One Night Stand(Erik Killmonger Stevens)

19: His Princess

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I listen attentively as T'Challa explains what happened.

"He got injured, I offered to fix him but he refused," Of course he did, Erik's stubborn ass.

As soon as I see him I'm convincing him to take T'Challa up on his offer, I mean it would be stupid to say no. But why would T'Challa even offer to fix Erik in the first place? "Don't worry about Erik, I'll set him straight. But you, why are you doing this? Why are you even taking me to him?" I ask. King T'Challa stays quiet for a while until coming up with the perfect answer, "If it were me I would want someone to bring my love,"

This guy keeps getting better and better. But he's acting like Erik's dying or something, it's probably just a few cuts. Nothing Erik couldn't handle or hasn't dealt with before.

He's a fighter.

T'Challa explains he brought Erik onto sort of a monument of the black panther and as we're walking to him I try to find a way to persuade Erik to take T'Challa's help. There's no way we're leaving here without getting T'Challa to fix him.

"He's here," T'Challa says to me pointing over to Erik bent over. Now time to talk some sense into this dumbass.

As I get closer to Erik's body I notice something isn't right. When I finally face Erik I'm brought to my knees with his condition. I thought he would only have a few scratches not an entire sword in his chest.

"Oh Erik," I say to him grabbing his shoulders. Slowly he looks up to me. He manages to still smile and mutter out "Hey Princess," I can barely smile back at him and I shakily say "Hey,"

My eyes move back down to the spear in his stomach before I look back into Erik's eyes. "You have to let T'Challa fix you," I say rubbing Erik's shoulders. Erik's smile drops, "Why?" For once in this whole book I start to cry for a good reason. The tears start to fall slowly at first but continue as Erik keeps talking.

"So I can spend the rest of my life in jail locked up?" I shake my head at Erik trying to get him to stop. "I'm sorry Princess,"

"No, listen to me. You do not get to do this. YOU DO NOT GET TO LEAVE ME, NO NOT AGAIN!" All of the fear, hurt, anger, frustration from everything begins to erupt out of me. I grab Erik's face causing for him to look at me straight in my eyes, if anger won't get him to listen this will.

"Okay if not for me then for the baby. Don't you dare leave this fucking baby or so help me God I will-" Erik cuts me off saying "Princess-"

But I yell at him making him stop, "NO DON'T YOU PRINCESS ME RIGHT NOW! You can't leave me Erik, you just can't," Erik continues beginning to yell over my yelling, "Princess it's over," I shake my head refusing to believe the words coming out of his mouth. "But it can't be, we just started,"

I answer in a quiet voice. "Erik you better not die because you're too proud to accept help. You know what, no, you can't leave me. You can't NOT accept help because...I love you,"

I'll say anything to him, anything to keep him alive.

"Erik I fucking love you and if you die on me you'll be the sorriest nigga ever. I will never forgive you if you die do you hear me. And I will tell our fucking baby how sorry you were for leaving me after I told you I love you,"

I turn towards T'Challa to see him trying to keep his distance but I know he can hear everything. "YOU HAVE TO FIX HIM," I scream at T'Challa.

Erik grabs my arms and pulls me back in his direction. "Zahria, it's over," He says to me and once my full name comes out of his mouth I know I've lost him.

He's made up his mind.

I put my head onto his and continue to cry even harder. Erik wraps me into his arms and I break down shaking in tears. Erik continues to hold me and I realize that his breathing is getting shallower and shallower with every passing moment. He's dying while I'm in his arms being a little bitch. I'm wasting precious time with him.

I shift until I'm sitting up holding Erik and with little struggle from him, he lets me. With a shaky voice I call out to him, "Hey say goodbye to our baby girl," With one hand I softly guide Erik's head to my stomach. "I know she's gonna miss you like crazy. I'm gonna tell her what an awesome dad you were gonna be,"

Erik starts to kiss my stomach and whispers to it, but I'm not able to make out what he's saying. Once Erik finishes talking to her I start playing with his dreads. "Hey look at the sunset," I say to Erik.

It's like the sun was saying goodbye to me too. "It's so beautiful up here," I say trying to fill the empty silence. I don't want Erik's last memory be empty silence. Then without noticing it I begin to mutter 'I love you'.

I raise my voice to where he can hear me and I repeat it over and over again. Maybe I don't right now but I know that I would've fallen in love with him so it isn't so bad. Besides I want it to be the last thing he hears, he hasn't heard it a lot in his life.

Tears continue to stream down my face and onto his and I notice that his breathing has stopped. The 'I love you' I was finishing up can't fully come out of my mouth and I'm stuck on the 'you'.

I slowly move my face down onto his and softly kiss his lips. I'm gonna miss his kisses. Every single one of them was so full of passion. Those types of kisses are once in a lifetime.

My hands trace down his chest onto each one of his scars and my other hand find its way back into his dreads. His perfect fucking dreads.

I sit there admiring his body and I slowly lift it up off of me. I softly place Erik back down and I stand up over him. He was a mess but he was my mess. And I wasn't perfect but I was his Princess.

It's as if everything was a movie I felt out of my body as I walked away from Erik's body. Paralyzed, I look over to and see T'Challa still standing looking down. He stayed.

I take one last look at Erik and look down at my belly. "Say goodbye to daddy, he loved you so so much,"

I begin to walk back into the cave when T'Challa stops me. "What are you doing?" I say trying to push him back but he holds my arms down and bring me into a hug. As soon as I feel his arms around me I begin sobbing again. Erik wasn't the love of my life but right now it sure felt like he was.

As I cry T'Challa continues to hold me, rubbing my back occasionally. Once I finish crying I pull back but T'Challa still doesn't let me go. He pulls away from the hug but continues holding onto my hands. Feeling the need to say something I defend Erik. "He did what he thought was right,"

T'Challa continues to stay silent and I turn to look at the sun. It was almost all the way down now, darkness was engulfing us. I'm surprised when I hear T'Challa's voice next to me. "Zahria, if you wish the child can be raised as a Wakandan, you can stay here if you'd like," T'Challa's hands tighten around mine as he continues, "You could give birth here and raise the baby here in Wakanda. We can help with the child-"

I cut him off before he can continue. "The girl,"

T'Challa looks at me confused. "The baby, she's a girl. Erik said she would be a girl, she's a girl,"

T'Challa clears his throat before talking again. "We can help raise her. We can also give Erik a proper burial if you wish," I shake my head at him. Erik hated everything Wakanda, everything that took the very thing that he loved the most. At least he's finally with his dad now.

"Is there anything I can do?" T'Challa asks me finally running out of ways to make this terrible situation better.

"Can you take me home?"