A/N: This will be the final chapter of the royal family in New Orleans. They will be back home in Maldonia in the next chapter, and I'm actually happy about that! Their anniversary chapter is also coming up as well as the birth of the baby prince...or princessa...usually Naveen's right so I'll go with prince! For now, enjoy this chapter. It's full of 'fireworks'.

Queen of Maldonia II

Harry's Dilemma

Tiana's Palace…

Naveen and Travis were at a table by the corner of the dining area of the restaurant drinking out of their minds—well at least Travis was. Naveen only had two shots. His plan was to talk the man out of moving by using alcohol, his weakness. The two were discussing business and family.

"So you see Naveen, this move to-to-to Chicago is veeeery hard for me, too." Said a drunk Travis. "Charlotte doesn't know how much I-I-I-I want to stay here."

Naveen shrugged. "Then what's stopping you?"

"I have some issues here." Travis explained to Naveen.

"With what? Do you owe money? You know I can always help you with that-

"No, it isn't money. It's women…this one woman I foo-foo-fooled around with…her voodoo bamboozled me. Those green eyes, the drinks she and her sisters ere serving! I should've left that night but I didn't." Travis said with blood shot eyes. "Harry was laughing along with them! He had two with him! I know she put something in my drinks."

Naveen wasn't understanding the issue. "So some woman got you drunker than you were use to. What does that have to do with you wanting to leave New Orleans?"

"I slept with her!" Travis confessed. "Her hips were addicting, I didn't want her to stop, but my heart wanted her to...to this day I'm still confused about the whole thing, but I know it was all a complete mistake…I didn't want to hurt Charlotte-

"But I thought Charlotte already knew about you sleeping with another woman?" Naveen said. "Is there more to it?"

"Yes! It's a mistake that changed my life completely." Travis explained. "Something I can't ever turn back, or get rid of."

"What could change your life besides getting this other woman pregnant?" Naveen with sarcasm, drinking another shot, but was shocked when he saw Travis nodding his head. "You got another woman pregnant?" He asked.

"Yes!" Travis put his face in his hands. "The only other person who know this is Harry, and he's blackmailing me into move to Chicago in the first place!"

Naveen was shocked to learn this. He didn't except someone Travis to ever cheat "Have you talked to this woman since then? Assisting her?"

"I offered to help her get rid of the baby but she didn't want to do it. A voodoo woman with a heart." Travis took another hot. "But she's long gone. Somewhere in New York."

"You said she had sisters?" Naveen remembered. "Perhaps you can talk to them-

"They aren't really her sisters. They call each other sisters." Travis explained. "They practice voodoo together as a hobby." He then looked around. "I can't fully blame Harry for this though, but I should've just gone straight home that night."

Naveen watched the man drink some more and saw how stressed he looked about hurting Charlotte. The plan he originally had backfired once he learned that Travis produced a child outside of his marriage. All thanks to Harry and his skilled way of pushing over the man.

"Where is Harry?" Naveen asked.

Travis shrugged. "I don't know…I don't care!" He took another shot.

Naveen snatched the glass away from the man. "You've had one too many drinks. Trust me, alcohol doesn't help any bad situation."

"Please Naveen. Whatever you do, don't tell Charlotte or Tiana about this! Eli would make sure no one would work with me again, and hurting his precious princess? Well, you know how he is with her!"

"I completely understand. I have a daughter myself. And the last time I remembered, so do you." Naveen said with a raised eyebrow. "You really messed up."

"Tell me about it." Travis said and extended his hand out. "So you won't tell my wife or Tiana about this conversation?"

Instead of shaking his hand, Naveen stood up. "It isn't my place, but if I were in your shoes, I would tell my wife everything. No matter how much it would hurt our marriage." He patted Travis on the back. "Secrets always come out, my friend." He left the man alone at the table. Still surprised at how much he learned in a short amount of time.

Travis looked out at the dance floor and watched the people dancing. "I bet I can do that." He got up from the table.

"Tia, I'm going to miss you!" Charlotte said to her friend.

"I'm going to miss you too, Lottie." Tiana replied, her hand resting on her tummy.

"And about that babyshower-

"Lottie the babyshower was beautiful and very pink. We still enjoyed it without your…heifers?" She said.

Charlotte laughed. "That's the last time I invite those white trash to any of my events! I wish I would've shown Sandra a piece of my mind."

"Just as you did with Tammy." Tiana laughed.

"She deserved it long before the babyshower." Charlotte said, looking over at a light skinned man and his wife. "Tia, is that Dr. Williams?"

Tiana nodded her head. "Yes. I see that Mrs Williams is out with him."

"They make a lovely couple. Her mother use to look after me until you and Eudora came into our life, remember?"

