[pic & fic(let)] Royal Quatre and Juggler Trowa + A Gypsy Trowa story
Once upon a time, there was this evil overlord named Dekim who was very harsh with his people. One day, a traveling gypsy caravan stopped in his land and performed for the people. The gypsies took the money offered them for their services, including services of night time pleasures from peasants and guards and nobility alike.
Dekim heard about this and became outraged. He saw it as stealing and went to take back what was his, but the gypsies had already spent all their money on food, so there was nothing left. Then that night, Dekim stole one of the gypsies' most valued possessions; one of their children.
Some months passed and the boy that had been taken was often chained and beaten. He was made to do laborious or distasteful chores and was usually bound by leg irons to another servant. He'd tried to run away one too many times and was often put in the cellar to make him behave.
The guards and Dekim would torture him by setting the dogs on him since he was very obviously afraid of them or starving him.... until one day when his majesty, King Quatre visited the lands.
As it turned out, the lord owed the king a large sum of money which he had gambled away, and as payment, the king took the only slave in the household that wasn't rude or unpleasant. The boy entertained him by throwing little leather balls in the air, and did all sorts of acrobatics for the king. When the boy realized that the king was looking at him the way the night customers had looked at his people, he encouraged him and slept with the king.
The next day, the king took the boy away from that horrible place and brought him back home, where he discovered that the boy was not legally a slave or indentured servant... but Trowa refused to be released. He wanted to remain as his Master's pet for as long as he could. He begged and pleaded to stay until he tears poured from his eyes, breaking the young king's heart.
After seeing such emotion coming from the gypsy boy, King Quatre could do nothing other than oblige his pet and grant him his wish. And they lived happily ever after.
The End.
