Lone Prince

What tomorrow may bring

I walked in the doors and Daisy sat on the leather couch waiting for Alexander, I presumed. She kept her head down.

"Did you find her?" She said sadly. "Tell me you happened to pass her by on a bench calmly sitting by the pond laughing at the ducks. Not laying in an alley dead, unnoticed, torn away by demons, please if so just keep walking."

"Daisy, stop talking." Alex said harshly.

"Shes dead isn't she!" She stood eyes closed and red, tears flowing. She grabbed a vase and threw it shattering it into pieces on the floor and collapsing on them.

"Daisy please stop! Alexander you completely stupid boy! Look what you did!" I shouted at Daisy then Alex.

"I can even hear what she would say if she were here." Daisy said her arm draped across her face. Her eyes must be filled with tears to not have seen me.

"Daisy stand up now. She's right here." Alex said rolling is eyes.

"Why didn't you tell me!" She went off on Alex as she ran toward me and hugged me.

"Please stop, it hurts." I gasped, my wounds had yet to fully heal.

"Oh dear sorry!" She said." Come on, let's find Caroline and Margret."

Daisy and Alex led me to the library where everyone sat in a circle like the first time I entered this room.

"Can you help me, Margret?" Caroline said.

They had sat me down and took a look at my stomach wounds.

"William fixed them, I'm fine." I said.

"Well, William isn't to be trusted, he's the one who had the demon get you." Caroline said sternly.

"But, you are alright. You just need time. Well dinner is ready. We should go, let everyone know your back. You can tell us what happened when we are done." Caroline said as Alex helped me up. Margret and Daisy walked out quickly.

"We will meet you later, we had been invited by the Starks, the Nephil a town over, to join them for dinner." Margret said to Caroline.

When I knew they were far enough away I asked Caroline about Margret. She was so quiet and seemed only to talk to Caroline and apparently Daisy.

"She has had a bad past with the previous people she lived with. The girls hated her, after all she's quite pretty, and the guys took advantage of her. She was afraid. She used to talk a lot, be friendly and loud. Some one told me that a Nephil who hadn't been taught how to be one as a child was looking for a home. So I talked to her and told her should could stay here."

"Oh." Was all I said. Dinner was quiet as we sat and ate. When finished we went to the parlor and I recanted my story. It grew cold so Daniel started a fire. Caroline heard all of what I said then told me she would find him and she went to her study and locked herself away.

Slowly the room emptied.

"Think about it." Alex whispered before leaving. Now it was just me and Charles. He sat silently in the arm chair. I sat alone of the couch placed infront of the window.

"I'm sorry." Charles whispered.

"Why?" I looked at him surprised.

"You were taken. I could've stopped them. Taken you back inside. I could've left you on the bench. It's all my fault."

"If you would've, I wouldn't have been saved from that evil man, Charles, you saved me without even realizing it." I said smiling," thank you."

He stood and came and sat next to me. He held my hand as we stared into the fire. I don't know what he thought about, but I thought of what was going to happen in the future.

What I would loose, or how many days I had left.