Lovers Lost
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Lovers loose a lot of things. Some of those things were freedom of being a flirt, freedom of looking at other people with interest, and being free in general. Delia would never have become Roger's lover if she had known how much she would loose. But then again, she had gained so much. She had been able to toy with the Prince and end up the victor and had been able to be the most beautiful woman in the court for Roger took care of her competitors. Then again, only the most serious competitors for there would always be pretty girls.
Then again lovers lost more then that. Delia lost her freedom of thoughts. Even though the court said she chose her path, chose to betray the King in all honesty if she had not wanted to she would still be standing in the traitor's path. Roger got what Roger wanted and even if he made it seem like it was your choice, it wasn't. The allure of being Queen had over come her senses and judgment. She wanted that title.
Queen Delia. Delia had plans and ideas for when she became Queen. She wanted power and wanted no others to have it. Why keep the ladies stupid if you could make them even stupider? Why keep them beautiful if you could have moderately pretty ladies around you? To increase your own beauty of course, there was that. No one questioned her longing to be Queen and it was what drove her to become the lover of various people. Roger, the Prince, some of the Prince's friends and other people who had political power. No one denied her what she asked for or gave.
So in the end, sitting in her cell the shadow of her beauty still there Delia understood what the term Lover's lost meant. It was something her mother had told her at a young age, and she had failed to realize the reason behind it. Now it was too late and if Delia could back and change things she'd only change one little detail. Loosing.
A/N: Another thing that randomly came to my head. I always figured Delia wouldn't change her ways given the chance. Or rather, if she could change things it would have been loosing the temptation. Although she probably never realized Roger didn't intend to make her Queen at all and was using it to interest her. Anyway, another impulse that I like.