Title: Gone
Pairing: Mary/Francis
Spoilers/Warnings: Future Fic, Character Death
Author Note/Disclaimer: A bit of a mixture between historical stuff (particularly writing a poem after Francis death). Also I don't know how long it took the real Mary to write the poem, but in this it took her a few months. Obviously their is a bit of stuff from the show. Particularly the prophecy. Also I don't own Reign.
Summary: It honestly seems like one moment he just here, and the next moment he was gone.
~x~
It honestly did seem like he was just here.
Talking about their future together, and the hypothetical children they might have, which were treated more in the sense of love, than political pawns.
(Even though, she knows she knows it was necessary to have at least two sons. One of them to rule the kingdom of Scotland and the other to rule France.)
But luck was against them.
Their marriage was over before it really began. She supposes to a certain extent, they were still in their blissful and happy stage of their marriage.
If there is such a thing, regarding political and arranged marriages, but that is the closest way she can describe her marriage to Francis. Of course, it probably helps matter that she was actually in love with Francis.
She wouldn't say it happened right away. While she may have loved him as a child, it was more in a platonic sense compared to romantic love.
It wasn't until shortly her engagement to Tomas, she realized that she was in love with him. She will admit their relationship wasn't easy.
With politics, Catherine, her "friendship" with Sebastian and his former flings trying to get in between them. But in the end she supposes true love won in the end.
At least until his death (murder).
Honestly she still didn't know how it happens really, and the only thing she really knows about his "murder" was that an English assassin killed him.
No doubt working for the English Queen, even though she believes the assassins intended target was for her.
Yet for whatever reason, it was Francis who was murdered. It certainly doesn't help matters she knows that her mother-in-law blames her for Francis death. Supposedly Nostradamus had a vision that she would be the reason for Francis death.
Although, the moment she heard that rumor, she started to understand her mother-in-law a lot better, and realized why Catherine didn't particularly like her.
She has always known that for Catherine would do anything for her children. She supposes if she ever became a mother she would have done the same.
But she grieved for her husband for eight months. She started to wear black a lot more in her daily wardrobe, which she supposes is a bit normal for a grieving wife.
She even started to write a poem about the love she shared with Francis, and the sense of loss she felt when she lost to him to death.
The first one she has written since his death. She supposes she went through a bit of a writer's block after his death.
Although it did take her a few months to finish the poem. Not because it was particularly long or she didn't know what to write, but more in the sense it was just emotional and painful piece to write.
Even though, she knows she will eventually have to marry again eventually. Most likely a Scottish nobleman, or prince from another nation. She can't deny the fact that there will always be a part of her that will be in love with Francis.
Perhaps she will always love Francis.
But Francis is gone.
Not necessary in the same sense he might come back someday, but literally gone. She must accept that.
No matter how painful it may be.
-fin