Judal's eyes opened slowly, looking up to see Aladdin pushing him off of her. Their son was lying on the other side of her, wiggling around and trying to crawl away from his mother. Aladdin didn't look too pleased. "You are going to have to sleep on the floor for a while or somewhere else. You were sucking on me like Nour does."

He just stared at her for a moment as he left himself take in what he had been missing. His hands roamed up her arms only to come to rest on either side of her head. Pushing himself up, he met the other's lips before she could comment once more about leaving him on the floor. He pressed his chest against her lightly, coaxing her mouth to respond. The return was just as he had wanted.

Her arms wrapped around him, holding him close as they let the child fend for himself for the moment. Her eyes began to hover to a close, her lips pressing to his more. He could feel her try to move to wrap herself around him more, tears gracing her eyes as her body refused to work with her. She pulled back and looked up at him, watching him a moment before she looked away.

"Don't… don't have those kind of dreams in front of Nour."

Judal cupped one of her cheeks, making her look at him before kissing her once more. He moved closer, pulling her into his arms as they embraced one another. Her arms could hold him; her body shifting to a comfortable position. He couldn't help himself when he held her closer, when he rubbed her back and held her this close. This is what he had wanted. "Stop being weak, Chibi," he murmured against her lips. "It's annoying."

"It's not my fault," she argued half-heartedly. "I'll be better soon. I miss going outside and Yamuraiha still needs to show me how to control my magoi."

The other magi brushed her hair out of her face, watching her a moment as he thought to himself. But she was patient, waiting his thoughts out; content to just holding him close and enjoying whatever embrace he wanted to give. When he moved in to kiss her again, she was the first to cling to him. Her arms cradling him to her so that she could tilt her head and deepen the kiss to the best of her ability. Judal could only find himself grasping for those words he had dreamed of being unable to find.

Something grabbed his braid, making him look over his shoulder to find their son looking up at him, trying to shove the end of his braid into his mouth. Nour's gaze just went from him to Aladdin until Aladdin was reaching over to pick him up. She smiled to him and kissed his forehead. "Did you want attention too?"

"He's spoiled," Judal complained.

"He's not that spoiled. He'll get lonely if no one is around. I want to make sure he has a lot of friends."

"I want to make sure I still have what I want."

Aladdin looked over at him in confusion, but her attention was drawn back to the baby after a moment. Nour continuing to try to chew on Judal's braid as though it were tasty in any way. He watched as Aladdin pulled the hair from him, tossing it over Judal's head to land behind him. She faked having her hand crawl up the infant's chest, wiping at the baby's eyes before he could begin to cry over his lost object. The attention she gave to the child was strange, given that just a year prior, she had been a boy in Solomon only knew where.

He stared at her as he tried to think of what he did know about her. He knew trivial things; obvious to anyone kind of things. He didn't know where she was from though. He didn't know how she was a magi when there was only supposed to be three. How did she have the Wisdom of Solomon? How old was she even?

He moved them all slowly, heading towards the headboard to lean against. The duo in his arms let him so easily. Aladdin's gaze went to him only after Nour was settled in for a little nap once more. Her gaze was met with Judal kissing her again, holding her tight.

"Who are you, chibi?"

The question seemed to confuse her as her face fell into a frown. "Who… are you okay, Jugemu? I haven't changed while I was sleeping or something have I?"

"Not a bit," he replied, but her words did not answer his question. Even as she smiled at him and moved to curl up a bit closer, he found himself more and more curious. Who was she really? There were supposed to be three magi and now with her help, they had five in the world; the fifth being an even younger brat than her.

Yet he had been enamored with her, wanting nothing more than to wrap himself up in her arms and lose himself in her embraces. For her he had thrown those who had raised him to the wind. Because of her, as he looked up, he found himself noticing more and more white rukh around them, the black vanishing slowly from around him.

He was getting so much weaker in that sense now and there was nothing he could do about it. There was power to be had with having the object of everyone's desire but that object was more concerned with trying to chew on his hair and cry. Nothing had turned out like he had thought they would.

"Judaru?" Aladdin looked up at him, once more changing how she pronounced his name. Her arms moved to pull him a bit closer, kissing his forehead as she had done with their child.

"Don't treat me like our kid, Chibi."

Her smile was sheepish, "I would do more, but I'm still tired from helping Alibaba. He was having trouble with black rukh before." Her gaze went to the door. "Do you think he's okay?"

"He's fine," Judal pulled her closer. "Are you sore?"

He could tell she was torn from demanding to see the other by the way she refrained from answering for a moment. Her bottom lip being bit as she tried to decide for a moment whether to question about the king candidate more. "No, I'm not that sore. It just hurts when I try to move too much. I think it will be fine by morning."

