Under the Shadow of The Old Oak Tree (Rp)

as the elevtor arrived, Elle felt a large, rought, warm hand on her head, stopping the bobbing "ok thats distracting" he joked, bringing her into the elevator


"so, how far does this shaft go?"


"well, you know our exile enclave?"


"yeah..."


"'little bit above it, but deep inside the centre of the trunk"


"huh... so what we called the "wails of the damned"?"


"prisoners... sir"


the elevator went, it was insanely fast, zooming downs, almost as fast as freefall.
 
Elle laughed and started singing rather loudly to annoy him a tad, jokingly of course.


"So tired of waiting on a man to come and save me, I'm making all my own plans,threw all my old ones away gotta grow be someone draw a map pick a path, take a breath and RUN" she sung, her clear voice ringing threw the elevator, she had to admit it calmed her down a tad.
 
Judith looked at the gaurds as they still surounded her out side the castle she was about to yell something terrible to them when another gaurd walked up to them and whispered somthing in one of tyhe other gaurds ears after a while of silence he looked at her "sorry miss their seems to be a misunderstanding you may return to your work and please stay away" he said as they started to walk towards the castle. She sttood their looking puzzled and like she was about to walk to them and kick one of them. but she shruged it off, they might have been stupid but they were still gaurds.


Judith walked around for a while not dearing to go to the castle again, she was casualy walking through the street when she saw Wand, she gave her the friendliest smile she had but Wand didn't return it instead she hit her on the head "you silly girl what about the wine bottles you were supose to deliver today!" she said to her. Judith was about to raise her voice when she remenbered she still had work to do. She walked to the shopes and went over to the rich part of the tree. She wlked over to the house she was suppose to deliver the bottles of wine and knocked on the door. It opened and in frount of her stood a lady "I was wondering when you would get here" she said in a quite voice as she let her in "just put it in the winery, it just up there" she pointed at the staircase and gaver her direction, she smiled and nodded to the lady, walking up the stairs she found the winery and put the bottles of wine down on a table. she was about to go back bown when she saw a door open and in the room was a man, laying on the floor so she decided to go see what was wrong with him. the room looked amaziing, like the type of room she'd always wanated since she was a little girl but she couldn't have a room like this now, she crouched over the man "are you okay?" she asked because he looked hurt.


Cupcake got to a quite and deserted place in the room she was glad to see the man had followed her as she requested but he had left when she didn't say anything, she felt sad now that she didn't have someone to question on the big case but she didn't worry their would be more casses that she could investigate. she walked around the whole castle once more until she was perrmited to finaly leave as everything had been slove and the castle was no longer in lockdown as she made her way out of the center of the tree her mood lightened up she was now looking foward to ice cream, playing with yarm espicially and more than anything visiting her sister.


Danni stoped her serch for the prince after a while and decided to leave the castle, she had been told that a new council was being chosen and she was now the assistant of the of the King , she was told that she had to go to the edge of the tree and see how things were going, the journey was going to be long and she was going to stay their for a long time. She was now leaving the castle to get ready for her big journey.
 
Noah heard a voice and shook his head "A chick threw a lamp at my stomach!" she groaned like a baby and he looked Judith up and down her white jeans and red top outlined her figure, which he apreciated. She stood up, removing a peice of glass from his stomach, wincing slightly He smiled at her non the less, removing his top to look at his stomach.
 
the elevator got further down


"you may wish to stop singing milady... as cute as it may be, it may... irrirtate the certain elements we keep contained down here..."


the elevator slowly began to decelerate, eventually coming to a stop, when the door open what could only really be describes as the howls of the damned could be heard.


"here we keep all those who cannot live in normal society, those driven mad with various tree-related ailments, the criminally insane, sociopaths, psychopaths... its mostly a prison but we have some... special rooms for certain... "guests""


"like the ones who try greeting their guests with a knife?"


"yes milord... here"


they came to a door, room 48, the door was pristine stainless steel


"in here are 2 rooms, one is "the pit" which has a 12 foot deep hole in the middle with rats living at the bottom, and the other is the interogation room..."


the door was opened, inside was the assassin who tried claiming Elle's life, the blanket at his feet was red and pink from the blood... his feet must have been gnawed a great deal.


"P-please, i'll tell everything, just dont do it again..."


"everything... now"


"okay..."
 
"awe you big baby" Judith said like she was talking to a baby, as she watched him take his shirt off and ramdomly rubbed his tummy. "you not hurt are you?" she asked her voice sounding like she was teasing him but she wasn't and she wasn't serious as well and to be honest she didn't really care that much.
 
Elle looked at the man, remaining scilent and looked at Damien and then back at the man she suddered slightly. Sh sat scilently as he strted to explain.


"I was hired, by a Nobel, he was in the kings inner circle, he said he wan'ted Damien to marry his daughter, and not Elle. The rest of the team agree'd not wanting that filthy commoner as a queen, idiots she can't be a queen unless you are proven innocent."


