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Chapter Three

By Giving Up

We are one, You and I,

We are like the earth and sky,

One family under the sun,

All the wisdom to lead,

All the courage that you need,

You will find when you see,

We are One.

-We Are One, Lion King II: Simba's Pride.

"I didn't do anything!" Troy shouted. Lucille walked up to him and pointed a finger at him, causing Troy to back up.

"That's it! That's why you killed him! You didn't do anything. You didn't do anything to help you only brother." Lucille raised a hand up and slapped him. Troy looked at her and glared.

"I don't even know why you're my mother," he said and ran away. Away from his mother, away from his sister, away from the people who he thought he could trust.

Troy looked at the people in Albania. He ran toward the mountain the palace was at and heard a voice calling at him.

"Why are you here?" Ben's voice rang in his ears.

"Look, Ben, I sorry, I'm here to explain," Troy gulped, looking at him, sorrow in his eyes.

"You don't need an explanation. EXILE!" he shouted. Troy's eyes widened.

"Look," he tried to reason.

"I gave you a chance, Troy, and you ruined that chance." Troy's body was suddenly impacted by the bodyguards and security trying to make him leave. He turned on his heel and left, without a smile on his face, not wanting to deal with the guards. Before he left he could hear Gabriella's voice scream, "NO!" And all he wanted to do was to take her in his arms and whisper that everything would be alright. But he couldn't, and that was the fact that made his heart drop.

There's an answer
In the sound of a train
There is wisdom
Past the bridge on the bay
There's a lifetime
Through the fog
In the rain
There's a beauty
In walking away

Gabriella looked at her father, with tears cascading down her cheeks. She tried to talk but her tears were choked up in her throat.

"Dad, it's not his fault. He didn't do it. Please, he wouldn't do anything like that." Her face was red from crying. Chris and Nick looked at her, sorrowfully. Gabriella couldn't take it. She pounced on her father who got her. She pounded her fists on his chest.

"TAKE IT BACK," she shouted, "TAKE IT BACK!" Ben looked at his daughter and patted her back.

"I'm sorry, but I can't." It killed him to say those words. But he had to do something. He almost got killed today. Gabriella looked at him, her eyes red from crying.

"I HATE YOU!" she shouted, "YOU TOOK AWAY THE ONE THING THAT I LOVED THE MOST! HOW COULD YOU?" Ben let his eyes drift to the ground and back up at his daughter. Gabriella blinked her eyes and looked at him one more time before she ran into the palace, slamming the door on her way in. Ben looked down at the ground sorrowfully and felt his heart breaking into pieces. He just heard the three words that no one should hear from his daughter. But, tonight, he knew, that even though his heart was breaking, two other hearts were already broken.

Gabriella stared up and the ceiling, tears in her eyes. Why? Why did this have to happen? She heard the door creaking open.

"Honey, please, apologize to your dad. He's just doing what's best for you," Victoria sighed. Whose side was she supposed to be on? She was caught in the middle.

"No. If he wants to protect me, then he could but in the meantime, isn't he supposed to be supporting me too?" Gabriella pushed past her mother, ran down the flight of stairs, and out the door. She stopped on the sidewalk, wandering where Troy might be.

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be, oh
Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're 'here' not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, can you see what I see

Troy walked into the woods, his clothes blending in with the trees. He sighed. He wanted, he just wanted to be able to hold Gabriella in his arms again, to whisper in her ear that everything will be alright, to tell her that this drama was going to end soon. He heard the wind rustling and the leaves moving. He closed his eyes and suddenly he heard singing. The most angelic voice he'd ever heard. He squinted, trying to find out whose voice it belonged to.

In a perfect world

One we've never known

We would never need to face the world alone

They can have the world

We'll create our own

I may not be brave or strong or smart

But somewhere in my secret heart

I know

Love will find a way

Anywhere I go

I'm home

If you are there beside me

Like dark turning into day

Somehow we'll come through

Now that I've found you

Love will find a way

He started joining in, and smiled when he found out whose voice it was.

I was so afraid

Now I realize

Love is never wrong

And so it never dies

There's a perfect world

Shining in your eyes

Troy ran toward Gabriella and she jumped in his arms as they sang together.

And if only they could feel it too

The happiness I feel with you

They'd know

Love will find a way

Anywhere we go

We're home

If we are there together

Like dark turning into day

Somehow we'll come through

Now that I've found you

Love will find a way

I know love will find a way

Troy smiled and took a deep breath. He started leaning in and Gabriella's breath hitched in her throat. She looked up from his chest and stared into his crystal blues. Troy took her cheek in his hand and closed the gap between them.

