldn't meet the quota that it brought Leliana to have glanced down to her lap in her own dwindling thought. But she hadn't gotten far, not even a single idea was able to pass through her mind before she was pulled back to the conversation almost immediately when the male said the people would have blamed her.
The red-headed expression quickly changed from her gentler look to that of an angered one. She was in no means hurt by what he said, but more so stunned he would have even said such, even with her there and acting as if she weren't. Leliana would have said something in turn after Anders but she had figured he had said enough that she was more concerned with his anger and seeing as how he wasn't able to control his emotions like he once had she did. So she hoped she could have calmed him by reaching for his forearm where Leliana cupped her hand over his forearm and had given a bit of a smile his direction.
After Leliana turned her head some towards the City Guard and was tempted to have spoken but Anders setting down what seemed like a new laws brought Leliana to quickly turn towards the mage and shake her head some to his outburst. "No, no… Its okay… Really the people are allowed their own thoughts and beliefs. Even if that's about a person or religion." With a sigh Leliana turned from Anders as her hand had shifted in a slip off his arm. She had wanted to make Kirkwall as livable as possible and she didn't want the people in it to fear their leaders either.
"So…" Leliana spoke almost a bit too calmly after what had just been said as she shifted to have looked towards the City Guard to have continued. "If the people are pointing the fingers at me what do they wish for me to do then exactly?" Leliana dared to ask, though it wasn't really a question as she leaned forward next to have rested her arms on the table before speaking quickly again before the male could have answered. "Not send us off to war? Or better yet, not send off our people's sons and husbands off?" Shaking her head some, Leliana had groaned lightly enough that it would have been unnoticed. "I get we are short of funding, but we can't just be sitting on our hands waiting for something bad to happen or hoping it doesn't. We'll all get slaughtered that way and I've been trying to make sure this past year that didn't happen. There has to be another way where we get what we all want and replenish our coffer we just have to come together and think instead of reaching for each other's neck as the enemy is hoping."
"Most people would agree with you, Your Highness." The City Guard started to answer and finally lifted his head up from his work. "That's why we ask for our funding to go towards expeditions instead. We need the Merchant's Guild to reopen in our main districts most of all."
"And what do you think my current Cabinet has been doing –even in my absence?" Anders asked after glancing back towards Leliana for the time being. He was still leaning from one foot to the other; partially still annoyed with this continued conversation.
"No disrespect, Serrah… But we have sent the Cabinet our taxes with the hope of peace treaties and trade agreements to have been brought back. All we see returning to our boarders are men from foreign lands pledging themselves to a cause that most of us do not feel comfortable agreeing to." The City Guard stated and then placed his papers down. "Now, with this ….mage issue—"
Anders glared at him as he turned back towards the table once more. He leaned back over it just so that his glare would return to gloom heavily over the man.
"Get out." He spoke bluntly to him. "You're not fit to be in the presence of this cabinet if you cannot give proper yielding to the ones who overthrew you. Get out and cut off your own head."
Rhys glanced from Anders and looked back at the City Guard's shocked expression. He leaned towards Anders and spoke gently so as not to speak up too loudly. "I think you mean 'or,' Icon."
Anders rolled his eyes some and rubbed his left temple before speaking again. "Fine… Get out 'or' cut off your own head."
The City Guard stood up in his fumbling and gave a quick bow before his departure. He didn't wish to test the Icon's patience; nor anger the Queen anymore than his truth already seemed to have done. Though the rest of the Cabinet had been quiet for the moment in watching him leave, Rhys still had seemed to have the smug look of victory on his face.
"The nerve of some of those peasants, huh?" Rhys mentioned sarcastically in his joke.
"Tell me about it…" Anders groaned under his breath, taking the tone a little more serious than it was meant to. "You'd think they believed their kingdom was ruled over an individual voting system. They forget that Kirkwall was sacked."
"You just don't have enough oppression running ramped in the streets." Rhys sighed in his continuation and shook his head lightly.
Leliana felt her eyes widening some when Anders had told the City Guard what he had. She didn't want to step on anyone's toes and accidently upset them. Or have Anders do the same for that matter. After all she just had gotten him back the least she needed was him to anger the wrong person. Though she doubted anyone would have done anything so stupid now against them. Or so she had hoped.
