The Missing Princess

Getting the Prisoner Ready

Third person's POV

Alex woke up to the sound of hushed voices coming from the next room. She couldn't make out everything that they were saying as she was still groggy from the wolfsbane they had previously injected her with. Ever since she tried to run away and escape from her captors, they had been giving her a daily dose of wolfsbane to help keep her sedated. Alex looked around the room that she was in and noticed that it was very different from the room she had been originally put in. Why did they put her in a different room, she thought to herself as she tried to move her body a little and get some feeling back in her limbs, but she was limited to the movements that she could make due to the chains she found around her wrists and ankles. As she was becoming more alert, she started to remember the dream she had about Liam and how perfect he looked in her dream. At least she thought it was a dream, because she had never seen any of the other people that he was with in the dream before. She was also still curious about the first guy she saw in her dream. She had never seen him before in her life but she felt a very close connection to him, even though she could not yet understand how that could be. Suddenly, the door to the room burst open and her two captors walked in to find Alex awake. Unfortunately, the two men were wearing ski masks and she couldn't see their faces to find out what they looked like. Alex had been with her captors for almost two weeks now but she didn't know that because they always kept a very close eye on her and continually kept giving her wolfsbane, so she only thought that she had been with them for a few hours or maybe even just one day in total.

"Well, well, well, look who finally decided to wake up from her little nap?" one of the captors said.

" We are very happy to see that the wolfsbane is finally starting to wear off like it should. Here in the next few hours you will be ready to meet the king for the first time and we will get our damned reward for completing our mission." the other guy said as he started to pull on the chains around Alex's wrists. Alex groaned in pain from the bare metal that was rubbing her wrists raw.

"Get up and get cleaned up so you don't smell like a pig when we present you to the king." the first guy sneered as he threw something in Alex's direction. She hadn't even noticed the guy had brought anything with him at all. She caught the small bag and pulled out the item that was inside to find a very revealing aquamarine dress with a very low neck line.

"I will not wear something like this in front of anyone! This is absolutely way too revealing and inappropriate for me to be wearing." Alex tried to shout out at the two men but her throat was so dry it came out in a very raspy manner.

"You will wear the clothes we provide for you or you can wear nothing at all when we present you to the king. It's really your choice, sweet cheeks, but the less you wear the happier you will make not only the king but his advisors as well." the guy Alex dubbed 'stumpy', said to her. She decided to give her captors names since she didn't know nor want to ask them what their actual names were. Stumpy was the shorter of the two and he also seemed like he might have a short fuse, since he was starting to get very agitated.

Alex desperately clung to the gown she was given so that neither of the two men could take it from her. She didn't like the thought of showing up in the presence of the king not wearing anything at all. So she thought to herself that even though she did not like the dress they gave her, it was the better out of the two potions she was given. Stumpy's partner had unlocked the chains around Alex's ankles and started yanking the chains he had picked up earlier that were still around Alex's wrists, and started to drag Alex out the door. Alex struggled to get up but was finally able to after a short amount of time. She followed the two guys out the door and into a bathroom that was down the hall from the previous room they had put her in. Once in the bathroom, they removed the chains attached to her wrists and instructed her to clean herself up and change into the dress they had provided for her.

"You have 30 minutes to get completely cleaned and changed. If you are not ready by the time this door opens again, we will present you to the king the way you look at the end of those 30 minutes." Stumpy told Alex before closing the door and starting the timer to 30 minutes.

Alex got down on her knees and took a moment to ask for the moon goddess to help her out of her current predicament. After a few minutes, Alex walked over to the shower, turned it on, stripped out of the clothes she was currently wearing and started to scrub her body as best as she could. She was thankful that the two guys had provided her with soap, shampoo and conditioner so that she could clean herself properly and not just use water to make herself look clean. Her shower only took about 10 minutes to complete. After she dried herself off, she grabbed the dress and started to put it on when she realized that she didn't have any clean underwear. She walked over to the door and lightly knocked on it in hopes that one of them would be close enough to the door to answer her.

"What do you want???" one of the guys yelled out at her.

"Some clean underwear." Alex said in a shaky tone because she was kind of embarrassed that she would even have to ask in the first place.

"Go without! We don't have anything new for you." he shouted back at her. The thought of not putting on underwear made Alex very uncomfortable about this entire situation. She started to ask herself what it was that the king actually wanted with her and, from the ideas she had, it was turning out to be nothing good.