5/17

When I awoke, Mare and I were in a cell. There was not a speck of light and the only comfort I had was the shadow standing at the bars. Mare. Shadows would scare most, but I lost my fear of the dark long ago. How can one be afraid of such childish thing when there are very real things to be scared of?
"M- Mare?"
"They haven't come back yet, they're probably discussing what the proper, or most cruel, punishment for me."
"I promise that I won't let them hurt you. And they can't kill you Mare, the entire Silver population saw you and I."
"Ya know, she's right... Mare-" He drew out her name as if asking if it was correct.
"What are they gonna do?!" I ask urgently as I scramble to my feet and run to the bars of our cage.
"Calm down Goldie, don't you know not to run off with Reds?"
"It was better than staying here! It's not like I was even missed," I say the second part quietly.
His smirk drops into a frown, that's what Cal told me you said, right before you called any angry mob of drunken teenagers on him."
"There were three sixteen-year-old boys, don't start; and don't lie."
"No matter, come on Red, the queen wants to see you. You should be faltered," his smirk returns.
I turn and lean my back up against the metal bars, "you should be anything but," I say to Mare, crossing my arms.
A slight growl comes from Lucas as the bars shift behind me and I fall backward, the cold, cement ground being the only thing to catch me.
I jump up and turn around, marching towards him. But I stop in my tracks and turn back around, walking back into the cell and sit down on the metal bench in the corner of the cell.
"You're not worth it, like I can go anywhere anyway."
He snickers and puts him hand on Mare's back, "walk," he says, kinder then I thought he even could.
Time passed and I spent most of it just sitting on the ground and playing with my hair. When he came back with Mare, she looked mordafied. I run up to the bars and when she walked back into the cell, I hugged her.
"Oh my god, Mare, what happened, what did they do?"
"Let's go, Gold."
"I need a minute Lucas."
"We need to go," he tried to grab onto my arm but I pushed him away.
"Just go Prue, we don't want you to get in trouble."
"I, I," I walked out of the cell and I suddenly realized how truly dangerous I could be. I could get Mare and I out of there right then, but I wouldn't. I couldn't.
We walked down the halls and I watched every single turn till we got to the thrown room, just in case. We- no, I walked in and up to the red carpet in front of the king. The queen, the king, Cal and Maven, they all stared at me. I soon realized what he was waiting for. I mocked a bow and sneered out, "Your majesty."
"Mouthy," he looked back at the queen and I could tell that she was saying something, yet no one else could hear it. Maven watched them but Cal stared into my eyes. I mouthed an I'm sorry and I could tell he didn't want to be here. He had abviously forgiven me for the bar thing but now I couldn't read him. I could, if I used Elara, but both her and Cal would know. I really liked my head and I wished to keep it.
The king smirked at me and so did the queen, not something any poor and helpless soul would ever like to witness.
For the first time today, true fear shot thru me.
"Prue Titanos, daughter of General Titanos, thought to be powerless. Tell me, girl, what is your power?"
My eyes shot to Maven and Cal, they both looked away but I prayed for them to look back, for one of them to save me.
"Answer me, girl!"
"I, I," I straiten up and look from the floor to the king's eyes. "Until today I believed that I could only use the single ability of someone around me. Tho, since earlier," my confadince drops as I look at the princes, or, they look at me. "I have learned that I can use more than one at a time."
"Amazing, different from any we have ever heard of," the king seemed amazed but the queen kept her composure.
"Tell us girl, what is the color of your blood?" The queen asked me.
"Gold," I mumble.
"Speak up, girl," the king said.
"The color of my blood is g- gold."
"Gold? A Gold blooded girl? How? How does a Red girl have abilitys? And how does a Gold girl exsist?"
I know the answer to your questions, but I will never give you an answer and you will never pry it from my mind, oh wonderful king!
"We have no blood records of you, all we know is that you were taken in by Silvers."
"Cal."
My eyes widen and I could see the fear behind Calore's perfict posture.
"You will marry Calore."
My eyes widen and it's everything I can do not to cry. The one reason I left, and now I must stay because of it. If I had never left this would never have happened.
I look at Maven and see nothing in his eyes, I guess he never really cared at all. I guess there was never anything, no matter how hard I tried.
"Do you understand?"
"Yes, I do."
The queen's smile was wicked, I expected nothing else.
"Oh, and by the way, Mareena Titanos is your long lost sister."
"Mare."
"Oh, you catch on fast, that's good, now go on. You must get ready."
For what, I cared not. I basically let Lucas drag me out of the room.