(Violet's Pov)
I looked at Clementine as she laid beneath me, I saw the worried look in her eyes after what I just said to her and I was about to spill everything I wanted to tell her everything about the Delta, about what had happened to me when I was gone those three years, but before I could I felt a sharp pain in my chest and I gripped it a bit as I moved away from her.
"Violet?" I hear her asked worried and I felt the pressure on my chest get tighter and I coughed a bit as I tried to breath but it hurt so much.
"Fuck." I muttered as best as I could.
"I'm going to get a doctor." She says worried but the pressure in my chest stopped so I grabbed her hand to stop her and she looked at me as I smiled just a bit even in pain.
"Can't have you going dressed like that." I say and pull her to me and she looked at me worried.
"I don't care, you're in pain." She says and I look at her.
"I'm not in pain trust me I'm ok." I tell her and she looked at me.
"You just told me you weren't ok and now you are." She says and I sigh.
"I know… I mean… I'm not ok, that's right just thinking about battle and what happened to me… but I feel fine with you." I tell her and she looked to me as I pulled her onto my lap and she looked at me.
"I am fine I promise." I tell her and she nods a bit at this and I nod and kiss her neck a bit to try and distract her, it would for a short while but I know Clem well enough to know she will ask me about this later, though I don't blame her, she's just worried that's all.
"Vi." She whispered as I slowly move my hand up her leg and to her thigh as I continue to kiss her neck.
"You good?" I asked her and I look to her to see her nod her head and I smiled a bit and kiss her neck again.
"Do you want me to continue?" I asked her as I pulled away and she looked at me then to the side a bit.
"I want you to but I." she tried to say but I stopped her.
"If you feel uncomfortable then we don't have to do anything but just go to bed, I don't want you doing something you don't want to." I tell her and she looked to me then down at her lap and she nods a bit as she placed her hands together in her lap. I got a good look at her face to see she was red in the face and I kind of felt embarrassed myself that I actually wanted to do that with her. Not that I don't want to but the fact that I am thinking of this right now.
"I'd like to go to bed, I'm sorry." She says.
"No, you don't apologize, this isn't a bad thing to deny something you don't want." I tell her and she looks at me and nods. I help her back into the bed and she cuddled close to me and I held her waist as I closed my eyes and we both fell asleep. It was a while before I heard a knock on the door and I slowly woke up as I heard it again and I got up and made sure to cover Clementine up. I went to the door and moved the chair and opened the door to see Mariana and Gabe.
"Oh, I'm sorry were you two still sleeping?" Mariana asked and I rubbed my eyes a bit.
"Um, yes but Clem will be waking up soon, sorry for sleeping in." I apologize.
"Oh no it's still pretty early I do apologize." She says.
"No, it's fine, I'll get Clem ready." I say and she nods and I look to see Gabe trying to look in and I blocked his view a bit and he glared at me and I glared back. I then closed the door and I walk up to Clementine as I gently shake her shoulder and she looked up to me and smiled a bit as she placed her hand on my face and I grabbed her hand gently.
"Hey it's time to get up." I tell her and she nods a bit as she gets up and I look at her as she goes and gets changed. I turned around to give her some privacy and after a while a hand is placed on my shoulder, I turn to look at Clem and I smiled a bit as I grabbed my sword and put it in place on my side and we walked out. We headed to where Mariana was and Clem and her talked, I stood watch.
"Violet, is it ok if we head into town for some breakfast?" Clem asked and I looked to Mariana who was looking at me with some hope and I rubbed my neck.
"You don't have to ask me if you can head into town you know." I tell them as I walked up to them.
"Well, you would be forced to come, I wanted to ask if you were ok with it." Clem says and I nod understanding why they would ask. Though in reality they didn't need to ask but it was nice that they did, plus going outside for some air would be good anyway.
"We can go." I tell them and Mariana was jumping with joy as we head out and I see Gabe following us. I kept a close eye on Clem and Mariana as we walked around the town to look for a good sit in area for breakfast. There was a small shop that had some tables and chairs inside the shop so we all walked in and sat down as we were given a paper and I looked at it to see it's what they had to eat and drink.