After the door had closed behind the City Guard and it was just them once more. Leliana had looked up to Anders, as she stood to her feet beside him and almost in an instant she smacked the back of her hand towards Anders gut. It was nothing too harsh, but more so of some kind of warning smack that she felt he needed to have after his several lash outs at the man. "You know you could have been nicer…" She attempted to have teased though her tone held a bit more irritation in it, since they had spoken of exactly this before they left their chambers after all.
Turning some on her heel, Leliana began to step from the table and chairs where she propped one hand upon her hip and used her other free hand to have pinched the bridge of her nose. She began thinking on what the City Guard was suggesting they had done with the funds. Though it might have been a great idea, Leliana wasn't sure if much could have been done towards these ideas. Since all along Anders priority was for the mages and fighting for them, she knew this and changing his mind would have been impossible. Leliana just feared that so many people would have gotten hurt in the middle of the war. Most of those people being the ones she cared for. So of course the first would have seemed for appealing to her.
After dropping her hand down from her features, she began to turn to have looked towards Anders. But more so towards Rhy's and his last spoken words to Anders couldn't have put a broader smile on her face as she shook her head some. "Ah, but he runs ramped on the streets… At night." She joked, though it would have made no sense to Rhy's but only to her and Anders it would have. "Just when no one's looking."
Leliana's smile soon slipped from her lips though when she began to turn her optics, where she looked to the door a second time. A part of her was tempted to have spoken to Anders on her thoughts of what they had or had not done with this awaiting war, but they weren't exactly alone… And Leliana didn't want a third party to be against her, then she wouldn't have gotten much of a word in. So for now she would have to choose her words wisely... Oh how it would have been much more easier if someone could have come in and fixed this all for them… There was that glooming responsibility again. After sighing she turned where Leliana paced towards Anders and brushed her hand across his feathered cloak. She had almost forgotten what had looked like with it on that she was happy she even suggested such attire for him to have worn.
"Maybe we should think on what the City Guard was saying? He did have a bit of a point…" She said in a soft tone as her eyes lifted to have looked towards Anders. "Even if he did ruffle your feathers a bit." She attempted to have teased as her index finger and thumb pinched one of his blackened feathers and twirled the end gently between her fingertips.
Hearing Leliana's joke only had caused Rhys to boast more; though that was inbetween of catching slight embarrassed glance that Anders seemed to retreat from in the process. The dark-haired mage twirled the longer ends of his beard between his finger and thumb a bit. After his moment of studying the Icon's rather quick retreat, he chuckled some and glanced back to Leliana.
"Spreading the oppression ramped at night, huh? Perhaps its better if we were all indoors by then." He grinned some and watched from the corner of his eye at how high and fast that a clear annoyed vein seemed to arise itself from Anders's forehead.
It was a jealousy trademark; one that was beginning to show itself with age. Anders ignored the feeling of it pulsing though; and shifted his head towards the shadows of the room in order to keep it hidden. "I doubt our Queen has anything to fear from my oppression—"
At least that was what he was beginning to say, but Leliana's suggestion had cut him off pretty quick. Anders listened to her thoughts and nodded in what firm agreement that he could reveal—but he didn't like it. Anders had been nice in this entire aspect the entire time. He got nowhere with his manifestos! Not even when he finally had the audience with the Holy Mother, had anything truly been accomplished.
Naomi, Aragorn and Anna were all gone due to his attempts at using force and then having to hold himself back or to stall in his actions. The term was better described as "pussy-footin' around" from Lasher's own opinion to the matter once before then. Anders couldn't afford himself nor anyone else to have been sacrificed due to anymore stalling. The world needed this revolution, and it needed to have been hit hard and fast—hopefully too fast for even the Holy Mother to see it approach.
"If you're done flirting-? " The Magister began to say with a risen eyebrow towards them before looking back at the other leaders of the separate fraternities, "-the rest of the Guild would wish to lay the rest of our ultimatums on the table."
"What? No flowers first?" Rhys questioned; still in a tease and then made a slight presentation gesture towards Leliana. "Not even for our Queen?"
"True; formalities of the Tevinters have always been the most important thing—at least from what I gathered from staying with them the last time." Anders piped up quickly after him; though turned his attention towards Leliana in making sure that she would rest for the moment.
