A Night With The King

“I messed up, I did, I am sorry, I should never have interfered, I thought I was doing what’s best for everyone but I know now that I wasn’t, I made a mistake, and I can fix it, just give me a chance to,”

Patrick pleaded.

“How do you intend to fix it? I have been looking for her for days now, it’s as if she disappeared as soon as she landed.”

Lance lamented bitterly.

“I gave her a card before she left and also gave her my number in case she needs anything from me, I don’t know if she will call because she said she won’t need anything from me but the card can be traced if she has made any purchase, I just need to be in the country to do that but I couldn’t leave the country without your permission and you refused to speak with me,”

Patrick said.

“Why do you need my permission to leave the country when you didn’t wait for my permission before you sent my woman away?”

Lance questioned. He passed his fingers through his hair in frustration, and Patrick remained silent.

“You have my permission to leave the kingdom and I am coming with you,”

“You can’t leave the kingdom unsupervised; I will go find her myself, I will leave today and will not return until I find her,”

Patrick promised.

“No, I am coming with you, I can delegate duties for a while, I need to be there myself but we can’t leave today, I have something I need to take care of,”

Lance said when he remembered his meeting with Justin, he couldn’t leave the kingdom without first fixing that.

“Why not today?”

“I am meeting up with Justin today, to finish everything off because I don’t want a repeat of whatever happened, I don’t know why you are so scared that I will lose the throne to someone like Justin, he had the throne once, and did a bad job, what makes you think he can get it back? Why do you think I will easily give up my place on the throne? You didn’t trust my words enough and acted on your own which hurt me, I am still hurting, my woman is still missing, and I want her back with me, do you get what I am saying?”

Lance questioned.

“Yes, my king,”

“Fuck you, it is Lancelot to you, Patrick, get yourself together, you were my friend first before you became my special advisor, maybe if you saw me as a friend as I see you, maybe we won’t have been in this situation right now,”

Lance let out.

“I messed up, Lancelot, I don’t deserve to be forgiven but please forgive me for what I did, I have no excuse for what I did to you, I should have waited, maybe the thought of losing everything got into my head and crowded my judgment, you are right, I didn’t do it for you, I did it because I was scared; scared of losing everything including my place as your best friend, it was foolish, and I am sorry,”

Patrick apologized sincerely, Lance couldn’t keep being mad at him when he was being so sincere, so he walked up to him and pulled him in for a hug.

“You fucker, I missed having you near me, I missed being nagged by you and it is just three days, don’t ever make us fight again,”

Lance warned him.

“I promise, I won’t, it was hell not being able to help or do anything, I don’t like it at all,”

Patrick replied; they hugged for a few minutes more.

“I miss Sophie so much, my life has been empty without her,”

Lance lamented.

“We will find her,”

Patrick said when they got out of the hug.

“This is so sweet but you both have to leave my house right now,”

The princess warned, Lance kind of had forgotten she was there.

“Thank you for this, Roseline,”

Lance said, turning to her, he was glad they stayed civil with each other and that she found a new home in Otano.

“No need for thank you, but if you want to thank me, you can reduce my tax a little,”

“Yeah, you are pushing it, I am not in charge of taxes but don’t worry, I will put in some words for you,”

Lance told her and turned back to Patrick who was silently looking at the both of them.

“When last did you shave?”

Lance asked, looking him over.

“He couldn’t even eat well, shaving was the last thing on his mind, I’m glad you guys are okay now, I already made the call like I promised, I have a few connections in Briscout, if she is still there, they will find her,”

Roseline informed him.

“Thank you, princess, I owe you,”

Lance told her.

“I need to go see Justin, I am done with him, he is the reason everything happened in the first place, I am going to talk to him but if he doesn’t listen, I am going to send him out of Otano forever,”

Lance stated firmly.

“That’s the spirit, your majesty,”

the princess cheered.

“I am taking him with me, is that okay?”

He asked the princess.

“Yes, that’s the whole point of asking you to come here, I have a flight to catch in the next two hours, I told you, if I don’t go back home, my parents will disown me,”Property of Nô)(velDr(a)ma.Org.

She said as she walked them both out of her apartment, Lance thanked her again and Patrick did too. On the ride back to the palace, Patrick was silent.

“You know, you don’t have to be so silent, I like my chatty and nagger best friend back, we are cool now, all I need is to find my Sophie and everything will be okay, again.”

Lance said, Patrick spared him a look.

“I will be back soon, as soon as I find her. I shouldn’t have sent her away, I was mean to her for no reason, she really didn’t do anything that made me send her away,”

He said.

“Yeah, I figured I was part of the problem too, if I had told you that the child was mine, maybe you would have been more considerate, not saying I am excusing what you did,”

Lance responded.