Chapter 7


Everyone met out in the hall outside their rooms within just a couple minutes of each other, and when they were ready to go, the king and queen led the way. There were led to another solarium type room, just not quite so grand and posh as the throne room. This one is set up as a classroom though. There are ten two person tables, each with two incredibly comfortable looking chairs, two notebook computers, and several drawers that hold a lot of supplies. Each computer is plugged into a port on the table with a few different connectors. There is a large white board for writing on, and a large roll down screen that has a projector aimed where it would come down in the front. The teachers table is much like the students', only there are four computers all hooked up and only one chair. Beside the whiteboard is a large print station where they could print to and or make copies of anything they wanted, in full colour. Outside their glass walls are even more gardens, and these too are absolutely stunning.


“Wow, this is the nicest classroom I've ever seen. I love learning, but this place 'd make me wanna learn even more.” Jared whistled out.


“Good, because speech like that needs to be stamped out.” Marcus said, having snuck up behind them all.


“Sorry, I have.”


“That was not the only one. Placed is only a word for the past tense of placing something, I believe you wanted to say place would, and wanna is atrocious, from now on, it is want to. This will probably be our hardest challenge, but any time I, or anyone, hears you use a word incorrectly, you will be made to come up and write it correctly on the white board twenty times. I know, it sounds like punishment, but it is not, it is a learning tool, and one we often have to use on new students here. It helps you to start thinking about the words correctly. You will all undoubtedly be at the board at least once today, if not more. Now, normally there are more students here, as you can clearly see by the amount of stations, and we are going to have to add a few more again, but today I asked them to all take the day off, so that we could concentrate on you, because we have a lot of work to do, and very little time in which to do it. If everyone would take a seat please, we will get started.”


Everyone found a seat, and then Marcus got started at the front. The first thing he did was ask everyone to tell him words that were all mashed together, as well the correct way in which to say it, and he started writing them all down. This took a good ten minutes before he was satisfied that he had them all. He then went through the entire list, making the new students write them down in their correct form, as well as say them with him. They did this for more than half an hour.


“Um, Marcus, could I ask a question?” Geoff asked.


“Yes Prince Geoff, what would you like to know?”


“I cannot see the board properly from here, any chance I could change places and get a little closer.”


“Have you ever had problems seeing things before?”


“Sure, all the time, if things are too far away, they are blurry to me. Normally it does not cause me any issue, I just move closer.”


“Do you suffer from headaches?”


“Yes, but a lot less than I suffered from beatings, so there was little point in pointing it out.” He shrugged.


“Fair enough. We will have to always consider that your pain tolerance is probably going to be considerably higher than most. After classes today, we will have someone take you to see the royal optometrist, you may need glasses.”


“Oh. May I move please?”


“Yes, trade places with someone in the front row.”


Jean told him to take her spot, so they traded and got back to learning.


It was almost lunch time by the time they called it a break, Marcus, the king and queen, and even Prince George himself, were teaching the others as much as they could possibly take in. At times they were trying to cram so much information in that they were actually sweating. Of all the new kids, Geoff was having by far the easiest time, because he had been taught much of this already. The history lessons though were interesting. They found out a lot about how the kingdom had been established.


The king did this, because it is his favorite subject. He told it like a story.


“Hundreds and hundreds of years ago now, my great times a great many times grandfather had a dream. He came from a time when child love was not a horrible thing. Back then it was not only allowed, but widely accepted. Those that had a child at home to love were far less prone to anger fits, the crime rates were nearly nothing after hundreds of years of this, pregnancy rates were far more easily controlled, since, of course, it is hard to make a boy pregnant, and girls were never penetrated vaginally after their first bleeding, unless they wished to become pregnant. Of course, boys and girls were almost never together anyway, it was far more normal back then for gay relationships, which of course kept the pregnancy rates way down. It was not only normal, but fully accepted, that a married couple each had their own child, he a boy and she a girl, to teach and love and to keep their urges down. When someone had a baby, he or she was given to a needy person at the age of five to teach and to love, no one ever got to do so to their own child, but they did raise them properly as well. Parents would masturbate their children whenever they were crying, to calm them down, stroking boys' prostates was also widely accepted, but only with ones smallest finger. Everyone was happy and healthy.


