(Violet's Pov)
-Three Years Ago-
I was getting my bags packed to leave the stables with the other knights, they had already gone ahead of me as I finished getting other information from the King about what we needed to do. I was just about to mount the house until I heard something or someone run up to me. I turn to my side only to get ran into as I held the person close to me.
"You can't go." I hear the girl muffle in my chest and I pulled back a bit to see Clementine with tears running down her face and I took my gloved hand and wiped the tears from her face as she looked to me and I placed my hand to the back of her head and pulled her into a hug.
"Hey it's ok." I whispered to her as she held on to my armor.
"You can't go that's not fair you were supposed to stay here a few more weeks, you didn't get your break, you've done enough work." She says into my shoulder and I pull her away to face me.
"Hey, I'm doing this to keep you safe, I promised that when I became a knight... besides the Delta Kingdom has to be taken down if they think they can take over others homes... I'll be back I promise this to you Clem." I tell her and she glared at me as she hit my armor.
"You never got to take a break, you just came back to me, this isn't right and this isn't fair." She says and I looked to her sadly. I knew what she meant by it all, and I wish I could change things but this is my job. I looked at her and did one thing, I pulled her close to me and kissed her lips. I felt her grip my arm tightly but then slowly loosens it and places her arms around my neck as I held her waist. When we pulled apart I looked to her and wiped the tears from her cheek again and I kissed her head.
"I promise Clementine I will be back." I tell her.
"You swear?" She asked and I nod as I place my hand over my heart.
"I Violet Aldon, the Knight of Macon, will promise that I will arrive back to my Princess Clementine." I tell her and she nods and thinks a bit as she goes digging through her small pouch and grabs ahold of my hand and places something inside my palm and I look at it.
"My favorite Gem, the one you found for me when you got back from your training." She says and I look at her.
"You can return it to me when you get back, I just want you to have it... and this." She then hands me her handkerchief and I smiled to her as I place the Gem inside the cloth and pull off my armor and place it in a pouch I had made by my heart and I place the armor back on then look to her.
"Don't you dare die out there, or I'll come looking for you with a witch to bring you back." She says and I chuckled a bit as I pulled her into a hug and sighed a bit.
"I won't die, I promise... Now I have to go." I tell her and she nods as she backs away from me and I get on the horse and looked to her.
"Please keep that close to you." She says and I nod and then ride out.
-Three Years Later-
I looked to the flames as they still roared to life and I sighed as I was drinking more of my Ale and I felt around my front pocket to a pulled an item out to see the cloth Clem once gave me. It was a bit bloody from when I was stabbed in my shoulder. I opened it to see the gem she gave me, it was a beauty I'll tell you that, it was in the shape of a heart, it was purple and orange at the same time which was fascination to me, so I thought Clementine would like that, and she did, she was in awe about it and I chuckled as I remember seeing the light in her eyes when she saw the shape it was. I looked at it then looked to the side and I drank my Ale then I heard knocking at the door and I get up slowly and open the door and see someone familiar.
"Cleeeem." I say with a smile and lean on the doorframe.
"You're drunk." She says and I smile and nod a bit at her.
"Yea." I muttered and I look at her up and down a bit and rubbed my chin a bit as I looked at her.
"Come on let's go in." She says and I nod a bit and I let her in and I stumble a bit as I closed the door and I come up to her and hold her from behind and place my face in her shoulder.
"Violet stop." She says and I place my hand on her hips.
"Come on, I just want some fun." I tell her and she turned to look at me and I look at her. She was glaring a bit at me and I looked at her as I licked my lips a bit and I grabbed the edge of the table to keep from falling.
"Where is your water?" She asked.
"No water just Ale." I tell her and she looked at me and I smiled a bit at her.
"Violet, what happened?" She asked and I just looked at her.
"Hmm, what?" I asked and she came up to me and placed her hands on my cheeks and I look at her.
"You never drink." She says.
"Well maybe I needed one... with all this bullshit I had to deal with, maybe I needed a drink." I tell her and she sighs.
"Well, no more alright?" She says and I shake my head.
"No, I can drink if I want... You can't tell me no." I muttered the last part and she looked at me.
"Vi." She says and I look at her.
"Hmm... haven't called me that in years." I say quietly and looked to her.
"Sit down." She says and I sigh as I take a seat in the chair and I look at her and she looks back at me.
