Prussia x Reader

You are my servant

Chapter 1

It was around 1700 in the region later called "Germany" as we know today. Principalities ruled over the people and the country. Your father was a soldier and during the war he got lost and you never saw him again. Because of that your mother followed him into death out of sadness several years after. When she died you were 12. That was 8 years ago.

"Come on (name)! We don't have much time left anymore! Hurry up a little!" Albrecht yelled.

"Yes just wait a second – do you know how difficult it is to put a dress on Albrecht?!" You answered him.

Today was the day of the year. Every year the prince of the principality Gilbert Beilschmidt visited the city. It was the day where the people celebrated the victory over France. The whole town was decorated with flowers and flags of the kingdom. It felt like a fairy tale when you walked through the town with all the music and singing. And then there were the soldiers marching through the big streets with fanfares.

Albrecht was your best friend since you were a child. You two were the same age and when you were without your parents, Albrecht's family helped you out but you soon tried to find your own home with the chance of money. Albrecht's family wasn't as rich as yours have been – and yours could not be called "rich". All in all your family counted to the simple bourgeoisie. Being an orphan wasn't improving your situation. With sixteen you began to live alone but you felt a bit bad about it since Albrecht's parents were like your own and they had always treated you well.

Soon Albrecht followed you and since then you lived together. You had a simple job in an estate where you worked as a servant. But your main job was to take care of the horses. Normally this was a boy's job but this wasn't just taking care. This were special stallions for exclusive riding for the rich men. Your father had taught you riding and through the years you never lost the ability to. Albrecht and you were sometimes too chubby, people wondered what a cute couple you two were. You directly denied it with a laugh and he agreed to it but you were not aware about how he really felt. Albrecht always had a soft spot for you but he was scared to tell you, because you always denied it in public. And second, he didn't want to destroy the worthy bond between you both. He worked in a forge as apprentice and was busy until the late evening sometimes.

But today the whole town, well nearly the whole town had a free day to celebrate!

You stepped out of your room in a nice red dress with a bright smile. This day was such a joyful event, you really enjoyed it a lot. He smiled shyly at you and you both prepared to walk into the centre of the town. The centre was the best place for the fireworks afterwards plus you loved seeing the soldiers – muscular men in nice uniforms – which girl doesn't like them?

But of course you and Albrecht were definitely not the only ones who wanted to go to the middle of the town. Many other people crowded the place to see and hear the King speak his victory speech.

Music began to play and you could see horses with soldiers riding them. They bravely smiled and had put on their medals of the war they took part in to protect the homeland.

And there he was in a buckboard – four white noble horses dragged it and their bridles were decorated beautifully. Gilbert Beilschmidt – the king of the country of Prussia. He had bright, nearly white hair and eyes red like wine or blood. Girls adored him and you had to admit that he looked very well but he was very arrogant, too. It was the way he held his speeches and treated others around him. Of course you only saw him only for some days in a year but from your experience you had, this was your picture of him.

Next to him sat a blond men with bright blue eyes in a uniform as well. You didn't know him but he really looked earnestly. He was tall and muscular you could tell and he seemed very strong.

Then Gilbert began to hold his speech and you watched together with Albrecht the parade.

Later in the evening after the fireworks you two were still celebrating.

"(name) let me buy us two some bread, we had no lunch today and I am pretty hungry."

You nodded in response, because you already could feel your stomach howling.

"Albrecht I will be over there! There are some shops I haven't seen yet!"

"Alright (name)! It can take a while, since there is a very long queue, so take your time looking." He answered and went off to buy some dinner for you.

Today he wanted to tell you about his feelings – he was so nervous that he had trembling fingers. His plan was to buy you some food and then go with you out of the town to sit near a river with beautiful flowers around it and tell you then.

"What is that light over there?" You wondered while you were walking to the place where the other shops have been. It was a five minute walk to the shops from the place where you have watched the fireworks with Albrecht. It was really dark you could barely see your own hand.

The path let through narrow alleys – you and Albrecht had a secret spot for the best view, you found out about it by accident some months ago. You could hear a conversation between two men which suddenly stopped. You leaned in closer, just curious why they have stopped talking when suddenly you felt a sharp grip on your shoulder.

You shrieked and turned around. Two soldiers, with already flushed cheeks from way too much beer or mead looked down at you with dumb smiles.

"Huh little lady? All by yourself at this time?"

"N-no I just wanted to-…" You tried to answer in a stutter.

"Ah we can't let this happen or Konrad?" The other one interrupted and patted your head.

