Royalty AU!!
It’s another one of those nights.
One in which Stephen finds himself unable to fall asleep, instead looking out the window near his bed, letting his gaze wander over the sleeping town.
“Wait a fucking second,” Stephen whispers to himself, watching as a shadowy figure began to climb up the side of a house not too far from the castle’s gates. “Is someone trying to break into that house?”
Stephen shrugs. Well, it’s not my problem that the guards aren’t doing their jobs properly. Daniel better step up his game so I don’t get robbed.
Stephen finds himself getting out of bed and walking towards the door to his terrace, slowly opening it to not make any noise or get caught. He watches as the shadowy figure grabs onto a tree branch that dangled next to the house’s second floor window. Suddenly, there’s a loud snap, and both the thief and the branch come plummeting down to the ground.
“Shit!” Stephen curses to himself, reaching back through the cracked open terrace door for his coat. He pulls it on sloppily, the coat not even making it to resting on his shoulders, instead only bunching up at his elbows as he pulled himself over the terrace’s railing and jumped onto a strong branch of the tree nearby.
He had snuck out multiple times before, mainly with Daniel and Jay, his personal guards who tended to want to show him what life was like in his kingdom, even going as far to buy him extra clothes so he wouldn’t look too out of place.
Stephen quickly climbs down the tree and runs towards the street where the thief had been, the one with only one lantern working, and turns the corner to see the house the thief had been trying to break into.
He walks over to the side of the house with the fallen branch, only to not see the thief trapped underneath it. To be honest, he didn’t see the thief anywhere. But that’s impossible! I saw them fall, they shouldn’t have been able to walk away that easily!
Suddenly, Stephen is pulled back to the wall of the house, an arm wrapping itself around both of his and his midsection as a blade rests at his throat.
Could this be an assassin?
Stephen struggles to break free, earning an annoyed growl and a leg twisting itself around one of his own, stopping most of his pointless struggles. “Look, I don’t know who you are, but when I saw you fall from that tree, I thought you were hurt or something,” Stephen explains through gritted teeth. “I do one nice thing and this is the thanks I get? You’ve gotta be kidding me.”
“You were worried about me?” Stephen’s attacker asks quietly before quickly letting him go.
“Well yeah, but clearly I can see I shouldn’t have been,” Stephen crossed his arms over his chest, not bothering to adjust his coat. After all, why should he for someone such as a petty thief? “I can’t believe I just snuck out to see if you were okay. And my thanks for doing so? Oh, that’s right, getting a fucking knife to my throat.”
“I’m so sorry— I just—“ “Cut the excuses and just get out of here.” Stephen cuts the thief off.
“I don’t think that can happen as easily as either of us want it to.” The thief says nervously, fumbling with their cloak’s broach.
“And why’s that?” Stephen asks. “What? You wanna kill me so there’s no witnesses or something? I would suggest you don’t do that, or else you might have two angry royal guards coming after your ass.”
“No, no,” The thief drops their knife to the ground, and Stephen takes a moment to look them over. Their face is hidden in the shadows of their hood and a scarf tied around their neck, and their clothes are all along the same spectrum of gray, brown, and black. “I think my ankle’s messed up from the fall. I don’t think I’ll be able to get that far on my own.”
“So you want me to help you?” Stephen deadpans. “After pulling a knife on me?”
“I thought you were going to kill me!” The thief says defensively, nervously tugging on their cloak.
“Well, if I’m to trust you, you might as well tell me your name,” Stephen says, sighing. “I’m assuming you already know who I am, yeah?”
“Of course! You’re Stephen, the prince of this kingdom!” The thief says excitedly before growing quiet once again. “I feel like we got off on the wrong terms, I’m Hosuh, nice to meet you.” The thief takes his hood off, revealing a head of silver hair tied into a low ponytail and light blue eyes before nervously looking away from Stephen and fumbling with his cloak some more.
Stephen finds himself adjusting his coat and running a hand through his hair, and finally, it hits him. It’s the middle of the night, and he’s standing outside with a thief in an old long sleeve shirt, baggy pants, and an expensive coat. A theif with striking silver hair, and the most beautiful light blue eyes he’s ever seen before.
Oh shit he’s kinda cute.


















