The Kingdoms Arrangement [H.S]

VI

***** Harry's POV *****

       After riding one of King Reagan's stable horses, I finally made it home before dawn. My body is sore from the long journey but I am happy to see something familiar, even with the bad memories I have here. I see Duke Baron walking out of the castle's front gate, and furrow my eyebrows. What is he doing here?

"Ah, Prince Harry! Visiting your father?" Duke Baron's face has joy across it, a lot more joyful then I am used to seeing with him.

"Something like that." I bow my head to him, and walk through the gate heading to wherever I can find my father immediately.

"King Heinrich?" I look in the throne room, the only room I haven't checked yet. My father is shooing a woman off, and turns to me.

"What are you doing here boy?" He enunciates 'you' and 'boy', and has a scowl on his face.

"I think I need to stay here, Artemis isn't acting too fond of me and I think it would be best if Kit was the only suitor from our kingdom." I look up after staring at my feet, his scowl deepens.

"My orders were clear, you were to court Princess Artemis, you shouldn't be questioning my orders should you Harry?" My father steps towards me, with a questioning look in his eyes.

"But I-" I am silenced by my father striking me, blood rushing right to my eye.

"If you do not leave in 10 seconds you will be getting more then a bruised eye." My father grits his teeth and walks towards his throne. "TEN! NINE!" He begins to yell, the floor shaking beneath me. I ran out of the room as fast as possible, making it through the halls, and to the front gate. The guards try to stop me to say goodbye but I run to the horse I rode here on and mount it, taking off.

      Once I am in King Reagan's castle, I rush to my brother's room looking for someone to talk to. My eye feels swollen, and is definitely bruised. It is around seven in the morning, so I keep my head down hoping no one will see me trying to sneak back in. I made it to Kit's room quicker then I thought, knocking on his door this time. Kit opens the door with tired eyes, and looks me over once and pulls me into my room quickly.

"What happened to your eye?!" Kit looks at me worried, and then turns around looking for something to I assume grab ice. Kit finds a bucket and rushes out to the hall and asks a handmaiden to grab ice quickly.

"Father-" Kit quickly looks at me puzzled.

"You went back home? Why on earth would you do that? Father gave us strict orders, you especially." Kit's brainwashed mind baffled at the thought of me disobeying our father. I feel myself breaking thinking about how to tell him what Artemis said to me last night. I try sucking the feeling up but her words constantly flood my brain like a tsunami.

"Artemis." I take a deep breath before trying to explain. "For some reason she had the most hateful look towards me last night. "I tried being kind to her last night, and she basically told me how I was a burden to everyone, and she even brought up how I was a burden to mother and that's why she died." one singular tear falls down my cheek, I quickly wipe it away trying to be strong. Anger shoots across Kit's face and he begins to get dressed. "What're you doing?" I look at him worried about what is going through his mind.

"I am going to find that girl, and find out what's going on." Kit rushfilly puts his black leather boots on and walks out the door, slamming it behind him.

"You know Harry, everyone leaves you because you are a burden. Your own mother died because she couldn't handle you. So just leave me alone." rushes into my brain quickly and this time I break.