So this I don't like the prologue at all so please do not judge my fic on this crappy chapter, its just kind of there to set up the story!
Pride and the Knight
Prologue
"Nicholas!" King Edward shouted from atop of his horse. He had organized a hunting part together with his most trusted knight who also happened to be his best friend too, they were riding through the fields towards the forest they were to hunt in when they realized they were not alone because their sons had followed.
"Yes father?" Nick asked innocently, the five year old boy was stood over another boy and he had a stick to the boys throat,
"Leave poor Jeffery alone" The king said in a scolding tone,
"But father, we were only playing" Nick said, removing the stick from the boys throat and stepping away from him, "I would never want to hurt Jeff, he's my friend, why would I hurt him?"
"You wouldn't want to but you could do by accident" The King said to his son, riding passed both the boys, Nick suddenly shot Jeff a very worried look,
"Im fine" Jeff said, well more like squeaked. It didn't matter that he had been living with Nick and his family in the castle his entire life and that he had known the king since he was a baby, King Edward scared him still.
"It's fine sire, it'll be good traing for Jeffery, if he wants to become Knight like me when he is older" Jeff's father, Sir Peter, said rolling his eyes at the boys antics, he always found them both amusing. Although he was told that is how he and King Edward used to act when they were children, which always made him laugh to think that they were that silly at one point.
"Yes well, you best be going home" The King said, pointing in the direction of the town and castle, "We would actually like to do some hunting"
"But-" Nick tried to protest but was interrupted by his father,
"No buts, just go" The king commanded, and Jeff nodded while dragging Nick off by his wrist so he couldn't protest and get them into any trouble.
King Edward and Sir Peter got back late from their hunting trip, they had managed to shoot a few dear and couple of rabbits, but the rabbits were just for fun and the dear would be given to poor familys who needed the food. When Edward arrived back at his room there was a small glow of a candle flickering light through the door, he entered his room and saw his wife already in bed reading a book.
"Still up?" The King asked, settling down in bed next to his wife,
"Yes, I wanted to make sure you made it back okay" The queen smiled, closing her book,
"How are the children?" The King asked,
"They are fine, Jeffery was asleep on Nicks floor again when I checked on them, I think he is still having nightmares about the monster that is apparently under his bed" The queen said in in a light tone and settled down to sleep but in the morning she would still check to see if Jeff was okay. When Jeff was only a baby, his mother had died of a sickness that had effected a lot of their town, after she died the King offered for Sir Peter to come live in the castle instead of living in out in the town. King Edward claimed that he wanted Peter to come and live in the castle so Nick and Jeff could grow up together and become friends like they had but really he didn't want his friend to have to stay in his house full of memories of his wife. Moving to the castle did turn out well, Nick and Jeff became friends quickly and Sir Peter found things to concentrate on around the castle to take his mind off of his wife also the Queen raised both Nick and Jeff like sons, she didn't care that Jeff wasn't biologically hers she just loved him like a son and that's all that mattered to her.
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