To Be King (CleverFox)

[LadyLoki]

"Well...I did kidnap you and hold you against your will, and then tan your hide I suppose." Victor said with a small, dry smile. He didn't feel any regret, but he doubted Killian felt the same way. His trip down memory lane brought back some very bittersweet feelings. "I suppose it would have been very hard with everyone's eyes on you, being the prince and all." Victor murmured with a soft sigh, a small smile tugging on the corner of his lips.

Simpler times, when the only thing he had to worry about was walling the silly rules that came along with being present at court. "I suppose it was always more fun when I didn't have to worry about offending some silly lord and lady." Victor chuckled softly, before a wider smile crossed his face. "I think you will. You have a good head on your shoulders." He said with a nod. There was always something to be said for convictions, and Victor honestly believed Killian would manage it.

Victor settled on the bed with a tired sigh, tugging the blankets over his body and turning away with Killian with a nod. "Make sure that you don't. We can't afford to be exhausted tomorrow...and who knows when we're going to have a bed next." He murmured, before stretching slightly and settling back down. "Don't stay up to late...we need to head out early." Victor reminded Killian, lightly reaching out and patting the prince's shoulder.

The bed would be a bit cramped, but they had no choice...Victor was honestly too tired to care.

[CleverFox]

The talk about the past was somewhat bittersweet for Killian as well but he was trying to hide the fact that it affected him and the little redhead actually did a fairly convincing job of it. Nothing in his expression gave this away and he actually smiled as Victor made his comment about not having to worry about offending someone. "That was something I was never free from...there was always the risk of offending someone though at least the benefit for me was that they would usually pretend not to be offended simply because I outranked them and most of the people that spoke to me were only doing so because they wanted to kiss up to the prince," Killian said with a slight shake of his head. "I don't know why people think that will actually work but it's amazing how many do."

Victor was not among that number, clearly, considering how they had first met but Killian kept that thought to himself.

Victor decided to go to bed while Killian decided that he was going to stay up for at least a while longer given that he hadn't even really been awake for that long. He watched as Victor settled down and he nodded when the man told him not to stay up too late because they had to be up early to depart.

"Yes Daddy," Killian said in a joking tone of voice, watching as Victor settled down.

For a time Killian amused himself with a book that he found in the room but he was actually good this time and went to bed at a decent hour. Which helped him to be awake before Victor the next morning simply because he had napped the previous day as well. Which would probably seem suspicious since he was awake when the nobleman went to sleep and awake when Victor woke but he didn't have that tired look about him that would suggest that he had stayed up all night.