(Violet's Pov)
-Ten Years Ago-
I watched as Clementine came over to me as I sat in the stall with one of the horses that I was in charge of taking care of, I smiled a bit as I watched her as she came over to me and took a seat next to me and pet the horse which was named Charming. I smiled at her as she kept petting the horse and I just watched her.
"So, I heard you're thinking of joining the Knights, is this true?" She asked and I looked to the horse and then back to her as I nod. I didn't really talk much.
"Yea, I want to do something besides take care of the horses." I tell her and she nods a bit and I smiled.
"I would feel sad if you left, but I can't stop you." She says and I looked to her and I think a bit.
"When I become a knight, I'll come back to you and we can live in a house on our own." I say and she looked to me.
"I'd make sure you wouldn't have to work, and we could take care of kids like us, orphans and all... We could raise cattle and have our own horses too, and a dog." I say and she smiled at me and nods.
"And a nice big garden." She says and I nod.
"A huge garden, with lots of flowers, especially roses." I say.
"That's a nice future." She says and I nod at this and I pet Charming again as he nudged my shoulder.
"We could also get married." She says and I look at her a bit shocked as she turned her head away from me and I chuckled a bit.
"We can't get married Clem; we'd still be too young." I say to her.
"Girls are getting married at fifteen, I don't see why we can't." she says and I shrugged.
"Let's get that home of our first, so I know we have a place to go." I say and she nods and we stand up and she cleans off her dress and I clean off my pants as I finish taking care of the other horses.
-Ten Years Later-
I woke up to the sounds of yelling and I slowly get up and open my tent door to see Louis and some other solider arguing and I sighed as I got out and stepped between the two.
"Ok what the hell is going on here?" I asked a bit pissed since my sleep was disrupted by a bunch of children.
"Oh uh, I'm sorry Grand Cross." He says and I look at him.
"I don't want any apology bullshit what happened?" I said and looked to Louis.
"He was bothering me and I."
"You hurt him because he was bothering you, are you fucking serious? How the hell do you survive on a battlefield." I say and he looked to me as I glared at him and he backed up a bit and I helped Louis up as he dusted his robes and he looked to me as I help him to my tent and he sighs a bit as he held his book to himself and I look at it.
"Need me to get you a new one?" I asked.
"No just... I don't know why he got mad at me, I was just writing a song and was trying to ask him how it was." He says and I look to him.
"Hey, if you ever want someone to know how good your music is you could just ask me." I say and he nods as he looked in his book and I remind myself to just get him a new one as a gift. I hear a tap on my tent and in walks in the messenger boy came in as he handed me a letter and I looked at it to see a familiar crest seal and I smiled a bit as I opened the letter and read it.
'To the Grand Cross in charge, you and your men are to return back to the homeland due to the war getting closer to home, you will be back in two fortnights and we will have a celebration in honor of those who have fallen and those who have survived, we hope to see you and everyone back home safe.' I read and I nod as I get up to go talk to the men. As I told them to get packed and ready to head back home. I went and took my tent down and packed it up and we set all our things on the carts and we got on our horses and began to head back home. It took us two weeks to get home and as we did there were people who were cheering and we waved as we headed back to the stables to put the horses. I looked to everyone as they finished and I rubbed my neck a bit and I got to the front of the stables and everyone looked at me.
"Alright, you all may head home to your families and I will talk to the king, go have some fun." I say and everyone left and I looked to Louis as he left and I headed to the castle and was taken to the kings office area and I knocked before entering to see him sitting at his table as he was writing something down.
"Hello your highness." I say as I take a knee and he gets up.
"You can stand." He says and I do so and looked to him.
"Seems like they have decided to come close to our homes." He says and I nod at this information.
"Yes your highness, I got word from your letter and was given more information on the way back home from some of the villagers we passed by, but don't worry we will keep you and your kingdom safe from the Delta." I say and he nods.
"Good, that's all I ask of you, protect the people first though, they can find a new king but you can't replace their lives." He says and I nod, he's the only king to be able to lay his life down before his people ended up hurt or killed, that's one of the reason he became our new king.
"Yes your highness." I say.
"Call me Lee, you know that Violet." He says.
"Sorry I have to get use to it sir." I tell him and he nods at this and pat my shoulder.
"You should head into the town I hear there is some festivities for yours and your mens return." He says and I bow again.
"Yes sir, um... may I ask." Before I could as he stopped me.