"You're the one who declared war on us first, Ser Anders." The Magister reminded quickly; unable to hide the slight snipe that he had in the process. He was trying to keep from his hands forming into fists and relax a bit more in the armchair he was sitting in, at the time. "Your actions have cost us a fine commander and a decent fellow member of our Court; both Alexander and Malachi were well on their way to the High Archon's Cabinet. Not only that, but you managed to send Alexander's wife to her death; which ended the Hamilton line abruptly."
"First of all, she had a name… And quite frankly, I don't see where that last part is a problem to your boys upstate." Anders retorted back without even batting an eyelash from his cruel words. "Anna was a Ferelden, and with the Hamilton family line killed, that just puts more money in your Court's pockets, doesn't it?"
"They didn't want to have to do the paperwork." Rhys whispered to him which caused Anders's expression to slightly beam at the new-found knowledge.
"Oh, I see! They're lazy." Anders responded and then looked back at the Tevinter rather stiffly. "Well, Tevinter, your commander was killed by Starkhaven Templars; something I never wished to happen. As for Ser Malachi, he was presumably punished by the Divine due to his own actions—those of which I 'never' agreed-nor-advised-for him to attempt. In fact, his actions alone placed a burden on Kirkwall and 'she' has been trying to recuperate ever since then."
"Why? What actions had he done?" The elven First Enchanter of Orlais questioned and looked harshly from the Tevinter Magister and then towards Rhys and Anders.
"Ser Malachi believed it was best to initiate a terrorist act and murder the Divine." Anders stated though kept his stare still steadily heavy on the Tevinter across from him. "He failed. Admittedly, this was something I was going to attempt myself at a later time if the Divine refused to my given demands, but Ser Malachi was too impatient to restrain himself. In response, I –too—was forced to act; which botched the entire operation."
"So, in conclusion, you both failed." The elf woman restated and sank back into her chair.
"As far as the world knows, she still lives—yes." Anders answered back.
"A missing Divine and a missing Empress…" The elven First Enchanter sighed and shook her head before casting the Tevinters another suspicious glance. "This is beginning to sound more and more like a Tevinter conspiracy."
Trying to shake off the sudden shudder that the First Encahnter of Orlais was giving him, the Tevinter Mage attempted to save his appearance and stared back at the desk. "Icon, you must look into your heart to forgive what Malachi—"
"Yes, I know-I-know, I am a symbol, and by being such I must always forgive you and forgive others—but I'm TIRED of FORGIVING!" Anders demanded and banged his fists on the table. "And I'm tired of doing nothing!"
Leliana stared at the back of Anders as he trailed away from each of them. She didn't mean to have embarrassed him by any means. But how cute he had seemed when he got all flustered, that a part of her would have jumped him in a tender embrace if it weren't for all the people in here. Thankfully for the Tevinter's voice it brought Leliana to turn and look towards him with an innocent smile. Did he have to actually point out their harmless flirting? Tevinter's never had a sense of humor… Well… No nope, none of them did. Leliana was actually relived when they left there and didn't have to go back.
After the conversation picked up once more Leliana had begun to slowly walk back to her seat which she took promptly and began listening to these ultimatums that the Tevinter had so spoke of. Though she wished she could have plugged her ears when she listened further and further into what he has said. Leliana didn't like to have thought of what happened to Anna just as Anders. Nor did she believe it was his fault for her demise as they had. It was madness what they were stating. But that had always seemed the Tevinter way and there was little they could do now that everything was already gone.
Leliana had only shifted some towards Anders after his spoken words on behalf of Anna were said. That she was almost tempted to have smiled some, but she wasn't given the chance as Rhy's whispering then Anders second outburst brought Leliana to drift her eyes to the Tevinter's to have seen their reaction of him calling them lazy. Since she believed it wouldn't have gone over well with them. Though when nothing came Leliana felt a little bit more at ease that her wound interlaced fingers had loosened some to have rested more towards her lap.
She couldn't have waited until this whole meeting was over with. Since every time one of them rubbed Anders the wrong way he seemed to have another one of his lash outs towards the one speaking to him. She would just have to hope that this was the last one for the night. That she had only propped an arm to the edge of the table where her fingers pressed to her temples to massage at the tense spot.
In her own silence, Leliana looked back and forth from one person to the next who was speaking. It wasn't until Anders spoke again that Leliana narrowed her sights on him and straightened some to have seemed to attentive to those around her. It was probably best she had done this since Anders slaming of his fist brought even her to have jumped some even though she should have expected it with his rant. She couldn't take much more of this that Leliana had taken it upon herself to remove Anders from this room since no one else was going too.
