(Violet's Pov)
I woke up slowly feeling a bit of pain in my chest but I don't think it was due to the witch messing with it, maybe the after effects of it but she isn't currently playing with my heart. I looked up a bit as I saw Clem up and about moving around the house a bit so I get up slowly and I go over to her and place my hands around her waist.
"Morning sleepyhead." I hear her say and I chuckled a bit and I nod.
"Yea, morning." I mumbled as I pulled her closer to me.
"We have to go to my father today." She says and I nod as I let her go and I stretched a bit then got my clothes on. I walked over to the kitchen as she set the bowls on the table and I went to go and get us some cups filled with water and I set that on the table as we both take our seats. I eat a bit of the food and I look to her.
"Are you doing ok? You didn't seem so good on the way to bed… did you drink?" She asked and I shook my head.
"No, I didn't drink at all I swear… just some chest pains but nothing to worry about." I say as I felt my chest tighten a bit but then loosen when I told her not to worry about it. I looked to her a bit as she looked back at me.
"Are you sure you're ok? I don't want you going anywhere if you are sick." He says and I nod.
"I'm good, thank you for worrying but I am fine, I've been through worse." I tell her and she nods.
"Clem…" I tried to speak but I couldn't as I looked to her a bit as she looked back at me. How was I supposed to tell her what I was going to have to do to her father, to her home, to her.
"Violet?" She asked and I looked to her a bit and I shook my head at this.
"Nothing, just… thinking some random thoughts is all." I tell her.
"Random such as?" She asked.
"Hmm, what we should have for lunch today? Or maybe how I am going to fix this place up more." I listed off some forms of random thoughts, now it was no lie that I have thought of these things before so it was just something to tell her.
"I would like to get some tea for lunch today actually." She says and I nod as I take a mental note of this.
"Then we shall get the Princess some tea." I joked a bit at this and we both had a bit of a quiet laugh at this. We finished our food and we washed the dishes, once we were done, I set the plates on the counter I look at her finger and I grabbed our rings and she looked to me as I placed hers on her finger and she placed my ring onto my finger after that I take her outside to the horse and cart where I helped her up and I took us to the castle. There I saw some guards posted by the wall and I went through with Clementine as I set the cart by the stables, I helped Clem off and we went to her father's office and I got on one knee and bowed to him.
"Please stand." He says and I do as told.
"Clementine, how are you?" He asked and I looked to her.
"I am well Lee, and you?" She asked him and he smiled as they hugged each other.
"I am fine as well, oh you received a letter, from the boy in the Richmond Kingdom." He says as he hands her the letter and I look to it then to him.
"You will be escorting Clem to Richmond today actually, there's a party for Princess Mariana and Clem was invited to go." He says to me and I nod as I hear the paper be folded back and I look to the king and I nod.
"Of course, am I bringing more men with me?" I asked.
"No, just a simple trip, you shouldn't be going through dangerous lands so I trust you." He says and I nod at this and I look to Clementine as she nods at this.
"How many days will we be staying there?" I asked.
"A week at most, maybe more depending on what Clem wants." He says and I nod at this. It wasn't long till Clementine had left the room and I looked to the king.
"May I speak?" I asked and he nods.
"Something on your mind?"
"No, I just wanted to say that I appreciate the opportunity I had to be a knight in Macon Kingdom." I tell him.
"You sound like something bad is about to happen, are we ok?" He asked and I nod.
"Yes sir, no one has come in or out of the kingdom without being checked and I haven't seen any of the Delta Knights near the area either, I just wanted to tank you for allowing me to be a knight and trusting me to protect the princess and your people." I tell him and he nods.
"Understandable, thank you for the words Violet and I am glad I allowed you to join the knights, best choice to make." He says and I nod.
"Alright, is there anything else?" He asked and I shook my head no at this.
"No sir."
"Then you may go assist my daughter in her packing and the other knights will set up her horses and you will be on your way." He says and I nod at this and I head out to Clem's room and I watch her as she packed a bit. I grabbed some of her clothes and placed it in her bags and I looked to her.
"What did the letter say?" I asked her and she looked at me.
"Nothing important." She says and I look at her.
"Was it something that could make me upset?" I asked as she sat on the bed and I just looked to her.
"Maybe a little." She says and I look at her.
"May I please see the letter?" I asked.
"I'd rather you not." She says and I nod.
