Post by Shhasow on Mar 31, 2011 22:41:56 GMT 10
Title: Breaking the News, (5)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 267
Pairing: Jon/Kel
Round/Fight: 1/F
Summary: Ilane jumps to conclusions when Kel says something ill-advised.
Kel took a deep breath to calm her racing nerves. Speaking of Jon to her mother was more frightening than the Kraken.
“Jon and I, we became good friends over the next few years. I was stationed in Corus a lot, as you know, and we happened to meet up every once in a while discuss strategy and tactics, gossip, everything. We even trained a bit together.” Kel glanced at her mother, who stared at her with thin, white lips. “It was completely innocuous.”
“But Queen Thayet was alive then.” Ilane did not sound pleased, not that Kel expected her to be overjoyed at finding out about her youngest daughter’s relationship with a man her own age.
“Queen Thayet was still alive,” Kel said agreeably. “Then when she died of that horrible accident, I was one of Jon’s closest friends, certainly his closest female friends. He turned to me for comfort-”
“Keladry!”
Kel nearly choked on air. “Not like that!” she yelped, and then her voice turned hard. “I can’t believe you’d think that of me; he was simply a friend who had his love torn away in a tragedy. You have to stop thinking the worst of him. And of me,” she added. “I love Jon. That’s all that really matters.”
Ilane of Mindelan noted with wonder and slight dismay at the look of mulish rebellion on Kel’s face, yet also the way her voice softened just a bit when she said that she loved the man. The king. “I apologize, Keladry.” She forced her voice to sound neutral; someone had to take the rational position here. “You are correct. The only thing that matters is if you love him, and he you.” Not even your parents matter.
QC by: journeycat
Rating: PG
Word Count: 267
Pairing: Jon/Kel
Round/Fight: 1/F
Summary: Ilane jumps to conclusions when Kel says something ill-advised.
Kel took a deep breath to calm her racing nerves. Speaking of Jon to her mother was more frightening than the Kraken.
“Jon and I, we became good friends over the next few years. I was stationed in Corus a lot, as you know, and we happened to meet up every once in a while discuss strategy and tactics, gossip, everything. We even trained a bit together.” Kel glanced at her mother, who stared at her with thin, white lips. “It was completely innocuous.”
“But Queen Thayet was alive then.” Ilane did not sound pleased, not that Kel expected her to be overjoyed at finding out about her youngest daughter’s relationship with a man her own age.
“Queen Thayet was still alive,” Kel said agreeably. “Then when she died of that horrible accident, I was one of Jon’s closest friends, certainly his closest female friends. He turned to me for comfort-”
“Keladry!”
Kel nearly choked on air. “Not like that!” she yelped, and then her voice turned hard. “I can’t believe you’d think that of me; he was simply a friend who had his love torn away in a tragedy. You have to stop thinking the worst of him. And of me,” she added. “I love Jon. That’s all that really matters.”
Ilane of Mindelan noted with wonder and slight dismay at the look of mulish rebellion on Kel’s face, yet also the way her voice softened just a bit when she said that she loved the man. The king. “I apologize, Keladry.” She forced her voice to sound neutral; someone had to take the rational position here. “You are correct. The only thing that matters is if you love him, and he you.” Not even your parents matter.
QC by: journeycat