30 REIGN OF EMILIA- Lab dog

previously...

"Oh, right. I must talk to you about that." Alex says, his voice now filled with seriousness.

Emilia says, her eyebrows furrowing in confusion and seriousness. "What is it?"

"Amy. I think you need to come home for a while."

•••••••

"What?"

"Carlyle has been giving away your location for profit. He has given four people so far, three whom our men have already taken out before they made a move. The last one strangely turned up dead a few hours ago. Throat slit open." Alex explains.

"Dead? Has the commander figured out the who killed him?"

"No, they are still looking into it, but honestly I am not surprised." Alex says.

"Why is that?" Em questions.

"The guy was Clyve Wittman. He was a gambler and was charged for sexual assault, he probably just messed with the wrong set of people and ended up kicking the bucket."

"Oh." Emilia mumbled. "Well then, why do I need to come home? You just said they caught the guys. What? Is Carlyle too scary for them?" Emilia chuckles. Of course it was a joke, she knows the commander and the other royal knights are more than capable of taking out Carlyle and his troops.

They have wiped out generations of Mafias for christ sake.

"No, but, you never know how well the job is done unless you do it yourself." Alex smirks.

"Are you sure that it is not because you miss me?" Emilia asks, jokingly.

"That too." Alex admits. "Get ready, I will send our private jet to come pick you up early tomorrow."

"Tomorrow? Is that not too soon?"

"Why? You will be back in no time. Plus, you get to surprise Mother, Abigail and the twins."

"Okay then. See you tomorrow brother."

"See you. Little sister" Alex laugh, hanging up before Emilia could respond.

"This audacity." Emilia scoffs.

••••••••

Early the next morning, about 9am Emilia was already at the airport, about to board the jet with Edwardo.

Alexander was not kidding when he said early.

"Your Highness." The pilot bows in courtesy.

"Good Morning Fergus. How is Myra and the baby?" Em asks.

"They are doing very well. She baked your favorite strawberry pudding, said she will come by later to give it to you.

"No need. I will come by, myself. Tell her I am looking forward to that pudding." Emilia smiles.

"Will do."

As Emilia begins to ascend the jet, she glances back to look at the city she has come to love. The city where she made new friends, and even a boyfriend whom she really like.

Emilia smiles sadly, as she thought of the boy she still liked.

How she wished their situation was different. How she wished her new friends were not the same TG that she had vowed to stay away from.

Emilia sighs. "How disappointing." she says, before boarding the jet.

•••

Two hours later, Ace shows up at Emilia and Abigail's Condo, and rang the door bell. Once he realizes that no one was answering, he dialed James' number.

"Sup."

"Hey, man. Do you know where Em is?" Ace immediately asks.

"She went home to take care of some family matters, why?" James responds.

"Home? As in Switzerland?" Ace asks.

"What? no, home as in Mal-" James immediately cut himself off when he remembers where Emilia told everyone she was from. "I mean yeah. Switzerland." as soon as James says that, Ace cuts the call.

"Sh*t" Ace swears. After thinking it through, he re unlocked his phone and dial Blaine's number.

"Capo" Blain answers.

"Prepara il jet." Ace begins. "We're going to Switzerland."

[TRANSLATION ITALIAN: Get the jet ready.]

••••

As the vehicle pulls up at the Palace, Amanda takes a deep breath as she takes in the beauty of the environment she missed.

A few seconds later, her door was opened by Edwardo, her trusty driver and fake uncle.

"Eure Hoheit!" the maid and guards outside immediately came rushing, forming a line towards the entrance of the main door, maids curtseying while the guards bow, all out of respect. [GERMAN for: Your Highness]

Emilia gives them a warm smile, giving then a slight curtsey in return.

Just then, the doors opens and Alexander briskly makes his way towards his big sister, embracing her in what his idea was of a bear hug.

"Schwester! du bist angekommen." he exclaims in excitement. Even though he often acts like the big brother, he couldn't help but turn mushy towards his big sis. [Sister you have finally arrived.]

"Alex!" Emilia returns her brother's hug.

"Werde bei mir nicht ganz matschig, du rauchst mir am Telefon wie vor vier Stunden. Wo sind jetzt die Zwillinge? Ich habe Geschenke mitgebracht." Emilia states. [Do not get all mushy with me, you smoke to me on the phone like, four hours ago. Now where are the twins? I I brought gifts.]

"Alessandra's lab I think, mixing God knows what." is all Alex says after pulling away from his sister.

He escorts Emilia to the the twins' lab, and sure enough, the ten years olds were about to experiment on their dog Fior.

"Are you ready Fior? After we do this, you will possibly be able to talk, But if this does not go well, you will probably be paralyzed for, at least a month or so.

To Emilia's surprise, the Australian Shepherd barks in consent. Alessa then proceeds to mix a bunch, of "chemicals" together. No doubt they are probably different colors of syrup. She occasionally asks her brother to past more "chemicals", or baking soda and vinegar, however as soon as she was about to add the vinegar to the syrup, Emilia stopped her before they could transform the room into a foamy mess.

"What is going on here?" Emilia asks, immediately gaining the twins' undivided attention.

"Amanda!" they yell enthusiastically, rushing towards her and hugging their big sister's torso.

"Du bist hier! Wie geht es dir hier?" Alessa asks excitedly.

[You are here, how are you here?]

"Genau. Ich dachte, du wärst in Amerika! Warum bist du zurück gekommen?" Ale questions. [Exactly. I though you were in America! Why did you come back.?]

"Was? Freust du dich nicht, mich zu sehen?" Emilia asks, smiling as she pats her brother and sister's heads in adoration. The twins immediately shake their heads.[What? are you not happy to see me?]

"I missed you both. Even though I was only gone for a few months "

"We missed you too." The both say, in unison.

"Really? Because it seems you two were quite occupied with trying to get Fior to speak."

"Oh that!" Alessa says.

"That was nothing. You should have been here when she tried to get me to speak dog language. I literally saw my life flash before my eyes with whatever she gave me to drink."

"Hey! Ich dachte, wir haben eine Abmachung getroffen, ihnen davon nichts zu erzählen!" Alessa shouts, getting an apologetic look from her two minutes younger brother.