(Nrpg: Paula... You might want to skip the part that's titled 
Da'ntray....)
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(Jayleigh)
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"I don't want to be alone tonight," she told him as she climbed 
naked into the bed beside him.  "I want to be here with you, but 
first I have to tell you what I did earlier.  I don't want any 
secrets between us."

He turned carefully, slipping his arms around her and pulling her 
to him.  "You mean that you and Gerald made love this afternoon?"

He felt her stiffen slightly in surprise.  "How did you know?  Did 
'Troy--" She'd kill her. The Queen should know by now that there 
were something's she just shouldn't gossip about.

"No, love.  The dragons have been quite mum about it."  He kissed 
her lightly.  "Gerald came by earlier to talk."

"Gerald?  Came to talk to you?" Oh Gods! She thought, she should 
have come here earlier and told him herself. She didn't want him to 
think that she loved him any less because of what she had been 
unable to stop herself from doing with the other man.

"Yes, love.  It's not like we don't know each other."

She pulled back enough to look into his eyes.  "And it doesn't 
bother you?" 

He grinned evilly.  "Actually, it bothers me very much.  The 
thought of you and Gerald making love gets me very, very hot and 
bothered."  As he pulled her up against him, she could feel the 
evidence of just how bothered it got him.  

Before she could say anything, he was kissing her in a way that 
made all thoughts leave her mind. The only thing she could think 
about now was how badly she wanted the feel of his body covering 
hers and wished Tair'n wasn't injured. He was driving her crazy 
with the need to have him inside of her, thrusting deep. 

It was several minutes later before their lips parted.

"Turn over, love," he said quietly.

"Why?" she asked, even as she complied.  He spooned his body up 
behind her, and she gasped as she realized his reasons. "You're 
too hurt," she whispered, even as she arched back against him.

"Ah, no, love. This is a very gentle, lazy position. Though, you 
might want to do a lot of the movement."

Their bodies carefully moved together, both of them moaning 
together as he slid into her.  Finally! She sighed as she felt 
his hands gripping her hips and began to move her lower body 
against his as he directed her in their private dance of passion. 

As they moved, he began whispering to her, telling her his 
thoughts as they made love.  How excited it made him to be inside 
of her after she had made love to Gerald. She responded with a 
greater passion.  Soon, they peaked together and lay, letting 
their breathing return to normal, basking in the warmth of the 
other's body.

They drifted into and out of sleep together.

In the middle of the night, she woke and could tell Tair'n was 
awake beside her, She turned over, sat up and looked at him in 
the soft glow of the low-burning lantern.  "What is it, Tair'n?"

"Jayleigh, what are we becoming?  Do you want to be mates or just 
lovers?  Either way, are you expecting to have more children?"

"It's the middle of the night, love.  Do we need to discuss it 
now?" She still hadn't decided what to do. How could she. She was 
in love with two different men and was finding it hard to think 
about giving either of them up. Gods was she so much like Velara 
after all. Or had the older woman's spirit come back to the earth 
and taken over a small part of her body. She wasn't acting like 
herself. But something was so right about it.

"I'm awake, and so are you.  Why not discuss it now?"

"Because right now my thoughts are so confused," she admitted 
slowly. "I don't know what I want anymore. I used to think I did. 
A man to love me and stand beside me. Someone to help with the 
raising of a child I might have, but I had to learn the hard way 
the that just because a man fathers a child, it doesn't mean he'll 
be a good father. Just look at Da'ntray. Jadain doesn't even know 
him, though they live in the same Warren, and now with me being the
Warrenlady... I don't know about another child. I'm not saying yes 
or no, I just want to be sure it's for the right reason's this 
time. That he or she will be wanted and loved by both of us."

She didn't see the strange look that crossed the face of the man 
laying beside her. Her eyes were focused somewhere in the past.

"For so long I wouldn't let myself feel anything for any man, 
gaining myself the reputation as the Ice-maid. It wasn't that I 
didn't want to be close to anyone... it's just that the person I 
wanted..." she turned to look at him and could see he understood, 
then he nodded for her to go on. 