“And then Christianity became all the rage. They started moving in, telling us how we should live our lives like them, they started taking over, and then that is when everything started going down hill. People were prosecuted for loving children, or even for being gay, they were ridiculed, they were burned. My ancestor, and several others who were like minded, left and never looked back. They found this fertile land with no other occupants, and made it their own. Clearly my ancestor became the first king, and the tradition has continued here since.


“The Christians tried to invade us and take us over, a few times in our history in fact, and that has been the only time our people have gone to war, to protect ourselves and our way of life. They think that the way we do things here is abhorrent, that we need to be stamped out and cleansed from this Earth. Yeah, well, no one fights as well in a war than those who are protecting their families and their loved ones. We are also very protected here by our surroundings. The mountains that surround us are nearly impassable, especially back then, so our enemies could only hit us from certain places. We made sure that any enemy that entered and was a threat was removed without mercy. If they surrendered, they were treated fairly, if they were injured, we would help fix them up and then they were treated fairly from there. We have never kept a prisoner of war, and even when we did use capitol punishment, we never executed a prisoner, we did not feel it was our right. Of course, the same could not be said for our enemies, they often slaughtered us just as easily as they would have a lamb at the alter. They always lost though.


“Fortunately, it has been hundreds of years since any such atrocity has taken place here, however, with that being said, we are not at peace with the outside world. They are still mostly against what we believe here, but they are unable to stop us. We are our own country, we are allowed to keep our own laws, but they do not like it. There are a great many who do not even know what we stand for here, peace and love above all else, is our country motto, but they do not understand what it means. The rest of the worlds leaders try and keep us quiet, they try and pretend that we do not even exist, in a world where children are not sexual, we are the monsters. Ha, we get more gay children seeking asylum here every year than we can shake a stick at, the youngest we have had was a poor six year old boy whose father had beaten him so severely that it makes the beating you received George look petty. He barely survived. No, every year we allow entrance to at least a dozen children and more than a few adults as well.


“Everyone is told that in order for our country to keep on working though, we do have to have children, and there are bi people too, so many do take on a partner of the opposite sex to have children, many times they even marry, however, our marriage rates are surprisingly low, and those who are, are usually marrying their proper partner, and usually gay. We intentionally keep a good control on population here, we always have. We are also careful to ensure that the new blood that comes here is the first to help produce new children. Any that have mental or physical issues are asked not to have children, so as to try and keep our gene pool much cleaner, and though it does happen, it is rare here, because we usually make sure every person has what they really want.


“It was hundreds of years ago that this started becoming an issue, our population was starting to thin out too much, we did not have enough people to do all the jobs that needed to be done, and people were dying more than being born. It was realized that we had created a haven so free for those like us, that next to no children were being born. It is not a law, and hopefully we will never have to make it so, but it has had to be asked several times in our history for people to have children. Once we feel we have enough, then we tell people they can stop trying. We are currently on an upswing in birth rates, but it is starting to slow again, because a couple years ago we asked everyone to stop again. Of course, we still have fully straight couples here who do have children, and they tend to have multiple children, whereas the gays of our country tend to only have one, or maybe two children. Some of us gay guys, for instance, find it hard to stay hard long enough to just get one child, so more than one is not going to happen.


“While we could certainly use fertilization methods now available throughout the entire world, we do not feel that is necessary here, we just do what we have to do and make babies when the timing is right. Those who cannot are not obligated to do so, and so be it if that is the case. Now, not everyone here are child lovers either, though many are, as I am certain you have realized long before now. Most are either gay or bi and much prefer those of their own age. The palace is by far the most child loving, but still many homes have a boy or girl there as well, and that is just fine. Whenever someone wishes for a boy or girl of their own, they may search one out, talk to the parents, find one suitable, or we now have a help wanted section on our website, so children who are looking for an adult can find an adult who wants a child. When a child wishes such a thing, their parents are usually the ones to tell them to look there, and then they get the man or woman they want and need. This has been how we deal with that for hundreds of years, only it used to be a bulletin board type setup.


