Enchanted Tale

Fourteen: Departed

"What was that about?" I asked as Harry walked over to me.

"It's nice to see you without bars holding you in." He smiled looking down at me. He was only a bit taller than I, but because of my leg, I crouched a bit.

I laughed shaking my head at his comment. "Funny."

"I just had to make sure you were going to be holding up on your end of the deal." He said putting his hands on his waist.

"What was my part again?" I asked bringing my hand up again sheilding my eyes from the sunlight.

"I stay with you for a week, and you show me what it's like to live a normal life."

"Well that depends on your definition of normal. But I don't think you really want live the life as a poor soul. Especially for a week."

"If I didn't, I wouldn't have made this deal with you." He retaliated.

"What is your facsination with being poor? You have everything you could possibly want, here. Why are you trying to give that up?"

"Being a prince isn't all it's cracked up to be. You have schedules to attend to. You have politics to talk about. You have a duty to the kingdom. That's just not me. I don't want any of that. My father tells me that I'm incredibly lucky to have such responsibilities. But I don't believe so."

I looked to the floor. I thought being royal meant sitting around getting fat and stealing money from the people. I almost felt bad for him until I realised that others had responsibilites to keep their families alive and were barely achieving that.

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{King Jack's POV}

I stood by the window watching my son talk to that wench. Harry seemed to be having a joyus conversation with her. It scared me because I've seen that look before. Not on him, on another. That look meant destruction and I could not tolerate that.

"Guard!" I shouted. Two of them came running up to me.

"Yes my lord?" One asked.

"Go down there and get that peasant away from my son. Take her back to the village. I don't want her near my castle."

"Yes sire."

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{Elle's POV}

"So your father is letting you stay with me for a week? Just like that?" I asked in a disbelieving tone.

"Not exactly. I told him that I was staying in the village so I could see how I need to run this kingdom when the time comes."

"So, he has no idea that you're staying with me?"

"Well no. But you're apart of this kingdom, so it doesn't matter who I stay with."

"I suppose. But your father and I aren't on exactly good terms, he's not going to be happy if he finds out you're with me." I explained.

"Well then let's hope he doesn't find out." Harry smirked.

"Hey! Get away from him!" That demand startled both Harry and me. The guard grabbed me by the shoulders and shoved me back into the cage. I tried to put up a fight but it didn't help. The other guard grabbed Harry and started to pull him away much gentler than the one handling me.

"Wait! No, stop! I have to talk to her!" He protested.

"I'm sorry sire, orders from the king." I heard. Of course the king did this. I didn't know what this meant for Harry and I. Because we were being dragged away we wouldn't be able to talk everything through. Does this mean our deal is no longer struck? I don't know when I'll see him again. I had no other contact with him.

The horse set in motion and I was being taken away from this gigantic place. I messed with the cuffs around my wrists. I looked up feeling a pair of eyes on me. They were Harry's. The guard was still pulling him away. It felt like his eyes were trying to tell me something. But it was a message I could not unravel.

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I had fallen asleep during the ride, but was rudly awoken by the keys unlocking the door. I shifted up ready to be free. The guard reached in the cage to grab me which was most unusual. He then threw me out it. I landed properly on my face. Before I could retaliate he rode away on the horse.

I struggled to get up. In fact, I couldn't. I pushed myself up only to fall back down. I don't understand why these people were so inhumane towards me. I thought about using my magic against them, but I didn't know how nor did I want them to have a reason to kill me. I shuffled back against a wall. Once the pain went down, I looked up trying to figure out where I was. I wasn't quite familiar with this side of the village.

I looked for the sun as it was already setting. That was bad news for me because there weren't any woods in sight. Which meant my home was far from here, and I wasn't going to get there tonight. I laid my head back against the wall trying to comprehend everything that's happened. I also needed to check my level of sanity which I knew was running low.

I checked my leg to see how it was doing. The pain had gone down a bit but it wasn't down enough. The piece of Harry's shirt was spotted in blood. Something must have happened whilst I was sleeping. A rat must've infected me, or dirt may have found it's way inside and is probably irritating it. I sat there praying to the heavens that this nightmare would end. I just wanted to go home.

My pity party soon came to an end as I started to drift off. I didn't get much sleep in the dungeon, but for the bit that I did, it was most uncomfortable. But given the circumstances, I had no choice but to sleep anywhere and being exhausted helped that bit plenty.

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My eyes slowly fluttered open to the sight of a warm fire, and my leg resting on a pillow which sat on another chair. I shuffled up having no idea where I was. My leg felt weird. I couldn't move it at all. I couldn't even feel it. I came to a conclusion that there was no getting out of here, wherever here was.

I heard humming outside the door. Whoever this person was I didn't know what exactly they were doing to me. Determined by my leg, I couldn't tell if they were my aid or hindrance. They drew closer to the door. I braced myself for the unexpected.

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Well who do you think it is? Tell me! I wanna know. I'm sorry for taking forever to update I was casted in a play then had an "actors tournament" to go to. I'll update more but I'm also grounded so I don't know how much more I'll update. Thank you so much for reading <33

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