"When Troy rose to mate this last time, I half prayed that Amadith 
would win her. I knew I wanted you even then, but then Random won 
and I found that for the first time in longer than I could remember, 
I actually found myself enjoying a mating flight. Me!! I, was 
enjoying it, not because I was forced to by any need from my dragon, 
but me!!. That shy young bard of ours, surprised me when we made 
love. Even after the dragon's were no longer involved."

She was quiet for a few minutes deep in thought then turned to 
him. "You asked if I wanted us to become mates? At one time had you 
asked me that I would have jumped at the chance and said yes right 
away."

"But not now?" he questioned slowly.

She turned to him then and let her hand caress the side of his face.
"Tair'n, I would be more than willing to be your mate, but I don't 
know if your ready for or want that. Then there's this thing with 
Gerald, who I still want to be with," she shocked them both by 
saying. "There's  also R'ven, who I know you still want to be with. 
Maybe now isn't the time to be making these kind of decisions. 
Let's just enjoy each other when we can and if things are working 
out between us then we can talk about it again."

"So where does that leave me for now?" he asked sarcastically, but 
there was no anger in his words. "As your part time lover and boy 
toy?"

"I don't need a part time lover, I could get that anywhere. I need 
*you* as my friend, my lover, someone I can turn to for advice. All 
of those things and more. I want you in my life as much as you're 
able to be there. I just don't want to lose you by starting to make 
demands on you that could drive us apart, but I'm sure once people 
start seeing us together they'll assume we're mates. I wouldn't 
mind." she said so softly he could barely here her say the words.

He nodded his head after hearing her words but she couldn't read his
thoughts. "I also need you to hurry up and get well so you can take 
over your Wing again. While your second is okay at running them 
thought their drills, Myself, I'll be happier to have you back 
where you belong. So would the other riders in Alpha."

"But as for as you being my boy-toy... You're definitely no boy..." 
she whispered as she moved to lay on the bed facing him. Her hands 
and lips began to gently, re-explore his body.  "But I'll play with 
you if you play with me..."

(Da'ntray)
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He was still steaming over his new patrol route when he made it 
back to the Warren. Damned Tair'n anyway for assigning it to him.
Punishment! The Wingleader had called it when he'd been called 
into his office after that damned wilder dragon had disappeared 
from the Warren after that fire in Loman. 

Damned Wilder, how was he suppost to know where the beast had 
gotten to. It wasn't like they had been asleep long. And besides 
no one else had seen the thing leaving either.

Jayleigh had put Tair'n up to this just because he had asked her 
to dance at the funeral party. Uppity bitch. had the nerve to say 
no to *him* 
when she'd danced several times with that boy-toy of the old 
Warrenlady's. Now that she was Warrenlady she thought she was to 
good for the likes of him. Well he would show her!! 

Jadain was his son too, and she couldn't refuse him time with the 
little brat if he wanted it. This trick of the kids, hearing all 
of the dragon's could come in handy for the plans he was making. 
Right handy indeed. He just need to get the kid away from her long 
enough to talk some sense into him. Mama's boy, that's what the 
brat was. Well he'd soon put that to rights. See if he didn't.

He was still steaming when he saw her walking ahead of him on the 
path, maybe this would be a good time to tell her a few things, he 
thought bitterly and took off after her. 

His anger knew no bounds when he saw her walking into Tair'n's 
apartment without knocking. Just as if she owned the place. Being 
quiet so as to make any sounds he followed her inside and saw the 
door to the bedroom close behind her. 

Moving silently across the floor he put his ear up against the wood 
plain just in time to hear the bitch telling the man inside that she 
didn't want to be alone. 'I want to be here with you,' he heard her 
say and it was all he could do not to kick the door open and go in 
after her. When he heard the unmistakable sounds of someone sitting 
on the bed, he turned away from the door and stormed out of there.

So the uppity bitch was sleeping with the jerk. He should have seen 
it coming. No wonder she wouldn't give *him* the time of day. She was
already spreading her legs for that bastard Tair'n. 

He couldn't get rid of the pictures in his mind, of the two of them 
making love. His hands would be all over her, his mouth would follow,
suckling her dark nipples till they peaked and his hands would be 
stroking her silky folds making her cry out before begging him to 
slip his hardness deep inside of her. Try as he might, the man 
couldn't get the picture of Tair'n's body laying between her legs, thrusting
inside her over and over.

