Daria's Love

Disclaimer: Ok there are two people in this story, Gail Carson Lavine and me. Gail wrote the book, not me. I wrote the Fan Fiction based on the said book.

Chapter 5; Marry Me!!!

When Daria got back from Jack's house she burst out crying and didn't come out of her room for anything for three days straight.

When she finally did leave her room she was really hungry and thirsty, so she went into the kitchen (where Daria and Julie lived was behind the small shop) to find something to eat, when she heard voices from the front shop.

"May I see Daria, Miss?" asked a familiar masculine voice.

"I'm sorry, Your Highness. Miss Daria is sleeping," Julie was in the middle of replying when Daria came into the shop still dressed in her green silk dress although it was now very wrinkled.

"Why did you kill him?" Daria sobbed insanely. "Why?" she broke down into a sobbing heap on the floor.

"It was his duty to go to war," the Prince relied quietly feeling a tinge guilty. "He was a knight."

"I don't care. Why couldn't we just get married?" she asked still sobbing.

Julie had had enough. "Prince Jerrold, please just leave you aren't making this situation any better. Daria isn't feeling well, please don't punish her."

"Why would I punish her?" the Prince asked softly. "I love her."

"I hate you! You sent him to war so that you could have me! You don't care if you committed murder!" she would have continued, but she was sobbing too hard. She finally managed to say, "I won't marry you. You've murdered once how do I know you won't murder again?"

"I...I...I love you. I'm sorry. I..."

"No you're not!!!" but it wasn't Daria who spoke, it was Julie. "You selfish brat. She won't marry you. You wasted a man in battle. You..."

She was cut off by the Prince seizing her and said in a dangerous voice, "Daria, if you don't marry me, I'll have my knights throw whoever this is off the tower!!!"

At those words Julie's eyes lit up with fear (the Prince had put his hand over her mouth) and she started to struggle, but it was no use. Even if she did get away his knights had surrounded the building.

Daria fell to the floor sobbing, she didn't want to marry the Prince, she wanted to marry Jack, but she couldn't the Prince had murdered him. She felt helpless. She wanted to die. No. She would get out of this somehow. And Julie would not give her life to do so, but how?

To keep Julie safe she said, "I'll marry you."

"Excellent!!!" replied the Prince back to his cheerful mood. His grip on Julie didn't loosen though.

"Let go of Julie," Daria said forcefully.

"I can't until you marry me officially. Your word is not enough," He said not looking at her.

"I hate you!!! But I have to marry you?" she said the last part as a question "Why?"

"Because I love you, and I will get my way!!!" he was getting angry now, she said she hated him. Was it true? She would learn to love him.

What woke him from his thoughts was a hard smack on his right cheek. Daria had hit him!!!

"What did you do that for?" he roared. He was mad now, really mad. Everyone knew not to get on his nerves because it was deadly dangerous.

"I don't care if you're a prince with some long fancy title you sick freak! You kill your own subjects that are loyal and trustworthy only to get that!!!" she ran to the kitchen and grabbed a knife.

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I'm sorry about the cliffhanger!!! Sort of. Muahahahaha!!! Anyways I hope you liked it!!! I was thinking of Gothic Valey Girl when I wrote this. I hoe it is long enough. You said that you didn't know that Jerrold was this evil (my way of saying what you said), but I wanted to try a new view of one of the characters.

Anyways! Please review!!! I've only gotten them from 2 different people, one of which I was with when she wrote it so that kind of defeated the point, but whatever!!! Please review

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