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[Maximus741000]

Wonderfully written, Mirelia. I loved the descriptive writing which bring the scenes to life, especially the reunion between Talissa and Shianni! : )

[MireliA]

Maximus741000 wrote...

Wonderfully written, Mirelia. I loved the descriptive writing which bring the scenes to life, especially the reunion between Talissa and Shianni! : )

Thanks

[Miri1984]

OOoh, steamy bits . Love it.



(Do I come across as a bit obsessed about Alistair steamy bits?)

[MireliA]

Miri1984 wrote...

OOoh, steamy bits . Love it.

(Do I come across as a bit obsessed about Alistair steamy bits?)

Is it possible to be too obsessed with Alistair steamy bits??

[Miri1984]

NEVARRR!

[Sisimka]

Good chapter, poor Talissa! I'm looking forward to the meeting in the study.

[MireliA]

Thanks Sisimka . I think Talissa needs some happiness . Posted in BBCode but not sure - tell me if you think it looks naff.

Chapter 6

At six, Talissa knocked on Alistair’s study door and walked in.
‘Evening Talissa, take a seat.’ Alistair said, pointing at the chair in front of him. Once she’d sat down, she noticed that he was wearing clothes rather than armour, something she was trying hard not to stare at.
‘I need to apologise to you.’ Alistair said, looking directly into her eyes. ’Last night, what I said to you shouldn’t have happened. I think you should know I’ve not been in a relationship with anyone else since or prior to Mireli. I shouldn’t have made a move on you. That was very tactless after you heard about your betrothed dying.’
‘Oh! I thought you’d come onto other women like this before.’
‘If I had, don’t you think I’d be better at it by now?’ Alistair said smiling. She smiled back at him. ‘I think you deserve to know something about my background, Talissa.’ Alistair got up to make them both drinks. ‘Did you know I originally trained as a Templar before being conscripted as a Grey Warden?’ Alistair said, handing her the glass.
‘No I didn’t know that.’ She said surprised. She had a feeling that this would not be the last surprise where this man was concerned.
‘I was sent to the Chantry when I was ten. I grew up among other trainee Templars. Because I was very rarely around other women, I was quite socially inept. At least with women I liked. I would joke with them but they didn’t seem to realise what lay behind the jokes.’ Alistair looked away from her, his eyes down. ’Anyway, last night shouldn’t have happened and I’m sorry for it’.
‘Alistair? Can I ask you something?’ He nodded in reply. ‘Which bit are you sorry for, going too far or kissing me in the first place?’ she said in a low voice. Maker, why did she say that, she thought.
He smiled straight at her, a sexy smile that made her stomach lurch and said ‘Do you want me to be honest? I enjoyed kissing you but I felt bad about asking you to sleep with me.’
‘I enjoyed being kissed by you too.’ she answered in reply, not believing she was saying these things. ‘What you said scared me. And that’s due to a reason similar to yours. My upbringing. Alienage elves are pretty strict about sex before marriage too.’
‘I thought you hated me being there.’ Now it was his turn to look surprised.
‘That’s the last thing I felt, believe me.’ She smiled. ‘So what happens now? Are you going to look for someone else to be your aide?’
‘No, why should I? Even Alex seems to think you’ll make a good aide.’ Alistair said, watching her reaction.
‘High praise indeed.’ Talissa started to giggle. The alcohol was making her feel lightheaded.
He smiled at her giggling.
‘But losing your position wasn’t what you meant when you said ‘what happens now’, was it?’
‘I suppose not.’ she said seriously.
‘Well as we seem to like each other, I suggest we take it slow. I don’t want you running off like a frightened rabbit.’
‘Or you smashing things up.’ Talissa’s eyes shone with glee.
‘You heard about that, did you? That was your fault, you know.’ Alistair grinned at her.
‘It’s my fault? Hey, I’m not the man with the sword and shield who thinks he can save the day.’ The atmosphere seemed to lighten between them, the same as it had on the day they duelled together.
Alistair stood up and held his hand out to Talissa for her to stand.
‘You see, that’s what I’ve liked about you from the start, Talissa.’ He held her in his arms and looked straight into her shining amber eyes.
‘Oh, and what would that be?’ she whispered.
‘You’re one of the only people in this entire castle who isn’t afraid to tell me what she thinks.’ He answered pulling her closer to him and kissing her.

