It had been almost six weeks since Lucifer had found the girl and treated her wounds. In those six weeks he had started talking with Dean and Gabriel and had noticed Castiel and Sam doing the same thing. The girl had yet to wake but the Winter King would waste hours simply sitting at her bedside watching her sleep.
She reminded him so much of the man he once loved that it almost physically hurt to be away from her for very long. One morning he had slipped away from her side to get a book from the library to occupy his time with when he noticed someone behind him. Turning the King came face to face with brilliant spring green eyes that held enough summer heat to melt his entire kingdom freezing the frozen man dead in his tracks.
"Are you the master of this castle?" She asked rearranging her brilliant wings behind her
"Yes this is my castle." Lucifer replied when he had found his voice again "I found you on my lands and dragged your sorry bleeding ass here along with the two idiots who claimed they were with you." He added watching several emotions flash across her eyes.
"Dean and Gabriel are here as well?" She asked curious to know about her attendants
"They are and they're lucky I've let them stay in actual rooms instead of the dungeons." He told her
"Dungeons? Why would you put them there?" She wondered, not that there weren't several reasons those two would land themselves in a dungeon
"Simple, the day I saved you they attacked me. I'm used to it sure but I am still king of these lands and should be respected enough not to be shot at." The King huffed as the girl's eyes widened before calling out their names knowing they were close
"Dean, Gabriel come here now!" She called in a clear voice as the knight and the archer came running while Castiel and Sam followed in their human forms to stand with their king.
"Your Highness!" Both men called as they fell to their knees in front of the girl who simply glared down at them
"Don't 'Highness' me! Is it true you attacked the Winter King?!" She demanded sounding more like a mother scolding her children than a Queen to her subjects
"But your Majesty when we found you he was standing over you and you were wounded and bleeding. We were only trying to protect you." The golden archer who Lucifer learned was named Gabriel answered
"If you were protecting me I wouldn't have been injured in the first place!" She huffed
"Yeah well if you hadn't run off we wouldn't have needed to protect you." Dean snapped back earning him a glare that could melt flesh from his queen reducing the powerful knight into a frightend kitten.
"I left because like all the others something pulled me into the woods!" She snapped as Licufer raised a brow having not known about that part of his curse
"I think you got it wrong sweetcheeks the curse is only on me. That fucking bird only said I would be affected and something about being stuck in this frozen hell till summer melted my heart." He told them "So could someone tell me what the fuck she's talking about?" The king huffed staring them all down.
"No one knows what it is. But ever since these woods became the domain for Winter who ever was born to take over Summer has been drawn to the trees like a trance but they're always killed before reaching the heart." Dean replied as Gabriel looked up at the royals
"As far as we know our Queen is the only one to actually reach the castle." He added while Lucifer nodded
"She is. Truth be told there have been bodies found in the woods but I always thought they were just idiots who got caught in the snow or by wild animals." He shrugged slowly finding himself intruged by the woman in front of him, the two men who acted as her shadows, and the mystery force that led so many Summers to their death in his world of endless Winter.