"I'd like a mug of Ale and some ham with potatoes." Gabe says and I looked to Clem who looked at the paper with Mariana, seemed like they were wanting some sweets more than an actual breakfast.
"And for you?" The owner asked and I looked to the paper again.
"Um… just some water with eggs and uh…ham." I say and they nod as they take the order and I looked to Clem and Mariana.
"I want the same as her." Clem says and I smile a bit.
"I would like the fruit bowl with a water please." Mariana tells the owner.
"Alright and anything else?" She asked us.
"Another mug of Ale actually." Gabe says and the owner nods as she goes to get the food and drinks. The lady came back with our drinks and I took a drink of my water as I sat closer to Clem as she placed her hand on my lap a bit. I thank the lord that we were at a table as I place my free hand on top of hers.
"So why did you get two mugs of Ale?" Mariana asked her brother.
"One for Violet, best Ale in the kingdom." He says as he passed the mug to me and I look at it then to Clem who looked at the mug herself. I looked to Gabe and shook my head as I passed it back to him.
"No, I don't want the drink, thank you for the offer." I tell him.
"Denying a drink from a prince is disrespectful." He says and I looked to him.
"Gabe if she doesn't want to drink, she doesn't have to, besides it's to early." Mariana says to him.
"Oh, come on Knights drink all the time." He says and I look at her.
"No actually we don't, if we did, we wouldn't win in battles because we would be drunk all the time…. I make my men drink water when we are out, they drink Ale at home." I tell him and he looked at me.
"Don't have to try and act modest." He says.
"Gabe my knights are different from yours, Violet takes care of them." Clem says and he looked to her and smiled a bit.
"Sorry I didn't mean to be rude on the topic." He tells her and I look at him then to my water and to the Ale. Lord knows I would like to have a drink with this boy and his stupidity but I couldn't.
"So, have you been here before?" I asked Marina and she nods.
"Yes, my uncle brought me here once, I really enjoy the fruit bowls here." She says.
"Do they have apples?" Clem asked and Mariana nods and Clem looked at me and I smiled as we were given our food and I looked to the owner.
"Could we have a few apples as well?" I asked her and she nods.
"Of course, would you liked them cut up?" She asked and Clementine nods and the owner smiled as she leaves and we eat our food.
"We have one place I want to take Violet; the cook is amazing." Clem explained to Mariana when she was asked if there was a place Clem would eat at.
"Oh, there's always one place that has the best foods, oh will you two be staying for church this Sunday?" Mariana asked and I looked to Clem.
"No, we have our own priest that we go to, kind of had an issue with the one priest at our actual church." Clem says.
"What kind of issue?" Gabe asked.
"He was talking bad about the Knights, and that was the first time he brought them up when Violet came in." Clem says.
"Did Violet have her weapon on her?" Gabe asked.
"I know better than to bring my sword into the Lords home, but the priest was out of line when speaking about something he knew nothing about." I say as I took a drink of water and I felt Clem tighten her grip on my hand a bit and I look to her a bit and then back to the table.
"Gabe, don't you have to talk to Uncle about something about the party next week?" Mariana asked trying to descaled the situation and I looked to the food and ate a bit.
"Well yes." He says.
"Ok, after breakfast please go talk to him." She says and he nods. The owner comes back with some apple slices for Clementine and she holds one of the slices to me and I take a bite and she smiled a bit and so do I. Clem looked over to Gabe and I do as well to see him a bit angry but I don't know why he was mad, all we were doing was eating. We finish our food and I went with Clementine as we paid the shop owner for the meal and the siblings walked out with us and Gabe left us.
"I seem to have to apologize on his behalf a lot." Mariana said to herself.
"You shouldn't have to; I don't know how your kingdom is but there are some differences from our home." I say to her and she sighed a bit and I looked to see a cloaked figure walk out the shop and I sigh internally as I see a messenger boy coming up to me.
"Grand Cross Violet?" He asked and I nodded as he handed me the letter and I put it in my pocket and thanked the boy as he left.
"A letter for you all the way out here?" Clem asked and I nod.
