The Betrayal

Calm.

I saw fear in their eyes, I saw James hesitantly reach out to David who had doubled over on his side in pain with his hand on his neck whispering "I'm okay" to reassure everyone.

"You haven't even recovered from the battle yet. That's it, I'm taking you away from here." Said his father angrily but his eyes meant he wanted him away from me.

But somehow, even though I had been feeling pretty emotionless, I trembled with the thought of losing David.

David groaned "No I'm oka-" but was cut off.

"I am your father and you will listen to me. She took your kingdom but I won't let her take your life too! She's dangerous!"

He tried to grab David but I looked at him and let out a shout "He said he doesn't want to go!!"

The next minute he too was down on his knees. Instantly David stood in front of me and tried to shake me "He's my father Elizabeth! God damn it. I'm not leaving!"

I shifted my focus from his father and looked at him with teary eyes.

"Leave us." He commanded to everyone without breaking eye contact with me and they surprisingly complied.

When they left I fell to my knees. David extended his hand out of reflex but didn't catch me this time because he knew he'd hurt himself again.

"He's right." I whispered. "Your father is right, I'm dangerous, and you should leave."

"I'm not going anywhere, you know I love you. The only way I'm leaving is in a body bag." He sighed and sat down on the floor next to me. "You need to talk to me Elizabeth, what's wrong? What's going on?"

"I-" what was I supposed to tell him when I, myself, didn't know what was wrong. I reached out for the comfort of his touch but decided it wasn't worth the pain I'd put him through. "I'm not sure, I feel different David."

"Okay, different how? This.. Power.. You have developed.. It's normal, all Royals have something special. Maybe this is yours. You'll learn to control it.. There's much you have to learn, when you transform you'll learn so many new things about yourself and you'll adapt accordingly."

"It's not just that.. I know that things will be different, like I noticed my eye color changing, how the light affects my eyes, how my vision is enhanced but this is not the problem, its... it's how I feel."

"What do you feel?" he said grabbing the hem of my dress because he couldn't touch me directly.

I suppose you don't know how something as simple as touching someone you love was such a blessing till you no longer can.

"That's the problem, I don't." I looked down. "How can I control these powers I have when I don't feel anything except this deep anger?"

"What do you mean you don't feel anything?" he asked trying to hide the concern in his voice.

"I mean that earlier when I... attacked you.. I wouldn't have stopped."

"Then why did you?"

"Because I was inside your mind through our link, I felt what you felt..."

He looked deep in thought after that. 'Is our mind link still working?' he asked through our link.

"Of course it is! Why wouldn't it?" I replied to him out loud.

He let out a deep breath. "Thank God! I thought that since I couldn't feel you through it, that during the transformation something must have severed it. God, I am so relieved I could kiss you right now."

"So you see what the problem is now?" I looked at him sadly "I just can't feel anything anymore, the way I felt towards you, the way I looked at things, it all feels different."

I felt a pinch of hurt but I knew it wasn't because of what I was feeling.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you." I said but David suddenly looked up like he had a brilliant idea.

"I've always kept my barrier up because I thought my emotions would overwhelm you, but let me try something. You end up hurting people when you're angry right? But you'd be able to control it if you felt more... calm."

He extended his hand to touch me.

"What are you doing?" I pulled back "Are you crazy?"

"Just.. Let me try this. Close your eyes."

I closed them hesitantly and skeptically.

I felt oddly clam, but I felt a smooth and silky hand on my arm. "Open your eyes."

And I couldn't believe it. He was touching me.

"How...?" I left my sentence midway because he looked so happy; he grabbed my face and kissed me.

He laughed when he pulled back "I've wanted to do that for so long!"

And then he went back to hugging and kissing me all over, making up for all the times we had to spend apart.

-Z

So I think they're good now, an explanation for how this happened will be in the next chapter when these two love birds are done doing 'whatever' they're doing ;)

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