Heal My Heart

5. You need to speak up the truth !!

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Arya's POV

I was laying on the icy cold floor, I have no idea how long I was laying there. My whole body was aching, my body down from the hip was all covered in blood. I didn't know how many time the King hit me with his whip, the only thing I know was I had unbearable pain, nothing that I have ever undergone in my life.

But above all the physical pain I was going through, pain deep in my heart was much stronger. I was not afraid of getting killed or being whipped again, I am happy to bare them if someone can get me out of this mental trauma I was experiencing.

But I was so afraid of Aron, I was so afraid that he will confess the truth, I knew the king was not believing me. He suspects that there is something that we all try to hide, and that made him even angrier. So if in any case, Aron confesses his offense, I was sure that king Edward won't even think twice before killing my little brother.

I tried my best to convince the King, I begged him to forgive us for the sake of I heal his brother. But all the things I have done seem to go in vain with this heartless monster king. No, I was wrong to call him like that. He is doing what he should as a King, isn't he? It is us who have done the most terrible mistake here.

I wished if I could see my parents and my brother now. I wish if I could keep my head in my mom's lap, so she would caress my head and tell me "Everything is going to be ok baby". I sighed.

Then I tried to sit leaning to the nearby wall. I started meditation, there was no other thing that can give even the slightest relief away from all the mental disaster I was experiencing. I was not sure how long I was meditating when the door of my cell was suddenly opened. I turned around. It was Prince William. He was carrying some food on a tray.

"Mmm... " He stared at me for few seconds. his eyes turned into a thin line and his whole face shrink with worry or was it pain?

"How are you?" He finally asked.

before I gather my words to reply,

"Oh I am so sorry, that is the most foolish question one can ask in a situation like this isn't it?" he said trying to smile.

But that smile was full of pain, sadness, and worry.

"Better on the ground than hanging, your highness" I tried to smile.

"I agree with you"

he sat down near me on the floor.

"Oh your highness please don't sit here it is so dirty, I didn't stand up when you enter because I can't feel my feet, I don't think I can stand on my feet right now," I said trying to stand.

"Hey!! sit. " He grabs my hand and made me sit again.

" who asked you to stand. I sat here because I have a habit of looking into the person eyes whoever I talking to. Now you have to forget I am a prince. Just think I am a friend who has come to visit you. And for your information, I have sat on far more dirty floors than this. Don't think us princes always get Royal facilities where ever we go. in the battlefields, I have experienced things that you can't even imagine of"

"Its good to hear that Royal family also get some time to feel the reality"

"We get that chance more frequently than you think Doctor"

we both smile. I felt like I am having hope, I felt like my suffering disappeared for some time. I was not sure it was meditation or the very presence of this Calm, kind and handsome prince gave me this blissful relief.

"I have brought you some food and water"

"I am not feeling hungry Prince William, but thank you very much. you are so kind"

"I don't want to know if you are hungry or not, but you got to eat Doctor. And you are doing it right now, while I am here"

Behind the calm and compassionate prince there is some stubbornness and arrogance as well it seems.

However I obeyed him and started to eat, I couldn't eat much though.

"It's enough," I said pushing the tray aside.

"that's ok, at least now you have something to give you strength"

Strength. Do I really need strength? Why would I need strength? To take more whipping? Or facing my death boldly? I needed to ask. But Prince William has nothing to do with this mess, he is just trying to help me.

"And Doctor I got some medicine from your assistant. She said if we apply this to your wounds it will reduce the pain" he took a small bottle out of his inner pocket.

"What is the purpose of reducing the pain sir, I am going to get killed, aren't I? so reducing the pain for few hours won't make big difference"

William's POV

"What is the purpose of reducing the pain sir, I am going to get killed anyway, aren't I? so reducing the pain for few hours won't make big difference"

her words hit me like thousand poisonous arrows hit my heart at once. What she was telling is true, I knew it was just a matter of time until Edward issue the command to give the death penalty to her.

Can I blame Edward for that? He is just doing his duty, and I was so sure that Arya is hiding the truth, she is willingly sacrificing herself to protect someone she truly loves. So whom should I blame?.

"I am not someone who is easily giving up. And I do believe in miracles. So now you be a good girl and let me apply this"

she didn't say anything instead she spread her legs forward. I lifted her torn up white dress up to her knee and clean her lower leg with a dump clothe then started applying medicated oil.

There were like hundreds of marks on her gorgeous fair skin. I felt, my heart shattered into a thousand pieces.

She was moaning with the pain each time I touch her wounds.

"Being a doctor, you may have treated people with much more worst wounds"

"mm.. yes... "

"So is it awkward to be on the other end of the treatment now?" I just wanted to keep her focus on something else so she may not feel much of a pain.

"Even when I was treating people, I think I felt their pain, I mean not physically but mentally"

"So how long you have been a doctor?"

"I don't know.. since I can remember"

"You learned these form your father?"

"Yeah some of them.. but I don't know some of them I just know"

"yes I heard of that"

"You heard what Prince William?"

"I have heard that you are a goddess sent from the heaven to heal people"

"Oh!! I wish I am a goddess So I will be able to do something in a helpless situation like this. won't I?"

Oh, girl, why you are turning every discussion to a path, that I don't know how to find the correct route back.

For me, You are truly a Goddes. Not because you are as pretty as a Goddes, but because you have a big heart that sure equivalent with a goddess. I wanted to whisper this to her keeping my lips on her nicely sculpted ears. But instead, I sighed.

I lifted her dress further up to apply medicated oil. She didn't say anything, she was not even moaning now. She stayed so calm that I looked at her to make sure she is not sleeping.

I lifted her dress further up, her upper thighs also were covered in blood. I cleaned the blood first and took a few drops of the medicine to my palm. I felt how she shocked and how her whole body shivered with my touch on her upper thigh.

my heart started to beat so fast and my whole body was shivering. Only thing I could see and focus was her full fair thighs, even though they were all bruised. I felt so ashamed of my self. How can I have so dirty and low feelings even in a situation like this? This is not me, this girl here, I didn't know she is a goddess or not but she has transformed me into a totally different person.

"I think you can apply the rest. I will leave now" I stand up pulling her dress down. I couldn't even face her. I started walking towards the door.

"Prince William" she called. I turned back

"I know there is nothing you can do to get me out of this miserable situation. Maybe this is my fate. I am so sorry for all the words came out of me, which made you feel sad. I was so selfish to say those when you are just trying your best to help me. You know I am not like this, I don't tell anything to hurt anyone, I haven't done so in my entire life. but this situation has made me crazy I think. You are really a kind person. One of the kindest persons I have ever seen in my life. I feel so sorry because I couldn't show you the real me and I feel really sad because I won't get the chance to have a friend like you. " tears ran down on her cheeks.

I kneeled down in front of her and cupped her beautiful face in my hands. I wiped out her tears from my thumbs. and looked into the most beautiful blue eyes I have ever seen.

"I don't feel sad because I still couldn't see the real you. you know why? you can show me one day in the future and I am so sure of that because I do believe in Miracles. But Arya you need to speak up the truth for that miracle to happen" I placed a small kiss on her forehead and left the room