"That soon?"

The woman shut her eyes and nodded as she leaned into his chest. "If I sleep a little more and don't have to get up to watch Nour for a while, I'll be alright. I just need a little more sleep."

"Then get some rest." He told her, pulling the blankets around her and Nour. His gaze moved up to where Sinbad was inching the door open, looking in to see how they were doing. He stood from the bed and let Aladdin rest with their child as he moved towards the doorway, opening and slipping through the door before he looked at the king.

From the folds of his robes, Sinbad pulled a mask out, showing it to the magi. "The other generals and I managed to find another one of his props on the outskirts of the country, we've ensured that there is nowhere in the country for him to be. Pisti and Hinahoho have gone out to search a bit more, but as far as we have found, no one has gotten so much as a trace of the intruder."

"You're bad at getting to your point."

"I think you need to marry Aladdin and claim your son officially before something or someone comes along to mess things up." Sinbad crossed his arms over his chest, face serious for once in his life as he looked at the magi. "There's only so much that even you can do. Kouha believes that you have already done so, but not everyone will jump to such conclusions."

"It should be obvious enou-"

"It would tie her as much to you as it would you to her." Sinbad shook his head. "You let me help you see her through pregnancy. Let me help you see her through more."

"She won't let you use the kid as your magi."

"There are two other magi here and one that has promised to help me should I have need of him during more difficult times."

"Yunan…" that was why he had come. Judal shook his head. "The brat has no intention of doing anything like that with me. She's just happy having the smaller brat suckling on her all day."

"I wouldn't count on that." Sinbad replied, his arm going around the other's shoulders. "I think she would leap at the chance if she was given it."

Of course he would think such a thing, Judal could only think as he shrugged the other's arm off of him. "She won't so there is no point in bothering to ask." He fixed the other with a serious gaze and shook his head. "She can take care of our kid and when she's better we'll be out of here. I'll train them both and watch the world rip itself apart."

Sinbad leaned against the wall of the hallway, his arms crossing over his chest as he stared at Judal. Those eyes seemed to peer straight through him before he chuckled. Whatever was funny was lost to Judal as the other continued to laugh to himself. "You're going to train her?"

"Of course, I'm not going to be stuck having to rely on someone else to look after her while I look after the mini brat."

Sinbad rolled his eyes before replying. "It's funny to watch you try to be like you were before she was a girl."

"I don't know what you mean, but call me tamed and I'm going to slit your throat and leave your carcass on Freckles's desk."

"It's not that bad to be tamed."

Judal sighed loudly before he began to walk back into the bedroom, finding the king shutting the door before he could enter. "Ask her."

"Ask- if it's okay to be tamed?"

"No, ask for her hand. She what she says. If there's any bit of honor in you, you will before someone comes along to ruin things for the two of you. No one is going to come to get those two and slip through the guards here. Do yourself a favor and ask her before someone else comes along and whisks her away from you."

"Are you threatening me?"

"Consider it advice from your king candidate."

Judal could only pause as those words escaped the other's mouth. King candidate; how long had he wanted to have the other bend to his will and do what he wanted of him. Sinbad had more djinns than his other dungeon capturers and had more magoi than most. Even the Al Samen had wanted to get their hands on him. How long had he been trying to get his hands on this person, and he so willingly hands himself over now of all times.

There was no point in him needing the man now though; perhaps that was why he was doing this. Judal had no use for him, not right now anyway. There was no power that was going to drag him away only for the Al Samen to be able to swarm in and get Aladdin and Nour. Sinbad knew he wouldn't act upon the submission from him.

He could have cursed had he not wanted to wake the two in the bedroom up. At the very least, he shot the other a look.

"Nine months ago, had I said that you would have had me eating sand and slaughtering countries," Sinbad stated calmly. "Isn't it interesting how much one person can change another?"

Judal turned away from him and scoffed. "Fine, I'll ask her."

The king caught his arm as Judal went to head into the other room. "Think of it this way," he told the magi. "You'll have her wrapped that much closer to you and know she won't stray. You'll have her friends as your own and no one will be able to stop you with the entirety of Sindria and Balbadd behind you."

"You'd sacrifice your entire country for one person?"

"I would do a lot of things that most would deem unintelligent," Sinbad replied. The tawny-eyed man gave him a grin. "Just ask Ja'far how many times he has had to sleep with me to stop me from drinking in my sleep."

The two stared at one another a moment before Judal pulled his arm away. "Don't think of us as close, idiot king. She can have me tamed, but when she's up and able to take care of the kid on her own, I'm going to make you eat every single refusal you've given me to become my king candidate up until now."