“Next is poverty. All of you know more about this than any one should know. It has been the largest thorn in our side since we were founded. While typically we have more than enough work for everyone, it is not always the case. Though right now, we still have almost a hundred jobs that are not filled. We also have a booming sex trade, prostitutes if you wish, but they are not treated poorly here, for here that is a good thing, we help them instead. Everything that one needs can be found easily, even for children as young as you, as a few have found out for certain. No matter how hard we try to stomp it out though, poverty is always there. Everyone is offered a job, everyone is offered the help that they need to not be poor, yet some people will not take it. I know most of your parents had jobs, just they did not make enough. There are those that ruined their own lives though, such as the people who, well I am not sure the word I would use to describe what they did for Geoff, but they clearly abused drugs and alcohol.


“What is truly funny though is that we make the drugs that really do little to no harm legal, so everyone has access to them, and make it incredibly hard to get illegal drugs, yet people like them still manage to get them all the time. That has been our stance here for hundreds of years, give people what they want and need, and they will be happy. Give them nothing that can truly harm them, and they will be happy. Yet, there are still those that are miserable. Over the next few days, as I meet all your family, I will be asking them why they were poor. I have tried dozens of times during my reign to try and lessen the impact of poverty, but usually it is for naught.


“Overall our small country has always been blessed with peace and prosperity, and that is how we try and keep it. While we do have a government managed welfare system, to ensure that everyone always has what they need, it is not used all that much, thankfully. We live in one of the nicest places in the world, we have very mild winters and beautiful summers, our gardens here are some of the prettiest there are, and because of our climate, our agriculture is second to nearly none. For hundreds of years we have rarely ever had to import any food whatsoever, we have our own thriving farms to feed us. With our very fertile soil, and talented people managing the lands, we are almost always certain to have more than enough for everyone at reasonable prices. Of course, even we have been faced with droughts and other issues and had to import from other countries to help subsidize, but even when we do that, and it costs a huge amount to do so, we ensure that everyone still pays the same prices, as well our farmers are still paid. We have found, time and time again, that such a system in place ensures that all our people are happy and healthy.


“While small, our manufacturing sector is quite lucrative, we use some, but most of what we make is exported, we make excellent quality products for a good price, so we are almost always busy. Our construction people are also second to nearly none, if there are any better. The royalty has always oversaw safety and security on all aspects of building, and nothing but the highest standards are accepted. We knew there was an issue with earthquakes in the area, not huge or many, but in the past, buildings have been destroyed and people been lost due to that, so we made certain that that sort of thing just could not happen any more, so we build everything as if an earthquake will hit tomorrow. Yes, it costs more, but it is worth it to save our people. We are a small country, and our people are our greatest assets. Without those that we rule, we would be nothing.


“Raping and pillaging of our beautiful land, never, at least not in hundreds of years. We made mistakes in the past, absolutely we did, and we may still make mistakes even now, however, we try to never do so. Nowadays, our forestry is very responsibly managed, for every tree that is cut down, four are planted to replace it. We never clear cut an entire area, we go in and extract only that which is useful, what is already dead or dying, and use it. We quarry rock for many of our buildings, and again, we do so as responsibly as we possibly can. Everything that can be recycled and or reused is absolutely done, from the smallest household items to our building materials. Nothing goes to waste here.


“In fact, that was one of the reasons for my latest trip, to show people just how little our entire country uses per capita in comparison to everyone else. I was trying to teach them that with just a few simple changes in the way they do things, and not very expensive, if there is any cost involved at all, that they would use less than half what they do now. It was pointless, all those morons in industry cried out, claiming that it could never work, that it would cost hundreds of millions more than what it does now, how all their jobs would be lost, wa wa boo hoo, all they care about is money and their power, nothing else matters to them at all. It was about as pointless as a lawyer having feelings.


“Anyway, continuing on with our history. In the past, we did execute our prisoners, I am saddened to say. It is a dark spot in our history, one every country has as well, but I am happy to say that we abolished all that nonsense almost a hundred years before anyone else did. There are still countries that do so, but we never will again. I can even understand it, and some days I feel that it would be better in the long run, but it really is not worth it. Killing someone just because they killed or raped someone, that is not right. Instead, here we try and understand why someone did what they did and help them. Some there is just no help for, and so they must stay in prison, and if that is the case, then no amount of time served will change that.


