Nuada awoke the morning after his and Lily's wedding night. His private parts were bruised, a sign of just how often and passionate they had made love. Only one little detail was bothering him about last night; why had the pleasure suddenly doubled for him? It was like he was feeling the pleasure of sex twice. Had he formed a bond like he had with Nuala with Lily? He looked over at her sleeping form, her body also bruised from last night's activities. He had to figure this out. He reached over and pulled her hair, not really caring if he hurt her because she was human. The expected result happened: she yelped and woke up.
"Ow! What the hell?" A sleepy and irritated Lily asked him, looked straight at him.
He paused, thinking. He hadn't felt the pain. But the pleasure felt like it had come from some bond. A bond . . . Nuala! He shot out of bed and grabbed his pants, anger in his face.
"What the hell are you doing? Where are you going?" Lily asked him.
"To kill Abraham." Nuada said simply and practically ran out of the room with his pants now on.
Lily wasted no time in locating a robe, gold with red trim, and throwing it on, racing after Nuada.
"Wait! You can't kill Abe!" Lily shouted after him.
Nuada was fast, but Lily was in shape from tennis and she managed to stay about 30 feet behind him. He raced to Nuala's room, finding her there through their bond. He tried to keep his anger and intentions away from her so she wouldn't try to stop him. Lily shouted at him to stop and not to hurt Abe as she ran after him. She held her robe closed, she was still naked underneath. Lily followed Nuada around a corner and she ran right into Meldiron. The force of it made them both fall with Lily on top of him. She wasted no time and hurriedly got up and ran after Nuada again screaming, "Stop! You can't kill Abe!". Meldiron was confused, but realized he should follow them because it sounded like Nuada was about to do something rash.
Lily ran as fast as she could, hoping that Nuada would stop soon, and soon was close behind him.
"What did Abe do to make you want to kill him?" Lily asked Nuada.
Nuada didn't answer, instead he seemed to get angrier and ran even faster to his sister's room. Lily cursed his speediness and ran after him. Finally Nuada reached double doors and threw them open. Inside he found exactly what he knew he would find, Nuala and Abe in bed together, shock and panic on their faces.
"Nuala, you were smart to do such a thing while I was making love to Lillian, but I was smart enough to figure it out!" Nuada shouted at them.
Lily entered the room out of breath and quickly fixed her robe.
"Don't kill Abe! They love each other!" She yelled at Nuada.
"Stay out of this, human. This is all your fault!" He shouted back at her.
"My fault? How is this my fault?"
"If you had not seduced me last night, Nuala and Abraham would not have had the opportunity to do this!" He gestured at the two, still in the bed undressed.
"Do not blame Lillian. You should treat your wife better than this, Nuada." Meldiron appeared in the doorway, interrupting their conversation.
Nuada chose to ignore Meldiron and instead focused again on Abe and Nuala.
"Abraham. Get out of my sister's bed." He commanded.
Abe quickly got out and hurried to dress without showing much of his private parts. Nuala also stood up and reached for her robe and put that on.
"Please brother. Forgive Abraham. I love him." Nuala pleaded with him.
Nuada's anger slightly subsided at his sister's pleading. He turned to Abraham, who was now fully dressed.
"If you break her heart, I will break you." He threatened, then he turned and left Nuala's room.
Lily and Meldiron smiled at Nuada's change of heart and followed him as he left.
"Now where to?" Lily asked Nuada.
He turned to look at her, anger on his face.
"Do not talk to me like that. I do not care what you do with your day, just remember that you are the Queen of Bethmoora and should act like one." He turned away from her and continued walking.
"Well I think you should get dressed appropriately." Meldiron offered Lily.
She looked down at her robed self.
"Yeah. I guess that's true." She said.
Meldiron then said goodbye to them and Nuada and Lily walked back to their room. Lily noticed Deedee in a golden cage when they got back.
"Oh! They brought Deedee!" She said happily.
Nuada walked over to the wardrobe and opened it while Lily approached Deedee. He grabbed at clothes inside.