"It will happen a lot." I tell her and she nods as we all just take a walk around the town once again.
"So, have you had any suiters?" Mariana asked Clem and I looked to them.
"Yes, as always, your brother being one, but I have one person on my mind." She tells the young Princess and I look at her as she looked back at me and smiles as they both stand to each of my sides and I rubbed my neck.
"Oh, it's ok Violet, I won't tell anyone how you want to take Clem on a romantic getaway." Mariana joked and I groaned.
"I heard you saw the letter I sent her." I tell her and she giggled a bit at that statement and I sighed.
"Oh, trust me, I would love for someone to send me letters like that, it's so romantic and risky." She joked as she lightly shoved me.
"I um... yea." I mumbled to this and we walked more.
"So, do you plan on marrying Clem?" She asked.
"Oh, please don't talk about that right now." I say a bit pleading and she looked to me as I looked at her sadly, she nodded at this.
"I do apologize I didn't mean to intrude that much." She says.
"It's ok, Violet has a thing about that, trust me it was hard for me to get her to talk." She says.
"So how did you two become friends?" Mariana asked.
"I used to work in the stables of the old king, when Clem's father was able to take the throne I stayed as a stable worker till I was old enough to become a knight." I explained to her.
"Violet was so quiet too, wouldn't talk to me for days, I thought she didn't like me." Clem says and I look at her as she says this and I rubbed my neck.
"I'm sorry." I say.
"No need to say sorry Violet, I know why you didn't want to talk." She says and I nod.
"I see you have matching rings." Mariana says as she pointed to our hands.
"Promise rings." I tell her.
"Oh, well they're very nice." She says and I nod and I looked around a bit. We went to a few shops and they would look around for a bit, I took some notes on what to get for the house back home.
"Violet this would look good." Clem says as she shows me something and I looked at the cloth material and I nod at this.
"So, you got a home?" Mariana asked and I nodded.
"Yea it's a bit of a fix up but we got the fencing partially done, I just need to get longer pieced of wood to hammer into the posts, I also fixed the one section of the home too but I'll going to add another room to the house as well." I say.
"Oh, for a study?" She asked and I think.
"I didn't think about that, I might have to add a few more rooms than." I say.
"What was the other room going to be for?" She asked.
"Oh um… well I want to take in orphans, so I was Going to make a big room for all the kids, separated of course." I explained.
"Oh, how nice of you." She says and I nod.
"We need to get a few farm animals too." Clem says.
"I might buy some more land while I'm at it, I have enough for a few more acers." I tell them as we walked near an open field and near a lake.
"You seem to have your life planned out." Mariana says as we all take a seat by the lake.
"No, I just have some of my life planned I mean I'm only twenty." I say as I lean on the palms of my hands as I lean back.
"Still, you have a bit more organized life than my brother in all honesty." She says.
"Not to be rude but most male heirs don't get their lives situated or they start getting it situated when they are about to die." I say and looked to them.
"I won't lie you aren't completely wrong." She says and I looked to the lake.
"I still haven't figured out a lot of things in life." Clem says and I chuckled.
"Yea but hey you try, at least you don't act like the one girl I met, she was rude as all hell and just acted like the world owed her just for being born… can't remember her name actually." I say as I rubbed my hands together a bit.
"Winter is coming, any plans?" Mariana asked and I think.
"Depending on how things go, just a relaxing day and drinking some warm milk." I admitted and Clem giggled a bit.
"And what would relaxing be?" Clem asked and I think a bit.
"Being with you." I muttered.
"Oh, what was that?" I hear Mariana asked and I turned red as I look away from them.
"I admit to nothing." I say as I turned away and they both laughed at this.
"Oh, don't be embarrassed it's sweet that you would want to be with someone, especially a loved one." Mariana says and I looked down and turn back around a bit and looked to them.
"So, what else would you do?" Clem asked and I think more.
"Get a hog, have some friends over so we could have a nice dinner, never really got to do that when I was younger." I say.
"Could I join?" Mariana asked and I nod at this.
