The Red Apple
Chapter 8: The visit that ended everything
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It was the next day and all yesterday and I was in my office approving certain subjects to be brought about to my father for our next meeting and things to help resolve the new batch of issues being had by the workers in the field and how certain people in the west have been having harassment issues with Lord Thomas. I was wearing my dark navy gown with white ruffles and white flats, my favorite locket, and my hair was tied into a low ponytail with a white ribbon tying it together. I was writing down these documents but I couldn't help but worry about what was around me. Ever since the funeral I haven't seen hide or hair of Griffith anywhere. I had looked for him a couple of times, I even went down and asked Miss Casca if she had seen him and she also said she had not, it was also how I learned that this morning one of the generals, General Guts, had left the Hawks to unknown regions and that Griffith tried to stopped him but failed and was devastated from what I gathered and ever since than Miss Casca or none of the other Hawks have seen him. I was writing my signature approval a bill while all the while thinking 'I wonder where he is. I hope he will be okay to go through the decoration of rite ceremony tomorrow, it's a big event and he needs to stay focus on the task at hand'. I finally finished with all the document after 3 hours and decided to go into the music room to pass a bit of time with some music, since it had been a while since I played any and I didn't want to get rusty. First I played with the violin, then the guitar, the flute, the piano and the last but not least the harp. Out of all the instruments I loved, I loved the harp most of all, it was my mother's favorite instrument and she use to show me all the time how to play. I played a number of lovely and heavenly melodies on the harp that made me just smile and melt away from the issues and troubles I had.
I played this one melody me and my mother use to do a duet on called 'The fairy fountain' (author: I got that one from Zelda)' and played it slowly and sweetly and before long I was harmonizing with it using my voice. Once I finished I heard a handclap near the door, I looked over to see it was father clapping. I blushed shyly and said "Oh father it is you, have you finished your duties already?" He came in gently shutting the door saying "Yes daughter, and I assume since you are here and not in your office that you have finished all of your duties as well?" I nodded with a smile and said "yes father all of this documents have been notarized, approved, rejected and assigned for", he chuckles at me and says as he sits down on the piano bench "That's my girl, you truly make an excellent queen", with that he starts playing a few bars on the piano before bursting out into a full song filled with happiness and silliness. I listen to father's song as I slowly make my way from the harp to the bench and joined him in this marry tune. Once we were done we were both laughing in joy from the fun we had playing together.
Father looked over to me and grasping my hand in his saying "oh it has been a while since we played together. It brings me great joy to see what a wonderful young lady you have become and what a beautiful queen and bride you will become in the future". I look down from father looking at the piano keys stroking them softly with my free hand and asked "Father, what makes a great queen a great queen?" He looked at me gently before saying "Oh…What makes a queen great is that she is the one who will take care and nurture her kingdom and will defend her position and kingdom at all costs. She will be tender and loving to her people, she will put them first before even herself and do where she has to make her country as prosperous and as grand as she can in her lifetime, which is why I know I'll never have to worry about you because…." I looked at him as curiously as he said to me gently "that was the kind of woman your mother was and I was so happy to be her king". My eyes widened a bit before returning back to normal, I looked from father to the piano again and thought 'so even father thinks so, I guess in the end there truly is no distinction of good and bad in this world, just the truth and the truth is if I am to be the greatest I must come to terms that there will be times I will have to put my good conscious aside for the greater good of these people, that is what being a good queen is all about, and if it must do something like that, then so it shall be'. I smiled back at father who put his arms around my shoulder smiling and hugged me to his body, He looked at me and said "I swear every time I look at you I see your beautiful mother, you look exactly like her you know…same beautiful blonde hair, same pretty blue eyes, even in your gentle personality I see more and more of your mother in you", I suddenly felt something wet drop on my head, I looked up to father to see that he is crying, I make a sad gasp and I pull father into a loving embrace and he embraced me back now fully crying. I stroke father's head and say "It's alright father, I miss mother too, I think about her every night and talk with her when I pray, but mother is in a better place now and I know mother wouldn't want you crying like this", Father lifted up his now red eyes and say "you are right my dear daughter, your mother would want me happy, and she left me two beautiful gifts behind, you and your sister Charlotte mean the world to me, which is why it's so hard for me to let go, especially now that you're getting married". I look at my father and I realize how lonely father must be sometimes, missing mother and such and it doesn't help that I am going to be getting married soon. I grasp fathers face in both of my hands making him look at me as I say firmly "Father, I want you to know right here, right now, that you are a great father, me and Charlotte are lucky to have you as our father and mother would be proud of the man you are today. Even though I am to get married soon, I want you to know you are never alone father, you have me and you have Charlotte and we will never leave you alone Father". I then grasp him in a strong embrace and stroke his back and he gently returns my embrace, it is rare when I and father have these kinds of moments when we can be vulnerable around each other and that why I can take some comfort in the world if there was one person I could open up to, it's father.
