(Violet's Pov)
-Two Years Ago-
"So, what do we do now?" I heard as I looked to Marlon who was standing by the medic bed and I think. I looked to Louis who was trying to be helpful to me in any way he could then I looked back to Marlon.
"Only thing I can say right now is to do some recon and look at where they are camping, once we know that we can set up some men to make an ambush in the middle of the night." I tell him and he nods a bit at this.
"Who should we send?" He asked.
"The best I know is, you and Mitch, if you can get any more people to go that you think will be best is, that is up to you." I tell him and he nods.
"I can do that, is there anything else?" I hear him and I sit up a bit.
"Mind bringing the nurse back in here?" I asked and he nods as he goes out the tent and I lean back a bit.
"Your wounds starting to hurt?" Louis asked and I nodded a bit.
"Yea, chest is killing me." I tell him. I then hear the tent fabric move a bit and looked to see the nurse as she comes to my side and hands me some medicine and water. I took it and drank the water a bit. Louis then left the tent and I relaxed a bit as I tried to get the pain to go away but it didn't.
"Are you doing ok Knight?" She asked and I nod a bit.
"Yea just… getting stabbed doesn't help." I tell her and she smiled a bit.
"You know some nurses have been known to be Witches." She says out of random and I look at her.
"Yea but you aren't one… are you?" I asked Minerva as she looked to me.
"Oh, dear heavens no, that would be a sin." She says and I looked to her a bit and I sit up but she stopped me.
"Hey don't move to fast, you might reopen the wounds." She says and I looked at her a bit panicked.
"You aren't lying to me, are you?" I asked and she looked to me as she helped me sit up a bit more.
"Look, I am a witch but I'm a good one, I wouldn't hurt a soul, but you can't tell anyone or they will think you've gone crazy." She says and I looked to her and I whipped my face of sweat and I cleared my throat.
"Hey… I want to show you that I am a good Witch, let me show you your future." She says and I looked to her a bit frightened at the fact that she was a witch and I basically told her I owed her for saving my life.
"I uh… um." I tried to say but she grabbed a bowl of water and set it on m lap and I looked down to see some images of a kingdom, and it was glowing a bit as I watched the image in the water a bit.
"Wow." I say to myself as I watch it a bit. I have never seen images like this in any way, I was told to stay away from Witches because they would lie to people but this was fascinating how magic was.
"Keep watching." She says and I do as I see someone come out of the Castle and then two more people.
"Who's that?" I asked.
"You, your daughter, and The Princess." She says and I chuckled a bit as I see Clementine with a little girl and I look to the child to see them look a lot like me and Clem together.
"That's not possible, women can't have children together." I say as I moved the bowl away but she put it back to my lap.
"Oh, it is, some of us Witches can help women have children together." She says and I looked to the image more.
"Why are you showing me this?" I asked as I watched the images move more, I was chasing the little girl around and I picked her up as I watched as Clementine walked over to us and gave me a kiss on the cheek.
"You know you rule the Kingdom of Macon in this image." She says and I look at her.
"I… I don't understand." I tell her and she moved the bowl away and I look to her.
"You Violet Aldon, will one day rule Macon, you will be married to the princess and you will have a child together, I just showed you the future." She says and I look to her.
"You said I ruled Macon first… shouldn't I have been married to Clementine first?" I asked and she looked to me.
"Yes, I did mean that." She says and I look to her a bit then I sighed a bit as I started to fall asleep.
"Sleep, we will talk more later." She says and I nod a bit as I laid back and final passed out.
-Two Years Later-
I looked to see Minerva sitting at the king's desk so I quickly closed the door and I locked it then looked to her as she was twirling the pen in her hand and she smiled at me.
"Seems like you got my letter." She says and I glared at her.
"Did you plant that letter in Gabe's desk?" I asked and she looked to me.
"No, he really did receive a letter from Lilly in regards to the battles, he does work for the Delta but his uncle didn't know." She says and I look to her.
"How do I know you aren't lying, like before." I tell her more than ask and she looked to me.
"I am not a complete liar; trust me I don't want you getting hurt if it isn't by my own hands." She says and I look to her.
"So, he really is working for the Delta?" I asked and she nods at this.
"But his other family members didn't know, he kept that a secret." She says.
"Who else knows?" I asked her.
"Just his Knights, himself and maybe some crazy people on the streets." She says and I look to her.
