I'm not really happy with this chapter, but I wanted to give you guys something. So enjoy!
Lily stood in front of her mirrors as Maerwen put her dress on. Nuala was in the room also.
"You need to go through the proper etiquette training before you will be allowed in public with my brother." Nuala told Lily.
"Do I have to go through training?" Lily half-whined.
"Yes, you do. You are the Queen of Bethmoora now and you need to act like it." Nuala explained.
"Fine." Lily sighed. She felt like she couldn't get out of this training if she wanted to.
So Nuala took Lily and showed her the different techniques to becoming a Queen. Abe even helped; he knew a thing or 2 about manners. It was more exhausting than Lily imagined. The constant smiles, the standing properly, the eating properly, and the speaking politely and saying the correct things. They didn't want a repeat of what happened with the council to happen in public.
Lily was lying face-down in the pillows of her and Nuada's bed, exhausted from her day of etiquette training. Nuada walked in from his long day of dealing with all of the problems in Bethmoora. He was exhausted as well and was annoyed to find his wife taking up the entire bed.
"Move, human." He told her as he changed for bed. "You take up more room than you need."
Lily sat up on her side of the bed. She was still in her dress, too tired to change into her nightgown at the moment. She watched him change.
"How was your day? What's wrong with Bethmoora now?" Lily asked him. He was surprised by her questions; she had never asked before.
"There was a debate on what to do with the Golden Army. Half of the council wanted to keep it around and half wanted to hide it away again. But the demon still has control over the Army, so there's nothing we can do at the moment." He answered her.
Talking about Hellboy brought back memories of the Angel of Death's mission for her. Lily bit her lip as she remembered the horrible task she had to do. She thought that if Hellboy is going to die, Nuada should regain control over the Golden Army so he can properly deal with the Army.
Nuada had changed into a pair of trousers for bed and was watching Lily's face intently. Something was wrong.
"You should fight Hellboy for the Army. That way you can deal with it however you or the council likes." Lily finally said. She stood up and walked over to her wardrobe. She began to strip and change into her nightgown. Nuada's eyes followed her.
"Perhaps I should. How did you come to such a solution?" Nuada was curious. He began walking to her changing.
"I was just thinking it would make everything easier. The sooner you do it, the sooner this can be resolved too." Lily casually slipped in there. She wanted him to be able to have the Golden Army before she had to kill Hellboy. Plus maybe Nuada would even kill Hellboy and that would just make everything easier on her.
"True." Nuada said. Lily had finished changing and turned around to find him standing behind her.
"Having sexual thoughts about tonight, Your Highness?" Lily asked him seductively. She put her hands on his chest. They had been having a considerable amount of sex lately. Lily didn't mind and she hoped Nuada didn't revert back to his human-hating ideas again where he refused to have sex with her.
Nuada smirked at her. She wasn't afraid to start their intercourse. He grabbed the bottom of her nightgown and stripped it off and tossing it onto the floor as his answer.
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Lily was on her way out to the garden when Liz ran up to her and stopped her, something in her hand.
"You won't BELIEVE what they did!" Liz said, out of breath. She was skinny once again thanks to her miscarriage. She thrust the object in her hand into Lily's. It was a magazine.
On the cover it had a picture of Meldiron teaching Lily how to shoot an arrow, both of their bodies close to one another. It said in bold under the picture: "Affair in the Palace?" with text under that saying: "Queen Lily and another elf get too close during a "lesson"."
Lily gasped when she saw it.
"I KNEW I heard a camera!" She shrieked. "Oh those filthy reporters! How'd they even get in?"
Lily stormed down the halls of the castle towards where Nuada was in the council meeting. She shoved the doors open and threw the magazine on the table in front of all of them.
"Those stupid reporters! They got in and now they're spreading LIES! I say we kill them all!" Lily screamed. Liz stood behind her uncomfortably.
The council members and Nuada all looked down at the magazine, absorbing this information.
"We can't kill the reporters." A councilwoman stated.
"Well then do something!" Lily screamed. "They broke some treaty, didn't they?"
"They did. They didn't respect the borders of Bethmoora." A councilman said.
"So do something. Threaten them with the Army or something! I'm not having an affair!" Lily said desperately. The last thing she needed was for Nuada to hate her again. She enjoyed the sex they had too much to let it slip away.
"She is right." Nuada said reluctantly. "They have broken the treaty. They must be punished."
"War is not the answer. We must warn them that they cannot do this and if they do it again we will reciprocate." A council member said.
They all agreed, even Nuada after some convincing, and would send word immediately the next day.
At this point I'm just trying to figure out where to go from here, so I may not update as often until I figure that out.