Elle spoke in unrecognisab;le tone, she sounded like a guard "Why carve that on her back?"


The man laughed in a cruel way and said "She should be ashamed and if i had gone to kill her the guards would have steped into action, ot like they did much while she was being torchered."


Elle's hands clenched onto the arms of the wheelchair and she tensed up causeing her to wince, not loud enough for him to hear though.


Noah pouted like a baby and then smirked as she rubbed his tummy and nodded and pointed to the hole he just pulled the peice of glass from "Yeah, can you kiss it better?" he asked innocently, but he was far from it.
 
Damien Scowled


"put his ass back in with the rats! i dont have time for his games, when i ask about who sent you, you give me names right off the bat, when you're ready to give us names when we ask you for it, then we'll pull you back out"


He could see the horror in the guy's eyes, the thought of being put through that torture again, even though initially it was for such a short while... such an exquisite torture... being eaten alive by rats... unbearably painful, mentally devastating and it could last for days on end before the victim succumbs to blood loss.
 
Judith looked at him and smiled at his question "of course I can kiss it better for you" she pinched his cheeks "after I've made it better, I don't want to have Aids" she said she ramdomly walked to the brathroom and gor a copple of bandages and took them back to the boy after his wound was clean and covered up she kissed it "does that make you feel better" she winked as she took a step away from him, she felt unconfortable because it wasn't her home.
 
Elle turned the chair and put her arm on his sholder, shaking her head "No, your majesty at least give him a chance to name names." she said in the same fake tone and then she whispered to him "Don't be so harsh yet, I don't ever want to come back down here" she whispered to him, so only him could hear, she then ave him the pupppy dog eyes, hoping he would change his mind.


The man nodded "Yes, don't please! Names names . . The Evergold family, the father, Aiden, he hired me!" He shouted while struggling.


Noah laughed when Judith pinched his cheeks and smiled when she kissed his stomach, when he steped away he frowned and put his jacket on, not bothering to zip it up. His shirt was covered in his blood so he couldn't wear that. "Want to go on a walk?" He asked her holding out his arm.
 
Damien grinned "good boy... guard! give this man a shower and medical treatment... then give him some clothes and send him into the depths in exile"


"yes milord"


as the man, relieved was turned away, the guard looked at Damien with a "you sure?" look, Damien pointed down and mouthed "back in!" the guard nodded and gave him a thumbs up


Damien turned Elle's chair around, pushing her out the door


"Rash i know, but the fact is we couldn't let him live... too dangerous, and if he knows anything else, he'll spill the beans... we can't risk him holidng out on anything... i think the Evergold estate needs a visit..."
 
Judith took the hand of the boy with her tattoed "yes I would like to go for a walk" ahe awnsered him "my names Judith by the way and yours" she said as they made their way to the back door of the house.
 
.Elle nodded, smiling that he at least got the information out of him, as the man was being dragged away she said, in her normal voice "Can we get out of here, and never come back?" she asked hopefully and then a glint in her eye appeared "Mm I have an Idea too" She loved cool an quirky revenge "Have the guards bring me in lateer than you, act all upset, see what they do." she giggled "They deserve it." She said


Noah smirked and sliped his arm around her waist, parhaps a little too low and said "Noah, by the way" he winked at her and lead her to the edge of the tree branch, over looking the beach
 
"ok..." Damien said, after they got back into the elevator, he pulled up his phone "... Higgins?... i want 2 of my guys at the Evergold estate... good"


he hung up, he loved that thing about his guards, they never asked questions, they just acted, listened then acted on his orders without a seconds pause to think.


the elevator sped up, they felt heavier as it nearly flew up, getting closer to the upper levels.


"Elle... these noble families, especially ones like the Evergolds... they're prideful and can react... violently to confrontation, even if it's legitimate, if their scandal could damage them like something like this could, they will get violent... and there is a very real possibility of people getting hurt or even killed... i need to know if you really want to be with me when this goes down, you've already seen my ugly side... and if this goes the way i'm afraid it will... you will see a lot more"
 
Judith didn't mind when Noah put his arm aroud her waist they walked out the house and onto one of the branches overlooking the beach. she touhchd his cheek with her good tattoed hand "don't you look prety under the sun" she said. She them moved her hand through his hair. (the one without the glove)
 
Elle looked at him competely serious and nodded "Yes, I do, they tried to kill me, I can be violent, even in a wheelchair" she flashed him a grin "Damien, as long as you don't get like that towards the innocent, i don't mind." she assured him, Wheeling to the elevator and they started going up, a little slower than down. She wheeled herslef out and they got into the carts that ran all around the tree And they stopped outside the Evergold estate.


Noah grined at her words and tightenedd his grip on her waist and bending down to grab her legs and lifting her up. He sat down crosslegged and placed her on his lap on, so her legs went around his waist, they were extreamly close
 
Damian nodded


"I try not to..."