"Where is your water?" She asked and I think a bit.
"Over there, Pitcher." I say as I point to the counter and she goes and grabs two cups and pours some water. She places one in front of me and I looked to her and I grabbed the cup and take a drink to make her happy.
"How many did you drink?" She asked and I pointed to the bottles on the table.
"That many." I say and she grabbed the bottles and I grabbed her hand and she looked at me.
"Don't... I'll get them when I'm sober." I muttered.
"I will get them now so you don't have to." She tells me and I look at her and I pull her onto my lap and she looks at me.
"I will get them; you don't need to work... I work." I muttered into her hair and kissed her head.
"Let me just clean it up, you can drink the water and then go to bed." She says and I think a bit.
"How'd you get here?" I asked and looked to her.
"I walked here with my horse." She says.
"Where are the Knights?" I asked and she looked away from me.
"Clem?" I asked but she didn't answer me and I looked at her.
"I just went out my secret hallway... they don't know." She says and I look at her, I was a bit angry at this yes but I sighed a bit and looked to her.
"Clem that's stupid and dangerous... what if you get kidnapped." I say to her.
"I was careful." She says and I shake my head.
"Clem... fuck." I mumbled and I just kept her close to me.
"Are you ok?" She asked and I nod.
"Just... remembering when I left." I say and I moved back a bit in the chair and grabbed the handkerchief and gem and showed her.
"You kept it?" She asked and I nodded.
"Yea I kept it... sorry the cloth got bloody I tried to clean it." I mumbled and she shook her head and looked to me then moved my shirt a bit to see the scar on my shoulder and I looked to her a she traced it a bit with her fingers and I looked to her.
"You got hurt." She says and I nod.
"Yea... but I still came back." I say to her and she looked at me and I nod.
"Cause I made a promise." I tell her and she kissed me and I kissed her back a bit and then we pulled apart and I look at her.
"I did miss you a lot." She says and I nod.
"Same... I missed you a lot too." I muttered as I held her closer to me and I sighed a bit and I kissed her head a bit.
"So... you snuck out... How does it feel to be a rebel?" I asked and she giggled a bit and I smiled.
"Feels fun... but I won't do it all the time, just when you don't let me come over." She tells me and I look to her and I chuckled and looked to her.
"You didn't bring your clothes." I muttered.
"I could just wear yours." She says and I laughed a bit and looked to her.
"Can you handle that?" I asked and she looked to me.
"You make it seem like it's a challenge." She says and I smirked as I help her off and I get up a bit and head into my room to get the clothes for her. I come out and set them on the table and saw the bottles gone and I look to her as she looked back to me. I sighed a bit as I sat back down and she looked to me as I patted the clothes a bit and she looked to them and then back to me.
"You had a nightgown?" She asked and I chuckled. I looked to the clothes.
"Hmm, when I was in the Rose Kingdom, there was this beautiful nightgown and I thought... Clementine would love this." I tell her and she looked to me as she felt the fabric of said item and I just looked to her.
"Silk?" She asked and I nodded at this and I got up and I kissed her a bit and helped take her dress off and she placed her hand on my chest and I chuckled a bit as I helped with the gown and she looked to me and I looked back to her. She looked beautiful and I kissed her neck a bit and held her waist a bit and kissed her neck more and she put her hand on the back of my head and kept me in place. I kept kissing her neck leaving a mark there and I moved my head up closer to her ear and I whispered in her ear.
"You know I love you right?"
"Of course."
"I would do anything to make you happy... Please remember that." I tell her and she made me look at her.
"Vi... what happened? What was in that letter?" She asked and I shook my head.
"No, I can't tell you... I can't you have to trust me on this Clem I just can't tell you." I tell her.
"Ok... ok I won't ask again." She says and rubbed the back of my head a bit and I closed my eyes a bit as I stay where we are and I just held her close to me and she kept rubbing my head and I sigh a bit and pull back a bit and looked to her and her gorges golden eyes.
"You have really beautiful eyes." I say and she giggled a bit and I chuckled.
"You have beautiful eyes too." She says and strokes my cheek and I sigh contently and I look at her again.
"Come on let's head to bed." I mumbled a bit and she nods as we head to the bed and we go and lay down for a bit and I look at the ceiling for a bit as I hear the crickets and I sigh a bit.