"Never Gustav, never leave a poor helpless little cute girl alone by herself at night! We MUST take care of her!"

"Exactly Konrad! Why don't we take the cute thing with us? Hey sweetie don't you want to give us a little kiss as a thank you? We are your saviours!" He touched your chin with his thumb and you saw red.

"N-no! Leave me you drunken idiots! I-I don't need any help!" With that you ripped yourself out of his grip and ran as fast as you could blindly through the alleys. You could hear their surprised exclamations and then fast steps behind you and angry yelling. In their drunkenness they were a little bit slow in their reactions. Tears streamed down your cheeks, because you have never been in such a situation before in your whole life.

"I need somewhere to hide! They will catch up to me soon!" You thought and searched for anything to hide.

You spotted next to some of those white horses a wagon which wasn't entirely closed yet and the gap of the door of the wagon was big enough for your thin figure to slip into. When you finally were saved you prayed that they would come to another conclusion than searching in the wagon, because if they would do it you would be trapped like a pray by a falcon in a field.

You waited for them tensed and with sweat running down your temples. To relax you closed your eyes and tried to think about something nice- anything better than this situation. You were way too affright to leave so you remained silent. But after nearly an hour you fell asleep, because your eyes remained closed for the whole time and it was so late in the night that even the fear wasn't able to keep you awake.

You never recognized when the door was closed with a padlock and the wagon began to move and in the end, carrying you out of the town.

You awoke from loud talking and yelling.

"What? Where am I? Albrecht?" You wondered loudly.

The door opened and bright sunshine flooded into the wagon. With your hand you protected your eyes from it and you blinked into the faces of two young soldiers.

"And you are?" One of them asked with a weird look at you.

"You are not from the castle." The other one said.

"Castle?!" You answered with disbelieve and looked at them.

"Yes? Lady you are at the king's castle! Where else do you think you are?"

"I uhm…"

"Anyways! What are you doing in the wagon for the arms?! I am very sorry but I can't allow a girl to travel illegally with us to spy in the castle or whatever you are up towards our great king!"

He took your hand and pulled you out of the wagon. You felt a bit dizzy and wiped the sleep out of your eyes.

You blinked. You stood on a yard with dozens of soldiers marching and patrolling around you. Most of them were unshipping the wagons used for the festival yesterday. And then there was the castle with its flags and embellishment.

"Come on!" The other one said and you followed him. You were a little bit scared, because you had no clue what exactly was going on here so you followed him as fast as you were able to.

You followed him into castle where the officers worked.

It was a very big door out of wood with golden ornaments and white painting. He knocked and when there came the answer "Enter" the soldier opened the door and you followed behind.

There was a very pretty wooden desk and there were towers of papers a big men was filling out. He wore a uniform with many medals on it.

'Oh no (name) what have you done. How can I escape here?! I don't want to be shot or something. I wonder what will happen with me'. You thought nervously.

"What is it Lieutenant Berger?" He did not look up and was still filling out his papers.

"Well sir I found this girl here sleeping between arms in one of our wagons we have used for the festival yesterday in the capital town. She says she has no clue where she is but I wasn't sure if she was telling the truth so…"

"Berger this was the complete correct decision. Women are inscrutable for men and they can be snakes even if they have the prettiest face. Ha ha! " He laughed and finally looked up.

"And you are?" he asked you and his blue eyes studied you very closely it almost made you feel uncomfortable.

"I am (name) sir. I-"

"I asked for your name nothing more… yet. Woman you are still very young I don't think you are a spy but I can't let you go yet. We have to check your attitudes – maybe your try to enter the castle to spy the king just failed? I risk my neck here so I have no other choice. Berger!"

"Yes?"

"Put her into a single cell – I do not want her together in a cell with other men – I don't want to know what they will do to her."

"Of course sir!"

You felt miserable and angry. 'Only because of those stupid drunken bastards last evening I am now very far from home and now put into jail! Dandy! Just excellent! What will Albrecht think?! Oh no he must be in terrible fear! I totally forgot about him!' You panicked.

"Come on girl, let's get you a nice single cell." Berger answered and shoved you out of the room.

"I am very sorry it ended like that for you and I really hope you have no bad intentions, because you look very pretty and it would be very sad if we had to put you to death penalty." You shot him a smile and he answered with a pitiful smile.

But before you could leave the room the door was already opened and it nearly hit the poor soldier next to you directly in the face.

"H-hey!" Berger said shocked.

