Finding Love No Matter The Cost

by Genesis Vakarian

Cheesy title I know, but this is DA Awakenings. Nathaniel Howe and my OC Xena who is a city elf that he fell in love with. And what if he was given the choice of marrying her instead of becoming a Warden? Read stories by GirlyGeek. Some chapters will be a T and others M. Not for anyone under eighteen years of age. You have been warned. My idea while playing the DLC for Origins. AU.

3. Chapter 3

Samuel had a daughter he named Xena and she was being raised in Amaranthine while he tended to the grounds with her in tow as an infant. But she wasn't his by blood, because her real parents died, thus, leaving her as an orphan.

As she started to learn how to walk and talk, she was often seen about the kitchens as a little maid scampering from here to there, always fetching things and getting others if the cook needed them. All the while, always looking forward to spending a few moments' worth of freedom with Nathaniel, the youngest of the Howe children and loving it all.

Until she turned 12 and was given to another family as a wedding gift to the son And she did her work well. And Nathaniel went to the Free Marches to learn more about being an archer and a rogue. While his father killed off Teryn Cousland and his wife, daughter in law and grandson, save for two members of the family. The older son, Fergus and his little sister, Sonya who then became a Grey Warden.

She had her 17 birthday come and go in the camp until she ran to the free marches, only to bump in her childhood companion Nathaniel. She went to him as a servant and they were reunited after about 6 years apart. She cried for what she went through helping the Wardens and the others in the camp before Cailan was killed by an ogre and Loghain betrayed them to fight the darkspawn.

As if they were a normal army. As they remained together, they often spoke of the past as children. How they would always get into some sort of trouble but never breaking anything and always being honest.

And for over a year, the Blight wasn't defeated until they Wardens killed the archdemon after the youngest warden convinced Alsitair to sleep with Morrigan to produce a child to absorb the soul of the dragon and it worked. As the whole of Feredlen was celebrating, she went to work as a maid still. And Nathaniel told her to be careful and she was.

She thought to herself. "Maker, what is wrong with me? I think I love him. But my being a city elf won't allow our love to go anywhere further than that of master and servant."