"Alright, that's fair." I say and I grabbed her clothing chest and looked to her.
"Shall we?" I asked and she nods as she gets up from the bed and links her arm with mine and I took her to the carriage and helped her inside and I set the chest on top of the carriage and tied it up. I then got to the reigns of the horses and I began to take us in the direction of the Richmond Kingdom. We didn't talk for a while as I kept my eyes around the area to be safe and it was five hours into the trip before Clem said something.
"Could we stop in the next town?" She asked and I nod.
"Of course, Princess." I say and I looked behind me to see her looking through the open window behind me to see her looking at me and I smiled a bit. Once we got to the next town I paid the stable man as he was to take good care of the horse and personal items that belonged to the Princess. I walked with her as she looked around a bit.
"Would you like to get something to eat?" She asked and I looked to her and I nod. She then goes up to a stall and orders something and as I come up to the princess the man hands her the food, she hands me one of the two napkins with food and I take a bite and smile a bit as it does taste good. We eat some of the food as we look around a bit, once done eating we have thrown our garbage away and we get up to a shop which Clem goes into and I follow her inside. I looked around to see some of the outfits and they seemed a bit, risky to wear in public. I also heard some talking coming from the women in the store and I looked a bit from the side of my vision and I looked back to Clem as she looked at a nightgown and I come up to her.
"Don't you think these outfits are a bit…. Risky?" I whispered in her ear and she turned to look at me and smiled.
"These aren't meant to be worn in public so that's their purpose." She says and I look at her.
"Besides, there is no men in this shop." She says and I look around a bit to see that indeed there was not a man in this store, though I might look a bit out of place with how I am dressed and how I look, maybe that's why the girls were talking. I looked back to Clementine as she grabbed a piece of clothing and I looked at her.
"I guess I look out of place than." I muttered a bit as I looked to the clothes.
"Want to wear one?" She asked and I shook my head fast.
"No… Lord no, I wouldn't look good… plus it uh… looks uncomfortable." I muttered to myself a bit and I look at her.
"It's ok." She says and I nod as she goes and takes one of the clothing to the female store owner and asked to try it on. The female looked me up and down a bit as I came up and she looked to Clementine as she nods and takes her to one of the changing areas and I looked at the woman as she gave me a weird look as I went and stood next to Clem's changing room. It was a while before I saw Clem hold her hand out a bit and I pulled the curtain back to poke my head through and I turned red as I closed my eyes.
"Hey it's ok, I need help tying up the ribbon." She says and I nod as I come in and I tie up the ribbon as best as I could with my eyes closed.
"So how does it look?" She asked and I kept my eyes closed.
"Violet?" I hear her ask and I take a bit of a peek at her in her outfit. It was a nice silky gown outfit it was so close to see-through but not completely and I cleared my throat a bit as I looked her up and down a bit.
"L-L-Looks good." I stuttered a bit as I covered my eye with one hand. I hear her giggle a bit at this and she grabbed my hand a bit and moved it down but my eyes were still shut.
"You can look Violet." She says and I shake my head.
"Nope, I um." I tried to speak but stopped.
"Do you not want to see me?" She asked.
"I do, I just… in a more private area?" I asked and I feel her place her hand on my chest a bit and I took a breath.
"Just take one peek, I won't tell." She says and I think a bit and I open my eye a bit and looked at her fully and she smiled at me as she placed both of her hands on my face gently. I look at her a bit and she strokes my cheek a bit and I place my hand on top of hers. I chuckled a bit at this.
"What's so funny?" She asked and I look at her, I look into her beautiful golden eyes.
"Your hands are small." I chuckled out and she giggles at this.
"Your hands are big." She retaliates and I smiled a bit at this.
"So… why do you want to get this… outfit?" I asked her as I looked to her.
"I was thinking… maybe I could use it as an excuse to get closer to you at night?" She asked more than says and I chuckled a bit at this.
"You don't have to get this type of outfit to do that." I tell her.
"But you like it." She says and I nod at this.
"Yes, you indeed look very… beautiful in that outfit." I tell her and she smiled as she moved her hands away and I look at her.