The day went on and it was finally night time and a terrible storm was brewing outside. I had been changed into my all white off the shoulders silk night dress that hugged my curves and had the fire going on full that night to make my room all toasty. I had finish brushing my long locks before my chambermaid came in with the fire wood I needed and said "Excuse your majesty, but I have the firewood for your fire". I smile at her gently saying "Thank Lockette", she blushed a bit and threw the firewood onto the fire while saying "your majesty must be excited with your fiancé's decoration of rite ceremony tomorrow", I look at her from the corner of my eye and respond "but of course, my dear love will become a general and we can finally become official". I truly was excited for tomorrow's ceremony, it would be the most joyous of ceremony and it'll first time I've seen Griffith since the funeral of my Step-mother's. After the room was nice and toasty and my hair was smoothed out, I sat down in one of the chairs near the fire and say to Lockette "Lockette, before you are dismissed, do you mind making me some tea? I would very much like a cup to go with my book", Lockette bowed and said "right away your majesty" and with that she scurried out of the room while I took the book on my nightstand, a filled with roman mythology and started off reading one of my favorite stories: Hades and Persephone. I was curled up on the comfy chair sipping on my tea Lockette made for me reading the part where Hades has finally taken Persephone down to the underworld and her mother is having a terrible fit causing the first winter when I heard a knock on glass. My head shot up and I looked around my room, I tilted my head slightly before I looked down on the floor to see a shot of lightening flash through my room and the shadow on my wall took the shape of a man. I let out a small shriek before looking at my window to a shadowy figure, when the bolt of lightning flashed again I could see the person clearer and I saw that that person was Griffith. My eyes went wide as I jumped out of my chair, abandoning my book, and ran to the window opening it letting in the cold air, Griffith was standing on a branch looking down at me with such lonely eyes. I looked at him in worry saying "Griffith, what are you doing here? Please come in your getting soaked out there in this weather" "Pardon me for intruding on her majesty in all hours of the night" He said, but is sounded so different, like he was voided. He jumped down from the branch to my room and I closed the window and lead him to my chair saying "come on, we need to warm you up before you catch a cold". I sat him down on my chair and got a warm cloth from my closet and draped in gently over his head before rubbing it on him trying to get him dry.
While doing so I asked him looking down on his clothed head said "Now, do you mind telling me why it is you are out in this terrible storm in all hours of the night? And where have you been the last 2 days? Everybody missed you, I missed you, you caused everyone to worry about you a lot you know" I continued on for a while before Griffith grabbed my hands in his "Griffith" I said quite shyly as the day we first spent time together. He looked at me right in the eye while standing up slowly, it felt odd because usually went I look him in the eye I see an array of emotions, but this time I saw absolutely nothing, just nothing. He looked at me so blankly it caused me to worry even more than I did when I first saw him, "Griffith, is something the matter? You don't look right" He didn't say anything, instead he leaned his head down and captured my lips in his. I don't know what it was but this kiss was different from all his other kisses, I didn't feel a lot of anything in his kiss accept one thing: Lust. His hands roamed all over my curves and my back, it was strange because I never had anything like this happen to me, I only read about sexual things in books in the library. I felt him press deeper and deeper as I felt both his hands slid down and grab hold of my bottom, which cause me to gasp and so he slid his tongue inside my mouth memorizing every single cavern as his hands gently messaged my bottom. Out of pure instinct my tongue started dancing with his in a fiery passion as I clung to his wet jacket and felt his left hand go up my back entangling himself in my hair as his right and kept messaging my bottom.
