The Broken Rule:

The choice (Chapter 2)

The Queen of Love and Hate closed here eyes and took a deep breath. she breaths out and it gets colder in the huge room. You see her breath and her tears become little eyes crystals. She opens her eyes and the King of War sees how her eye color changed from a sweet baby pink to a cold light blue, like the ocean. "Wow does the color of your eyes always change like that?" she looks at him with a dead serious gaze and closes her eyes again. He sees how she is squeezing her eyes and how she is taking deep breaths. 

He leans over to hug her, but as he touches her shoulder, she flinches and takes some steps backwards. She opens her eyes and he sees how one eye of her turns orange. "Don't touch me! I won't allow you to bring chaos to my kingdom! I won't break my rule and I won't lose my powers because of you!" he flinches back, too and says "I am sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you." He takes his hands up and his eyes turn to grey. They both look deep in their eyes. There is no sound around them, no one is in the room except for them. 

The eyes of the King start to wander down from her face to her pretty red dress. "Stop checking me out like I am one of your girls that you play around." she crosses her arms around her breast and the King immediately looks up to her face and smirks. "Now you are the one who is judging me, my queen. I didn't stare at your body because I want to sleep with you. I checked out your body, because I wanted to know if you use your magic with your hands to make the room as cold as it is right now. If I wanted to sleep with you, I would have already made my move. But I respect your rule. It would be too easy to destroy your kingdom like this and it would be no fun for me. There must be another way how I will bring chaos to your kingdom." The Queen's eyes change to light pink again and she can't hide her short giggle. "You really are the devil's son, aren't you?" he smirks and looks away. "Someone needs to be the villain or there can't be a hero. It's the same with your magic, there wouldn't be a balance if you didn't have both powers. Am I right?" he bends his head to the side and looks with a devilish grin straight into her eyes. "Who knew that you can be smart?" the Queen answers him and is not intimidated from his weak grin. 

"Why are we here? I thought you wanted to change my mind, sweetheart?" he changes the subject. The Queen takes a deep breath and answers sharply: "Don't you dare to interrupt me   while I explain it to you." "Yeah, yeah I will be silent, just explain it, before I get bored." he rolls his eyes and looks around the room. 

"I brought you here, because you are powerless here. So we can talk without you destroying anything in my castle. So-" The king pushes against a mirror that is hanging on the wall. His hand starts to bleed, but the mirror has no cracks. "HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE!?" He screams and his eyes turn orange again. The Queen rolls her eyes and says calmly: "You are really stupid, Cygnus. Did you forget that this room is full of my powers? If you break it, it will get fixed immediately. I can fix everything, my job is basically fixing broken hearts." "Yeah yeah help me and use your dumb powers to stop me from bleeding." he screams at her. She walks to him, takes his bleeding hand and heals it. 

She has never been this close to someone. Her gaze is on his hand. She can feel how he is staring with his big grin at her face. "Stop staring so idiotic at me. I am just helping you, because I know you wouldn't shut up if I didn't help you right now." "Are you sure?" she looks him annoyed in his eyes and asks him: "Do I look like I enjoy holding your hand?" "Hmm maybe." he answers and his eyes change to yellow. The Queen just rolls her eyes and keep looking at his hand. "You know my name, so what is your name?" "Paris" she muffles, still not looking at him. "Of course it is, the city of love is the name of the Queen of Love." "Shut up." His hand is fully healed and she turns away from him and goes to the middle of the room.

"Now, I will explain to you, how my magic works." She snaps and the room gets brighter. All the mirrors on the wall light up and as he looks at them, he sees memories of his childhood. He looks at the Queen and before he could ask her, she continues to speak: "All this mirrors show you moments of your life where you were loved." she shows to the left side, the side of Love and the bright red side. "and where you were hated." she shows to the right side, the side of Hate and the dark red side. She continues: "I can control the mirrors, I can show you every moment, but there won't be just one path. There will be a lot of paths by both sides. You need to think about one person and then I will show you the path with a red line on the floor, every mirror in this line will show you one memory that either was once in the past or one memory that will happen in the future with this person. I won't see the memories and I won't know who this person is. I just feel it and with that I will show the path. But remember there are two sides of this room. There won't be just one path in one room. At each side, Love and Hate, will be a path, because in the end you decide which action you will make in the future. Every action that you do will change the path. That is the first thing that I can do." Paris looks Cygnus deep in the eyes and he nods to give her the sight to continue speaking. 

"The second thing that I can make with the room is..."