Obsession and Betrayal: A Royal Love Triangle

Adrenaline

Without a thought Frederick rushed forward grabbing the clothes on the man's shoulder throwing him back onto the ground, making him hit his head hard. Immediately Frederick reached into the water to grab her. Pulling her out as quickly as possible, Ida gasping for air and coughing up water, made Fredrick's blood boil. Ida almost instinctively clutched to his close and curled into his grasp almost forgetting who was holding her, as he pushes the went strands of hair long hair off of her face,

"Are you alright my sweet lily" he says to her holding her face

She shakes her head in response "no" she croaks out,

"I'm scared" tears pool in her eyes, as she rubs her chest. Fredrick clenches his jaw averting his focus to the man that attacked her, letting go of her he gets to his feet charging towards him. Pulling him up from the ground, slamming him up against a tree, blood running from his head. Fredrick looks him in the eye with anger, instead confusion painting his face.

"Francis?" Fredrick says now beyond confusion of the situation, his anger now boiling back up again, raising his voice.

"Are you insane?!" he yells, grabbing Francis against the tree harder.

"Get the hell off of me" Francis shouts hitting Fredricks chest pushing him off balance.

The two brothers look at eachother feet apart with anger seething through every breath they take. Breaking the twos staring contest, Ida mutters something to herself. Frederick quickly pivots his head around to look at Ida, now standing up dripping wet, tears flowing from her eyes. She takes a stomping charge towards the two, her eyes fixed on her assailant Frederick steps in her path snuggly wrapping his hands around her waist keeping in place.

"I will kill you!" Ida shouts towards Francis, kicking and thrashing against Fredrick.

"And you," she said pointing her focus at Frederick,
"Who invited you here? You are less than welcome."

"How dare you, how dare the both of you , HOW DARE YOU!!" She shouts over and over again, shoving Fredrick.
Ida opens her mouth to yell at the men more but a knot forms in her throat, grabbing her throat gagging for air, her chest on the verge of collapsing. She can't seem to stop coughing as water and blood coming from her mouth. Every breath feels like swallowing needles as she's struggling to breath she poops onto the ground, hyperventilating Fredrick panics not knowing what to do. Stooping down to her level. Idas breathing slows and her body relaxes her arms fallin down to her side, her body going limp, and her head falling back almost hitting the ground. Fredricks heart almost came out of his body at this site as he cheats her pulse and breathing seeing as she is perfectly fine and just validly exhausted. He lets out a long sigh of relief wrapping her around his neck linking his arm under her knees lifting her up. Leaving the greenhouse headed to the courtyard entrance of the Royal Palace.

Francis coughs out a nervous laugh "Frederick, — it wasn't even really my fault,...."

"You know Frederick it was kind of her fault, I didn't even really do anything, she was the one that escalated things. Honest."

Frederick stops in his tracks, not even taking the first step onto the stairs.
"Your a bastard for pulling another stunt like this" Frederick states flatly

"You'd do the same and you cant act like you wouldn't"

"Francis, — your projecting your fucked up morals on me. You're a god damn stalker and you know it, I'm not afraid to have you locked up."

"You can't do that, I would hate to not see the two of you again" Francis says, reaching out his hand to touch Idas hair.
Idas' sister had brought the attention of her parents to the matter guards and a doctor no to far in front of him as the guards took no hesitation to drag Francis into a prison cell. He unfortunately escaped days later.