The Mother of Dragons and the Warrior Slave (On hold)

Chapter 5

(Drogon)
I sit quietly at the table listening to the mother of dragons speak with the master.

"So, tell me how did you come by your dragons?" Master asks.

"The eggs were given to me as a gift on the day I was married." She says and my heart drops.

"You're married?" I ask and she looks at me.

"I was. He was killed by a witch." She says and I look down.

"Oh. I'm sorry." I say.

"No. It's alright. If he hadn't died I wouldn't have hatched my dragons." She says. I nod.

"Mistress. May I ask you a question?" I ask her.

"Only if you do not call me mistress." She says and I look at her stunned.

"What am I to call you?"

"Daenerys." She says.

"You wish for me to call you by your name?" I ask.

"Yes. You are no longer a slave. You are a friend." She says and I look down. "You had a question?"

"Oh yes. When I threatened the master's son. I spoke in that language. You acted like you knew what I was saying." I say.

"I did. You were speaking Dothraki. The language of my late husband. And I believe your native tounge." She says.

"You speak it?" I ask.

"Yes I do. I learned it very quickly so I could speak to my husband. It is a very hard language to everyone but those who are born to speak it." She says in the foreign language.

"You think I am Dothraki?" I ask in the language.

"No. I know you are Dothraki." She says and I smile.

"Can you tell me about them?" I ask.

"Yes. But I also have most of the Khalissar traveling with me. I could take you to meet them later if you'd like." She says.

"I would like that very much, Daenerys." I say and she smiles.

"What are you two talking about? How to kill us all?" Geoff says.

"No. If i wanted to do that I would have already." I say and he glares at me.

"I'm getting pretty sick of your mouth, slave." He snaps.

"I've been sick of you since you hit me the first time." I say and he raises his hand to hit me but stops when the mother of dragons speaks.

"Take care how you treat him. He is a free man now. He may react to you the way he wishes. If you hit him he may beat you." She warns as I glare at him.

"He wouldn't. He's too loyal to my parents." He says.

"That may be but now I am a free man. I do not know how I will react." I say and he sits down.

"But now that you are a free man you will have to answer to the law." He says.

"So will you." I say and he shuts up. We make it through dinner with out any more back talk from Geoff and then mother if dragons and I take a walk through the gardens.

"So Drogon. Tell me about yourself." She says and I sigh.

"Well I have been here since I was three winters. I am 24 winters now. Geoff and I grew up together, and we used to be the best of friends." I say and she looks at me.

"Really?" I nod. "You can't tell now. What happened?"

"Well when we got older and he started socializing with other children. They began making fun of him, because his best friend was a slave. So it began with me not calling him by his name in public. Then it went to me not speaking unless spoken to in public. Then he started with I had to do those things in private. Then one day he was with his friends and one tripped me and made me drop something and they told him to beat me. I knew he didn't want to, but he did." I say as we sit down on a bench. "Since then nothing has been the same."

"I imagine not." She says and she looks down and sees some flowers I had planted the day before. "These are lovely. I must know who planted these to make them so beautiful."

"You truly think they are beautiful?" I ask.

"Oh yes. I have never seen a more beautiful flower anywhere." She says. "And this garden. It is the most beautiful place i've ever seen."

"Thank you." I say and she looks at me.

"You did all this?"

"Yes. I've been taking care of this garden since I was a small child. This is the only place I feel at home. I love nature." I say as I lay on the grass. She chuckles and lays next to me and I look over at her and she looks at me.

I stare into her beautiful eyes and get this sudden urge to kiss her. I lean over and she watches me. I decide against it but she touches my face and kisses me. I am shocked at first, but I slowly kiss her back. She pulls away and I stare at her.

"I'm sorry. I better go." She says as she goes to stand but I pull her back and kiss her again. She kisses back. Then we unfortunately have to pull away because of the need to breath and she looks at me.

"I have wanted to do that for a while." I admit.

"Me too." She says with a smile and she kisses me again. I smile and she giggles. I look towards the gate and see a new guard speaking with a soldier. The soldier is shouting at the guard.

"Excuse me, Daenerys. I must go take care of something." I say as I stand and make my way to the gate. By this time the soldier is all but abusing the guard.

"Is everything alright?" I ask and they look at me. A look of relief washes over the guard's face as the soldier turns his attack to me.

"The master of this house owes money to the military!" He screams in my face and I take a deep breath to keep from knocking his head off his shoulders.

"What for?"

"Protection you worthless slave!" He shouts and I glare at him.

"First of all, I am not a slave. I am a friend of the master's. Second, I know that the master of this place has already paid for protection this quarter." I say and he gets in my face.

"Stay out of my affairs you worthless pesent!" He yells.

"Watch how you speak to me you thieving guard!" I scream back at him and he grabs my throat and I snap his arm like a twig and hit his face and he falls as he cries out in pain.

"You will regret that!" He says as he stands and his superior comes over.

"What is going on here?" He demands.

"This slave broke my arm!" The soldier says and I look at the superior.

"You're soldier was trying to rob the master of this house hold and grabbed my throat so I defended myself." I explain.

"It's true general. I witnessed the whole thing." The guard says.

"As did I. And that was my man you were threatening." She says to the soldier and the general goes pale in the face.

"My lady. I apologize for my man's behavior. I assure you that this will not happen again. He will be punished." He says.

"No need for that, but if he does this again. I will take my own course of action. Is that clear?" She says in an authoritative tone.

"Yes ma'am. I am sorry for his actions and this will never happen again." He says.

"Good. Now leave before I change my mind." She says and they leave.

"Thank you Daenerys." I say and she smiles.

"You're welcome." She says and I take her hand.

"Yes. Thank you my lady, and thank you as well Drogon. I was beginning to fear that he might lash out at me." He says.

"Thomas don't let people walk on you. You have to be bold and let them know that they are on your ground and they must respect that." I say and he nods. "I won't always be around to protect you."

He nods again and Daenerys and I walk back to the house.

"Well handled Drogon." Daenerys says.

"Thank you. I try to teach people how go stand on their own, but I also try to be there as they're learning." I say and she smiles.

"You are a good man, Drogon. You are going to be a great leader." She says and I smile. She kisses me and we walk back into the gardens.