"Yea, if you want." I say and I think a bit as they talked more on how they would spend winter with anyone important, like family.
"Would you want to spend it with your family?" Mariana asked and I shook my head.
"No, they abandoned me." I simply tell her.
"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't know." She says and I nod.
"It's all good." I say and look to the lake again. The sun was high in the sky and I looked to Clem as her and Mariana were talking about what they planned to do during the party and I just listened for a bit before I remembered the letter, I was given this morning. I decide that it wouldn't hurt so I pulled the letter out and broke the wax seal putting the remains in my pocket and looked at the letter.
'Hello, Violet tonight we will not be meeting due to the high on guard knights that have been walking around the kingdom of Richmond, we will meet again once you are back to the Kingdom of Macon with the Princess, this is your lucky break, though you should know that you have to do the assignment you are given make sure the princess doesn't see this letter or you'll be in a lot of trouble with her and your kingdom. From: Minerva.' The note said all this and I put the letter back into my pocket and rubbed my head a bit.
"Something bad in the letter?" Clementine asked and I looked to them.
"Just them asking me what to do and such, it's nothing to worry about." I tell her and she nods at this obvious lie. I felt bad having to lie to her on this matter but if I told the truth bad things would happen, I know it would happen.
"So, what do you want to do for the rest of the day?" Mariana asked as we all get up and I helped Clementine up a bit.
"I heard there was going to be a firework show happening tonight, we should all go." Mariana says and I look at her.
"What are you guys celebrating?" I asked out of curiosity.
"Oh, it's just our annual festival of the stars, I think it was because of the many falling stars that fell from the sky years ago, so we hope to see it again around this time, it was quiet beautiful." She explained and I nod.
"That would be nice actually, we should go." Clem says and I nod.
"If that is what you two want then that is what we will do, but I do need to change." I say as I pull on the shirt I had last night.
"And a bath." Clem jokes as she holds her nose and I smirked as I inched closer to the lake.
"Wait don't you dare." She says.
"What I'm not doing anything." I say in a playful way as I got closer to the lake.
"I swear if you go in that lake, I won't talk to you." She threatens but I know her, she can't stop talking to me. I slowly take my sword off and I looked to Mariana as she tried not to laugh and I set the sword down and make a quick run into the lake and I dive into the water. I swam around under the water a bit before I resurfaced up and took a breath of air and slicked my hair back a bit as I heard Mariana laughing and Clem looking at me in utter shock that I actually did that. I couldn't help but laugh at this as well as I swam around a bit and got up to the land and shook my head as I got closer to the two Princesses and Mariana laughed more and Clem looked at me as I got some water on her. I looked to her to see she was smiling a bit and then she began to laugh as well and I chuckled as I grabbed my sword from the ground and moved my hair out of my face.
"Maybe we should get you a haircut." Clem says as she moved my hair from my face since it fell back into my eyes again and I chuckled.
"I can't believe you actually did that." Mariana says as we walked to the castle.
"Did what?" I hear and turn to see Gabe with another man and I bow a bit to the older man.
"Oh, nothing just having fun." Mariana says and I nod.
"Why are you wet?" Gabe asked and I cleared my throat a bit.
"Decided to go for a little swim." I say.
"That is irresponsible, what if someone hurt the Princesses, how did you even become a knight if you act like a child." Gabe said and I looked at him.
"Gabe it's fine, the Knights are watching the lands anyway, plus there is no harm in having some fun." The man says.
"But Uncle." He tried to retaliate but his Uncle stopped him.
"It's fine Gabe, besides I've heard many stories of Violet, she's responsible." Their uncle says and Gabe doesn't say another word and their uncle looked to me.
"Hello, I'm Javier their uncle." He says and I nod and bow to him.
"Nice to meet you I am Grand Cross Violet." I introduce myself.
"I know, I have heard a lot about you from Lee, he sent me a letter explaining you would be here with Clementine." He explained and I nod as I looked to Clem.
"I'll let you go and get changed, maybe we could talk later." He says and I nod as Him and Gabe leave and I head to Clem and My room.
