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"Oh stop complaining!" I groan as the guards take me and the other girl to our 'rooms'.

“I’m sorry for my sudden disappearance I had to deal with some people. So what was it you came here for miss Nala?” Alister asks wondering why she was here and he didn’t care that she was in his throne at the moment. A lister looked her up and down getting the gist of her body structure. ‘Well she is cute enough.’

She yips in surprise as she heard him speak and she blushed slightly, afraid he heard what she was saying to herself. She whipped around and looked at him and twirled her hair with her index finger as she spoke, not meeting his gaze. "U-Uhm.. well, I need to pray a debt you put on my family before I was born and since me and my father can't repay it, I chose I could work here as a guard to repay the debt instead of my father working his ass off.."

“Well since your cute I’ll cut you a deal. You come live with me and your families debt is gone and will be forgotten about.” Alister says putting on a charming smile. ‘Alister you sly dog.’ Alister thought to himself as he stepped closer to her and pressed a button on his thrown which made a door open in a wall revealing another secret passage.

"I have to live... with you?" She blushed a deep crimson. The thought of living with man, unmarried, and she didn't even know him made her doubt her self. Her mother told her to be married before she lived with a man... but he was going to forgive the debt if she did. She sighed and rolled her head on her shoulders and popped her neck. "Fine." She said and sighed, knowing her mother wouldn't be proud. Her mother was kind and beautiful, so she knew she would disagree. But all she was doing was saving her dad from the debt.

“You must be wondering what my name is. My name is Alister Vernon at your service milady.” Alister says as he took a couple of passes back and took a bow in her direction. ‘This could be the one so I’m not passing up the chance at being rid of my boredom...please forgive me Dracula.’ Alister thought as he bowed to her like a prince would to a princess and offered his gloved hand to her palm up. “I would like you to come to dinner with me tonight.” Alister says kindness in his voice. ‘It’s strange that she hadn’t realized I am a vampire yet so I wonder how long that will last.’

"D-D-Dinner?!? I've never been to a dinner!! Me and father always ate very little so I never really ate food..." her voice trailed off as she saw his gloved hand. She was tempted to take it, to take his hand so he could sweep her off her feet like a Prince. Every since she was little she always dreamed of love and what it would be like. Father never talked about mother anymore, so she never really knew what love was. Her eyes narrowed and strained her words, "If I to on this dinner, will you feed my father and keep him well as a part of our deal?"

“If that is what you wish then he will have plenty of food to sustain him forever.” Alister says still holding out his hand but now standing up straight. ‘She will receive whatever she asks of as long as it is in my power of doing so.’ Alister thought as he now took a semi-step closer to her.

Meanwhile the guards that had marched off into town had initiated grey protocol which was enlisting a curfew around town until their master said otherwise.

The girl sighs and takes his gloved hand with a small smile that lifted the corner of her lips. "Well, dinner it is.. but you must keep your promise." The last 6 words of her sentence were tense, threatening almost. But even though she was almost threatening him, a smile was still on her beautiful face and she she steppes off the throne and sighed, now relating he was closer to her, she blushed. She never held a man's hand before other than her father's... Her mother would surely scold her for this if she was alive..

“I will tell you a secret about me when we get to know each other better.” Alister says as he put his other arm around her and swept her off of her feet and carried her like a princess into the next room through the open secret passage. It closed behind them without a sound. They entered into a room that was domed and the sky could be seen because the ceiling was all glass. “Look up into the sky and it will be as beautiful as you.” Alister says complimenting her on her beauty despite her clothes.

As the guards throw both of us in different rooms they locked the door, leaving me alone in a dark room. The dark wasn't a problem since I had night-vision so I wandered around looking for some sort of exit. "Damn vampires..." I growl.

The girl blushes more and looks up and awes as she sees the sky. Her eyes sparkle and she saw stars and the bright moon that glowed down on them both. "No... nothing can compare to the beauty of this night sky tonight..." She whispered, afraid if she might talk to loud, she would shatter the beauty she saw before her. The beauty that reminded Her of her mother so very much. The clothes she wore was rags and they were dirty and she didn't know why the man was calling her beautiful but still, she looked at him and into his eyes and smiled softly, "I am far from beautiful or pretty. I'm just waiting slum who lives in the dumps of a village and is a cowards and jokes daughter. I am nothing more and nothing less."

