Heartless

"I know you came here and spoke with your dad a few weeks ago, I haven't saw him since which means you've done one of two things" he begins to speak, in his mind he was leading this conversation "either you've off'd him, which I honestly think you don't have it in you or, he's agreed to something and you've let him go, which one am I right about Clara?" He asks me smirking, he tries to lean forward but the handcuffs behind his back prevented him from doing so. "As much as you're trying to hide it, you're struggling right now aren't you Cyrus?" I ask with a smile, he looks annoyed at me for a second but I just continue "now you and I need to come to some sort of arrangement, if we do than you can be free of all these struggles, how does that sound?" I ask tilting my head a little as I spoke, he looks up at me giving me a look which showed he was intrigued. "What kind of arrangement?" He asks with a raised eyebrow, I honestly thought he'd put up more of a fight but this is easy. "I know you were doing the former King Preston's dirty work, we're building a case on him and all I would need you to do is to testify against him" I simply say but he looks me up and down with a little laugh. "Oh Clara, little sweet Clara, you must not remember much about me because if you did, you'd remember that I am not a grass" he laughs shaking his head, no I did remember that about him but I already had a plan. "Do you remember what I told you at the start of this conversation, you will do as I say or things aren't going to go well for you" I tell him with a straight face, he just laughs at me inching is face closer. "What are you really going to do Clara?" He asks challenging me, my Queen side hated to be challenged. "You think it's bad now, but I assure you I can make it much worse for you" I say looking him dead in the eyes as I spoke "you see all these guards around here listen to me, if I tell him to jump, they jump, if I tell them to run, they run, now if I tell them to beat the crap out of a worthless price of crap, wanna take a guess at what they'd do?" I ask with a smirk, he moved back slightly looking scared just staring at my face. "Is that fear I see your eyes Cyrus?" I ask, when I was younger he'd always ask me that after he would do the scary things he'd do, how the tables have turned. He looks even more shocked having to wipe the sweat that was beginning to drip down his forehead, now he knows how it feels to be intimidated by someone higher up than you. "What will I get if I do it?" He asks this time looking at the ground and not at me, does this mean I broke him? "You'd be free, you will be free to go back to your mate and live out your life at home" I tell him smiling, he looks quite shocked at me for a second "you won't be charged for any of the crimes you committed for Preston but also, you won't be charged with the crimes you committed alongside my father and the ones you did alone, it'll be a clean slate" I explain which makes his eyes go wide from shock and surprise. "You'll let me go, just like that?" He asks not really believing what he just heard, honestly I didn't believe what was coming out my mouth. "Indeed, but don't even think for a second that you'll be able to go back to your criminal ways, I'll have people watching your every move, you won't be able to eat without me knowing, you won't be able to sleep without me knowing heck, you won't be able to take a dump! Without me knowing, but its that or spend the rest of your life in here, with me pulling all the strings, the choice is yours" I say sitting back in my seat, I've said everything I could have to persuade him its now all down to him. He stares down at the table deep in thought for a few seconds, I knew he was going over all the different scenarios in his head right now. After a few more minutes of silence he looks up at me, he still doesn't speak but nods his head instead. A smile fills my lips as I look at him. "I'll have some of my people come down to give you all the details, oh just so you know, if you step out of line once in the trial or say something I don't like, the arrangement is off and you'll be back in here in a matter of minutes, do you understand?" I ask rising to my feet he just nods looking at me, I turn beginning to walk away but he speaks up before I could exit. "As I said back at the house, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, as much as you try to stop it, you're every part your fathers daughter and your uncles niece" he laughs which makes me turn to look at him again. "The difference is Cyrus, I'm Queen, you're some low life which does what I tell him to do" I smile before turning to face the door once again "have a lovely rest of your day Cyrus" I say as the door opens and I leave the little cell like room and away from him. Once the door closed behind me I let out the breath I was holding, did I really just do that? A year ago I wouldn't have been able to stand in the same room as that man without shaking with fear, I just made eye contact and told him what was gonna happen. "So?" Erik asks nervously as he just saw the conversation but he couldn't actually hear what was being said, I smile nodding my head which makes him fist pump the air "yes! This case is going to go somewhere, well done Clara I knew you could do it" he smiles actually very happy, we both have put so much hours into this case and now it's finally looking like we'll win, it's a well....giant win! "Now lets hope there aren't anymore obstacles that will make our lives harder" I smile as another guard walks down the stairs, he scans the room for a second before his eyes land on me. "Your brother is requesting to see you ma'am, he is refusing to leave" he tells me which makes me remember, I haven't told him I let dad go and am about to let Cyrus go too. "I think we just found our next obstacle" I sigh to Erik before following the guard out, as I walk through, the whole dungeon began to erupt in shouts from the inmates. As I was walking one sticks his hand out to try and grab my arm, I freeze my eyes drifting into the cell. The man looked to be in his mid-thirties, he had brown hair which was now covering his eyes and he didn't look at all clean. "How about you come in here and spend some time with a lonely man?" He asks smiling but a growl soon rips through the room, I whip my head up to see Gray at the bottom of the first flight of stairs. "You better remove your hand from my mate, before I rip it from your body" he growls taking slow steps towards us, the guy just laughs actually taking hold of my arm pulling me towards the cell, I actually hit the metal. "But sir look at her, didn't your parents ever tell you it's nice to share" the man says as I begin to try and pull my arm from this dude grasp, in seconds his cries fill the dungeons. Gray had took hold of his hand while somehow, taking my arm out of the dudes grasp. The guy falls to his knees holding tightly onto his arm. "I don't share" Gray growls out looking down at the crying man, he looks around at the other men in the cells who all just stood shocked in place "anyone else want to try? It is getting a little crowded in this place, perhaps I should start freeing up some spaces" he laughs walking around looking at the men, once he turns to look in the cell beside the crazy dude he stops. He spits on the floor in front of it before taking my hand, in seconds were up the stairs and taken to a different room. Once the door closed I'm immediately pushed up against the wall, well all this is happening rather quickly. "You are not for sharing" he growls looking at me, I now roll my eyes pushing him off me which shocks him. "What was that? You can't just do stuff like that and act so heartless, they're people!" I say pointing downwards to where the dungeons would be. "They are not people, they are monsters who to the rest of society don't exist anymore" he says trying to correct me, but what he was doing was so wrong "sometimes a King has to turn deadly to keep things in line, those men aren't worth the nice side of me, there are times when I can't be soft" he tells me but I make my way over to the door. "You know who you sound like? Your father, now I need to go meet with my brother and when I get back, I hope Grayson stands in front of me and not Preston" I say looking at him for a second before walking out the door. Leaving our first fight.