“That is why no one receives a specific time here, you will be freed when and if we decide you are safe to be freed. It is always done as a panel or a new court case, every five to ten years for a maximum offense, depending on what the court felt at the time, or every year for a minimum, and the doctors and guards are asked their opinion on that as well, then they also get their say. This is the reason why our re offense rates are so low. Granted, our crime rates are incredibly low in the first place. Our laws were originally designed to not give anyone a good reason to break the law. Punishment is swift and firm, our courts are fast and accurate, and they are not ever backlogged as many countries always are.


“Next is slavery, another dark part of history, and while we come from Rome, where slavery was about as normal as child love, we never allowed such a thing here. It was felt back then that slavery was atrocious, how could anyone keep and control another human being like that. When our ancestors moved here, we brought many slaves though, but not to keep as slaves. As soon as we found a place to call home, they were freed, and we all began building our new home together. Even still, slavery is common place in many countries, even countries where they claim that there is no slavery.


“Our country is so against slavery, that we do not even deal with any country that is known to use slaves in the production of their goods and materials. Child slavery, especially, we cannot stand. Back in the days of Rome, before we were forced out, it was common place to keep child slaves for sex. For what though. Who wants a puppet in bed, someone who is only there because they have to be and fear being beaten, or worse, if they do not do as their master wishes or demands. No, we have always felt that is is far more pleasurable to have a willing partner in bed, far more fun for everyone involved, and I feel that we can all agree on that.


“Next is women's rights. Though we we were still pretty backwards for many years, sadly we did follow the lead of our ancestors that women were to listen to their husbands, so on and so forth, but we abolished that pretty early compared to the rest of the world as well. They were allowed to vote and do as they pleased, they could have lovers of their own, they were not forced to marry those that they did not want, and they were not treated as slaves either.


“Same goes for other races and religions, though we have very little religion here. We have always allowed all manner of people into our country, and it is this diversity that has helped us to grow. It helps, of course, that a vast portion of the religions out there tell people that to be anything other than what their bible says they should be are bad and are going to go to hell, or what have you. Well, we are the types of people that the bibles tell everyone are bad, so most here are against the bible anyway. We are probably the only country in the entire world that has not one single church, and while some do practice some parts of their religion at home, most do not.


“One of the few laws that we are very stern on here, something the rest of the world should probably do as well, is that we do not allow in any way shape or form any sort of religious nonsense. What that means, and many of you may have already noticed this, is that no one is allowed to recruit for a religion, propose a religion, force any sort of religion on anyone, nor are there allowed to be any public religious ceremonies. Again, most do not come here with any sort of religion, but some do, but we will not allow them to push that on others, and all that come here are warned as such as well. The only exception to this rule are parents teaching their children their religion, should they have one, but even then, most do not. We observe no religious holidays, and we never will.


“The closest thing to something even close to religious that we allow here is marriage, and only in the old sense that it used to be done in a church under god, whatever they believe he or she is. We have never done so in a church here, most of our weddings are held outdoors, and if there is anything that we hold holy at all, it is nature itself, hence the reason weddings are normally done outside.


“Well, that is all that I am going to say today. There is much more of our history that must be covered, of course, and being knights now means that you must know it all, to uphold our laws and ideals. Many knights become palace guards or work in the penal system, so it is important that you know all of this. Are there any questions?”


“Yes Sire, I have a couple questions, actually.” Jared asked.


“What would you like to know Jared?”


“Well, you do not know why our parents were poor, I know some of it, maybe not all, but some, at any rate. I also have a question about the sex laws.”


“Ask your question first, and then I would love to hear your views.”


“Okay, why were we never taught any of the laws concerning sex. You would think that such information would be valuable for everyone to know.”


“It is up to every individual parent to teach their children these laws, so, if you were not taught them, then that is a question that you would have to ask your parents. Did your parents know that you went out and had sex?”


“I never said anything, and neither did they, but they had to have known. I'd come home, sorry, I would come home with money from time to time, and they never asked where it came from.”


