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Chapter9_Decisions And Consequences

"Take your fucking pictures."

Jasper walked backwards and watched as Danny ordered Eleanor around on posing. He took pictures of her sitting on her bed, looking hopeless, looking lifeless. Everything happened so fast he couldn't even believe or understand it.

He was sure Eleanor would never get over this. She would never forget this. And most importantly she would never forgive him. Everything that he felt, everything that had actually happened between them, they were all crashing down in front of his very eyes.

Danny called his name and tore him away from his thoughts. Eleanor was putting her top back on and not looking his way. He turned his attention towards Danny and figured he wanted to see him in the living room.

As soon as Danny left, his bubble of confusion burst, and he was alone with her. He knew she was probably like a volcano, ready to explode all over the place, but he couldn't help himself. He walked towards her but she still wasn't looking at him, until he called her name.

That was it. Eleanor looked up, rage was still fresh in her eyes along with unshed tears. Jasper gulped with fear of what he was going to hear but Eleanor kept quiet. Her silence was worse than a thousand curses.

She asked in a whisper: "How?" Jasper frowned, not understanding where she was going with that, but Eleanor asked again: "How?" Jasper started to plead: "Look, there was n…" But Eleanor interrupted him, this time making a full sentence: "How could I've been so fucking stupid?"

Her voice was dead calm but it still burnt him, all over his body. Jasper had nothing to say so Eleanor asked once more: "How could I even let you near me? Let you kiss me? How…?" Her voice was fading at every passing moment and Jasper feared he could never come back from this.

"I'm sorry…" That's all he could manage to let out at that moment. He knew he had to leave, or Danny would come looking for him, but his feet didn't want to cooperate. Eleanor didn't reply at first, she simply took her eyes off him. Right before he was about to give up, he heard her voice:

"Too late…"

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Helena's whole body shook when she received the call after she saw Eleanor's pictures online. Her daughter seemed more broken than when she was on different drugs. She could still remember Simon's tears the moment he saw those pictures, the second time she had seen him cry.

She answered the phone with a quiet hello and heard that disgusting automatic voice again: "Hello, Your Majesty…" Helena closed her eyes and sighed before saying: "I saw the pictures." The voice scoffed: "Everyone did!"

Helena asked: "What is it that I have to do?" The voice laughed shortly before saying: "Right to the point! It's something really simple. It should be easy for you as well since you've done something like this before." Helena asked impatiently: "What is it?"

"I want you to kill Simon."

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Danny left, the pictures went viral, and the palace made another statement, but none of it mattered anymore to Eleanor. She didn't even think about how her family reacted when they saw her so broken in those pictures. She didn't want to think about it because she knew she would go insane if she did.

So she spent her days staring at the TV screen, wondering how it all happened, the kidnapping, and why. Kyle kept her company and talked to her but Eleanor wouldn't respond. She didn't eat properly, she didn't bathe properly, and she didn't talk.

Finally Kyle stopped talking as well, taking the hint, and their days consisted of silence and staring at each other. Six days had passed and Jasper hadn't once been in to see her. He knew she didn't want him there so he kept the distance. Kyle gave him updates on how she was doing but there wasn't really anything to report back.

But then, one morning she couldn't keep her balance and fell down on the floor. Kyle had panicked and called Jasper and he had arrived half an hour later. He rushed into the room and saw her passed out on her bed, her face drained from any blood, and his heart clenched.

"It's my fault…" He let out quietly. Kyle objected: "It's Carter's, not yours." Jasper hissed: "Danny! How many times I should tell you not to use his real name in front of her?" Kyle rolled his eyes and said: "She's unconscious for fuck's sake."

Jasper walked closer and knelt before her bed, watching her breathe gently, in and out. He was tempted to touch her face but he knew if she woke up, she'd probably kill him for that. He offered: "She needs some food. Make her eat. Do you understand me?"

