133 The show begins

Damian rushed towards Irene who too was running at her full speed.

"Wait a minute, Irene." said Damian as he called out his wife who was running away from him.

"What do you want?!" asked Irene.

"Your kidney." said Damian.

"What is that?"

"Just stop you idiot."

"No, I don't want to!"

"Wait....are you crying?"

"No *sniff* I am *sniff* not." said Irene.

Damian didn't say anything and just used his magic to enhance his strength and soon caught up with his wife.

"...Where are you heading to?" asked Damian as he saw Irene with tears coming out of her eyes.

"Don't know..." said Irene.

"Alright....but please stop it is not good for the child." said Damian as he sweeped his arms below her and carried her.

"W-What are you doing?!"

"Taking you somewhere, so that you can cry your heart out and then apologize to me." said Damian as he jumped out of the window and landed on a platform made of enchantments.

He then took her to the top of the castle where a small garden was built with some shade so as to relax.

Damian landed in the small garden and made a sound and vision blocking barrier around the area and placed Irene down on the ground.

Irene curled up into a ball as Damian smacked her head and said, "You have a child with you, so sit straight."

Irene just obliged to that and sat straight, seeing which Damian sat down beside her.

Damian just remained silent and so was Irene who had tears in her eyes.

"Say something to me..." muttered Irene.

"... something to me." said Damian in a plain tone as he looked towards the sky.

Irene looked at Damian who was looking up with a carefree look in his eyes as her brows twitched a bit.

She then just looked away from him and said, "A lot of things happened recently, right?"

"Yeah, the war against dragons, you turning back into a child and trying to win over me, going back to my house, meeting Gryph and Phen... Knowing that you are pregnant." said Damian with a small smile on his face.

"... Adroelia getting destroyed by an unknown dragon slayer, Stella being with us 24/7, Belserion's death.... betrayal from those whom I trusted." said Irene with a sad and self mocking look on her face.

"Well betrayal/losing trust from those whom you trust, hurts a lot..... specially when you have worked and helped them a lot. I am telling that from experience." said Damian as he gave a small laugh.

Both of them then turned silent as they remained seated. Irene then looked at Damian who was resting his head against the wall and had his eyes closed.

"...Hey, Damian..."

"Hmm.." said Damian with his eyes still closed.

"You know, for all that yelling at you and blaming you before and not trusting you enough....I am sorry about that." said Irene.

Damian looked at her for a while and then turned away without saying anything.

Irene who didn't got any reply from him felt like she was choking by the silent atmosphere and just gulped her saliva. She felt sad seeing how Damian acted towards her apology, but knowing how much he would have felt hurt from the accusations and all the things that happened recently she couldn't bring herself to complain about that.

Irene lowered her head as tears appeared at the corner of her eyes.

"Trust is something that takes a long time to build, a second to be destroyed and forever to repair." said Damian as he looked at Irene who was looking down.

"And after all that is happened my trust upon this kingdom, it's citizens, the nobles.....on you has been damaged greatly, you know." said Damian making Irene angrier at herself.

"And trust me I have no intention of letting the kingdom or it's citizens a second chance to build that trust once again. About you though, seeing you not believing me hurted me the most.....I would still like you to have a second chance to rebuild the trust that you have lost. The only question being is, would you like to trust me? 'Cause after having all the people whom you trusted betray you, I don't think tha-"

Before Damian could finish Irene hugged him tightly and buried her face in his chest and said, "I want to trust you! I am sorry for all that I did, but please trust me, I don't want to get hurt anymore and abandoned and lose those who are important to me. Specially you Damian. Please Please. Don't hate me. Don't leave me behind."

Damian who was suddenly hugged was a bit surprised as he thought that someone who had been betrayed so much would likely to have trouble trusting someone once again even though they were close to them like Damian and Irene were.

But seeing the shivering figure of his wife, who was clinging tightly to him made Damian's gaze soften up a bit as he hugged her back and embraced her.

Irene who felt Damian's hand wrap around her looked up and met his soft and caring gaze. "I-I-"

"Shhhh, it's fine. I won't leave you Irene.....well unless you do something something that triggers me so much that I want to do so...but leaving that, you don't need to worry about it right now, just make sure to not repeat this again." said Damian as he kissed his wife's forehead and caressed her hair.

Irene sobbed as she felt Damian's hand caressing her hair and hid her face in Damian's embrace.

'....Well there goes my totally new outfit that I was planning to wear on tonight's event....' thought Damian as he could imagine the snot and tears that would be there on his clothes once Irene calms down.

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"I am sorry." said Irene as she looked away from Damian with an embarrased look on her face.

Damian who was holding his jacket which was stained from tears and snot just chuckled and shook his head.

"Whatever let's just go. Seeing that the sun in already set, Chris would have already finished the preparations for the event." said Damian as he put his jacket in the storage.

He was about to jump down from the top but then glanced at Irene and asked, "Do you want to see the execution as well?"

Irene who heard the question turned silent for a while before she took a deep breath and said, "I will join you later, my current appearance is not the one I would like to present in front of others."

"Zena-san will tease you and so will Stella." said Damian as he looked at his wife with a smirk on his face.

Irene sighed after hearing that knowing that the two ladies would be very annoying for a while, though nothing could be done about that.

Irene made a magic circle below her legs and jumped down from the top of the castle and said, "See you soon."

Damian just waved his hand as he saw Irene jumping down. He then looked at his Omnitrix for a while before he shook his head and headed towards the place where Christopher prepared for the execution.

"Now then shall we begin tonight's show." said Damian as he directly landed in the centre of the stage where the execution was about to start and looked at the people who were being held by the guards.

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A/N: So hey guys, I went to my college and had a blast there...and am now back....yeah....A Covid outbreak occurred there and I decided to come back before it becomes a containment zone. So I will try to get back to my schedule like before and try to release chapter on a regular basis.