AN: Hey guys sorry I haven't uploaded in a while, I've been really busy with school senior year is pretty tough heh. Anywho here's chapter four, what would you do if you were in Ali's shoes? Please comment and favorite 3
Chapter Four: Alistor PoV
Alistor watched the girl storm off, her long blonde hair flowing behind her in the wind. He couldn't help but smirk, it was obvious that she had a thing for him but she was too proud to admit it. Alistor admired that fighting spirit that he knew would break if he just had a couple more encounters with her. 'But do you want to break her? Don't you like that she's not like the others? That she doesn't throw herself at you?' Alistor frowned at his own head then shrugged 'no I want to break that hard exterior,'
"Alistor don't you dare, the poor girl has enough on her plate without you trying to get into her bed," Arthur said, practically reading Alistor's mind, as he usually did.
"Relax, Artie, she has kids why would I do such a thing?" Alistor said intending them as a lie until his own inner monologue stepped in. 'That's right Alistor, she has kids, why would she even bother with you? She doesn't have time to deal with some spoiled prince like you that will end up breaking her heart, or are you worried about it being the other way around?' Alistor flinched, even his own mind was cruel to him, but it was right, it knew the real reason he did what he did.
"If you hurt her I will personally bash your head in if her family doesn't do it first, I've met them, Lukas and I are quite good friends actually," Arthur said before turning his attention to Alex "Now you, where on earth were you?"
"I saw a really pretty butterfly and so I had to chase it," Alex answered simply like it was no big deal that he had gotten lost in an unfamiliar place. Alistor bit his lip to keep from laughing at the exasperated look on Arthur's face and looked around. Alistor wandered off deciding he didn't want to listen to the bickering of his brothers and would rather, for once, do what he was told and get to know the people. Alistor wandered aimlessly around the village talking to the people he felt at peace. The village was small and quite, Alistor needed a place like this, it was relaxing and the people were so friendly. It almost made him actually for maybe a little bit want to be the king. 'Ahh yes, king, that is a thing I have to be soon, Fathers health doesn't seem to well' he thought as he looked around then sighing he walked into a small in with a tavern and sat looking around and thinking back to the conversation his father and himself shared before he left
"Alistor," his father rasped as he sat in his favorite chair by the fire in the castle library, "you need to find a wife soon. My health as we all know is deteriorating, I don't have long. Son every great leader of this kingdom has had an even greater woman by their side and I want to be around to at least meet yours" Alistor had promised his dad that he would find someone as soon as possible, he couldn't let his dad down. After their mother passed, their father had stepped up and taken on both jobs, in Alistor's mind he was a true man, a man Alistor could never be. He hated being tied down and he honestly dreaded the whole marriage and Kingly thing, but he had to do it, for his mother and his father. He had just ordered himself a pint when an overwhelming urge to travel overtook him. He quickly excused himself dumping a handful of gold onto the table and started walking, he didn't know where but allowed his feet to move him to a decent house near the edge of the town. He slowly walked up to it and knocked on the door he wasn't sure why he was acting this way just that he needed to see whoever was on the other side of this door. As he knocked it opened to an annoyed looking Mercy who slowly looked up at him, looking slightly annoyed she let out a small sigh as someone in the background shouted;
"Oh, my Gods is that the prince Lukas are you sure you did the thing right?" Alistor glanced around Mercy to two men who were sitting at a table and staring open mouthed at him, the one who he assumed was Lukas replied curtly
"Yes, Tino, I am sure I did it right," the man speaking, Lukas, was in what seemed to be a navy blue dress. Alistor turned his attention back to Mercy who was looking at him with a grim acceptance as if she was disappointed but was too tired to deny her fate. What's gotten into her? Alistor asked himself feeling extremely small under the tiny girl's' calm gaze.
"Well, Alistor, it seems that you are the children's father," Mercy muttered as she stood back gesturing for Alistor to come inside.
"Wh-what do you mean I'm their father, I thought you said you didn't know who it was," Alistor stuttered, feeling his usual calm demeanor faltering and crashing down around him. He was terrified, he couldn't be a dad he was practically still a kid himself he was only twenty, he had met this girl at seventeen. Wait how old were the kids? He needed to know
"They're three Alistor if that's what you're thinking about," Mercy replied to his unanswered question, still as calm as if she was talking about the weather. "You met me the day after I started work at the brothel, which is probably why you had no idea about that part, and why I was trying to drink away my problems. A habit I got from my father," she said laughing dryly.
Berwald walked in and glanced around the room assessing it calmly before promptly turning around and walking back out, Mercy laughed, surprising Alistor, it was such a carefree sound. It was the kind of laugh you couldn't help but want to join in. It almost made him forget why he was here, but one glance at the blonde girls tired eyes is what brought him back to reality.
"I ca-" Alistor started before he was interrupted by the voices of Tino and Lukas talking in unison
"You are the father,"
"So are you going to man up?" Tino asked stepping forward.
"Or, are you going to make us hurt you?" Lukas asked a terrifying sparkle in his navy eyes. Alistor stared at them blankly. What was he going to do?