Diandra was in the room she shared with Talissa, thinking. It was past twelve and there was no sign of her roommate. Although she knew Talissa was a grown woman, she was still concerned for her. She wanted to find out how Denerim had gone and was just about to go and find Talissa, when in she walked, looking red-cheeked.
‘Oh hello, where have you been until this hour?’ Diandra said in a mocking tone.
‘Hello to you too and I’ve been with Alistair, talking.’ said Talissa walking to her bed and hoping her face wasn’t giving too much away.
‘Oh I see’ said Diandra, trying not to smile.
Talissa got ready for bed and blew the light out.
‘So this is going to drive me mad but what did you mean by ‘Oh, I see’?’ asked Talissa.
Diandra laughed dirtily, ‘I mean you are spending a lot of time together, aren’t you? You were there from six until now. That’s a long time’ Diandra replied.
‘He’s my commanding officer and – HEY! How did you know what time I was there from?’ Talissa turned to face her friend in the dark.
‘You’d make an awful bard, you know. You left the letter open on your bed.’ Diandra giggled. ‘And was Alex with you?’
‘Erm, yes he was’ Talissa lied.
‘WRONG! Last time I saw him he was being chatted up by Zevran.’ They laughed.
‘So let’s look at the facts. Six hours in the evening, in the same room as a man who is supposed to be your superior, just talking you say. I don’t believe you.’ Diandra ended in a sing-song voice. ‘I saw that flushed look as you came through the door. You don’t get that by just talking.’
Talissa sighed realising her lies weren’t working against Diandra’s barrage of questions. ‘We kissed too.’
She heard a match strike and Diandra lit a candle. ‘Was that your first kiss?’ Diandra said excitedly, moving to sit on Talissa’s bed.
‘Yes it was.’
‘Arrggh! You can be so annoying. You don’t give much away!’
‘Well what can I say, I have nothing else to compare it to.’ Talissa smiled shaking her head.
‘Let me put it this way, did you enjoy it?’ Diandra asked. She only needed to look at the smile on her friends face to know the answer.
‘I... loved it.’ Talissa felt shy admitting it.
‘I am really happy for you.’

A week later, on the first morning that Talissa took over from Alex, there was a banging on the door at six in the morning.
‘Urgent message from Queen Anora. The Warden Commander must send a reply back immediately.’ the guard said, who delivered it.
Talissa got dressed as quickly as she could and went to Alistair’s bedroom.
‘Warden Commander?’
‘Come in’ a tired voice on the other side of the door said.
She walked in to the semi-darkened room.
‘Urgent message from Denerim.’ Talissa said, then recognized that Alistair was bare-chested and still in bed. She blushed slightly as she stared at his muscular body.
‘Can I get dressed now?’ Alistair grinned, sitting up and revealing even more of his stomach. The scratch had healed well. He knew she’d be embarrassed, and the bad man in him wanted to see what effect it had on her.
‘Oh, of course’ Talissa stammered. She felt like she was burning up as she faced the wall. It was then she noticed the only light source in the room and she went across to look it. A longsword attached to the wall, inscribed with lines that followed and crossed over the edge of the blade. The luminous metal seemed to glow from within. She ran a finger slowly down the flat of the cold blade and the blue metal shimmered, responded to her touch.
‘Do you like Starfang then?’ Alistair said behind her, putting his arms round her waist.
‘Starfang? You have a sword that has its own name?’ She was surprised.
‘That’s what the Blacksmith at Soldier’s Peak called it. The metal is unusual, it fell from the sky in a meteor and our group was given it as a thank you.’
Talissa turned to face him and then noticed he was still bare-chested, with only the leather trousers from his armour on. She ran a fingernail slowly down his chest to the button of his trousers and she heard him take a deep breath and he kissed her intensely as she reacted in kind.
Then Alistair pulled away from her and in a regretful tone said, ’Let’s go and see what the B**** Queen wants, shall we?’

