January 11th 1510
Queen's Chambers, Palace Blois, France
Queen Marie Valois POV
This year, King Louis XII caught sweating sickness on January first and passed the following day. A maid revealed she had been pregnant and delivered his son, Louis and that he should be on the throne instead of Francois, my husband and father to my children I am ''pregnant'' with, but the child does not have a place on the throne as he was born out of wedlock and therefore only inherit when everyone else who has a claim to the French throne dies.
I have a secret my dear family and husband does not know about. I am a witch and know how to brew blood adoption potions perfectly and I am sterile. And since I can obliviate memories and replace them, I can have a friend be with Francois then make them mine as it is a full blood adoption potion instead of the new potion.
I glamoured a friend as she knows and knows what might happen but since she's married, there's that problem and she stays with me during my ''pregnancy'' and no one shall ever know.
I go into the hidden passageway, ready to switch back with my friend but then I see she is with Francois and I am stuck in the passageway for the time being.
Anna Delacour POV
I kiss King Francois heatedly and then he leaves as he does not wish to harm the babes. Marie comes out and undoes the glamour. I could have undone it myself but even though Marie is a witch, she is Queen and should it come out that I am a witch, she'd save her own skin to stay alive. She is a Slytherin after all.
But what would it matter? As long as she gets what she wants and is satisfied with it, she will continue to live the lie as she does so often. Oh, my Viktor, I am so sorry for what I have done. Hopefully, I will give you your heir and a spare but I probably will never give you children of your own. But I know why she does this and I feel sorry for her as every woman who wants to be a mother would act like this.
It has been four months since Marie ''conceived'' and I am under a heavy glamour and so is Marie. She looks like she is the one carrying the child and my stomach looks flat even though it looks two months more than I am.
Oh, how I wish these babes were Viktor's and not Francois' for Marie. I still remember the day Marie asked for the favor I owed her.
Flashback starts
I see Marie in tears and I go to her.
''Marie what is wrong?'' I ask.
''I am infertile and I cannot bear to watch Francois find out. He will kill me and call me a witch sent to poison France.'' Marie says.
I sigh and I brace myself as she asks me to take her place in the bed tonight. And with seeing the broken look in her eyes, I cannot deny her and glamour myself as Marie and she glamours herself as a maid in the English Royal Household and I conceive Francois' child on their wedding night. No one shall be the wiser since Marie knows what potion to make and only two of our friends know as they shall be the next to carry Francois' children. Or at least that's what I was lead to believe.
Flashback ends
Hopefully, the Royal Families never find out our deceit as we will essentially be committing treason or at least that's what they would call it. But we are only doing this for the throne of France and for Marie's wellbeing. I can't just watch my friend die because she cannot bear children and so, I am doing this for her and she knows it.
To know that soon enough I will help by giving birth to the Crown Prince of France is enough for me and hopefully, I will only have to give birth twice and then I can give my husband heirs.
But alas, it seems that I will never have that chance as the Royal cradle and thus, I might never give my husband heirs.