"Minerva…. I can't." I try to tell her but she comes up to me.
"Come now Violet, you can't go back on the deal." She says.
"I cannot do that to him… what about the future you made me look, it looked peaceful, how can I expect Clem to marry me if I kill her father, the king." I tell her and she placed her hand on my cheek and I look to her.
"Oh, trust me, she won't know it was you that did it, because you will not tell a soul about any of this, but if she does find out." She says as she shows me an image in the fireplace and I look to the fire.
"HOW COULD YOU DO THIS!?" Clem yells to me as I stood over her fathers' body with a bloody sword in my one hand."I had to; you don't understand." I say as if it was a normal conversation."YOU KILLED HIM!" She yelled. then the image went away just as I turned to face myself.
"W-W-Why were my eyes like that?" I asked scared as I saw the look of the devil within myself and I looked to her.
"Because you couldn't do as told, I had to do something in order to get the job done… and that is the effect of what will happen if you don't do this before the time is up." She says and I look at her.
"Your future was that of you always killing Lee, I never showed you when we first met because you would have taken back the agreement we had." She says and I look to her.
"I want to take it back now; I'll do something else." I begged her.
"You'd get yourself killed?" She asked and I look at her.
"You would need to commit treason to the king and have yourself hung in front of the entire town." She says and I looked to her then to the ground and to the flames.
"What will happen if I take that deal instead of taking the Kings life?" I asked and she showed me the images in the flames once more.
"Violet Aldon, for the treason of the king and the people how do you plead?" The courts men asked and I looked around for someone but it seems I couldn't find them."Guilty." I say once I gave up on looking for the person, I saw the rope being tied around my neck as my hands were tied to my back, I couldn't move at all. I looked sick and pale, beaten as well as I saw Louis come up to me and prayed for me."I looked down just as they kicked the stool below me.
"What did I do?" I asked and looked to Minerva as she placed a hand on my shoulder.
"You not only kidnapped the princess, but you took something from her that all royals value when giving away their daughter." She says and I shook my head as I paced the room.
"No, fucking…" I think a bit as I grabbed the knife on the table but before I could do anything Minerva grabbed the knife and she glared at me.
"You know you cannot be killed unless I am the one to do it." She says.
"THEN DO IT!" I yelled and she looked to me.
"I can't do any of that to either of them, for fuck sake the King took me in he let me be what I wanted to be and Clem… for fuck sake I can't hurt her, not like that, I would have rather died in battle if I knew this was going to be my future." I say as I sink to the floor and place my back on the desk and looked to the books on the wall. I think for a bit as Minerva come to me and looked to me and I look at her.
"Have her kill me." I tell her.
"Pardon?" She asked and I look to her.
"Give Clementine permission to kill me." I tell her and she looked at me with wide eyes.
"You would rather have her kill you then to rule with her?" She asked.
"I cannot kill the King, I cannot do that promise you ask of me, but have her kill me on our wedding night, give her a letter that showed I was a treasonous and have her possessed or something so she doesn't know what she had done was of her own will." I say to Minerva as she looked to me and thinks and looked to me.
"Hmm, that could cause some issues." She says.
"Please… I can't fulfill what you want I just can't." I say as I looked to the ground.
"Fine… if you want death so badly, I will do as such, we can find another wa to invade the kingdom." She says as I look up to see her pull out m heart and it glowed a bit and I look to her.
"She will kill you on the day of your wedding, you won't know when but it will happen." She says and I nod as I looked to the ground Minerva left the office and I just sat there as I think and think and I slowly get up and leave a letter for the king. I then leave the office myself and walk in the halls with nothing left to do as I finally got to the door to Clementine's room. I looked at the door a bit and opened the door to see Clem, Sarah, and Mariana all sitting on the big bed and I looked to Clementine a bit as she looked back to me.
"Violet?" She asked as she got up and I just looked down at her.
"I am going to head into town for a bit and have a few drinks… Sarah's knight will watch over you three until I can get back." I tell her but she grabbed my hand.
"No, you will not, you are to stay here." She says and I saw her eyes change a bit as she froze and I looked to her.
