𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝

𝙎𝙄𝙓

Anger. That's all Hal felt when a man interrupted his meeting, to tell him someone had tried to Murder his Fiancé. Pure anger.

He ran out the room, and didn't stop until he made it to their shared large room. When he walked in he saw a man cleaning a large wound on the side of her head.

"Out" He yelled

The man quickly left, not wanting to anger his king any further.

"My love" Hal said, his face white. He couldn't believe it. All these years he had done his job at protecting her, but now? He felt as though he had failed, he had failed her.

"I'm ok" her shaky voice said as Hal sat in the seat beside her.

"I'll kill him. I'll kill who did this to you. How dare they!" Hal yelled making Colette flinch.

He noticed this and his eyes softened "I'm sorry I just, I'm just so sorry" he said.

Colette leaned over and hugged him tightly, tears now eventually falling. She had held them in when she was brought inside, she had held them in while the doctor cleaned her wound, but she could never hold them in with him.

"Shh, it's alright, he'll never hurt you again, no one will" Hal promised as he held her tightly in his arms.

"I'm ok" she said pulling away wiping her tears, but wincing as her wound now stung badly.

"I probably shouldn't have ordered that doctors out" Hal said holding back a smile.

"No" Colette said smiling.

Hal gently pulled her a little close to him, before picking up the cloth, and beginning to wipe the wound again, which was almost clean. He wrapped cloth around her head, to stop any bacteria getting to it.

"Why don't you lie down, I've got something I must take care of" Hal told her and she nodded.

He helped her out of her dress, leaving her in her under gown, before helping her get into the bed, and sitting on the edge of it as she did.

"I'm sorry I didn't protect you"'He mumbled staring down.

"Hal you must know, I blame no one but that man. I'm not angry at you, I could never be" she whispered as she took his hand.

He smiled down at her, before getting up, kissing her gently on the forehead "I love you" he told her.

"I love you more" she whispered back.

He smiled, bidding her a farewell as he left their room, leaving to take care of the assassin situation.

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Hal marched down the stairs, guards with him, not stopping until he reached the dungeons, where the man was being held.

He looked down at the man who was kept in a chair. He wished he could kill him, but he knew he was important for information.

"Qui es-tu?" (Who are you?) Hal asked him.

The man looked up at him, saying nothing.

"He seeks asylum, in return for his tale" William explained from beside him.

"Asylum? He almost killed the future queen of England?!" Hal yelled before calming himself down, knowing he must look at this as the king, not as Colette's fiancé, that's what she'd want.

Hal huffed before saying "I do not doubt this can be arranged" he said as he sat in the seat directly opposite the man.

"Peut-on ou pas? Ty es le roi non? Le mari de cette femme non?" (Can it or not? You are the king no? The Husband of that woman?) The assasin asked trying to aggravate Hal.