Sinbad just gave him a grin before he opened the door for Judal, looking over at the sleepy Aladdin that had apparently woken up.

"Sinbad," Aladdin greeted with a sleepy smile. Judal moved across the room and shook his head.

"You were supposed to sleep, stupid. You said you were going to sleep."

"You left so it got cold," the woman sat up a bit and held her arms out, having them filled within an instant by the aggravated raven haired magi. Judal shoved her back down onto the sheets and held her there.

"Sleep. You're no use weak like this."

"Aladdin," Sinbad leaned against the door as he spoke, earning their attention. The man crossed his arms over his chest as he smiled over at them. "Judal and I were just discussing something outside the room for a moment. Sorry to have stolen him away."

"It's fine," she replied, curling up against Judal a bit more. "What were you guys talking about?"

"The idiot king wants to be my king candidate."

"Actually," Sinbad interrupted Judal to say, "Judal was curious about something and wanted to ask you what you thought about doing something."

"Doing something," she looked over at the other magi only to note the warning look on Judal's face.

"Let me ask in my own way, king."

"You weren't going fast enough. Ja'far's going to realize I've drunk through the kitchen's supply of wine in the next couple of minutes so if you could hurry things along."

"You're going to watch me," Judal asked, staring at him in disbelief.

"There is no way I'm missing this," Sinbad replied easy.

"Missing what? Asking what?" Aladdin looked between them and frowned. "What's going on?"

"Are you sure you don't want to invite someone else to join in watching? Maybe bring something to eat or a bit of cloth to cry into," Judal asked the king. He could only groan a bit as he saw a head hover a into view for a moment outside the bedroom door. "Damn it Kouha…"

"Oh. Was I called?" Kouha moved into view, smiling brightly as he leaned against the other side of the doorframe and copied Sinbad's stance. "Don't let me interrupt. Continue."

"I don't need you both here for this," Judal stated in a half growl.

"Can I please just be asked, I want to know what's going on." Aladdin looked between the lot of them, becoming frustrated with the vague conversation. She sat up and set Nour down in the middle of the bed before she looked over at Judal. "What do you want to ask?"

Sinbad looked over at Kouha, exchanging a knowing look with the other that earned a pissed responding look from Judal. The magi fuming a moment before he looked over at Aladdin. He opened his mouth to speak and found himself hesitating. Those blue eyes looked at him curiously, her hair in disarray as she looked up at him. She was still just a brat. He would have liked to have waited on this.

A soft chuckle came from nearby, Kouha from the sound of it as Judal took the moment to let himself not go over and throttle his newfound king candidate and the prince. They were here for him being soft. He knew that and that was probably what the worst part of it was. They were all but eager to watch him either be rejected or act 'civil' and ask her. He huffed a bit before speaking. "I want you to marry me, so marry me chibi."

The room went silent as Aladdin stared at him in complete shock. "…what?"

"Marry me."

She frowned, "Why?"

Judal moved forward before the others could say anything, his arms wrapping around her and pulling her into his arms. They had wanted to stay so it was their fault if they say shit. He leaned over her, brushing a bit of hair out of her face and smirking down at her. "Because you need me and I feel like it, so marry me."

Aladdin stared at him, her eyes looking for something before she spoke. "That's not really a reason."

"Then you think of one and agree."

She huffed at him instead, "and what if I say no?"

"Then I'll chase you through the entire palace and across the whole damn globe like I did with that idiot king over there until he became my king candidate and keep demanding you to until you marry me. I won't be as nice to you about it as I was with that idiot either. I'll tie you up and drag you to the nearest priest if I have to."

Aladdin stared at him a moment more. Her gaze still looking him over closely before a small smile came to her features. Her arms wrapped around him before she leaned up and kissed him. Her hands tangled in his hair, pulling him over so that he was closer to her height. "Fine," she replied, "but you have to give me a real reason first. Just chasing me around won't work. Tell me the real reason you want to marry me and I will."

"What kind of reason is there? I said I was bored and it seems like a good idea. Marry me."

She leaned against his chest and shook her head. "Give me your real reason and I will, but no. Not until you give me your real reason."

"Do you want something from me? You've gotten me away from the Al Samen. What more do you want?"

"I don't need anything from you," she replied easily. Her arms wrapped around him as her eyes closed. "You've given me enough. If you want me to marry you though, you have to tell me why."

"Because the idiot king thinks we should. I don't know. Why don't you give me some choices for reasons why and I'll pick one."

She looked up at him and shook her head. "It's really obvious."