"It's ok… I will be back." I tell her and look to the other Princesses and nod to them as I leave the rom and head to the closes tavern and I sit at one of the barstools and place some gold on the table as they gave me drinks. I continued to drink and drink and drink as I got more and more wasted from the Ale and other forms of drinks. I rubbed my face a bit as I felt a bit sick but I drank one more mug and I looked to see the sun was close to the sky and I slowly got up and began to walk around the town a bit as I made it to the castle. I looked to see Marlon and Louis talking with each other and I smiled as I go up to them.
"Hey." I say and wave to them and Marlon covered his nose.
"You reek of alcohol." Marlon says and I nod.
"Drank a lot.. last nigt." I muttered a bit as I stumbled over my words.
"Dear lord how much did you drink?" Louis asked as they took me too the knight's barracks and I laid on the bed and laughed.
"Shit if I know… just a lot." I say and look to the ceiling.
"Aren't you supposed to watch Clementine, what would the king think if you left her unguarded?" Marlon asked and I shook my head.
"Fuck this shit, Clem is ok." I tell them as I sit back up.
"Nope, you are not going near her while drunk." Louis says.
"I've been drunk around her… she came to me." I say and lay back on the bed again and place my hands on my face.
"Are you ok?" Louis asked.
"I have a sin to confess dear man." I muttered and looked to him.
"Well, I uh… what sin?" He asked.
"I talked to a Witch, she put a curse on me." I say then laughed as they looked to me.
"She's drunk she didn't mean that." Marlon said.
"I AM A GOD!" I yelled and got back up before I was set back on the bed.
"It's like taking care of a child." I hear Marlon say.
"I am no kid I am a fucking God." I tell him.
"Sure, sure, and I'm the queen of England." He says and I look at him.
"You are?" I asked.
"No, you know I'm not." He says and I shake my head a bit and lean on Louis a bit.
"Poet mark my words but I do believe that a knight and a princess deserve to be happy together right?" I asked.
"I suppose if the knight is from a royal family." He says.
"What about me? Can I be with a princess?" I asked him.
"I don't think so." He says and I wave him off and get up.
"I am going to be with a princess, and he name is Clementine." I say and before I could take a step out, I was pulled back.
"Violet you know how the priest will act if he sees you like this, especially with you confessing something like that." Marlon says worried for me and I pat his cheek.
"You look out for me but I love Clem I want to marry her so badly." I say and look at the ground a bit.
"We know you do but don't say it so loud or others will hear." He says.
"So? I WANT TO MARR-." But I was cut off with a hand to my mouth and I licked the hand and they pulled away.
"Eww gross." I hear Louis say.
"I demand to go to Clem, I am ok." I say as I pull away from them.
"No, you can't go to her like this." Marlon says as he sits me in the chair and I look to him.
"I swear I won't do bad, there's two more here." I say a I look to see two Marlon's and two Louis's.
"You know you can't talk about this in the public, you liking her isn't exactly pure." Louis says and I glare at him.
"It's pure, I'm better than any man, I don't want to be with her just to give me kids, I like her for her… not a fucking pervert." I muttered the last part and shake my head a bit.
"No, I mean… Carver would make it seem like the devil is tempting you two." Louis says.
"Fuck that old fucker, he talked bad about me as if he knew what battle was… I HAVE NO HEART BECAUSE OF THAT BATTLE!" I yelled and they both looked to me as I felt tears go down my face and I looked down.
"Fuck this." I say and got back up again but I was shoved back in the chair and I looked to the two men.
"Violet what is going on?" Marlon asked and I looked to him.
"Richmond… the prince there is part of the Delta… he was supposed to kill me but… he didn't." I laughed the last part and looked down.
"He stabbed me… in front of Clementine… tried to kill me… he works for the Delta but the other family members don't know." I say and looked to the two men.
"Did you tell the king?" Marlon asked and I nodded.
"I left a note for him in the office…. I think." I muttered and I leaned back in the chair and looked to them.
"Violet, do you think you should take a break?" Louis says and I shook my head.
"Can't I don't want someone else watching over Clem." I say.
"No, no I mean… maybe you and Clem should leave the kingdom for a bit, have a time out on your own." Marlon said and I looked to them.
"I can't." I say.
"Yes, you can… look you said the other princesses were here right?" Louis asked and I nod.
"How about you explain that you are going to take them out to an Oasis the hot springs we found on our way back home from the battle, plus you came pretty early." Louis says and I look at him.
"How the hell did you know." I say and grabbed his shirt as I pulled him to face me.