Over the next few weeks, Alistair and Talissa were very careful to be professional at all times during normal working hours. One night he met her in the study. They didn’t meet every night but it was certainly becoming a regular thing. During a gap in the conversation, he told her they were going to Denerim a day earlier this week.
‘Is this by order of Queen Anora? Two days instead of one?’ she asked, sat on the floor with her head resting next to his knee.
‘No. Don’t take this the wrong way but I think you should have some new clothes.’ Alistair said, stroking her hair.
She turned to face him, her eyes narrowing in distrust. ‘What? I’m not a charity case you know!’ she said, a little of the fieriness that he liked in her returning.
‘Hey, I never said you were, it would be nice to see you in something other than armour.’ Alistair moved both his hands away from her like he’d been scalded.
She stayed silent, not sure how to reply. She had no experience when it came to men and the muddied waters of relationships seemed to her to become darker and more hazardous every time she looked.
‘I’m sorry, I know that sounded rude.’ she said quietly.
‘It’s okay, I understand what you mean.’ Alistair started to rub her shoulders. She liked feeling his rough hands rubbing her skin.
‘I was going to get you something new to wear. I know it’s your birthday very soon and I wanted you to have a dress for an early birthday present.’ He said. He noticed that her mahogany coloured hair was growing longer. He preferred her hair long. Too short and she looked very young.
‘Oh I see – Hold on, how do you know it’s my birthday? I’ve never told anyone when it is.’
He bent forward and whispered in a husky voice ‘I make it my business to know things like that. Especially about you.’
She shivered. ‘That makes you sound like you’re following me’ she said, starting to giggle.
‘Aren’t I? We seem to end up in the same room an awful lot.’
‘That’s because we work together, you fool!’ she said.
‘You’re being finicky now.’ Alistair grinned.
At that moment, the door opened and in walked Fergus.
‘Bloody women!’ he said, then stopped when he saw both of them talking together and Alistair massaging her shoulders.
‘Oh yes? And how long has this been going on for, then?’ Fergus asked with a big smile on his face.
Talissa blushed slightly as she stood up. ‘Well I assume that you and Diandra have had a fight so I’ll go see how she is.’ She walked out of the door.
As soon as the door closed, Fergus said ‘What did I just see?’
Alistair shrugged nonchalantly. ‘What did you think you saw?’
‘You, getting all cosy with your aide, that’s what. That didn’t take you long, you sly dog.’ Fergus grinned.
Alistair smiled at him. ‘Well, you’re not as dim as you look, are you? What happened with Diandra then?’
‘Zev has ruined that woman, she thinks every man is going to do the dirty on her, like him...’

Talissa closed the study door and took a deep breath. Then she heard a quiet footfall behind her. She turned and saw Edmund dressed in dark clothes stepping out of the shadow of a doorway, his eyes angry.
‘That’s how you’ve managed to move up the ranks so quickly. You bedded the Warden Commander.’ Edmund clenched his fists, looking as if his anger were controlling him.
‘Edmund! We work together.’ Talissa was shocked by his response and he was scaring her. She’d never seen him so angry in all the time she’d known him, even before they were Grey Wardens.
‘Working until this time of night? That’s unlikely!’ He scoffed. ‘Is this why he’s offered to buy you some new clothes? You’re no better than his mistress or a w****.’
‘It’s a present, Edmund. You should know this if you were listening long enough.’ Talissa said, biting back the words of anger that stuck in her throat.
‘Your parents would be interested to hear this, wouldn’t they? I think I should tell them. Unless...’ Edmund loomed over her. He grabbed her by the top of the arms, shoving her against the wall and kissed her.
She pushed him away, slapped him and yelled ‘Get off me!’

The two men in the study heard Talissa shout and ran out of the room. Edmund was stood there looking surprised with a red mark on his cheek. Fergus knew he was involved somehow but no sign of Talissa.
‘Where did she go?’Alistair said angrily to Edmund.
‘She ran off up that passageway.’ Edmund said pointing towards the front door. Alistair chased after her.
‘You better come with me. We need to talk and you can bet when the Warden Commander finds Talissa, she’ll tell him what happened. I would tell the truth now, if I were you.’ Fergus said to Edmund, pointing back into the study.

Talissa ran through the front door and out into the garden. She just needed to be away from the castle. She ran until she was under the boughs of a weeping willow and sat down. She couldn’t believe that Edmund acted like that. He used to be her only friend when she was at Redcliffe. She put her head in her hands and wept. She felt sick, as if she’d caused this, it was all her fault. Then she heard someone running up the path near the tree. He stopped but she was scared to move in case it was Edmund following her.
‘Talissa!’ He yelled.
‘Alistair, I’m here.’ she said stepping out from under the tree.
He breathed a sigh of relief. ’I was worried about you, Tal.’ he said calling her by her nickname she’d had as a child.
She walked over to him and put her arms round his chest and started to cry.
‘What happened?’ Alistair wrapped his arms round her.
‘Edmund had been listening in on our conversation and saying I’d bedded you to get where I was. He implied he’d tell my parents unless I slept with him. That was when he kissed me and I slapped him.’
Alistair swore and stroked her head.
‘As your commanding officer, I’m probably supposed to tell you off about slapping him but given the circumstances...Come on, let’s go back to the castle before we get locked out. I’ll deal with Edmund in the morning.’

