Author's Notes: So I've decided that I will, eventually, post a list of narrators for each chapter due to some of the confusion that's floating around, but right now I'm only going to simply point out that some of the chapters can be interpreted as told by more than one character. On a related note, this chapter in particular may or may not be difficult to interpret due to the overall obscurity of the intended narrator. Aldo, yes, much of this drabble is confusing and seemingly random, but this was done intentionally.

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Title: It All Falls Down
Chapter: Free Fall
Rating: guestimate of PG-13 (or T on rating system)
By: Singe

"I don't want to be here."

Saying it aloud, it sounds so simple, so easy, as if I could just walk away. It sounds almost as if leaving were as simple as standing, as walking through that door. I wish it were that simple, that easy and everyday. But…the guards wait beyond that door, willing to hurt me, to make me bleed on your order. They can do as they wish, as long as I stay. As long as I'm breathing, still living for you, they can do whatever they want.

I hate you.

Because of you, I cannot live, cannot love, and cannot be happy. Because of you, I am as dead as he undoubtedly is by now. And yet…yet…because you exist, there is another reason that I am unable to leave, something that you have not noticed or taken advantage of because you simply don't know: I'll never let you know. And I won't abandon him to you. Even if he bears your face, your voice, and your fate.

I loathe him, but I will not give him to you. I will not surrender him so easily, not into your darkness; I will destroy him with mine first. He will not be your heir, you bastard.

My love, did you realize what happened? Do you know what he has done? Did you even know why you had to die?

I love you.

I always will, just as assuredly as I shall always hate him, and as I will always loathe my first-born, the son that I never wanted. And yet…I don't wish him dead, only his father. Oh yes, I loathe him, but I hate him. I wonder sometimes if he knows that death will be the only escape from this place. Neither of us wants to be here, but soon, very soon…I will escape. But first, there is one whom must first be freed.

My son, do not worry. It shall end soon. You shall be free, and I will be following behind you.

You say that you love me. They agree, calling me the most treasured wife. The other women scorn me or are already dead by their own hands. The dead are the smarter of the two. They hate me because you love me, but I did not want that so-called love, that thinly veiled lust. I did not want to be another whore in the Great King's wife harem. So they are more than welcome to you. After all, I never wanted you in the first place.