The more he thought about it, the greater his rage grew as did his 
arousal . If he wasn't restricted to the Warren for the next mouth, 
he could go into town and find a woman to take care of both. That 
little bitch at Zucter's Inn got off just as hard as he had the last 
time he'd taken her. So what if he'd knocked her around some while 
he was doing her. She got paid well for a little pain. 

As he made his way back to where his dragon was resting on the green, 
the man started thinking about the whore, he could feel himself 
getting hard just thinking about the girls big tits, and how it felt 
when he was slapping her around when he'd finally come inside of her. 
The whole time he had pretended that it was Jayleigh beneath him and 
the more he had thought about her the more brutal he had become.

The rider was nearing the green right by the wooded area of the 
Warren when he saw the young girl on the path coming towards him. 
In his mind all he could see was Jayleigh on her back with Tair'n 
between her legs trusting into her, and he got angrier and harder 
by the second.

 The girl never saw him coming. Never knew he was there until she 
felt one arm go around her waist picking her up and carrying her 
back into the woods. The second hand closed over her mouth to keep 
her from screaming and alerting anyone until he got her far enough 
away from the Warren that no one would hear her cries of pain as he 
took her.

When the man thought they had gone far enough, he spoke to the girl 
for the first time. "If you try to scream out I'll break your jaw 
and make you wish you'd kept quiet." his grip over her mouth was 
cruel as he squeezed her cheek hard before throwing her to the 
ground.

Knowing what was to come the girl tried to get up and run, but the 
man was to fast for her, and soon had her pinned to the hard ground 
beneath her back. As she tried to struggle out form under him, he 
lifted his hand and slapped her hard. Still she struggled, and again 
he hit her, this time hard enough to stun her. It gave him all the 
time he needed to start ripping her clothes off of her body until 
she laid naked beneath him.

Sitting up to straddle her young body, the man leered down at her 
as his hands moved to pull his shirt up and off, next they moved 
to his belt and seconds later she could see his manhood jutting 
out from between his legs and started screaming as he forced her 
legs apart ....

(Ja'ks)
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It was getting late by the time Ja'ks finally got back from his 
patrol, having to fill in for a sick rider. He made his way over 
to the dining hall knowing his mother could always be counted on 
to fix him something to eat when he was hungry, and right now 
after missing lunch, he was starving.

Realee didn't fail him as she told her tall son to go find somewhere 
to sit and she'd have something brought out to him in just a bit. 
When Ja'ks walked back out into the hall he was pleased to see Rezsia
sitting at the family's table and walked over and asked if he could 
join her.

"Sure, I could use someone to talk to," the raven-haired queenrider 
told him. "What are you doing up so late?"

Ma'bar came down with something and couldn't make his patrol tonight, 
so I filled in for him." he sounded so put upon. But his sexy smile 
gave him away.

"I'm sure you could have gotten someone else to fill in if you had 
wanted too," Rezsia smiled and shook her head. "I'll bet you just 
wanted to get away for a while."

"Ah Tiger, You got me there, I just can't keep a secret from you. 
Now can I," he sighed. "You know me to well."

She turned her head away from him, but not before he caught a 
strange look in her eyes and he knew he had said the wrong thing. 
Was it this other thing bothering her, or had she found out about 
him and Maeve spending time at the cabin yesterday. 

"So?" he asked, changing the subject. "What have you been doing all 
day."

"Well I went to see the new school teacher over in the medical 
hall," She replied as eager as him for the change. "Noni said that 
he's doing a lot better today and should be released soon. I heard 
Jayleigh went by earlier this evening to check up on him, but that 
he was asleep when she got there."

She was about to say something else when Ja'ks put his hand up to 
stop her. Rezsia could tell by the unfocused look in his gray eyes 
that he was talking to Sprarroe. The look on his face just before 
he reached out for her hand and pulled her to her feet, might have
frightened her if she didn't know the Beta Wingleader so well.

"What is it?" she asked as he dragged her out of the hall.

"Sprarroe just sent me a message from Amethyst," he threw back over 
his shoulder as he started off for the medical building.

"That's Noni's dragon," Rezsia said, "What did she want?"

