Claymore and Dagger (closed)

[heartofcourage]

"Perhaps when I'm there." Fiona said in a way that wouldn't commit to anything. "Maybe I'll find everything that I've been missing...or have my heart broken further. Who knows what the future holds."

 

[KieranSoares]

"As long as you keep on this new path, you'll find much better things than the childhood you knew," Khelt promised her before rising. "Now... I have a daughter-in-law to visit. Best of luck to you." He left behind a coin for the scone and made his way out.

 

[heartofcourage]

Fiona quietly continued about her business, making sure that everything ran smoothly until she was sent home with Will. The two of them walked in silence back to the cabin, her arm wrapping around his shoulders tightly.

"I want you to promise me something. If anything were to ever happen to me, I want you to keep on this path." She murmured, glancing at him as they walked. "Your life will be so much better if you keep training and never stop trying to better yourself."

 

[KieranSoares]

"Why did that come up?" Will asked worriedly. "Are you in trouble...?" He paused to look up at her, prepared for the worst.

 

[heartofcourage]

"No." Fiona said as she shook her blonde head. "Thinking about Kayla and Aleister and their family. You're like my son in some ways, Will. I've made sure that you had the best chance possible since you were tiny. I just want to make sure that if something happened you were taken care of."

 

[KieranSoares]

"We're too close in age for that. You're like my sister. You were never like a mom," Will insisted. "My mom was a lot quieter, and she was scared of everything." She still didn't know his story, but she got a tiny piece every so often.

 

[heartofcourage]

She glanced at Will as he mentioned his mother. She was a little stunned that he had said anything about the woman. There was little that she knew about his past life and it seemed that he was content not telling her anything if he could help it.

"You know that you're my responsibility now, right?" Fiona murmured.

 

[KieranSoares]

"I figured you felt that way anyhow and I can't do anything about it til I'm older," Will shrugged. "Why? Who said so?"

 

[heartofcourage]

"Taqu'un. It's part of my judgement. You are officially mine to keep out of trouble for as long as I can." She said with a grin.

 

[KieranSoares]

"And no one asked me. Typical," Will sighed. "Do I have to call you Mom now? Maybe tease you about being old? And maybe I'll call Sam Dad," he laughed at that and ducked away from her.

 

[heartofcourage]

Fiona pinched Will's ear hard before he ducked away from her, a smile on her lips as he teased her about calling Sam Dad. "Don't you dare, you little troll. And don't you grow up too fast on me. You make me feel incredibly old."

 

[KieranSoares]

"That's because you are old," Will laughed and hurried on ahead. They arrived about the same time as Sam did. Will was tempted to get one last shot at teasing Fiona, but Sam always made him rethink making trouble.

Sam had brought Roman along for Fiona, and Sam seemed at least a little less gloomy than before.

 

[heartofcourage]

Fiona smiled instantly as she saw Sam standing there with Roman. The drake looked even happier to see her than Sam. She let Roman hug her tightly, his deep rumbling telling her of his contentment.

"I missed you, beastie." She murmured, patting his head gently before she turned to look St Sam with a smile. "And I'm happy to see you more relaxed."

 

[KieranSoares]

"It was either relax 'r be forced t'go t'bed early by my nosy sister," Sam said with a shrug and a slight smile. "Ready when you are, lass."

 

[heartofcourage]

"Which nosy sister? You have so many of them." Fiona teased as she mounted Roman, buckling herself in to the special harness that had been made for her to ride.

 

[KieranSoares]

"The one who thinks jus' because she's a queen, she can boss me around," Sam sighed. "I keep tellin' 'er I work fer Ma first an' foremost, but I know Ma would 'ave guilted me into one choice 'r another."

 

[heartofcourage]

"She cares about you, Sam. Never think anything different." Fiona said as she gave Roman the lead to pick a path into the woods. "And she's overprotective because she's pregnant. She wants everything and everyone to be taken care of."

 

[KieranSoares]

"Doesn' mean I 'ave t'stop pickin' on 'er," Sam insisted with a little grin. "Tha's almost th'only fun I 'ave."

 

[heartofcourage]

"Surely you have fun with me." Fiona said with a smile as Roman picked his way though the dense forest underbrush.

 

[KieranSoares]

"If I admitted everythin' I felt about you, you'd get bored pretty quick. Besides, non-romantics don' say things like tha'." Apparently Invah had spoken to him about romancing Fiona, and Sam liked teasing.

 

[heartofcourage]

"I'm not sure that you can be a romantic." Fiona teased, looking across to Sam as Kennah pulled up next to Roman. "Not a romantic bone in your body."

 

[KieranSoares]

"Is tha' a challenge?" Sam asked with a raised eyebrow and a smirk. "Because if it is, y'ought t'know I never lose a challenge li'that."

 

[heartofcourage]

"Maybe it is a challenge. I don't think you can do it." Fiona said with a smirk. "At all. Not Samuel Ghis. He's far too stubborn."

 

[KieranSoares]

"We'll see," was Sam's simple answer as they continued on. When they decided to stop by the stream running through the woods between Inverness and the Gol Dun village, Sam let Kennah go off with Roman while he settled in the grass by Fiona. Challenge aside, he had wanted some time with her to relax.

 

[heartofcourage]

Fiona was content to snuggle up against Sam's side as they lay on the bank of the stream, quiet save for the rustling brush as the two drakes chased one another and the trickling of the stream as it rushed past them. She could get used to moments like this. They were far too far between and she knew that she needed to make an effort to make them happen.

"I feel happy." She murmured softly, admitting to him that he made her incredibly happy.