Judal looked at the two men by the door, earning two shrugs and them glancing at one another. "None of us are getting it. You might want to explain."

Aladdin pulled him down again and kissed him.

"Sex, okay. That's not a good reason-"

"No," she shook her head and pulled him to her lips again, kissing him again and motioning towards their pinkening rukh.

"Because our rukh change color? You think because they have that kind of reaction to how we feel that we should marry?"

"You're getting closer," She smiled at him before she moved to grab the slumbering infant nearby. "You have plenty of time. Until then though, I won't marry you."

"Aladdin, you couldn't be a bit more explanatory about this," Sinbad moved into the room a bit more, frowning as he decided to take pity on the magi proposing. "We have no idea what you are looking for."

"It's blatantly obvious," a voice replied from behind the king, making him turn to see a furious looking Ja'far staring at him. The adviser held up an empty wine bottle. "Been drinking again, Sin?"

"Ah, Ja'far."

"What's blatantly obvious, I don't get it either," Kouha stared at the adviser and smiled a bit. "I might have been drinking with King Sinbad earlier. We got a bit ahead of ourselves with my cousin and a few of the others in the palace. We seem to have gone a bit further than that bottle though, judging by your expression."

Ja'far's temper seemed to cool at that, the man shaking his head. "Love, you drunken idiots, that's the reason for marriage. Clearly you all have never thought about such things before."

Judal wrapped his arms around Aladdin, pulling her a bit closer only to kiss her temple. He murmured to her gently while the others argued. "You want me to love you and that's the only way you'll marry me?"

She leaned against him more as he murmured to her, wrapping an arm around his neck as she replied. "I already know you do. I just want to hear you say it."

"And if I don't?"

"Then I won't marry you. I'm going to make you say it to me once though, just so that I can be sure. I don't know what marriage really means, but I know that's what seems to be the big thing about it. No love, no marriage."

"I gave you a kid," Judal replied, all but purring as he held onto her tighter. "I would say that goes a long way to telling you what I feel better than saying that damn phrase would."

"Then go home if you think that."

"You're a bossy brat," he remarked, but she only smiled a bit before resting against him, closing her eyes as the trio argued in the doorway. "I'm not giving you a choice anymore. You're marrying me, Chibi."

"Why?"

Judal gave a small growl before he gripped her neck and forced her to look up at him. His face set in a fierce, bemused expression. His eyes were hard, glaring down at her after those playful refusals. He leaned a bit closer so she wouldn't be able to avoid or miss what he was about to say. He took a breath in to gather himself and have enough strength to say the stupid phrase loud enough so her ears would ring with his statement.

She stared up at him in surprise, her hands tightening on the white fabric around his shoulders. Her eyes surprised and expectant, waiting with bated breath for those words.

"Because I love you."

Everything stopped. The fighting, the gestures from the trio in the doorway, the air entering Judal's lungs; everything seemed to pause as he said that statement loudly. Aladdin's eyes widened with those words. Her face remaining facing his. Their bodies seemed to both be heated with that statement, perhaps only due to the blush that was slowly rising to her face. Her hands held onto his clothes as she slowly began to smile.

Her arms wrapped around him as she leaned forward and kissed him, being welcomed easily as he wrapped his arms around her tighter. Her body pressed against him as she gave him what had to be a far more pleasurable kiss than they had ever given one another before. The rukh danced around them, pinker than before.

"Okay," she murmured, her eyes locking with his as she pulled back to breathe. He felt her breath against his face as his senses took note of her scent, the way her body seemed to fit perfect in his arms. "I'll marry you."

Judal pulled her close and held her in his arms. His eyes went to the doorway, watching Ja'far get pulled into Sinbad's arms as the king watched them both with a foreign expression on his face. Kouha hugged his sword close, watching them a moment before he was pulling the other two slowly from the room. He shut the door, leaving Judal took have no one to look to except the woman in his arms. He felt his whole being burning for some reason. He couldn't pull himself away from her as he watched their rukh dance around them both.

What was this, He wondered to himself, watching his black rukh flee from the room. The white rukh seemed to pulse with that pink hue, diving at the black rukh. He watched them run, holding Aladdin close as she settled into his arms. "I love you too," she murmured after what seemed like eternity passed. Their rukh turning a deeper pink.

He couldn't breathe with this feeling, but he didn't want to. He didn't want to move lest he find himself waking up back in his old room with the Al Samen. His hands grasped at Aladdin as he felt her hold him. He moved to lie down, pulling her with him until they were horizontal. He buried his face into her chest and felt her wrap her arms around him, stroking his hair.

One more weakness, he thought to himself as she stroked through his hair. She was just one more weakness that would be the death of him.