The Dark Hour

--------Astrid--------

I yelped when they threw me on the ground, in a room full of people. I weakly stood up and wiped the blood that was still running down my face.

"Gavin who is this?" A guy asked standing up and walking over to us. "And how did she get in here?"

"I'm not completely sure. I was just going to check on the angels and all of them were gone, I found her sneaking around though."

"I'll take care of her Aaron." Quentin said walking over to me. He quickly grabbed my arm and dragged me out of the room and we went into a different one and he handcuffed me to the bedpost. "What the hell are you doing here?"

"One I'm breaking the deal with you and two where the fuck is Lalna?!" I snapped back.

"Oh your little buddy, right. Well we're keeping him and now we're going to keep you."

"I'm no good to you."

"Oh but you are good to my son." He said with a smile.

"What do you even want with Axel."

"Well he is my son-"

"No! He isn't your son! You're his step dad not his real dad!" I snapped cutting him off.

"But he will take over my spot whether you like it not Astrid. He's not fit to be king."

"You don't know that! He's doing a great job at what he is doing."

"No he's doing your job, what are you doing running around doing other things while he is running your country." I didn't have any words it's kinda true I have dumped everything on him. "No words? I knew I was right." He left and I sat on the bed and I heard a noise, but I couldn't tell what it was. Was it gas? I looked around and my vision got blurry.

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"Mommy!" I yelled running down the hall. I looked behind me but I didn't see the monster that was chasing me. I started to slow down and started to walk to find my mom. I turned my corner and someone screamed and I screamed and they started to laugh. I looked up and saw Vincent. I bit my bottom lip and started to cry.

"No! Oh god Astrid I'm so sorry." He said quickly picking me up trying to calm me down. "I didn't mean to scare you. Please calm down." I sniffled.

"I-I hate you!" I shouted. He laughed some.

"Love you too Astrid." He said wiping my face of tears. "Let's get you back in bed." I nodded.

"You won't scare me anymore?" Vincent shook his head and smiled.

"No I promise Princess." He said laying me down in my bed. "Night."

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I groaned and looked around, I was in the same room as earlier. What happened? I shook my head and saw that I was still handcuffed to the bed. I sighed, and fell backwards on the bed. I quickly sat back up and saw that the guy from before I believe his name is Gavin.

"Hey, you ok? You look kinda pale," He said sounding a bit concerned.

"Oh you know just got knocked out for who knows how long, oh and can't forget about the handcuffs either."

"Right, can't help you with that since I don't have the keys."

"Great and like Quentin will give you the key. I'm fine anyways so why are you in here?" He sighed.

"Maybe because this is my room, and I'm supposed to keep an eye on you."

"Well that shouldn't be hard." I said moving my arm around banging the handcuffs around. "I'm not going any time soon."