^^ Dominique

Anastasia's POV ~

Dammit. How annoying. An annoying little pest.

"What's got your panties in a twist, sister?" Lionel asks me as he approached me and kisses my forehead my cold look not leaving my face.

"Ouch, such an Icy little thing aren't we?" He joked around with me. I don't give him an inch and he sighs.

"What's wrong, Stace?" He says sweetly

"Really? Did you have to use your nickname privileges now?"

"Come on, loosen up. Tell your big bro what's wrong,"

" It's- Dominique Heath and that new Iliad Princess, Dana."

"Are you afraid that they might form an alliance or something?"

"Sure, yeah, there's that."

"Or are you jealous? I heard from Lucille that she has been clinging to you until that princess came along."

"I'm not jealous. She was a pain. If Iliad and Rodask ally they can take over The United Kingdoms and then us."

"Okay... well don't worry too much about it. Raymond is currently working on marriage between us and the Heaths."

"That...doesn't make me feel any better."

"Of course it wouldn't since you're...jealous."

"I'm not. I'm not even into girls like that so just stop it." He sighs

"Fine."

"Weren't you also interested in her?"

"Interested? Ehh no but I am one of her options but it doesn't matter since she probably has thousands of options I bet even some including princes from Iliad or hey even the princess."  I ignore the obvious try to piss me off which worked but I didn't show it.

"Then shouldn't you be working on the proposal too?"

"Raymond will take care of it and besides it won't matter much anyway she's the daughter of The United Kingdom's most powerful army. Rodask's army may even be on par with Udril in fact in some ways they're better."

"Stop talking nonsense, Leo," I say and walk away into my room after a long day of school.

~Flashback~

"You're Anastasia, right?" I turn around and Dana Iliad is behind me.

"Yes. Princess Anastasia DuPont, nice to meet you." I say coldly

"The Ice Princess... Ouch, it must hurt to have a nickname like that." I stop walking and she seems to stumble a bit at my sudden stop.

"Do you need something?" I seethe

"No, not really, you are pretty though so I get it."

"Get what?"

"Nothing. Never mind." She laughs

"I like you. You're interesting." sounds like someone else I know.

"Mmhmm," I say and continue walking as she rums up to me and touches my shoulder to try to catch up with me.

"Can you get the fuck away from me...please," I say and leave her standing there and leave.

I hear her laugh and I groan. Nasty little thing.

Meanwhile ~

Dominique's POV ~

I swing my sword and it scrapes against him as he steps back and then pushes me back.

"All I'm saying is that it was partly your fault too. You shouldn't have let it get so awkward between you two." Amir says as we clash swords.

Our swords are so hot that steam can be seen if you look closely enough.

"You're going to melt my sword, Amir," I say annoyed, and hit his leg and step back and evade him to let my sword cool.

" it's fine, they're only practice swords," he says as he swings violently at me and slices my sword in half.

"That. That's why I care." I say as I walk over to a stack of swords and pick one up. I play around with it for a while and then swing at him.

"Where are your swords anyway?" he asks

I'm a dual wielder. I use two swords in combat but during practice, I only use one and practice switching hands.

"They're still making some changes," I say and he nods

"But- okay I'm sorry but she could've come up to me too y'know" he groans

"You're the one that's always clinging to her. You have to talk to her and fix it."

" but I don't even know why she's mad. Did I tell you that she almost hit me in the head with her brush in art?"

"Yes, you told me." He puts his sword in flames and I step back

" are you serious?"

"Very," he says as he swings at me and my hair almost caught on fire.

"You asshole."

"Shut up about Anastasia."

"That's rude, she's a princess you know."

"Fine. Shut up about Princess Anastasia. Just talk to her." I just nod and he lets out the flames but his sword is still emitting heat like crazy.

He swings at me and I counter it with my sword trying to push him back but his sword cuts right through the sword and burns my arms.

"Fuck." I say dropping the sword and holding my arm.

He drops his sword as well and runs to me.

"Dominique." I head my father say behind me.

Fuck.

"I'm fine, sir," I say as both Amir and I turn around and greet him as our general.

"Come here," he says and I walk over to him and he grabs my hand lightly and looks at the burn.

"I told you. You shouldn't train like that with Amir he's on a whole different level."

"But-"

"No," he says and drags me inside the castle and out of the training grounds.

"Dad please it'll be fine."

"No."

"Daddy come on you know he didn't do it on purpose."

"Of course I know that but- why do you insist on training with us anyway?"

"Come on you know I'm better than all those ridiculous princes at the sorry excuse for military foundation at the academy."

"Fine but not with Amir."

"Okay." He continues to escort me to the clinic and leaves as he drops me off.

I walk in.

"Fuck. JOSETTE!" She comes running to me

"What?!"

"Fuxk.fuck.fuck.fuck.fuck." I say and show her my arm

"Oh- Jesus." she sits me down and starts cleaning it.

In the end, I was lucky because it was only an open wound and needed a couple of stitches whether if it had cut something important it would've been bad.

I had a bandaged arm and it hurt like a motherfucker if anything touched it.

I went back to my room to rest and I almost jumped when Amir woke me up at midnight to apologize.

