House of Caliban

Chapter 18

Haylan was mopey.

He was 17 years old now and his coronation was tomorrow. He received lots of wonderful and thoughtful gifts from his friends and family and overall had a great day.

So he should be happy.

But Blaise still hadn't initiated a proper courting between the two of them.

No courting present.

No flowers.

No contract.

Nothing.

Something inside of Haylan didn't want to be the one to initiate the courting. He knew this made him the more submissive of the relationship, but he was responsible for the rest of his empire. He just wanted to be taken care of.

What if Blaise didn't want to court him?

What if Blaise was waiting on Haylan to court him instead?

What if he was getting tired of Haylan and his drama? They hadn't spent much time together in the last week due to how busy Haylan had been taking care of problems with the Spanish Monarchy, the ICW, and the plans for his coronation. It hadn't left him much time to just be with Blaise.

Even today, his birthday, he only got to see Blaise for a couple of hours when everyone else visited. Then he was back to the plans for the coronation. Final fittings for his clothes and his crown, meetings with his finalized security team, adding more power to the ward stone just in case, and even double-checking the house elves' menu for the night. It was very busy but Haylan missed Blaise.

"Haylan pay attention, you need to read this contract with the Romanian government over. Make sure it is everything we talked about and then sign it so we can get the security teams we need for tomorrow." Narcissa said demanding Haylan's attention.

"Yes 'Cissa I know. Why is Romania agreeing to hand over its government to us again? I know we had control in the past but they have been without oversight for over forty years now." Haylan had to ask, it was a weird request he hadn't expected from Romania.

"They didn't have time to set up a stable government when the Caliban line was supposedly wiped out. They have been doing patchwork government for the last forty years. It is not stable and the economy is very close to crashing. If you take over again then you can prevent an all-out economical collapse as well as provide them with much-needed stability and security." Narcissa dutifully informed Haylan.

"I do not have an heir to run their government full time though. I doubt I will have the time to handle their day-to-day politics on top of running the Empire." Haylan protested.

"You will have to find someone within the family you trust to set up as your pseudo-heir to take over the Romanian government. You should do this anyway because what happens if something bad happens to you Haylan, even temporarily? You have nothing set up so the Empire you are so carefully building up will not immediately collapse with your absence." Narcissa advised making Haylan groan.

"Well if for any reason anything happens to me you and Andromeda are in charge of the Empire. The both of you taught me and you are of the Black and Caliban line, you will be able to hold down the fort if I am indisposed. Sirius isn't healed enough or mature enough to take on the mantle of ruling the Romanian government. I don't trust Lucius as far as I could throw him, sorry Cissa. Draco is too young and immature to handle a position such as that but he could perhaps assist whoever is put in place so he could learn if he was interested. Ted and Nymphadora have their own jobs that I doubt they would leave, nor do they have the necessary political background. I don't know Cissa, I will have to hold off on making that decision. I do not want to set Romania up for failure just due to nepotism."