Not Your Typical Princess:Selection Fanfiction (COMPLETE)

Chapter 45

Charlie POV:
I sit in the music room, with Cory, playing the piano for him, when a maid bursts in. "Miss! Your sister! She is hurt! She-" I don't let her finish I grab Cory and run to the infirmary.
I burst through the door, "Mom? Dad?"
Mom comes running over, hugging me. "She was hit on the side of the head, and a stick went into her thigh." She says.
"Where's dad?" I ask.
"In there talking to the people who brought her in."
"Who brought her in?"
"A two boys and a girl." She says. "The guards think they did it... But I don't."
"Did one of the boys have black hair?" I ask.
"Yes." She looks surprised that I knew that.
Alec POV:
"I told you, we didn't do that to Chase!" I yell. The guard punches me in the nose.
The King walks in, "Jonson." He growls. The guard backs off. "So you brought Chase in."
"Yes, sir, we did." Erin says.
"Do you know how this happened?"
"Let me in!" I hear a voice shout.
"Princess, we can't-"
"Are you questioning my authority?"
"No, of course not but-"
"Then let me in!" She yells.
The door opens and Charlie runs in. "Oh my god." She whispers, seeing my bloody nose.
"Charlie," Erin says, I can tell she is scared.
"Let them go!" She yells.
The guards do as they are told and release us. Erin collapses into Jack, sobbing into his chest.
"Get him a rag, for his nose." She instructed.
"Charlie explain to me why you are helping them." King Maxon says.
"Because-"
I cut her off, "because I'm your daughters boyfriend."
That earned me a punch in the face from the king. I fall to the floor.
"Dad!" Charlie yells helping me up from the floor.
"It's alright I had it coming." I say.
"You think?" King Maxon roars.
"Dad, he is telling the truth." Charlie says.
"What?" Maxon asks.
"Maxon?" Queen America says coming in to the room. "Maxon did you punch this boy?"
"Sir, his is telling the truth." Erin says.
"Who are you to tell me..." I pull out a picture of Charlie and I and hand it to them.
"How's your face?" Jack asks.
"Alright I guess."
"Alec I am so sorry," Erin sobs.
"I would hug you but I have her blood on me..."
I turn back to the King and Queen. "When was this picture taken?" America asks, tears in her eyes.
"Sometime last year... I have others..." I pull out my wallet and hand it to them.
America gasps when she sees the picture of Chase holding a painting of a heart that says 'I love you'. The king glares at me when he sees the picture of us kissing.
"Your majesty's?" A doctor walks in.
"Is she okay?" Charlie asks.
"We removed the stick from her thigh. But the blow to her head... we just have to wait and see if she wakes up. I'm very sorry..."
Erin sobs into Jack's chest. "I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to hit her!"
"What?" Charlie asks.
"We were playing and the ball hit Chase," I say, causing Erin to sob again.
"Shhh..." Jack says, "I'm going to take her out of the room."
America is barring her face into Maxon's chest, so is Charlie.
I have tears running down my face as well.
After a few minutes Charlie says. "I'll take you somewhere to get changed..." She says.
"No, it's okay, I can..."
"It's alright."
As we walk to a unused bedroom, a small maid runs up to us. "Miss Charlie is she okay? They wouldn't let me in, even when I told them that you wouldn't mind." I can tell she has been crying.
Charlie warps her arms around her, "we just have to wait and see if she wakes up..."
She nods, "you're Alec?"
I nod.
"Soph, my mom might need you to take Cory..."
"Oh, of course." She runs off.
"Chase told me about her..."
"She is cute, but I'm scared about what this is going to do to her..."
I nod. "Charlie, you can cry. If you want."
She opens a door to a bedroom and leads me to the bathroom. "I'll set some clean clothes out for you..."
"Thank you." I say.
I quickly strip down and step into the shower. I let my tears fall.
I silently cry while I wash Chase's blood off of me. My hands are stained a light red. No matter how hard u scrub her blood won't come off.
A sob escapes my mouth. 'Why did it have to be her? Why?' I want to scream.
After ten minutes of crying I calm myself down and turn off the water. I step out and quickly change into the clothes that Charlie left me.
Before I walk out I check to make sure my eyes aren't red. I walk out of the room, and look up and down the hallway. 'Where the hell do I go?'
I turn left and start to walk. I hear footsteps behind me and see the small maid from before, "do you need help finding where to go?"
"Yes," I breath, thankful for the help.
She giggles and takes my hand, "Chase talks about you all the time."
"Really?" I laugh.
"All the time." She says dragging out the 'all' and giggling.
She leads me down different hallways until we reach the infirmary.
"Phie! Phie!" Little 1 year old Cory says.
"He can't say my name yet... So I'm 'Phie.'" She says picking her up.
"Dat?" He says.
"Dat is Alec." Sophie says. "Can you say 'Alec'?"
"Lick! Lick!" He says.
Sophie giggles, "I'm staring to like 'Phie' even more."
"Sophie," King Maxon says coming over to us.
"Yes, excuse me. He needs his nap." She curtsies and walks off.
"I didn't catch your name..." He says.
"Alec."
"Is that short for something?"
"Alexander, but I don't like it much."
"Well, Alec, I just wanted to let you know that I sent your friends home, the girl was quite distraught."
"Yea. She feels really bad about what happened. Not as bad as I do though..."
"Your friends explained to me what happened, I don't blame you, son. Oh here's your wallet back."
"Thank you."
"I'll take you to Chase." As we walk he says, "I saw you have pictures of your family."
"Yea... They are the world to me." I say.
"Not to get in your life but, I didn't see your father..."
"Oh, he died when I was 8."
"I'm very sorry." Maxon says.
When we get to the room with Chase, only Charlie is there. I run over to Chase and press my lips to her forehead. "I'm so sorry, Chase." I say my forehead touching hers. "I love you."
I pull a chair over and take her hand in mine. I look to Charlie, "hey." I say.
"Hey," she sniffles.
"You can cry you know..." I say.
"So can you." She says.
I lift up my hands to show her the red stains, "I already did... Believe me..."
After a few minutes of silence I say, "I'm really sorry this happened..."
She takes my free hand in hers, "it's not your fault, Alec."
"I should've stopped this from happening..."
"There was no way."
I look at her hand in mine, I see her engagement ring. "Look at that thing."
She blushes, "it is rather big isn't it?"
"How is Xander? I only met him once before..."
"He's good. Stressed, but good. He is going to be king soon..."
"That's right," I say. "When is the wedding?"
"Few months... But it's post-poned until Chase is 100% heathy." She squeezes my hand, "it'll be okay."