Chapter 27 Kookaburra and Nightingale

Kookaburra

Is it me or does someone up there hate the fact that me and Nightingale are together, and that's the reason why so many problems are occuring between us, mind you, I can't really think of anything worse that could happen, unless my ex-girlfriend also comes for a visit and also tries to come between me and Nightingale, apart from that everything just seems fine.

Nightingale was very quiet with me from that day on, that moment with Raven obviously put her out of her comfort zone, after 3 days of Raven finally leaving the castle Nightingale was still in a very odd mood and I was still a bit sore from the duel that me and him had over Nightingale, when I got to the top of the lookout tower Nightingale was stood on the far left side, I went over to see if she was alright.

"Are you alright babe? You seem awful quiet." I asked stroking her right cheek.

"Yeah, I'm alright, I just can't get my head around what happened those days ago."

"Babe, you don't have to worry about it, I know that you wouldn't have kissed him like that, I could tell by your body language and the way that you pushed him away, that was a pretty big clue."

"I know that you don't blame me, but just answer me something."

"What?"

"With all these problems that we're confronting, it's not going to make you leave me is it?

"Of course not, if I've told you once I've told you a million times, I love you Nightingale."

She smiled, despite she was rather down in the dumps, she still had that stunning smile, the same smile that always makes me go weak at the knees. That evening we were walking to our rooms when we stopped outside Nightingale's.

"Do you think that these problems that we keep on getting are a sign?" I asked.

"What do you mean?" Nightingale replied.

"A sign that we shouldn't really be together?"

"Nah, but what else could go wrong?"

I smiled and stroked her gently on the cheek, she closed her eyes and lowered her head slightly before raising it again and kissing me, I ran my right hand down her left arm and wrapped my left arm around her waist, slowly she raised her arms and wrapped them around my neck, holding her closer to me I spun her to the left lowering her, she raised her left leg over the back of my right leg, sliding it up and down, when I stood her back upright and our lips parted she was slightly unstable on her feet at first, but was soon steady once more.

"Well…I'll see you in the morning then." She said smiling.

"See you in the morning." I replied giving her another kiss on the cheek.

When I walked into my room, I went over to my bedroom window, Nightingale was ahead of me also looking out of her bedroom window, smiling I waved at her, she waved back blowing me and kiss. For some reason I was finding it hard to get to sleep, after rolling around in my nest for around an hour trying to get comfortable I finally got to sleep, while I was asleep I had a wonderful dream about me and Nightingale, we were walking through the woods away from the castle hand in hand, we came to the same clearing that we were at not that long ago, I scooped Nightingale up in my arms spinning around, when I put her back down we continued to spin, hand in hand, when we finished spinning I held Nightingale close to me as she buried her face into my neck, I lowered my right hand to her waist and started tickling her like that time when we both slipped on the ice last year during the winter, we fell onto the soft grass laughing and rolling around, we soon relaxed and stopped rolling and laughing, we both lay on our backs looking up at the sky, I then turned onto my right side looking at Nightingale, she looked back at me, with my left hand I gently stroked her on the cheek, she smiled, I leant over to her and kissed her firmly on the lips, she wrapped her arms around my neck and pulled me towards her, out of all the other dreams that I've had over the year that me and Nightingale have been together, this has got to be the best dream that I have had so far.

The next morning we were all up early to get a few more things ready for the king's wedding, everyone else was waiting for me and Nightingale, when we arrived there was a few questions that the others were wanting to ask me and Nightingale.

"Morning." I said.

"Morning." Vane replied.

"Sleep well?" Shaiden asked.

"A bit, I struggled to get to sleep but it was only for an hour or so."

"By the way, it may be me but did anyone hear the sound of sword fighting yesterday at midday?" Gildar asked.

"Yeah, I heard it." Knightriss replied.

"Oh, me and Kook know what it was." Said Nightingale.

"What was it then?"

"Kook, do you want to tell them?"

"Oh erm…yeah alright. Yesterday me and Raven got into a big argument because he kissed Nightingale to show me how much he loved her when they were together, it's fair to say that I got a bit angry and challenged him to duel at the top of the lookout tower at midday."

"Oh right. I just thought that it might have been just me, I didn't want to say anything on the day."

We were all talking for ten minutes before two soldiers came over to us, one of them grabbed my left arm and the other grabbed Nightingale's right arm.

"Nightingale, Kookaburra, you're both under arrest." The first soldier said.

"Arrest? Why?" Nightingale asked.

"For breaking the castle rules."

WHAT! How did they know, someone must have told them or told the king, it couldn't have been one of the others else they would have said something, me and Nightingale were marched to the king's quarters, he was leant against the edge of his desk when we were taken inside, his arms were crossed and he looked very, very unhappy.

"Your highness, what's going on?" I asked.

The king shook his head at us before giving his response.

"I'm very disappointed with both of you." He said, me and Nightingale looked at each other in confusion. "One of the soldiers came to me this morning and told me that he'd seen both of you outside Nightingale's room kissing, is there something that you haven't been telling us?"

I lowered my head in shame, I knew that it was going to come to this. "Yes sire, we erm…we've been sort of dating for over a year."

"So you two have been breaking the rules all this time and have been lying to me?"

We nodded.

"Well for that, I'm placing both of you under arrest."

Me and Nightingale were then both marched out of the king's quarters and to the dungeons, I would have held Nightingale's hand to comfort her the way there, but I couldn't as the soldier had a hold of my arms tightly.

We were thrown into a cell down in the dungeons and chained to the walls, the chains were long so we had enough room to move around, the soldiers then walked away leaving me and Nightingale alone, there wasn't anyone in the cells to our left or to our right, but at least we had each other.

Nightingale turned towards me and ran into my arms in fear.

"I'm really scared Kook." She said.

"Don't worry babe, we're going to get through this."

Nightingale

I knew that this day was going to come, since the first day that Kook told me how he felt about me, I knew that we were breaking the rules, and as we all know, if you break the rules long enough, you're bound to get caught, even though me and Kook were now in jail, it wasn't that bad as we were still together, but the whole idea of being in jail was terrifying, if my mum and dad could see me now they would go mental.

Me and Kook had been in jail for two days before the others came to speak to us, Crocness was the one in that morning.

"How are you guys doing?" She asked.

"How do you think we're doing? We're in jail." Kook replied.

"I know, it's just that everyone's really concerned about you guys, I have to give them an answer."

"Well despite that we're locked up in here, we're doing alright, we just hope that it's not going to be for much longer." I said. "Is there any news from outside the dungeons?"

"Well the king's wedding has had to be put back a few month so we can get this whole thing sorted out but apart from that there's no other news."

We were talking for around twenty minutes before Crocness went back to the others, if they were all trying to get me and Kook out of jail then I wish that they would hurry up, this isn't the place for me, it's just full of spiders and rats, but I'd rather see a rat than a spider.

After 2 weeks in jail me and Kook were bored out of our heads, we were filthy but we weren't that bothered, the others weren't coming to talk to us that often now as they were so busy with trying to get us out of jail, me and Kook had pretty much given up all hope when one of the soldiers came over to our cell, me and Kook jumped up onto our feet.

"Nightingale, you're free to go." He said.

"But what about Kook?" I asked.

"Kook's going to be spending a little bit more time in here."

I turned to Kook and held his hand before I was taken away from the dungeons.

"Don't worry about me babe, I'll be fine." Said Kook.

I could feel the tears filling my eyes as the soldier led me out of the dungeons, I looked back and Kook was stood against the bars looking back at me, I would have waved but we left the area before I had a chance to.

The first thing that I did when I was out of the dungeons was go to my room to have a wash before going to my duties, I didn't even need to wash my face, most of the dirt had been washed away with my tears, but all my makeup was smudged so I had to wash it all off and reapply it all, there probably wasn't any point, it was mostly going to be getting smudged again.

I wasn't expecting this, but most of the girls were stood near the lookout tower waiting for me, they were talking about something, and it seemed to be rather serious as I gathered from Faetal's facial expression, when they saw me walking over the conversation was suddenly brought to and end.

"Hey guys." I said.

"Hey Nightingale, how are you?" Ballista asked.

"Oh I'm fine, my heart is broken into pieces, the love of my life is still locked up in the dungeons, I may be loosing my job any day now, I don't think that there's anything that could ruin my day."

The girls were silent, and were hanging their heads low.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Erm…we've just heard something about Kook." Knightriss replied.

"What is it? Is he being released?"

"No, he's going to be behind bars for much longer, his crime was much worse than yours, you were just breaking the rules, but Kook was also lying to the king, that's really serious."

"So what's going to happen?"

"Well, I was talking to one of the soldiers about it and he said that the punishment for lying to the king is…is…"

"Is what?"

None of them replied to me.

"Is what?" I repeated sternly.

"We're sorry Nightingale, but the punishment is execution." Shaiden explained.

"WHAT!"

"Kook's going to be executed."

"No, no he can't be. If Kook's going to die then I'm going to die with him."

"Nightingale you can't."

"Don't bother talking me out of it, I've already made up my mind."

