The Second Owner
Summary: Rin Tohsaka had a choice, retain her pride as a Japanese woman or become the wife of Lord Stadfield. But Rin is a mage first and Japanese second, the survival of her bloodline is paramount. So she endured the indignity of being the wife a Britannian, and waited for the day when Britannia would fall.
Author's Note: This story takes place after the Fate route and Studio DEEN anime of Fate/Stay Night where Shirou fell in love with Arturia Pendragon and not Rin Tohsaka. Lord Stadtfeld's first name is never revealed, but I named his Richard because the name means, "brave warrior".
The Lord and the Maid
Rin Tohsaka sighed as she continued her job of cleaning Lord Stadtfeld's library. Once a wealthy mage, she had lost everything after the Britannian invasion of Japan. She could practically hear Lluvia's obnoxious laughter in her head. She forced that thought out of her mind.
She'd been working there for six months. Lord Stadtfeld was a stern master, but she hadn't been fired due to her perfectionist nature.
She spotted the book Le Morte D'Arthur and finished dusting the shelf. She picked it up from the table and read it, just a few minutes break wouldn't hurt.
"Rin, what are you doing?" Lord Stadtfeld asked.
Rin put down Le Morte D'Arthur. "Forgive me, my lord, just taking a short break. Do you need anything?"
"I'm not angry with you, Rin, you've done quite well, you work harder than any Britannian maid I've hired so far."
"You don't have the right to call me by my first name. That is a level of intimacy only reserved for people who are close," Rin scowled.
"When your country was called Japan, that was true, but you live in Britannia now and we use first names regardless of intimacy," Lord Stadtfeld told her.
"I'm merely living up to my name, that's all. But that's not something a Britannian cares about."
"What do you mean, live up to your name?" Lord Stadtfeld asked, genuinely curious.
"My name Rin means severe, dignified, and cold. Not that it's something that concerns Lord Stadtfeld."
"You are a fascinating person, and you are dignified, but you are hardly a cold person," Richard moved closer to her.
Rin flinched when he invaded her personal space.
"Rin, I'm not going to hurt you, I am not a bad man," he smiled, lightly stroking her cheek.
"That's easy to say when you have all the power, and I have none," Rin replied, she did not resist his touch, she could fight him off, but then she would be severely punished for "attacking" a Britannian as a Number.
His gaze was gentle, but she could see the lust in his eyes.
"Let me kiss you," he said gently.
"All right," Rin granted him permission. She knew this was nothing more than the Britannian playing a game with her.
Richard Stadtfeld pressed his lips to Rin's in a gentle kiss.
"Let me touch you," Lord Stadtfeld looked to her.
"Yes, master," she replied, she wondered why he kept asking when he didn't need to. Britannians didn't need permission to do anything to a Number.
Lord Stadtfeld's hand drifted up to her face and he stroked her cheek.
"I was expecting you to cop a feel," Rin said bitterly.
"I am a gentleman and a lord at that; I'm not a mindless animal."
"You can easily throw me down and have your way with me, you and I know that," Rin told him.
"I highly doubt that you are stronger than you look," he smiled, "I want you to want me. Let me kiss you again."
Rin managed a nod, the blush that rushed to her cheeks made his smile widen.
"I promise that I won't hurt you," the Britannian kissed her, prying her lips apart with his tongue, slipping it into her mouth. He began trailing kisses down her throat, lifting her shirt so he could kiss her belly; he felt her muscles flinch as his mouth pressed against her skin. His fingers followed the path his mouth had made.
"Your hands are warm," Rin murmured.
"See, my touch doesn't frighten you at all," Richard smiled.
Lord Stadtfeld knelt, and slowly pushed her legs apart, kissing her clothed right thigh.
"I haven't hurt you, and I never would, Rin," Richard said hoarsely.
"Lord Stadtfeld, you…" Rin whispered. He wouldn't do this to her. Britannians always saw themselves as superior to the "Numbers", no Britannian would be caught dead pleasuring a Number other than as a cheap and quick ride.