“Like I said, you would have to ask them. Maybe they are one of the few that did not necessarily agree with our views, there are some here, thankfully very few, though I cannot see that if they never questioned you, or it is possible they were embarrassed to mention it, and figured since you were going out, that you must already know them. They are usually whispered amongst the children anyway, from what I understand.”


“It was, that is how I learned pretty much everything I knew, though no one ever said it was fully legal here, just that no one would say or do anything, they would make you pee in a cup and maybe give a hair sample, but other than that, we would always be pretty much left alone when we went to a hotel with people.”


“Same here.” Rang out from most of the kids.


“My parents told me, but they didn't, oops, sorry, I mean they did not tell me everything I learned today either.” Jean said.


“Same.” The rest said.


“And did any of you receive training?”


“Yes, at least I did, someone came to the house shortly after I turned fine, I don't, I mean do not remember it all, but we went to my bedroom, and he asked me all sorts of questions, stripped me, we played for a bit, and then a few hours later, and me feeling very good, he left. He talked to my parents for a few minutes, telling them some stuff, but I was in so much of a daze, I hardly remember what happened after that. My dad just laughed and took me to bed, tucked me in, and said I was a good boy.” Michael said.


“Pretty much same thing happened to me.” The rest all said.


“Okay, so your parents had determined who or what you would most likely want, and had someone come and see what you really wanted then. That is at least good, then I will not have to punish any of your parents for abuse, that is always messy. Did any of you receive a trainer of the opposite sex?”


“I did.” Mikayla said, she was the only one.


“You are bi though, correct?”


“Yes, though I can honestly say that I don't, sorry, do not care for being with boys all that much. I do want to have a baby, and maybe even soon, but maybe I will wait a few more years.”


“There is no rush, but, when the time is right, you can choose a suitable boy to impregnate you. We encourage people to have babies on the younger side anyway, it helps to raise children when you are younger, so that you have more energy, not to mention, you are far more fertile then as well. It is also more natural that way. The human body is not meant to have babies too late in life, as far as we can tell anyway.”


“Okay.” She said.


“Okay children, now onto other studies.” The king said, and continued on with many other things. It was certainly a long and grueling day for the kids, never before had any of them, except the two princes, received so much information at one sitting. They had only stopped for one short lunch break, and they changed their diapers at lunch as well, otherwise that was where they had stayed pretty much all day.


“Oh, finally, I thought that that was never going to end.” Cole said as they were headed to their rooms to all get changed and get out of their clothes, so that they could all go and meet for dinner.


“No kidding. Are we allowed to just wear our diapers to dinner Sire?” Jimmy asked.


“It is not a formal dinner, so absolutely. I certainly will be, that is for sure.”


“Good.” Pretty much all the kids said as one.


Not all of them were used to wearing diapers yet, though they were starting to truly understand why the others did. They were not quite as enthusiastic about wearing just them as the others were, yet, but they knew that they would as well be wearing just their diapers to dinner.


They all went to their rooms and stripped, changed their diapers, cleaned up if they needed it, and then headed out. On their way, Geoff had asked the king if Gabriel could join them for dinner, and he told Geoff that that was simply not allowed, so Geoff said that he was going to eat in his room with Gabriel then, if Gabriel could not join them as well. Neither would move on this, so Geoff stayed in his room and the two of them ordered dinner.


“You did not have to stay with me Prince Geoff, I would have been just fine.”


“Yes, I know that is what you are used to, but that does not make it right. I am going to find a way to make you an equal to the others, so that that does not happen again. Either that, or I will not be joining them at meal times. I feel very strongly for you, maybe even love, I do not know yet, I have never experienced love before, so I feel that if we are to be boyfriends, which I truly want as well, then we cannot be separated for meals. It is not fair to either of us, and it is not fair of the king to do so either.”


“I am feeling the same for you, though I do somewhat know love, I have never been in love before.” Gabriel admitted.


“Glad I am not the only one then. You may still be my royal diaperer and personal assistant, but I never want you to feel that that is all you are to me. We are now fully allowed to do anything together that we so desire, and I fully intend to take advantage of that, and tomorrow we will see about ensuring that you get to eat with us as well. In fact, I am going to get dressed after we eat, and I am going to go ask the king, my father, to meet me in the throne room, that he and I need to have a royal chat.”


“Do not be doing anything to get yourself in trouble.”