"I'm still getting it… if that's ok." She says and I nod at this and she nods as well and gets out of the article of clothing and I quickly move out of the room to give her some form of privacy. I kept watch till she exited out of the changing room and she purchased the outfit and they placed it in a bag and I helped take her out of the store. We walked around a bit more and got something for Mariana's birthday, and something for the family for allowing us to come to their home for the week. I looked to Clementine as she placed the wine in her bag and I walked with her to the stables where I looked at the horses and made sure the chest was intact and not tampered with in any way, nothing looked disturbed except for the letter I saw at the top of the rope and I grabbed it to see the Delta seal. I looked to the stable man and I he looked to me.
"Did someone come to this carriage while we were away?" I asked and he looked to me then to the carriage.
"A nice young woman, but nothing was taken we got her away before she could try anything." He says and I nod and I think to myself as I looked to the letter.
"Is everything ok?" I hear Clem ask and I looked to her as she had poked her head out the window a bit and I nod.
"Yes, everything is fine Princess… we'll be on our way in a bit." I tell her and she nods as she goes back in the carriage and I glared at the letter and placed it in my chest pocket and got back into place on the carriage and began our journey once more to the Richmond Kingdom.
"We should take a look around the kingdom before we head back home." She says and I chuckled a bit.
"Is that what you would like to do Princess?" I asked.
"Yes, it would be nice for you to have a bit of a break don't you think?" She asked and I nod a bit.
"It would but I don't think that would be classified as a break." I tell her.
"And what do you call a break?" She asked and I think.
"Well… having a mug of Ale, sitting by the fire…. Reading maybe chatting a bit with someone." I tell her and I looked to the road a bit.
"Well if we have kids you'd never get a break." She says and I laughed a bit at this.
"Oh, with a family it would be taking the kids out into the town to get them some sweets, then we would head to the river and swim during the summer, and we would just have some fun." I say and I turn a bit and look at her.
"I could see you holding the little one as I take care of the older ones, you would be singing softly to the baby as they look up at you… and I would look at you and think you're the most beautiful mother and woman in the world." I say and looked back to the road a bit.
"So, when do you want the wedding?" She asked and I chuckled.
"Let's get to me asking you to marry me part." I say as I looked at the horses a bit.
"Well, when do you plan on doing that?" She asked and I think a bit.
"Well, it wouldn't be that much of a surprise if I told you when I planned to marry you." I tell her and she sighed a bit at this.
"We could just get married now; I don't care we could have a big one later on but I would like for us to be together." She says and I think.
"How about this… we wait a bit, before the summer, if you want to stay with me at that point… then I will get Aasim and he can signify that wedding." I tell her truthfully, I wanted to be with her, but after last night I was just scared.
"Do you promise?" She asked and I nod a bit at this before speaking.
"I promise."
"You swear?" She asked and I think a bit about this and I nod again.
"I swear on my life." I tell her and I feel her hand on my back a bit and then looked to the roads again. A few hours would pass as we got closer and closer to Richmond Kingdom and I hear Clementine's soft breathing and I took this time to look at the letter that was given to me.
'Violet, you are to meet me after dropping the princess off at the Richmond Kingdom same stipulations apply, no weapons, no armor, just yourself, I do want to say that the scheduling of the attack may be shortened or waited out longer depending on how this meeting will go tonight, remember what you are supposed to do, there may also be some new things you will have to do again also depending on how this meeting will go, From: Minerva.' I read the letter and I rubbed my neck a bit at this and I sighed as I get to the stable of the castle where the Royalty of Richmond lived. I open up the carriage a bit and I looked to see Clementine waking up a bit as she looked to me and smiled a bit and I smiled back at her.
"Hey, we made it to Richmond." I say and she nods a bit tiredly at this and I help her out of the carriage slowly so she doesn't fall. I head the doors of the stable open and I look to see none other than the Prince of Richmond and his sister as they come up to us.
"Hello Princess Clementine, welcome to the Kingdom of Richmond." The prince says and Clementine curtseys to him and I just look at him.
"And who is this?" The prince asked as he glared at me and I kept my one hand on the scabbard of my sword and I bowed just a bit to him.
"This is my personal Knight, Grand Cross Violet, of the Macon Knights." Clem introduced me and I looked to him.
"Oh, so you were the one requesting me to help in the battles." He says and I look at him.
"Yes… I did." I tell him.
"Sorry I didn't show but being the last male to the throne has a limitation on battles." He says and I looked to him.
"Limitations, you could have sent some of your men, but regardless my Knights remained victorious without your help." I tell him and he looked at me.
