A/N: I KNOW I AM ALL OVER THE PLACE BUT THIS IS MY FIRST FANFICTION. R&R PLEASE!
Maria's POV
Who was that boy at the fight last night? I had been looking for a distraction, and found an all out time consumer. Today, Ms. Heliotrope and I are going to the funeral, which was being held two days after his death. What we have found out about father is beyond my imagining. He always kept journals, about his day, the highlights. I helped whenever he was in a disagreement with me or Mr. Heliotrope because he could look back on what really happened. We were never allowed to read these and he had always been, very, closed off when it came to work. I had started reading these journals the day after he died. I discovered that he was, as he said, a very successful business man, but also a mailman. This made absolutely no sense. Why would he deliver mail if he already had all the money he needed? I found out in some entries from all the way back in 2006.
May 2, 2006
John is sick and has asked me to fill in for him a few weeks. He is ridiculous to think that I should DELIVER MAIL when I have some many successful business investments. But alas, he is a dear friend, so I shall.
May 3, 2006
There is a boy in the woods. Out by Moonacre Valley. I never want to go back there but it was on the route John had. There was a huge box of mail. I walked up and left it by the gate, just as I had been instructed. I heard a rustle in the woods. I looked over slightly to see a small boy trying to hide in the woods. I pretended I didn't see him and walked off.
May 23, 2006
The boy finally came up to my after I looked straight at him. I found out he was not only a De Noir, but he is Robin De Noir, heir to the "throne."
I did a double take. My dad knew a Robin De Noir. This was starting to get weird. Dad never talked about Moonacre other than that he never wanted to step foot back in the valley.
I realized at once that this would be the boy that would be sent after my precious Moon princess. He would kill her.
Was he talking about mom?
With that I decided this would be more important than any business investment. I had to turn him good. I had to befriend him. I can't let him kill my precious Maria.
Robin wanted to kill me? Looks like my instinct was right. But if he wanted to kill me, perhaps he knew what happened to my father.
I finished the journals and found out about some ridiculous curse on the valley. My dad was crazy. All joking aside. He thought some "moon pearls" would save the valley and that I would be the one to break the curse.
I shook my head to clear my thoughts. Have I even cried for my father yet? No. I haven't. I was in a black dress that was longer than I liked. My hair was done up in a ridiculous braid. My father would have laughed and that made me smile.
I was trying not to be sad, but I knew something would pull the last string and I would lose it. I was not looking forward to that.
From what I read in the journals, my father's murder most likely had to do with his gambling. He bet something he couldn't pay on.
We were at the cemetery in no time. As the ceremony went on, I saw a boy leaning against the nearby building. He had a bandana wrapped around his face, only revealing a small slit where his eyes were. He stood there, and I am pretty sure he was staring at me. I decided to ignore him. I had three roses in my hand.
I was pleased when I saw my hands shaking, signifying I had emotions after all. I threw a rose on the coffin in which my dad was in. It was a very simple ceremony. It all took place at the graveyard. I gently placed a rose on my mother's grave. I then I scooted over so I was kneeling my precious baby sisters gravestone.
"I am so sorry I didn't protect you. Don't leave me, okay? Promise you'll stay?" I then gave a sob that was disguised as a loving chuckle.
Robin's POV
I had explored London for a full day. I had eaten so much food that I had never eaten before. It was the best day of my life. Cars are amazing. So much faster than riding horseback.
I think Jonny was thoroughly annoyed by the time we got back. Once I had calmed down, he told me that our chance to catch her was tomorrow, at the funeral of her father. He explained that everyone would be filled to the brim with grief and would not be paying attention to anyone in particular. Jonny handed me the information card he had gotten from the graveyard.
"Burial of Lewis Merryweather: 6:00-7:00 PM"
"Lewis," I whispered. He was Maria's dad. He was a Merryweather. I looked up and glared at Jonny. "Did you know about this?"
"About what?" he asked, genuinely confused.
"Lewis was the guy that delivered mail to the valley. He was my friend. He never mentioned his last name, only the first names of his family. What is going on?" I yelled angry.
Jonny looked at me amused, and I was horrified was he replied, "Well, Maria is the Moonprincess. Lewis had two daughters, Maria and a younger one named Alex. We weren't sure whether Maria, Alex, or Johan was the moonprincess. We decided that we would find out the hard way. It turns out, the last one, is the real one. The curse would have taken place had she died. The Valley was fine after we killed Alex, just the same as when we poisoned Johan. So, Maria was the obvious choice. We knew we had to get rid of her father in order for her to be sent to the Merryweather estate. So, if we fail to get her at the funeral, we get her once back in the Valley."
"You killed them all?" I asked. To my horror he nodded, but the worst part was the pleasure I got from this. What was wrong with me? I hated when people were randomly murdered, which happened several times a year in the valley. But this particular family wasn't just some random family. They were the once with the stupid princess.
The conversation ended there. I kept thinking about Maria, but this time, instead of admiring her beauty, I was thinking about the best way to kill her. I fell asleep and dreamed about stabbing the girl, locking her in a dungeon for the rest of her life, and different ways to cause her pain. I am pretty sure I would have no trouble hating her the next time I saw her.
I was dead wrong. As soon as I saw her in her long black dress, the dream from two nights ago came flooding back. The one where we were back on Moonacre. I was not sure how much she knew about me, I only knew she would recognize me from my first night here. I decided to were a blood red bandana around my entire face, only leaving enough room for me to see out of.
I watched as the ceremony went on. Maria was dressed in a black dress, similar to the ones all women wore in the De Noir clan on a regular basis, and her hair hung loosely down her back. I watched as her head snapped around towards me. She gave me a deathly glare then turned away. I could feel my smirk grow to something awful when I saw her walk forward and drop a rose on Lewis's coffin. She placed one on the grave next to the coffin, the scooted over to kneel by a gravestone. This is the first time I saw her express any emotion that could pass as sad. She then whispered something and let out a small laugh. I knew it was a cover for the heart wrenching sob that was just trying to escape her lips. This gave me pleasure. To see her so unhappy made my ecstatic almost. I could feel a hand on the back of my shirt and I felt myself being ripped from the gravesite. I turned around to see Jonny looking at me like I was the biggest idiot on the planet.
"She saw you, you idiot!" His tone of voice made me flinch a little.
"Sorry," I mumbled in return. What did this guy expect, it's not like there are any trees to hide in.
