Juliet had just taken the potion. She fell asleep in her bed, clothes on, and her heart stopped. She was dead. Or, appeared to be dead. The next morning, her maid came in. “Juliet?” she said, “Oh, Juliet, why are you still asleep? Today is a big day!” she opened the curtains, not looking at the fair maiden's lifeless body.

“Juliet, I swear. You even slept in your day clothes! It must be because of your cousin’s death.” She began to weep softly. “Oh, such a tragedy… Tybalt’s death was hard on everyone, believe me dear, but you must get up and go on with today!”

She turned around and finally looked at Juliet, and stared in shock. “J-Juliet?” she began to panic. “Juliet, dear, please wake up! Tell me this is a prank…” She leant down and touched Juliet’s cold, dry face. “Oh, my! Oh, no! Juliet, my lady!” she started to cry. “Help! Help! Somebody help!”

Just then, Lady Capulet and Capulet enter the room. “What? What is this noise?” Capulet demanded, and stopped at the sight of his cold, dead daughter.

“She’s dead, she’s dead!” the nurse cried. “I came in and she was laying there, dead as dead can be!”

Lady Capulet cried out. “Juliet, my rose, my beautiful daughter! Why… why did she have to go!” 

Capulet cried silently, in too much shock to wail like his wife, in too much pain to keep it all in.

Meanwhile, while the funeral was happening, but with Romeo, he hid from sight somewhere unknown as a man came to deliver him a message. “Sir, I'm sorry… but she’s dead. Your love is dead.”

“What?” Romeo questioned. “You’re lying. YOUR LYING!” He started to cry. 

“Sir-” 

“Leave.” Romeo interrupted. “I shall go see her tonight. Alone. Do not follow me. Do not tell anyone about me. I must go alone.” and with that, he left, walking up to a poor merchant that sold poison to him for a grand amount of money.

That night, Freir was on his way to wake Juliet up when Romeo beat him there, fighting Paris, and slaying him. He does not lay him by Juliet and leaves him instead, and he goes to Juliet’s grave. He sits there for a good long moment, admiring her beauty. Even though dead, she still looked like a perfect being. A goddess. 

He then slowly lifted the poison to his lips, scared of death, but needing Juliet. Little did he know she stirred in her sleep, slowly opening up her eyes. Her face flushed back with colour, and she saw as Romeo put the poison in his mouth. 

suddenly, she pushed him down so that his face was facing the floor, forcing him to spit the poison out. 

“Tell me you didn’t!” she cried. “Tell me you didn’t swallow any!” she cupped his face in her hands as he looked at her in disbelief. “Oh, Romeo, please, tell me you didn’t…” she had tears streaming down her face, and he cupped it in his hands, brushing her cheek, gently. 

“I didn’t…” he barely mustered out before passing out. Capulet and Lady Capulet enter, as did the prince, and the Montegues. 

“Oh, my!” Lady Montegue stated, startled. “Romeo?”

“Juliet, you’re okay? You're alive?” Lady Capulet cried. 

“It seems as though Romeo used some form of witchcraft to bring your daughter back, replacing her death with his own.” The prince said.

“No, he’s not dead!” Juliet cried, feeling a pulse. “He’s not dead!!” She hugged him. “Please, I love him, let me be with him once he wakes!”

The Montegues and the Capulet’s looked at Juliet in confusion and shock. 

“Well, although I can not decide who you will be with,” The prince started, “I declare Romeo to no longer be banished, as he showed us his dedication to peace by bringing back Juliet, so long as when he wakes up, he never uses witchcraft again.”

Juliet only held Romeo tighter. “Please, Mother, father, Lady Montague, Sir Montague. Allow me to be with the one I love.”

Montague sighed. “So long he loves you back.” he stated, reluctantly. 

“That, Montague, is the first thing you and I agree on.” Capulet said. “I will agree to this. But only if he loves you well.” 

“So, is it in my understanding you have a truce?” The prince questioned.

    The two men nodded and shook hands. Then, Romeo was taken to a nurse and they helped him get better. Romeo and Juliet had a more public marriage and they lived happily ever after, til’ death do they part.

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