HEY ALL!

So this is a chapter about the Kingdom.
But I'm writing this chapter for my friend Stacie, who is in the story as Stacie, her birthday was yesterday.
So this chapter is for her!

ENJOY

This if for the ones who believes their lives won't change
Hoping then someday things will meant and be the same
And this is for the ones who have lost it all and all that's left to gain
Is a simple reminder that the things that were blind to slip away…

Quil could hear his mother's dry sobs down the hall, she was still upset about Embry disappearing. Though Quil thought she had a pretty good idea about where he was, he also thought that all this crying wasn't good for the baby that she was carrying.

He looked down at the cell phone in his hand again, he had just went off on Aya telling her that he regretted wanting to talk to her. He didn't really regret it, but he really didn't feel the same way about her anymore. He stood up and walked towards his parent's room. He knocked on the door and waited as his father opened the door.

"Come in Quil." His father said in a tired voice, by the look of him Quil could tell he hadn't been hunting for awhile and really needed to feed or drink something from the bar in the dining room.

"Qu…Quil?" His mother came towards him and wrapped her arms around his neck, he wrapped his arms around her waist and hugged her to him. "How could he do this? How could he just leave?"

"Mom, he wanted to leave just as much as Aya did, all of us do. We heard so many stories about the outside world from Binky, Denny, and Luc that we have always wondered what it would be like to live there. Now that we are old enough we are wanting it more and trying to take a hold of it I guess…."

"Do you want to leave Quil? Do you want to chase after Aya?" His father asked from behind him, Quil closed his eyes, no he didn't want to chase after Aya anymore, but yes he did want to leave.

"Yes I want to leave, but not for the reasons you think I do."

"Do you really think Embry is with Aya?" His mother said, her sobs had softened into soft whimpers she let every few seconds.

"I do and I think he is safe." Quil closed his eyes as he said this, Embry may not know, but Quil had always known that his brother liked Aya a little more than he let on. "No worries mother."

Walter watched as his son comforted his wife, he was glad that Quil was here, but he also knew that Quil was in a lot more pain that he was let showing, Walter thought this was strange. Quil's emotions were always easy to read, but now his son's face was blank and his gold eyes dull.

Quil pulled away from his mother telling her that he needed to talk to Edward, she nodded her head and watched him walk out of the room. Walter crossed the room and circled his wife with her arms.

"We got to trust Embry, we got to know he made this decision on his own my love, our son is smart."

Binky was staring out of her window again thinking about her husband, about where he might be. She had a good idea that he went back to where they once lived, where they first fell in love.

Everyday without him was like a new day in hell for the Queen, her skin itched for the touch of her husband, her lips burned with the need to feel his lips on hers. She didn't know what to do without him here, he was always here beside her when she needed him.

She closed her eyes and fell to the ground. She let the sobs she had been holding in for the last 15 years out. They rocked her body with such force she had to curl up into a ball, her insides felt like they were on fire. So much pain was coursing through her body.

She felt her brother and sister's arms circle her and lift her up, she struggled to get out of their arms, she had to find him, she had to get him back.

"HE'S GONE! GET HIM BACK! PLEASE GET HIM BACK!" The queen yelled at the top of her lungs as the pain was pulsing through her body more.

"Binky, he'll come back, I promise you, he'll come back." Her sister said running her fingers through Binky's hair trying to get her to calm down.

"Please Binky, calm down." Luc sat on the bed next to his sister that he hadn't talked to in days, he pulled her to him and circled his arms around her as she wrapped her arms around him and let her sobs out into his chest.

"I got to…to…find…him!"

"You can't Binky, he left the kingdom, he left."

"I'll go after him! LET ME GO AFTER HIM!"

Luc wasn't sure what to say to his sister, he was feeling her pain clearly, he had let his wall down and everything his sister was feeling he was feeling too. But what he didn't know that over in the states, so was her husband.

Denny was in cheap motel about 60 miles out of Texas, he was laying on the bed when a sudden over whelming pain hit him. He screamed, but bit his lip, the walls were thin where he was staying. He circled himself with his arms, praying for the pain to leave him. He didn't want to feel this anymore, he knew it was coming from his wife, his love. He knew that she was feeling this right now…he knew that he had to get home.

Luc was still holding his sister damning Denny to hell for the pain that he was causing her. But he knew that Binky had her blame too, she pushed everyone away including him.

He reached for her hand and clasped it in his. The beams shone brightly twirling themselves around their whole bodies. Luc used his and his sister's body, to put her to sleep.

She fell limp in his arms, her eyes closed. Ruby screamed and grabbed their sister away from him. She began to shake Binky, screaming at her to wake up. Hearing the screams everyone came running into the room, even the children.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?" Ruby screamed at Luc, her voice shrill.

"Sleeping Beauty." Luc said softly.

"WHAT?" Ruby looked at her brother like he was crazy.

"Sleeping Beauty Mom, The Queen will sleep until her prince, Denny, comes home to kiss her awake." Stacie said softly from the doorway where the crowd looked at the scene.

"Why? Why did you do that Luc?"

