Trigger warning: Mentions of sexual assault
A/n:
Synucian: I present to you . . . King Hollis! I hope I wrote him well ;3;
CarmillaIsLifee: I wrote Laura's parts. I love her so much, writing bad things happening to her is hard Q-Q
"You get back in here young lady! I'm not done with you!" The King shouted. Laura stopped walking, but she kept her back towards him. She spoke softly, as she was taught to, "I don't understand why you're being this way. I do not want to marry him, shouldn't my wants be taken into consideration?" The King stood there floundering for a moment, before he regained his composure. "It is your duty as the Princess to give me an heir. No one in royalty marries out of love! You will marry him, and you will produce an heir! That's final!" He ordered. Laura sighed before she turned around with a sad look on her face. "Father, I am almost twenty years old. I will not do this. Why don't you just marry one of your many "friends" and create a baby with her? Maybe it will be a boy, and there you go, you'll have an heir." The King's face visibly turned crimson with fury. "I am your king, and that is an order! You will do it whether you like it or not!" He turned his back towards her and stomped off to his quarters. His head was swimming with ideas and possibilities of how he could convince his daughter to marry. A thought popped into his head, a terrible thought, but it worked for him. "Sir William!" The King shouted, his voice bellowing through the halls. Sir William came around the corner quickly, "Yes your Majesty?"
"I need you to perform a favor for me. My little Laura refuses to obey me, and I need someone, like yourself, to help me make her understand," He said as he stroked his beard. "I need an heir, William. Do you think you could . . . provide one for me?" He asked with a serious look in his eyes. William looked at him for only a second, before he nodded his head. What choice did he have? Had he said no, to the implied action, the King could have him killed. King Hollis nodded. "Good. I expect a report from you tonight. Make sure it gets done. You may go now, William."
William walked away with a heaviness in his heart. He knew what needed to be done, but that didn't mean he liked it. The Princess had been his friend since they were small. Sure they grew apart when he joined the training program to become a King's guard, but he still loved her like a sister. He pondered how he would be able to go about something like this. He prayed that the Princess might go along with it, without a fight.
Laura was dressing herself for bed that night, because she didn't want the company of her handmaidens tonight. Not after her fight with her father. She was pulling her nightgown on when her door opened and closed "Perry I said I didn't want any help. You can go to the kitchen and eat if you'd like," She said as she turned around. It wasn't Perry's wild red curls that met her eyes, but rather William standing there in just a pair of night trousers. Laura's eyes widen, and she covered herself as best she could "Will! What are you doing here?"
William's eyes closed for a second before her pulled the latch over the door, and stepped once towards Laura. "Your father asked me to do him a favor." He said in a low voice. Laura's eye brows came down into a furrow. "What sort of favor?"
William sighed deeply before he mumbled out a barely audible answer, "To give him a grandchild. An heir." Laura was confused at first until realization struck her. "You mean to rape me?" William cringed at the word. He didn't want to do this, but dying for disobeying the king wasn't something he wanted either. Laura had to understand that, he's just doing as he was asked. He stepped further into the room, closer to Laura. "I mean to ask you to let me give you a child willingly." He knew she wouldn't, he knew how Laura was, how strong willed she can be. "Of course you cannot!" She said with her foot lightly hitting the floor in defiance. He sighed deeply, briefly looking up to the heavens above and asking the Gods to forgive him. He looked down at her with a steely gaze and said, "Then you leave me no choice." And then he lunged.