Prologue:

12pm, Midnight

I carefully opened your room door, making sure that it didn't make any noise. Slowly I peeked out into the hallway, looking for anybody that could ruin your perfect plan of escaping. You let out a tiny giggle as I slipped out into the corridor. As soon as I'm halfway down the cold hallway, I bump into a warm body.

I slapped my hand over my mouth to prevent yourself from screaming out loud. The person I bumped into stared at me with wide eyes.

"N-Nightmare P-P-Princess" the person squeaked, dropping to their knees in front of me.

As soon as the person dropped to the ground, the realization hit me. This person before you was a servant of your family's castle.

"Please, I'm not around my father. Call me Cora" I say softly.

"Do-does you-r father know that you're a-a-awake" the servant stammered, ignoring the sentence you had said before.

"No he doesn't know" I try to keep my voice down as I nervously looked both ways of the corridor checking whether anybody else was overhearing this conversation.

"Why-y- wou-wouldn't he k-kn-ow?" the servant stuttered again, obviously he was intimidated by my presence at such a late hour.

"He doesn't need to know why I'm sneaking out at such a late hour! Ugh!" I finally screamed, frustrated by the intimidated servant.

Realizing what you did, my hand clamped down on my mouth in shock. That sudden outburst must have woken up my father.
"Dammit" I think as I spun on your heel and raced down one direction of the corridor, leaving a shocked but still intimidated servant in the darkened hallway.

As I was running, I could hear the servant that I just had a conversation with scream at the top of his tiny lungs.

"Get the king! Quick someone! The Nightmare Princess is trying to escape! Hurry wake up Pitch! His daughter is escaping!"

"Traitor!" you think darkly in your mind, but you don't stop running. You hear the other servants stirring up, they had heard the warning and now basically all of the servants in your castle were coming after you.

I kept running and running but I never looked back. I wasn't watching where you were going and again I bumped into another warm body, this time the person I bumped into caught my elbows and prevented me from falling over again.

"Cora! What on earth are you doing?" the person said angrily.

I meekly looked up and saw a bright pair of yellow eyes glaring at me, shrinking back, I realized who this person was. The only person I was afraid of in this castle.

"Hi daddy" I said awkwardly, whilst trying to look innocent.

This is not going to end well, you thought as your dad kept a firm hold on your arms. His glare never softened as he pulled you harshly into his bedroom and slammed the door after you.

". We need to go over my rules again it seems. You never seem to listen the first time anyways!" your dad yelled at you darkly.

You cowered away from him, now knowing why all of the servants were scared of him.

"I'm sorry daddy, it won't happen again. I pro-" I tried to apologize but I was cut off by my dad.

"Oh you're sorry now? SORRY?!" he spat angrily and advanced towards me, his hand raised in the air.

I cringed and waited for the stinging slap to connect with my face.

I had to change it up a bit as it is against the rules to do a character and reader story so... yeah :( I'm so sorry..