The Queen and Her King

Evil and Wicked

"I-I thought y-you were a g-goner"

He muttered with a shaky and cracking voice. I furrowed my brow even more and pulled back from the hug to look at him, raising a brow once I locked eyes with him,

"Huh?"

I asked with a very confused tone. He took a deep breath before continuing,

"Audrey t-told me she kidnapped y-you and stuff... said s-she abandoned you in the w-woods for the wolves s-so I came out here t-to try to find you, but h-here you are"

He explained. I took a deep breath and just looked at my brother for a second as I honestly... I don't know what to do. For once I looked at my brother and just didn't feel like I normally do. I felt distant from him, so all I could do is stare at him and slowly nod,

"Okay... well I was in my office the whole time so no feeding me to the wolves"

I awkwardly responded. Without any other words, he pulled me into another hug, I simply went with it at this point. He whispered only loud enough so I could hear,

"P-Please Brielle... I'm sorry I-I just... I w-was scared okay? P-Please just... hold me would y-you?"

I felt a little bad, I could just accept his apology and let it go... but that didn't feel right for some reason. But nonetheless, I re-wrapped my arms around him and hugged back, but I didn't say anything. I just stood there and held him as he wanted, but that was the most I could do as much as that hurt. We eventually parted, and as soon as we did he looked at me with pleading eyes, pleading to me that I'd forgive him.

But I'm not ready for that yet.

So I gave him a very small smile before turning back to Harry and trotting back over to him. He looked at me with a soft smile and took me back into his arms where I was truly the most comfortable,

"Hey... I don't mean ta ruin any moments but how are the twins? Are they alright?"

I immediately felt myself sink some. I don't exactly know how to break it to him, so I simply took his hand and motioned for him to follow me. We had to be quick since we have to get to Fairy Cottage, but he deserves to see the twins and understand that they're asleep too.

We walked into the room where the twins were asleep on the couch. I felt Harry's hand tense as soon as he looked at them,

"A-Are they?"

He asked me, I led him over to them and kneeled down beside the couch,

"Unfortunately yes, they're asleep asleep"

I said, making him tense up more and kneel beside me. I put a supportive arm around him and leaned my head on his shoulder as he brought his hand up and brushed each twin's hair back some. I looked from the twins over to him to see that he was silently crying. I immediately adjusted how I was crouching to be able to hug him from the side,

"It's going to be alright Har, I promise you we'll wake them up okay? They're in dreamland, they don't know anything bad is happening and when they wake up they would've just had a long nap okay? It's all going to be okay and they aren't frightened, that's a good thing isn't it?"

He slowly nodded and wiped his tears, taking a deep breath in the process,

"I guess, they don't deserve this though. They are completely innocent"

He whispered. I knew it bothered him a whole lot, and I know the only way to fix that for him is going to be waking them up which obviously happens by defeating Audrey,

"They are, and I know it's hard seeing them like this but guess what? We're close to beating Audrey and when we do they'll wake up, so how about we go continue our journey? I can feel that we're close to being done with all of this"