"Ruby, you don't have the connection I have with Binky, you just didn't feel the pain she just felt. The only way to keep her from harming herself or feeling that pain is to make her sleep until Denny comes home."
"And if he doesn't?"
"He will."

Luc placed his sleeping sister on the bed so that it looked like she just laid down. He bent down and kissed her on the forehead and whispered to his older sister who he knew was always listening.

"Watch over her Penny. Bring Sam." He stood up straight and looked at Ruby. "Ruby change her into her sleeping gown, then we will tuck her in."

Luc turned his back and watched as everyone left, Ruby did her job fast, taking off her sister's dress and stockings. She slipped Binky's favorite nightgown over her sister's head and laid her gently back down on the bed. She really did look like sleeping beauty.

They each took an end of the blankets and pulled them so that they rested under Binky's chin. They grabbed each other's hand as they walked out of their sleeping sister's room.

Leofrick was waiting for his wife outside of the door. When she came out she looked calm, cool, and collected. She hugged Luc before turning into her husband and leaning into him, he led her to their bedroom and to their own bed. They laid down next to each other, just holding each other before Ruby spoke.

"Luc is going to have the whole kingdom on his shoulders now, I mean I know he has us and everyone else…he is just so brave. I don't think I could ever have done what he did today."

"She needed it. The regret and guilt she let build was too much for her right now. Denny will come back, he loves Binky, even if she has changed."

Ruby knew her husband was right, so besides replying she kissed her husband and left the rest of the world outside of their bedroom.

Isabel couldn't get the picture of Ruby cradling the Queen in her arms screaming at the King, everything had happened so suddenly. Binky's screams, the King linking his powers with her's just to make her their own personal Sleeping Beauty.

She remember the old fairy tale clearly, Binky had May buy an old book full of all the fairy tales of the princesses so that she could read them to Aya as she grew up. Isabel remembered Sleeping Beauty the most because that was Aya's favorite story and Isabel was the one to read it to her all through her childhood years.

Hadrian came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her. She leaned into him and breathed in his scent, for some reason it always calmed her down when she was full of nerves. He pulled her tighter against his chest and began to sing into her ear.

What no one knew about her husband was that he had the most beautiful singing voice she had ever heard, she was the only one that ever heard it. Even if he didn't come across that way, he was shy. And she loved him for it.

"Don't worry about the Queen, my love."

"I'm worried about our son."

"Our son? Why?"

"I think he is going to be the next one to leave. And we going to be the ones to take him to Aya."

Edward was sitting in Stacie's room, on her bed. He was talking with Quil before, but the whole Queen thing happened and he thought that Stacie would need him, talk to him. But no she was sitting at her vanity brushing her hair.

"Edward what are you looking at?" she snapped at him for no reason.

"I'm looking at the girl that used to be my girlfriend, but I think someone switched her and you." Edward rolled his eyes and laid back on the bed.

"WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?" Stacie yelled at him throwing her brush at her, it hit him in the stomach causing him to lose his breathe for a few minutes.

"My…problem…is the fact that I can hardly stand to be around you anymore!"

"OH REALLY? Well I can't stand to be around you either!"

"THEN WHY ARE WE EVEN TOGETHER!"

He was standing now, staring down at Stacie, her eyes were full of anger that he never saw before in her. She was usually a care free, loving person.

"I don't love you anymore Edward, I don't think I ever loved you. You just a bastard that took advantage of me." She said in a dead serious tone with ice in it.

"TOOK A ADVANTAGE OF YOU? YOU HARDLY EVER LET ME TOUCH YOU! AND I DON'T LOVE YOU EITHER! YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN ANYTHING MORE THAN A DOWN RIGHT COLD HEARTED BITCH!"

Stacie started crying right then, she didn't mean it when she told Edward that she didn't love him and thought that he was a bastard, she just really couldn't stand to be around him anymore. She just couldn't see the point in love anymore, but she knew that she loved him.

"Oh Edward I didn't mean it. I do love you, I have always loved you." She said between her tears.

"Don't try to back out of it now Stacie, it's over, for good. This should of happened along time ago."

He turned around and started walking for the door, she grabbed his arm, but he ripped it out of her hands and walked out the door, slamming it shut in her face.

Outside of Stacie's bedroom Edward ran into his father who was looking grim and his mother. They were holding bags in one of their hands, but he knew it wasn't them that was leaving. They took each of Edward's hands and began to run.

When they got a far enough distance from the castle they stopped in a wooden area.

"Are you guys really taking me there?"

"Yes, you need to be with your friends, you need to be away from Stacie and us for awhile."

"But I won't be able to come back…"

"We know. We love you Edward more than anything, but this life is not for you."

He wasn't able to say anything as his parents took his hands again and took him away from the only home he ever knew.

Now that the lines been broken
I'm too afraid to just look back
The pages have left an empty space
You were all I had
Why does it have to be this way
These things they'll never change
Still I'm left with knowing, content and happy, this is all I need…

If any you are wondering why I was dedicating this chapter for Stacie and have something bad happen to her character was because she came up with it. She said that she wanted something that would bring Stacie and Edward closer in the end.

Song: IF I Fall by Amber Pacific


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