"I remember." Tiana answered, looking out on the dance floor. She did a double take when she saw Travis 'dancing'. "Is that Travis out there?"

"Where?" Charlotte asked, and widen her eyes in shock when she saw her husband jumping around the dance floor. "Oh my God!"

"Look at that dead hoofer over there!" People started laughing.

"He's a dancin' fool!" A woman shouted.

Charlotte turned away toward Tiana. "Oh Tia, I wish Travis would stop embarrassing me."

Tiana shook her head, watching the man in his awkwardness. "At least he's trying…or almost trying."

People continued laughing.

"Hey! I'm a hit!" Travis shouted as he began kicking.

"He's drunk." Charlotte said. "Is there another way out of this restaurant? I don't want to be seen leaving with him."

"Oh, Lottie." Tiana felt bad for her friend.

"Excuse me, Tiana?" A man asked from behind her.

She turned to see a man, dark brown skin, dress clothes, looking down at her.

"Tiana, is that you?" He asked.

She frowned, as she wasn't sure who he was. "Bradley?"

"Yes, I'm Georgia's baby brother!" He smiled.

"Oh!" She said.

He instantly pulled her in for a hug. "You look good!" Bradley complimented. "You look even more beautiful since the last time I've seen you."

"Why thank you..." Tiana answered, pulling away. "How is Boston treating you?"

"Just fine before I loved up to Montreal and got a big house out there." He looked down at her ring. "I see that royal is treating you well."

"Oh, yes. My husband is somewhere around here." Tiana said. "So you said you just bought a house? You gettin' married?"

"Unfortunately no, but until then I was hoping my sister and nephew would come stay with me until she gets herself together." He explained

"That's swell…" Tiana took Charlotte's hand. "This is my good friend Charlotte-

"La Bouff." Bradley finished.

"Actually, it's Neilsen now. It's have been for some time now." Charlotte patted her pregnant tummy.

"Well, well two beautiful, pregnant and married women. I'm honored." Bradley said.

Tiana rolled her eyes. "How is Georgia? I saw her a couple months ago and…she wasn't looking too good."

"It's that no good husband of hers. He keeps leaving her and coming back in. Her son doesn't need that, and to make it worse he have some pecker wood—pardon me." He said to Charlotte before continuing. "Some pecker wood roughing her up. Now she's blown up with another baby and I'm ready to kill me somebody."

"You're not killing anyone in here." Tiana warned. She remembered how hot-headed Bradley could be.

"I'm looking for Harry Williams." He said. "He was married to Sandra Williams before he up and took her money with him."

Charlotte rolled her eyes. "Don't even mention that hag's name."

"You hate his ex-wife? Well I hate him for what he's done to my sister, and all the other colored women in this town. Best believe when he gets in here-

"He isn't allowed in my restaurant anymore." Tiana said as Naveen approached the group. "But I'm pretty sure he's around the area."

"Who's around the area?" Asked Naveen, wrapping an arm around his wife.

"Harry Williams." Tiana said. "Anyway, this is Georgia's brother, Bradley. Bradley, this is my husband, Naveen."

"How do you do?" Naveen nodded.

"How do you do?" Bradley nodded back. "It's an honor to meet the man who actually talked Tiana into marrying him. I've been trying to get her to marry me since we were children." He joked.

"We've been married for almost eight years." Naveen said, taking the comment serious. He started rubbing his wife's lower back.

"She was the first girl...woman I fell inlove with. I believe it was her cooking that got me." He playfully winked at her.

Naveen didn't find his wink so playfully. "Yes, well it was her personality that got mine, and her swamp gumbo." He added.

"I thought it was my dancing that got you." Tiana poked at her husband's chest.

"You can dance now, Tiana? Man, I really have been gone for a long time!" Bradley laughed. "She had two left feet when before I left...with the body of a goddess."

"Yes, well she's now my goddess and her body is of a expecting mother. Thanks to me." He said.

Tiana shook her head. Her husband can be such a jealous man.

"Tia, I think I'm going to call it a night." Charlotte said

"Aw Lottie..." Tiana opened her arms to hug her friend.

"I still can't believe you're leaving tomorrow morning." Charlotte said.

"I still can't believe you're moving tomorrow morning." Tiana replied.

"I should be heading out, too. It was nice seeing you again Tiana and nice meeting you Naveen." The man said before walking away.

Naveen frowned. "I don't trust that man."

"He means well. You need to stop getting jealous." Tiana reminded him.

"Heeeeey!" Slurred out a drunk Travis. "Did ya'll see me out there? They loved me!"

Charlotte sighed. "If we're going to leave early tomorrow morning Travis then-

Travis fell onto the floor.

