Secret Rendezvous

Part 4: Something Different

It had been a weird week. That is to only the dragon knight of fire and earth. They wanted to know what was going on with their companion. Confronting the elf was hard enough since he avoids them most of the time during the week. They were staying at the same town since there have been more attacks by demons that seem to be summoned. They figured that it was Nadil again but then remembered that he was already long gone because the energies of the demons were different according to Rath that is.

Rune sighed. The day was exhausting for him. He opened the window in case his nightly visitor came. Being lost in thought makes one not notice their surroundings especially when someone unexpected comes along.

"Well, well, aren't you a sorry sight," the same woman from before said leaning against the open window.

"What do you want?" Rune asked harshly.

"Nothing. I just came to say hi and how are you fairing."

Rune said nothing.

"Heh, my name's Lana. You are?"

"…"

"The least you could do is tell me your name. I'm trying to be polite here."

"Rune."

"See that wasn't so hard no was it?"

"What do you want?"

"Nothing. Are you eating right? You might lose yourself before the due date is over. I doubt your lover might like you after you go…berserk? Is that the term."

"What are you talking about?"

"I'm just worried about you. Though it's uncommon for our kind to care about the beings we're going to destroy I'm kinda worried. You see elf, every world we go we always destroy. And this world just happened to be the next in the list of randomness that we made. We're dimension travelers. We've destroyed every world we've been on since our lord didn't find a nice place and it seems like this world will actually be spared. Isn't that neat? Your world will be the only one left. Our master seems to find something interesting here," she said eyeing him suggestively. Rune didn't like that look.

"Though I'm surprised that your lover didn't jump you yet. Being a demon and all I thought he'd gone through it by now and left. But then he could be smoothing his way to it. Considering the past I doubt he has feelings for you at all. He's probably just getting close to you to get what he wants. After all demons don't stop until they actually get what they want and they'd use any means to get it. The only thing I see you useful for is weakening the dragon tribe. But then I don't know. You could never tell what's right and what's wrong.

"Well my time is up. Your lover might kill me if he finds me in here. Bye!" she said waving and took off out the window.

Rune sighed in relief. He tensed as he felt arms encircle him. He thought it was another unexpected visitor but when the person spoke he relaxed a bit.

"What's wrong?" his lover asked concerned, one you don't usually hear from him.

"It's nothing," Rune answered turning around and gave his lover a kiss. He then walked over to the bed where his lover soon joined him. As soon as his lover lied down Rune put his arm around his waist and rested his head on his chest. He thought about what the woman said to him a few minutes ago and wondered if that was true. He refused to believe it but the seeds of doubt were planted in his mind even in a fraction.

Rune lied on top of his lover and rested his head on his chest. Then he looked up at him questioning, wondering if what Lena said is true.

"Rune is something wrong?" his lover asked meeting the questioning gaze.

"It's nothing," Rune responded giving him a kiss and wrapped his arms around his neck while laying his head on his shoulder.

"Sure doesn't seem like nothing," his lover said sitting up forcing Rune to face him. "I can't do anything if you don't tell me what's wrong."

"What if I don't tell you? You'll force it out of me?" Rune stated harshly. Then he realized what he said that wasn't supposed to slip out. Rune lowered his head. "I'm sorry." He said and just rested his head on his lover's chest. Tears were starting to form at the corner of his eyes. His hand clutched the fabric of his lover's shirt. His lover just clutched him tighter. Something was really wrong and he's going to figure it out, one way or another.

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Rath looked worriedly at Rune. They were traveling again in tense silence. They still couldn't get a reaction out of him. Thatz cornered him in the last town but Rune just said that it was nothing. Rath noticed that he hasn't been doing so well ever since that doctor visit. He wondered what the doctor said to his friend, the only one he couldn't hate, about his condition. He was actually willing to walk back to that town and ask but knew that they couldn't otherwise they wouldn't make it back to Draqueen. Okay it might be weird that he, Rath, would actually be willing to go back to the capital but this seemed kinda important. He needed to find out what's bothering his friend.

Luckily they made it to the next town before it got dark so they wouldn't have to sleep in some forest. It took them hours before they could find an inn that wasn't filled. Apparently they made it in time for some parade that just made it into the town. The inn owner of the inn that they were staying at said something about some light show going on. Something like fire-something. They didn't catch the rest of it.

Rune immediately retreated to his room. Rath followed unknowingly behind him, which he now stood in front of Rune's door debating on whether to actually bother to or not. He chose the former and knocked. When he received no answer he became worried. He opened the door and called out,

"Rune?"

He glanced around and saw that Rune was already asleep. To think that he'd be tired already when they really haven't done any extra activity except walking the whole way. Rath just closed the door slowly and walked to the dining hall, he was hungry.

Back in the room, Rune sat up as soon as he heard the door shut. He didn't feel like talking to any of them right now. He had this major headache and it was totally killing him, literally. He turned to the person that just sat next to him. He saw his lover and was surprised.

"You're here," Rune said in surprise.

"Do you not wish for me to be?" his lover asked standing up about ready to leave.

"No!" Rune said gabbing on to him, "I didn't mean that, I was…just surprised that you'd be here after I said…" Rune looked up at him with tears almost spilling from his eyes. His lover brushed the tears before they could fall. Then bent down and gave him a kiss.

"C'mon, I'll take you somewhere," he said taking Rune's hand, helping him to stand.

"Where are we going?" Rune asked curiously.

"It's a surprise."

He gave surprised yelp as his lover picked him up and carried him out the window.

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