"She is in town if you are wanting to find her." He says and I nod as I head out his chambers and I walked into the town and had a look around as my men drank and ate as the people celebrated. I looked around a bit as I heard some music and kids playing and I go to the music to see a familiar face dancing in the crowd of people and I couldn't help but smile. I see her look at me as they play a new song and she smiled.
"There will come a soldier
Who carries a mighty sword
He will tear your city down, oh lei-oh lai-oh Lord
Oh lei, oh lai, oh lei, oh Lord
He will tear your city down, oh lei-oh lai-oh Lord." She sings as she comes up to me and pulls me into the dance are and I laughed a little as we began to dance to the music.
"There will come a poet
Whose weapon is His word
He will slay you with His tongue, oh lei-oh lai-oh Lord
Oh lei, oh lai, oh lei, oh Lord
He will slay you with His tongue, oh lei-oh lai-oh Lord." I hear her sing and I smiled as we continued to dance more.
"There will come a ruler
Whose brow is laid in thorn
Smeared with oil like David's boy, oh lei-oh lai-oh Lord
Oh lei, oh lai, oh lei, oh Lord
Smeared with oil like David's boy, oh lei-oh lai-oh Lord
Oh lei, oh lai, oh lei, oh Lord
He will tear your city down, oh lei-oh lai... oh." She sings again and I smiled as I pulled her close to me and then we pulled apart a bit but then came back to each other my hand on her back and her hand on my shoulder.
"Oh lei, oh lai, oh lei, oh lai, oh
Oh lei, oh lai, oh lei, oh lai, oh
Oh lei, oh lai, oh lei, oh lai, oh lei, oh lai, oh lei, oh lai, oh." We finished dancing and I held her close to me and she smiled at me as she hugged me.
"Welcome home." She says and I smiled as I held her closer to me. The music kept playing and I take her to the side and I looked to her.
"How have you been?" I asked as we walked and watched the people celebrating for the return of their families. I looked back down to her and she smiled a bit.
"I've been fine, my father worries though." She says and I chuckled at this and I nod.
"Of course, you are the princess of these lands he has to worry not only for the people but for you as well." I tell her and she sighs.
"I just wish he would let me train with the guards." She says and I kept walking.
"You shouldn't have to; I am here now so I can protect you." I tell her.
"But when you are off to battle then you can't protect me." She tells me and I sighed at this, knowing it was true that I wasn't always going to be here.
"True but you have the guard to protect you." I say and she groans a bit at this and I looked at her as she looked to the people.
"But what if they fail?" She asked and I think a bit and we stop at one spot and I stand in front of her and place my hands on her shoulders.
"How about this... I will train you to keep yourself safe so long as you don't tell your father about this." I tell her and she smiled and nods her head quickly.
"Yes, I won't tell a soul about this I swear." She says and I chuckled.
"You swear on the family crest?" I asked and she nods.
"I do." She says and I nod at this as we continued our walk and listened to the music that plays and I see some of my men walking about with their families and I look to Clementine as she holds my hand and I hold her hand a bit tighter. She looked up to me and I looked forward so she wouldn't catch me staring.
"So, when do you plan to get the home you talked about all those years ago?" She asked.
"Hmm, once we deal with the Delta I suppose, maybe earlier so you can have a place to go to." I think about this for a bit and I nod.
"We can go look for a home tomorrow after I train with my men." I tell her and she smiled at this.
"That would be great, though I'd have to tell my father a different story." She says and I sighed.
"That is true, though I don't think he would be mad if you just tell him you'll be with me, he likes me a lot." I say.
"He once said that no man would be good enough for me so I asked if a woman was... he actually said that it was fine since I wouldn't be able to produce an Heir to early in my life." She says and I looked to her as we kept walking and I got us some food to eat as we walked.
"Though wouldn't that be a bad thing? You need an Heir to rule once you pass." I say to her.
"Are you going to give me to a man that only wants me for my status?" She asked and I shook my head no to this.
"I wouldn't be too fond of sharing you with a man, but if I had to choose who you'd marry I would offer you to Louis." I tell her.
"The poet?" She asked and I nod as we eat our food.
"He's a nice guy... but I wouldn't be too fond of sharing you." I say truthfully as I looked to my feet and I tapped to the song and sighed.
"Well don't worry, you won't have to anytime soon." She tells me and I nod.
"I heard about the Richmond Kingdom; seems their only son has taken a liking to me." She says and I glared a bit at her as she laughed at my face and I huffed a bit.
"Oh, don't worry Violet, I'm not interested in him, he's a bit... how you say, spoiled?" She asked and I think.
