Be Careful When You Bite Me

Two guards marched in with the human man from the dungeon. They halted right in between Damon and I and I wondered nervously what this will unroll.

“Father-“ Damon began but the King didn’t let him speak.

“Is this the villager that you tried to help escape?” His gaze was directed at me.

I didn’t know whether to lie or tell the truth. Whatever hole Isabelle and Seth had dug up for me seemed irreversible.

“Yes,” I muttered.

Damon’s disappointed eyes met mines for a brief second and I wondered what it was about this man that made both Damon and I both attempt to rescue him.

“This man must be special,” said the Queen,” because even my son, who knows better, had tired to spare him.”

I removed silent and so did Damon.

The King stood up from his seat and walked down the three steps it took to get to the ground.

Now that he was at ground level, I seen that he resembled Xavier a lot more then the rest of his children. He was taller then even Damon, hovering at a couple inches above him. He reached his hand out towards a guard who presented him with a wooden sword.  

Silently , he handed it to Damon who accepted.

I turned to look at the human man. His sad eyes were barely open. He struggled to breath and I could see the fresh bite from last night had hardly healed.

They didn’t have to torture him to prove a point.

I knew this was their way of teaching Damon a lesson but they could have killed him a long time ago and saved the poor man all of this pain.

I looked at Damon who now looked sad.

“Father-“ he began, his voice soft an apologetic,” what do you want me to do with this, it’s a stake.”

The King took his seat back at the throne,” I want you to stake him like he would us, keeping in mind the thousands of your ancestors that had been staked at the hands of a human.”

“Damon,” I whispered,” you don’t have to do this, Seth and Isabelle-“

“Shut up,” Damon snapped, his angry gaze now locked with mines,” if it wasn’t for you I wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place.”

My pained expression turned into one of confusion.

What did he mean if it wasn’t for me?

I wasn’t the one that forced him to spare the jester.

knowing that I

began,” it really isn’t that hard honey. How do you ever expect to

my voice,” you’re using him to teach

up!” Damon

I continued,” you won’t be king

jester. His blood curdling scream echoed within the walls of the castle as

sob endlessly. I suddenly felt like a helpless little girl in a very bad and scary  place. I wanted

inside the man and he began to cry out even louder. He fell to the ground and twitched his body uncontrollably. It was no doubt the most horrid and

the hateful look on Damon’s face grow into evil as he

the

panic as I registered the

please-“ I started to sob even harder. My hair was now wet and tangled on my face but I couldn’t reach out to dismiss it because

struggled with the men,” let me go,

I was someone that had betrayed him. The soft look in

the guards carried me crying and kicking trying to

were proud of their

here because when I woke up, I could

and they took a couple seconds to adjust to my surroundings except

thrown me in caused a sudden panic and I

I thought. This can’t

and realized that it was because I was weighed down by the metal

tugged and pulled at them, I even trailed my fingers to the every end where they connected to the hard and wet pavement walls but it was

screamed out,”is

only reply I got was the echoing of

he had at least a slither

I have been so wrong about

betrayed by Isabelle and Seth. Maybe he deserved a

and reached my hands out in front of me

gates and quickly

something and fell to the hard ground, feeling booth my knees scrape. I let out a scream at the sudden pain and looked down

coarse, like clothing. I screamed out when my fingers

The jester.

left the dead jester in

began to scream hysterically, my body shaking with fear

back until I was leaning against the cold wall and brought

could have been hours

I struggled to open my eyes and was met by a small amount of light emitting from