Royal Romance
Chapter 1: Sweet Mary
Riggs was setting at his desk as Roger walked up to him. He looked up at him and then hit the button on his phone. The picture of Miranda went black.
"Avery wants to see us." He told him. Riggs got up and put the phone in his back pocket. He and Roger walked into their Captain's office. Avery looked at them and stood up.
"Okay, here is the thing." He started. "The Marquess of Pembroke is here in LA. Her name is Mary Stuart."
"Mary Stuart, I hope what happened to the last Mary Stuart doesn't happen to her." Roger joked no one laughed.
"Right, now Mary is twenty four and is half American but was raised in London." Avery said and walked in front of them. "She and her ladies and her ex mother in law called and the want two good cops to protect them while they are here." He told them. Roger looked over at Riggs then back at Avery.
"Okay, and you chose us?" Roger asked him. "Riggs around Royalty?" Riggs looked over at him.
"What is wrong with that?" He asked him.
"Come on Riggs. You acting like a gentleman, around Royalty, come on." Roger said this and it pissed Riggs off.
"Avery, can hit him?" He asked.
"No." He said and Riggs looked away.
"Now you two will go home and pack a bag for a least a week worth's of clothes." They looked at him.
"What?" Riggs asked him.
"You have to stay there at least until the weekend." He looked at them. "She will be leaving in about a three weeks." He added.
"Okay Cap, and you pack some good clothes like a suit or something." Roger told Riggs as they walked out.
"Why? Rog, we are going to be in the background the whole time." He told him.
"Get a suit." He said and walked off. Riggs turned and looked at Avery.
"Get a suit." He told him. Riggs sighed and went to go pack.
-Riggs's Trailer-
He was walking around making sure he had everything that he would need. He moved and looked at the picture of Miranda and grabbed it and put it in his bag. He then walked out, locked his trailer and got in his truck.
-Later-
Riggs drove up to a Mediterranean Mansion. He stopped his truck near Roger's car. He got out and shut the door. He walked over to Roger.
"Your late." He pointed out.
"I'm late cause I had to go and get a damn suit." He said and Roger looked at him.. Riggs sighed and walked up the steps. They walked up to the door and told the guard that they were from LAPD, The guard let them in. They walked in and saw an older woman dressed in Kaat Tilley via Les Habitudes silk and chiffon red gown with a gold choke necklace that had red rubies in it. She also had a small head piece to go with it on.
"You are late." She said.
"So sorry about that…" Roger started and didn't get to finish.
"Something could have happened to one of the girls." She quickly said. Riggs know that this woman was going to be a handful.
"My name is Cora, I am the Baroness." She told them as she looked at them. Roger was dressed in a dress shirt and pants and had good black dress shoes on. But Riggs was dress in his usual light blue jean shirt with a light blue short sleeve shirt under it. He had on light colored pants the matched his first shirt, and his brown boots with the pants leg tuck it them.
"You look nice, but you." She looked at Riggs. "Look horrible, go and change before Mary and the girls get here." Roger looked at Riggs with a I told you look.
"He is fine the way he looks Cora." They heard a voice and looked up. Riggs looked up at the marble stairs and saw a young woman with midnight black hair that came to the back of her knees. She had ice blue eyes and milky white skin. She was wearing a stretch sequin gown. Sequin top with sleeves and mock turtleneck that was gold with white pearls in it. A white stretch velvet/spandex skirt with a small train. His eyes got wide when he saw her. He watched her and he ladies walk down the stairs and over to them. She smiled at them.
"I'm Mary, this is Lola, Kenna, Greer, and Aylee." Each girl coursed to them as she called out their names. "And you are?" She asked.
"I'm Roger Murtaugh and this is…"
"Martin Riggs." She smiled when he bowed some to her. Roger smiled and she looked at him and he did the same.
"It is nice to meet you both." She told them. "Now Mr. Murtaugh, you will be with my ladies and Mr. Riggs you will be with me." She said with a sweet smile.
"Mary, I think that he should be with the girls and not you." Cora spoke. Mary looked at her.
"Why? Because the way he is dressed?" She asked her.
"Yes." She flat out told her.
"No, I like the way he is dressed and I will not have him change to please you." She flat told her. Riggs looked at her and noticed that her earrings matched the detail on the dress and so did her hair piece. She looked over at him.
"Shall we go and show you two your rooms?" She asked them, but was looking at Riggs.
"Yes, ma'am" He said and smiled. Cora saw this and said.
"Milady."
"He does have to say that Cora." Mary told her with looking at her.
"It's fine, Milady." He said and Roger looked at him and notice that he was smiling a small smile and was looking at her with a look like he didn't know what.
"This way." She sweetly said and he followed her.
