Gaius

ne for t

weeks, I accompl

my visit to a nei

ing Harry were tense

y with only a handful of

y to be back before anything drastic was

into the large, dreary thr

own, which was full of light and w

hat he wanted his guests out of th

g only minimal light in, and the dark stone made ever

le anxious to leave and th

ly, quite aware of the fact that my fello

It isn't like you to visit witho

asting no time o

r me, as I was in

cash in t

whenever he damn well pleases and 'cash in that favor'? I don't have

green cape swinging behind him menacingly gave

o the cold, black eyes, looking for an

o kill his neighboring king, but I wo

d by what I saw

. I need an heir, and it isn't likely that

second and then b

ded completely unnatural coming out of t

to be able to do for you, G

back the response that

next words with as much confide

ive me a baby. An orphan tha

opped Harry i

, as though he was looking

ur people so that you

ave my idiot brother take the throne b

pping his pointed chin

on between kings and was surprised to see only two guards, both

e and would keep my secret, and t

my plan would be th

yal to our daughter, to the royal bloodline, but I needed Hilda to be happ

ou and I will be even. I hate owing people anything, espe

s did my men, but Ha

I won't help him if he do

to king Harry, but I gave

, but re

ght," I ass

king as Harry left

r to his throne room;

d his personality as a

wn one another sinc

ued over small things or threatened to beat one another to a pulp. Our adult lives weren't much different. I had

were going to attack the nest. We the princes had tagged along. Harry was engaging a rather large, nas

rfect moment to cash in my favor and thi

ered as we traveled deeper a

ay the hero and I have been looking for a way out o

one wall and I shot passed him, not

up to the other king as Harry

shed in, a part of

dmired the s

. You were just too much of a goodytwoshoes to find

ollowed him into the s

owing light of candles and a cr

center of the floor and a sim

tion was the cradl

pt for we the two kings and what

is usually someone here watching over the

adle and peered in, not

ild surprise a

n talking I was expecting

b