"It would not displease me to hear you call me "Richard" for once," Richard smiled at her.
Plenty of Japanese women sold their bodies to Britannians, it was a darker aspect of being subjugated that no one talked about in "proper" Britannian circles, but there were plenty of brothels.
"Rin, I love you very much, and I'm not doing this for me, I'm doing this for you because you deserve some pleasure to ease all your pain. Pain that my people have caused you, so let me comfort you in a way that I know how."
Rin barely recognized the sound of her own voice as she registered her skirt being moved and where Lord Stadtfeld had kissed her, his mouth, tongue and fingers drove every semblance of thought and rationality from her brain.
She cried out his name, forgetting his position and title and power over her.
She let out a sigh; Richard Stadtfeld ran his other hand over her clothed breast.
"You called my name, I want you to call it again," Richard whispered in her ear. He resumed his eager kisses as he buried his head between her legs.
Her scream of pleasure echoed in their ears as she felt her body give in to what they both wanted.
Six Months Later…
"Shirou? Have I made a bad decision?" Rin asked her former apprentice as she walked beside him in the street.
"About marrying Lord Stadtfeld? If you were on the side of the people resisting Britannia, they would call you a traitor to Japan," Shirou replied.
"But what do you think? I don't love him, but I've caught his…attention, and this isn't like high school where I could get myself out of that situation. He's rich and powerful, and he has resources."
"Resources you want to take advantage of, and not because you're considered a second-class citizen," Shirou said, nodding at her.
"I am a mage first and Japanese second. I am the last living member of the Tohsaka family. I have to carry on my bloodline, Sakura was adopted into the Matou family and so I must carry on my family name. Many Japanese mages fled to the Republic of Britain when they saw the writing on the wall. I stayed in Fuyuki as the Second Owner. It is my family's duty to look after the place, and even though Tokyo is far away from there I can still remain in charge. And look at me, Shirou, I'm not getting any younger, I have to start a family to continue my family bloodline as a Tohsaka. I have to pass my magecraft down to my child."
"I know all that, but it's also very complicated, when it comes to that Lord Stadtfeld," Shirou stopped and sat on a bench.
Rin moved to stand in front of him, "What do you mean, complicated?"
"He's in love with you," Shirou said bluntly.
Rin flinched, "W-what do you mean, he's just worried about not having an heir, he can't be in love with me, he's a Britannian, they wouldn't dare soil their "great" bloodlines with the "Numbers". They're all the same and nothing like her."
"He did go down on you, you know," Shirou said, his blunt choice of words would have freaked out anyone else, but not Rin. She was quite accustomed to his blunt idiocy.
"I know, I was quite startled," Rin admitted, blushing. "I'm still not used to that sort of attention."
"But he didn't force himself on you and he told you he loved you, most Britannians wouldn't have bothered with that. Rin, are you going to refuse?" Shirou asked.
"No, of course not! I don't have to be in love with him to marry him. I need to carry on the Tohsaka bloodline, and he needs to carry on the Stadtfeld bloodline. This is a marriage of convenience and nothing more. It's how my parent's marriage was and it's something I can live with."
"Like I said, Rin, Lord Stadtfeld is in love with you," Shirou reminded her.
"I know, but I don't love him, I love you…I love both of you, and she's not here," Rin glanced at him. "Seven years, Shirou, she's been gone for seven years! Why does she not come back? Isn't she supposed to be the one to save them?"
"She is, but who knows why she hasn't come back. But what happened between us…the three of us that night; you really did fall in love with her, didn't you? Does it bother you that she told me she loved me before she disappeared?"
"No, you two loved each other and it made me happy, you know that but no one understands how I feel about her or any of it, except you, and all these years later, you're still dense," Rin sighed.
"Tohsaka, really?" Shirou sighed.
Rin forced herself to smile; the kind of smile that Shirou recognized that she was irritated.
"Don't worry, I'm not mad at you, I just wish that I could have attention from someone who's not going to gloat over conquering my country."
