His Royal Highness

Truth

I woke up the next morning and didn't recognize the room I was in, I looked around and turned to the left and saw Akuma sleeping. Why was I here? The last thing I remember was... was Levi. I looked at Akuma again and his eyes started to open and he looked at me.
"Good Morning." He said, I just stared at him.
"We didn't..." I said, he smiled.
"No, you were rogue and It took forever to snap you out of it, you passed out and I brought you here since it was closer than your chambers." he said as he sat up.
"Thank god." I said as I got out of bed.

I walked over to the fire and sat down in the chair, I felt weak and could barely move around. Akuma got up and sat near me.
"What did I do?" I asked him.
"You put a crater in the east forest." he said.
"Great...another thing to deal with." I said as someone knocked at the door, Akuma went and opened it and Violet burst in and fell to her knees at my feet.
"Are you okay? He didn't touch you did he?" she asked me, I grabbed her hands.
"No, he didn't I'm fine Violet." I said, she smiled and then looked at him.
"Why would you bring her to your bed chambers? She is a married woman, you are a bachelor this would tarnish her reputation!" she yelled at him.
"Violet, calm down. I think my reputation is fine, it's Levi's whose reputation is dwindling." I said. Violet sucked her teeth and sat down on the floor next to my chair, I think this was her way of saying to keep your distance and it made me smile just a little.
"I have no intentions of taking my brother's wife, I want to bring him back. I would rather not be the crowned prince again, it such tasking work." he said as he yawned.
"That is why you are the forgotten prince, he never cared to rule." Violet said, he laughed.
"Why would I? I saw how my father was he barely paid any attention to our mother, he was always King first Father never. Mother raised us." He said I felt sadness in his voice.
"Were you there when she was killed?" I asked him.
"I was." He said, my heart broke for him just as it did for Levi.

I tapped Violet and told her telepathically that I would like food, she got up and left to go get it. I didn't know why I felt the need to talk with him, he meant nothing to me but my brother-in-law but I felt I needed to be there for him.
"Did you leave the Capital right after?" I asked him if the age gap between Akuma and Levi was a mystery. Levi recounts his brother is only 5 years older than him and yet Akuma says he is 7 years older than him. Something about this family seems off to me, there are different stories from different people, and I felt the need to speak with someone I never thought I would.
"I want you to take me to the dungeons after breakfast please." I asked Akuma he looked at me.
"Me?" he asked me.
"Who else is in this room, Prince Akuma...." I said. Violet returns with food and we eat, she helps me wash and dress and I sit back down and wait for Akuma to be done. I sent Violet on another task with Noah, I needed to know more info about their mother. I hear the bathroom door open and turn to see him in a towel, he was even more muscular than Levi was and I noticed taller too.
"Why not dress in the bathroom since I am out here, Prince Akuma." I said as I turned back towards the fire.
"It's so hot in there, I'd sweat away my nice clean bath." he said.
"I think you lost all your royal etiquette while away." I said, he laughs.
"I don't think I ever had it." he said, I chuckled a little.

He was finished dressing and I took his arm as he led me through the castle to the dungeon, I didn't want to do this but I needed to know if my thinking was true.
"Something seems to be on your mind, Princess." he said, I looked up at him.
"I'm just... overthinking as usual." I said.
"Overthinking? How so?" he asked.
"You and Levi have two completely different memories of your mother's death and your ages, it's not lies either you both are telling the truth but how?" I said I started pondering.
"I never noticed... I haven't talked to my dear brother, he hates me after all." he said.
"Seems like this new Levi doesn't, so maybe someone messed with either your memories or his." I said, he chuckled.
"You are an exceptional woman, Princess." he said with a smile, I felt my face get hot and looked away from him.
"I am only being who I've always been." I said with a pout.
he smiles.