"Are you coming?" Asked Lola to Roger.
"Oh yes." He said and followed her up the stairs. They followed the girls to their rooms. Mary show Roger his that was near her ladies and then she showed Riggs his.
"This is your room." She stopped at a door.
"My room is next to it, the outside balcony contents the two." She told him. He nodded his head and looked at her with the same look. She smiled and looked down and back up.
"I will be in my room now and while you get up packed." She said walked to her door and walked in. He smiled and walked into his.
Riggs shut the door and looked around the very nice room. It had a white couch in front of a fireplace, a huge white king size bed with a small white couch in front of it. Another larger white couch near a window seat. A large walk in closet and a huge bathroom. He walked over to the small couch and sat his bag down, he was not going unpack his clothes. He just got out tooth brush and hair brush and Miranda's picture. He walked over to the dark oak night stand and sat it down. He moved her picture to where it was just right. He then went into the bathroom and noticed that his whole trailer could fit in there. He sat his stuff down and then walked to the balcony. He walked over the to other door. He knew that was Mary's room. He went to knock but then he didn't get a chance to. The door opened and there was Mary in a new dress. This dress was baby blue long sleeved gown with somewhat full long skirt. The dress had white lace around the square neck and around the hands. She had on diamond dropped earrings with a pearl on the end of it, and a diamond and pearl hair piece in. He looked at her and the shock his head a little.
"Milady."
"You don't have to call me that. You can call me Mary." She told him.
"Okay and you can call me Martin or Riggs it doesn't matter." He said and then remembered what he was going to say.
"Oh yes, I need to know what you are going to do that day and when." She looked at him
"With all honesty I really just do whatever. Cora doesn't like it but I do." She told him and walked into her room. She looked back and said.
"Are you coming?"
"Yes." He said and moved and walked into her room. He walked in and saw that her room was different than his but yet kind of the same. It had a white couch in front of a fireplace, a huge white and pale blue king size bed in the corner of the room. A day bed in the middle of the room. A window stairs that were actual seats. A large walk in closet and a huge bathroom. He watched her set down on the couch that was in front of the fireplace. She looked at him and smiled.
"Come and set with me." She told him. He nodded his head and walked over and sat near her but not next to her.
"So, tell me about yourself?" She asked him.
"There is not much to tell. I grown up in Texas, I lost my mother went I was thirteen. I got in trouble a lot and my father was not a nice man after she past. I lost my wife and son."
"How did you lose them?" She asked him and poured him a cup of what looked like to be coffee. She handed it to him as he spoke.
"She was going to deliver our son and a truck hit her and…killed them both." He said and took a drink of the coffee.
"I'm sorry." She said and place a hand on his.
"It's okay, I'm well I don't want to say over it, but it doesn't hurt as bad as it did."
"I too know what it is like to bury someone you love and a child." She said and got her own cup.
"You do?" He asked and sat his down.
"Yes, I have been widowed three times and have buried one child." She told him.
"Oh, you don't have to tell me about it." He said and she looked at him.
"No, it is alright. I was married at fourteen and widowed at fifteen and then married again at sixteen and widowed at eighteen. Then married again at eighteen and widowed at twenty one, I lost my first child in that marriage." Riggs sat there in disbelief.
"Wow, you really do know death. What happened to them?" He asked.
"My first husband Francis had a brain aneurysm, then my second husband Charles was killed in a hunting accident, and Edward commented suicide. I lost the child cause of it." She told him with a sad smile.
"Good god." He said and then realized what he had said it.
"It's okay, I'm like you. The pain is not as strong as it was." She said and took a drink of her coffee.
-Later-
Mary and her ladies were at dinner and so was Cora. They were all eating but Mary. She was talking to Lola. Riggs was standing behind her and was looking around the dining room, and so was Roger. Riggs looked at a woman that was standing there near the door. He looked closer and saw white foam coming from her mouth and blood coming from her ears and nose. He looked at everyone and saw that they were fine. He then looked at Mary. She was about to put food into her mouth.
"No!" He yelled and took the fork and food away. Everyone looked at him and then at the woman as fell to the floor dead. Mary stood up and looked at the food.
"It was poisoned." She said and Riggs walked over to the fire and dumped the food into it. He walked back to Mary.
"You alright?" He asked her in a somewhat panic voice.
"Yes." She said and looked up at him.
"Rog, call Avery and tell him that someone is trying to kill Mary." Roger moved and did so. Riggs took Mary by the arm and led her to her room. Once there he looked at her.
"Did you eat any of it?" He asked in a strong voice.
"No." She told him. She watched as he let out a breath that he was holding. She leaned over and kissed him on the cheek near the ear. He looked at her with an odd look.
"Thank you." She said as her ladies and Roger walked into the room.