“I do not plan to, and besides, he just found me, I doubt he will do anything too harsh, and maybe I will get what I want. I just have to ask the proper way, and I think I know how best to do so.”


“Okay, I will leave it up to you.”


“Good. Let us order some dinner then.”


They did so and then half an hour later, they were eating. As soon as they were finished, they both went and got dressed, Geoff telling Gabriel that he wanted him there as well, even though Gabriel said he was not allowed in the throne room. Geoff said nonsense to that and said that he could wait outside until he was called then, because he would be.


Meanwhile, in the dining hall, everyone else had met. They were seated and then their dinner was brought out to them shortly after. Once they were eating, George asked the question that he and several of the others really wanted to know, but were too afraid to ask.


“Father, why would you not allow Gabriel to join us for dinner. I understand when he was just my royal diaperer and assistant, but he is Geoff's boyfriend, you must see that.”


“I do, but it is the rule, no servants are allowed to join us at the dinner table.”


“He is not a servant Father, he is a personal assistant, you have always told me they are different.”


“They are of close enough distinction to be the same at the royal table. I am sorry, that is simply the way it is.”


“Then I will inform Geoff to challenge the decision. I will teach him what he must do if that is required. I do not feel that it is fair to not allow ones boyfriend to join him for dinner because of some stupid rule.”


“Sometimes it is not about what is fair or not, and you are not allowed to coach Geoff on this. If it is what he wants, he will come to me and challenge it himself. This will have pissed him off, you saw his face. I am of absolute certainty that by the time we leave here this evening, he will already be waiting for us. We will sit back and relax and give him the time he needs to do so on his own. Do not fret my young son. Rules are rules for a reason, and we cannot go about changing them on a whim without just reason. He must come up with such just reasoning himself, and if he is coached on it, he will never learn to grow, he will never be a man, and he will never be a king.”


“Oh my god, I understand, you resisted my leaving the castle, not because you were afraid, but because you needed me to grow a pair and do it on my own.”


“I can neither conform nor deny that statement.” He said with a smile.


“It all makes sense now. That was the secret your father told you, you had to let us grow up in our own time, let us make our own mistakes, get ourselves hurt or into and out of trouble on our own, without running to mommy and daddy.”


“You are incredibly insightful, you have got some, but not all of it. The rules still stand though, I cannot and will not change them, no matter if you figure it all out, and same as now, I will neither confirm nor deny what you are saying as being correct or not. You are right on one thing though, you have to learn things on your own, on your own merits, you have to learn to deal with things as they are dealt to you, on your own, without aid. You must also promise me another thing, anything that you may or may not figure out, you must never tell your brother, for he too must learn this on his own. Though, in many ways he is far stronger than you are, has had to learn things that you could only dream of in your worst nightmares.”


“I will not make any such promise Father, and you know why, but you are correct, he is far stronger than I will ever be, and that is why I am so happy that it will be he in your chair and not I.”


“If you tell him, then I will be forced to punish you further.”


“I understand Father, but you must understand, while he may be stronger than I in many ways, I am still far more knowledgeable than he is, even though he did get excellent tutelage as well, so to not share what I know would be to deny him what he needs to one day become a great king such as you.”


“Yes, in some ways you are more knowledgeable, absolutely, but he has street smarts in him that give him far more insight than you have too. He has much to learn, as do you, neither one of you are ready for my seat yet, and you will not have to either for several more years. The two of you together could very easily take over for me right now if you had to, and you would do excellent, now you both just need to learn everything the other already knows. He has much in him to teach you, and make no mistake, you have far more to learn from he than he has from you.”


“Independence, if I am correct.”


“Along those lines, yes. You have always depended upon those around you to do virtually everything for you, he has never had that, nearly everything he has ever had he had to get on his own. Learn from him, but do not tell him why, he must figure this out on his own as well. You both need to be free thinkers, that is my biggest challenge in my job, to do what is best for the entire country with no one whispering in my ear their best interests. While greed and corruption can happen anywhere, because money controls too much, we do not allow it to be what some countries accept as the norm. I cannot and will not allow them to bribe me or sway me, and that is something you must learn as well, yet, you must learn that there is a fine line in there as well, you must listen and choose carefully. Geoff likely already knows much of this, but probably not all, he is still young, as are you of course, and together you will learn a lot together. Now, no more questions on this, I have already told you far more than you needed to know.”


