Fic : Are we having fun yet?
Title: Are we having fun yet?
Pairing/Characters: Darken Rahl/Denna
Rating: T
Word Count: 918
Prompt: For the peoplespalace celebration challenge. Prompt from brontefanatic -Darken/Denna Are we having fun yet?
Summary: Darken and Denna are lost in the woods.
Are we having fun yet?
Darken sat on the grass sucking his thumb. Denna watched him, she was wearing a dress, she never wore dresses, although he wouldn’t have said so, Darken thought she looked pretty.
“What’s the matter with your thumb?”
“Splinter.”
“Give it here.” She took his thumb and studied it then sucked it for a while before using her fingernails to pull out the splinter. She paused for a moment then started to suck his thumb again, but this time more sensually, she moved her mouth up and down the length of it, her tongue teased the tip of it, she looked up at him and smiled before she took it’s length in her mouth again. Darken was instantly aroused, he grabbed the back of her head and brought her mouth up to his and started kissing her, as he did so he pushed her onto her back and lifted her skirt. Denna obligingly opened her legs and fumbled with the front of his trousers.
Without warning an arrow grazed his shoulder and thudded into the ground beside them
“Damn! I thought we had lost them.”
More arrows thudded around them as they dived for cover. Three days ago they had crawled out from the overturned royal carriage, the horses and guards were gone. Lord Rahl and Denna were left completely alone somewhere in a forest in the Midlands and no one knew where they were. The only things that could save them would be their wits and the few items they possessed, between them they found they had a knife, an agiel, a bow with half a dozen arrows and a skin of water. It wasn’t much, but it would do. They started the long walk home
It didn’t take long for the rebels to find the overturned royal carriage and surmise that even if Lord Rahl hadn’t been travelling in it, the occupants would of some importance. After two hours of walking Darken and Denna heard the first of the hounds and they started to run. For the rest of the day they ran through the woods, waded through streams and at the sounds of men’s voices hid under the tall bracken. Denna used the bow and one of the arrows to shoot a rabbit, they could not afford to light a fire, so ate the meat raw, that night they took turns to keep guard while the other slept.
The next day they continued evading their hunters, it wasn’t easy and at one point they were forced to crawl through a bramble patch, it’s thorns showing no mercy as they tore through cloth, leather and skin alike, their clothes were in shreds and their skin bled, but they were alive and free. Later that day they came upon a small cottage, it didn’t take much effort to overpower the woodsman and his wife, after tying them up they ransacked the cottage for food and fresh clothing, they also found a terrified seven year old girl hiding in a cupboard. They ate and changed into their new clothes and both laughed at the sight of themselves dressed as peasants. They stayed in the cottage overnight, again taking turns to keep watch and at first light prepared to leave, a few mild threats towards the man’s family and he readily told them where they were and how to return home. Denna had wanted to take the girl with them but Darken had said that she would only slow them down. Denna agreed so instead, just before they left she whispered into the little girl’s ear.
“Tell your mother and father that if anyone finds out we were here, I shall be coming back for you.”
That day was easier they walked for the first three hours without seeing anyone and the hounds could be heard several miles away getting fainter with every step home. They had stopped to eat and rest when the arrows fell and they realised they had been ambushed. Crawling around some rocks they got into a position of relative safety, for the moment, but everything had been left behind except for Denna’s agiel and Darken’s knife. Surmising where the arrows were coming from they worked their way around the rocks until they found a path and followed it up around the hill, they saw men on the path below and quickened their pace until the path ahead became blocked by more men.
Three days of hard running and hiding and now they appeared to be trapped, surrounded by Midland rebels. Despite that Darken and Denna stood shoulder to shoulder ready to fight on, neither of them willing to admit defeat.
The leader of the rebels called out. “Give up Rahl, there is nowhere for you and your Mord’Sith bitch to go.”
Darken assessed the situation, they were caught on a high ledge with both ends of the path blocked by men,below them they could see the foaming water of the fast moving river, it was the boundary between the Midlands and D’Hara.
Denna looked at her lord. “I don’t know how deep the water is, if we jump we could easily be dashed on the rocks below the surface.”
“But,” Darken countered “If we survive we can get across to the other side of the river, steal some horses and be back at the palace before nightfall.”
Denna grinned and held out her hand. “See, I told you this would be fun.”
Darken Rahl, grinned back, held her hand and together they leapt off the ledge into the turbulent water below……………….