addlogcon: Not so much that night but let´s see about the next morning, ok? Thanks for the comment :D
Prettycrazy: Awww, thank you, that´s so sweet- she DID go back to her room and we´ll see about Rupert- so on to the next morning...
JUJUChick16: Oh he´s afraid- and scared to loose his job- and everything else, well, men... Thank you for commentating :)
mapetite16: I´ll do now, thank you- well, he just finds it all scary and complicated and then he doesn´t know what to think about her attitude of course but more of that in later parts!
"Joe?"
Josef looked up from the paperwork he had been doing and saw a rather disheveled looking Anthony peering into his office.
"What´s wrong?"
"I don´t really know- I was standing guard outside Her Majesty´s suite and she received a phone call and then she started yelling and now she is throwing things against the wall and I- I don´t know what to do, I didn´t go in there, I thought maybe it would be better-" the man bit his lip and Josef got up from his chair.
"I´ll try and see what´s wrong" he assured his co- worker, already on his way out of the door.
When he reached the door to the queen´s chambers he heard the unmistakable sound of breaking china and spared himself the trouble to knock, instead he opened the door and closed it again behind him, then entered the living room and felt momentarily speechless.
The queen of Genovia was sitting on the floor in the middle of the room, crying hysterically while at the wall behind her the remains of the delicate china her maid had served her tea in lay broken on the floor, tea still dripping from the wallpaper.
"Your Majesty?"
Josef said quietly, slowly approaching the woman on the floor and kneeling down in front of her.
"Clarisse?"
He used her given name this time, hoping it would catch her attention but she didn´t react to him.
He waited for a moment, then reached for her hands and gently but firmly pulled them away from her face.
She looked up, obviously only now realizing he was there and instantly her face flushed, if from anger or humiliation at loosing control like this Josef couldn´t tell but that didn´t matter right now anyway, what mattered was to investigate what had caused her such agony.
"What happened?"
He asked gently, his hands still holding her´s and she slowly relaxed a little, her breathing becoming deeper and more regular.
"Rupert just called me" she answered, as if that would clear up everything and actually Josef suddenly had a good idea what had happened, though he wasn´t sure why she was getting so agitated about it, it wasn´t the first time, after all.
"I think I understand- what else?"
She laughed bitterly, withdrawing her hands from his and getting up from the floor.
"He wanted to warn me- he said he had made a really stupid mistake and gone out with her and a couple of journalists had taken pictures in some rather compromising situations- he thought he´d do me a favor and warn me that the photos might be all over the papers tomorrow, so I could work on an official statement for the press tonight, can you imagine that?"
Her voice had grown louder again and it was edgy as though she had to fight hard not to start yelling again.
Josef had gotten up from the floor as well and was watching her, feeling rather helpless.
"Josef, say something" she demanded, her blue eyes blazing with fury.
"I don´t really know what I could say."
He answered diplomatically but that didn´t go well with the queen either.
"Of course you don´t, I suppose you don´t even think it´s a reason to get worked up, do you? Being a man yourself you probably agree with Rupert that it was perfectly noble of him to warn me."
Her voice broke and she turned away from him, her slim shoulders trembling with silent sobs.
"You can´t really think that" Josef felt hurt by her statement, what reason had he ever given her to believe that he agreed with her husband when it came to the attitude the king was showing towards his wife´s feelings?
"And why not? You are all the same, all of you- oh, this is stupid, leave me alone, Josef."
"I most certainly will not leave you alone" Josef said firmly, crossing his arms over his chest as the queen slowly turned around to him again.
"What?"
"I said I won´t leave you alone" he repeated, watching as she tried to comprehend that he had just refused to obey her point- blank.
"Now that is just wonderful" her voice was dripping with sarcasm now but at least she seemed to be back in control.
"That just proves my point, if I wasn´t a woman you wouldn´t feel the need to disobey me, would you?"
"It´s not about you being a woman- it´s about you being a danger to yourself right now."
"I´m not a danger to myself, I might be a danger to my husband was he here and not somewhere halfway across Europe and if you don´t leave me alone right now I could become a danger to you as well."
She was crying again, this time in frustration.
