A/N: Wow sorry it has taken me so long to update been partying for New Years and I started yet another story to occupy my time. I had a little writer's block with this chapter but don't worry I know where I am going with all of this.
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The Senshi led Avery to her room, neither the senshi nor Avery thinking the whole way. Avery was too busy thinking on how to get back to Prince Endymion and the Senshi were busy making sure Amara did not kill Avery.
"This will be your room for as long as you will be staying with us Avery." Mina said in her nicest fake voice. A look from the Senshi told her she was trying to hard but she didn't care.
Avery looked at her room and noticed they had found the guestroom farthest away from Enydmion's and Serenity's quarters. She smiled, so they were getting worried about what she was doing to him.
The Senshi led her into the room, and she noticed it was very much like a richly decorated prison. It was perhaps the only suite in the castle without a balcony and certainly the only suite without windows. The only way in or out was through the main door, which no doubt the Senshi would be on the other side of.
"Well if you would excuse me I would like to freshen up after my trip." Avery said to the girls flashing them a venonmous smile. They all nodded and gladly left the room. Avery walked to the vanity and began combing her hair knowing her Prince would show up shortly.
"So you have infiltrated the castle. Is Endymion still lusting for you?" Prince Diamond asked walking to stand beside Avery.
"He breaks out of the spell whenever he doesn't hear my voice for a few minutes, but as long as I keep him by my side he doesn't even think about his Princess." Avery smiled gleefully she loved making the Prince so miserable and yet happy at the same time.
"You are doing well, but I see you are alone, so Endymion must be as well. If you leave him alone too long he will suspect if he hasn't already." Prince Diamond said gruffly worried that maybe Avery had not been the right choice for the job.
"It doesn't matter how much he suspects, he forgets about everything when he's around me. I just need him to act like that in front of Serenity. Perhaps have him propose and then even if Serenity finds out what happened there is no going back on a royal proposal." Avery laughed and Diamond joined her picturing Serenity finding out that he beloved Prince was betrothed to another.
"Well get back to work. When you have finished breaking the spirits of Serenity and Endymion I will attack. The castle will be too heartbroken to fend much of an attack." Prince Diamond smiled, perhaps the heartbroken Serenity would finally join his side. Avery turned back toward the mirror as her Prince disappeared thinking of how to teleport herself into Endymion's room knowing the generals were probably trying to talk some sense into them.
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"Leave me alone." Endymion said softly looking out over the balcony. He didn't want the generals to be around he needed to wallow in his shame. He needed to find out what was wrong that he could easily betray the woman he loved more than life itself.
The generals nodded and decided to leave their liege alone.
"We'll be right outside the door if you need anything Endy." Jedite said as he closed the door behind him.
"Serena what am I going to do? I love you and only you…but somehow Avery makes me forget all that. Oh Serena I can't live without you but I can't keep betraying you." A tear slid down Endymion's cheek as he looked out over the balcony.
"Don't worry Endymion, I'll help you forget all your pain." The voice whispered gently in his ear, and as promised Endymion forgot everything but the scantily clad woman behind him.
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"He's been in there awhile, and I heard crashing sounds do you think we should check in on him?" Zoicite looked to the other generals for a response. He was worried about what Endymion might do in his current state.
"Perhaps we should, it is nearing lunch, we can use that as an excuse." Nephrite said to the other generals as Jedite opened the door. But as they opened the door it became immediately apparent that Endymion was not alone. The room was in complete disarray and two sets of clothes littered the floor. The three shared a mournful look at each other and then the door leading to the bedroom Each seemed to be saying to the others "you first"
With a sigh Nephrite walked over to the door and motioned for the others to follow. Without hesitation he threw the door open but then crumpled at what he saw. Tangled between the sheets and in no state of dress Endymion and Avery were furiously kissing, obviously paying no attention to the three men who had stormed into the room.
Nephrite wasted no time in teleporting Avery back to her room, leaving Endymion staring at them angrily. Nephrite ignore them and turned to Jedite
"Find the Senshi tell them she teleported through the room's shields, have Raye put something stronger up." Jedite nodded solemnly and then dashed out the door glad to be leaving.
"Explain yourselves generals! How dare you enter my room without permission and what have you done with Avery!" Endymion roared furious at having his lover taken away. Nephrite felt his own anger surging through him. An anger that could not be matched by anyone, with the possible exception of Amara.
"Explain ourselves? Endymion you are not worth the air you breath for the betrayal you have just committed. I gave to you a vow of loyalty, but it was based upon the condition that you never did anything that would break the vow we all made to protect Serenity. I love that sweet little Princess more than words can ever say and I will NOT stand by the side of the man who causes her so much pain." With that Nephrite seeming to have forgotten Endymion's admission of something coming over him when Avery was near, relinquished the sword and tunic that branded him a knight of Endymion.
He stormed out of the room, leaving Zoicite alone to await the dreaded moment when Endymion would realize what he had done.
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Serenity and Caril had spent the entire time laughing and trading insults to the point where they were exhausted and now curled up side by side in Serenity's bed. Still sharing stories and feeling joy at making the other laugh. Caril held her across the shoulders, trying to keep his touches brotherly but the more he talked with her, the more he found himself loving her. But nothing could cause him to break the bond of love she shared with Endymion….but what if Endymion had already broken it?
He was so lost in his thoughts that he didn't even notice that Serenity had fallen asleep on his shoulder. He smiled down at her and kissed her forehead. He knew that even if the dark lord attacked the castle he would never get up from this position unless Serenity wished it.
He gently stroked her hair as he watched her sleep realizing more and more that he was falling in love with a Princess whose heart would be eternally pledged to another.
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"What! What do you mean she broke through! Senshi! Generals! I ordered you to keep them apart! What part of that was so hard to understand?" Jedite and the Senshi looked sheepishly at the floor as Andrew shouted out his anger. Jedite should have known to wait until he left to tell the Senshi what had happened but he thought it would be best if Andrew found out sooner rather than later. Indeed even Kunzite was giving an angry glare.
It was interrupted though by the site of Nephrite storming past them, heading to Serenity's room. Kunzite ran to stop him, and then noticed what was missing.
"Nephrite….you…." Kunzite did not know what to say, as he looked into the pain and sorrow of Nephrite's eyes. He was the one who would have been the first to give his life for Endymion, the one who had defended him against anything, and now he had given up the vow he had given and cherished so highly.
"I will not serve a man who broke the vow we all made to protect Serenity. I will not serve a man who could so easily hurt the only person who has ever felt like family to me. He has no heart." Nephrites' words dripped with hatred and anger. The Senshi even wanted to step away from the man's whose eyes still blazed with betrayal.
"Perhaps he was right in what he told us Nephrite. Perhaps she is doing something to him that makes it so he cannot help it. He loves her Nephrite!" Kunzite said searching for a way to keep Nephrite to renew his vow.
"Then he should be willing to die before betray her as I would!" Nephrite shouted those words with so much truth that no one could think of an argument to refute it. Kunzite looked sorrowfully to the ground and then stepped aside to let Kunzite pass. But as the man walked away Kunzite said something that made the man stop in his tracks before continuing.
"You have always been a brother to me."
A/N: yay! I updated! Some plot points revealed and the castle is starting to fall apart yay! Please Review!