3-The Crossing

I eye him for just a moment, making sure he actually wasn't going to push me off. I take a step...no going back now...another step... I need to do this... another..don't think about dylan.

I'm not dying today.

Even if I die tomorrow I'll be a little fine with it, I just want to see Riorson watch me cross.

I put my hands out as I take a couple more steps as I hear the one stocky rider say ' name' again. " Jack Barlowe."

So that's the asshole's name.

" Better walk faster Sorrengail! I'm coming for ya!" Jack yells.

" You need to wait until they're a fourth of the way." The one says.

I hear Xaden chuckle. " Let him go, maybe both of them will fall then."

I already hate Xaden Riorson, even more then I thought I would.

I happen to look back for just a second to Jack just stepping onto the Parapet, damn it! I take a couple more steps, a huge gust of wind hits me, making so a shaky step back. I strain my core to keep straight. The rain was pelting my skin like little needles, my eyes aching from the needles poking them.

I take a breath...keep going..

I squeeze my leg muscles, I need to get further before another gust of wind hits. There was a scream. A male scream, again I look back for just a second to see Jack Barlowe throwing a girl off the parapet with her heavy pack.

He turns, " See that halfblood? Your next!"

I know I can't fight him on this, not in these conditions. So I take a couple more steps, quickly. Maybe that was my mistake... I try fast walking and that's when I slip, I go down, I contort to the side slightly so I straddle the Parapet my legs dangling.

Now I'm shaking like a leaf, I take a couple breaths... Don't look down...don't look down. I refuse. I take a breath swinging both my legs as I hoist myself back up, " Should've fell halfblood!" His voice says all to close. " Don't worry, I'm coming!" he yells.

I see Hetta not to far ahead, she crossed...I'm almost there... I'm almost there!

I now take longer steps as I cross, Jack was gaining speed " Come on Halfblood!"

" Go to hell Barlowe!" I yell as I move faster again.

" You asked for it!" HE runs...RUNS on the parapet towards me... damn I did ask for it, He have the same leg legnth, I know I'm quicker and furhter ahead so I gun it, I'm right there... He leaps towards me as I step onto the grounds.. As if he was going to yank me back I grab my knife I had swinging it in his face, it slices his face making him yell in pain. He didn't stumble back he stayed station.

It wasn't deep at all, just enough to get me offically on the grounds... I passed, and I'm safe. The most it'll leave is a scab for a couple days.

The other two riders who were watching us with the scroll asks for my name. " Freya.. Sorrengail."

The one with reddish hair raises her brow " As in.."

" The General and Mira Sorrengail...yes..."

" You don't look like a Sorrengail." Another boy with green eyes and dark borwn hair says. I shrug, " Half blood, bastard child... whatever you wanna call me."

" I'm going to gut you for that!" Jack seethes about to get at me when the girl stopped him, " Touch her and you'll be commended to Malek."

He looks at her, " Why! She cut me!"

" You both were technically on the Parapet. the grounds is right there." She points directly behind me where my feet moved so fast. " Now your a member." She says to me. I smile in satisfavtion as Jack steps off.

" No fighting in gatherings." The male says. " Go join the rest of them." He says to me, then turning to Jack. " Name.."

" Jack Barlowe." He says lowly. " Watch your back halfblood! I swear I'll kill you yet! " He yells.

I only give him the finger  " Not anytime soon." I counter. I hear a growl of fraustration as he melts into the crowd.

" I think you made an enemy."

I turn around to see Hetta with a grin on her face as she watches Jack Barlowe push himself through the hoarde. I take a glance at him, " Yea, I'll need to watch that one."

She turns her head ever so slightly, " We made it, that was slick as shit."

I chuckle, " Yea, I was near death, I twisyed just in time to straddle the damn thing and fling myself back up, I wouldn't have if that asshole didn't decide to chase me down and try to throw me off."

Her brow raises, eyes widen " What did you do to piss him off that much?"

I shrug, " Being a half Sorrengail apparently does the trick, now more so seeing I slashed his face."

" Freya?!"

My head snapped to the direction of the voice, my smile beaming " Dain?!"

Dain basically jogs through the couple people by us, nudging some out of the way as he embrace me tightly almost knocking me over myself. " It's really you." He mumbles in my hair, I pull away grinning at him, he looks... even better then he did before.

