Agatha woke up with Tedros' arms thrown across her. She would never tell him but she loved being so close to him. She looked out their window. The sun was beginning to rise, and now that she was queen she had work to do. Queen. The word still rattled her.
She gently eased out of bed, careful not to wake up Tedros. He had gone to sleep late last night. Busy with his princely duties. He looked so peaceful when he slept.
She opened the wardrobe, sighing when she was met with a row of colorful dresses. She sighed. Maybe she could convince her maids to make her something black. At least navy blue. She pulled out her darkest colored dress and flattest heels. If she was going to sit through a bunch of boring, uncomfortable meetings, she could at least be comfortable.
With a quick glance at her prince she slipped into her room. Her maids were waiting. She decided to ignore the knowing smile on their faces and let them turn her into a decent looking queen. Pulling her now shoulder length black hair into a french braid. And making her buggy eyes and pale face look beautiful.
She was slipping into her slippers when there was a knock on the door. Her maids scurried away when Tedros walked in smiling. He wrapped his arms around her waist. " You look beautiful, Queen."
"And you look jealous," she smiled.
" Always the charmer," he said stepping away and flopping onto her bed. " We have to go to that meeting, and you have to go to into town." He looked up.
" We. We have to go into town." She smiled back at him and then dragged him out the door.
After four hours of boring meeting, they were heading into town. Tedros was spinning his signet ring and looking out the window. The carriage stopped. " King Tedros! Long live the King! Long live the Queen!" She smiled brightly at her husband as the cheering outside continued.
He hopped out of the carriage and she followed. The cheers roared in their ears as they walked towards the town mayor's home. She was smiling when suddenly a large boom echoed through the hall. Suddenly, there was screaming and yelling. Tedros had grabbed her arm and had started pulling her to safety.
Her eyes found someone in the crowd. A little girl was screaming and yelling, a large scrape of her leg. Agatha looked up and saw guys with masks running towards them. He looked at Tedros who had pulled out Excalibur, steely face resolved. She loved when he made that face. She looked at the girl. The girl. She yanked her hand away from Tedros.
" I'm sorry," she said and then ran through the masses, shoving people away. She was suddenly glad that she had worn her comfy shoes. " Agatha!" she heard Tedros call out behind her. She kept running. She scooped the sobbing girl up in her arms and started to run. Suddenly someone grabbed her arm. The girl fell. "Run!" Agatha yelled. The girl nodded and ran sobbing and falling. Agatha turning punching the guy holding her. She started to run towards the house where guards were pulling a fighting Tedros into the house.
The masked men wrapped around them. " We got the Queen, boys,"one of the men growled. She spun around worriedly. How was she gonna get out of this? She looked up at Tedros who was running towards her. One of the guys started coming towards her. She wasn't about to go down without a fight.
She kicking the guy in the groin watching him go down. She grabbed his sword, unsure how to use it, but she knew it would help. Tedros was now wielding his sword with a fury, attacking the guards on her left. She charged into the fray the sword in front of her. A masked man came running at her and she slashed the sword forward, like she had seen Tedros do a thousand times.
The sword slid right through his armor. She froze. The man fell in front of her. She gasped, her eyes tearing, realizing what she had done. An arm wrapped around her waist and covered her mouth. She snapped out of her trance. " Agatha!" Tedros yelled behind her. She watched out of the corner of her eye as Tedros seemed to go into a rage.
She flailed and kicked in the masked man's grip. She bit his hand, and the man growled. I'm sorry Tedros, she thought before the world went dark.