In a quick motion of standing to her feet Leliana marched over towards Anders, with not an angered look but with more of a light smile that she had given more towards the people that were in the room than anyone else as she reached for the end of the mages ear in a pluck of her fingers. "I'm sorry… But he'll be leaving now." Leliana spoke gently towards each person before turning her attention and words towards Anders and this time her tone had changed into that of a more stern one as she started to lead him away with or without his approval. "Come on dear…"
After the door closed behind them Leliana continued to have led Anders away until they were a good distance away. Even if he was whining through it all, she didn't seem to give in. "Now…" Leliana said with a sigh as she started to have slowly released him by now. "That were out of there finally… Will you take a breather and just try and not get yourself into the frying pan?" She asked while turning around to have looked to Anders. "One day you're going to piss off the wrong person and I'll lose you again. I can't do that Anders… Not again. You know how I'm edgy around Tevinter's as it is."
The group within the room had looked as thought they were about to have thrown a fit, even with Leliana dragging Anders off. As stumbling as the mage was, and struggling to have walked back, Anders found that he couldn't without causing injuries to those around him. It was difficult enough for Anders to have tried in keeping his emotions in check, and so he didn't want to risk moving the wrong limb once he as being escorted out of the room.
"I'm not done with them yet. We're finally getting the Fraternities there to understand—" He started to say until he was hoisted into one direction in front of Leliana. From there, she started speaking in which case had demanded his attention. Anders tilted his head some, slightly appalled at hearing of what she seemed to have feared.
"Don't tell me you're afraid of Tevinter after everything that's been done. Leliana, I declared war against them and in response they send back that representative to attempt in coaxing a peace treaty with me. I have them begging!" Anders boasted with his hands still pointing towards the door from his belief—even though to anyone else, it hardly appeared as such.
Anders took a moment's pause, pinching the bridge of his nose as he started to hang his head down. After a moment's attempt at calming his nerves, Anders gave a sigh and started to lean back against the wall. "Alright… Alright, I promise I will try and keep from losing my temper from now onward. I just needed to make certain that once and for all, they understood of which direction Kirkwall is headed; that—and that I am capable to remain as High Advisor to you."
"I'm not afraid of them…" Leliana retorted quickly after him in a bit of a shocked tone, as she averted her eyes away from him and crossed her arms over her chest. "I just don't trust them." She admitted softer than her first sentence while biting down onto her lower lip as she shifted her eyes to have looked to Anders and his pointing of the door. She couldn't help but have felt a bit awkward and felt her shoulders rise up some from the unease she felt from just thinking of having to go back in that room.
Leliana wished she could have easily just told Anders that they weren't strong enough, yet to fight against Tevinter. Even Alistair couldn't go against them safely if he wanted. Even with his newly alliance with Orlais from when they had been there for Anders trail. Though there was no telling if that alliance still stood, since the most power people of Orlais both had gone missing. So it wasn't like they could have looked towards Alistair any in this fight, which Leliana had wished she could have multiple time through the past year.
"It just doesn't seem right, something seems out of place and I just want to make sure were making the right move before we jump right in." In a side glance from the corner of her sockets Leliana had looked towards Anders where she watched as he had shifted to lean against the wall. In her pursuit she followed the mage and started to reach out for his hands with hers as her thumbs coaxed at the back of his hands while listening to him.
She smiled at the notion of him trying to control his temper, no matter how hard that may have been for him or impossible for that matter. Since she knew it would take time and not just a few days for him to be in better control with how he acted, hopefully. "I'm sure they understand where we want to head, they're just too stubborn to leave us be…" In pausing she thought more so on his last words of him being just her High Advisor and even though this was all that could be done for now Leliana could have helped but one day wanted more and for the people to know of it. "I wish you were more than just my advisor you know…" She confessed with a tap of her finger against his chest. Though she left her words there as she sighed and begun to slip her other hand from holding his own. She knew they had needed to go back to the room but she prolonged it for as long as possible.
Closing his eyes to Leliana's touch, Anders had kept his head low for the moment. He wanted to keep the feeling of her touch with him to linger on a bit longer. When she had started to pull her hand away, Anders quickly reached up and snatched her hand into his. With a slightly abrupt tug, Anders had opened his eyes partially and pulled her more into a more passionate kiss. Once he had started to pull away and relax his hold from her, he looked back into her eyes.