Then he went pale like a corpse. "I-I am s-sorry.. I- I didn't know your highness would…-"

"Yes, yes swallow your excuses soldier. Just pay more attention the next time you see your awesome king okay?!" A sharp voice answered and you directly rolled your eyes. You. Knew. That. Voice.

In front of you stood no one else than the king himself.

He wore a blue uniform and a black hat with feathers – the typical uniform of him. His red eyes stared at you and you looked into his eyes and then at the ground, because you had forgotten WHO you were looking at. Even if he was arrogant he was still the king and you had – if you wanted or not – to obey him.

"Woman what are you doing here? This isn't a place for women at all. Why aren't you somewhere in the castle doing women stuff or something? For what do I pay you?! Your job is to take care of my wishes and present my court nicely! So what are you doing here?!" He asked you with an arrogant voice.

Your cheeks flushed from anger and your temper took over your tongue.

"Well at first, I am not someone from your fancy castle or what you call it and second – I am not one of the things you own like the other poor maids around here! Alright?! I am NOT part of your staff okay? I –"

"Woman! That will give you jail for more than you can think of! How dare you speak like that to the king I should let you-"The officer yelled with a red head but he was interrupted by the king.

"Let her be Ferdinand. I will take care of her, I like women who say what they want! All the women fall for me and even she will ha ha! Woman, from now on you will be working for me as one of my personal maids! I will teach you how to act towards Gilbert Beilschmidt!"

"But-!"

"No buts woman! I AM THE KING I really don't care what your current job is or now… was or whatever you are doing! Only god has more power than me here! Tell Ferdinand your address where you work and the address of your family and they will be informed. That is my last word. Hurry up woman I don't have time the whole day!"

After you told the address of the estate you were working at and also named your own address to inform Albrecht, the king gave you a sign to follow him.

"So your name is (name) (surname)? Well not as awesome as mine but it is okay with me. Aren't you grateful woman? You are chosen to work for me personally out of thousands women from the country! You should be crying out of gratefulness! Oh and praise me!" He said and smiled at his words.

"Yes." You answered with gritted teeth and looked everywhere but him.

"Are we angry? Ha ha nice! Soon you will adore me like the other women! Believe me – you will be turned into a noblewoman of my court! Even with your low society standards I can raise you out of your poor social class as king and find you a man, BECAUSE you are pretty! Ha lord how awesome I am! I rescue little poor girls out of a poor live in dirt and mud and then I give them the chance to be part of the nobility! I think you are the first human who ever got a chance like that! Be grateful! Ah- you don't have to thank me I KNOW that I am awesome!"

'What the hell?! And Albrecht adores him! Pah! That git is not much older than I am and I wonder how his ego could even fit into his body! What an arrogant prig! I will be never working for him out of my free will! And as a personal maid?! That means I am even closer to him than the rest of this bloody castle! Oh why me! Why?! My life is tortured enough! Calm down (name) – don't play the pity-card now! You can do better- keep your pride! It is just a man and HE exactly would only make a joke out of your shameful situation!' You thought and tried to ignore his monologue.

"(Name) from now on you will live next to my rooms where I mainly spend my day when I am not busy on battlefield blowing the French up. Ha Ha! Anyways! Sophie will tell you everything you have to know! I will await you this evening at dinner and tomorrow you will start working then. Now wait in the room over there for her, I have business to do. And where is the 'thank you my grateful king'?" he grinned at you and there was a glint in his eyes you directly analysed as a showdown you only could lose this time.

"Thank you oh my grateful king." You said in a high voice with way too much enthusiasm in it.

His grin faded and he narrowed you and then turned around and stomped away while he muttered some nasty words like "Stupid woman I will show her" and "no one beats me like that".

You smiled to yourself about your small victory and prepared as best as you could for what was to come up next.

Some seconds later a woman appeared, dressed in a strict brown maid dress. It was a very beautiful dress but the woman was much older than you and sturdy and had a serious expression on her face.

"Oh well we have much to do here." She said when she looked at you. "What a nice girl but she doesn't make something out of herself…. What a pity. Well I am Sophie and you are (name) I assume? I was told about you some seconds ago. I know the king since he was a small child and it is weird that he hired another personal maid and then… someone from the bourgeoisie! But… no one understands our king!" She threw the hands in the air and then looked at you again.

"Come on girl. I have to show you around and then we have to get you cleaned up and later dressed for the dinner with the king. You should feel very honoured, really!"

"Oh o-okay sure… Sophie." You answered and suddenly felt nervous about the whole situation.

You followed her into beautiful decorated rooms but you had not much time to study the little details and the expensive furniture in them, because Sophie was walking too fast.