"He seems devoted to serving the Holy Britannian Empire; he also seems decent as far as Britannians go."
"The Britannians took my home and wealth, now I'm barely getting by, it was pure luck that he offered me a job as his maid."
"He doesn't have to marry you to have his way with you, you know that," Shirou said.
"I know, but he'd have to fight me tooth-and-nail to violate me, and even though he's never forced me, he's a Britannian, he can snap at any time, which is why I've been doing my best to keep him in a good mood."
"Lord Stadtfeld sees himself as a good man; he wouldn't want to ruin his reputation by raping someone."
"I am not an Honorary Britannian that he would see me as a citizen. I'm surprised you became an Honorary Britannian, Shirou."
"I cannot help our people if I am an outlaw, none of the resistance groups have the resources to put up a good fight. My abilities are my greatest weapon, and if I run off to some group they could be exposed to the world, and I can't have that, I can only wait until she comes back."
"Part of me wishes that she could have stayed with us, and we could have lived at your house," Rin smiled sadly.
"So, if it were the three of us, would it have been my harem or yours?" Shirou asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Mine of course!" Rin laughed.
"Rin, if you ever need me, just let me know, I'm always here for you," Shirou got up and left. "I hope that you will be happy."
Rin looked at him, "I hope so too."
Rin let out a sigh as Richard Stadtfeld collapsed into the bed.
"You're so beautiful, I was not wrong to choose you," he smiled at her.
"Your noble friends will never accept that you've married a Number," Rin glanced at him.
"They don't need to know, and besides, what does it matter, you are excellent breeding stock," he kissed her, trailing kisses down her neck.
Rin said nothing to him.
"Why does what I've said not disturb you?" Richard asked, "I was expecting you to be upset."
"I haven't seen myself as human for a very long time, so what does it matter if I'm called breeding stock?" Rin asked, letting her arms drift around his waist.
"The strange things you say fascinate me, that's why I fell in love with you."
"But you've just called me breeding stock," Rin said in a teasing tone.
"We Britannians always choose the best women!" he began rocking his hips.
"Should you—shouldn't you rest?" Rin managed to speak before her voice dissolved into a moan.
Rin pressed herself into the pillow, lifting her hips.
"I adore you when you let yourself go, Rin," Richard Stadtfeld growled in her ear. "Just let go, and take me with you. I want to make love to you."
"Isn't that…what we're…doing right now?" Rin gasped.
"No, we've consummated our marriage, but I want to make love to you," he pulled her into his embrace.
He was surprised when she returned his kiss.
Rin wrapped her legs around his hips. She could hear the Britannian noble groan.
"Rin, please! If you keep that up, I'll…" he gasped.
"Isn't that the point? To have an orgasm?" Rin asked, biting his shoulder.
"I want you so much. I love you, I swear by…I swear by…" he gasped.
"Swear by my God that you want me," Rin growled fiercely, Rin had been Catholic since she'd been young, although she'd been rather lax in her teens. Her husband was irreligious, but not a fanatical Atheist like his Imperial Majesty Charles Zi Britannia.
Although, discovering through investigating Kotomine church had revealed that Kirei had murdered her father caused Rin to rant that Kirei deserved neither Heaven, Hell or Purgatory. She then thanked Shirou for killing him and avenging her during the Holy Grail War.
She had often prayed that God would deliver Japan from Britannia, but that prayer had gone unanswered. She had begged Sakura, Taiga, and Ayako to flee the country before Britannia had invaded, they had left and they were safe in the Republic of Britain.
Rin had lost the Tohsaka house and had been stripped of her wealth, she had contingency plans to hide her family's vast library and made sure no one would find her tomes on magecraft.
When it came to the modern world, she didn't have anything, and had learned to survive in the harsh world she was forced to live in, and became a maid for Lord Richard Stadtfeld when she learned that he was willing to accept "Elevens" for the position.
