A/N: Hi! This is Greenfield's. It may be a little odd as an idea, but I'm hoping it works out. This is Mary Boleyn/William Stafford to Roxanne by The Police, her Mum's favourite band . Please review, thank you for the previous!

Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Those days are over
You don't have to sell your body to the night
Roxanne
You don't have to wear that dress tonight
Walk the streets for money
You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right

Mary was excited. She loved her quiet simple life with William, but the only thing it did not provide her was an excuse to dress up! Tonight, however, they were having guests for dinner – only the farmer and his wife from the plot of land nearby, a nice enough couple, though not the sort Mary was used to associating with – and she could make herself as pretty as she pleased.

She had chosen a blue gown, slashed with pale gold silk that had always been one of her favourites. It accentuated her figure to its finest form, and Anne had often commented with raised, disdainful eyebrows on how it pushed her breasts into full and undeniable view. She wondered if Anne could see her now, and wished that Anne herself could be attending the dinner.

"Can I try some of that, Mama?" Catherine pleaded. She was fifteen and plenty old enough to attend the dinner, but, in Mary's eyes, certainly not old enough to wear rouge and lip oil.

"No, Catherine. You're far too young"

Catherine sat on the edge of the bed, swinging her legs, "You don't normally wear all those colours, Mama"

"I haven't worn them since your Aunt Anne died. I found them buried at the bottom of one of my trunks and just had to use them"

Catherine knew better than to comment on her mother's unusually frivolous mood, "But you look so much prettier without it, Mama"

"I quite agree" William was leaning against the doorway to their bedchamber, eyeing Mary not with desire as she had hoped, but with what looked like...anger, "Cat, could you leave us for a minute?"

"Of course. I'll go and check on Henry, I bet he isn't dressed suitably" she swept out in a worryingly ladylike way and William closed the door behind her.

"Do you like it?" Mary asked with a smile and a twirl. A frown settled on William's face.

"Mary, what on earth are you doing?"

Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light

Roxanne put on the red light
Roxanne put on the red light
Roxanne put on the red light
Roxanne put on the red light
Roxanne put on the red light

Mary frowned too, "What do you mean? I wanted to dress up for dinner. Is there something wrong?"

William sighed heavily, passed a weary hand over his face, "Mary, you aren't at court anymore"

"I'm not a fool, I know that. If I was at court that would mean my brother and sister were still alive"

"Is that why you're acting in this way? Because you miss Anne and George and the life you used to lead?"

"No! William, I don't have a clue what you're talking about. Acting in what way?"

"Look at you!" William gestured to the close-fitting gown, the curve of her breasts, the crimson colour on her cheeks and lips, "I just don't understand what you're trying to achieve. You're not a whore anymore, Mary"

"What?" Mary froze as though he had slapped her around the face, "What do you mean, anymore? You know I had no choice! I was young, I didn't have a choice. You knew that when we ran away together"

I loved you since I knew you
I wouldn't talk down to you
I have to tell you just how I feel
I won't share you with another boy
I know my mind is made up
So put away your makeup

"I'm not criticising the girl you used to be. I understand the mistakes you made, I understand that the power was not in your hands. I do, and that's why I married you in spite of everything you were. I love you, I always did love you. I'm just saying you don't need to be that girl now"

"I'm not trying to be!" Mary exclaimed angrily, "God's blood, William, I just wanted to wear a dress for dinner! That is the only reason for me wearing this dress, alright? Because I wanted to"

"And the oils on your face?"

"I just wanted to look nice for dinner!" Mary shrieked, losing her temper, "Stop it, just stop treating me like a child, PLEASE"

"I wasn't trying to!" William cried, exasperated, "I'm trying to tell you that I love you and you don't need to dress like that because you'd be beautiful whatever you were wearing. That's all"

Mary's eyes welled up and her lower lip began to tremble, "Are you ashamed of me?"

Told you once I won't tell you again
It's a bad way

Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light

"For God's sake, Mary! Of course I'm not ashamed of you!" she was looking at him so pathetically, that William couldn't quite think of anything else to say to persuade her that she didn't need to be that girl anymore, the girl who had whored for two Kings. She had no need to do that ever again.

"Oh, I can't discuss this any further. I've said what I wanted to say. Ignore me if that's what you want" he said at last, tired of the argument and wishing that she would realise how lovely she naturally was, "I'll see you at dinner"

As he left, slamming the door behind him, Mary moved to look before the mirror again, the mirror she had insisted on having. She could be a little vain, she realised, but she had been the court beauty for years. She sometimes wanted to recapture that. She supposed that that was what William meant.

She took out a square of linen and dipped it in the cloth, wiping it across her face to remove the stain of the makeup from her face.

Mary Boleyn had taken the first step towards leaving her old self behind.

You don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne put on the red light
Roxanne put on the red light
Roxanne put on the red light
Roxanne put on the red light
Roxanne put on the red light
Roxanne put on the red light
Roxanne put on the red light
Roxanne put on the red light
Roxanne put on the red light
You don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne put on the red light
You don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne put on the red light
Roxanne put on the red light
Roxanne put on the red light