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Sorry if I seem drag. But these last weeks have been taking a toll on me, and most of the chapters for TBP The Reckoning are only done until Chapter13, we need to work on others so we are against the clock, on August 11th I won't be able to update until January 2009. The Internship I will go to on Disney will be fun but will keep me busy, so updates for TBP III (If I get TBP II finished and I get enough reviews for that and the next) might be until January 3rd 2009, and for the sequel of this if finished too on January 3 or 5th 2009.

Chapter 11: Discovery

1533, May 25th

Rich-Ville, Vera's Guest House Manor.

Marie Watson, once a prestigious member of the Privy Council, dressed as a man and blind to everyone, including the King himself. She had reached the most high, higher than the Queen Anne Boleyn herself, with all her intelligence and her father's efforts.

It was Marie's father who had sacrificed his life so his daughter could live, while she was away and redistributing pamphlets alleging the logic of why Protestant Faith was better. But that all changed; when the men who swore in to the new faith had become corrupt, some even more than Catholics.

They had killed her father and left her for dead. But she was alive, from then on she turned to a deist, somebody who believes in an all mighty creation but does not follow the rules of petty religions like the failures of Luther and Catholic Churches; she believed in people and that the all mighty, whatever he, or she, or it was, that it left Earth right after he created the heavens and hell for humans, he would not care for the silly dwelling of people anymore than she cared for the Church; he left it all for the people to rule by themselves. But sometimes, people became real monsters when their caretaker was not there to watch them.

Her mission now was to find Thomas More, she knew she might convince him to believe in God once more, but sadly this man seemed to abandon God, even though he was in nature and all around him.

She knocked from the inside of the kitchen door; the owner whom she guessed by her short neck, dyed brunette hair, was Carolina Vera. A former high middle class Courtier who like Marie, had fallen out of favor in England and now was left to renting her bedrooms to guests so she could afford a living. She didn't have anything against this kind of living, Marie had been doing her own stuff for the past years and she wasn't ashamed of it either.

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Carolina who was patiently cleaning everything that was left on the living room, suddenly heard a loud knock coming from the inside of her kitchen.

She went to inspect it and found a strawberry blond haired woman patiently standing in front of her. "Carolina Vera-Cyrus?" She asked.

"Yes?"

"I am Marie Watson, you have here a tenant whose name is Jeremy ... Noir, right Mrs Vera?" -She asked again inquiring about her mysterious guest. To tell the truth Carolina did not know if she should answer to this woman, she hardly trusted a stranger who barged in her doors and suddenly started asking questions of one of her guests.

Carolina sighed and straigth forward she said. "Excuse me but why are you here? No, forget that! Why are you asking all of this?"

"You see Mrs. Vera ..."

"Carolina."

"Carolina then, your guest Jeremy is a friend of mine, we met long time ago when he worked in the private sector." She explained, half of the story was true and the other fabricated.

What was true was she knew Thomas More; in fact they had met when he was married to Alice More. He was a more passionate hopeful man back then, for a time she had actually felt attracted to him, close to falling in love. Thomas actually continued their relationship, there was no sex or passion involve, just tenderness. Sadly though; he had end it when the animal instinct inside them grew so strong and he was unable to resist, they did not have sex or anything but Thomas afraid that he could fall for that one day; ended everything.

Marie for a time had thought Thomas was a fool for restraining himself from passion and love. But when she heard of the last happening, his doings then his family's murder, then him and finally Lord Rochford's death; she knew that Thomas had finally changed but was it for the better or worse?

Carolina looked at the woman with a colder look than before, something about her told her to trust her, yet her senses as a woman also told her to watch her back closely for her.

"I will let you stay in the living room, but first I will talk to Jeremy, you may wait but I warn you he does come in late. I do mean late." She said.

Marie nodded and waited in the living room patiently for Thomas.

Thomas arrived late once again, not to the surprise of both women waiting for him. When he went through the kitchen door he found Carolina looking at him pointedly.

"What?" He asked neutrally.

"Marie Watson. Who is she? She is waiting in your living room Mr Noir ... or should I say Thomas More?" Thomas head perked up in surprise, how in bloody hell how this woman figured out who she was?

"What Sir Thomas? Did you think me stupid?"

Thomas alarmed that he was discovered was about to pull a dagger from inside of his clothes when Marie Watson came barging in, and surprised Thomas even more.

"Hello Thomas" She said.

"What are you doing here!? Marie ..." He stuttered, it was not that he did not like to see Marie, but the last time he saw this woman, both them had been this close to kiss and do something more under the noses of his wife Alice, who then lived.

"Thomas don't kill her." Marie offered playfully but at the same time with a serious look to Thomas. Thomas calmed down and the dagger he was holding he tossed it to the kitchen table. Carolina was astounded.

"You planed to murder me? I knew it! My father knew you once ... he often said you were calm but I guess it is always the quiet ones." She said wrylly.

Thomas rolled back his eyes annoyed and looked at both women. "Listen I thought you were a spy! What was I supposed to do?"

"You could have asked!" Said both women.

Thomas rolled his eyes back again. "You would have said no!"

"Well of course I would have said no. I am no spy. You know, for somebody who wants punishment, you are not very bright." Carolina stated making Marie throw in a grin towards Thomas.

Marie then offered to sit by her in the living room, Carolina followed.

There Carolina calmly explained to Thomas that she knew it was him from the beginning, she suspected but when she saw Marie Watson it triggered a bell inside of her head, her father said he once knew Marie and that she had told him that her infatuation for Thomas never left her. Thomas smiled and told Carolina she was more intelligent than what he gave her credit for. She blushed and then went for Marie to continue.

"Thomas I am here to help you. But you have to tell me that it is vital now you believe in God. I know he has failed you, he has failed me too but right now if you want to nail these bastards; you have to trust in somebody, you know in what Country we live in Thomas." She said.

Thomas shook his head and told her "No" but said that he would let them help him, Carolina because she revealed to both that the Howards, many of them ardent and hypocrites Catholics had stolen most of her inheritance and murdered her mother, Marie then told her story.

Each had somebody they wanted to nail to the law, but Thomas told them that if the law would not punish them; he would see to it that he himself did. Carolina did not agree to much on it. But she knew that he was willing to go to any extremes to punish these men, even if she did not agree, she understood him and knew that a pain like that he was suffering; was not all easy to get by. Especially when he told them his own daughter had killed herself and the baby she was carrying inside.

TBC ...

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