Diandra was surprised to see Talissa come through the door, having obviously been crying. She’d thought it was Alistair who’d made her cry at first and then, when she found out what Edmund had done, Diandra had to be stopped from finding Edmund and telling him exactly what she thought.
‘It really creeps me out, the fact he was eavesdropping. What else has he heard or seen even?’ Diandra said later, when they’d blown the lights out.
‘I know. That scared me too.’ answered Talissa. The two women were silent for a time then Diandra said ‘Why exactly are you going to Denerim a day early?’
‘Alistair wants to buy me some clothes. He said he never sees me in anything but armour.’
Diandra started laughing.
‘What’s so funny?’ Talissa asked.
‘It’s getting serious between the two of you, isn’t it?’ Diandra asked ‘A dirty weekend.’
‘It’s not much of a dirty weekend, Diandra. We’ll have a lot of work to get through.’ Talissa wrinkled her nose up at the thought of going to the Palace and having to be polite to a group of people she knew saw her as nothing more than ‘the elf’.
‘What happened with you and Fergus then?’ Talissa asked.
‘Nothing more than a slight disagreement about sleeping with him just yet and I think it’s driving him mad.’ Diandra said.
‘I’m sure you’ll work things out.’ Talissa said.
‘When I sleep with him, you mean.’ Diandra answered ruefully.

Modifié par MireliA, 25 mars 2010 - 06:55 .

[Miri1984]

White knight! I want to see what he does to Edmund! Love that the romance is hotting up. How can Diandra possibly resist Fergus though???

[MireliA]

Miri1984 wrote...

White knight! I want to see what he does to Edmund! Love that the romance is hotting up. How can Diandra possibly resist Fergus though???

Her knight in shining armour .

I know what you mean about Fergus and Diandra but as has been hinted at, she's been hurt by Zevran and doesn't want to jump in with both feet.

[Sandtigress]

Catching up, finally! You people write much too fast for me. :-P



Yay, Alistair to the rescue!

[Sisimka]

This is just such a cute story, the romance is really sweet.

[MireliA]

Sandtigress wrote...

Catching up, finally! You people write much too fast for me. :-P

Yay, Alistair to the rescue!

I have a feeling my posting will be slowing down soon RL getting in the way and all that.

Sisimka wrote...

This is just such a cute story, the
romance is really sweet.

Cheers! Mind if its getting too fluff-laiden please say! I don't want anyone gagging as they read!

[Sandtigress]

In the DA:O world, there is NO SUCH THING as too fluff-laden! They keep doing horrible things like making us kill children - we need all the fluff we can get!

[Sisimka]

Sandtigress wrote...

In the DA:O world, there is NO SUCH THING as too fluff-laden! They keep doing horrible things like making us kill children - we need all the fluff we can get!

Ahem, I hope you're not taking about Aedan....

On a lighter note, I think your fluff factor is just right, Mirelia!

[MireliA]

Glad to know my fluff factor  meets with your approval girls . Time to get back to the game, I have a young boy in Redcliffe to kill

Modifié par MireliA, 26 mars 2010 - 09:44 .

[Sandtigress]

Sisimka wrote...

Sandtigress wrote...

In the DA:O world, there is NO SUCH THING as too fluff-laden! They keep doing horrible things like making us kill children - we need all the fluff we can get!

Ahem, I hope you're not taking about Aedan....

lol Actually, I was thinking about Connor.    But still, we need lots and lots of fluff!  *throws feathers into the air*

[MireliA]

Well this has been the most difficult thing I've had to write and tweak in ages and I have no idea why. RL intruding on my concentration probably. Thanks to the people who are still reading and reviewing on here and FF . Enjoy!

Chapter 7




Next morning, Edmund walked into Alistair’s study as soon as he’d knocked on the door.

Alistair stood in front of the fire and appraised the young man with the cold blue eyes in front of him. He didn’t invite him to sit.

‘Edmund.’

