Chapter 5.

I wake up confused, and wherever I am, it's kind of dark. It takes me a little while to open my eyes fully, but I do, and look to the left side, where Derek was with his face in his hands, I sat down slowly while looking at the other side, I did not know this room.

—Derek? —He looks at me, relieved and concerned.

His expression of him makes my heart warm tenderly. I wonder what he was doing here, the last thing he remembered was Lucy leaving the castle. Derek sits next to me, and he takes my face in his hands examining me.

—You're good? —Seat.

—Where is Lucy? And Artemisa? Anton? Auden? —He looks at me with some bewilderment.

There is a long silence, but seeing that I did not forget the subject, he says:

—Wait a minute for me.

He leaves the room tense, everything is so ... Weird, where is everyone? Where am I? I stirred in the white sheets.

The room is large, but the walls are gray and the floor is white, minimalist ... We have nothing similar in our castle.

A man in his thirties enters the room, with a tall boy about my age, have black hair and dyed white tips had gray eyes like the man, who was carrying a briefcase.

—Hestia, he's the doctor, Daniel Roberts brother to Auden, like the guy. Raven. Dr. Daniel looks at me sympathetically and Raven smiles sheepishly.

I do not know they resemble Auden at all, in personality -although I do not know them it shows too much- Daniel and Auden's hair is similar. But they are not the people he expected, nor did he even know of their existence, and I did not keep it for myself because then I said:

—Nice to meet you, but I was wondering where they were... —My voice trailed off when I saw how they looked at each other, —what happened to me? What happened to everything?

I hadn't even thought about that, how did I get here? What's a doctor doing here? I look at Derek, but he doesn't give me an explanation.

—You went into a coma for two days. Artemisa is hospitalized, and the kingdom agreed that ... —Daniel slaps Raven on the back of the neck, I open my mouth in surprise and daze, and when I see Derek, he is deciding between himself to laugh or get angry.— Uh animal I am a wolf, that did not hurt ... Wait, you're not the animal, I'm the animal... - He starts to babble and laughs, forgetting his worries for him for a moment.

FUCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

—You weren't supposed to come, I'm sorry your majesty. —Daniel tells me and Raven looks at him indignantly.

—But I've made her laugh! —Reason is not lacking

But what is he doing here?

—I don't need to read minds to know are your question: what the hell I'm doing here. Well, I'll tell you. —he sits at the foot of the bed and I look at Derek strangely as if to say "What's wrong with him?", But he's having fun with the situation. —Lucy was very worried but is sorry to come after she has left, and apparently, things were misinterpreted, he didn't betray them but telling them the plan puts the plan in jeopardy. —I frown in confusion and frustration.

"Someday" her words from her and Artemis's words come to my head. I began to remember.

—I don't even know the plan, so since Lucy was debating herself, Auden ordered me to come ... Consequences of being the little brother

—He's fifteen, he's a bit of a moron. —Daniel justifies.

I didn't want to show how I felt about it, so I just changed the subject. —You don't look like your brother.

—What did I do to earn such a compliment?—Dramatizes Raven. Derek and I laugh— is she your girlfriend? —I widen my eyes, but Derek has returned to be the one from before: Fun in her gaze to the fullest.

That reassures me. Raven made things seem so simple, that for that moment she forgot that Artemisa has been hospitalized... Artemisa.

I tensed in that instant with worry.

—Hmm, I admit I intend to be. —My heart thumps nervous but I don't dare look at him.

—Why aren't they like Lucy and Auden? They like each other. Puff! Couple formed! Or is she ... —but I'm too lost in my mind to follow the thread of the conversation.

And Derek notices it. Because the conversation is also lost for a moment trying to know what I think without losing the glow of fun, a rare and unique expression mixed with concern, Daniel notices it apparently because he shuts up Raven immediately, who let out an "Uh sorry"

—Artemisa... I want to see her. —Whisper.

They all looked at each other, and again, Raven was the only one who answered.

—Who tells her?

A few minutes pass for they clarify to me what happened, but they succeed, I manage to see that there are loose ends because suddenly they were silent and Raven was not good at simulating discomfort, which kept repeating to me: You have saved yourself from a big problem. I feel uncomfortable, incomplete, and many more annoying feelings, for everything that happened in two days: They have notified the palace that Artemis and I are injured, that with Lucy they have had several personal problems that we would have to explain later, Derek and Anton were taking care of two castles at once for the two days we were unconscious, which included a negotiation:

A somewhat older couple wanted the throne, but it couldn't be that easy, in what they told me they said that we were teenagers who needed to enjoy life, that's how Derek and Anton gave up our reign for two weeks to show them that it was not easy.

So Artemis and I are not in our castle, we are in Derek's.

When I open the door to Artemis's room, she has several tubes stuck in the abdomen and arms with a light green hospital gown, connected to oxygen, her heart was not beating correctly, but despite everything, she had no idea what had happened to her, no one wanted to tell me, She hadn't woken up yet ...

—When will she wake up?— I whisper and look at Derek, who kept avoiding giving me answers, but when he looked at Raven, and he looked away...

I know it is very bad.

—Because she will ... she won't she?— Something inside me stirs and hurts. Nobody says anything —She is my best friend, I have more rights than you. My voice comes out shaking, and Daniel finally says something.

—She... She has little chance of survival. —Then some hurt inside of me.

Lucy is not here and Artemis is on the verge of death. Derek puts his arms around me from behind when he starts crying silently.

—Where is Artemisa's family of her? —She has her mother and her little brother, however, I don't see them near her.

—Her brother and her mother have had some problems getting there, your parents went out to eat ... In case you were wondering. —I didn't much care where my parents were, I loved them but Artemisa is the important now.

Artemisa... Artemisa was always very close to her mother her that it is strange not to have her here. I want to know what happened to Artemisa but at the same time, I think the answer goes to hurt me.

I cry for a few more minutes. Then there was a knock on the door.

When I turn around, I see my parents, Derek does not separate from me until he sees that my parents want to hug me too, I cry on my father's chest and my mother pats me on the back, she was never very affectionate. She and my dad contrasted perfectly.

They told me that everything would be fixed and that whatever had to happen would happen.

—I want to be alone... With her— I whisper under my breath, it's late, it won't be long before it gets dark.

As if the universe was against me Anton enters the room drawing everyone's attention, Daniel leaves the room almost dragging Raven, Derek purses his lips a bit sad but nods and leaves, he makes a sign to Anton, but Anton refuses.

—Please...— I mutter. He sighs but leaves, my parents are the last to leave.

—You'll be fine? —No, I won't be, isn't it obvious?

I catch myself thinking that. But I don't say anything, he answers himself and gives me one last hug before leaving with my mother behind.

I sit on a bench next to Artemisa, and I cry more freely —I very sentimental about this, if you saw me, you would laugh at this for years. Right? No, for a lifetime... —The tears keep flowing, and my voice is very low and somewhat hoarse— Not now Artemisa, I think I can bear you longer, just don't do this.

I drop my face into my hands, I realize that I am shaking with nerves.

Artemisa, is an important person in my life, because... She was one of my best friends, although sometimes she did not measure her words, or her actions, she also made me laugh when I needed it, she supported me when she was as shattered as I am, and we got through a difficult time in our lives together, not to mention reigning together. Maybe she is not my mother or my father, or my sister, but she is my family of her because she understood me better than a member of my family could do.

The night passed, I don't know when, but I fall asleep...

"I'm in my room, he's next to me, and for some reason, I start screaming, but I stop my screaming when I can see myself, on the floor of my room, with my head separated from the body." I woke up crying but I don't know why.