"Lot on your mind?" She asked and I looked to her head which was currently on my chest and I clear my throat a bit as I think.
"Lot on my mind yes." I say.
"You know you can talk to me... it doesn't have to be about anything in particular." She says and I think a bit.
"I... oh, um there was this little girl I met once, that never saw a Knight... or a female one at that, so when she saw me, she was so amazed by it." I tell her. And she turned a bit to face me.
"Oh really?" She asked and I nodded.
"She uh... she wanted to give me her little doll, but instead I gave her my old coin... The one I got from your father when I came back... She was so happy." I say as I remember the girl.
"I bet she was." She says and I nod as I remember the big smile on her face as she went to go show the coin to her parents.
"I hope she's ok." I say out loud and I placed my hand on her head gently and rub it and mess with her hair a bit.
"If you want then we can go there and you can see her again." She says and I nod and close my eyes a bit.
"Yea... that would be nice." I tell her and she nods and turns her head and faces away from me but still keeps her head on my chest. I sigh a bit and after a while I finally found myself into a deep sleep. It wasn't till I was woken up from movement and I open my eyes to see Clementine getting up and I sit up in the bed.
"Hmm you ok?" I asked tiredly and I rubbed my eyes and then I feel a kiss to my lips and I chuckled a bit.
"Yea, sorry for waking you, are you ok?" she asked and I nod a bit and I get out from the bed and do my normal stretches and I look at her as she stared at me.
"You should do this, helps a bit." I tell her and she nods as she comes next to me and stretches like I do and I smiled a bit at how stiff she was and I chuckled as I helped her a bit. Once we were done, I helped her up and we get breakfast ready. I was glad the original owners left some form of food here. We sit at the table and eat for a bit and I hear a knock on the door and I get up and see a messenger boy as he handed me a letter and I nod as he left and I look to see it was another letter from the Delta and I glared at it a bit and I opened it making sure to break the seal so Clem couldn't see where it was from.
'To the Grand Cross, I was able to see your princess leave the castle grounds so easily, and where she went to, seems like I now know how weak the defenses are, I will not tell anyone from the Delta kingdom of this little mistake in your men's name, but I inform you that you must meet up with me again, and there is no backing out of this either, we meet at the edge of the town like last night, no weapons, no one comes, I sure do hope the princess doesn't follow or she will know your original intentions with her and her father, From: Minerva.' I read the letter to myself and I growled a little at this as I ripped the letter again and went over to the smoldered flames and I threw the remains of the letter in the pit as they began to burn a bit slowly.
"What's wrong?" I hear and look to Clem as she came up next to me.
"Nothing you need to worry about, just knight stuff, anyway we should get you back home, your father might be worried." I say and she looked at me.
"Are we not going to spend the day together?" She asked and I rubbed my neck a bit and sighed.
"I just need to get some things done and it's boring stuff." I tell her.
"Aww come on, I can help... maybe." She says and I chuckled.
"I have to fix this place up." I tell her.
"I can help." She says and I look to her as she placed a hand on my shoulder and I think.
"Fine, fine, I just need to get a horse and cart to get supplies." I explained and she nods as she goes and gets changed.
"I have my horse here, we just need to get a cart, I thought I saw one in the back." She says and I nod as we get ready for the day. I was able to get the old cart hooked to the horse and I was surprised it was one of those seated carts too, least I don't have to sit on a horse for a good while. I helped Clementine up on the cart and then grabbed the reigns and we headed into the town. Some people wanted to talk with Clementine as we rode into the town but she kindly declines and said she would come by later if it was possible, and of course people agreed. We finally get to the old wood shop and I take a look at some fencing and I look at another set. Clementine would come and show me some items that we could use for the house and I would agree to it as she held some small things and I went to go talk to the store owner, once done I helped them place the wood and nails into the back of the cart after I paid the man of course, it took us a good few hours to start getting home since we had to get some food as well so I looked to the sun a bit as I take us home and I look to see a cloaked figure near the edge of my land and I stopped the horse quickly which made Clem jolt as I stood up a bit in the cart and looked to see the figure gone.
"Violet are you ok?" She asked and I nod a bit as I sit back down and just look at the house.
"Yea just... thought I saw something." I mutter a bit as I finally get us to the house.
"So, when will you teach me how to fight?" She asked as she punched the air a bit in front of her and I laughed.