"I swear by God I want you!" Richard bellowed, grateful that Rin has been his only "maid" and that no one could hear his utterance, lest he be seen as a religious fanatic by other Britannians.
Screams and groans ripped from her throat as she clutched his back, her nails digging in, causing her husband to hiss in pain, and then laugh in delight.
Rin called out his name, not his title; her husband rarely used his name in public.
"You…you are good to me," Rin said, managing a genuine smile.
He was also good in bed, and she had enjoyed it.
"You, Lady Stadtfeld, do make your pleasure quite well known," Lord Stadtfeld laughed. "You're blushing."
"Shut up, you're good in bed, of course I enjoyed it!" Rin snapped.
"I've gotten used to your fiery temper, you know better than to make me angry," Lord Stadtfeld smiled.
Her emotions were indifferent, but he was very good to her, and she was not ungrateful. She did not hate him, and he did love her, and she acknowledged that in her head and heart.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like—" Rin began to apologize.
He cut her off with a kiss and lay beside her. "You are forgiven."
Her body was covered in sweat, her muscles ached, but she felt so good, she could only hope that she would have a child, a child to carry on her knowledge and magecraft as the heir to the Tohsaka house.
But she had put all of that out of her mind when they'd gone to bed on their wedding night.
Sexual intimacy wasn't particularly pleasant for mages; sex was usually for transferring mana or for male mages to sell their seed for money to other mages. But as a mage, sex was mainly for having an heir to pass on magecraft to.
But she knew that sex for its own sake rather than magecraft purposes was pleasant and she was glad she had been able to experience that with her husband, even if she didn't love him as he loved her.
"Rin, I chose you, because you're beautiful and intelligent. You are worthy of giving me an heir and becoming an Honorary Britannian. Does that trouble you?" Lord Stadtfeld asked, his concern was genuine.
"Your fellow nobles still see me as one of the Numbers. I can't help but be a little flattered at your attention you understand. Ever since…" Rin dared not finish that thought; she didn't want to upset him by saying the word, "invasion".
"The invasion, I know, I understand that it upsets you, but you'll see that things can only be better for your country now that it is joined with the Holy Britannian Empire," Lord Stadtfeld brushed her cheek with his hand, "You can't despise everything about my homeland. I saw you reading Le Morte D'Arthur when you caught my eye."
"King Arthur is not a Britannian," Rin said simply.
"You speak like the King still lives," Richard looked at her.
"Isn't that how the story goes, that King Arthur is in Avalon waiting to rescue Britannia when the country needs…him…"
"You've stopped speaking, why?"
"It's nothing…I just don't want to talk about her, not to you," Rin said.
"What do you mean, and did you just say her? What do you mean by her?" Richard asked. "Are you implying the ridiculous notion that King Arthur was a woman?"
"I've already said too much, and even if I told you the truth about why I could make a "ridiculous" claim like that you wouldn't believe me."
Richard moved closer to her, "Please tell me, I want to know."
"If I did then I would reveal to you what I really am, and why I married you, and why I don't see myself as being human."
"Now you've really piqued my interest, I promise to listen and believe you," Richard Stadtfeld smiled.
"Then I will tell you why I have the power in this relationship, first and foremost, I am not a human, I am a mage. I married you so I could have children to continue my bloodline, all your arrogance and swagger mean nothing to me, I just need you to give me children. If you should do anything to hurt me, I will kill you."
Rin raised her finger and shot off a Gandr shot, blowing a hole in the wall that made Lord Stadtfeld flinch.
"I will play the role of Lady Stadtfeld, but this marriage is only out of convenience for the two of us, are we clear? You don't breathe a word about my powers and I shall provide you with the heir of the Stadtfeld house."
Richard Stadtfeld felt himself smile, his life had been so tremendously dull, how he loved Rin for making it so interesting, he held her in his arms and gave her an adoring look.
"Yes of course. I always did find you fascinating. So tell me why you insist the King of Knights is a woman."
Rin smiled, "Because I tried to summon her."
"WHAT?!"