Kyle was whining under his breath: "How can I make a freaking Princess do something?" Jasper sighed loudly and said: "She's our prisoner now, and you can make her do what you want, K." Kyle gave him a weird look and before he could understand what was happening, he heard her voice from a few inches away:

"That's right, Kyle. As Jasper said, I'm your prisoner now. You can do to me what you like." Jasper watched as she turned her head to look at him. She spit out: "Great Danny talk by the way!" Jasper opened her mouth to say something but Eleanor had already closed her eyes and turned her back to him.

Kyle shook his head to make Jasper realize he should leave her alone but he didn't understand the signal. He started: "Eleanor, you…" They both heard Eleanor's loud growl: "You can't just call my name. I'm a fucking Princess."

Jasper pressed his lips but decided not to annoy her more than he already did: "Princess, you need to eat better. Kyle will bring you a few things and you make sure you'll eat everything, alright?" Eleanor didn't answer so Jasper took it as a 'yes' and walked out the room without saying anything else.

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"How much time do you have left?" The Duchess asked calmly and heard Helena's hushed voice: "Only until tomorrow night." She asked once more: "And you're sure we can't fake it?" Helena sat down in front of her and explained: "They know everything, they see everything. I don't how but they do. He sent me pictures of me and Simon in our bed or Liam listening to music in his room. I don't know what to do, mother..."

The Duchess sipped her tea and offered: "I told you what you should do. You should stand down and see what will happen to Eleanor. They don't dare touch her. She's the Princess of England." Helena hissed: "I can't risk my daughter's life like that! And they kidnapped her so I'll say they're fearless. They'll hurt her…"

The Duchess put her cup down and said calmly: "And we need Simon as well. He's the reason we're living peacefully. If the crown goes to Liam, who knows what he'll do. He's just a kid. He may even pursue that bullshit talk of abolishment. We can't let that happen. Not after everything that I've done for you to get here…"

Helena mocked: "And your very sacrifice got us into this mess. I'm sure Domino's family won't stop until we're all dead. Who says if something happens to Simon, they'll even give us back Eleanor? Who says if they won't attack Liam?"

"That's what I'm trying to tell you, dear. Don't do it. Don't fall in their trap." The Duchess warned Helena but she wasn't listening. All she could think about these past six days was her daughter. She had to save her but Eleanor would never forgive her if she knew what Helena had done to free her. And she was sure her daughter would blame herself for it, for everything.

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"Did she eat?" Jasper asked nervously and sighed when Kyle nodded his head. Kyle poured him a drink and sat next to him and Jasper knew what he wanted. Kyle did this every time he wanted Jasper to open up to him.

Jasper drank his glass and started: "I feel like shit, K… I've been feeling like shit ever since that day and I can't stop it. I try to tell myself that I had to do it, that she doesn't matter but…" Kyle put a hand on his brother's back and soothed: "She does matter to you, I can see it, and it's alright J…"

Jasper snapped: "Is it? Our brother hates her, hates her family, he's trying to get her mother to kill her father… And here I am hoping she won't hate me forever! I'm such an idiot!" Jasper closed his eyes and cursed himself once more in his mind.

Kyle said calmly: "These things happen, people caring for those they shouldn't, they happen all the time…" Jasper didn't respond and Kyle found the courage to say: "And it's not like we completely support Carter…"

Jasper looked up at him and Kyle shut his mouth in fear. Jasper asked loudly: "And why are we doing his biddings if we don't support him? Why do we have the fucking Princess locked in our cabin if we don't?" Kyle knew arguing with his angry brother was wrong but he couldn't hold back any longer so he stood up and spat:

"Because he is a fucking bully. He always was and he'll always will be. He forced us into this thing. You know I only accepted this to be close to you. I don't care what Danny thinks about her or the royal family, I like them, and that's what really matters."

Jasper frowned while looking at his little brother's angry face, watching rage radiate off of him, something he hadn't seen in his entire life. He asked uncertainly: "What are you saying Kyle?" Kyle put his shaky hands in his pockets and said passionately:

"I'm saying FUCK CARTER. Let's get her out of here."

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