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“Don’t Shoot the Messenger” F!DB/Ulfric, Part 5g

(Anonymous) 2014-05-09 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
Deep into the night and spent a second time, Jaenna was ready to sleep. Sated and lying next to Ulfric, she mentally went over her plan for the following morning.

Ulfric’s voice interrupted her scheming. “Where are you from, Jaenna?”

She considered a moment. “Riften.”

“Really? I expected that you must have grown up in Solitude.”

She gave him a look of disgust. “Psh. Not at all. Before all this dragonborn business, I’d never left Riften.”

Ulfric’s hand idly stroked her arm. “What made you leave?”

Jaenna pursed her lips.

The mattress shifted, and Ulfric leaned over her, catching a glimpse of her face in the darkness. “Your silence makes me all the more curious. Tell me, what does it take to make a woman with a dragon’s soul leave her home?”

“Nothing,” Jaenna muttered.

He was quiet for a while, lying back down behind her. He tucked her body against his chest. “Tell me,” he said, softly.

If he’d spoken the request as a command, she wouldn’t have said a word. However, something about how he’d asked swayed her to tell him.

“I was heading to the Bard’s Collage,” she blurted.

She sensed his surprise, but he didn’t speak. The silence persuaded her to go on. “Things were rough at home. I joined the Thieves Guild to learn how to fight and to put together enough septims to afford to leave the city. I sing, you know. I wanted to do honest work, go to Solitude and study at the college. After years of saving up, I was accepted into the collage and finally had the money to pay.”

Jaenna shifted uncomfortably. She didn’t like the reminder of how she’d snuck away from home. She could have helped feed her destitute family, but no – she’d fled Riften to make a better life for herself. She’d left them struggling to do the same for themselves.

Not that her idea of a new life had quite worked out the way she’d hoped.

“I was on my way to take a rest in Whiterun when the dragon attacked. It saw me crossing the plains. I threw off my knapsack and ran as fast as I could for the old watchtower.

“Soldiers came. One of them gave me a bow, and I helped take the beast down. When it was almost dead, it crashed into the tower. I barely escaped before the entire thing came crashing down. Many brave men and women died.

“My belongings were destroyed, my gold lost. I’d absorbed a dragon’s soul, but that wasn’t going to pay for my passage to Solitude or my bard’s training. Jarl Balgruuf offered to pay for a wagon to Solitude for my service. He said he’d even cover the first half a year of tuition at the Bard’s Collage, but I never got that far. Soon as I stepped foot within the city, the Imperial Legion swept me up.

“I found myself recruited, well fed, sheltered, clothed, armed, and wanting for nothing. I trained with them for the next year. I think you know the rest, since I am rather famous now.” The last part came out a bit bitterly. She’d increased in power and over time forgotten the initial reason she’d left her home in Riften.

It seemed like a distant and unlikely dream to attend the Bard’s Collage. She’d lived so long with responsibility to Skyrim weighing on her shoulders. Now that she’d become an adept adventurer and dragon slayer and had suffered the Imperial Legion’s betrayal, she feared the entire notion of attending the Bard’s Collage would be forever spoiled for her.

Ulfric was silent for a long time. He touched her cheek, but she pulled away, brooding. “The Imperial Legion betrayed me as well,” he said, sensing the real source of her anger and frustration. Empathy softened his voice. “That is when the Stormcloak rebellion was truly born.” He hesitated. “You could join us, Jaenna.”

She was through with the Imperial Legion, but that didn’t mean she was ready to hoist the Stormcloak banner. “I’m on my own side,” she growled. It would be damn hard to betray herself. If she had no expectations of anyone else, it would be hard for them to let her down. She grabbed her pillow and threw it as Ulfric’s head. “Go to sleep.”

***

Uh oh, I think Ulfric is really falling for her. Jaenna appears to remain wary, but she is choosing to confide in him.

Anons, I'm so pleased you enjoyed the last chapter. I love writing the interactions between these two and I'm so glad to have readers to share it with. :)

Re: “Don’t Shoot the Messenger” F!DB/Ulfric, Part 5g

(Anonymous) 2014-05-09 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
Wonderful! I love the game of Jaenna, is fun ... I think she loves to play with Ulfric! Ulfric is definitely involved, he is so beautiful! She will also be cautious, but she can not resist a man like that! It will be of interest if she accepts the proposal of Ulfric and I'd like to see her too involved with him! But the game definitely goes on!

Re: “Don’t Shoot the Messenger” F!DB/Ulfric, Part 5g

(Anonymous) 2014-05-18 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks a bunch! I think you're totally right about Jaenna. The game will certainly go on!!

Re: “Don’t Shoot the Messenger” F!DB/Ulfric, Part 5g

(Anonymous) 2014-05-11 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
This is a great story. I really like how you've developed your characters. Ulfric is very true to his persona in the game, and Jaenna is a competent person without being a Mary-Sue. That's a very difficult balance to make but you've succeeded here. I can't wait to see how their relationship will develop.

Is there any chance of seeing a POV from the imperial side, and how they're managing the war and the dragons without their former dragonborn? Jaenna's backstory really makes me want to see the empire/Tulius fail hard.

Re: “Don’t Shoot the Messenger” F!DB/Ulfric, Part 5g

(Anonymous) 2014-05-12 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks a bunch!! :) I'm really glad to hear that. I wanted Jaenna to be a strong character, but with flaws that certainly wouldn't make her likable to most people around her.

Would you be satisfied seeing the Legion and Tullius fail hard, but from Jaenna's POV? ;P

Re: “Don’t Shoot the Messenger” F!DB/Ulfric, Part 5g

(Anonymous) 2014-05-12 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
I'm loving this story! Certainly Jaenna is strong, independent and will have her revenge! Your Ulfric is very good! beautiful as he interacts with her, surely he is very taken by her! I wish that she was more easy to him, but for now the game is fun too! They are really great!

Re: “Don’t Shoot the Messenger” F!DB/Ulfric, Part 5g

(Anonymous) 2014-05-18 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks, I am glad you are enjoying so far! Hahah yes, Jaenna can be difficult to deal with, we will see how things change in the future for her and Ulfric!

Re: “Don’t Shoot the Messenger” F!DB/Ulfric, Part 5g

(Anonymous) 2014-05-14 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
The only hope I have is that whilst Jaenna and Ulfric do 'get together' she doesn't end up joining the Stormcloaks. In my eyes if she did that then she would end up trading one master for another. I just hope that they are able to stay as lovers even if she doesn't join the Stormcloaks.

Re: “Don’t Shoot the Messenger” F!DB/Ulfric, Part 5g

(Anonymous) 2014-05-18 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
I am glad to hear you thinking about this, as it echoes my own thoughts now that I am planning how their story will end. I agree that Jaenna would never tolerate another master, especially after what she has gone through. Both Jaenna and UIfric have such strong personalities and personal goals, some of which will be hard to reconcile. While I am not set on a particular conclusion yet, their ending may be more complicated than a simple submission from one of them and a happily ever after.