"It's early in the morning Violet it takes almost a day to get to the Richmond kingdom." He says and I think about it and I let him go and sigh.
"You must be really stressed about this information." Marlon says.
"Well fucking… Gabe didn't go to battle for us but he worked with the Delta, then he says he would never hurt Clem but works for the fucking enemy that wants her dead?" I asked and Marlon nods.
"Ok I get it, it's a weird thing to process… look we can head to the hot springs, bring some friends have a break, Lord knows you haven't had one since our early training days." He says and I think a bit.
"A road trip… ok yea we can do that… you and Louis can come… Aasim, Brody, Ruby… the Princesses." I muttered as I think.
"Yea, just a big family vacation." Marlon says and I nod as I get up.
"I have to go tell Clem, I'm ok, I won't be bad." I say and they nod a bit as I walked out the barracks and I head to Clem's room. I knocked on the door to see Clementine in her nightgown and I couldn't help but lean down a bit and I kissed her neck.
"Oh My." I hear and look to see Mariana as she fanned herself in a joking manner and I look to Clem who was red in the face.
"I'm sorry." I muttered.
"It's fine just... only when we are alone." She says quietly and I nod as I walk in and close the door.
"You reek." Mariana says.
"Lot of drinks… still drunk but ok." I tell her then sit down on the floor and Clementine comes next to me with some water and I grabbed it and took a drink as she sat next to me.
"So, you are drunk?" Mariana asked and I nod a bit.
"Not bad to do something bad but ok." I say and she nods as I lean my head back on the wall.
"Oh, I was thinking of taking some time off." I say as I look to Clementine.
"That's good, I told you, you needed to take time off." She says and I look at her.
"But I want to bring you and some friends." I say and she looked to me.
"So, it's not really a day off." She says and I shake my head.
"No, I mean… I want to bring you with me, but I want you to bring friends too." I say and she looked to me and then to Mariana.
"Ok, that seems fair." She says and I nod a bit at this and I looked to them just as Sarah was waking up.
"Plus, it would make up for how I acted during your birthday." I tell Mariana and she nods.
"Ok I can agree to that." She says and I nod as I closed my eyes a bit.
"You need to sleep." Clem says and I just nod a bit and I feel something cover me as I finally passed out. I am going to guess a few hours passed as I finally woke up to see Clementine at her desk as Mariana and Sarah were reading some books and I slowly got up.
"She's awake." Sarah says and Clem looked to me and she came over to me as she handed me another glass of water and I take a drink then set the glass down. I look at her as she sat next to me and I take a breath.
"So how was your nap?" she asked and I nodded.
"Good I'm going to assume." She says and I nod again as I lean my head on her shoulder a bit.
"Not talking much hu?" She asked and I shook my head a bit as I closed my eyes again. It wasn't long till I hear a knock on the door and I get up quickly to see the king walk in.
"Oh, Violet I just got your letter." He says and I nod at this and bow a bit before I falter a bit.
"Are you ok?" He asked and before I could talk Clementine talked.
"She's just really tired father, I was hoping if we could request a few days for her to get some rest." She says to him.
"Hmm, though with the information I was given I don't know." He says.
"Please father, she will still be watching over us but she needs some time to relax, plus she said I could invite some friends and she would bring some Knights with her as well to watch over us." Clem says and I look to the king as he looked to me.
"Ok, so long as you are still being watched, and if there are other knights that should be fine as well." He says and I nod at this.
"I can still watch." I tried to say but I felt a bit sick and covered my mouth a bit and he looked to me and sniffed the air a bit and looked to me sadly.
"Take a few weeks off." He says.
"A week and A half." I said.
"Two weeks." He says and I look to him a bit and he nods at this and so do I. He then leaves the room and I looked to Clem as she stood next to me and I lean on her a bit.
"Sorry." I mumbled to her and she rubbed my back.
"It's fine… now lets start planning a bit on this trip you wanted." She says and I nod as I go and take a seat with her and the other Princesses as we plan out the trip. It was a while before we got everything settled out and who we were going to bring with us on the trip, it was going to be Me, Clem, Mariana, Sarah, Louis, Marlon, Aasim, Brody, Ruby, Duck who was Clem's friend in the neighboring Kingdom which is on our way to the springs, we are also going to be bringing Clem's new friend Omar, and then Mitch was also going to be with us as well. I lean back a bit and rubbed my face as I think of what else to do with this new found time I had, and for the limited time I would have in the near future. I looked to Clem a bit sadly but before she could see my expression I looked back to the paper as I think about what to do for the trip.
