Henry pulled on Christien's laces, making them tight. She thanked him and proceeded to put on her riding slacks and boots, then helped him with his hair, which was never satisfactory to her when he did it. He pulled her close to him and kissed her, then looked into her eyes. "Are you scared?"
"How could I be scared when I am with you?" she asked.
The clock tolled midnight. They grabbed the rest of their things and headed out the door. They were almost to the stables when Henry stopped.
"I forgot my sword!" he gasped.
"Well, lets go get it!"
"No, you get the horses ready, and I'll be back down in a minute."
"Don't be long!" they kissed again and she went to the horses and he ran up to their room. His sword was sittin gon his bed. He picked it up and buckled it on.
He opened the door to leave but stepped back. The queen, his mother in law was standing against the doorframe in her nightgown.
"You weren't thinking of leaving, were you?"
Henry clenched his fists at his sides.
"Yes, as a matter of fact we were going to do the jobs you are to blind to see." He pushed past her into the hall.
" I would not leave if I were you."
He sighed and turned around. "What are you going to do about it, Gurtrude?"
Christien ran up the stairs, "Henry! What is taking you so long?" she half whispered.
The queen smiled evily when she heard her daughter and snapped her fingers.
Guards sprang from the shadows grabbing Christien's arms and shoving her to the ground.
"Christien!" Henry jumped to help her but a guard tugged her head up by her hair and shoved a knife next to her throat.
"I would not do that if I were you," the queen said, walking in a circle around the spot he had stopped.Christien and Henry kept eye contact, scanning each other, making sure the other was going to be alright. She had tears running down her face. Henry longed to whip them from her cheeks and hold her until she felt safe, but if he moved she would die.
"What do you want?" he said through gritted teeth, not trying to hide the hatred in his voice.
"My dear boy, I am the queen and will get what I want, and what I want is for you to let me run my kingdom, and not take my daughter away from me!"
Henry fumed, "You want me to let people suffer because you are to lazy to do anything? You want me to just stay in this castle for the rest of my life?"
The queen tisked, "Now now, son, I never said you had to stay here. Just my christien."
"She is my wife! I will not leave her!"
The queen walked up to his face. "You are under arrest for attempting to sabotage my rule, kidnapping the princess, and undermining my authority." she snapped her fingers again and the guards let chrstien go and grabbed Henry, punching him in the stomach. He doubled over grunting.
"Henry!" christien crawled over to him, holding his face. The guards pushed her away, she landed on the ground. They stood Henry up, and dragged him away to the dungeons.
He looked at Christien. She was kneeling on the floor reaching for him. they rounded a corner and he could not see her anymore.
Christien slumped to the floor crying into the cold stone. Her mother knelt down quietly next to her, drapping her arm over Christiens rounded back.
"Christien darling, it will be ok. He was not good for you anyw--"
Christien sat up shoving the queen's arm off of her, "Don't touch me, witch." she snarled. She stood and started walking away.
"Darling, you are confused! He was going to--"
"He was going to do nothing that was illegal! Henry is 10 times the ruler you could ever be!" She stalked toward her mother shaking a finger, stopping right in front of her. "You let him out right now."
"Or what?" the queen said, clamly looking into her daughter's eyes.
Christien gritted her teeth, "Or I will get him out myself and we will expose you for the witch you are."
The queen smiled, "My dear, you are mentaly exhaughsted. you will be confined to your room, guarded at all times."
Guards surrounded her. She pushed out of their way lunging at her mother. The guards grabbed her dragging her to her room.
"I hope you rot in hell!" She screamed as they pulled her away.
The queen sat on a chair and called the butler, "I would like to make an announcment to the people."
What do you think?
I love it. I don't know how it is going to end, but it is going to be awesome! I think the queen is going to be delusional and crazy, all at the same time.
Kinda like the secret window, only not like that. I saw that the other day, good movie! And one of M's favorites!
Is it obvious who I am talking about? I guess to some people it would be, but to others... maybe not.
I am going to watch V for Vendetta tomorrow with him. Darby is going to come too, and I think he invited some people. I feel like I should invite someone else, but I don't know who. I could invite Taylor... or maybe Darby would like it if I invited J--. I could do that.
Next semester I need to have my classes all together. I don't like have a 3 hour break in between my classes, it just makes me less likely to go to them!
