So, I haven't updated in months. I'm really sorry about that guys. I don't know how to apologize enough. I'm going back and finishing old stories for closure. This is going to be the longest chapter I've ever written for this story because there is a whole lot of explaining to do. I might write an epilogue as well.


Prince


Jasmine's eyes fluttered open and she breathed in deeply. The air was warm and inviting and a tranquil feel of calm wrapped around her. She sighed and looked down. Gabriel's hand lay nestled perfectly in her's. His long delicate fingers gripping tightly.

She saw the structured curve of his face shrouded by a long lock of his blond hair and reached up without thinking and moved it aside.

Gabriel stirred.

"J-Jasmine, where…where are we?"

SHe sat up into a sitting position and shrugged. "I was hoping you might know."

He shook his head sadly.

Gabriel sat up beside me and looked around, then took in a sharp gasp.

"What's wrong?" Jasmine asked franticly as the stable boy stood up abruptly and began to pace. "Gabriel?" and then a moment later, "Gabriel why won't you answer me?"

"What?" he said, startled. Looking up finally and glancing at her as if she were a stranger for a few moments.

"What's going on with you?"

"I.." he looked around, as if searching for the words. "I remember this place…"

She stared at him intensely, trying her best to read his thoughts, but she was not her mother. Jasmine looked about. They were in a field, somewhere (from where it is unknown) there were tall blades of grass growing up in every direction and flowers dotting the terrain.

It was absolutely beautiful.

She turned back to Gabriel whose grey eyes seem to shine with realization.

He took the princess hand and helped her to her feet.

"Follow me." He said mysteriously and began to run quickly through the field to the edge of the plain where a thick nest of forest lay before them.

I was running after him desperately before I had time to think, uselessly calling out his name in an attempt to slow him down.

But Gabriel was too quick for her and soon she was saving her breath for their insane dash through the forest.

Tree, after tree whistled past and she soon became lost but Gabriel seemed to know his way and kept moving forward in his long strides.

Finally they reached a stone wall that cut the forest in half. It was incredibly tall covered in roping vines that ran their way up its cracked grey surface up and to the very top of the wall. Jasmine stared at it for a moment taking in its sure splendor, it's incredible largeness.

Then she turned to Gabriel who was still panting from our run through the woods. He looked puzzled and as amazed as she was, but in his eyes Jasmine also found the faintest hint of recognition and

Joy.

"Gabriel what is…"

His smile cut her off mid sentence.

"I remember Jasmine. I remember."

She looked at him for a long time. Watching him stare happily at the wall as if all his dreams had suddenly come true.

"I don't understand. What's going on? None of this makes sense."

"I'm home Jasmine." He said dreamily. "This place" he said, gesturing about him. "This is my home."

She took that in for a moment and then asked. "How do you know?"

He smiled and then reached out his hand to her.

Jasmine looked down at it, still puzzled.

"Take a look,' he said. Smiling at me. "I trust you."

She gently took his hand in hers and closed her eyes.

Jasmine suddenly saw everything in Gabriel's life in shocking clarity. She saw him cradled in the arms a of a beautiful woman, with his blonde hair. She was laughing with a man with dazzling grey eyes. Eyes she'd grown so used too.

The scene switched and she saw Gabriel, at maybe two years old running through the field she had been in early, laughing. Gabriel and his mother fell into the grass.

The woman whispered something to the boy, and he looked at her, confused. She reached in her pocket and pulled out the necklace. The necklace that had transported them. She fastened it around Gabriel's neck and kissed his temple.

The necklace glowed with power.

The woman held Gabriel to her and Jasmine thought for a moment that she could see the woman's own necklace glow a bright orange from under her dress.

The scene changed again and she now saw Gabriel's mother hurriedly kissing him. There were people running about and shouts of dismay, ringing out through the room.

A soldier rushed in, covered in armor and said something to the beautiful woman she nodded back to him and turned back to her son. She pulled him in for another hug and then opened a secret panel on the wall.

She pushed him inside. Gabriel was crying. Gabriel's mother put her hand to the boys forehead and whispered something then pushed him farther in a slammed the door closed.

She got up and ran quickly away. Something fell to the floor and Jasmine got a quick glimpse of a broken crown before the scene changed once more.

She saw Gabriel laughing with Aaron, and cleaning horses. She saw Gabriel looking longingly at someone in the stables.

She saw herself.

She let go of Gabriel's hand and stared into his eyes.

"You're a-" she stuttered. Looking for words.

"Prince." He finished for her. "And this is my castle," he said placing his hand on the wall. A bright green glow filled up Jasmine's vision and she heard the rumble of the gate as it opened.

There were shouts and cries and then there were hands, pulling Gabriel and herself forward, farther into the light.

The woman Jasmine had seen in Gabriel's memory was crying. Tears streaming down her beautiful face.

"My son." She whispered softly, and then wrapped her arms around Gabe.

Gabriel was at first startled, but then allowed his mother to hold him.

Jasmine stood watching the scene play out. Her heart fit to burst.

"I'm so sorry," she heard the woman say.

"I had to do it, to protect you. The war… it was so terrible, they were going to kill you, the prince, just like the king…your father… I had to protect you."

She held Gabreil at arms length and stared into his eyes.

"I wiped your memory so you wouldn't come home before it was safe. I knew the crystal would bring you home. " she touched the stone around Gabriels neck.

"Only one of the true heirs to the Promian throne could return to this land. And here you are. I'm so happy."

Gabriel smiled. And then looked over at Jasmine. He reached out his hand to her and she tentatively took it. He pulled her closer to him and said.

"This is Princess Jasmine. Who I hope to one day make my wife."

Jasmine smiled happily and squeezed his hand gently to show Gabe how she felt.

Everything seemed perfect.