Alister looked at her eyes and from then on decided to change completely. “What if you could be so much more than that including your family? I could change and restore your family’s name so that you aren’t a coward’s and jokes daughter and instead a noble with his daughter married to the king of the land?” Alister asks wondering what she would say to his abruptness of marriage.

Meanwhile the guard that threw the prisoner into the room banged on the door for Mariana to shut her mouth and walked away.

Now Nala was a tomato. "M-Marriage?!" She stuttered and she felt her mouth go dry and her body freeze like time was stuck. He wanted to.. marry. Marry her. Her. A poor girl. Why? She was confused and embarrassed and just utterly confused! She looked at the man and her face felt like it was radiating heat. But, something inside her ticked. It was like something in her heart that made her want to marry him. To return her fame. But she wanted to obey her mother. To obey her father. She looked away from him, confused with her feeling and herself. Her eyes looked tired as she thought and she shifted in his arms as she thought and thought. "I.. I don't know... what love is really...." She said abruptly.

“Then we can learn together.” Alister says a smile now starting to play on his lips and he kissed her lightly on the cheek. ‘I’m changing already with love there is but power in two lovers than there is in one lonely and wasting away in a castle being feared.’ Alister thought as he now passed into a room that it’s doors opened by themselves for Alister to enter and closed behind them leading into a bedroom. The room’s window had been curtained and closed at the moment. A light flickered above them as flames sprouted on candles in a chandelier above their heads. “This will be your room. Your father will receive not only food but money too.”

We're he kissed her on the cheek tingles and she blushed even more as he brought her to her new room. "Thank you..." She mumbled. His words were stuck in her head and she had a feeling in her that made her want to kiss him. She didn't though. She didn't know what was wrong with her body and brain and she was confused. Her brows furrowed together in thought and she looked at him and in an instant, wrapping her arms around his torso. "Thank you for helping me and my father, I really appreciate it." She unwrapped her arms and pulled away and turned around and said over her shoulder, "goodnight king."

((GOODNIGHT! ))

“Goodnight Malady.” Alister says and leaves the room quietly. Zane walked back through the domed room with a glass ceiling and returning back to his throne room in a matter of seconds. ‘I’ve definitely gotten her to like me.’ Alister thought as he sat in his throne and then pressed a button. “Guards bring the assassin to me.” Alister says in a very nonchalant tone. Alister then let go of the button and a couple of guards were walking by casually and decided to do as their master said.

The bed was comfy. Soft. The feeling made her want to sleep on the hard floor. She wasn't used to having a bed to sleep on, she usually just slept on the pillows they had in their house. She sighed and looked up at the sky with eyes full with sadness. "This master, is arrogant. But.. even though he makes me want to hit him, I have to be strong not for father. If I don't.. We will probably not survive another year.." Tears pricked her eyes and she wiped them away but more came. She was tired. So tired of the stress and the weight of trying to stay alive. It made her want to gag. She just.. was tired of it all.

A lister sighed with the wait and then pressed the button again. “Never mind don’t bring her to me and you know what have the day off after she is secure in her cell.” Alister says as he got up and pressed another button one further toward the back of the arm rest of the throne. As he pushed it a spiral staircase assembled in front of him that lead up to a floor above the throne room. Alister then jumped halfway up the stair case already and walked the rest of the way up. ‘Why would there be an assassin here? And who really was her target I wonder.’ Alister thought as he entered his own bedroom which was now illuminated by 3 chandeliers with candles providing light so he could see around the room. Alister then climbed into his bed after changing into some comfyer clothes and fell asleep in bed. The spiral staircase stayed in the same place without moving.

She couldn't sleep. She sighed and finally slipped out of bed and her feet hit the cold floor that was marble. The bed was to weird for her to sleep on, she couldn't adjust. "Maybe I should explore the castle....?" She thought aloud and a smirk came to her lips. "Maybe if I make the 'king' mad I could finally tell him off." She chuckled evily.