And in that wild desperation they gasped, pulling away and trembling in fear through the conclusion their feelings had come to. Serenity hastily wiped her mouth with her hand, she hadn't realised just how hungry she was, even though her stomach was full. They still stood in front of each other; she saw that flicker behind his eyes. Looking around she took the key that hung around her neck, "It is the key to my garden, my own private garden."
He took it and fastened it around his neck and smiled down at her. "It'll stay forever over my heart." She let him go, watched him walk quickly off remembering he had other kingdom duties to attend to but just her. She trembled at the power her heart was giving to her, it ran through her veins and she had the feeling it could never be stopped. She had always felt as light as a feather and as fragile with Diamond, now she felt-strong-grown and happy?
Serenity tossed and turned impatiently awaiting sleep, her head felt heavy as she sat up and threw the covers off, she slipped on the robe and didn't bother to fasten it. It had been atleast two weeks since she was able to have speech with Endymion. They were always careful to be polite and curtious to each other when in hall and going about their daily business. Walking over to the velvet curtains she stepped inside the King's room. It was dark, cold and still. The tapestries were losing their colour, they had been bright once. Before Diamond was King. It was her mother and father's bed, the King and Queens bed. Diamond had recently had Serenity's own chambers built on at the start of their friction. She leaned against the wall. She was conceived in that bed, Rini was conceived in that bed. She had had many fond memories in this room.
Looking over the window she drew the curtains open, the doors that led out onto the balcony were locked. She had sat many nights since their marriage, with Diamond; she sat at his feet while he gently ran his fingers through her golden hair and she looked up into his smiling eyes. Then that December set in five months after she had fallen pregnant , after giving birth to Rini. She was delivered of a still born Son. In this very bed. She recalled the blood staining her eyes and cheeks, the sounds of her screaming pierced her ears. That was only the blood of one, she bowed her head. Why couldn't she keep the other babies alive? Their blood haunted her dreams. And Diamond made sure she felt her punishment. She wiped away her tears and retreated back into her own prison.
She opened her window and was instantly slapped by the acrid smell of the fires burning out and could hear the drunken men coming out of the tavern's and taking a walk down Maiden Alley- but it suddenly arose something in her –Did Endymion frequently stroll down Maiden Alley? In her head she wondered what the maidens looked like, how they carried themselves, how they spoke, how they acted, how they pleased him. Her heart ached to think he would whisper sweet nothings in their ears, whisper I love you as if it was something casual to say, and how he promised them the world which he could not give. He had kissed many girls, she assumed and she was just another number on his list. Like Diamond.
As she drew away from her window she heard a quiet clunk of metal and paused before peering out from behind the curtain over the castle grounds. A suspicion in her ignited, which she did not understand. She threw off her robe and wrapped her emerald green cloak around her and quickly pinned her golden threads back and hid them inside the hood so she wouldn't be seen. She stopped at Mina, her nurse's room and listened while covering her mouth with her hand to cover a giggle at Mina's snoring. She tiptoed out and managed to flirt her way past if she needed to. Serenity withdrew a key from her pouch and started to unlock her garden gate. She thought she could smell peppermint but she couldn't recall having peppermint plants in her garden.
She locked her gate and entered through the archway covered by vines of soft pink roses mixed with innocent white roses to decorate the silver bricks. Serenity pulled her hood closer, she suddenly felt warm. Felt the heat of another around her, suddenly she turned in his arms and found her his mouth covering hers in the still of the darkness. The smell of strong peppermint over powered the sweet smell of the roses, making the roses surrender to the peppermint's mysterious power. The power to calm, making the roses relax and sink into their kiss. She kissed him back with her own passion, her own sweet desperation to find a key to her prison. He pulled her hood back and took the pin from her hair, releasing the golden threads and putting his hands in her hair, the strands felt like silk between his fingers.
"Endymion!" She gasped and pulled away breathless. "It was you who opened the gate! I heard it!"
He took her face gently in his hands and looked straight into her eyes, big and blue like the sea, he could see a swarm of mixed emotions, happiness, fear, lust, love, compassion and a need for freedom. "Serenity, My love..." He whispered on her lips. "I couldn't take anymore of this. We have kept days apart from each other these last 2 weeks! "
"Endymion, we are alone now." She breathed thrusting her hands into his hair and kissing him roughly with her need. Her heart had melted into water, her knees buckled as she fell against him. The castle didn't seem to exist anymore in their purple haze as his lips slid to her throat and then planting soft kisses along her neck and shoulders. "Endymion-please-take my fear away from me!" She pulled her face away so she could look him in the eyes. As you will my Queen, My Serenity, My escape, my freedom-My Love. His words whispered all around them in the softness of the night. Her cloak fell onto the floor and the flames were upon them.
Purple eyes flashed and glared in satisfaction, pulling her cloak hood down she stood from Serenity's window watching enough to confirm her mind's suspicions. "Poor little Serenity, how much of a rope you have spun now." Rai spat" You have hung yourself on it now." She held out her arm, a small black rave with beady ark eyes landed on her arm it nuzzled her and she praised it. Pulling her cloak in the air in a dramatic fashion she saw herself out, her cloak swishing and her raven black hair flowing in the wind she made.