quietgirl1998 asked: 5 lokane [one night stand and falling pregnant au]
100 word drabble (which simply had to be 200 words) courtesy of the tumblr numbered AU prompt list. Saxon!England Medieval AU. Embrace ALL the tropes!
The queen pictures her head staked upon the castle gates and feels she might retch. (She has already done so thrice today.) Even if the king would choose mercy, he is long gone (called to battle after their wedding, leaving his kingdom to the care of his loved-by-no-one-but-he half-brother). The barons will kill her for honor without awaiting permission.
She is damned.
The king's brother, however, seems a cat in cream. "You are certain?"
"I bled the night of my husband's departure."
"And I bedded you not a month thereafter."
She nods, swallowing tears.
A gentle, loveless embrace. "Babes often arrive late," he soothes in the low tones that first seduced her. What a fool she was! "Write my brother; tell him you carry his heir. He shall raise my child for his throne."
She is appalled. "I will not."
"Then you will die—" his smile is a blade "—and you alone, for I'll not confess, and who would believe an adulteress?" He places a kiss upon her forehead. "Dry your eyes and do as I say. All will be well." The next kiss brushes her neck, and his hands roam low. "Now, as the harm has already been done…"