A/N: Please review if you like where this is going. This will be my first chapter fic. I am so excited to share it with you all. Timeline: Season 5 after C.C. leaves "The Place" I forgot to do shout outs in my last story but I would like to thank ladybrin, Vee22, mewkazurinu2004, nrfan, bogiedevil and sim38 for reviewing my last 2 fanfictions. Your kind words help me to keep writing! And of course thanks to my 2 favorite performers, Lauren Lane and Daniel Davis!
Oh and of course I do not own these characters!
Chapter 1
Nanny Fine and Maxwell are getting married! My life is over, how could this happen? This wasn't how it was supposed to happen. I am the one with class, wealth, and sophistication. Naturally he would want to be to be with me, right? Life as I know it, life as I have been brought up to know it has collapsed right before my eyes. My chance at happiness is gone. Classes never mingled before. How could he choose Nanny Fine over me?
These thoughts rushed through C.C. Babcock's mind as she sat on the black couch in her penthouse apartment. It had been several weeks since she had left "the place" but she was still in an extremely vulnerable and confused state. Her expectations of the perfect and ideal future had just crumbled right before her eyes the minute she saw that ring on Nanny Fine's finger.
Was she in love with Maxwell Sheffield? Who knows, but love matters little in a world of high expectations. In the eyes of high society, it was right for her and Maxwell to be together and with her pushing 40, the chance at finding another man to live up to these expectations was rather bleak.
I guess I will die an old spinster. I suppose Butler Boy will get a kick out of that. He will always have something to fall back on if he can't think of anything else to use against me.
She pondered more about Niles.
I never thought about this before probably because I was born into wealth. How is it that someone as intelligent and talented and….handsome….did I just admit that? Anyways, how is it that he could be indebted to a life of servitude? I never thought about the fairness of it all but it just doesn't seem right. Circumstances and birthright having more effect on a person's future than talent, drive, and work ethic. God knows, he has all of those qualities. Wow, did I just admit something else nice about him. What has come over me?
As much as she hated to admit it, her supposed enemy did have many redeeming qualities about him. Qualities, that if he were any other person, she might look for in a man. As she continued to ponder the injustice of his situation a strange thought came to her mind.
I wonder how Niles' life would have been if he were given the same opportunities as Maxwell or I? No doubt, he wouldn't be cleaning Maxwell's toilets or sleeping in Brighton's old bed.
This wasn't the normal way of C.C. Babcock thinking but then again she hadn't been thinking straight since after the engagement. Being raised as a Babcock, it was ingrained in her everyday life that she would marry someone of equal social status. Even the fact that she was a working woman was abnormal in her world since the majority of her sorority sisters and high school acquaintances ended up marrying rich and were living lives of pure luxury and neediness with no responsibilities of their own.
So in regards to her career, C.C. Babcock did not follow the status quo. Being a rebel in this regard and going against everything that she had been told to live by all of her life, makes these sudden realizations seem less surprising.
Since these views of social class and birthright were crumbling before her very eyes, it is not surprising that C.C.'s change of heart led to a particular curiosity about how a certain domestic's life could have been had his circumstances been different.
This sudden curiosity led to a quite strange and extremely impulsive idea. Now normally C.C. Babcock did not act on impulse, but pure logic and rationalization.
Seeing, however, that the whole foundation on how she was supposed to live her life had just been bulldozed and tumbled down in a million pieces right before her eyes, a little impulse was the least of her worries.
So with this curiosity and sudden idea in mind, C.C. Babcock planed on going to the bank first thing in the morning.
A certain person was about to experience a huge change in their life. What she did not realize however, was that her impulsive decision would affect more than just the life of this domestic. It would affect all of the people whom she associated with everyday.