He looks a bit older, still he features and honey brown eyes are sharp, his hair is just a little longer. Shorter on the sides and his curly golgen brown locks on top, he's filled out in more muscle then he had last year. He looks damn good.

" It's me." I smile.

" I'll leave you two alone." Hetta says giving a small smile at Dain which he returns a little more blandly.

" I'll try to find you?" I say she gives a brighter smile and nod before walking away again.

He looks me over, " You look.." He trails off, " I didn't think you could.. mature that much in a year."

I laugh softly, " You look older yourself, you look...riderish."

He raises a brow, " I'll take that as a compliment seeing my dragon almost decided he wanted to take a chunk out of me at threshing last year."

A small shiver runs up my spine as his words, I cock my head playfully " I'm glad it didn't."

" Me too."

We stare at eachother for a moment, the last time I saw him was the night before he left, that night... I wasn't allowed to say goodbye to him the day of. He breaks the silence, " I was surprised... I thought General Sorrengail would want you to be the first one to cross for the year."

Dain was... is... my best friend, since... well as long as I can remember, I know he cared for me deeply, and through the years he saw all what I needed to go through with my parents. He was always there but there was always one downfall he had..

He never blamed my mother...

He would blame my dad for not accepting me though he wasn't blood... he was more accepting then my mother, I know he loved me. Or blamed my siblings for looking to much alike leaving me the odd one out, or just said I was stronger then what I was facing and that he was there, which I still appreciate.

But he adores my mother, like most sees her as a damn Idol. So many conversations were cut short in fear of losing him when her name was brought up.

I shrug, " Mira made me late. She wanted to see what was in my pack, ofcourse it was all well, better then hers, and made me change..which with this weather I now appreciate greatly."

He nods, " I see, I'm glad she gave you some.." He looks my outfit and boots over, " Rider appropriate gear." His smile comes back, " Dragon scales?"

I look down at the shirt, " Yea, from her dragon."

" I like it." He looks around the crowd just briefly before his eyes come back to me, " So then, you crossed alright?"

I chuckle, " You could say that."

He narrowed his gaze for just a moment, " What does that mean?" He asks taking a tiny step forward lowering his voice as he speaks. " Or.. should I ask what did you do?"

He knows me well.

My mouth seems to get me in enough trouble, my temper in even more. I open my mouth just slightly before closing it again. " Freya." He now commands, it surprises me how authoritative his tone is so.. unlike him.  " What... happened?" He continues.

I lean my head back ever so slightly getting a better look at him, " Technically.. I didn't do anything."

" You know I find that semi- hard to believe. What happened?"

" Well... some asshole was behind me when we signed in, Mira was with me and ofcourse she got noticed.. He heard the name, and the conversation I had with that girl and another boy was we climbed the Terret. He was calling me Half-Blood and shit... So I snapped at him. Then he decided he wanted to throw me off the Parapet.."

His eyes widen, " You killed someone on the Parapet?"

I shake my head, " No..no.. I wish I did. I was crossing and he wanted to get at me right away but I wasn't half way, but Xaden-"

" Xaden Riorson?!" He almost yells, controlling himself. " That's where he went.. Shit, Freya... He knows who you are?"

" Yea, we exchanged some words as well. Mira gave me gloves to grip better, but he took them and threw them over the ledge... I saw him first and the other dumbass sadi my name just loud enough for him to hear so that's when he came over..."

Dain's face seemed to pale,  " What else?"

" Well, I wasn't halfway but let that Jack Barlowe on, I tried going faster then I fell, I moved just in time to straddle it otherwise If I hadn't..."

Dain sighs, " I'm glad your a quick thinker."

" Me too, That damn kids ran... I mean ran on the Parapet to get me, I got off just in time and grabbed a knife slashing his face."

" You slashed him, that's not allowed here Freya!" He now says loudly making a couple cadets look at us, " Technically I wasn't on the grounds, the two that were stationed said that so I'm good." I hiss.

" So... You made two highly dangerous enemies..not even crossing the Parapet."

I gave a bitter chuckle, " Sounds about right."

" Damn it Freya.." His face now softens into concern, " Anything else was said?" He brings his hand to my face brushing it gently. It felt... strange he did that but I didn't mind as I looked into those pretty eyes of his.  " No, that was basically it."

His face now contorts into a small smile, " So.. you missed me?"

My smile comes back, " You know I did."