Gone but Never Forgotten 5
Sorry this update took so long, this weeks always a hard one so I have to be more of a helper around the house. which is fine until it prevents me from writing- but here it is- hope you like it-
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Would you like to see Cora? - friend or foe?
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They rode threw the rest of the day, arriving at the castle at nearly sunset. The three guards at the castle gate stopped them with swords and shouts to halt.
"What is you business here?"
"we need to meet with the king and queen- we need assistance" Robin told the man.
"With what?" the second guard scoffed.
"I am Princess Snow White of the white kingdom and I request an audience with his majesty at once" The girl commanded and the guards seemed to jump into action opening the gate and having one escort them to the door to ensure they were no threat.
"you maid!" the knight yelled, and a young blonde came rushing over.
"Go inform the king and Queen they have guests." The man said then turned back to snow who had gotten off the horse but still waited at the bottom of the stair case outside.
"I'll need to check the carriage for weapons and anything dangerous"
Emma nodded and let Rrobin and John step aside.
The knight opened the door to find Granny resting a wet cloth on Regina's heated forehead.
"what happened to her? who is she?" the man asked, a curious look plastered on his face.
"she was tortured by the king" granny informed.
"Leopold tortured someone?" the knight let out a harsh laugh, "what did she do to earn it?"
"She had hope- This is Queen Regina" Granny said stone faced before looking away from the man who shrunk back at the news.
Then Queen Lillian fled quickly to the castle doors and ran out, meeting princess snow half way and wrapping the girl in a tight hug. The queen was an older woman, in her late forties perhaps older. She has charcoal hair with touches of grey, her skin hung just a tad loose on her face but her strikingly kind eyes made her look twenty years younger. Her sky blue gown clung to her figure and floated along as she rushed down the steps.
"it's been so long snow! where is Regina?" Lillian looked around, that's when she noticed the carriage and the others. Two heavily armed men, a wolf, and a blonde woman who looked ready to kill.
"that's just it aunt Lilian. we need your help." Snow said as she led the woman to the door of the carriage where she gasped in horror.
"Dear lord! What was done to her!?" The Queen called then she ordered her knight to bring the queen inside.
Emma stopped him and had Robin do it instead, trusting no one but she own men to handle the precious woman.
"Darling? what was the commotion?" Emma heard the king before she saw him. He stepped around the corner as Robin was walking up the steps with Regina in his arms. Emma as close as she could be to them. Snow walking closely with Queen Lillian.
The king was older than his wife, Emma would say by a good ten years but he had a kind look on his face, on of concern and not the fake plastered one that she could imagine Leopold wore often.
This king was an aging man just as Leopold was, but his wrinkled were from laugh lines and the indents in his checks from smiling. His crown sat atop is grey hair that was cropped short and his blood red coat hung in his wide shoulders.
"oh dear god! Regina!" The man shouted and shot his widened eyes to his wife for explanation. But she did not give one, only ordered them inside and a maid to fetch the healer.
"Lilian explain what's happened to me!" he begged his wife, and looked around at all the other people.
"Please miss-" he addressed Emma when his wife simply turned away, a forlorn look on her face. "I've known Regina since she was but a babe- Please tell me who did this" He begged her while the nurses and healers stripped the young queen on her gown to apply a healing paste to the whip lashes and stop the bleeding.
"The King did this." Emma said simply, turning to Snow with pleading eyes.
Somewhere within the woman she knows she would not be asking a thirteen year old girl for help to explain how her father tortured and raped her step-mother. Then again Emma was only nineteen as well.
"It started a few months ago..."
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Once the healers had Regina settled and resting comfortably the King and Queen had the chief prepare a meal. They all sat at the table silently eating.
"So.. how did you know Regina Your Majesty?" Granny asked the King.
"Please, call me Marcus. Her father and I grew up together Princes of neighboring kingdoms. When he married Cora we drifted apart but I met Regina a few times throughout her childhood, when Cora went away on business Henry would bring Regina to visit. I was always 'Uncle Marcus and Aunt Lillian', I suppose that title just passed onto snow as well. When Regina married Leopold I was surprised to say the least. But we went to the wedding and we're happy for her none the less."
Snow nodded with the story, approving the details she knew of and listening closely to the ones she did not.
"and you all? how did you come to meet Regina, and rescuing her?" Marcus asked kindly.
"well When it started I found Regina... she was chained up and I couldn't get her free, she told me to run away before my fathers wrath turned to me as well. and I didn't want to leave her, but I did as she asked, and promised that when I could I would be back. Then I met Emma and she was so gracious to help me. We went together to save Regina. Robin and John work for Emma, they are her guards."
Then Granny interrupted," Red and I cared for the queen after her... sessions... with the king. When we heard you both were taking her away we just had to come along."
"Snow has always been my best friend, but in her absence Regina and I had bonded quiet a bit. She was very wise, much beyond her eighteen years. She helped me threw many a relationship woes, even as she was laid in bed recovering." Red smiled fondly then frowned at the though of the young queen.
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"Hand me more bandages, I found more over here" The healed demanded as he held out his hand for the white clothes before placing them gingerly onto the broken skin on the queen, They already has the white cloths wrapped around almost all of the girls back where whip lashes had covered the skin. Now he was gently applying the paste that would soothe the burn and the wraps onto her hips where someone has obviously tried to carve into her skin.
slut
worthless
nothing
whore
bit-
but the last one was stopped in the middle of what he assumed to be bitch.
They had sewn together skin so many places he'd lost count. The worse place it had to be done was in the junction between the girls legs where the were cuts and bruising all alone the center. To him it looked almost like someone had given birth to a child much to large for her body then it wasn't properly taken care of. Except he knows what was really done to her, and chooses not to think on it too much.
When he finished he had a nurse fetch some pain relief herbs from the garden and placed them next to the bed that they made her comfortable on, a glass of water and a tee cup waiting with all the makings of tea for when she wakes. He had the chief cook something light, a soup of some sort, so when she woke she could eat without throwing it right back up.
A whimper sounded from the bed and he turned quickly to find the queens face pulled together and her lips parting to let a small cry escape. Her eyes opened slowly to revel the chocolate orbs, but closed again quickly when the light hit.
Silently he pointed to the curtains and the candles and the nurses blew them out.
"Regina?" he whispered stepping closer so she could see him.
"s...sn..snow...?" She mumbled incoherently. "wh...where... s...sno...snow... n'... mm..mmma...?"
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"Princess Snow? Miss Emma?" the nurse called quietly as she entered the sitting room where the group resided.
Emma shot up and rushed right over to the woman, Snow only steps behind her.
"is she alright?" Snow asked worriedly.
"she's asking for you both"
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thanks for reading and I'll try to get the next one up faster I promise, the reviews really spur me forward.
question is
Would you like to see Cora? - friend or foe?