"Well first don't have your fist like that, you'll more than likely hurt yourself more than the one you punch." I explained as I fixed her hand properly and she looked at it and nods as she kept her hand like that and punched the air a bit and I laughed at this as we finally get close to the house and I stopped the horse. I helped Clem off the cart and I started to get to work on the fencing. Clementine helped me a bit with handing me the hammer and any tools I needed and I just pulled the old posts out and put the new ones off just a bit, I filled in the old holes with some dirt that was left over. It was a long while before I was halfway done and Clementine came out with some water for me and I stood up and wipped the sweat from my face and looked to her.
"You know, you don't have any neighbors." She says as I wiped the sweat off with my shirt and I chuckled.
"Oh, you want to see me naked that fast? Clem your impure thoughts." I joked and she turned red.
"I didn't mean that." She said with a red face and I laughed.
"Yea, yea it's a good thing though, I can just relax without having to deal with people... well unless they cut through this road." I say as I watch a cart come by and we wave to them and they wave back.
"That's true... it's so quiet here." She says and I smiled.
"Just wait till we get the dogs and kids here." I say and she looked to me.
"You really want kids?" She asked and I nod.
"Of course, I don't want those kids to think no one loved them." I tell her as I get back to work and she helped me hold one of the posts in place as I hammered it into the ground.
"It's just, lots of people would think it's... not worth it anymore I should say, they just don't get to keep that one promise they made." She say and I looked to her as I place my hand on the post and I looked to her as she was on the other side.
"I try to keep my promise... there's only one promise I haven't kept but it wasn't that important." I lied as I remembered the letter.
"I just think it's a good thing you keep your promises as much as you can." She says and I nod.
"It's not just the ones I made as a Knight, I try to keep them in general... it sucks when I can't keep them, when I got stabbed in battle, I thought you would be angry with me if I died, so I got a bit depressed but once I was ok, I was just... ok." I say to her and move off the post and I go over to her and we head inside and I smelt some meat cooking and I look to see the flames going where the cauldron was.
"Stew sound good?" She asked and I nod.
"Oh yea." I say as I go over to the stew and grabbed a spoon and took a taste of it.
"Anything missing?" She asked and I think.
"Maybe add an onion." I say as I go and cut one up and she goes and puts the chopped onions in the stew and we wait a bit, we set the table and I look to her.
"Would you want to marry some man?" I asked out of the blue.
"Why ask that?" She asked and I looked to her.
"Just curious is all... I mean people wouldn't agree with our uh... relationship?" I asked not really knowing what it was that this is called.
"I wouldn't want to marry someone who doesn't love me, a loveless relationship is not one worth keeping, even if it is to merge two kingdoms like some people do, or to just produce an heir." She says and I look to her.
"I once herd of a Witch that could help female partners have a baby of their own." I say as I looked to the table a bit.
"Is it true though?" She asked and I heard the excitement in her voice which broke my heart.
"Clem you know better than to trust a Witch, and besides I never met another couple like us so I don't know." I say and I saw the glint in her eyes dimmer and it broke my heart.
"I know, I know... just... wouldn't that be great though? If we could have kids of our own?" She asked and I nodded as I looked at her.
"Yea... yea it would be." I say and she nods and I sighed a bit.
"People are too strict on this for me, who cares if I don't produce an heir, I could just make a new law that says I can choose who rules." She says and I chuckled.
"Didn't your father basically do that when he adopted you?" I asked and she nods at this.
"Yes, but they would want me, a woman to have a man's child so my bloodline keeps going." She muttered and I chuckled at how cute she looked so I come up to her and I kissed her head and I go check on the food. Once it was done, I filled our bowls and I cut some bread and we sat at the table and ate. I looked to Clem as I saw her brows scrunch as if she was thinking and I lean my cheek onto my hand as I looked at her.
"Thinking?" I asked and she nods.
"I just think that maybe, one day people won't have to live like this, they could be with who they want... But that's just a dream." She says and I look at her.
"It might change after we're long gone though, but it will change." I say and she nods.
"I hope so, I just want people to be happy." She says and I nod.
"I know you do." I tell her and we finished dinner. We cleaned the dishes and set them on the counter and I looked to her as I leaned on the counter a bit as she dried the last bowl.
