A/N : If you would like to see another Queen having her "happy ending" please let me know. Anne is my favorite to write about because I really feel some "weird" connection to her.
Anne walked down the hall, tears streaming down her face. She needed to see Henry, he would make it all better. She opened the door to see Mistress Seymour sitting on the King's lap. She felt the air leave her lungs seconds before she fell to the ground.
"Anne" Henry called out as he rushed to her side, pushing Jane to the ground. Charles came running down the hall.
"Your majesty..." He didn't finish when he noticed Henry cradling Anne in his arms, and Jane sitting on the floor looking confused.
"Get out." Charles ordered Jane as he knelt down next Henry.
"She fainted Charles, and it is all my fault." Henry sobbed, his hand resting on Anne's pregnant belly. Charles helped Henry carry the Queen back to her chambers, Dr Butts was called to examine the Queen.
"Your majesty, the Queen and her unborn child must be cared for delicately." Henry learned that Anne almost suffered a miscarriage this day, but thankfully the child had been saved. "The Queen should start her confinement immediately, it is imperative that the Queen has no stress or any worries for the remainder of her pregnancy. It is my recommendation that only her most trusted ladies, and Your Majesty be allowed admittance to her chambers." Henry looked at Dr Butts with a confused glare as it sank in that Anne's family was not allowed to see her. "From speaking with Lady Saville and Lady Shelton, the Queen would benefit from her sister's company." Before Henry went to see Anne, he talked to Nan and Madge. He learned Thomas Boleyn had been in the Queen's chambers before she came to see him. Thomas had told Anne that the King was losing interest in her, and that she better not fail again. Thomas Boleyn was stripped of his titles and banished from court shortly after.
"Anne, sweetheart." Henry looked at her, she was curled up in bed holding a pillow tightly. She was crying, her face red and her eyes puffy. "Please sweetheart, talk to me." Henry sat next to her and stroked her hair. As he leaned down and kissed the top of her head he whispered. "I am sorry I hurt you. I love you, Anne." Henry called an immediate session of his council. As they gathered in the small council chamber Henry paced back and forth at the head of the table. He looked up to see Edward Seymour walking down the hall towards the room. With a wave of his hand the doors were slammed shut just as Edward had reached the chambers, he was shut out of the proceedings. Unaware of his sister's own role in the day's events, he slowly turned around and headed back to the apartments he shared with his family. Wondering why he had been shut out of the council meeting, something he longed to be part of and only recently had been given any recognition by the King.
"Edward?" John Seymour stared at his son as he slammed the door.
"This is all her fault." Edward declared as he pointed at Jane. "She did something to anger the King."
"This is the harlot's doing." Jane spat. "She barged into the King's chambers when I was with him."
"Boleyn and Norfolk were just arrested and taken to the Tower." Thomas Seymour exclaimed as he came running into the room.
"What are the charges?" Edward inquired.
"Treason against the King." The Seymours believed this was the beginning of the downfall of the concubine, but they were wrong. The two men had been arrested for conspiring against the Queen not Henry himself.
Days went by and Jane had not been called to see the King, along with no communication at all between Henry and Edward. They were basically shut out of court life. It had been a week before any news had been brought to the family, who in essence was under house arrest.
"His Grace, the Duke of Suffolk." Charles sighed as he entered the room of the family who he had believed would be the end of Anne's reign as Queen. Henry knew that Charles never warmed to Anne, all the better to use him as the messenger to those who spent the past few months working against her.
"By order of his Majesty, King Henry VIII, you are hereby stripped of all titles bestowed upon your family by the King. It is his command that you are now banished from court." Charles sighed. "Mistress Seymour, is to remain at court under the supervision of Lady Jane Rochford." Jane gasped. Edward wondered if that meant the King still held Jane in his heart. Edward, Thomas and John Seymour departed that evening for Wolf Hall. Charles escorted Jane first to see the King.
"Mistress Seymour." Henry looked at Jane, the woman who had captured his heart so quickly. But now she did not compel him to love her with her innocence. All he saw when he looked at her was Anne lying on the cold floor, appearing lifeless. But she was still with him, their child still growing in her belly. The child who would be King. He just knew this was a son, a strong and determined child. "You are to have no contact with her Majesty, the Queen. As of today you will join the Lady Mary's household, as I have found it in my heart to invite her back to court since she has now accepted the truth." Mary didn't want to sign the oath and had no real reason to since Anne had still failed to give the King a son. It was Mary's acceptance that saved Jane from a life in the county, Mary had humbled herself when she learned that the woman who was championing her cause was close to being arrested and maybe executed. Chapuys had told Mary many times that Jane was set to be he new Queen if the harlot had failed again to produce a son.
In the middle of June, Anne went into labor and for once Henry didn't leave court to go hunting while his Queen delivered his child. He waited outside her chambers with only Lady Mary to keep him company. Mary dreaded these long hours, waiting to see if the whore gave her father the much desired son. She secretly hoped that Anne would deliver of another girl. But her hopes were dashed when Mistress Shelton emerged holding her baby brother.
"The Queen has delivered of a healthy son, your Majesty." Prince Henry was christened days and the bells rang loudly throughout the land. Anne had done her duty, but in the process she lost so much. Her father and uncle had been executed without her knowledge, and her brother banished from court. Jane Parker was no longer her sister-in-law, as she procured a divorce from the man she never wanted to marry. But Jane and Anne stayed great friends, as the two shared a deep bond. It was through Jane that her ladies informed her of the Lady Mary's restoration to the King's good graces, and that Mistress Seymour was no longer her husband's "sweetheart". Anne was now forever the Queen of England.
Anne gave birth to twins the following year, Prince Arthur and Princess Katherine. Anne and Mary took years to finally move past the hardships in their relationship, but Mary saw slowly how much her father had changed. He was happy with Anne, something she finally admitted in the last years of her parents marriage that had gone missing. Mary ended up marrying in 1540 to Philip, the Duke of Bavaria. The couple had three children, Katherine, Elizabeth and Margaret. Jane Seymour never married, she chose to join a religious order desiring a peaceful country life away from court.