Chapter 11: Chapter Eleven.
A week had passed since Dean was in a cell and out of the seven days Kylo only visited him once, when he came to bring him food on his first day. Was Dean bothered? No. But he was annoyed, here he was paying for a crime that both of them had committed and to tell the truth he was also a victim but the perpetrator was out there living the royal life.
Two days after his imprisonment king Asher came to see him and thought he had stewed enough and was now ready to sing but when Dean didn't say even one word somehow that upset the king. He opened the door to the prison cell, took off his outer robe and had two guards hold him up while he was on his knees. Then king Asher went to work, he whipped Dean's back over and over again. He tried interrogation but it didn't work so here he was whipping away.
Only when Dean hung his head down without an ounce of energy did king Asher stop. The guards released him from their grip and he fell face foward into the dirty ground. King Asher turned him over with his foot and his limp body obeyed only to find that Dean was unconscious. The king left and closed him back in and thought that once he regained his consciousness he would be ready to talk. Five more days since he was whipped Dean did manage to wake up the day after but his body was not in the mood to move at will. It wanted to lay there and do nothing and that was a bad idea because the wounds on his back were collecting an infection and a nasty one at that. He started having a fever and his temperature was up then down it was hell, the dizziness was not playing with him, so much so that he vomited, and not just was once. He was laying in his vomit and blood plus his own pee since he couldn't get up to hit the can, thank god that during all of these he didn't have to poop.
Kylo came down the hall holding food and water for him after he had heard what his father did. He also came bearing a first aid kit to tend to his wounds but he was five days late. When he got to Dean's cell the stench was what greeted him first and after he powered through it he saw Dean. The state he was in was horrifying and Kylo had to stop for a beat to take him in, in that state for a while. Dean looked dead, he was hardly breathing and it was like he had chocked on his own vomit, there was also no movement from his side.
A guard was immediately instructed to open the door and Kylo ran to his side, the first thing he did was to check for a pulse and it was barely there. He picked up Dean bridal style and was about to leave with him when the guard immediately stopped him.
"I'm sorry my prince but you cannot take the prisoner out." There was no emotion just a straight face.
"Do you know who I am!?" He screamed and the guard bowed his head to acknowledge him.
Kylo tried to take another step but the guard wouldn't let him.
"The prisoner stays." Again the guard was as calm as ever. It wasn't because he didn't see that Dean was at death's door but he was just following protocol.
"MOVE!!" Kylo growled.
"My prince you need authorization from the king in order to take the prisoner out." A young guard who saw the situation came up nervously explain to him.
"Fine I'll get it but for now move." The urgency in his voice filled the entire hallway.
"You have to get the authorization first." The young guard exlained again keeping his eyes down at all times while the other one was just a brick wall standing in front of Kylo.
Kylo gave up because he realised he was running out of time, so he put Dean on his bed and rushed to his father.
"Ah, Kylo lunch is served." King Asher gestured as Kylo burst through the doors.
Kylo got in front of his father and took a knee then he bowed his head and said, "father please grant me the request to take Dean to a hospital." King Asher heard his request but said nothing.
Kylo raised his head and saw that his father was rather surprised, "he is dying father!" Kylo exclaimed.
Immediately after he said that Cassian the eldest son of king Asher rose to his feet and king Asher looked at him in confusion. Seeing the room looking at him he sat back down.
"I am begging father." Kylo put his other knee down and kow towed to his father.
"Is it that bad?" King Asher asked because he didn't think he beat the boy nearly to death, that was impossible his mind tried to comfort him.
"For every second that he is not in the hospital his life fades." Kylo said in a sad tone and that sentence made king Asher's heart nervous.
They immediately took off to the dungeon and Dean was looking worse than the last few minutes that Kylo saw him. He was rushed to the hospital and because he was brought in by the king he was the top priority.
Cassian and Enzo were also there because well they wanted to see.
Dean's family came rushing in after one of the guards under the kings instructions went to inform them.
"Momo!" Azriel rushed in followed by his son's and they were hurt, beyond hurt. They were scared, scared of living in a world without their precious boy.
The doctor came in, "the boy's wounds are very deep considering that they aggravated the ones he had before. And as if that is not enough they were severely infected with his temperature as high as it can reach. He is also very weak due to the fact that he was not eating or drinking any fluids for days, so it might take him a while to recover, if the fever doesn't come again." The doctor informed them of Dean's situation.
"Doc what happens if the fever comes back again?" Kai asked because he thought that was worth mentioning.
"It will put him in a critical condition or might result in death." The doctor nodded subtly.
After his statement Azriel felt like he was the one dying but then his anger took over and he looked at the king and he knew exactly where to aim his anger at.
He made a beeline to the king.
"You almost killed my son!" He screamed poking the king on the chest.
"Azriel calm down." He tried to de-escalate the situation.
"Calm down? Calm down after you almost took my sonto the grave!?" Azriel was not having it.
"It was truly unfortunate." He said in calm stern voice and Azriel widened his eyes but not in shock rather like in a crazy look kind of way.
"My son is fighting for his life and all you have to say is that it's unfortunate!?" He was using his hands to show his anger while he talked. The king said nothing as he looked at the nurses who walked really slow trying to see the drama. It was making him feel small.
"He is human and he is my son!!" Azriel said his closing point.
"And I am your king!" The king said with so much authority and Azriel looked at him and the anger never left his eyes.
"Some king you are." Hunter threw a piece of his mind out there and the King's eyes shifted to him.
"What he said." Azriel agreed with his son and turned to be by his son's side.
King Asher rubbed his face with both his hands just to release some tension and he walked away. Cassian followed him and Enzo followed them while Kylo stood by the door and his heart yearning to be close to Dean while simultaneously praying that he pulls through.
Outside of the hospital when king Asher spotted his son he said nothing.
Cassian approached him and sat beside him.
"Am I bad king?" He was feeling down.
"Good people tend to make wrong choices but that doesn't make them a bad person." Cassian was looking ahead instead of looking at his father.
"If he dies Azriel will never forgive me and the pack will lose all respect for me. They will fear me." He thought out loud.
"You have punished people harder than this and some even wish for death and this pack still reveres you and respects you." He wasn't just saying words he was telling the truth.
"It had never been a human." The sadness in his voice creeped in.
"That's because Dean is the first and last human this pack will ever have." Cassian nodded with a lick of smile on his face.
"I should have-"
"You should have done this or that. We all know that but what's done is done. Father it cannot be undone. What you need to do now is wait for him to wake up and find another punishment for him." After he was disturbed from what he was going to say there was a long silence between the two. Just them staring at the uninteresting sky.
"I wish your mother was here." Cassian said nothing at that statement and continued staring at the sky. Enzo was just behind them listening in on their conversation and his father's last sentence broke something in him because it had been more than fifteen years since his father had said that.