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Chapter One:

The man kicked his horse so that it would run as fast as it could. Upon reaching his destination, he immediately jumped off his horse and ran inside Whitehall, ignoring the looks and protestations of those around him. He ran as fast as he could, upon reaching the throne room where King Henry was receiving his nobles.

"Your majesty!" he shouted, "Your majesty!"

Hearing this, the guards immediately blocked him from the king so he continued to speak as he fought his way past the guards.

"They took them! They took her majesty the queen!" he shouted, upon hearing this, everyone froze.

Signalling the guards to let the man pass, he stood and signalled the man to approach. "Who took the Queen? and where did this happen?" King Henry asked.

"We were on the way to Hatfield, to visit the Princess, when all of a sudden, these horsemen attacked and took the Queen! It all happened so fast we were over powered! They even took the lady Jane!" he said.

Henry froze. Someone had taken his sweet Jane! He will make them pay when he finds them!"

Shouting at the guards to close all the entry points to the kingdom and to fetch Elizabeth from hatfield so that she could be better protected in Whitehall, close to him. He then instructed the guards to take the man to his private chambers and to call Cromwell, Norfolk, WIltshire, Suffolk and the Seymours to his chambers. He needed to know who had taken his Jane and his Queen and he needed to know what his next actions should be.

"It's got to be a kidnapping! Its the only way this makes any sense!" Thomas Seymour said. He wasn't happy that his sister is currently missing, the Queen had been kidnapped. It would have been good news if it weren't for the fact that Jane had also been kidnapped!

"If it were, then they should have already sent someone or a letter of their demands but they have yet to do so." Norfolk said. This Seymour was an imbecile. Of course it was a kidnapping! the question now is, why would they take both Anne and Jane? Anne was losing her hold on King Henry and Jane had yet to become Queen.

As the group of men continued to argue and discuss how to best handle the situation, one of King Henry's chamber men entered and said, "Pardon me your majesty, but we found an anonymous letter that was placed on your seat in the throne room." the man said, cowering in fear, he was never in the line of the King's anger and he did not plan to start being in it now.

"Well? Give it to me now boy!" the king shouted, extending his hand out so that the man could give him the letter.

Once Henry had the letter, he dismissed the boy who immediately made his way out of the room.

As Henry opened the envelope with an unfamiliar handwriting, he froze as he read what was written.

"For love or for lust, by force or by choice, only one or the other but never both. I will be by the edge of the hunting grounds tomorrow night at midnight. Come alone or they will both perish. Use your time wisely, your majesty for only one will I return to you."

It was cold and dark. King Henry waited at the edge of the hunting forest for the kidnapper of Queen Anne and Jane. It was well past 12:30 in the night and there still was no sign of them.

He worried, what could be taking them? Are they hurting them? If they did, he will make them pay! Anne was still his Queen and even though he had already fallen for Jane, she is still the Queen and his wife! he thought to himself.

By 1 am, he decided that they might not show up, and that all this waiting was for nothing. As he turned his horse around to return to Whitehall, a voice spoke.

"I told you to come alone!" said the voice, Henry once more turned around, looking for the source of the voice, but in the dark of the night, he could not see.

"I am alone!" Henry said, not knowing exactly where to look so he looked everywhere.

"Do not lie! I can sense them! Scattered around the forest!" the voice said, it was a strong voice, the sort that could easily intimidate you just by hearing it.

At this, Henry lifted himself off his horse and stood on the ground. "Where are they? Anne and Jane?!" he said, "Show them to me now! Give them back!" He ordered.

The voice laughed, "Tut, tut, your majesty. You forget your majesty, only one will come back to you tonight." said the voice, and with that, everything became dark, the trees disappeared and the wind stopped. Henry didn't know where he was but he knew that this could only be the work of magic.

As soon as he stopped, he saw three figures in front of him, two were kneeling with their head covered by a long, thick veil while the third stood between them, a completely hooded figure in black.

"What is the meaning of this?! Where did you take me?!" Henry ask as he demanded to know where they were now.

"Relax, I am not here to hurt you. Nor will I hurt them." the hooded figure said, as he gestured to the two kneeling figures. Henry deduced that those two were Anne and Jane.

As Henry began to make his way towards Anne and Jane, the hooded figure stopped him. "No, no, your majesty. You have not been a good husband and king as of late. You've hurt the late Queen Katherine and your daughter with her. You know very well that your marriage to her is true and legal. But I ignored it for you truly loved the Lady Anne as you've never loved the late Queen. But you have once more proven me wrong with your actions, mistresses here and there and now you are looking for a way to make Jane your wife. I have seen the path you have chosen to take and I have seen what it will do. Therefore I am giving you a choice." the hooded figure said.

A choice? Henry thought, how dare this figure talk to him as if he were his subject! He is the King of England, Ireland and France! "A choice?! Do you not know who I am?! I am The King of England! It is my right to take mistresses and Anne has broken her promises to me! I have evidence that she was not a virgin when she married me and she has yet to even bear me a live son! She never loved me." he said.

"Excuses, excuses. Do you really believe your secretary over your own wife? If that is so, then listen and listen carefully for I will only give you this one chance." The figure said. "I will let you choose which one of them you will take back. The other, will live a life that they would have led if you had not entered their life while the other will become your Queen." the hooded figure said."Everything will be as it is, if you choose to keep Anne, then the Seymours and Jane will not remember ever having been in your presence and Jane will live a peaceful life in Wolf hall. But if you choose Jane, Anne will never know you personally. Keep in mind that this is the only change I will make. Any other path that fate had given them that does not involve you, will remain." The hooded figure added. "So make your choice and let this be done with." the figure said as he made the veils covering Anne and Jane disappear.

Henry couldn't believe what he had heard, this hooded figure was giving him a chance to be rid of Anne and to have Jane be his Queen? He didn't know how this was possible but it seemed that it was! He looked at both Anne and Jane. His sweet, pure Jane. He would make her his Queen and they would have healthy sons. He will show Anne this mercy, he will spare her of the injustice he would have had to commit just so he could get rid of her to make Jane his wife. However he thought of his little Elizabeth, the jewel of his world, his smart and precocious little princess. Would she still be born if he chose Jane over Anne?

Henry looked at the hooded figure once more and said, "What about my Elizabeth? What will happen to her?" he asked.

"She will be born. As I said, I will only change your presence in their lives. Any child that is destined to be born will still be born, the difference is who you will be to them." the figure said.

Thinking that Elizabeth would be born to him and Jane, once this is all over, he voiced his decision. " I choose Jane."

"Are you sure?" the hooded figure said.

With a final look at Anne, he repeated. "I choose Jane."

"Very well." the hooded figure said as he vanished Anne's figure and soon, everything became dark once more.

Note: So here's a new story I made for the tudors! I'm not good with historical dates and no matter how much I try to research I just get it wrong. Let's just say this whole story takes place from the time Henry placed Jane in Anne's household to be one of her ladies-in-waiting. Also its just a very simple story, I don't have enough time to research everything and for an intricate plot so this is mostly from Henry's point of view.

Face claims are everyone from the Tudors series!

Hope someone enjoys this! :)

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