The Broken Rule:

After the accident (Chapter 7)

Hours pasted from the accident. She rests herself on her thrown. You can hear the echos of her coughs through the whole royal hall. "I need to- I need to overcome this anger. I can't be a thread to my own kingdom." Paris puts her necklace to her hand and starts to cry. "Why did you let him kill you? Why would you leave me alone in this cruel world? How could you let Anderson take my parents away? WHY!?" Paris throws her crown against the wall. "I never wanted to be Queen. I never asked for these ridiculous powers. Why do I have to live with this curse?" she falls down on her knees, she shores up on the floor. Her tears fall on the cold floor.

"AAH" Paris immediately turns to her corridor where the scream is coming from. She wipes her tears away,picks up her crown and runs to the corridor. "What happened?" she asks to the maid who screamed. The maid points at something and as she turns her head to the wall. She sees Cygnus, blood dripping out of his mouth. "Make his bed ready and let no one come near his room. He will need a lot of rest time." the maid nods and runs to inform the other maids.

Paris, gets on her knees and touches Cygnus' check softly. She gets him closer to him. Now his head is resting on her lap, she goes through his hair and closes her eyes as she using her last strength to heal his inner wounds. "I am so sorry, Cygnus." she whispers as she gets weaker by any minute. Finally Cygnus wakes up, he glares at her eyes, which are filled with tears. "No need to cry, Queen. It is not like I am dead." he jokes around with his weak voice. Paris gives him a light smile before her maids come rushing in. The Queen's maids take Cygnus to his room, while he can stand up and walk normally, he sees how Paris needs someone to hold her, so she can even stand. Before he can offer help to his Queen, he gets pushed in his guest room and is forced to rest.

"Get- *cough* get me on the thrown!" Paris orders one of her knights. "But Queen you are too weak to rule." "I- I am not *cough* weak." The Queen falls on her knees again and coughs blood out. She wipes the blood away from her mouth and touches her heart. Her attempt to heal herself only makes her weaker. "Get me on my thrown. I am fine." The knight obeys his Queen and carries his Queen on her thrown. "Thank you. Don't worry about me." The Queen gives him a light smile and coughs again. "My Queen, could I stay by your side for the day for your own protection? I know you normally don't like to be protected, but under this specific conditions it would be the best choice to have protection near." Paris nods and the first people of her kingdom come to her to talk about their wishes and problems.

{Meanwhile by Cygnus:}

Some maids stay and check his body for other injuries. "I know that you are doing this only for checking out my muscular body." he winks and tenses his muscles. The two maids who are still in his room start to blush and one stutters: "The- the Queen told us to check for injuries." Cygnus starts to laugh hysterical and continues: "Oh yeah sure, as if the wise Queen doesn't know that my skin is like an unbreakable shield, because of my powers and that the only injuries that I can get are internal injuries . You don't need to lie to me, sweethearts! I like it when the girls make the first move!" on his face starts to form a wide grin, which goes from one ear to another ear. Cygnus pulls one of the maids with her uniform close to him and starts to kiss her. While kissing her, he shows the other maid to lock the door and then come closer to him. He starts to throw the Maids' clothes away and pushes both girls to his bed.

{In the evening:}

The last citizen left the castle and Paris turns her head to her guard. "You can go, Cedric. I- *cough* I will be okay, after all I am one of the strongest Queens in the whole world." "Paris, right now I am not talking as the head of all knights, I am talking as your best friend. I know how much power it eats up from your body when you are in your hatred form, after all we grew up together. Please let me help you." He facial expression changes from professional to worried. Paris looks sad on the floor and mumbles: "Stop it, Cedric. How often do I need to tell you that we can't be best friends anymore? I am the Queen now. I don't have time for friendships. We are not children anymore." "Why are you pushing me away? You are the Queen, you can decide how you spend your time and if you are scared that Anderson will try to kill me again, I will repeat defending myself like I did ten years ago. I can't just stand here and see how my best friend, that I have known since we were five years old, is slowly losing her whole happiness trying to be the perfect Queen." Cedric continues. His eyes start to fill up with tears. "Stop Cedric." Paris tries to give him the order, but Cedric doesn't listens: "Do I mean nothing to you anymore? Don't you remember anymore how we landed here? I can gladly remind you of the moment, because I can't get this life changing moment out of my head. We were five years old and you and your parents went through the whole kingdom, while I was begging for money on the side of the street. You were the one who saw me and you immediately ran over to me, leaving your parents and all guards behind you, just to go to me, a beggar. Do you have any clue, how honorable this moment was for me? After all the princess of the most powerful royal family ran to me and left everything behind like it was nothing. You made me feel special, after my parents have left me on the street like I was nothing. You were the first person, who was actually noticing me, do you really think I can just leave you behind-" "Stop Cedric, please." Paris' eyes start to fill up with tears, too. 

He ignores her request and continues: