Chapter 17 The Last Flower

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"Our fishermen found him floating in the river. Figured that we would bring him here instead of letting him die. He's in a deep coma though, one step out of the cold mountain and he'll be dead in a matter of seconds." Nefretti registered what her brother said and ran to her unconscious beloved weeping on his sides. The women rushed to T'Challa's side. "The only way to wake him up is one Vibranium flower of yours. I would offer but you and I both know that there are none in the Jabari village.

Nakia stood up eager as ever "I'll go down to the city, and cut down some in-"

"-No, it's useless." Nefretti's smile turned into a frown. "KIllmonger burned it all down." She chocked a sob. It seemed like all their hope just jumped out of the window. M'Baku felt bad too. There was no more way-

"WAIT! Nefretti what do you have around your neck?" Shuri exclaimed. 

Nefretti's eyes widened looking down on the ring. She quickly removed it and separated it from the chain around her neck. Nefretti said a quick silent prayer and kissed it for goodluck. All the memories surrounding it from the moment T'Challa gave it to her till the last time she played with it moments before. She was saying goodbye to a object that she was very sentimental aboit. Yet, it was for a good cause. It honestly held no purpose anymore since T'Challa fulfilled his promise of marrying her. Now she will get her husband back. "Is this enough?" She handed it to her mother-in-law who had the widest smile on her face. 

Ramolda crushed it into a wooden bowl until it was a glowing purple liquid. "It's the perfect dose." Nakia and Nefretti lifted T'Challa's head so that he could drink. Ramolda opened his mouth so that the liquid could slid through. 

Everyone was at the edge of their seats of what was going to happen next. All of a sudden there was a cough. T'Challa opened his eyes and started coughing making everyone in the room jump in praise. A glass of water was handed to him. His memory was still foggy about what had happened over the past twelve hours. But he felt safe amongst the people he loved the most. He glanced around the room seeing the familiar and surprising (M'Baku) faces. T'Challa ended his gaze to his wife whom he grabbed and kissed passionately. Nefretti was crying a river. He was thankful for many things in that moment but he was most thankful for her.  

The rest of the night was T'Challa being showered with love and food. He ended the dramatic day cuddling with his passed out wife in her bedroom. He coudn't sleep though, he gave up trying to sleep after two hours of starring at the blank ceiling . T'Challa slowly lifted his wife's arms and placed them on her side before dipping out of the bed. She stirred in her sleep at the sudden movement so T'Challa kissed her on the head saying "I'll be back soon." She was too tired to complain.

T'Challa needed to walk, to stretch his legs, but most importantly, to think. He didn't know his way around the Jabari palace. So he kept turning in random directions. No one was awake this late at night, he thought. So he couldn't bother anyone for directions back to his room. 

T'Challa was wrong. He stumbled into the throne room where M'Baku was sitting. They haven't said a word the entire night so when T'Challa stepped in switching M'Baku's to him, he immediately regretted it. There was an awkward silence where the two men were both thinking What should I say?

"Couldn't sleep?" M'Baku settled on the most obvious topic.

"It's hard to sleep after being pronounced 'dead just a couple hours ago."

"There's more to it than that." T'Challa nodded

"We're heading back home tomorrow. And we're outnumbered and weaponless."

"Then I'll give you the finest weapons in this village. It maybe not as advanced as yours but I it'll be enough for you to use until you retrieved yours. I cannot send my warriors in battle with you though."

"I'm okay with that. But why are you helping me? Just a few days ago, you could've killed me."

M'Baku sighed "Because I know my sister loves you very much. And family always help each other, no matter what had happened in the past."

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