Hitomi unconscious in her hand, Celena called out for her loyal servant to come and carry her up…
To van's room…
Celena decided to play it really wicked: she wanted van to be shamed and drawn in a scandal that is going to end his happy life for ever.
Celena knew the trap doors that lead to van's room, all she had to do was cross the garden, enter the stables and open the hidden door behind escaflowne (van's horse).
The trap door opened and Celena and her man climbed threw the stairs holding firmly hitomi in his big hands.
Once they arrived to the room, the guy put hitomi slowly on van's double bed by the left side where he wasn't sleeping and then went back from the trap door.
As for Celena, she changed hitomi's clothes before she left: she removed all hitomi's clothes and put them on the ground next to van's side and rolled hitomi's body in a simple white spare cover that she stole from van's closet.
Then, to make things worse she grabbed van's essence and poured it all over hitomi.
Then she gave them a final evil satisfied look and said:
"You want her, now you have her"
And then, she delicately opened the door and looked around to check that the cost is clear and then she got out slowly.
Meanwhile, Gades was walking down the stairs next to van's room down to his own, when he heard the door open.
When he saw Celena coming out he immediately hid and waited for her to go. "What on earth is she doing here, in the middle of the night; I don't like this, van watch out my friend"
In the early morning, Celena woke up with a wide smile on her face, unlike the passed days and went immediately to van's room.
As she was going out to his room, Gades was walking up to Celena's room to send after her for breakfast when he saw her already up with an unusual smile.
Something about this wicked smile made Gades follow her worried.
Once Celena reached van's room her smile widened and she opened the door:
_"van; come on hunny it's time for break… ahhhhhh oh my god vannnnn!"
Celena's voice was heard all over the castle and everyone rushed to the future king's room to find out what is going on.
No one said a word.
Van opened his eyes and looked to his side.
He found hitomi sleeping next to him, almost naked.
Van was frozen.
His eyes widened, his heart started to beat fast, his face lost color.
He didn't know what was going on.
He looked around and saw that everybody was there.
Everybody was there!
Van wished he was dead at that moment, he felt shame cross his heart like a deadly arrow.
It got deeper and deeper…
Van turned his face side to the ground having a painful expression. He couldn't stand looking at them.
Hitomi opened her eyes too.
She looked around and found her self in van's room with everyone looking at her.
She didn't know how it happened and she didn't know what to say.
She was terribly ashamed of being seen like this.
Her face turned bright red and her cheeks were covered of tears.
Still no one said a word. There was a weird silence before Celena's loud voice was heard:
_"HOW COULD YOU! ONLY BEFORE 2 NIGHTS OF THE WEDDING! WHY!"
Van still didn't respond as Celena continued:
_"AND YOU, HOW DARE YOU DO SOMETHING SO VILE, HOW DARE YOU MANIPULATE VAN LIKE THAT"
Van and hitomi stayed silent, they didn't know what happened.
Only Celena did.
So Celena called the guards out to take hitomi to a cell in prison.
She was having what she wanted.
The guards came to van's room and still he hadn't said a word, until one of the guards touched harshly hitomi's hand:
_"let her be nothing happened between us, let her be she didn't do anything, nothing happened between us!"
_"not a chance van, you both are going to pay for the vile crime you committed" yelled Celena.
_"I told you nothing happened all I did was sleep yesterday"
_"well the way I see you today prove it! And don't worry you will be judged too and now"
Hitomi was taken to prison and put in a cell while van was taken to be judged by the members of his counsel:
_"lord van you have committed a crime against a king's etiquette, let me ask you one thing: were you manipulated into this?"
_"no"
_"did someone manipulate you by any hypnosis or magic"
_"we are in the 18th century gentlemen and you still believe in this magic stuff"
_"were you drunk?"
_"no! I wasn't drunk and I didn't bed hitomi, I don't know how she got there, but I can tell that nothing happened between us"
_"now lord van we have had enough, you can't explain what our eyes saw just like that, it doesn't make sense"
_"so you believe that if I tell you that I was hypnotized it would make sense"
_"lord van answer to my one question: do you love Miss Kanzaki?"
_"I do, very much. And this is why I wouldn't do such a thing to destroy her reputation and mine. I was planning on dropping my wedding with Celena and taking hitomi as my wife"
_"lord you are certainly showing a sense of irresponsibility towards your future wife"
_"how dare you call her my future wife with a clear conscious! You know that you have set me up for this wedding because I didn't like the rest of the princesses… and you forgot to present me to the countesses… hitomi kanzaki is one of them… and I lover her.
It was a mistake to follow your advice since the beginning. You have been manipulating me but it has to stop now, I want to marry the girl I love!"
_"we are afraid you couldn't! You should have thought of your actions before you expressed your love on a girl that isn't your wife"
_"but I said that nothing happened"
_"we have eyes my lord! Do you take us for fools! You will be dismissed from all you royal duty and she will be suffer from the penalty of death!"
_"no! Please no! I beg of you spare her life, keep us in prison if you wish but don't kill her"
_"I am afraid their isn't an other way"
_"then kill us both! Or we die together or you kill neither of us"
Hey everyone I am rushing up to update fast so that you would have fun reading my story during the holidays.
Thx for the lovely review you are all the best have a merry Christmas and a happy new year =D