"That's good, seems like Richmond won't have to be involved with this war." He says.
"Let's not talk about this right now." Clem says and I glared at the boy.
"Yes, Princess." I say and I looked to her.
"Let's head inside, you must be hungry." The princess says and I nod as I helped Clem into the castle.
"Oh Violet, the gift." Clem says and I nod as I grabbed the bottle of wine from the bag and handed it to the Princess who smiled at this.
"Oh, a good year too, my uncle and mother would love to try this when they get back." She says and I nod.
"So, um… how old are you turning?" I asked.
"You never ask a woman her age." The prince says.
"Oh, keep quiet Gabe, the knight is a woman so she can ask... I'll be fifteen." She says and I nod as she set the bottle of wine onto the table. I looked around a bit as we were taken to one of the common rooms and I watched as all three sat down and I looked around a bit with my hand on my sword.
"You can relax you know." Mariana says and I just shook my head no at this.
"Oh, let her do what she wants." Gabe says and I glare at him a bit.
"So how was the battle with the Delta?" Gabe asked and I glare at him a bit.
"Which one?" I asked him.
"The one you requested me for." He asked.
"Right…. We won." I say to him.
"That's good." He says and I gripped my sword a bit.
"Um, Gabe maybe you shouldn't discuss this." Clementine says as she placed her hand on top of mine and I look at her a bit then to Gabe.
"Oh, come on it couldn't have been that bad." He says and I looked to Clementine.
"Gabe." Mariana says to him in a harsh tone.
"This isn't a discussing matter; you weren't there you shouldn't be asking her these questions." Clem says and I just keep silent.
"I can ask, nothing bad in asking." He says an looked to me.
"Come on, what happened?" he asked.
"I was stabbed and killed then brought back to life, so shut the fuck up you weak bastard." I say pissed as he kept pushing my buttons and he looked to me and glared a bit.
"I lost fifteen men that day I was almost the sixteenth is that what you wanted to hear? My blood was on the ground, my men died but we still became victorious without your fucking scrawny ass." I say pissed.
"How dare you talk to me like that." He says insulted but I don't care.
"Gabe you had no right to ask those questions, she has every right to be mad at you." Mariana says and he looked to her.
"I am the prince here, she is nothing." He says and Clementine steps in front of me and I looked down at her.
"Don't." she simply tells me and I nod a bit and just keep my eyes on her.
"Clem why don't you, me and Violet head into the town, there is still some daylight out." Mariana offers and I looked to her then to Clem.
"That's fine with me." Clem says and I nod and I follow the both of them out the castle and we walk into the town since it was closer than Clem's Kingdom, but that was because of the old king.
"I do apologize for how Gabe acted." Mariana says as she looked to me and I shake my head a bit.
"You don't need to apologize; I do apologize for how I responded though I shouldn't have acted that way." I tell her.
"Oh, no you were in the right, Gabe shouldn't have asked those questions, my uncle will hear about this, he had his chance to go but he didn't." She says and I look to her.
"Your father was a knight correct?" I asked and she nods.
"Yes, he was, he retired a few years after you joined." She says and I nod a bit as I have heard about their father but never really met the man.
"I heard about how the Delta was near your kingdom, do you need my uncle to send people?" She asked us both.
"We are currently trying to keep people at bay when entering the kingdom, but thank you for the offer." Clem explained and I nod.
"What happened?" Mariana asked.
"Some of the guards have been lacking on the security is all, but Violet has that taken care of." Clem says and I nod at this as well. We looked around the town a bit and the princesses got some items that they wanted, Clem got Mariana some chocolate and I looked around at the people a bit to see a figure in a dark cloak walking a bit in the crowd and I looked back to Clementine and Mariana as they asked if we should head back to the castle.
"Yea it's getting a bit late." Mariana says and we began our walk back. Once inside Clem and I were taken to the room that they had available for her and I saw the chest inside the room and I looked around a bit.
"I'll see you in the morning you two." Mariana says.
"Thank you, Mariana." Clem tells her and she nods.
"Thank you, Princess Mariana." I say as well and she smiled then left. I looked to Clem who was going through her bag and she pulled out the new nightgown she bought and I turned a bit red at this and she looked to me and smirked a bit and I turned around.
"Violet, I told you that you could look." She says as I feel her hand on my shoulder and I looked down to her and she smiled a bit.