Charlotte rolled her eyes. "Naveen can you help me with-

"Already on it." Naveen helped the man up and threw him over his shoulder. "Just show me where your driver is and I'll throw him in the car."

"Isn't that my job, your highness?" Asked Leni. He was always far enough from the royal couple to give them their space, but close enough to help them when needed.

"You just get our car ready us." Naveen said.

Tiana followed the two out the restaurant with Leni not too far behind.

Naveen threw the man in the backseat of the car as the guard walked down the street to get their car.

"Thank you, Naveen." Charlotte said. "I'm going to miss looking at your handsome face."

"I'm going to miss you telling me how handsome my face is." He smiled, rubbing his wife's back..

"Well your face isn't the only handsome thing I know about…according to your innocent little wife here." She winked at her friend.

Tiana rolled her eyes and hugged Charlotte again.

"I love you, Tia!"

"I love you too, Lottie!"

"I wish there was a way for us to stay, but Travis is so determine to leave for Chicago." Charlotte pulled from the hug and looked up at the king. "You take care of my Tia, Naveen!"

Naveen took his wife's hand. "I will. You take care of Travis. Through all his imperfections, he'll always love you."

"I know." She said, getting in the backseat of the car. "Bye ya'll!"

Naveen and Tiana waved as the car drove off.

"Well, I guess we should be heading back to my mama's." Tiana said. "I'm gonna miss Lottie."

"Chicago isn't such a bad city. She'll adjust quick." Naveen said as he saw Harry grabbing Georgia down the street. "What the hell?"

"Let go of my sister you bastard!" Shouted Bradley.

"Get your own bitch, boy." Harry told Bradley.

"You call my sister a bitch?" Bradley pulled out a butcher's knife and stabbed Harry in the stomach.

Georgia screamed even louder when Harry fell onto the ground. The man kept at it with the stabbing.

Tiana covered her mouth, shocked at what she was seeing.

"Stay here." Naveen said.

"No, Naveen!" Tiana took his hand.

More people stepped out the restaurant to see what was going on.

"Bradley stop it! He's the father of my baby!" Georgia shouted.

Bradley kept stabbing away.

"Bradley" Georgia cried out. "Let's get out of here! The car is waiting!"

The men in the car honked the horn. "Get in hurry!"

"See you in hell!" He said to Harry before taking his sister's hand and getting in the car that was waiting for them. The car drove off.

A man went down to check on the bleeding man. "Is there a doctor?" He yelled.

"I'm a doctor!" Dr. Williams said, walking out of the restaurant. "What happened?"

"Some nigger stabbed him. What do you think?" Answered the man.

The doctor went down to check on the man covered in blood and frowned when he saw who it was. "Harry?"

Harry slowly opened his eyes and looked up at the doctor. "Theodore?" His eyes then rolled to the back of his head as his breathing stopped.

"Harry! No, Harry..." Dr. Williams cried.

Tiana covered her mouth as Naveen pulled her in his arms.

Dr. Williams took off his jacket, trying to stop the bleeding.

Naveen and Tiana both walked over. "Did you know each other?" He asked the doctor.

"He was…my brother." Dr. Williams said, standing up. His eyes filled with tears.

Tiana then thought back when Mama Odie told her about having two living great-great children and outliving one of them.

"Come on Tiana. A pregnant woman shouldn't be out here." Naveen said, took her hand.

"So sad how all of that happened." Said Tiana, walking down the street with her husband.

"He got what was coming to him." Naveen said, walking them both to their car. Leni opened the back seat door for them both. "What surprised me was Dr. Williams telling us that he and Harry are brothers."

"I don't see how." Tiana said. "I told you Mama Odie's story about her having two great-great grandchildren and outliving...Harry. She knew she would outlive him." She looked back as Harry's body was covered. Dr. Williams was now accompanied by his wife.

"Like I said, it was for the best." Naveen said . "He's hurt a lot of people, Tiana. I just hope Bradley and Georgia are out of town." He took her hand. "Tomorrow we'll be leaving here and back to our own lives."

She continued watching and out of nowhere saw Harry's body disappearing under the sheet. People gasped. Dr. Williams just looked up at the sky.

"Mama Odie must've taken him." Tiana said.

"Just sit down and relax in my arms." He requested. Not wanting his wife to worry since she is pregnant.

"How can I relax after what I just saw." Tiana sighed, laying her head on her husband's shoulder.

Naveen found it strange for her to pity for a man who saw her as a 'plaything'. "Please tell me that you're not feeling sorry for Harry?"

"No, I'm actually feeling bad for Mama Odie right now." Tiana said as the car drove away.

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