"I'm going to get changed, you can take a bath in the room next door to yours, we will leave later tonight." Mariana says and we both nod as I head inside the room and Clem followed me in. I went and grabbed my bag and pulled some clothes out and set them on the bed.
"I still can't believe you did that; it's getting cold out and you could get sick." Clementine says and I chuckle a bit.
"Hey, you remember when I dived into the frozen part of the lake, this is nothing." I say to her and she looked at me.
"But still." She says and I smiled at her then came up to her and placed my hand on her face and she looked up at me.
"I'm going to take a bath and then change." I tell her and she nods as I move away and I saw that her face was red, but why.
"Um… could I join you?" She asked and I looked to her.
"I need a bath and well, less water." She says and I chuckled a bit at this.
"If you want." I say and she nods as she goes and gets her clothes and I head into the bathing room and go pump some of the water and put it to the fireplace and start up the flames to get the water nice and hot. It took a while but we were able to get the tub filled with warm water and I turn around and take my clothes off and I get in the tub. My eyes were closed and I felt the water rise a bit as Clem got in and she leaned her back against my chest and I opened my eyes as I looked to the back of her head.
"You ok?" I asked and she nods as she turned her head to face me and I smiled at her.
"Are you ok?" She asked and I nodded.
"Yea I'm good, it feels good to take a bath." I admitted and closed my eyes again as I relaxed.
"Don't fall asleep." She says and I smirked a bit.
"I won't, trust me I won't." I say and she nods as she grabbed something which I assume was a bar of soap and a rag. I opened my eyes after a few minutes and I got to cleaning myself and I smirked a bit as I kissed Clem's shoulder and she leaned back into me and I keep my head in her neck as I kissed her. I felt her place her hand on my leg and I move my hand a bit around her waist, not touching her inappropriately.
"You could go higher." She says and I look at her and I think a bit. I would like to but I decided not to.
"No this is fine." I say quietly and she nods at this and I just held her closer to me. I kept my face in her neck and kissed it again and I felt her place her hand on my arm as I pulled her just a bit more to me. I felt her stomach move with her breaths and I closed my eyes a bit as I relaxed more into her. Until there was a knock on the door and I looked up from Clementine's neck.
"Yes?" I asked as Clementine kept quiet.
"I can't seem to find Clementine I needed to ask her something." I hear Mariana ask.
"She came in to bring me my clothes and to take a bath after me." I say, I mean it wasn't a complete lie if I want to be honest.
"Oh, ok I'll ask her later than." She says and I hear her leave and I sighed a bit and then laugh a little.
"Oh Lord that was scary." She says and I leaned my head on her back.
"Yea… but it's ok I think we can trust Mariana not to tell." I say and she nods. We finished up our bath and I put on my black pants and black shirt as well with a red sash and the Macon crest was embroiled on the left side closer to my heart. I turned to see Clem tying her dress up with the ribbon and I come up to her and kissed her cheek.
"Ready?" She asked and I nodded as we headed out and I grabbed my sword and we went to Marianas room where Clem knocked on the door and Mariana opened the door. She was wearing a beautiful pink dress that looked light to wear and heavy for the cold weather.
"Ready?" She asked and I nod and so does Clem. We all head out before Gabe decides to walk with us. We head into the town to see people celebrating and drinking, the kids were running around with some apples covered in something.
"Oh, caramel apples." Mariana says as she looked around to see where they are selling the items. I looked to see Clem trying to hide the fact that she too was looking around and I smiled a bit as I looked and pointed in the direction of one of the shop owners handing a child the sweet treat and I take them over to the owner. We got four of the apples and I paid for the treats as the shop owner gave them to Clem and Mariana who handed one to her brother and Clem held mine and I took it after getting some copper coins back to which I placed in my pocket and then grabbed the apple. I took a bite and it was delicious and I looked at Clem who was smiling.
"So, you like apples hu?" Gabe asked as he moved in front of me and I glared at him as I moved to Clem's other side and I felt her take my hand in hers and I don't do anything but hold her hand back.
"Yes, they're my favorite." She says and I looked around and saw a cloaked figure looking a me before they turned away and I looked around then back to Clem.