"I um… I know just a habit you know." I say and she nods then kisses my cheek. I turn a bit and place my sword on the table but I didn't look at her until she was actually changed into the night gown and I look at her. I looked her up and down a bit and smiled at her as she came up to me and kissed me. I couldn't help but kiss her back and I placed my hands on her hips as she wrapped her hands around my neck a bit. We pulled apart and I smiled at her and I kissed her arm gently then looked back to her as she smiled.
"I'm going to look around the castle a bit if that's ok? Then I'll be back to sleep if that's ok with you?" I asked her.
"You don't have to do that, the guards here are overprotective if you ask me, after Mariana and Gabe's father told them off that is." She says as she moved o the bed and I looked to her.
"I know I just… you know me that's all." I say and she sighed a bit as I hand her the dagger.
"Alright, but I want lots of kisses when you get back." She says and I nod as I kissed her and I headed out the castle and off the castle grounds to where Minerva wanted me. I looked around a bit and see her looking at me as I walk up to her.
"You seem to follow orders well." She says and I look at her.
"I know you won't really say anything, not much for you to say really, only to listen." She says and I cleared my throat a bit at this.
"Remember when we made that deal all those years ago, you can't lie and say you weren't all for it." She says.
"You tricked me, I-."
"You went by the same emotions a lot of people have, to conquer the rule, to be happy and so on, you were acting on instinct." She says.
"You're forcing me to kill the one person who allowed me to be who I am today… the only man that let me be a Knight." I tell her.
"But you would have done it if it as the old king?" She asked.
"I along with many others didn't care for the old king, he was a monster, tried to make our king and Clem slaves just because of their skin color, before him the other king let slaves go because he wanted a peaceful kingdom, he hated how others weren't treated with the rights that they deserved." I tell her and she smirked at me.
"What if I told you that your king isn't all that truthful." She says and I glare at her.
"You make up lies on the spot." I tell her.
"No, I show people what they truly desire, I can show you what the king wants, he wants to control other kingdoms, he wants to do what all kings do." She says and I glare at her.
"The Delta is no better; you want me to kill the king so you all could take over." I tell her pissed off.
"Ah but you wanted to rule as well, may I remind you I know what you wanted and do want." She says and I look at her.
"I wasn't thinking straight at the time, I was thinking of the actions of the old king not Lee." I say and she looked to me.
"Are you sure about that?" She asked and I nodded at this.
"The assignment still stands." She says and she was walking away before I spoke up.
"You have no idea… what I had been through… of course I would have thoughts like that even now, no one is pure at heart… my own family didn't want me, I was an outcast and the only friends I had was Clem and later Louis…. After being isolated by the people when the old king was in charge I was treated like garbage before Lee and Clem became the new rulers when I had become the knight, I am today…. I can't do it." I tell her as she stopped and turned to me.
"You have to, now go." She says and leaves and I gripped the side of my head a bit and looked to the side and I headed back to the castle. I looked at the door of Clem's temporary room I sighed and walked into the room to see Clem laying in the bed asleep and I looked to the door as I put a chair against it and sat down as I looked to her. It wasn't a long time that I sat there but it seemed like forever till I saw some movement in the bed and I looked to see Clem looking at me and I looked back at her.
"Come to bed." She says and I looked to her a bit and I nod as I get up and I go lay in the bed with her. I looked down at her as she got closer t me and I couldn't help but chuckle a bit at this.
"What's so funny?" She asked.
"You cold?" I asked and she nods a bit and I looked to the end of the bed as I grabbed the heavy quilt and pulled it over the lighter blanket that we were covered by. I pulled her a little closer to me and I kissed her head gently.
"Are you ok?" She asked and I nod.
"Yea I'm ok." I say to her as I rubbed her back.
"You sure?" She asked.
"Yea, I'm sure about it." I tell her and I felt her kiss my neck and I look down at her and I kissed her on the lips. I don't know what came over me but I couldn't help it as she kissed me back and I moved so I was on top of her and I kissed her more. I felt her move her hands around my neck and I placed one hand on her side as I kept my other hand on the bed to keep me steady. We pulled apart and I looked at her as I moved my hand up her nightgown and I cupped her face a bit as I looked at her.
"Are you sure you're ok?" She asked as I looked at her.
"I…. No, I'm not." I tell her truthfully.