I suddenly realize what is was I was doing and I turned my head and gasping out "Lord…Griffith…this is…" my words were choppy because he moved his mouth from my mouth to my neck, licking it and leaving kisses along my throat making me moan in pleasure at this foreign touch. His hand that was in my hair made a maneuver from my back to my front and through my silk gown grabbed a hold of my left breast leaving me to squeak in surprise and pleasure. He continued to kiss me around my neck and his right hand just messaged my cheek in his palm and his left and messaged my breast, now and again grabbing hold of my nipple and twisted in around gently. My cheeks were flushed and my breathe was coming out hard, He suddenly let go of me for a moment which confused me until he turned me around and my back was to his chest. His right hand was now making quick work of my breasts gliding over them and grabbing one or the other pinching my nipples make them hard. I felt another foreign feeling in the pit of my stomach, I was in total utopia, squirming under his touches, when suddenly left hand slid down and touch my cloth clitoris. I gasped because this feeling was new to me entire, I had never been touched down there before and I never touched myself down there so when it happened, it lit up a whole array of emotions. He slowly messaged my clitoris and he pulled my gown down more revealing my creamy breasts and soft pink nipples, which were completely hard now. His left hand quickened it's pace and even went in between my legs sliding against my slit making me get a bit wet, his right hand was messaging my bare breasts as I saw his face lean down low bending me over backwards into his right side as he took one of my nipples in his mouth making me nearly scream in pleasure, I felt myself get even wetter in between my legs, I felt him pull my gown up showing my holy place blessed with a patch of blonde on top. I felt his hand go in between my legs feeling my wetness before slipping a finger inside making me let out a quiet scream. He pumped his finger in and out rapidly against my tight virgin walls making me make sounds I didn't know I could make. His lips let go of my nipple only for his tongue to flick on it a couple of times before he licked me up back up to my neck and then to my ears, which he licks the outer shell then sticks his tongue inside which makes me gasp opening my legs wider which makes his pump faster. He suddenly stops and lets me go again, I could barely stand up by the time he let go so I collapsed on the chair with my breasts and holy place still showing, my cheeks quite flushed and tears of pleasure still glistening in my eyes blurring my view. I was going to say something when I felt my legs get lifted up so that my holy place was on full display, I went to block it went I felt something wet slick up against my slit making we squeak again, I look down to see Griffith head in between my legs and his tongue go in and out from my slit. He caught my clitoris in his mouth and started sucking on it making me shrill in pleasure. He sucked on it for a bit before flicking at it with his tongue and then dipping it up and down my slit making my nerves go array again. He then dipped his tongue inside me and started pumping me with his tongue making me shriek and gasp in pleasure. I felt tears from pleasure go down my face as I thought 'what is happening? What has come over Griffith? These feelings I'm feeling? It feels amazing!' I suddenly got the nerve to look down but when I did, Fear immediately overtook the part of me that was feeling pleasure.
Griffith was looking back at me while his tongue was still entertaining itself with my holy place, but eyes, his eyes were frightening, like a predator before his pray. I looked at him in fright before saying "Please stop this…no more Griffith", his tongue stopped in mid lick, I felt him take his tongue off my holy place, which made me whimper from the lack of warmth, before he crawled up to me, never once taking his eyes away from mine until he was directly in front of my face and his lower body was in between my legs which made me blush, he looked at me gently this time and said while stroking my cheek lovingly "are you afraid my dove? Are you afraid of being devour by the hawk?" He nuzzled his nose into the crook of my neck and held me gently, bringing me off the couch on onto his lap which only made him grip me harder. I didn't know what to do, but embrace him in my arms and stroked his head gently saying "My love, what is wrong, you can't hide it from me your eyes tell me everything, your voice tells me everything, your behavior tells me everything, what is wrong?" He takes his nose from my neck and says "I'm so sorry my dove, I'm so sorry, please forgive me for what I have done and forget that this has ever happened", He looks at me and gives me a sad smile before standing up with me and fixing dress for me and smoothing out my hair and giving one another deep hug, but this time I felt something in it, I felt love and regret. I hug him back letting him feel all the love I had for him which made him grip stronger. We stayed like that for a while with him stroking my hair and me inhaling his scent before he releases a little and kisses my forehead and saying "I must leave for tonight, tomorrow I hope to see you at my decoration of rite ceremony", I giggle as I nuzzle his nose with mine and say "I won't want to be anywhere else", He then gave me smile, a real smile and his eyes were back to normal, showing me all his emotions and his love. Guides me over to the window sill and says "It's going to be a big day tomorrow my dove, you go ahead and go to sleep, I will see you in the morning", He kissed my lips gently one last time before walking out to the window and opening it, smiling back at me and hops onto the ledge and hops back onto the trees and down, I smile at him before shouting out a "I LOVE YOU!", He stops for a second looks back and in his eyes I see love, admiration, guilt and sadness as he shouts "AND I YOU MY FAIR DOVE" and with that he runs pass through the garden. I close the window and sigh dreamily as I practically dance my way back to my bed and get under the covers smiling 'My Lord Griffith, My Hawk Griffith, My fiancé Griffith, I can't wait for the decoration ceremony tomorrow, but I can't help but wonder…what was the look of sadness and guilt for?'
No one's POV
Charlotte has just let her maid go for the night as she pondered a world of peace with no one to share it with. As she thought there was a flash of lightning and she noticed someone at her window, when she looked over to see who it was, her lips utter one name and one name only,
"Lord Griffith".
