Protecting Genie

Chapter 18

Pitch's POV

The longer that Abril takes to get here, the more I start to think that approving of this was a huge mistake. The risks of Genie being found by the Guardians are extremely high. As I sit on my throne, waiting for the arrival of my servant with my queen, my eyes started to travel back and forth to random parts of the room; my mind was wandering over 1000 miles an hour, playing out different scenarios that could possibly happen. All of them had the same ending; I would lose the most precious treasure in the world.

Genie, the girl that has made me happier than I have been since the Dark Ages.

"Pitch, you're starting to make me nervous." Liam leaned casually against the side of my thrones, playing with a random bouquet of four leaf clovers. He was playing to present them to Abril once more, in hopes that she would accept his request for a date.

I've honestly lost count of how many times she has rejected him.

"What reason do you have to be nervous? My Queen will be out in the open, an easy target. And all she'll have is one spirit guarding her. "

"Abril is strong enough to defend our Queen if anything were to happen."

"Thanks for the reassurance. But you didn't answer my first question. Again I ask why you are nervous?"

"You keep tapping on the arm rest with your fingernails and both your legs won't stop shaking. It's driving me crazy and making me very anxious. Look!" He showed the bouquet into my face. "I accidently pulled out a few clovers. What will Abril think when she sees this?!"

"Would you be so kind and get those out of my face?" I growled out. Instead of doing as I said, he just dropped the supposed ruined bouquet onto my lap and skipped away. "I don't want this."

"I can't give them to Abril. She'll hate them." Seems my nervousness is a bit contagious. My fidgety friend started to do a little tap dance a few feet away from me.

He only does that when he's apprehensive. It is a rare and funny thing; I would have teased him about it if my mind was preoccupied at the moment.

"Hate to tell you this, my friend, but Abril doesn't really care about the clovers." Part of me wishes that I could tell him that Abril doesn't care about him period. But even I, the Nightmare King, couldn't break his heart.

The same day that Liam had seen the Spirit of April Fool's Day, he invited Hal and me over to his place to tell us how he had finally found his soul mate.

He had happened to be in the same area she had been 'reborn' as an Immortal. My old friend, Man in Moon, had wanted her birthed in a happier environment; not the one she had perished in, a hospital. A hospital was too overcome with negative emotions.

So he escorted her soul to a field full of sunflowers and sunshine. There also happened to be a rainbow there that day. Her soul has passed through the yellow portion of the rainbow, giving her that sunshine glow that doesn't seem to dissipate.

Liam was there, collecting the gold that rainbows left at the end of its trail. When second she was 'born', he couldn't take his eyes off her.

Much how I couldn't take my eyes off of Genie that night when I saw her sleeping.

"Do you have to pee or something, leprechaun?" A familiar female voice echoed loudly in my throne room.

"My Love!" Liam ceased in his dancing with the arrival of Abril and Genie. Immediately, he ran as fast as his short legs would let him, his arms wide open and aimed at the female Spirit.

Abril walked in, holding onto the reins of the Nightmare I assigned to her. It followed her in obediently. . On top of the Nightmare sat my precious Queen. I stood from my throne and blended into the shadows at the side of my throne, only to reappear right behind the Nightmare.