"In time, we'll live free and equal among anyone else he had ever wished to do so." He promised and pushed himself up from the wall and trailed his way back to the foyer. He took his time in properly guiding Leliana back to her seat before returning his attention back to the Fraternity leaders abruptly.
"So, we've all established that we all at least consider that the idea of waiting around is the worst choice given." Anders addressed them each before returning back to his chair in order to sit down in. "If the Tevinter is finished with pointing the finger in his name blame game, I'm ready and open for any suggestions on stabilizing out future. We need the trade borders open again, for starters."
"You have the Orlesians from the Union's support no matter what you choose." The Elvan First Enchanter spoke promptly from her chair; though she kept her eyes still locked towards the Magister at the moment.
"For all the talk of Grey Wardens not being allowed to get mixed up in a political situation, you certainly are quick to against the truce in those treaties." The Revolutionist's leader remarked and rather quickly too.
"This Orlesian woman is a mage first, and a Grey Warden second. The priorities are the same as my own, and if you have a problem with that you can leave the room as well." Anders mentioned firmly and tapped his fingers against the hard wooden surface. "And for your lingering question, yes, I still plain on going to war against Tevinter."
Leliana's eyes widened after she felt Anders grasp upon her hand. Of course with it came a little squeal but nothing to loud that would have alarmed anyone as she was pulled towards Anders chest brought her previous calmness she had before. She couldn't help but have smiled through the joining of their lips. Which she returned with just as much given passion, that even a little whimper came from her lips from being meshed with his. Once her lips were her own again, she rested her temple against his chest and closed her eyes while listening to his words. He always knew how to make her feel at ease every time and it was one of the many things she loved about him.
"I can't wait for that day. I know it doesn't matter what other people may think of us, but I still can't deny that I want the same freedom many others have to show their love openly." Leliana whispered towards his chest. After she felt him shifting to stand more on his own off the wall, Leliana had pressed her palms against Anders's chest and gave a little push before slipping her hand down to greet his in a gentle hold.
After they reached the room for a second time and Leliana had taken her seat. She had only glanced towards the ones who might have been looking her way, where she had given a warm smile. After all she had just dragged 'the icon' out like a child, so she expected to have been frowned upon for interrupting like she did. But it had to done so more commotion wouldn't have riled their guests.
Leliana turned when the Orlesian's woman's words breached her ears. They even brought a bit of a smile to her lips when she heard such words. Since support from anyone was greatly appreciated, even if it was clear where they had stood all along. But this gratitude was quickly cut short when second leader and spouted out his own words. With it brought Leliana's attention to turn to him and almost roll her eyes to the words which he choose. It had seemed like whenever anyone had the chance they had always thrown in the Grey Warden political hindrance that many of the Warden's would have cowardice under. Thankfully though it had seemed this Orlesian woman wasn't one of them. It was just one of the few things that had gotten under Leliana's skin when people tried to use this against them.
Upon hearing Anders speak towards the man brought her smile to return though she didn't like the idea of going against Tevinter, she would just have to hope she knew what he was doing… That or talk with it about him further before he had gone ahead with these plans.
It had been a few weeks since the evening's meeting. Anders had to plan carefully now that he was beginning to pull back on the resources that Kirkwall had for his war. His grudge against Tevinter was clearly shown in many ways by now. The people who were once in his meetings were soon pushed out and told never to return to the land. The good news was that Kirkwall was turning more into a homeland for other members of the Union as well as mages.
The thought of finally taking steps in making a change was putting a quicker spring to his step. Though behind him, Rhys was following in swiftly small paces. Every three steps the blonde mage took down the long hallway, the dark haired male was taking nearly double the amount in order to reach him. The two weren't in Kirkwall anymore; however. Their travels had called them
"Are you sure that we're even prepared?" Rhys had started to question him. "I mean… for this war."
"Of course." Anders as they started to pass the tents of their armory base. "All we have to do is take the supply base and demolish their 'choke hold' before it starts to spread."
"That's what I'm referring too." Rhys frowned in his momentary fear. "We're not exactly facing just a few templars, Anders. Even though we're still in the Free Marches, it's still not Kirkwall. We are going against Magisters."
"Yes, yes. I'm very aware of what will be going against in this battle, Rhys." Anders reassured but he wasn't looking towards him at the moment.