"Plus, I kind of like this, you know, we help each other out and we can be independent, I don't like having others do everything for me, and how I have to be careful of everything just because I'm royalty." She says and I chuckled at this.
"It's a life you have to live with, unless you run away." I say and she looked to me.
"No, no we are not doing that." I say and she sighs.
"I tried." She says and I chuckled and she giggled at this and I kissed her head a bit.
"Hey so I have a meeting to go to so I'll be gone for a bit, don't worry I'll be back." I say and she nods.
"Is that what was in the letter? I know how much you hate meetings." She says and I nod.
"Yea, it's nothing to important though just the scouts telling me the information they got and for me to plan things out." I tell her the lie and she nods at this and I helped her to bed and I think as I leave the dagger by her side of the bed and she looked at me.
"Just to be safe." I say.
"You aren't going to wear your armor? Take it." She says and I shake my head.
"It's just a simple meeting, I'll be fine, but I need to know you can at least cut someone if they break in." I say and she nods as I show her how to hold the dagger properly and she does as I showed her and I nod knowing she was a quick learner and I was satisfied with this and I get up and head out. I finally get to the edge of the lands and I see the figure again and glare at them.
"Seems like you are true to your word." Minerva joked and I just glared at her.
"I saw you near my house, stay the fuck away from Clementine." I threatened her and she laughed at this threat and I glare at her.
"No, no, no, you don't get to tell me what to do, remember I know what you want and desire, and it would be a poor shame if Clementine or the king found out." She says and I glared at her more.
"What do you want now?" I asked.
"Just wanted to remind you that we are still watching you, seems like your so-called best knights didn't know about your Princesses escape, they freaked out until the king told them that she was with you, seems like she didn't tell her father anything." She tells me and I glared at her as she came closer to me.
"Just remember I know some bad things about you, and I could ruin you so easily." She says and I just glared at her.
"Fucking Witch." I muttered and she laughed.
"Oh yes, but I wasn't the one to sell my soul to the devil like you did." She says and I glared at her.
"I didn't fucking sell my soul." I tell her and she glared at me.
"You might not think that, but I saved you, you said you owe me." She says and I glared to her.
"If I had known you were a witch, I would have never said that." I tell her and she laughed.
"Doesn't matter you still owe me or you'll be in plenty trouble." She says and I just look at her.
"I'll send another letter tomorrow." She says as she turns around.
"Oh, and don't burn it this time." She says and I looked to her as she walked away and I growled a bit to myself as I headed back home where I saw Clem sitting on the bed with a paper and I look at it.
"What's that?" I asked and she jumped a bit and looked to me.
"Just some papers I brought." She says and I look to the letters and I turn red.
"Love letters." I muttered and she laughed a bit and nods.
"This one prince was trying to hard." She says and I look to her letter and I grabbed it and growled.
"How could he write something so... Unprofessional." I say and she laughed a bit.
"Vi, it seems you forgot about that one letter." She says and I turned red at the mention if it.
"Don't worry it's locked away." She says and I nod.
"Good, I would die if anyone else read it." I say.
"Well." She says and I look at her with wide eyes.
"Who else saw it?" I asked worried.
"Mariana, but it's ok, she hasn't told anyone and it was an accident, she thought it was one her brother sent." She says as she points to the letter in my hands and I hand it back to her.
"You going to burn them?" I asked and she looked to them and shrugs.
"I could use it for leverage." She says and I laughed as I got in the bed with her.
"Is that why you kept my letter?" I asked and she nods.
"Yea, to show you how perverted you were when away." She says and I chuckled and I lay back in the bed and look to the roof of the house and I sighed a bit as I felt Clem rub the top of my head a bit.
"Tomorrow is Sunday, will you be going to the church?" She asked and I looked to her and I nod.
"Louis will be there, and I heard that Carver was giving the word tomorrow." I say and she nods.
"I feel a bit uneasy when he talks, he keeps looking at me." She says and I look at her.
"Need me to bring my sword?" I asked.
"You know you can't it's the lords house." She says and I sigh.
"If you're there though, they should at least let you have some protection." I muttered and she kisses my head and I look up at her.
"I'll be fine, if you're there I don't think he will dare look in my direction." She says and I nod at this and she set the letters in the chest to the side and I think as she lays down I turn on my side and lay a hand over her waist and pull her close to me and she turns to face me and puts her face on my chest and I finally fall asleep with her.