Lover and the Beauty Beast

Chapter 8 Hunting Trip

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"Are you sure you know where you're going, Hunter?" Liesel asked. "I think we're lost..."

"We're not." Hunter said, calmly trying to not shoot her between the eyes. It was literally the twenty nineth time she had asked, and he had said that they weren't lost. They were going to his old cabin, near the lake. "I walked these grounds while sleeping-really, I did-and I know what and where we are going, Liesel. So, for the last time, be quiet and try not to step on every branch you find."

"I can't," she growled. "It's hard not to." She grinned and stepped into a tree's root, making it snap in half. Hunter whirled around and got face to face with her, she was startled, but was still smirking. "Are you going to tie me up go a tree now?"

"...No," ...Yes. He sighed. "Just, please be quiet."

"Alright," she said, and she looked like she meant it, so began to walk again. It was almost sunset, but not quite enough for the woods to be blindly dark, and Liesel had said she could light up the whole place up without breaking a sweat, so they were fine. Little rays of light made their way through the trees' branches and lit up the floor here and there. Birds sang and mise squeaked around, Hunter had been looking at white bird-a dove-and before Liesel could ask him why he was poiting upward, an object fell in front of her. She yelped and jumped back.

"What the hell is that?" She pointed at the now dead dove.

"Have you never seen a dove before?" He picked it up and looked at it.

"Eww..." The arrow was in its chest, freshly put, not a splash of blood anywhere. He grinned.

"Do you want to hold it?" She gave him a startled look.

"Hell no." She deadpanned. "It could twitch." Hunter now gave her an insane look and burst out with laughter.

"Oh! Oh, gosh!" He said, letting the bird fall. "Don't go near dead animals, world, it might-wait for it! Twitch! Hahaha!" Liesel rolled her eyes and flicked her hand, he went from laughing to yelling really loud "Bloody Hell". Now she laughed. "You brought the dead thing back to life?!" He exclaimed.

"Kill it again, then." She said with a sigh. "Now, move along, I want to get to my home in time for late dinner." Hunter shook his head and they continued to walk. Once near the lake, she began to kneel by the water, taking her gloves off, she cupped her hands and drank from the clear water. It was fresh, cold and sweet. She drank once more and got up, he was looking at her, when she turned to see him, in a way that made her look down.

"Are you ready to take a bow and arrow?" She grinned.

"I was born ready."

After almost an hour of getting her to shoot in the bull's eye, Liesel shot clean through water and got 21 fish. Hunter, already full of expirience, only shot 14 and a half. Because one of his arrows cut the fish in half...

"You have to admit that you did use your magic," Hunter said, pointing an accusing finger at her, though he was smiling.

"I did no such thing, how dare you?" She exclaimed with laughter. She, actually, needed to admit that she didn't want to go home and she had the best time in a couple of years. She didn't want to go to face Theo either, she was begining to fear the night because of him, she didn't like to be used and then left aline as if Everything had happened ... she often wondered what Hunter would do if she told him about Theo. But she didn't him to bother with anything. It was her job to fix it.

"I dare say it," he laughed.

After they got to the castle again, Theo was talking with some other men and Liesel raised her eyebrows.