‘Yes. Warden Commander.’


Alistair narrowed his eyes, knowing that the manner in which Edmund had said his title was an attempt to rile him. You pick your fights and this would be classed as a minor skirmish compared to the cause of Edmund’s
visit.

‘I have heard from Talissa what happened last night. I would like to hear from you what took place.’

‘I kissed her and she slapped me.’ He looked past Alistair at Mireli’s portrait, as if silently imploring her intervention in this matter.


‘Nothing else?’ Alistair’s voice was quiet yet full of steel. He leant forward, resting his hands flat on the desk.  ‘So you didn’t call her a w****? Or eavesdrop so much you were able to quote entire lines of the conversation that Talissa and I shared?’ His voice was fierce but he had to keep his fury in check.

Edmund’s seemingly arrogant facade appeared to melt and he looked down shaking his head.

‘I – yes, I did listen at the door last night, but she is a friend of mine and I was trying to protect her.’ Edmund’s usually pale face was flushed red.

Alistair walked round the desk, moving not three feet from Edmund.  ‘Name calling and listening into private conversations is NOT behaviour I expect from a Grey Warden and you should be ashamed. Frankly, the nature of my relationship with Talissa is not open for debate and none of your damn business. This time we will leave this
matter as it stands. If you so much as put a toe out of line the Warden compounds in Orlais or the Anderfels would be thankful of an extra Warden. Understood?’

‘Yes Warden Commander.’ Edmund mumbled.

‘No spying on anyone. You’re dismissed.’

 

Talissa was sitting in the almost empty Refectory, drinking tea and looking out of the window. Alistair promised to meet her there once his meeting was over. She didn’t want the smallest possibility of bumping into Edmund. In
fact, if she never ran into him again it would be too soon.  She sighed and stirred more sugar into her tea.


‘You don’t need any more sugar, you’re sweet enough.’ Alistair said in a low voice as he sat down next to her.

‘I don’t feel very sweet at the moment.’ Talissa looked at him ‘You’ve spoken to him?’

Alistair nodded. ‘I don’t think you’ll hear much from him somehow. Does that bother you? He said that you and he were friends.’

‘He’s barely had two sentences to speak to me all year. We were close when we both lived at Redcliffe.’ Talissa sipped her tea.

‘Ah.’ Alistair raised an eyebrow.

Talissa smiled. ‘No ‘Ah’ about it. We were friends then, that’s all. You’re not jealous are you?’

‘Of course not.’ Alistair smirked.

 

The rest of the day passed in a blur for them. There was a lot of work to complete before leaving for their two days in Denerim. Mid-afternoon Alistair looked up from his study chair to find Talissa staring off into the distance, looking wan. He’d not noticed how tired she was.

‘Enough.’ Alistair dropped the remaining loose paper on his desk back into the tray. Talissa looked uncertain. ‘Anything else on my desk can wait until we get back from Denerim.’

Alistair got up from his side of the desk and held a hand out to Talissa as she got up. ‘But we have to –‘

‘No we don’t. As your commanding officer, this’ he said, pointing at the desk, ‘can wait. And before you say it, I know it’s an abuse of power. Shall we go into hiding?’ Alistair kissed her on the forehead.

She gave him a slow, lazy smile, replying ‘What did you have in mind?’

‘A walk in the fresh air, see if we can bring some colour back to your cheeks. And if that doesn’t work, we’ll have to come up with another idea, won’t we?’ Alistair grinned.

 

Edmund was striding back through the grounds of the castle after a training session when he saw Alistair and Talissa walking side by side through the gardens. He wasn’t that close but he heard her laugh, her low, sweet laugh that made him feel his heart were fit to burst. Watching, he could see they were trying hard to avoid touching each other, although when they stopped outside the gazebo, Alistair took her hand in his, leading her inside.
Edmund snorted and balled his hands into fists. He closed his eyes, resisting the urge telling him to go listen to them. He knew he’d be spotted or they would know someone tainted was nearby. He had to leave the garden. Even the sunshine mocked his mood.

 

The gazebo was in a quiet and secluded area of the garden. Alistair sat down and gestured for her to sit with him.

‘Let’s talk.’ Alistair took her narrow hand in his, running a finger across the scars on her knuckles from his sword.

‘Talk? Anything specific?’ Talissa asked.

‘Oh I don’t know, politics, world affairs. Or perhaps we could get to know each other better. Ask me something, anything you want.’

