Oddments Reprise
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Pairing: Arthur Tudor/ Katherine of Aragon
Note: This prompt title started as a joke. My dear friend Ms. BoleynGirl13, the author of King Arthur II, and I were talking and I thought that there should be more ArtKat fluff in the world, and since she's my expert on the couple I asked her for a prompt, she joked that her name started with M (since these Oddments are arranged alphabetically). Well I looked into it. Marissa is derived from Latin, Mare is the Nominative, Nuter, Singular word for 'Sea' when declined Mari is the singular, genitive form, in English it is translated as 'of the sea.' And so I give you...
Prompt #50: Marissa
Once Upon a Timeā¦
In a kingdom by the sea a young prince looked out onto the vast blue waters and wished for a bride. He wished with all of his hearts for a Queen, a woman with whom he could rule his kingdom, a woman who could rule his heart. Someone smart and beautiful. Someone he could love and someone who could love him in return. The sea heard him, heard his plea. The sea, in her infinite wisdom, granted his wish.
She came by the sea, on the ship The Concha, the shell, it was fitting for she was Venus. He stood on the shore of his kingdom by the sea to watch her alight from her ship, and when she emerged from her cabin the sea smiled, the sun beamed. Not that the Prince saw. He saw nothing but her. His Queen. She eclipsed all the world in his eyes.
Her raven locks curled and fluttered in the breeze, they kissed her alabaster cheeks. Her eyes were blue, blue as the waves around her and the sky above her. The Prince fell in love. They married the Prince and his gift from the sea. His Queen was as beautiful as the water and as wise as its depths. The Prince and his wife lived happily ever after, they ruled their kingdom fairly and wisely and each day their love grew.
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"And then one day the Queen told her husband that they were to have a child. That night the ebullient prince looked out onto the vast blue waters and wished once again. He wished with all his heart that his child find a love as powerful and deep as the love he had found. The sea heard him, and in due time the sea will grant his wish. One day, Mary, I promise, you will find a husband who will love you as much as I love your mother, you will have a child of your own and love him or her as much as I love you. Pleasant dreams, My Pearl." King Arthur the Second bent his regal red head and placed a loving kiss on the brow of his only child, the Princess Mary who beamed happily at her father.
"Good night Papa," She said sleepily, snuggling under the thick fur her beloved father tucked under her chin. With a final smile and a kiss the King extinguished the candle by his child's bed and exited her chambers for his own.
"You stretch the truth, mi amor." A sweet soft Spanish accent stopped the King outside of the Princess' chambers. Arthur turned to find his wife, the beautiful Catalina of Aragon standing in the hall; she had been listing to his bedtime story as well.
"In what way, Catalina, in what way?" He asked her with a smile, his large hands seeking her waist, not as slim as it once was, not that the King minded. Others dismissed their wife after child birth, never took to their bed again once the weight of pregnancy settled over the mother's body but Arthur was not one of those men. He loved his wife's curves, the way the filled his hands, the way they pressed against him in the night.
"Our love was not that easy, Arthur, do you not recall, we did not even like each other for most of that first year." She smiled at the memory, it was so trivial and slightly embarrassing, how they acted that first year, so very long ago.
"I've loved you so deeply for so long, amor de mi vida, I suppose that I forget on occasion." Catalina laughed and kissed her husband happily. Their love had not been a fairy tale but they would still live happily ever after.
ANII: This does her no justice but I dedicate it to BG13... Go read King Arthur II and see how this couple should to be written.
