Fallen Hard

Manoeuvre

 Someday you're gonna see the things that I see
You're gonna want the air that I breathe

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-At the Roial Palatium-

The loud crash echoed throughout the corridor outside the King's office chamber.

"You need to stop breaking the furniture, Zayn!" A deep voice interrupted Zayn from displacing the cocktail cabinet.

Zayn looked up at Harry, who was slouched against the wall. "I just wanted to see him on his birthday."

"What happened then? Aren't you happy? Whenever you get back from a stalking session over the boy, you smile like an idiot for the whole day. What happened now?"

Zayn took out a bourbon from the cabinet and gulped it down without answering Harry. After a few moments, he threw the bottle across the room, where it crashed against the wall, staining it. "He's in love with somebody else, a filthy human." Zayn took out another bottle and threw it at the wall. "He fucking loves somebody else. I let myself fall for someone after so long and look what happened."

Harry moved closer to Zayn and placed a hand on his shoulder. "You can't be sure about that. Did you-"

"I fucking saw him kissing someone else. Isn't that enough proof to be sure of?" Zayn shouted at the green eyed vampire. "I shouldn't have let myself fall for him. Now look what he has done to me." Zayn's eyes had turned red from all the alcohol. He knew tears would have sprung up in his eyes if only he had had the ability to produce them.

"It's okay, Zayn. Calm down." Harry pulled his best friend into a hug. All the centuries he had been with Zayn, he had never seen his King so broken. It was as if the boy had cast a spell on the King, one Zayn couldn't break free from. 

"He's the first person I find myself getting attached to in centuries and his heart is already taken by a filthy human. I just-" Zayn stopped himself and pulled away and made his way to the already shattered marble desk. He picked up a violet scroll and a pen and started writing down an order.

"What are you doing, Zayn?" Harry walked over to where Zayn was bent over, furiously writing. Zayn didn't respond and after finishing writing his order, he shoved the scroll into Harry's chest. "Give this to Louis in the morning and ask him to carry out this command immediately."

Harry read the scroll and looked up at his King. "You are going to execute the boy's lover's whole family? What for?" There was no hint of shock in his voice. Zayn had executed millions of humans and supernatural beings alike throughout his rule, but executing someone just because he loved the same person as the King was absurd.

"Treason."

"Because he loves the same boy as you?" Harry raised an eyebrow. "It isn't treason. It's life."

"No, the Cadwalader family and many other affluent human families have been teaching their children the Olden Ways. They teach their children to fear us, even at times to rebel against us. They don't teach their children to respect, love and honour us as they should. They are a threat to the whole system. They are making their spawns to question our superiority. That is treason."

"Do you think this will make the boy love you?" Harry asked the vampire, who was already downing another bottle of alcohol.

Zayn didn't answer, but looked at Harry. The look on Zayn's face was one of dejection. As if it was killing him inside to make the decision that would push Liam away from him  more than he already was.

"It won't. But this is for the common good. My people are my priority. I can't risk the safety of my people just for my love for a human boy." Zayn said, and turned around to look out at the Palatium gardens through the floor- to- ceiling windows.

"You will eliminate your opponent in love, and you will lose out on your chance at love." Harry paused for a moment, before continuing with a smirk, "But you will also send out a message to the Paynes and all the other high class human families out there that you are conscious of their movements and deeds. I don't think an admonition like that is going to do us any good."

Zayn spun around and nodded at Harry. "You are right."

"Then there's no use for this now." Harry held up the scroll.

"Burn it then." Zayn gestured at the fireplace in the chamber.

Harry threw the scroll into the fireplace. Both the vampires watched as the scroll was swallowed by the searing fire. Zayn turned back to the window and looked out at the far away Idyll city that glittered in the darkness.

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Another update as I promised. This was shorter than the usual ones but, what did you think? Who's your favourite so far? Oh, and do you want Larry? Let me know in the comments :)  { And, Roial is Royal in Old French and Palatium is Palace in Latin} Vote/Comment!

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