"Well, we grow apples in our back yard, if you want the fresh ones." He tried to brag and I just looked at him.
"Oh, thank you I may want to take some home." She says and he nods at this.
"Hey maybe we should head out and play some of the games." He says as he took her hand and she pulled away from him.
"Sorry but I have to be near Violet." She tells him and I smirked a bit.
"Oh, come on I can keep you safe too." He says and I glared at him.
"If the Princess doesn't want to go with you then you can't force her to do so." I tell him.
"Oh, shut up will you, let her have some fun all she does is hang around you all day." He says and I get pissed and was so close to pulling my sword out.
"Because I am her Knight, I have to be around her." I tell him pissed off myself.
"Guys." Mariana says but Gabe gets in my face.
"I am way better at protecting than you are." He says and I look him in the eyes.
"I am not afraid of some worthless peasant like you." He says and I pulled my sword out a bit before I felt the grip of Clem's hand tighten around mine and I slowly let the sword drop back into the scabbard.
"Gabe stop you are causing more issues; I want to stay by my Knight so stop." She says and I look to her.
"No, I'm not going to stop, come on peasant." He says and shoves me which makes me let go of Clem's hand so she isn't pulled back.
"Come on, fight me, you were in battle once, you said I was weak I'll show I'm not." He says pissed and I see people looking at us.
"You are embarrassing yourself now stop it Gabe." Mariana says but he doesn't listen as he shoves me again and I back up a bit as I just looked at him. Some people were staring at us and I kept my eyes on him.
"Come on, draw your sword." He says and he pulled his own sword out and I look at it but I do not remove my sword from my side and I just look at him. The people start to talk a bit in whisper and Gabe looks to me.
"Draw your god damn sword." He says but I don't.
"Gabe stop this right now." Mariana says.
"Stop." Clem also says at the same time and I just watch him as he ran up to me but I didn't move as he stabbed me in the stomach.
"VIOLET!" Clem yells but I hold my hand up to stop her from coming up to us and Gabe looked at me with a smirk on his face but it's gone when he looked to me and I just gave him a blank stare as I leaned into his ear.
"You cannot kill what is already dead." I tell him as I pulled the sword out and there was blood coating it and I shoved him back. He backed away a bit at this and I place my hand up to the wound and acted a bit hurt, but really, I felt no pain at all. The people were still talking as Clem ran up to me and opened the bottom portion of my shirt a bit to check on the wound and Mariana was yelling at her brother.
"We need to get you to the doctor." I hear Clem panic.
"No, it's not that bad trust me, just a little patch up." I tell her.
"But he just fu-." She was about to swear but I stopped her.
"It is fine Clementine, lets just get some patches and medicine and I will be fine." I say to her and she looked at me as if I was crazy.
"I've been stabbed before trust me I'm ok." I tell her and her hands are shaking like crazy and she turned to glare at Gabe as he was still being chewed out by his sister as she decided to drag him home and I look at Clem.
"Come on, before I really start to feel the pain." I tell her and she nods quickly as one of the doctors runs up to us and she just asked them for patches and medicine which she paid for and we walk away to a secluded area. I was patched up and she looked at me to see if I would really need help but I shake my head no at this.
"No, I'm good, thank you for worrying though but don't worry yourself." I tell her and she nods.
"If we have to go back home, we can." She says and I shake my head.
"No, no it's not fair to Mariana for her brother's actions." I say and she looked at me.
"He stabbed you, he actually stabbed you." She says and I look at her.
"It's fine, I'm ok." I tell her and she looked to me then kissed me on the lips and I kissed her back. We pulled apart for a breather and I looked to her and I smile a bit and take her hand in mine. I hear the fireworks go off and I look up at the sky and so does she. We watched the fireworks a bit as I held her hand gently but she gripped my hand a little tighter. After a while when the last firework goes off, we get up and I lean on the tree a bit for support and we begin to walk back to the castle. Once in we went to our room and we both changed into our night gear and we laid in the bed, Clem placed her head on my chest saying something about wanting to make sure I am ok during the night. I don't stop her as I slowly begin to fall asleep.