Royalty comes with Pride

Chapter 10

"Oh my giddy god, what on earth happened here!?"

The doctor got two guards to carry Yumiko up to her room, it took them a while of being shouted at that they were doing it wrong for what felt like years before the doctor was satisfied. He requested time alone with Yumiko to check her condition but the royals weren't letting him that easily. "You can't make me not be able to see my sister after she's passed out down the stairs. I'm staying, and Damien has to be with me all the time so two of us have every right to be in there." The doctor sighed and said nothing as he couldn't argue with the Prince and maintain a good job position. He looked questioningly at the prince and princess of Estrilda.

"She's my fiance, I'd like to be in knowledge of what is happening to her. My sister wouldn't like to be left alone so we all stay, unless you have any saying against us?" The man was trembling, the prince turned out to be quite the formidable character and the poor doctor was afraid of the four royals who stood before him. "Very well, while I get my equipment ready could you get her maid? The princess can't stay in that dress after what's happened to her and you two." He nodded at Leo and Lumiya, "Should probably notify your parents as to where you are." Amir knew this was some kind of ploy to get them away but the old man had a point, the King and Queen of Estrilda would want to know where their heirs are and Yumiko would need to be changed by a servant. He told the doctor they'd all be back and they completed the small tasks given before returning.

"Her maid will be arriving shortly with a collection of nightgowns and says she can change the princess periodically." Amir and Damien were the first pair to return, the doctor had the princess lying on her bed inside some kind of frame. It looked like a case for a human body, a sarcophagus or whatever they're called. However the sides were bent outwards and her limbs were far from in a regular place. It hadn't looked that bad when she was crumpled on the floor but then again, it would have been mostly covered by her dress and the angle of the fall. "Oh my goodness, she looks terrible." The other two had returned with Lumiya announcing it through the regard of Yumiko's state of health.

The four watched and flinched as the doctor pushed Yumiko's bones back into place, each manipulation making a loud crack. "Are you sure it doesn't harm her more doing that? It doesn't sound as painless as you make it seem." Lumiya was scowling at the doctor and thoroughly disapproved of his methods. Her brother was hiding his face in her shoulder with his hands over his ears, unable to bear the noise or to watch. Damien was stood, staring as if he didn't quite believe any of it had happened and Amir... Amir was watching, holding Damien as if his and his sister's lives depended on it. The tension in his grip was from worry of if she didn't ever fully recover, or recover at all.

The maid arrived shortly after the doctor finished with his analysis of her injuries and had put every bone back into the right place. Nothing was unlike normal for a few seconds, not until Yumiko's maid asked for everyone to leave the room while she changed the Princess however the doctor wasn't happy with leaving. "You might hurt her again, I can't have you breaking anything even if by accident. The children can leave but I'm staying." Nobody was happy with his response. Leo and Amir moved forward as if to start a fight but Lumiya was the one to speak. "If you're staying then we have a right to as well. Think about it, we're all either family or soon to be family. It's not like we're common folk or anything, if anything we should be concerned about you being in here while she's being changed." The two boys turned back to see something nobody had ever seen before. The Princess had her arms folded, leaning against the doorframe. Her dress sleeves were pushed up to her elbows and her face was wearing the most terrifying stare Leo had ever seen from her. It was directed at the doctor, he was looking back at her.

"You can't talk back to me, I'm the one who's been entrusted to help her recover. And if I want everyone out then you all get out. SO LEAVE!" Nobody did, and none of them would. They trusted him less than the civilians of other Kingdoms. However Amir's father walked in to the argument and sent the young 4 out. "Just so he can help her, he won't get anything done if he's arguing with you lot." He turned his gaze to stare out the window, "it's getting late anyways. Son may you take Leo and Lumiya to their chambers, goodnight to you all." And he left.

Amir and Damien walked the Prince and Princess to their rooms, bid them goodnight and left. Damien had no place in the castle without Amir, so was confused when he was tugged to the right after the next staircase. "I'm checking on her, I don't care what anyone says I will see her before midnight." The boy knew he couldn't go anywhere without the Prince by his side, he was being dragged anyways so had not much of a choice.

When they got to the room Amir didn't even bother knocking, he burst open the door. Damien was stood behind Amir and couldn't see a thing however the Prince had gone rigid, with fists clenched.