Can I See You Again

We Believe

"Bad!"

Hap! Youra stopped the hand that had almost landed on her cheek. "Now you are no longer in power. I'm the one who leads this country. I, the mother of an heir to the throne." Youra brought her mouth closer to Queen Kim's ear. "Unlike you, the despicable concubine who was instead made queen," whispered Youra full of emphasis.

Queen Kim was speechless. She did not even expect Youra to be more sadistic than her. He looked at the eyes that kept glaring at him, before finally moving on from there.

Youra sighed in annoyance. He scooped all the emotions back into him. He pretended to be sad, but the tears were real. The feeling that caused him to panic was the whereabouts of the unknown Crown Prince. A spoiled and forced husband like the Crown Prince is indeed impossible for Youra to forget.

***

That afternoon, Youra sat hugging her knees staring at the Crown Prince's palace. After the fake funeral was over, he was suddenly startled by a terrible news.

"Your Majesty ... "

Youra immediately ran towards the dungeon. There was a man who was dying. "Sister?" his moans instantly held the cell with both of his hands.

"Sister?!" call Youra trying to resuscitate her unconscious brother.

"Sister!"

Suddenly the sound of applause came from behind. The queen walked down the stairs with the guards. "I told you not to dare you play with fire with me." Queen Kim smiled in a slant because she felt victorious.

"What did you do to my brother?" Youra's voice shook tight. Tears have been piled up on the skin about to fall.

Queen Kim, who looked very disheveled, approached Youra. "I'm giving you two choices. But you can only choose one. Your sister, or your husband?"

What's...

Youra gasped at Queen Kim's question. "What do you mean?!" youra shouted in disbelief.

"Tell me where the real Crown Prince or your brother will die!" Queen Kim is excited. "Don't you see the body? Isn't that enough to prove he's dead?" Youra did not even know whether her real husband was currently alive or not.

Queen Kim descends from the last staircase. Sticking Youra's face with fingers. "Bring the doctor here!" queen Kim shouted at one of the servants. Youra just kept quiet and did not fight. His heartbeat along with the steps of the arrival of a healer who had just examined him earlier.

"Tell me out loud what you just told me!" the queen's orders to the physician. With a frightened face the physician gave an explanation. "Your Majesty ... Her Majesty Queen Lee, she .. she has just been pregnant, Your Majesty." That brief explanation was enough to hit Youra.

"Tell me! Who are you fucking with?!" Queen Kim snapped at Youra in flames. "You were rumored to be pregnant a few months ago, shouldn't your stomach be enlarged by now?" Queen Kim constantly cornered Youra. Trying to beat him.

"Java!" Queen Kim's shout surprised Youra. "Stupid answer! If it's the Crown Prince's son, tell me where you fucked him? Where's she?!"

"I don't know." Youa replied in fear. He placed both his hands on his stomach with tears almost spilling.

The queen laughed out loud before stepping away leaving Youa.

"You've been cursed." One sentence from Youra managed to stop the queen's move.

Youra raised her head which from earlier kept bowing. "You hate a kid who never even hates you." One more sentence from Youra that made Queen Kim hit.

"If he wanted to, he could've gotten rid of you in the first place. But look ... The son you hate, he let you keep trying to kill him" Youa added.

Youra walked closer to Queen Kim. "She never considered you a stepmother. She thinks you're her real mother."

"Queen Lee!" yelled Queen Kim trying to stop Youra's sentence.

"Can't you feel the Crown Prince's love? What is the difference between Prince Yul and Prince Hyeon?! Both are people who respect you as their mother! Any one of the two who occupies the throne, you're still their mother!" youra's scream echoed cutting. She cried more than usual.

"Queen Kim, if you give everything away .. you will live happily with the love you've always wanted." Youra got stuck in the throat. "I know you don't miss the throne. You miss happiness." Youra's last words successfully caused Queen Kim to shed tears. Youra turned back to her sister's cell, squabbling in front of her. While Queen Kim rushed out of the place with her hard heart.

***

Prince Yul returns home depressed. In front of the door he saw his wife with her big belly standing waiting for him. "Ara .. " call him shrewd.

Ara immediately chased after her husband and hugged him. "It's okay, Husband. You've done your best." Ara tightened her embrace. They both knew very well what kind of bad fate would come soon after this. "I'll keep you company no matter what. You've been a good father to our son." Ara smiled with her tears.

"What if I don't have anything, you still want to be my wife?" ask Prince Yul.

"I love your simple self. Prince Yul who lives with love, not Prince Yul who lives with hatred on the throne."

***

Jung Hyun pulled over at the cell door. His face looked up at the sky which was slowly turning bright, although very little. Until then, nothing had sounded good about Princess Shin nor about the Crown Prince. However, for some reason the peace of the day was able to calm down a bit of his mind. He firmly believes the two most meritorious people in the country are still alive and well.

"Jung Hyun," call Eunuch Cho from across the street. "Am I right, that you've made a fatal mistake which .." asked Kasim Cho to be cut off. Jung Hyun nodded in despair. "Yes, I did it."

Eunuch Cho got closer to his cell, for his voice to reach the other side. "Then keep it well. Don't let people know. Because not only are you going to die .. The child in the womb is also going to die." Inexplicably, Kasim Cho's words were like Jung Hyun's impulse being snatched away desperate to get up.

He then turned to Eunuch Cho, looking at the old face that had long served the Crown Prince. "Eunuch Cho, do you think the same as me?" ask Jung Hyun.

Eunuch Cho seemed to understand even though Jung Hyun did not say it directly. Eunuch Cho shed tears, before he nodded confidently. "Then promise to live until he returns. Because it's not just you and me, the heavens believe he's alive." Jung Hyun looked back at the sky with tears.