AN: This will be a three-shot set post time reversal. Next update could be in two weeks... but that's because I'm going on holiday and really wanted to post this up now...

An Embarrassing Situation

Tamina, Princess of Alamut and Guardian of the sand dagger could feel that there had been a major disruption in time. Her mother had once told her about the odd ache deep within the bones of guardians, the only other physical sign other than the disappearance of sand, that time have been reversed. The pain started shortly after the Persians successfully breached the walls of Alamut and were starting to celebrate their victory, initially Tamina had dismissed the feeling but other factors added together proved one unquestionable fact: the dagger had been used.

The evidence to this outrageous theory included the empty container that hung from the princess's neck, the equally empty pommel of the dagger presented to her by Prince Dastan and finally the sand glass.

After promising the three Persian Princes she would consider the prospect of marriage to Prince Dastan, she made her way to the catacombs underneath the city with two trusted priests. Both of which fell to their knees at the sight of the sandglass missing a significant amount of the original sand content. The more senior of the two was the first to voice out loud Tamina's suspicion. With a growing numbness, she refilled the dagger and the container, her imagination already conjuring elaborate scenarios of what could have happened in the time that was reversed and how the end of the world was stopped.

Tamina briefly considered the sudden personality change of her possible fiancée but she soon dismissed him as a suspect. There was no way a Persian would willingly give up a weapon as formidable as the dagger. It must have been a coincidence that his behaviour changed as soon as her pain had started… or perhaps the one responsible for the change of time had warned him of dangerous tidings.

It was with this in mind that Tamina found herself in Prince Dastan's room holding the aforementioned prince against the wall with a short sword at his throat. They had remained in this same position for what seemed like an age, neither one daring to speak. Dastan kept quiet because he did not wish to provoke her and so inadvertently cause his own death, and Tamina had not really planned on what she was going to do if the ambush succeeded. So the two of them just stood there, staring at each other in silence.

"So…" Dastan began awkwardly, "Is that a 'no' to the proposal?"

"…" Tamina wasn't paying attention to what he said; she was still in shock at how easy it had been to subdue the 'Lion of Persia". During her mental happy dance she failed to notice Dastan's hand slowly creeping up to the sword. In a swift movement he disarmed her and flipping her around he hooked his foot around her ankles, tripping her to the floor and sending her facedown to meet with the ground. Using one large hand he pinned both of her smaller ones against the floor and rested his weight on her back, effectively pinning her to the floor and stopping her from throwing him off.

Taken by surprise, Tamina was powerless to stop him.

"Now that we're a little more comfortable, would you mind explaining to me why you were trying to kill me?"

Hi, sorry it's me again. My summary sucks, I'd be very grateful is someone could come up with something better.