Author's Note: Oops, I messed up a bit on this and the Lexaeus chapter. This prompt and the prompt for that chapter were supposed to be switched, but I forgot about that until I looked at my outline and realized I messed up. No matter, it could go either way. So this prompt was basically a "What if Kairi was a teenager during her life at Radiant Garden and she hooked up with one of the Apprentices" or in this case, the castle guard. So some good old angsty XaldinKairi is up and I hope you enjoy.
a Surrendering Heart
chapter oo3: Dilan/Kairi
the love story of a guardian
O.O.O
She arrives to him wearing flowers like a halo around her hair. He strokes the vibrant red, tucks a strand behind her ear, and dips her in his broad arms. He kisses her, loves the taste on her lips, slick and sticky like honey and dew. She likes to touch his face, let her fingers graze the coarse hair of his sideburns. She likes it when his tongue flicks her bottom lip as they kiss.
Both of them like it when he throws her up against Castle walls (behind the castle mind you, oh no, never by the front gates), and ravishes her body. When he throws down that spear of his, finally, and has his eyes on her, instead of focused, alert, and attentive to those tall pearl gates.
Was it so wrong that she wanted his attention? For once, she wanted to be more important than that Castle he guarded. His life revolved around protecting it.
And yet that didn't stop the Unversed from diving into her heart with their claws and leaving her to be left inside out.
...
It was like any other day. Calm.
Really, what was there to protect the Castle from anyway? Besides sneaky boys with fire and ice for hair.
But there were screams, screams that hadn't echoed through the Gardens in quite some time. Screams that Dilan could almost recognize...almost.
"Do you hear that?" He asked Aeleus, who nodded, eyes already set on finding the source and putting an end to that person, that girl's, suffering.
But they only got a few steps away before Even was there, in his white lab coat, shaking his finger disapprovingly. "Ah, ah, ah. If you two go, who will protect the Castle?"
"But Even, those screams-"
"If they bother you so much, cover your ears," He said with a wicked laugh before walking back inside and slamming the Castle doors behind him with a thunderous boom.
And so Dilan and Aeleus stay and listen to the screams of hearts being stolen and a light being put out.
That day, Dilan finds a crown of roses, clenches it in his palm, and weeps.
What was a Castle without a Queen?