Sinful
Chapter Twelve
Virtue
Notes: Yep this is the last chapter! I know, but I have been off my game lately and I keep forgetting. I want to finish the story so that other's may enjoy.
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"Always do the right thing. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."- Mark Twain
January 19, 1559 Greenwich Palace
There had been laughter out in the hallways as the coronation of Elizabeth the first continued to reign through out England. The heart of its cities in the palm of Elizabeth's hands. She knew she would protect it with her very human being, and it was the people whom cheered the new Queen upon the throne.
"Your majesty.." her main secretary bowed before the Queen as she sat in her father's old meeting room. The desk made of oak lined with intricate flowers. Her pale fingers going through documents carefully, "Sir Cecil…Do you have the document upon matters of the state?"
A small smile framed the elder man's face; William had forgotten what a strong person Elizabeth had become. Even so young she took upon England by storm causing rifts and mending them completely.
However, his smile faded before he could speak. Elizabeth, being the observant one she is, stared at the other with a cautious glance.
"Sir Cecil?"
Taking in a slow breath, he walked over to her with timid steps and sliding a rolled up parchment towards her. A stern look upon his brazen features while Elizabeth only tilted her head in confusion and started to unravel the parchment before her. Staring at the beautiful lettering until a certain sentence had caught her reading it again.
"His highness King Henry the VIII and the first Duke of Suffolk tried for treason and sodomy…"
She shook her head, reading it over and over but still that exact sentence did not change upon parchment. Closing her eyes she leaned back against the chair, trying to regain her composure as she breathed in again.
"Your majesty…"
Grasping the parchment firmly, she leered over at William. Eyes blood shot as she tried to keep the tears from breeching her cheeks.
"Is this…Some type of cruel joke?!" her voice was dangerously low as she swallowed back a sob.
William stood their, turning towards the servant in the room and beckoning him out. Then slowly turning back to Elizabeth shaking his head. "No my queen…It is the truth…"
She felt her breath hitch before she could comprehend the situation. Her father…No no it could not be possible!
Her long gown tickled the floor as she got up tensely. Squeezing the parchment angrily, shutting her eyes once again as she handed the crumpled parchment back to William.
"He did not die of sickness your highness as they have told you…Mary wanted to protect-"
Her light blue eyes narrowed as she stomped her foot upon the ground shaking her head. "Protect me?! I wanted to know the truth and this is how she repays me! No…It would not have happened…My father-"
She paused for a moment, one single tear escaping her eye as she remembered the day she had caught both her father and the Duke of Suffolk kissing in the garden. Slowly she sat upon one of the chaise. Her heart hammering against her chest as she felt ill with regret.
"Your majesty?" William kneeled next to her, a concern look upon his face as he watched the Queen fall apart.
"He told me…He…Was telling the Duke a secret…" she breathed in again more heavily, shutting her eyes again as she placed a trembling hand upon William's shoulder.
"It was…A kiss…" her fingers lightly touched her own rosy lips. Swallowing heavily again, she turned to William "burn the document…"
His brow rose in question while Elizabeth got up from her place. "Are you sure your grace?"
Walking towards the window that peered out into the gardens. The light engulfing her skin, creating a halo look around her ruby locks.
"Yes...The truth shall be buried…And if anyone speaks of it…They shall be appointed to the scaffold"
Elizabeth breathed in a haggard breath before she continued. "King Henry the VIII died of unnatural causes…The Duke dying before him just like my sister had told me…"
The secretary only stared at her nimble body before he left the room bowing. Leaving her majesty to her own thought as a choked sob tumbled form her lips as she crumbled to the ground.
"…I know your secret now father…"
Notes: Okay not an epic ending, but I wanted to get it from Elizabeth's point of view. I kind of like that she remembers Charles and Henry's kiss so I incoperated it in here.
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