I Remember
By: PinkiePie10Cait
Kai ran his hands through his hair instinctively as he sat down in his office chair. It was now the evening in New Beijing, the golden hour was just disappearing in the sky as Luna rose, slowly and steadily. He leaned back in his office chair and put his hands on his face when he remembered a certain saying: bad things come in threes. First his father had died from the blue fever, next came the witch-of-a Lunar Queen Levana, and now it was Cinder, or should he say Linh Cinder, cyborg fugitive.
Torin walked in suddenly, surprisingly not announced by Nainsi.
"Your Majesty," Torin, the person he trusted more than anyone, said with a quick bow. "Queen Levana is requesting an audience with you. Nainsi would've been sent in, except you know her distaste for androids." Kai saw and obvious disgust in Torin's brown eyes as he spoke. "Do you accept?"
Kai squeezed his eyes shut. Not now, please not now, he thought. "Sorry, Torin, it's just not a good time right now." He said, running a hand through his chestnut hair. "Can you tell her I have a meeting in five minutes?" He knew Levana would be mad at him when she found out, but he needed time to think. Time to be able to process the situation.
With a look of understanding, Torin gave a quick nod and left the office. He was finally alone. He had two boring press conferences that rather horrible morning, and a meeting with Torin, Queen Capella, and several other world leaders. It was exhausting. How could one person have so many bad things happen to them? He never would've guessed this would be his life ten years ago. Now he was so tired he could've just slept for several long days right in this very chair...
He dreamt of a memory he hadn't thought about since he was six or seven years old. He had a small limp in his leg from falling outside in the palace gardens, a large bleeding scrape on his right knee, and brush burns on both of his hands, which were now red. Kai tried to keep from crying, but his cuts were keeping him from doing so. He was trying to find his mother, knowing she would be able to comfort him, when he turned a corner and yelped. His father's adviser, Torin, almost knocked him on the ground. Luckily, Torin caught himself before Kai could fall again.
"I apologize, your Majesty, please excuse me," said Torin in a rather hushed tone to him before hurrying off again. Kai didn't say anything, only gave a small smile.
Torin was intimidating to Kai, with him being tall and an adviser to his father. When he had confessed to his father a few weeks back about his fear of him, his father only laughed and said, "Son, there's nothing to worry about. Torin is one of the few people I trust most."
Kai was still confused about his father's words, even though it had been about two months since he said them.
He finally found his mother after a few more minutes of searching. When Kai shouted to her, "Mommy!" His mother hurried to him and said in her gentle soft voice, What happened Kai? Let's get you a bandage." Kai nodded quickly.
They walked to the busy palace medical center. Everyone stopped what they were doing as a doctor took Kai in the back with his mother and put a bandage on his right knee and antiseptic on his palms. After, they went to the gardens, the place that Kai fell down earlier. Strange, thought Kai, why are we going back here? But his mother only smiled at his confused expression. She held his hand as they walked through rows of roses, peonies, and cherry blossoms.
She suddenly laughed; A sound that Kai absolutely loved to hear and asked, "Do you remember when your father got locked out of his office when he broke the ID scanner? Torin was furious! He kept saying to Rikan you shouldn't of done that sir, now everyone thinks you're clumsy and foolish!"
Kai laughed with her and added, " Of course I remember! You should've seen his face! Torin never looked like that before!"
By that time they were both sitting on a marble bench- it was her favorite place to be in the garden. It was surrounded by plants of all kinds, including a large apple tree that was the first plant ever planted in the garden. It was a gift from the American Republic and was just beginning to grow fruit due to the season.
A palace worker walked up to them without notice and said to Kai's mother with a bow, "Your Majesty, I have news from the European Federation that I was told to deliver to you. Letumosis is spreading to Europe."
Kai's eyes opened up wide. Letumosis? Spreading? He'd heard rumors of the killer disease and knew it had no cure yet. His mother rushed off with the worker.
Trying to calm himself down, he took several deep breaths and counted to ten, like he was told to do in these kinds of situations. Another breath, and he calmed down bit after bit. That would have to be a trick he should remember.
NOTE: Hi everyone! Thank you so much for reading this chapter of my story! This is my first fanfiction story! If you have any questions feel free to ask me them. Please review and tell me how I did!
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-PinkiePie10Cait