"Alright, so we have everything planned out, anything else?" Sarah asked and I shake my head to this.
"Not sure." I say and think some more.
"Do you need more time to rest?" Clementine asked and I shook my head no to this.
"No, I'm good I still need to work today at least." I say and she nods.
"Ok, but if you need to sleep please tell us." She says and I nod as I get up and stretch a bit.
"Ok, we should head outside today." I say to them.
"We should have a small picnic in the gardens, something simple for today." Sarah suggested and he other two agree to this and I nod as we all head down to the kitchen and Clem and I work on making the simple foods, like a sandwich, some fruit, mostly small berries oranges, and apples. I looked to Clem as she worked on a sandwich a bit and I looked back to my work. We finished the food and I helped them take it outside to the chairs and table, they all sat down with Sarah and Mariana on one side and I sat next to Clementine. They all grabbed their food and Clem handed me some of the fruit and I looked to her.
"I hear fruit is good after you drink a lot but then again, I am not to sure on this." She says and I chuckled a bit.
"It's bread that helps but only before you drink, always eat before you drink too or you get drunk faster." I tell her and she nods and I eat the berries a bit.
"So, Clem says you haven't had a break since you first became a knight?" Sarah asked and I looked up and nodded a bit.
"Yea that is true… this will be my first vacation in years." I say to her and she nods.
"I know the hot springs we will be going to, they say that women go there for some help in their marriages." She says with a blush and I think a bit before my face also turns red.
"Oh uh, I didn't know that." I say and rubbed my neck at this information.
"I mean it's not just for that I mean but it's used for that type of stuff mostly." She says and I nod and look to Clementine whose face was red and I felt her hand on my lap as I looked to her a bit. We ate a bit and talked for a while on what else we were going to plan and how long the trip would take, I decided that I would ask Clem to marry me at some point during this trip, it was going to be in private since I didn't know how the people in that kingdom would react to that type of proposal but I wanted to have a special day with just Clem. The other knights could be trusted with the other princesses, or at least I hope they could be.
"We can head out tomorrow to get Duck, we just have to tell the others that they will be coming as well." Clem says and I nod at his and see Louis and Marlon walk up to us.
"Well, this is adorable, Violet acting like a lady." Louis says and I threw a berry at him.
"Hey, it's the truth though." He says and I shake my head at this.
"Hey, Violet got two weeks off, we planned a vacation and wanted to know if you two could come with us as extra protection, and so you can have a break as well." Clementine explained as I ate a slice of an orange and looked to the both of them as they looked to me.
"Violet actually asked for time off?" Marlon asked as he looked to me.
"No, my father gave it to her, though Violet wanted less time off but my father made it two weeks." Clem says and they nod.
"Yea sure who else is coming?" Louis asked.
"Brody, Mitch, Omar, Aasim, Ruby, and Duck." I say and then point to the three princesses.
"And of course, the three princesses." I add in and he nods.
"Ok, that seems like a good idea." Louis says and I nod a this and I finished the orange and cleared my throat.
"We leave tomorrow than so we can get Clem's friend, and that will give you time to get Brody to come with us." I tell Marlon and he nods. After a few hours the night was finally coming through and the two princesses left to Clementine's room and I looked up to the stars.
"You really like the stars hu?" She asked as she sat next to me and I nod at this.
"Yea, they're calming… plus it's fun to make my own constellations." I say and I point to one set of stars that were in the shape of a heart.
"See, that's in the shape of a heart, so I would give it something, like a personality." I say as I think a bit.
"Loving, Kind, Caring." Clementine says and I looked to her as she sat next to me and I looked to the sky.
"Sounds like that would be you." I say to her and I felt her hand on top of mine and we just relaxed a bit outside as we pointed out some stars. When it got later, I took Clementine into her room and she pulled me in and handed me a pillow and blanket. I took that as a sign that she wanted me to sleep in here tonight and I nod as I set the pillow and blanket onto the floor an it wasn't long till I felt a body next to me and I look at the body to see it was Clementine as she came closer to me and I put my arms around her and pulled her closer to me.
"I love you." I hear her say and I froze a bit at those words and I nod a bit as I kissed her head.
"I love you too." I say to her as I go to sleep again.