"I have meetings with various leaders concerning Bethmoora. Do not do anything disruptive or unwoman-like while I am gone." He told Lily while putting on the new clothes.
Lily sauntered over to Nuada while he was getting dressed.
"I don't get a goodbye kiss? Or goodbye sex?" She placed her hand on his arm. He stopped.
"The last time I fornicated with you, my sister lost her virginity. If you think I will be so willing to get into bed with you again, you are stupid and naive." He told her, then continued to get dressed. She dropped her hand.
"Fine then. I'll take a shower. Or bath. Whatever you guys have here." She said through her teeth and walked towards the door that led into their bathroom.
Nuada finished dressing and left.
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When Lily got out of the bath, turns out there was a huge tub in there, with a towel around her, she jumped when she saw an elf standing in the middle of the room. She looked like most female elves, pale skin and white-blonde hair, though she didn't carry the same royal air that most of the elves Lily had already met did.
"Oh I'm sorry, your Highness, I did not mean to scare you. My name is Maerwen. I am your head servant and will be taking care of you for most of your stay here." The female elf said.
"It's alright. I just didn't expect someone to be standing there." Lily said.
"I'll start by helping you into your dress." Maerwen said, walking over to Lily.
"Helping me? What am I wearing that I need helping into?" Lily asked her.
"A royal dress. One that suits your complexion. It was made specifically for you. All of your royal clothes were." Maerwen said.
She helped Lily into the dress. There was a light green dress with long tight sleeves and long skirt underneath a darker green dress with long loose sleeves and long skirt. It was similar to Nuala's in a way. The royal crest was on the waist and the crown was put on her head. Lily also wore green slippers.
She spun around in front of a mirror after she was dressed.
"I love it!" She said, smiling.
The doors to the room burst open and a hormonal and pregnant Liz walked through holding a magazine.
"Did you see this?" She said, waving the magazine in the air. "How dare they?"
"See what?" Lily asked, confused.
"The double issue on you and Nuada's wedding! Oh the things they said about you two!" Liz shoved the magazine in Lily's hands.
She took it and looked at the cover. The words 'Does she love him? Or another?' were on the cover. A picture of Lily's and Nuada's passionate kiss at the reception took up most of the cover, while a picture of her and Rocco dancing right when he had started to lean in was in the bottom right corner near 'Or another?'. Lily quickly opened up the magazine and read the article.
'Everyone knows about the recent marriage of Prince Nuada to Lillian Golden' It read, 'but does she truly love the prince, now king, or does she have a secret lover? Olympic swimmer Rocco Frani was seen at the wedding and also seemed to be getting very close to the new queen, almost kissing before they were interrupted by an elf(unknown). So is Lillian taking her marriage to the prince seriously, or is she having an affair with someone of her own kind?
'Witnesses said that Nuada and Lily barely spoke to each other at the reception and, other than that breathtaking kiss, didn't seem to acknowledge the fact that they were now married. But was that kiss just a stunt to beat off any skeptics? Only time will tell the truth about this marriage and if it will last.'
Lily stood there in shock after reading this.
"Didn't talk? Of course we didn't, he hated the marriage! And an affair? With Rocco? I tore him out of my life ages ago and he just showed up there! Oh those magazine writers will hear from me!" Lily shouted, ready to yell at some writers.
"No. My lady, you must not angrily respond to this. They only gossip, hoping they hit truth." Maerwen reasoned with Lily.
"I guess so. I want to read any edition of any magazine that mentions Nuada and I from now on though." Lily said.
"Very well." Maerwen bowed.
"Well I still think you should do something. How dare they-" Liz was cut off in her rant as she gripped her pregnant stomach and then blood trickled down her legs.
"Maerwen, get help! Get a doctor or something! Get Hellboy! Get Abe!" Lily said, by Liz's side in an instant and helping her to a chair as Maerwen ran out for help.
Cliff hanger! Kinda. To see what Lily's dress looks like, go to my Deviantart account (named Azulastalker) and search for the deviation titled Queen Lily in my gallery. I had a link to it before, but it didn't work.