Killian's POV;

I feel the warm rays of sun, shine against my skin.

I groggily wake up and find myself in the hospital.

After the daze of the morning passes by, I remember what happened last night.

I quickly jerk awake and look through the glass barrier to see Briar still as peaceful as she was last night.

I drag myself to a bathroom and on my way I see hundreds of people,all ages, in beds moaning and coughing.

I hear some jeer and throw paper towels at me.

And honestly, I agree with what they are saying.

Millions of people are dying from diseases and simple colds because there is nothing to stop their wounds from infecting or something to kill the bacteria in their bodies.

I didn't even think about this until it someone dead to me.

Once I reached the bathroom, I came upon a mirror.

I look up at it and see a paler version of my self with puffy eyes, probably because I cried myself to sleep last night.

I wash my face, fix my hair and walk out to peach's room.

Outside with me, I see my father's royal adviser, Charlie.

Oh no. This is bad.

"Good morning sire. Did you sleep well?", he asks me with a calm, serene voice.

" Same to you Charlie. Um, sure. You could say that."

"Your father was worried sick sire! Would you mind explaining everything to me? You better have a good reason why you are here."

The thing that scares me the most about Charlie, is that he is always so calm! It's unnatural!

I nervously explained the whole thing to Charlie as he stood there with a neutral expression on his face. He occasionally nodded but that pretty much limited his range of motion.

After I had finished, he said," Well sire, looks like you will have a lot to talk about with your father tonight. And sire, your majesty wants you to be home this instant."

I glance back at Briar nervously and say," On one condition, we bring Briar to our laboratory in the west wing of the palace and make sure she gets the best of the best, doctors working to save her."

Charlie nervously looked at me and said," Sire, you know as well as I do that we can't just cure these diseases! But ok, we will try our best."

I smiled gratefully as I said," Thank you Charlie."

*time lapse*

I enter the study and see my father sitting there looking at paperwork with a troubled face, which got worse when I walked in.

"Where were you son?! I was worried sick! What did you think you were doing?!", my dad scolded with genuine worry

" I am fine dad.", I said with a small smile.

"Father," I started " What are we doing to help with the recent extreme death toll? Are we trying to make anything go fix this?"

"Of course we are son! But you know that we can't do anything so far except tell our subjects to clean any open wounds that they have."

"But that's not enough!"

"I know but we are working on it. Anyway, where I the world were you???"

I started to tell him the whole story but he cut me of short and said," I know everything. Charlie told me."

"Oh. Everything?"

"Everything."

"Everything, everything?"

"Yes son, everything, everything."

"Even peaches? I mean Briar?"

"Peaches?! Briar-who are these women?!"

"Oh! Nobody!"

Then he glared at me with one of those "really wow, tell me now are else" stares.

Reluctantly I explained to him about Briar and then he said," You are in love?! With a middle class subject?!"

"Yes father."

"What about the ball?!"

"I guess we will have to cancel that!"

With newfound anger he said,"You are to break up with that Briar character this instant"

"WHAT?!"

"Son, you are a royal. You are meant to only marry another royal or rich figure, understand?"

I was practically seething with anger at this point so I kind of lashed out.

"DAD! I LOVE BRIAR! YOU CAN'T JUST EXPECT ME TO STOP LOVING THE LOVE OF MY LIFE!!!"

And with that I basically ran out. At this point, I was so angry that I could scream.

So I did.

Expect I was civilized about it so I ran up to my room and screamed into my plush and comfy pillows that were covered in silk pillow cases.

I guessed I may have sounded like I was being mugged or something because seconds later my maids rushed to my side.

I was mobbed with "sire this" and "sire that" and soon enough, I was fed up.

"Ladies! Thank you for your concern but I am...fine, I guess."

Soon I heard a chorus of "your welcomes" and all three of them quickly and quietly, they walked out.

I looked up to the ceiling and wondered what I was to do.

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A/N; I know this is one of my shorter-ish- chapters but I hope you like it. This is a bit of a bore but this next one will be the drama during the ball, flirting girls, finding a bride, flirting girls. I hope you have liked my book so far! Thank you for reading!!!! Bye!!!!!

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