Chapter 20
Queen Mary stepped out from Deryn's right, William right beside her and Mazie and Jaques shadowing her.
The Queen looked regal and every inch the queen she was. Her light hair was pulled up into a curled style with pieces falling around her face, framing it.
"You're both right." she said simply.
"Mother!" Diana cried out at the same time Deryn yelled, "Mary!"
Mary gave a small smile before continuing.
"You see, girls, Deryn is not, in fact, a princess." Mary shot Deryn a look when she gave a little shout of happiness. "However, William here, is actually a prince from Wales. He's been undercover this during these past few months, as part of my plan, which I'll explain in just a moment. My point in this was to bring Alek here." she gave a small smile to her real daughter, before turning to the so-called 'twin'.
"Now, with Alek being here to come 'meet' my daughter and 'marry' her was just a big ruse. In fact, without Diana's knowledge, she's been engaged to William this whole time." The Queen said coolly.
Deryn gave a little chuckle at Diana's expression. Her mouth was hanging open, and her eyes, so much like Deryn's, were as wide as Deryn's fiset.
"Before Alek could... ahem... marry," she put great emphasis on the word 'marry', "Diana, however, I had some research done on him. As it were, I discovered that Alek was head over heels in love with this girl-turned-boy on the air ship Leviathan."
Alek's face turned a very amusing shade of pink, which had Deryn stifling giggles, receiving glares from both the Queen and the blushing prince. William smiled at Deryn in amusement, and Diana still had a look of utter shock on her face.
"Alek was about to become an emperor, but all he needed was an empress. But no one was as good as his Deryn. So instead of the soon-to-be emperor being miserable with someone he could never love, I devised this plan. I chose Alek also, because I knew I could help him, since his love and my daughter looked disturbingly alike. It also helps that my sister had her daughter on the same day I had mine."
Uh-oh! Who's the sister? I'm sure we all know! Well, I know I do! Also, I have no clue what the Wales government is like, and I'm too lazy to attempt to figure it out! so if you have a problem with my history, take it up with Wales government! That is all! Peace!