“Thank you Father for at least letting me figure some of it out, even though I know that you have told me less than half of what I wanted to know.”


“Considerably less, however, you are close on more, and you may figure it out in time. You are far smarter than I ever was, especially at your age. When my beloved tutor was ejected from the court, that taught me a lot, I was almost your age, I was a spoiled rotten little fuck, I was nowhere near as ready as you are to take the throne. I grew up a lot that year, I learned a lot, and, by the way, that was the one and only time my father ever spanked me too, and he told me exactly who and what I was, and for four months after that, I was stripped of my princely title, I was given an actual job in the castle, I had no servants, I was given nothing. I was not even allowed to eat at this table, for I was no longer royalty, I had to make my own food and everything.”


“Wow, you never told me that before.”


“My father was furious at me. Told me that actions like that, being a spoiled rotten little child could cause a war, and that that had to be stomped out of me. He sentenced me to that, but, as with all punishments, he would have extended it indefinitely, until I had learned my lesson, to his standards.”


“Would you ever do the same to me?”


“In a heartbeat, give me a reason, and you will find out.”


“Oh shit, that is what you mean when you say ground me?”


“Correct, but I already told you that. So, I strongly suggest you think long and hard before you do something so rash again.”


“Shit. I still wish to go into the city Father and explore.”


“You know the deal, and what it will cost you, the choice is yours and yours alone. The grounding is a minimum of one month, per day you are gone, so choose wisely.” The king smiled warmly.


“Shit. You actually want me to do it though, do you not?”


“Maybe, maybe not, what do you think would be your best course of action?”


“That is what I thought. It is another exercise to help me grow, you mean to not allow me to do something I really want, to make me do it anyway, even though there will be consequences, probably because being the king means that no matter what you do, you will always have some sort of negative feedback from it, so I must learn to deal with it as well.”


“Very astute observation, and I will not insult your intelligence, however, you only have some of it, and no, I will not point out what you are missing.”


“That is what I thought.”


As they continued eating slowly, they talked more, though now the rest joined in on the conversation. The other kids were all surprised by the conversation that the king and prince had though, it taught them a lot into how they too would likely be treated. They now knew that their being street smart, poor kids might actually be a positive, because they knew more about the outer workings than any possibly could, but that they would still have to learn a lot, just like Geoff. They also found out that much like on the street, their every choice, their every decision would have far reaching outcomes, something that they were already used to anyway.


Everyone enjoyed their dinner, eating slowly and savouring everything until they were finished dessert. When finally they were done, they all stood after the king and queen did, and then left the dining hall. Both the king and queen almost laughed when Geoff was standing there waiting for them, dressed in his royal finest.


“Father, Mother, we need to speak, please go get dressed and meet me in the throne room.” He said, and then turned and walked away before anyone could say anything.


They all waited until he was out of earshot.


“Told you Prince George, he is smart, and he knows things that you are only just starting to understand. Do not under estimate your brother, he did not receive the same teaching as you, but you must be thankful every day that you did not receive the same teaching as he did either. All of you, please go get dressed, you are welcome to come as well, but you must be dressed appropriately in the throne room at all times.” The king said and then started walking. The others kept up to him.


“I understand Father, but it seems as if you are happy that he went through what he did, why is that?”


“I am not happy that he did, but I am happy that he learned so much because of it. I am absolutely furious at what happened to him, to all of us. He should have grown up here knowing love of family, but instead he learned the love of brutal beatings and absolute independence. That does not mean I love either of you any more or less than the other, and I do not wish you to feel that you are any less than your brother for not having the same knowledge as he has, for, like I said, you should be thankful that you do not, but he does and you do not, yet you do still know much that he will not. You will both learn much from the other, have no fear there, and in some ways, it will probably make him a better king than you or I ever could be.”


“I know Father, and you have no idea how happy that I am that I will not have to be king, unless something happens to him of course, which I will certainly fight to my last breath to prevent. To always be prince and never king, that has always been my dream, and I hoped that you would live forever and never decide to retire.”


