A/N: Sky Movies! Woo Go Johnny Depp. But this isn't a Depp one so please enjoy regardless! I'm reading the book for my uni course coming up this month so it set the muse off for an almost crossover... I personally don't think it warrants a crossover style. Anyway! Enough nonsense! Please Review they make me giggle so much!


He was not her original Knave.

While the Red Queen adored Ilosovic Stayne as her personal assassin, he was not her son. Indeed she was incredibly lucky he was not her son for her feelings towards the Knave surpassed motherly love, Iracebeth had never felt the fluttering at her breast every time Stayne made his appearance.

Where her son was concerned there was no love lost; he was a trembling idiot. Not once did he speak in his defence, not once did he push to invade the surrounding areas of Underland. Never did he take an interest in the countries politics, nor did he make an attempt to be a Knave. He was not unscrupulous nor dishonest. He was vegetable in behaviour – he did nothing. The one time he even attempted to be dishonest it was against his own Mother. The squimberry tarts were hers. Not even her son may have one. Off With His Head.

Her husband. The King. Well he was just as useless as her son, they were clearly related. The puppy dog eyes every time her sister walked into the room or he'd sneak by her chambers when they were going to be married. It infuriated her. It did not truly matter to Iracebeth that her son had been executed in front of the family. However her husband took offence and held a vendetta against her for it. If anything his execution made it somewhat easier. A brand new page had turned up. Page Stayne had a way with words and a smile to kill. He was exploitive and immoral and for Iracebeth it was love at first sight. The King had to go. Off With His Head.

Iracebeth was eldest and she would be Queen. Mirana would be nothing. She had no rights. Yet still how was it that everything adored her? She was fragile, breakable, delicate. She was not a true leader and yet they all drew towards her like a moth to the flame.

Not Stayne. He was a good replacement Knave. He was not a son. He was her hero. Not her champion but her hero, her lover, her dream, her missing soul piece. She was too blind to see his lust for Um far outweighed his lust for her. Blinded by the hope that he solely adored her she never saw his affection for her sister and the survival instinct he lived by.

She loved him. With whatever heart she had left, she truly did love Ilosovic Stayne, it was not power or a good connection that came with the Knave, just sweet love. That was her biggest weakness.

"At least we have each other." The Red Queen turned to her love as their sentence was declared. The knife he attempted to plunge into her chest made her squeal in terror, it was also when her sight cleared and she saw the lying cheating falsifier that he truly was.

"Majesty please kill me please!" He begged her sister as their manacles were locked tightly.

"But I do not owe you a kindness." She watched her sister's smug satisfaction as she bound these two people; one broken by love the other insane with power and left the pair to rot at the edges of Underland.

"Take off my head" He screamed and Iracebeth felt her heart shatter again as he'd rather die than be with her.

"He tried to kill me!" She cried out and it was then she saw Mirana's pity, but only briefly as she was dragged away by a red card. She watched as the Knave beside her shook with anger and desperation in an attempt to kill her or get away.

He was not the original Knave.