May 19 1536

Lady Mary

Mary looked up from her knitting to watch as the other women in the Queen's chamber danced and sang for their Queen. Mary had stayed at court with her father since her mother's funeral. She signed the oath shortly after, but had been given permission from the king to worship in her own way as long as she was within her own apartments. She was felt relief when Anne had actually allowed her to carry out those traditions in private since she had asked to join the Queen's ladies during Anne's lying in. She wasn't sure why she wanted to be with Anne during this last month. Unless it was just to hide from that awful Jane Seymour and her family. They had been banished after her mother's death for knowledge of plots to kill the Queen and herself, but so far no evidence was found they were active participants. The King had ordered court at the beginning of the month during the investigation and Jane had approached Mary trying to beg her forgiveness. Mary wasn't feeling very generous that day and ordered the guards to remove her at once.

There was a peaceful calm in Anne's chambers that she appreciated. She even had become close friends with the Queen's sister, Lady Mary Boleyn. Through these conversations, Mary began to understand the heartaches and emotional abuse Anne dealt with as soon as her father noticed her.

She looked back down at her progress right as the Anne approached. "Mary, I wish to ask your permission for something." Mary looked up and Anne in wonderment. "Yes, Your Majesty"

"Please Mary, call me Anne. Mary, would you be offended if your father and I name this child Katherine, if it is a girl? My actions towards both of you were so wrong, it is the only thing I could think of to honor your mother's memory."

Mary didn't know what to say at first. She was stunned that Anne, but more her father would ever want to call a child of their's after her mother. "I think Anne I would be quite honored. But I do hope your majesty has a healthy son"

Jane Seymour

Jane walked slowly through the gardens of Wolf Hall. She couldn't shake this feeling that if only that whore had lost her baby, that she would be Queen in a few days time. She closed her eyes remembering her dream last night, she saw the whore being walked to the scaffold. And then her lifeless body before she drifted off from the scene. Next Henry, her Henry came to her asking her father to marry his Jane.

Jane was angry, she had worked so hard to do all the right things. Act sweet, and innocent and declare herself to be pure as the driven snow. She was supposed to be Queen, that whore was supposed to be removed from the throne anyway possible. Jane would get the King to declare that little brat a bastard and Mary would be a princess once more.

"Damn it" Jane cursed at the trees. Yes it wasn't ladylike but she wasn't in the mood to be demure. She lost the game.

"Jane stop it. You are acting like a child" Edward admonished her behavior. "We did all we could, how were we to know that Queen Katherine's death would have made the harlot grow a heart"

"You didn't even love the king, why are you acting like your lost the love of you life, sister?" Thomas chimed in.

"You two just don't get it, I could have been Queen and now I am stuck here with no prospects for marriage and the knowledge that I should have just poisoned the whore like Master Cromwell had instructed"

Edward and Thomas had not been privy to this information, that their sister knew of plots to kill a crowned queen. If word got out that she thought of killing the queen she would be joining the other traitors on the block.

Unbeknownst to all present, Charles Brandon had just arrived with another summons to court. Since there was no evidence found linking them to the assassination plots the King had allowed them to go home.

"GUARDS!" Brandon shouted, "arrest Lady Seymour and transport her to the tower. Edward and Thomas Seymour you are hereby ordered to return to court to testify to the king truthfully about you sister's actions"

Brandon ordered the guards to leave in a few hours time, he must get to the king and warn him about Cromwell.

Okay, yeah was supposed to be the birth but honestly wanted more Jane Seymour and wanted to use Anne's original date of execution for a happier time for her

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