‘Anything? And you won’t be annoyed or think I’m being nosy?’

‘Anything at all.’

‘What was Mireli like as a person?’ Talissa wasn’t sure how he’d take this question.

‘Aha! The million sovereign question. She saw the good in people, where I saw what they’d done. I was too keen to judge people. She listened and was kind and wise. You’ve seen that picture in the study. She looked beautiful but you can’t catch a personality in a picture. Mind, in case you think I’ve put her on a pedestal she also had a fearsome temper, especially if she thought she was in the right.’ Talissa began to laugh.

‘What?’ Alistair asked.

‘You seem to have a thing for women with bad tempers, I just found it amusing.’

‘Call it a quirk of mine.’ He smiled, putting his hand at the back of her neck, moving her forward to kiss her lips.

‘My turn. Why did you become a Grey Warden?’ Alistair queried.

Talissa bit her lip. ‘I suppose I saw it as a way out. My parents are lovely people but... I was pretty lonely. I had no life outside of the shop they owned. Only one person I considered to be a friend who later backstabbed me. I couldn’t see my life changing at all. If we stayed in the Alienage, as awful as that place could be at times, I fitted in there and might have had a chance at another existence.‘ She didn’t need to say, he could read it in her eyes:  marriage, a family of her own.

She tried to make her voice sound light-hearted, as she said, ‘Of course, I wasn’t exactly beating men off with a broom at Redcliffe, as you can imagine. As the only ‘knife-ears’ family in a town, you don’t endear yourself easily to the shems. When Fergus came looking for recruits and saw me fight, I jumped at the chance to try as a Grey Warden.  I’d heard about you and Mireli and her killing the Archdemon, sacrificing herself in the process. I was so stupidly naive with these idealistic notions in my head. I never knew that when I came here, there would be two men still grieving for her.’ Talissa looked at Alistair, who was looking down.

Talissa’s voice lowered and she put a hand on his arm. ‘I am sorry you lost Mireli, you know. No-one should spend so long mourning for another. I don’t think she would want you to continue grieving for her.’

Alistair looked at her. ‘Of all the things you could have said, I didn’t expect you to say that.’ She heard his voice sound husky. He sighed. ‘Do you know I’ve been happier in the last few weeks than at any other time in the last five years of my life?’

 

‘I have something to ask you.’ Talissa recognised he was being more serious by his tone of voice, so turned to look at him.

‘Stay with me tonight. No pressure, I promise.’ Alistair looked at her and could tell although she wanted to, she was also very scared.

‘And how do I know you won’t suddenly change your mind and ravish me in the night?’ She grinned as she said it but Talissa was only half joking.

‘You have my word, as an ex-Templar and a Grey Warden. Besides, if I can manage being in the Chantry for that long, I can certainly manage one night with you.’

‘Promise?’ She kissed his hand

‘I promise. Just don’t make me pinkie-promise. Last time I did that, Mireli nearly broke my little finger.’ Talissa giggled at him.

 

Alistair woke in the early hours to hear crying. He could feel the bed shake. He quickly turned over and saw Talissa face down, still weeping as if she was in mourning.

‘Talissa.’ He stroked her back and the shirt she was wearing was cold and clammy with sweat.

He moved her onto her side, she seemed to weigh more asleep he noticed, and shook her by the shoulder, trying to drag her from her sleep. ‘Wake up!’

She started to come round and sat up.

‘You were dreaming-‘

‘I need to go.‘ Talissa staggered up, grabbing the chamber pot from under the bed running into the bathroom. By the sound of it, she’d just made it in time.

Alistair decided to go and lend some moral support. He lit a candle and walked into the bathroom to see Talissa wearing his shirt scrunched down next to the bath, chamber pot in hand.

‘No, I don’t want you to see me like this.’ Talissa said breathlessly. She’d not been sick in a very long time and forgot how horrible it was.

Alistair walked up next to her and sat on the edge of the bath and gathered her hair and held onto it.

‘I said -‘

‘I know what you said but I’m ignoring you.’ Alistair smiled.

‘Fine, ignore what I say and see me in the most humiliating situation ever -‘ She broke off as she was sick again.

He rubbed her shoulder with his free hand as she put her head against the cold of the bath.

‘It’s not the most humiliating situation ever, I can think of a few worse ones. And I’ve usually been the one who was in them. Besides, if it makes you feel any better I can hardly see anything in the dark.’

