Mary P.O.V.
I feel so empty as I watch them playing, smiling and caressing their son. I do not know what to do now. Where is my place? It is clearly not here anymore. I decide to retire to my chambers. Seeing them is just too hurtful. As I walk out, I see Catherine follow me. What does she want now? I think, stopping so that she can catch up. As she comes up beside me she says "I never thought Francis would make Lola his mistress. I am so sorry." She says and touches my arm. I flinch away from it. Right now all I want to do is to be alone. Francis had just claimed his son publicly. I know I encouraged him to do it, but I never knew it would make him make Lola his mistress. I thought we were different from other royals. But to judge from this, we aren't. I try to hide the hurt in my eyes. I clearly fail as Catherine starts to pull me towards my chambers. I do not even protest when she starts pulling out my outside robes. She hands them to me and I take them over my dress. As one of my servants come in, she hands her a note and grabs my arm pulling me from the room to the courtyard. In the middle, Catherines carriage is standing with the door open. Everything until we are outside of the castle walls is a blur. "Shall we fetch the king?" Shall we inform the king?" "The king will be upset that you left." Catherine just dismisses them and we leave. As we get closer to the Kings Road, I decide to say something. "Where are we going exactly?" I ask. "Well" she answers "I thought we should take a trip, just the two of us. Oh, I have a great idea! What if we go to Scotland! There is a ship leaving the docks in half an hour." As I shoot her a look saying that we do not have any clothes except the ones we are wearing, she gives me a look back. "I packed all the things we need already. Of course I knew this would happen. That is why I had all this ready. I just had not seen that it would be this bad. Well, we will just go on this trip and when we get back, I will talk some sense into him." I smile and nod at Catherine gratefully. She saved me from embarrassment at court. The rest of the trip, we both just sit there looking out of the window. As we get out of the carriage I feel guilt for not telling Francis that I left. I quickly shake it off. He decided that our relationship would be like this the second he got a mistress. I did not answer to him. Not anymore at least. I started walking to the boat. Servants were already unloading the carriage and Catherine was already almost on the boat, she only waited for me. As I stepped in the boat, I felt free
We had been on the boat for a day now. I stood up on deck and waited anxiously for Catherine to wake up, as I saw another ship come towards us. Something was wierd. This ship did not look as any ship I had seen before. I looked at the captain and the men. They seemed just as confused as I was. When they came up beside us, I saw why. They were pirates.
And just as I saw that, they attacked.
I ran. Ran down to Catherine like a little girl seeking comfort. It turned out that she had understood what was happening, as she was in the hallway, looking for me. As I joined her, we started running towards some kind of way out. We never found it. I was seized from the side and taken into an iron grip. Catherine just stood there helplessly. One of them started to speak. "We will take this one. You", he pointed at Catherine, "will get back to France and tell the king that we have his queen and if he does not pay 10 000 francs by midnight, we will hang her. And he better hurry. Because even if he gives us the money, his wife will suffer more for every hour we do not receive it. By midnight." They said as they pulled me away. "Tell him to do it for our child." I screamed as Catherine looked at me with a scared look. I only saw the shock on her face as everything went black.