A/N: And I think this shall be the last story out for the Birthday Month! Hope you enjoyed them all! And LOL, yes, I decided to go ahead and write this mini-series. I hereby dub it the Promises... Universe!

Summary for Eldest Stepsister: I felt triumph rise in my heart and as the villagers cried and mourned around me, a smile formed on my lips. So her prince has died. She deserved it. – The stepfamily hears that the girl's prince has die. (Companion to PROMISES OF FOREVER in the stepfamily's POV. Part One – Eldest Stepsister).

Disclaimer: I do not own fairy tales.

Claimer: But I do own this plotline, the characters, and this story.

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Promises of Revenge

Part One: The Eldest Stepsister

The news came almost immediately after it happened. The messenger who brought the news through the village we were at was red faced and his eyes wild. Once the villagers had assembled, he had announced the terrible news:

The prince had been slain in battle. The prince was dead.

My mother and sister glanced at each other in shock, as though they couldn't believe the news. The prince – the one all the women had been fighting for at his ball – was gone.

The prince my seducing stepsister had trapped in her clutches was gone.

Why were they so surprised, I couldn't help me wonder as I felt triumph rise in my heart and as the villagers cried and mourned around me, a smile formed on my lips. It was bound to happen; she was bound to have it coming to her after what she had done to us.

My dear stepsister – the one who sold us out and thrown us on the streets to become peasants – was probably in pain, in agony. Right now, she was feeling all the pain and agony I had wished to fall upon her ever since Mother, my sister, and I had been thrown out of the manor onto the street.

She was finally going to suffer.

I walked away from the sobbing crowd, their cries piercing through the air as the villagers mourned their prince's death. I, however, couldn't stop the gleeful giggle that erupted from me – a giggle that hadn't escaped my lips in two, long years.

I felt my mother and sister follow me behind, me who had almost been married to the prince, who had the prince in my clutches but lost him to my minx of a stepsister. Were they worried I had gone hysterical? One would think so; with the way I began laughing uncontrollably, it would seem I had lost my mind.

"Daughter…?" Mother questioned weakly, as though she feared my sanity. It was good we were far from the villagers; had they heard me laughing after such news, they would've beheaded me. "How do you fare, daughter?"

I wiped tears from my eyes, bittersweet triumph in my heart as I turned to face my mother and said calmly,

"So her prince has died. She deserved it."

My words rang loud and clear as I began to laugh again, my mother watching my incredulously as I laughed and laughed before having to sit down on the ground, my sides hurting, my throat raw, but my promise fulfilled.

So my promise to her that I would get my revenge finally came true after all.

A/N: Short like Promises of Forever was but right to the point. I'll update the next part soon. (I might come back and fiddle with it - like the ending - but I'm not sure).

Order of Promises... Universe:
Promises of Forever - Girl/Prince
Promises of Revenge - Stepfamily (Eldest Stepsister, Youngest Stepsister, and Stepmother. Order might change for last too.)

I also might do the prince's parents' POV on their son's death.

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