"If I remember correctly, he said he didn't want to go into battle since he was the last male in his family besides his uncle to take the throne, though that seems like the cowardly way to say, you don't want to fight and die in battle." I say as I remember the letter that was sent to me when I request his help.
"I just think he didn't want to get his armor dirty; he'll wear the damn thing but wont fight in it." I say as I looked to my chest plate to see a few dents in it.
"Do you need a new one? I could get one made for you." I hear her say and I shake my head.
"No, I can try and repair this one." I tell her simply.
"You don't have to do everything on your own, it's ok to ask for a new set of armor, you seem to have grown a bit since I last saw you too." She says and I chuckled.
"Last time we saw each other was three years ago, I was seventeen." I say as I remember that day.
"And you were fifteen, still so short I see." I joked and she shoved me a bit.
"I'm still growing." She huffed and I laughed at his as I pat her head.
"Yes, Yes, you are probably still growing." I say and she shoved me again which made me laugh harder.
"So why didn't you take your armor off?" She asked as we went to throw our food away and I think a bit.
"I was in too much of a hurry to get to you." I tell her honestly and she blushed and I smiled as I leaned down to her face and she turned even more red as I smirked at her.
"I would really like to kiss you Princess." I say and she shoved me.
"Well, you aren't getting one now since you called me princess." She says and I smirked as I place my face in her neck and smiled.
"Aww come on you like it when I call you my princess." I say and she shivers a bit.
"Well, you just called me princess, not your princess." She says and I chuckled as I kissed her neck.
"I'm sorry, My Princess." I tell her and I felt her grab my hand a bit and I pulled away and looked to her and I chuckled and I heard some kids screaming and I quickly look to the direction of the sound and I see one kid on the ground and I quickly go up to them and I help them up.
"Thank you." They said and I nod as they run back to their friends and I smiled and felt someone stand next to me and hold my arm.
"You do so well with kids." She says and I nod and look to her.
"I still want to take in orphans when we get our home." I tell her and she nods.
"I can see that though; you'd be a great parent." She says and I smile at her.
"You would too." I tell her.
"You think so?" She asked and I nod.
"Of course, you're so kind, and you love to help people in need, you are the perfect definition of a mom." I say as we walked more and I watched the kids play more and some ran in a circle around us then ran straight ahead of us and I chuckled. I look around some more and I see a jeweler selling some jewelry and I go up to them and look at some of the jewelry and I looked around some more. I look to my side and saw Clem looking at a set of rings and I smiled as I talked to the jeweler and gave him a few gold coins and he went and grabbed the rings handing them to me and I looked to Clem as she looked at me and I smirked as I began walking and she followed me. I walked to an open field as the sun was starting to set and I turn to her as she stopped and stood next to me. I take the rings and I grab her hand gently as I placed the smaller of the rings on her ring finger and she smirked as she grabbed the bigger ring and I looked at her as she grabbed my hand and took the glove off and placed the ring on my ring finger and I smirked at her a bit.
"So, we are always together." She says and I nod as I pull her to me and I hear some booming sound and looked to see some colored sparks in the air and I look at it a bit quizzical and Clem laughed.
"They call those fireworks." She says and I nod.
"I thought some cannons were going off but now I realize the sound different." I say and I looked down at her and she smiled and I smirked as I get closer to her face.
"May I kiss you, My Princess?" I asked and she nods and I hear the fireworks go off again and I kissed her gently on the lips, she wrapped her arms around my neck and I smile in the kiss as I heard more of the fireworks. We pulled apart and I smiled at her as I held her hand and we decided to take a seat on the grass and I held her hand longer as I felt the ring on her finger and we just watched as the sun set more until it was gone and more of the fireworks we shot up and I kept watching more of them and I felt Clem lay her head on my shoulder and I look to her to see her eyes closed and I smiled a bit as I slowly moved and picked her up and took her the backway to the castle and I took one of the secret entrances inside the castle and I took her to her room and placed her on her bed. I felt her wrap her arms around my neck and I looked at her as she looked up to me.
"Stay?" she asked and I think as I looked to the door and I look back to her and I nod.
"Let me take my armor off." I tell her and she nods as she let me go and I took off my armor and Chainmail I was left in a white shirt and my grey pants and I look over to her as she moved a bit on the bed and I sit on the bed with her and she scooted closer to me and I look at her and place my arm behind her and held her to me as she laid her head on my chest and I rubbed her back a bit as we relaxed a bit and she snuggled close to me and I just kept rubbing her back as she slowly fell asleep. I looked out the window to see the moon shining in the room and I close my eyes slowly and drifted off to sleep.