The Return Of The Sword (Romulus Agustus) [TBS]

Part 17

I stood humming to myself a little as I washed up some of our laundry lisbeth sat at the table doing some sewing and y/n sat with her knitting away while she snacked on some bread and honey often stroking her now large bump, Arthur had ran off he said he was going out on an adventure I guess I should be worried but he's a tough kid he knows what he's doing... I hope. I finished up and sat down at the table with the girls when suddenly the door open to a sight that frightened me, Arthur stood with the sword in his hand I froze up looking at him, my son, my only son holding the sword that was the bain of my life

"Y/n! Take it from him. NOW!" I yelled she got up and took the sword from him throwing it on the table instantly I wrapped the tablecloth around it to shield It from view

"Arthur where on earth did you get that?" She asked

"I found it! I found it in the woods where merlin always takes us walking it's the sword mummy the sword from his stories" arthur explained

"Arthur go to your room. Take your sister"

"But dadd-"

"Now! Go to your room"

The children both ran off upstairs with the dog I froze looking at even the hinted shape of the sword below the table cloth

"Romulus." She said her words stinging me like an ice-cold blade but she stepped over her warm hand caressing my own "I think the time has come for you to tell me the truth."

"I- I don't know what you're talking about" I pushed her away turning to stand by the fireplace watching the flames trying to fight away my memories

"Romulus, you have not been the same now for weeks and the moment you saw that sword you froze up like the lake water on Yuletide eve, you cannot run from the truth any longer," she said forcing me to face her "the truth. It seems has come to you," she said flicking the tablecloth enough to reveal the shine of the blade "I'm your wife. The mother of your children. And I love you will all my heart. I have lived my life behind secrets, and walls you have concreted. Tell me the truth, or I swear I will walk away from you and never return."

"No please!" I begged her holding her arms "I can't lose you."

"Then tell me"

"... It's a long story" I said taking her hands

"Then I shall make a pot of tea" she smiled she went and made a pot of tea a cup for me and one for herself with more still in the pot she sat me down at the table with her beside me I couldn't stop staring at that sword till she turned my face to her "yes romulus?"

"Long ago, here in Britannia something fell from the heavens in a shoot of light, it was found by a master blacksmith who worked without food or rest for three days and nights to craft the finest blade for the concorer julia cesar, but when he and his dynasty fell the sword was sealed away in a island fortress, it was blessed with a legand and a destiny, in britannia was I forged to fit the hand that is destined to rule,"

"Right. And what does that have to do with it?"

"This... is that sword"

"It is! What on earth is it doing here?"

"It was brought here, returned here."

"Romulus. What's that got to do with you?"

"Y/n. You want the truth?"

"All of it"

"My name. Is Romulus Augustus, last emporer of rome, Last son of the blood line of the Cesar's."

"Aug- Augustus. Rome. Cesar. Emporer." She said in shock "your an emporer! I'm married to a cesar! I have slept with an emporer! I birthed two Cesar's blood children! I'm carrying cesar blood inside me I am carrying an emprorers baby! I gave an Augustus, an emporer of rome and her empire, a cesar a blow job yesterday!"

"Okay okay calm down darling" I smiled not being able to help but laugh but she went to her knees bowing her head "what are you doing?"

"Bowing before the emporer"

"Ohh darling. Your my wife, you don't have to bow to me," I laughed helping her up "I'm not an emporer not anymore, I left that life behind me"

"Why?"

"When I became cesar, ruler of all my rein lasted I do believe it was a week. We where attacked my mother and father slaughtered, I was taken prisoner, torchered and abused, I was saved, rescued but we had to find sanctuary, the only safe place was here in brittannia and even then still evil found me, I lost freinds, family, hundreds possibly thousands died so that I could live on, the name meant nothing to me, the crown was not something I was willing to fight over, I was not willing to see bloodshed over me and my fate, I gave up the sword, and the name took a life here with the few who traveled with me, merlin, mira, even a few of the roman guards who stood by me all this time, we all took new names and staied in safety" I explained "I threw that damn sword away and yet... it keeps coming back to me, it haunts me. I don't care if I was ever destined to rule I don't want it, I don't want to, all I want is what I have, the life I've made here with you"

"Did she know?"

"She did. We met when I arrived, we where just children then. I didn't want to tell you, I wanted a whole new life I wanted to leave that horrid past behind me in the hope it would leave me be" I explain "are you upset with me?"

".... No. I understand why you did it just please romulus no more secrets"