“Yeah, that was going to happen. The only reason I was not going to retire at the normal age was if you were not ready to become king.”


“I know.”


They made it to their bedrooms a few minutes later, talking the whole way, and then went in to get dressed. They changed their diapers, because they were getting wet enough to warrant it anyway, then got into their good clothes, and met back in the hall only a minute or so apart from each other. They then walked all the way to the throne room, talking happily as they did so. When they entered, Prince Geoff was seated, but as soon as he saw them, he stood and bowed. The king and queen went and took their seats, and then the princes did, and then the knights all sat last.


“Prince Geoff, you wished to have a royal chat, so please, let us know what is on your mind.”


“I think that you know exactly why we are here this evening.”


“I have a pretty good idea.”


“Then you know that I cannot allow it to ever happen again, so what do you think we should do about it?”


“I am sure I do not know. There is nothing that I can do about it, it is the rules.”


“Then we must change the rules. As prince who has achieved manhood, I formally request that the rule that only royalty attend the royal dining hall as a guest be abolished if said person is the guest of a royal member. Also, in addition to that, I would like that rule to also apply in the throne room. The guest must be of close personal relations to the royalty they are with, and must first be approved by the king, queen or prince, or in the case where it is the prince, the king or queen. It is unfair to not allow ones boyfriend or girlfriend to not join them for dinner, or royal affairs, because they are not royalty, hence the reason for my request.”


“Your request has many excellent points, you already put into words my stipulations, and so I see no reason at all as to why this should not be put into play. Does anyone in this room see any reason at all why we should not allow this rule to be amended as Prince Geoff has outlined?”


“No Your Majesty.” Everyone said, Prince George being the loudest.


“Excellent. I noticed that Gabriel was waiting outside, so please allow him entrance.”


The person manning the door opened it and beckoned forth Gabriel, who entered the throne room. He came forth and knelt as he was supposed to. Prince Geoff took the honours for this one.


“Gabriel, from this day forth, you are welcome to join myself in both the dining hall and the throne room as my honoured guest, as my boyfriend. Because of you and I, I have had the rules changed so that no one with a non royal partner must ever be without his or her partner again. I am sorry that you had to live through such an indignity, and we will not allow it to happen again.”


“Thank you My Prince, my love.” He looked up and smiled brightly.


“Sadly though, my sons beautiful boyfriend, you must be seated at the tables below, for only high royalty may be seated up here, though I cannot tell you how often I would rather be seated down there with you all.” The king said.


“Thank you My King, and I believe both Prince Geoff and myself understand and agree.”


“I do.” Geoff said. “I certainly do not want to be up here.”


“Me neither.” Piped up his brother, grinning brightly, knowing that he would now not have to.


“I understand, my princes, for I never wanted this either, and I will be happy the day I retire from it. Now, is there anything else before we retire for the evening?”


“I do not believe so Father.” George said, and Geoff agreed with him.


“Then this meeting is adjourned, let us go get more comfortable, then I would very much like to invite all of you to the royal theatre to enjoy a movie together.”


Everyone was very much okay with this, so they headed back to their bedrooms so that they could get undressed and back into just their nice thick diapers. They all met back in the hall within a couple minutes of entering, because no one needed a change, they only had to get undressed, so, of course, it did not take them long at all. The king had his boys and the queen had her girls with them, and all the kids followed the pair of them to the theatre, everyone wearing just diapers and smiles. When they arrived, a movie was chosen while drinks and snacks were passed out, and then they all sat back and enjoyed the movie.


The royal theatre would put most full on theatres to shame. The screen is every bit as large as any out there, and the sound system rivals the very best of them, but where this theatre outshines them all is in its seating. There are twenty five reclining love seats arranged five to a row, each on its own level, almost a half a meter above the next, so no matter where you sit, the view is always perfect and unobstructed. The seats themselves are also the softest leather imaginable and feel absolutely wonderful against the bare skin of everyone, and not in the least bit uncomfortable either. They are soft and cushy, and are incredibly relaxing and comfortable.


Everyone enjoyed the movie, but as soon as it was over, they all headed to their bedrooms, where they intended to make themselves all more than tired enough to go to sleep.