The Heir

Chapter three

"I thought we told you to protect her!" I hear my mother yell at my gaurd.

"America stop yelling." my father says.

"No I will not. He had sworn to protect her even from herself." my mother yells louder.

"Mom please, it wasn't his fault. She was just running down the stairs to quick and tripped on her dress." I hear aspen say over me.

"Queen America im so sorry that I didn't protect her from herself. I was just preoccupied with the terrorists." Richard says in a steady voice.

This is my time to speak. "please everyone be quiet." I whisper sitting up.

"Don't you may have a concussion sweetie." dad says to me.

"Where are the selected?" I ask.

"In a different vault that is bigger." he says.

"Oh, and the royal families?" I ask.

"With the selected." mother says pacing around the small room.

"whats going on out there?" aspen says.

"The southerners decided to make a comeback." father says sitting up against to wall.

He looks so old a ragged when he is in charge, but when he calms and closes his eyes he looks young like in the wedding pictures of both mom and dad. Its surprising that he is only 45.

From this pictures i saw of mom she looks the same but with laugh lines and a couple of grey hairs.

"Mom come sit down. You make me scared with you pacing like that." i say moving over on the cot so she has a space to sit.

"Okay." and she sits.

I look up at me guard and he is already looking at me. He isn't smiling at all, he looks more worried than anything. I look over at Aspen and he is reading. Ever since he was a little boy he loved books.

"Why are you so scared?" I asked mom.

"Im not scared honey, Im just having flash backs." she say.

As soon as she said that dad looked straight at her and tugged his ear and smiled, she tugged hers right back with a bright smile.

Then we hear a great knock and the door opening. There is guards on the other side talking in wacky talkies saying ' we found the royal family '.

"Please come this way." a guard says.

"What was the destruction?" Father asks as we all file out of the room.

"Sir you would have to look for yourself. But i prefer that you dont take the family." he whispers to him.

"I will come to." i say.

"With all due respect miss but it is gruesome. I would rather you go to your room." The guard states.

"No, I am future Queen of Illeá. I will go see this." I say looking straight at the guard.

"Rose, please just go upstairs with your brother and me." mother says.

"No, i want to see this." i say.

"Let her come." father says walking up the stairs next to the guard.

"And where is it?" He asks the guard.

"Where you first met Queen America." Guard whispers.

"And nothing with the castle but a couple missing and broken windows." he says.

"Thats the thing sir, The gruesome part goes along with the people that where missing." the guard says.

"How bad do you think it is?" I ask Richard.

"I really dont know miss. I hope not that bad." he says in my ear. His breath smelled like tea and tickled the back of my neck.

I turn my head slightly to look at his face. He is already looking at me. I turn my head back and step out into the hallway. There is an eire calm, as we walk down the hall i see the windows are broken but nothing bad.

We step outside and walk towards the woods. Then i see it, the bloody corpses all mangled. I let out a cry.

"Take her back in right now." father says in a stern voice.

"No." i say.

I turn to look at Richard.

"Im sorry miss." he says walking up to me and grab my neck.

"What are you do-" and i black out.