Gabriella looked at her and Troy's intertwined hands. It's a perfect match. Her tender, soft hand in his large rough ones. She looked up and Troy.

"Why me?" She asked. Troy smiled.

"Because, whenever I look at you my stomach churns even faster than before. My heart feels like it is going to explode whenever you look me in the eyes. (I'm so tempted to say "I find my paradise" Anyways…) A shock runs through me at your touch and it always wakes me up and in my mind, my brain asks, what did I do to deserve you?" Troy looked at Gabriella and leaned down and placed a tender kiss on her lips. Gabriella looked up at Troy.

"But… why…I mean you had to leave your family for me,"

Troy sighed, "Gabriella, sometimes, you have to understand, that by giving up, I gained everything." Gabriella had tears in her eyes from Troy's confession. Troy saw that and wiped them with the pad of his thumb.

"Gabriella, come on, let's run away together. We can lead new lives, different from the one here." Troy said softly but Gabriella shook her head.

"I need to stay here. I'm need to take on my duty as queen. I'm sorry." Troy nodded and smiled. She always keeps her promises, which is one of the things that he loved about her.

He took her hand and led her to the river. He hugged her and looked at their reflection in the water below.

"Look," he pointed to the river below and Gabriella turned to look, "We are one."

Christopher looked around the palace. She was no where, no where to be found. He nudged Nick in the ribs and Nick looked up. There was Ben. Chris laughed nervously.

"Hey Ben, let me tell you a story,"

Nick joined in, "There once was a king. Not you," Nick laughed. Chris glared at him.

"Definitely not you," Chris gritted his teeth. Nick didn't notice and continued.

"Let's just say that his daughter kind of escaped," Nick scooted back and pushed Chris forward. Ben exploded.

"YOU MEAN GABRIELLA'S GONE?" Nick nodded. Suddenly Ben's messenger came out.

"Sire, the outlanders are coming. They're starting a war." Ben widened his eyes.

Gabriella heard a scream in the far distance that sounded like her mother's. She took Troy's hand pulled him towards the noise. They ran about a mile when they saw a battle scene before them. Everyone was kicking and punching each other. Screams were louder than ever. Police men were trying there best to keep everything calm. She saw her dad in the distance trying to pry off the woman clinging on to him. Suddenly Troy's voice rang out above all the others, "STOP!"

She heard Lucille say, "Oh look who it is, the betrayer," Gabriella tensed up. She walked over to her father with Troy following her. Ben looked up at the noise and saw his daughter walking toward him.

"Dad, stop," Gabriella said.

"But-," Ben started but Gabriella put up her hand.

"A wise king once told me 'We are One' when I was six. I didn't understand him then but now I do,"

"But they-"

"Dad look at them," Gabriella let her finger drag across the field. "They are us. What difference do you see?" Ben looked at everyone but heard Lucille's voice.

"Vanessa, now, go get her," Vanessa looked at her.

"No mom. She's right," She walked towards the other side.

"Fine then. Have it your way. You're just going to be killed as well as ALL THE OTHERS!" She signaled to her people but they all went, one by one, towards the other side. She widened her eyes at the fact that she was being outnumbered. She ran to the cliff. She accidentally tripped on a rock and her whole body fell off the cliff. Her hands reached out though and they held on to the pieces of rock sticking out.

Gabriella instantly went after her. She reached her hand out to Lucille.

"Come on Lucille, just take my hand."

"GABRIELLA!" Ben shouted and followed after her. But it was too late Lucille let go of the rock and she fell all the way down. Everyone looked down at her, sympathy in their eyes, for she died the way her husband did. By falling off a cliff.

Gabriella walked hand in hand with Troy, still shocked about today's events. Suddenly, she was stopped by her father.

"Troy, welcome to the family," He said, holding out his hand. Troy gladly took it and smiled. He pulled his hand away from Ben's and looked at Gabriella. She smiled at him, then at her father, then pulled him to the mountain. And together, they looked down at all the people looking up at them and knew that someday, they were going to rule Albania, together, hand in hand, for they were one.

"Beauty in Walking Away" by Marie Digby

"Stop and Stare" by One Republic

"Love will Find a Way" by Liz Callaway and Gene Miller

Wow, it's done already. I know this chapter is kind of short but I think wrote everything I needed to write. Anyway, I loved writing this story, basically cause of the Lion King plot but tell me what you think of it and review! Thanks for reading.