Damian was by no sense of the word "Good" but he was anything but "Evil" he was caring to his enemies, and ruthless, cruel even to his enemies, i guess you could call him "Chaotic Neutral" if it needs to be done for his goals, of they tried something against him, he would crush them... luckily the Evergolds were his primary targets in both being his political, and his physical enemies.


outside the elevator they made their way along the street, some nobles glanced at them, looking down on Elle, they came to his guards outside the estate, around the corner, they werent stupid enough to wait right in the open.


"sir, what are our orders?"


"Higgins, you stay with Elle, i'll send you a text, when i do, you bring Elle in, is that understood"


"yes sir"


"good, Karala?"


the other guard was a girl, she was an "amazon" to be sure, huge and muscular


"yes my lord?"


"you're with me, business as usual, by my side, keep quiet"


"sir"


he nodded to them all "okay... Higgins, Karala, you deserve to know whats going on... the assassin hired to kill Elle was employed by the Evergold family, they want to kill her so they can get their fat mole of a daughter to marry me and get them into the king's good graces, we're going to confront them, we have the assassin's confession recorded, all the testimony we need... and questions?"


both: "no my lord"


"good..."


Damian turned around, they could see him stretching his neck then getting in to character as they came up to the door, when he got there he turned to Karala


"a prince can't be expected to knock himself... we need to keep up appearances after all"


she nodded and did so, on the inside there was a loud KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK.
 
Jonah sighed as Michael was out of sight "Sebastian will take care of him" he assured himself as he quickly picked himself up and continued his search for Elle and quickly came down the hallway when he ran across one of the nurses "Where is Elle?" he asked quickly as she thought about it and told him the location to where the were going. He thanked the woman as quickly went to where she said which was close to the estate and found Elle. "Are you okay" he asked surprised to see her walking.
 
Judith smiled "you're good at this arent you" she said to Noah as she put her arms around his neck she lenght in to kiss him but got up stright away and walked to the edge of the branch "you come here often?" she asked looking back at him she walked to him again and grabed his hand "I've got something to show you". She was kin of happy this was the first time she'd lasted a whole conversation since she was exiled and one she was intrested on to.
 
Elle smiled at him and nodded "If you do, you will get an earfull." she grinned, she was big on rights, she hated people being treated unfairly and wished she could do somthing about it. Elle waited tipping her had back and rubbing her eyes, singing softly again, the same song (Run by he is we :D ) She tries to stand and mannaged, not walking but standing never the less, it was progress she turned her head and saw Jonah she smiled and fell back into her chair gently and nodded "Exeptionally, Well to a degree, I cant walk though." she said "To catch you up, the Evergolds tried to kill me, so their daughter would marry Damien, we are getting revenge, now." she smiled at him.


Noah was empressed with her game and picked her up again and said "No I don't but Point the way" He said benging in and kissing her cheek.
 
"Wait two questions" Jonah said trying to understand he entire situation. "One how do you plan on getting revenge and two is Damian going over there by himself" he said worriedly looking at the estate. "Doesn't he know how defensive they could be" he asked now beginning to tap his foot nervously.
 
Damien went in, the lady of the estate was there


"what the?.. oh prince Damien! wh-what brings here on such a day? here to see our beautiful Gloria?"


"no Madam Evergold, i'm afraid i come here today with a favor to ask..."


"oh? please sit down... CHARLES!"


the man of the house, Charles came down the stairs, almost choking on his pipe


"L-Lord Damien!"


"Master Evergold... please sit down..."


he did so


"Madam and Master Evergold... as you probably know, my wife-to-be was almost killed today..."


"oh yes we heard, so awful!"


"yeah... you see, i know you are in my father's inner circle, you are one of the most resourceful families in all of our society, and one of the most powerful, almost second only to my own family..."


"whatever we can do, sir..."


"well, there is one thing..."
 
"that way" she pointed to the castle but just a bit off, she didn't mind being carried by a cute boy to one of her faviorite places on the tree. She put his arms around his neck for the second time, he took her through a copple of trees and up some branches, he was strong and determined she thought, she saw glances from the people that were on the streets, but she just stuck her thoung out at them when they got to their destionation which was one of the plants at the top of the tree. She got down from his arms "what do you think?" she asked looking at him, the view was amazing, it showed the center of the tree and parts of it to. It was intresting to see the tree looking down on it, it was also fun picking up things and throwing it down to see it hit the people on the head dow from below. "try this" she picked up a rock and trew it down watching it hit a person walking by.
 
Elle shook her head rapidly and said "No, he's got someone with him, and We will be going in in a minute. He is going to act all sad and make them think it worked, but then I will come in . . . do you want to come?" she asked him politly.




Noah smiled and nodded, looking at the veiw, he took the rock and threw it, it missed and he pouted, sitting down she went to throw a rock and lost her footing, falling backwards Noah causht her, and she was bent low, like they were dancing. She lent in and their noses touched.
 
"Sure" Jonah replied nodding as he looked back at the castle. "I have an Idiot for an older brother don't I" he asked in the best wa possible.
 
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