Father "grounded" him and he wouldn't be able to see me for a while so he said sorry and left a new guard as a parting gift. One that I wouldn't notice this time.

I pass out as soon as my head hit the pillow again and sleep like a baby on crack the whole night.

*_*

The next morning we get to school and walk into the classroom and like always the teacher wasn't there and everyone was chatting in their small groups.

To cover up my bandage, I wore a crop top and a flannel shirt on top.

After talking myself up for a whole 5 minutes I walked up to the Princess.

"hey," I say

"Hey, Princess." okay... totally not how I expected it to start.

"I'm sorry it's been so awkward. Friends again?"

"Who said we were ever even friends."

"Well, you slept with me. So...." I whisper in her ear to make sure no one else would hear.

"Don't make it inappropriate." She says and slaps my shoulder.

"Then what should I say?"

"We... had a sleepover or just not say anything at all."

"But isn't that what friends do. Sleepover I mean."

"It was an importune situation."

"You seemed to enjoy sleeping with me though," I whispered sweetly in her ear

"Sh-"

"Hey, princess. I'll go talk to Wyatt since you seem busy." Dana tells me after she came in.

"You should go. She's waiting for you."

"I'm fine over here though. Do you want me to leave?"

"She's Impatient."

"Let her be."

"She's—" I blow air behind her ear and she jumps from her seat.

"What are you doing?"

"I was- I was just messing around." I laugh

"You asshole." She says and I laugh like never before.

"What?"

"You-you're- your accent. It's so cute. Wait - say it again."

"Say What again?"

"Say asshole again."

"Asshole."

"Arsehole."

"Shut up." She says as I continue laughing.

"Go away." She pushes me and I go back to my friends while still laughing.

"Did you kiss and makeup?" Wyatt asks jokingly

"Shut up." I look towards Dana and she was looking over at the Princess. I block her view and greet her.

"Oh hey, Dominique." She says innocently but with a devilish smirk.

"Sit down, everyone. Today we'll review Latin. Blah blah blah." Everyone sits down and starts paying attention to his class.

*_*

During lunch, we all sat together with me beside the Princess and Dana sitting next to Adrienne so they were across from us.

The whole day the Princess had been acting weird and I wasn't bothered by it or anything in fact it would probably be the opposite but it was just weird.

She was... colder than usual. At least to me. She was acting like a jealous girlfriend.

Oh.

Ohhhhh.

Oh?

Wait  what.

"Dominique? Dom?" Michaela says

"Hmm, yea?"

" Are you okay? You dozed off for a sec."

"Oh I'm fine babe" I smile at her and then start paying attention to their conversation.

"Right, Anastasia?" I turn my head so fast towards Dana and she looks at me and smirks.

This bitch.

"Yeah, Christopher is attending the hunt. We all are."

"Oh, then you'll get to see your fiancée, right?" Dana asks me

" I don't have one, Dana. What are you getting at?" I say starting to get pissed off

"Nothing don't worry it's just... everyone knows about The north's proposal and you very well know that they are your best choice so... I'm just curious."

"Right... what a curious person you are," she smiles

I look to my side at the princess and I couldn't get anything from her. She stayed neutral until the end.

"Please excuse me," Dana says and stands up and walks towards us and touches the Princess's shoulder, and heads to the restroom.

I stand up and follow her.

"Oh... Princess Dominique"

"What the fuck are you trying to do?" I whisper as I push her into the bathroom since we were standing in the middle of the hallway.

"What are you talking about?" she answers sweetly

"Oh shut up you fucking witch. What are you trying to do? Just what exactly is your plan here?" I say as she steps back

"oh, so you finally let go huh" I look at her coldly

"What are you really here for, Dana?" I say throwing any respect out the window and push her into a corner.

"I'm not here for anything other than my entertainment, I am only a hostage after all."

"What do you- ahh" I touch my injured arm and when I look up Dana isn't there anymore.

I groan and hang on by the bathroom stall

"Hhhhh fuck." I look at the bandage and it's melting.

"What the fuck did Amir do to me?" I look and the stall where I was holding starts melting. I let go and wobble to the sink but it instantly dissolves too.

I feel dizzy. My head is turning and my body feels hot like I'm burning from the inside.

"Ahhhh" I yell as the burning gets stronger and stronger and I fall to the floor.

"Princess?" The Princess walks in and runs to me as she looks around at the disaster.

"Dammit." she grabs my hand and hisses but then closes her eyes.

I no longer feel pain but I can feel the fire inside me.

The fire starts to slowly dissolve. First from my hands and then my head starts to clear up and then coldness around and inside my body.

I open my eyes which I didn't even realize were closed and look at the Princess.

"I'm sorry." I say and I lean forward and kiss her slowly.

She opens her eyes and slowly kisses me back as she wraps her arms around my neck.

I grab her and pull her closer to me.

I kiss her desperately as her cold body eases my fire.

"Dominique..."

*_*

Guys, I have been neglecting my babyyy. My poor Michaela 😭 and some other characters too so I'll try to fix that so you guys have more depth about the other characters as well.

Anyways hope you enjoyed 😘

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~K❤️