King Magnus and his Bumble Bee (Karlnap)

~Chapter 17~

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Also: I hope everyone had a nice thanksgiving and I am thankful for all the reads and votes on this story. I know it's a slow development, but thank you sticking around...it means so so to me, you have no idea :')

WARNING: severe angst(screaming, crying, fighting)

Alt explanation: This chapter do be heavy as f-- 0_0

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No One's P.O.V

Sapnap followed karl into the thick wood that lined the castle. As they walked, karl started to speed up, dodging and ducking quickly through the brush. Sapnap increased his speed in an effort to catch up, but karl only seemed to move faster.

Soon sapnap could only hear the sounds of karl's footsteps. He did his best to follow them until he reached the familiar bush. He pushed his way through and found himself standing in the middle of their spot...but he stood alone. He listened for footsteps, but they had stopped.

"Karl?...Karl where are y-"

Sapnap was suddenly tackled by karl from above, bringing them to the ground in a heap

Karl rolled off into the grass, laughing and holding his stomach.

"Holy honk karl!" sapnap said emphatically, sitting up and brushing leaves off his shoulders.

"I swear those trees were impossible to climb when we were kids, but I got up there no problem" he said with a laugh as he sat up

Sapnap only rolled his eyes and smirked, lightly hugging his knees as he settled facing karl. Karl's sat cross legged (Criss cross applesause) facing sapnap and sighed, his smile fleeting.

"Are you alright?" Sapnap asked

"Did you ever have a place like this?" karl asked somberly

"A place?"

"All those years away from here...did you ever find another place like this, where you could go to sort of....escape?" karl said softly, looking down and plucking at the grass

And for the first time since he came back, sapnap thought about the life he left behind in the The Crimson Forest: his dad's house, the belongings he left behind, the vast desert that went on for miles. A feeling of anxiety started to grow in his stomach.

"Sapnap?" karl asked, looking up

"I lived in the Crimson Forest for 13 years: a place so hot and dry and miserable, that not even weeds would grow. There was no trees or grass or even cactus flowers, nothing but sand. It was like a prison, a limbo worse then hell." sapnap said angerly, his anxiety growing

"Sapn--" karl tried to comfort him, but he was interrupted

"I hated it there. I wanted to leave the minute we arrived, but we had no were else to go. The only place I've ever known was one I was never allowed to return to. Everything I had ever known my whole life was taken away, and I couldn't do or say anything about it! I had to start all over again and for why? Because someone in a high place felt insecure and decided to ruin the lives of hundreds of people but never stopped to THINK ABOUT WHAT HE WAS DOING TO ME!!...*sniff*, *sob*" Sapnap broke down and cried softly. He stood up in a huff and turned around, trying to regain himself

Karl was empathetic of his friend's pain, a kind that ran deeper than most

 "I'm....sorry.......I know how you feel"

Anxiety turned to instant angered disbelief as sapnap took his hands away and looked at karl, tears streaming down his cheeks.

"You...how could you POSSIBLY know how I feel, what I had to GO through? You got to stay here, and live in a castle where everything you ever wanted was given, and all was done for you! You didn't have to watch your father leave the house he grew up in and you were raised in, or watch him struggle to make ends meet by slaving over a hot stove to sell pastries day in and day out for 10 years, or hold his hand and watch him die in a strange bed without ever seeing his home again, leaving you all alone and lost! YOU never had to leave your life behind. HOW COULD YOU KNOW"