The next few days were hell for Uriel.

His parents barely paid attention to him, and Louis took Alexandre away for the weekend. Also, his nurse, Kasy was away in France visiting her older brothers. Uriel was alone. Alone in a room with one window and a chess table. That was all that was in his room. A bed, a nightstand, and a chess table right next to the window. It seemed lonely too. Depressing.

He spent three days like that. Alone in the dark. He didn't eat, except for the times Carlotta came in and forced him to eat something. How could he eat when there was another person replacing him?

He knew that was going to happen. His parents went out with baby Orpheus, to his grandfather, and during that time Uriel walked the palace halls and he overheard a couple of servants talking.

Uriel walked around the halls looking for something to do. As he turned a corner to another hallway, he heard two servants come out of the ballroom. The prince decided to hide behind a wall, hoping to surprise the two, but he heard them talking about someone. He heard them mention his name.

"Did you hear?" one of them said.

"Hear what?"

"About Prince Orpheus, duh!"

"What about him?"

"He's a perfectly healthy babe!"

"I should hope so."

"Do you understand what it means for us?" Uriel held his breath, he dreaded the next words that might come out.

"What does it mean for us?" the second voice asked confused.

"It means, we won't have a sick king! Orpheus will take the throne!"

"But Uriel is the eldest...." Uriel silently agreed with that input. What was left for him if he couldn't become king?

"But he cannot go outside. No one in the kingdom wants a sick king. They don't want a weak king and when they know for sure, Orpheus is healthy and has no complications, it will be sung in the streets. All hail King Orpheus!" Uriel felt like something just ripped into his chest.

"I suppose so......what will happen to Prince Uriel?"

"Who cares?" upon hearing this, Uriel ran from his hiding spot and locked himself in his room. How could it be true? What is left for him? Who cared?

Now here the boy was, hiding under his covers, away from the storm that hit a few hours ago. His mother and father, and little brother, came back from their trip; soaking wet. Orpheus was cleaned up and put to bed in the nursery, and his parents went to bed a few moments ago, after kissing him goodnight.

The truth was, after Ariel and Eric left Uriel to sleep, the boy had a nightmare.

In his dream, he was standing on a balcony, enjoying the breeze and then something called out to him. It was the ocean, but then he moved towards it, falling off the balcony, which transformed into a huge cliff and under him, were terrifying waves crashing on jagged boulders. The large rocks and the sea looked like it wanted to devour him and he woke with a start.

He was still shaking and it was then he decided to pay his parents a visit.

Ariel's head just hit her comfy pillow when there was a knock on the door. She looked to her husband with tired eyes. Who could be knocking on the door this late?

"Eric..."She groaned as there was another knock. She heard her husband sigh.

"Who is it?" He called out in a tired voice. It took them at least an hour to get Orpheus to sleep and the storm from before had tired them out.

"Mah? Dah?" They could hear a tiny, muffled voice. Ariel shot up immediately. She knew it was Uriel. What could have caused her baby to be up at this time of night?

"Eric, honey, let him in!"

"That's what I was doing. Geez" Eric rolled his eyes as he teased his wife. He opened the doors to see a small three year old shaking like a leaf and clutching his moon print blanket in his hands. He looked pale, but that shouldn't be a surprise, he was usually pale from lack of sun.

"Uriel! What's wrong?" he asked, his voice full of concern.

"I h-had a-a b-b-bad d-dream" He managed to stutter out. Ariel looked at her shaking son and felt like a bad parent. for the past few days, she had all her attention on her new baby.

"Uriel, do you want to sleep with us?" the boy slowly nodded.

"Come on..." Eric grabbed his son's hand and led him to the bed. He lifted Uriel up and when the boy was on the bed, he crawled to his mother's side. Eric climbed into the other side of the bed and Uriel felt happy again. He enjoyed the warmth of his parents bodies, protecting him. He felt protected, like he always did when he was with his parents.

"Mah, will you tell me a story? About grandfather?" he asked with a small voice. He heard his mother give a tired laugh.

"Sure." She sat up and placed Uriel on her lap. Eric was too exhausted to move so he just stayed where he was. "Okay....hm....where should I start? Let's see.....Once upon a time, there was a merman named Poseidon, and his wife was named Tetra, and they had this little merboy name Triton and-" Ariel's story was interrupted by loud crying that came from somewhere in the palace. Uriel heard his father groan.

"It's Orpheus. He's awake again...." Eric weakly lifted himself up and began to walk to the door.

"I'll come with you. you can never get him to sleep." Ariel suggested as she placed Uriel back onto the bed.

"I try" with that Eric disappeared from the room and Ariel soon followed, and Uriel was left alone. Again.

He felt like crying. His mother just left him with out saying anything. Maybe she forgot? He tried telling himself as he left the room to go to the nursery.

When the small three year old found the nursery he saw his parents trying to calm down a crying, Orpheus.

"Shhh.....quiet little guy. Please go to sleep" Eric whined as he walked right passed Uriel. Ariel took Orpheus from her love and began to sing something to him.

"Baby, please, rest your head" She started.
"Now it is, time for bed" Eric added. Uriel watched in sadness and in jealousy, as his parents sang to Orpheus. "Twinkle, Twinkle, How time flys"

"Slowly in the stary sky!"

"Baby, please," Eric held Orpheus close to him, "close your eyes"

Ariel laughed as she sang the next part. "Your as sweet as apple pies"

Uriel's hear kept sinking the more they sang. It hurt even more when they sang in harmony.

"As we grow, and love, and play
In my heart, you'll always stay
So sleep and dream the night away"

Orpheus was soon asleep and when Ariel and Eric put him in his crib, they never noticed their three year old son who sat in a corner with his moon print blanket. When he saw his mother and father kiss Orpheus goodnight and leave the room, he looked to Orpheus's crib.

"Baby, please, rest your head," Uriel layed himself on the floor and wrapped his blanket tight around him. "Now it is time for bed," His eyes filled with tears as he remembered the way his parents forgot him, "please stop," he clutched his blanket tighter and he found that, in a few seconds, for the first time in his life, tears rolled down his cheeks, "don't you see I want mah and dah for me?"

My special words (or not)

This chapter made me sad......I feel so bad for little Uriel!

The song used in this chapter is called Dil-a-bye and it was in The Rugrats Movie!

Actually this chapter was inspired by the scene in the movie in which the parents sing to baby Dil. So sad... T_T