I walked past them towards the lookout tower, this conversation is officially over.

"Nightingale, please just listen to us." Said Shaiden grabbing my arm.

"GET OFF ME!" I shouted forcing my arm free.

I went to speak to Kook that very afternoon, he was sat in the corner resting his head on his knees, I walked right up to the bars.

"Kook." I said, as soon as I said his name he looked up at me got onto his feet and dashed over to me. "Are you alright?"

"I am now."

I smiled before the tears fell again.

"I don't want to loose you." I said.

"You're not going to loose me, when all this is over, we may loose our jobs, but we'll still be together, just you wait babe, it'll all work out alright."

"No you don't understand, it's not going to be like that."

"What do you mean babe? You're starting to scare me."

I couldn't tell Kook about what the girls told me, but I had to get it off my chest, and I couldn't leave Kook unaware on what's going to happen, he's bound to find out sooner or later.

"I've been talking to some of the girls, and they've told me why you're being kept down here."

"What did they say?"

"They told me that you're being kept in here because you lied to the king, and they also told me your punishment…they said that…"

I rested my head against the bars, I couldn't tell him.

"Babe, please tell me, what did they say?"

"They said that your punishment is execution."

Kook backed away from the bars, he was as shocked as I was.

"Can't you do something?" He asked.

I shook my head and closed my eyes letting the tears fall again, Kook placed his right hand on my shoulders, I looked back up at him and stroked his left cheek gently, he started to lean forwards to kiss me, I did the same, we were centimetres away from each other when we were interrupted by the soldier to my right.

"Okay Nightingale visiting time's up." He said.

"I'll come and see you tomorrow." I said. "I promise."

"I'll be waiting."

I had to stop this, Kook can't die, and if I can' t stop it then I'll happily kill myself just so I can be with Kook, I spent the rest of my evening trying to think of a way to get Kook out of jail, but it was impossible, even if I did manage to get Kook out, it would be impossible to get him out of the castle without any of the soldiers seeing us, I'm sure that it'll just come to me while I'm not thinking about it, I looked at the clock and it was nearly midnight, I had to get some sleep else I'd be too tired to put my plan into action, I guess that a couple of hours or so won't hurt. Slowly I clambered into my nest and closed my eyes, I fell asleep instantly, when I opened them again sunlight was pouring through my bedroom window, I looked at the clock, it was half seven in the morning, if I want to put a plan into action then I'll have to get going to the dungeon.

I was half walking and half running to the dungeons, by the time I got there it was twenty to eight, I dashed down the stairs and down the dark gloomy corridor to Kook's cell, when I finally arrived, he wasn't there, I looked further down to see if he'd been moved, but he hadn't, there was a guard not that far from me so I went to ask him.

"Excuse me, but where's Kookaburra?" I asked.

"He's just been taken to the king's quarters, you should probably get going there too actually, the king wants to speak to both of you urgently."

Without wasting another second I dashed out of the dungeons and to the king's quarters, everyone was sat outside waiting for any news.

"Where's Kook?" I asked.

"He's already in there." Said Thorne.

Gathering all my bravery, I quickly knocked on the door, the king summoned me in so I entered, Kook was stood there with two soldiers, with chains around his wrists.

"Your highness." I said curtseying.

"Good morning Nightingale, I'm glad that you could make it." The king replied. "You two are probably wondering why I've brought you here, well after plenty of thinking and consideration, I've finally come to a conclusion about what I'm going to do about this little 'problem'. To sum up the whole situation I have just two words to say to both of you." I knew what was coming next, I lowered my head preparing myself, but then the king said something that I really wasn't expecting him to say, "I'm sorry."

I raised my head again in shock, before looking to Kook confused.

"I beg your pardon sire?" said Kook.

"I'd like to apologize for what trouble this has brought you two." The king explained. "Many of the other defenders have been coming to me and begging me to let you two stay on the job, and have been telling me all the dilemmas that have occurred during this little secret dating of yours, so I'd just want to say that I'm sorry for all the pain and sadness that I've caused you both and I'd also like to tell you that I have abolished the rule about defenders not being aloud to be in relationships."

Were my ears hearing right? Did the king say that he'd abolished that rule or am I still asleep? I quickly pinched myself, ow, no this is for real.

"So you mean that we're free to be together?" I asked.

"Yes, and Kook, you are now released." The king replied.

The two soldiers stood either side of Kook then unlocked his chains.

"Thank you so much sire, you won't regret this." Said Kook.

This is the best news ever, the rule is abolished and me and Kook are free, even better we still have our jobs, wait until we tell the others, they're not going to believe this.