A Promise to A Knight: A Sanders Side Fanfic

Life will Continue...

Not long had passed since the creation of Thomas's Court, the kingdom was happy, but in a way, scared. More and more occurrences of violence in the town occurred due to Venom, they rioted it all throughout the town, Sir Alex leading the arrests every time. On one fateful day however things would take a turn for the worst. During a brawl in the town Sir Alex had gone to disarm the issue when he was hurt by one of the members, in which he was rushed back to the castle to receive treatment. The second Roman heard he was hurt he immediately ran to see him. Emma was working on patching him up, but by the way she looked at him she could tell it was useless. Roman walked in worried for his guardian. Alex gave a weak smile to  Roman, who's eyes screamed in sorrow. Alex waved him over.

"Roman...

"Sir Alex! Please...please don't leave me yet..." Roman said fighting back the tears.

"I'm sorry Roman...she's done all she can. The wound won't heal properly..."

"There has to be something, maybe Virgil can-"

"Roman." Alex looked to him.

"I...I can't lose you yet...Alex please..."

"It's my time to go Roman. You've... done great things with me...now it's time to let go...."

"No please...not yet..." Roman cried to Alex.

"I...love...you.....Roman............." was his last words before passing away right there. Roman stayed with Alex's body for a while to grieve. Virgil was the first one to go to him after Alex died, then Patton, Logan, and Thomas. They all comforted him from this troubling time. His funeral was held two days later, Roman now had no one left.

A few weeks went by the guards had a new captain while Roman started to recover from his loss. Every day one person from the royal court went to try and cheer him up, from Logan trying to just talk with him to Patton giving him endless hugs, and Thomas just being his best self and trying to help him while helping his father. Only Virgil seemed to crack past his shell of sadness. They would talk for hours and hours, sometimes random things if anything. One day, Virgil came in with something.

"What's that?"

"It's..a gift. I made it for you Roman..." Virgil told him. He gave him the poorly wrapped gift, Roman opened it to reveal a beautiful red sash for his outfit. "It took a while but...I hope it suits you."

"It's beautiful Virgil! Thank you!" Roman immediately went for a hug, Virgil didn't like hugs or much human contact but for this he felt...happy, he couldn't tell but he started to blush when Roman hugged him. He returned Romans hug, after a short while they let go. Roman put it on, he looked amazing Virgil thought, he didn't let him know, Roman had a pretty big ego as is, he just smiled at him. Patton and Logan soon walked in, smiling.

"I'm guessing he liked it huh?" Logan said.

"Of course he would it's so pretty on you!" Patton said excitedly. The four laughed.

"Where's Thomas?" Roman asked

"He's with his father, the king hasn't been well these last few weeks...he's worried that his father is dying..."

"Dying?! But that would mean Thomas takes the throne! He's still got a lot to learn and he just turned eighteen!" Roman said worried about his friend.

"I know...but as his Court we must be there for him if that becomes the case Roman. We will help him through this time as he did for us all through all of our troubles and losses." Logan said dishearten. Roman didn't know what to think, would the king die? He was fine but now he's sick? Roman felt like this wasn't the case...he hoped it wasn't an act of foul play.