10 minutes later...

Sir John was standing in his room. The King was his uncle so Sir John lived in the castle. He was standing by the door waiting for someone to tell him that Alexander succeeded.

Knock knock

"Come in" Sir John says. The door slowly creeps open to reveal Alexander standing there. "Alexander have you completed your mission?" Sir John asks.

 "Yes" Alexander simply replies. The moment Sir John saw Alexander by the door he expected to hear good news, because Alexander looked beat up. A black eye, a bruise on his cheek, his sleeves were ripped to show more cuts and bruises. 

 "Very good.  you have the next seven days off" Sir John steps towards the door. Alexander was relieved, he felt like resting for a week so this was perfect. He usually never has to fight this hard.

Sir John headed into the dungeon, he wanted to get this over with. He has never felt this before, for some reason he did not want to kill Elizabeth. He quickly covered the feeling with the cold ice that was there before. 

Once he found the cell in which Elizabeth was in, he stood there quietly in the shadows and watched her. She was fiddling with the ropes on her wrists, sitting on the wooden 'bed' facing the opposite direction of Sir John.

" I know you're there", she says. A glance of surprise flashed across Sir John's face. " You have loud feet, how did you get this job again?" She looks up at him

 "I see you have not changed" he says, taking a step closer to the prison bar door. 

She turns to the ropes again, trying to get them off.

"You either" she says quietly, just loud enough for Sir John to hear. 

"These. ropes. are. so. tight" she says trying to slide them off. Sir John rolls his eyes. "I cannot feel my hands".

"It is supposed to be like that" he says sharply. He watches Elizabeth carefully, he doesn't want her to try an escape. "You cannot escape from me Elizabeth" he says.

"I-I know" she says in a defeated tone. 

'Why should I bother escaping? I can't anyways.' Elizabeth thinks to herself. She stopped messing with the ropes and turned to face Sir John. "Just kill me" she says, "get it over with."

Sir John furrows his eyebrows. "Now, Why would I do that?" He asks her. He takes a step closer and crosses his arms, leaning against the prison cell bars.

"Why wouldn't you? That is all you want right?" She says, avoiding any possible eye contact. Sir John unlocks the bar door, steps in and draws his sword bringing  it up to her neck. Elizabeth just stares straight at the wall in front of her. 

"Elizabeth look at me" Sir John demands. She doesn't listen, she just ignores him and keeps staring at the wall. "Elizabeth" he repeats himself in a low growl. Still she ignores him. 

Suddenly he takes the sword and cuts her cheek,  causing her to cry out in pain. "Look at me" he demands again. This time she slowly turns her head, her eyes to meet his. "I will not kill you" he says. Fear starts to creep into Elizabeth. 

She knows that this cannot be a good thing. "I am going to keep you here" Sir John finishes.

As soon as he says that Elizabeth tries to run, but Sir John quickly stands in front of the entrance to the cell, he angrily shoves his sword away in its sheath. He  forces Elizabeth into the bars and grips her throat with his bare hand. Slowly he lifts her off the ground. She is trying to pull his hand off, for she can barely breathe

 "Do not try to escape again" he says in a low spine-chilling tone. 

He drops her on the floor and steps back. "Get up" He says. Elizabeth uses the bars to pull herself up and balance herself. Once she was up Sir John stops and thinks for a moment, but before she has a chance of escape he says, "I do not trust this cell to hold you" 

With that he grabs her arm and pulls her down a secret staircase. The light is dim, the air is cold and musky and the smell was horrendous. 

There was a long hallway with a door at the end, a reinforced steel door. When Elizabeth sees this she realizes her fate. "No no no, please no. John please I'm begging you please don't do this!" She begged struggling to get away, but his grip on her arm was to tight. 

Sir John stays silent as he unlocks the door shoves her in and slams it closed.

 "No" she whispers to herself "no no no" she feels defeated. Leaning against the door, she slowly goes down and sits up against the door. There was no way to get out. 'Life cannot Get any worse' she's thinks. 

What she doesn't know is that Sir John was still standing on the other side of the door listening to her soft whimpers and cries. He reaches for the handle to let her out but stops, he realizes what he's doing and runs back up the stairs. 

Elizabeth heard his loud footsteps up the stairs. 'He was down here the whole time? Why?' She doesn't know what to think anymore. She is trapped in a locked room in a secret basement located in a building where only those with the authority can enter and in a town where people don't know if she's still alive and even if they did they despise her. She's a thief. 

Sir John heads back to the castle. He is upset with himself for even possibly feeling a twinge of guilt. He is supposed to regret nothing. As he is walking through the castle he passes by the throne room where the King and Queen notice him.

"John! Any important news about today's whereabouts?" The King asks. John turns into the throne room and does a quick respectful bow with the head. 

"We have succeeded in the capture of Elizabeth White. The kingdom's most wanted thief and criminal" he tells them. Sir John leaves out the part that he did not kill her and is holding her in the basement because that is against the Quenan law. 

"Oh how wonderful, Well you should rest up, you seem tired. A job like this sadly does not get a day off" the Queen says. 

Sir John nods his head acceptingly and walks to his room and falls asleep on the bed. 

What he did not know is that he accidentally tossed the key in the dungeon...

...with Elizabeth.

Will Elizabeth find the key and escape?

Will the King and Queen discover Sir John's own crimes?

What is Alexander going to do if Elizabeth escapes?

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Hey! So how was this chapter? Do you like it? Leave a comment on what you think. 

- Jess