When they got to the door he pulled her around to face him, his 
handsome face was grave with the news he was about to tell her. If 
he didn't have to make her face this, he wouldn't have, he just 
hoped Jayleigh wouldn't skin him live for not calling her. But in 
some small way he thought it might help Rezsia get over her own 
fears, being forced to deal with it because of someone else.

"There's a girl inside who has been beaten up and ... raped," he 
saw her face go white and held her tight when she would have bolted 
from him.
"Rezsia, there's a young girl, no more than thirteen years of age 
in there who's going to need to talk to someone who's been through 
this... someone who'll be able to understand what she's going 
though, who won't just be saying the words."

"I can't Ja'ks," she was breathing hard and in a near panic. "I just 
can't. Please don't ask me to go in there."

"I have to Tiger," he said softly pulling her into the safety of 
his arms. "That little girl in there needs you sweetheart. Think 
of her, would you want her to have to go through the samething you 
had to go through because you had no one to tell you it wasn't your 
fault?"

The junior queenrider turned her raven head to look at the door 
leading inside. Her breathing had slowed and Ja'ks prayed he was 
doing the right thing when she turned to look him in the eye.

"Will you go with me?" She asked. "As far as the door I mean. If 
she'd been hurt as bad as you say she has, then she might get 
hysterical if she sees any males around. I know for the first few 
days... I did."

"I'll be here," he said searching her eyes with his for any sight 
he was doing the wrong thing. "I'm going to be talking to Noni to 
see what I can find out about what happened and see if the girl 
might have known who it was that did this to her."

"He has to pay for this Ja'ks," Rezsia said, her voice strong now 
with her anger. "Promise me if you find out who it is you'll see 
to it that he'll pay."

"Oh you can be sure of that," the tall dark-headed Wingleader 
assured her, for even though he hadn't told her, he was pretty 
sure from the description Amethyst had give brown Sprarroe, that 
he knew who the *rider* was... and if it proved to be true... 
Ja'ks would more than happy to make damned sure the man would pay 
for his crimes.

"Ready?" he asked and when she nodded her head yes, he opened the 
door and led her inside to where the healer Noni was waiting for them.

Ja'ks saw her glance questionably at the woman by his side for a 
second before she turned to face him. Before she could speak he 
told her why he had brought the junior queenrider, letting Rezsia 
tell her the more intimate parts.

"He thought I could help the girl deal with this," Rezsia said and 
then felt her hand being squeezed by the man beside her. Lending 
her his strength. "You see I too was raped when I was younger. I 
had no one to talk to about it, who would take my side and help me 
to deal with it. I'd like to help her ... if I can."

Ja'ks  was never more proud of her as he was at that moment. It had 
taken her a lot of guts to admit to what she had just did...  to 
being raped. He had always known his Tiger was a strong woman, now 
maybe she would start believing it herself.

"What's been done to help her so far," Rezsia asked, taking over 
the questioning. "And did she tell you anything about what 
happened?"

"She did," Noni said angrily, the light golden flecks in her green 
eyes flared to light. "She's been hurt pretty bad and the beating 
he gave her may take a long while to heal, but she was able to tell 
me who it was that did this to her. But before I tell you who it 
is.. "She turned to Ja'ks meeting his eyes, "I want your promise 
that something will be done about it, and not swept under the rug 
because he's a dragonrider."

"We both promise," Rezsia answered for him, but Noni refused to 
look away until he nodded his head in agreement with the junior 
queenrider verbal promise.

"Da'ntray," the healer all but spit out the name. "The man who 
raped and beat the girl was Da'ntray, Keppo's rider."

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(Nrpg: Sarah.....oh Sarah.... Umm tag :):)

Paula: thought I'd give Ja'ks a reason for coming to see you... 
not that he really needs one :)

Lyn: What's Tair'n going to do when he finds out that man accused 
of this vile crime is the father of his lovers son.... ?? (and in 
his Wing)

Heck!!! What's Jayleigh going to do ???  (know what they do to 
male cows  (Hee hee ;) (or is that bulls to make them cows ??? 
Oh well :)

*****Submitted by: ******

Barbara (a.k.a.
Warrenlady Jayleigh & Viktroy
Beta Wingleader Ja'ks & Sprarroe
& their mother, Realee 
Da'ntray & Keppo