Talissa looked up at him, feeling his icy legs next to her arms. ‘I think I should try to clean up and get some more sleep. Go to bed, you feel colder than I am.’

‘I won’t say no.’

‘Were they Darkspawn dreams?’ Alistair lay with his arms round her, after they’d gone back to bed.

‘No...sort of.’ Talissa hesitated.

‘How do you mean?’ He looked at her, staring off into the distance. Dawn was starting to break and there was more light in the room than before.

‘I dreamt my family were killed by darkspawn. As to whether that’s related to the taint, I really don’t know. It seemed so real.’

‘I wish I could tell you.’

‘Do you still have the nightmares?’

Alistair shook his head. ‘No, I’ve not had many since Mireli died, but I still dream about her killing the Archdemon as if I could change it.’

Talissa kissed him on the lips. ‘I’m sorry, I didn’t realise.’

‘I didn’t tell you. Or anyone.’

‘We should get some sleep.’ Talissa yawned.

‘Do you want to hear a bedtime story?’

‘A bedtime story? Just how old do you think I am?’ She laughed.

‘You had a nightmare and I thought you might appreciate it. Besides you’re never too old to hear stories.’

Alistair kissed her cheek. ‘Once upon a time, there was a young boy who lived above a stable...’

They were both asleep before he reached the end of his tale.

 

Talissa woke up with Alistair’s arms enfolding her into his chest. She looked up and he kissed her lightly on the lips.

‘Morning sleepy.’ Alistair muttered.

‘Morning. What time is it?’

‘After dawn and before breakfast. Just.’ He bent down and began to gently use his teeth against her ear.

‘Alistair, I’d better go.’

‘Hmm, can we not just be carried bodily into the carriage as we are?’ Alistair carried on kissing her ear.

‘That’s not exactly subtle is it? And neither is that thing you’re doing with my ear.’

‘And what if I want to announce to the world ‘This is what I was doing last night’?’

‘Don’t you mean ‘who’ you were doing?’ His daft mood was proving infectious as she laughed.

‘That too.’ Alistair moved his mouth onto her neck and she moved her head to one side so he had more skin to work with as he kissed her bare neck.

She finally decided to make a move ‘Enough. I have to pack and have breakfast.’ Talissa reached behind him and smacked him on the backside, using his surprise to quickly get out of bed.

‘Hey! That wasn’t very nice.’ Alistair said, following her. She had taken his shirt off and was picking up her armour when he stood behind her kissing her neck. It dawned on Talissa she had completely lost her inhibitions
around Alistair, as they were both stood there in just their small clothes. She turned and said. ‘One more kiss and I have to go.’

Alistair brushed the hair out of her face, ‘In that case I better make it good, hadn’t I?’

He kissed her with such passion that she was left in no doubt as to where his thoughts were. 
Alistair ran his fingers slowly down her spine, feeling her writhe and jump to his touch. Talissa’s toes curled and she had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach.  They eventually stopped kissing, breathless but wanting to continue.

‘Did that pass the test?’ Alistair’s eyes seemed to be shining in the early morning light.

‘Go to the top of the class. Now, please help me put my armour on?’

 

Modifié par MireliA, 30 mars 2010 - 11:36 .

[Miri1984]

Nooooo. Leave it OFF. Leave it OFF!!!



Loving it .

[MireliA]

Miri1984 wrote...

Nooooo. Leave it OFF. Leave it OFF!!!

Loving it .

Patience They're getting there .

[Sisimka]

Nice to see some conversation and sharing instead of a quick jump into the sack! Your characters have nice depth to them!

[MireliA]

www.fanfiction.net/s/5815184/8/ is finally here. Marked for M - well you can guess! <3

And we have an appearance by Leliana

[Miri1984]

Yay Lelli! And well done, by the way, on your M rating

[Sisimka]

Nice chapter! I LOVED your Leliana!

[MireliA]

Ta Miri . They finally got round to it huh?

Sisimka wrote...

Nice chapter! I LOVED your Leliana!

Well seeing as you're always writing about Leli I will take that as a major compliment *blushes red and scuttles off in a corner*

Modifié par MireliA, 08 avril 2010 - 06:42 .

[MireliA]

This is Chapter 9 www.fanfiction.net/s/5815184/9/

Still set to M and this is probably going to be the last schmaltzy, fluffy chapter for awhile