Prince of the Seven Seas - l.s

Chapter 31

A/N- Last chapter until epilogue + sequel

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Louis found his breathing in the pit of his throat suddenly becoming stuck. His limbs contrasted vastly with his heart that felt to be moving at a lightning swift pace that willed for his chilled blood to begin moving once more, but it was unable to.

Harry had just been shot.

The words swarmed his psych repeatedly like a similar bullet to his own brain and each time the short sentence hit him, the power seemingly increased a significant amount that made an immediate and evitable headache begin to rise.

Louis could feel body begging to take his sight off from the armed male ahead and to turn his attention back to the person by his frozen hands that he knew needed his concentrate more than anything at the moment.

Even as his eyes rested in contact with brown eyed man, his mind continuously replayed the sight of Harry's body silently descending to the ground after the shot of the gun.

It made the prince's stomach clench as though he'd just been punched.

"Why did you shoot him!?"

His voice came out more forcefully than he originally anticipated and unlike how his body felt to still be stuck in shock, his voice managed to come off as strong, a fact he was silently grateful for.

Dark hair and strongly built, the man who stood before with his gun still steadily pointed looked to be several years older than Louis himself, his appearance was clean but at the same time it didn't set off safe feelings as a possible ally, something that immediately brought qualms into Louis's being once more.

"He was too dangerous to leave alive, obviously." The answer was spilled from a pair of lips that were curled into a rather simple smile, "I don't know if you're aware or not Your Highness, but he's supposedly one of the best pirates out there."

"I know who he fucking is, alright!?" Louis shouted back almost instantly, his eyes flashed dangerously and now his emotions were beginning to bounce. Harry needed medical attention if he wasn't already dead and now this man was here complicating things. He was beginning to go crazy.

The brunet scowled heavily, "He wasn't doing anything but fucking walking! How fucking dangerous is that!? Give me the real reason as to why you shot him right now!" He felt his body tense almost as though he expected the man to shoot him for his words, and as he did so Louis allowed one of his hands that had once been placed Harry's back to trail up to his neck to feel his temperature.

At this moment he truly wished Eleanor was here or he had some sort of true knowledge on how the body worked when one was dead.

Harry was still completely unresponsive. Not a groan or a moan escaped him even as Louis touched his still warm skin and the prince tried to ignore the pain inflicted in his body and the tears that threatened to well up at his eyes, but he quickly blinked them away.

It hurt too much to think about and he had to stay focused on himself getting out of the forest alive.

He moved his gaze back up to the man who had actually just killed Harry right before his eyes.

Louis's mind briefly flashed back to the same pirate who'd been shot down from Harry that one time in his study from the rogue ship that had spotted him and he suddenly found some possible reasons as to why this was all happening.

"I'm here to take you back to London."

The prince's eyes immediately widened and now his full attention was turned to the man who looked to be no more than a common man you'd find in the streets of England.