A Losing Hand

[Amice Kyoushi]

Amice had been working as an interim leader of Independent City for almost three months now, the girl was at the end of her rope. She hadn't been able to work on her experiments, weapons waited not being alchemically fixed. Amice was home for the first time in a while. She didn't know whether or not her husband was here or off doing something else, but she sat on the bed they shared and in the privacy of her home Amice cried. She was not a people person, and that was all she had been doing over the past three months, dealing with people. Amice was very much an introvert but she had taken on the job because she cared about Ayden. Tears fall down her face, she was out of energy and knew she didn't have the time to recharge she would have to go back into work tomorrow and deal with more people. Right now she cursed both Ayden and Fyrann. This was both of their fault and she was taking the punishment, Fyrann wouldn't lead, he refused to so she was left in charge with no idea how... Or really a will to want to. All of this compounded with the fact that Amice was in the worst pain she had felt in a long time. She didn't know what was going on but her inside felt like they were being torn apart.

[Tenshi]

Tenshi had been gone for a while, traveling abroad to check up on his casinos and had only returned recently and was now enjoying a nice quiet day in the study. When he was told that Amice had finally returned home he gets up and heads back to their room to greet her. As he approached the doors, he could hear her crying and his smile turned into a frown of concern as he pushes the door open and lightly knocks on it to let her know someone was coming in. "Hey there love, what seems to be troubling you? If it is a man I will split him in two and pray to the keeper of the dead to make him my undead servant to wait on you for all eternity"

[Amice Kyoushi]

The poor girl lays down on the bed and shakes her head, "No... I... I am no leader... I am no people person, I am not sure what I am to do... I cannot handle the people."

[Tenshi]

Seeing Amice in such a way made him all the more concerned. He goes and sits down on the bed next to his wife and gently strokes her hair "Tell me what's going on Amice. I know you don't care for being around people. But what has driven you to this point?" he reaches with his other hand to take one of her's and kisses it softly, doing his best to ease the worry and stress that seemed to radiate from her

[Amice Kyoushi]

She leans in against her husband. "I have been running independent city... pretty much by myself since Ayden left... the man he left to help me.. as been next to no help... I cannot continue to deal with all these people... I am not a people person Tenshi... And that is what this job requires... I want Ayden back."

[Tenshi]

Tenshi holds her close and kisses her head "now now dear. Let's put this whole thing behind you. You are home now, just relax and don't think about Independent city here." He brings her in closer now to kiss her lips and smiles, gazing into her eyes "You need a break... some sleep too by the looks of it." he says softly

[Amice Kyoushi]

Amice kisses him back and holds herself close to her lover. "I have to go back to work in the morning. I feel like I'm dying..."

[Tenshi]

Tenshi was shocked to hear this fact from his wife. He holds her tightly against him as they sat there on his bed "Now now my love. If it is so hard to do, perhaps I can help you with your duties." he offers "I mean, I work with many here at the estate, I work with many people abroad to keep my casinos from falling apart from the inside. Surely I can help you manage the people in some way to ease your burdens" he strokes her hair softly "I would hate for you to die in such a fashion as inglorious as the plights of human needs"

[Amice Kyoushi]

Amice lays her head on her husband and shudders, "Thank you Tenshi, you have no idea what this means to me, but nothing that you hear can be repeated to Akusai or his men, Ayden would be greatly upset if Independent City's secret information got into the hands of anyone else." Amice was different than Sky in every way, where as Sky was a queen ready to rule Amice was much better at sitting back and letting other people rule while she worked on her own stuff with no ones knowledge. She was a loner, unlike Sky or even her husband.

[Tenshi]

He smiles softly at Amice as she nestled against him "Fear not, I know about discretion my love. I give you my word that nothing done within Independent city will never leave its walls" and kisses her once more "It will be interesting to watch the state of affairs that go on within the city out of the public eyes. But now I think you should get what rest you can dear. Since you only have today I suggest you make the most of it" he chuckles, unless you have something else you'd rather do to help relieve all this tension" He lightly runs his fingers over her back a couple times

[Amice Kyoushi]

Amice leans against her husband and tears well up in her eyes. Though she nods, "Yeah... rest first then your idea." She says with a giggle. She kisses him gently.

[Tenshi]

Tenshi smiles and kisses her in return, tucking Amice into bed "I'll make sure no one bothers you while you sleep my love. You deserve it after all you've been doing." he smiles and rests a hand on her cheek "When you wake we will work out another idea for some fun" and gives her a wink

[Amice Kyoushi]

She curls up and falls asleep for a few hours. Eventually she wakes up and stretches thinking about how hungry she is. She walks toward the kitchen trying to think of all the stuff that she would need to do the next day.

[Tenshi]

Tenshi had made certain that nothing would bother Amice as she slept, pretty much forbidding anyone from going down that wing until she was awake. He now was busy in the kitchen, yelling orders at the cooks to make something for Amice and wasn't in the mood for sub par food from his chefs. So ever so often he threw a bowl or spoon at them to keep them in line as he monitored their cooking. They finally were just wrapping up a meal of fish, shrimp, and crab meat with butter sauce and a garden salad with all the colors of the rainbow of various food products set up at the table "Very good. I believe-" he turns as he sees Amice enter the kitchen "Ah sleeping beauty has awoken. How are you feeling?" he moves over to wrap his arms around her waist

[Amice Kyoushi]

Amice goes over to her husband and holds him closely she kisses him gently, "I am feeling better, are you okay? You don't usually yell at them." She says before closing her eyes. She bites his lip and cuddles up against him.