Cinders: An Intrulogical Story

Chapter 13

Remus kicked open the doors to his fathers office like a rockstar "Dad! Guess what the fuck happened last night!" He shouted, he had loads of energy despite getting very little sleep, he hadn't felt this excited for the future in a very long time.
The king looked up from his desk befuddled and awe struck "Well you're certainly perky today" "Fuck yeah I am!" He smacked his hands on his fathers desk and cleared the whole table, throwing tons of papers and supplies on the floors.
"Remus!" Yelled the king, appalled by his sons actions.
Remus pulled a nearby stool out of the corner and placed it right in front of the King's desk, sitting on it "Dad, I've got an amazing idea.".
"If this is about the marriage-" "No it's way different from that! So you know how you've always told me how I need to get more educated and care more about being a future king! Well now I do! I wanna construct a university right here in Elphe! With lots of books— tons of them! And it'll be entirely free so anyone can study there wether they are a duke or a prince or peasant or a reformed theif or-" "Slow down Remus, what has gotten into you?" asked the king, he had never seen Remus like this before, he was always eccentric and high energy but never with an actual... you know, purpose!

"Do you like it?!" "Well I'll have to check with my advisor first but I-" "Great! I'm so happy!" Remus was jumping up and down like a little kid, he gave his dad a hug and dashed out the door... before quickly running back in to tell him one more very important thing.
"Also I'm so excited for the ball tomorrow! It was a great idea! Amazing! I'm gonna go decide what I'm gonna wear! bye!" He talked so fast the king could barely make a single word out, he slammed the door shut and left as quickly as he spoke, leaving a confused and surprised King just sitting in an office, looking at a pile of documents on the floor.
He blinked in shock, trying to process the fact that he just saw his son, the same man who thought it was okay to eat soap, just come up with a sound idea to make the education system in the kingdom better AND THEN turned around and told his dad that he was actually happy to go to a party he planned for him.
He pinched himself and stared at the wall for a few moments before softly asking "What... the hell just happened?".
Remus skipped along the palace hallways as giddy as a school boy, he couldn't wait for tomorrow, he was gonna get to see the love of his life, dance his ass off and then probably eat so much he puked.

He ran into his mother on the way outside and she stopped him to ask if he was okay.
"Yes! Absolutely! Definitely! Ten outta ten! I'm in love and I finally understand what you guys have been telling me this whole time!" He enthused to his mom, she was caught of guard but very happy for him.
"That's fantastic! Who is he?" "Logan!" "What's his last name?" "Don't know!" "Is he from a noble family?" "Don't know!" "Do you even know where he lives?" "A house!... I think.".
She buried her face in her hands and laughed "So what I'm getting is that you aren't okay with marrying a stranger unless you meet him first." Remus shook his head and got weirdly serious for a moment "No no no! You've got it all wrong! This guy isn't some stranger he's like— wow! He's just— gah! I can't even articulate how much I like him— like, like him like him!".
"Since when do you use the word articulate?" "See!! That's him doing that!! Ahh I'm so excited!! I gotta go! I've got things to do!".
He looked at the nearby open window "Do you think I can get to my bedroom faster if I climb up the vines out the window?!" "What?" "Never mind I'll find out myself!" Said Remus already half way out the window.

"But wait, I've got guests coming over! I wanted you to meet them." Said the Queen, Remus was clinging to the vines above him and scoffed "Too late I'm already out the window!".
He crawled away like the little roach he is and the Queen just stood there amazed that her son could climb that well before regaining her composure "Well, that certainly... happened.".
The guards notified her of her guests arrival and so she walked to the foyer and waited for Patton and Roman to walk in, when she saw Patton she screamed "What the hell happened to your sons face?!".
"Oh it was terrible! Two days ago we witnessed an attempted kidnapping! A man was trying to steal a baby and Patton caught him and saved him just in time but got very badly injured in the process." "Oh my!" yelled the queen, literally clutching her pearls.
"You are so brave!" "It was merely paternal instinct your majesty.".

If there was one good thing Roman ever taught his sons it was to use all your failures to your advantage, a broken leg can be painful but can be used for sympathy, an embarrassing public event could be used for attention and a black eye comes in very handy if you want to pretend to be a savior.
The Queen lead them outside and sat down at a table in the garden.
Roman and Patton relished the moment, so close to the crown they could almost taste it.
"Will the prince be joining us?" Asked Roman, "Oh, I'm sorry no." replied the Queen.
It took everything in Patton and Roman to not instantly throw a fit and flip the table, Roman just smiled with gritted teeth and politely asked why he wouldn't join them.

"Oh it's actually pretty absurd, he crawled out a window." Roman and Patton looked at her like she was crazy, "I know, it's nuts, I was just minding my own business and then I bump into Remus and all of a sudden he's saying he's in love and that he finally figured everything out.
Who ever the guy is must be pretty special since he was gone two days in a row and only came back late at night.
I swear, children are crazy and if it wasn't for my maids I would of gone mad a long time ago.".
Roman focused on the time period she mentioned, two days, who else did they know that disappeared for two days? "Did he say his name?".

"Yes actually! It was Logan." The queen said, completely ignorant of the absolute chaos she had just caused, Roman stayed still, completely expressionless as he processed what went down.
Logan had been running off with a fucking prince, a prince that was supposed to be Patton's, how could he betray them like this? Is family for nothing? The queen waved delicately to get Roman's attention again, he snapped out of his rage induced trance.
"Sorry! Uh yes, actually we do know him, right Pat?" "Wha?" Patton was many things, evil, conniving, self absorbed, manipulative, but if there was one thing he wasn't, it was smart.
Despite the fact the Queen had just said his name, Patton still wasn't putting pieces together that the Logan they were talking about was THE Logan.
Roman nudged him "He's our cousin!" "Ah yes, our cousin." Patton said, going with the flow, his father leaned in close "Who we lovingly call Cinder...".
Patton instantly stood up, his eyes wide as saucers, fury boiling deep inside him and he couldn't resort to his normal screaming and crying because the queen was right in front of him "Excuse me for one moment." he said with a big forcefully happy smile.

He walked over to a near by shrubbery and crouched down, he screamed at the top of his lungs, flailing his arms and grunting like an enraged caveman.
He was having a total melt down, it was bad enough he got punched in the face but now the same guy who punched him is stealing his chance at being king and his hunky boyfriend! How could this happen?! He wasn't even pretty like Patton was! Why would anyone like somebody like Logan?! Especially royalty!
Remus's mom and Roman stared at the bush, both secretly wondering if Patton was aware they could hear his break down, Roman was embarrassed while the Queen was mortified.
Patton raised up from the bush and composed himself, sitting back down in his chair with his usual happy and wholesome demeanor.
"Good lord" said Remus's mom "are you okay?" She asked, Patton just did his biggest, goofiest, almost sickly sweet smile and came up with probably the worst lie ever: "There was a spider.".

Everyone shared a very nervous and awkward laugh, little did the queen know that behind Roman and Patton's obnoxiously pompous laughs there was genuine hate and rage.
Very soon, Logan would realize that sleeping in that dark rat infested cellar was the least of his problems, he was going to be in for a world of pain when Roman and Patton got home.