AshleyL: thanks, I think it just comes from reading as much as I have from other authors, my previous writings that as I look back are a tad cringe, BUT it's a learning experience that I'm grateful to have gained. Honestly if I could, like time wise I would redo the zombie one BUT I realized I can make a better one that's darker, edgier, more drama, more explicit romance but also, again since it would be darker, deals with PTSD, depression, character deaths, and different types of assault…something that rarely gets discussed in fanfiction due to the trigger elements that I would want to trigger someone with…but that also do need to be discussed and brought to light that it does, ALL of it does happen to a lot of every day people…it's just hidden for various reasons. Anyways long rant short thanks for reading.

sabina21: as blackmail is good for long periods of time and Usagi put the fear of what she can do into the boss I think Mamoru is good now.

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Marriage of legalities

Drabble 460

Lady Beryl POV

This was supposed to be the most romantic time of my life. Marry the prince, having his spawn, wait for his parents to meet an unfortunate end, become Queen…that was the end game. That was the goal. Hell I would have kept Endymion there as my love toy, but this was supposed to be how I'd get what I wanted. How the hell am I getting only a quarter of that?

Yes, fine I got Endymion as my husband. Yet it was met with a LOT and I mean a LOT of resistance. He was very much against the marriage and very much wanted to marry that wench Serenity. I wouldn't even give her the proper title of a princess as she was a 'princess' from a foreign palace: The Moon Kingdom. I would always scoff at hearing about how divine it appeared. How it looked mesmerizing.

It was sickening to be honest. Who knew what filth lay in there. Who knew what foreign diseases that place carried. Or what their people carried. At least that was the story I gave to the king and queen to help 'persuade' their opinion for the marriage between I and Endymion . Initially they were to propose a marriage to help gain access to the silver alliance. Become one of the many planets in there. I scoffed at that again.

Who cares? The true power lies here and once I'm able to produce an heir for the royal courts to see me worthy I can start to infiltrate my own people here. However, that is problematic at best. How so? Because Endymion barely even touches me let alone has slept in the same bed as me. Yes we do sleep together, in bed BUT, but…he likes to not be touched as he sleeps. Clutches a pillow to his side all night long. Needs his 'space' while we sleep in bed. At least that was his excuse to avoid having me in his arms. The big king sized bed is large enough to put another person between us and he makes sure to put the distance there.

At one point he attempted to get a big dog, one for hunting. I vetoed that idea when the dog tried to sleep between us on the bed. He nearly encouraged it till I commented that he preferred the dog over me.

He gave it away to a friend of his. I guess it didn't help him that the comment was made in front of his parents. Apparently it's the only way to get more of my way by complaining to them.

I don't do it often though. I like to handle things myself. However, the many dozens of times I've tried to touch him to even turn him on results in his grunts of removing himself from the easy access position and turning his back to me.

If I try to touch him in passing he blocks my hands, feigning that he's afraid I'll hit his 'boys'. I try to tease him with sexy talk in private yet he says he had a girlfriend once that used to do that and it reminds him of her. Not good times for him. The ONE time I was able to get my hands on his little soldier, he couldn't even get it to work. It wouldn't stand at attention for me. Once he woke up he rolled over…away from me…again. Whenever we attended functions together he never once held my hand.

He never once gave me more than a friendly peck on the cheek. When I put on something sexy for him on our honeymoon night, he feigned exhaustion from the festivities. I even tried to use different perfumes to entice him. He would smell them but it didn't get him closer to me than a few inches for less than 15 seconds.

I even stooped as low as to try to bake for him. Okay I didn't bake for him, but I did make one of the baker do so. The cake came out nicely but instead of thanking me he thanked the baker saying he knew her style of baking. I glared at her for not lying on my behalf.

I tried talking with him about it when people started to whisper about not hearing things from our rooms at night. He said that he'd been stressed lately. That this marriage was difficult for him. When I asked why his response was honest and forward.

I wasn't the one he wanted to marry and he was only doing his duty in marrying me as his father, the counsel, threatened him with being disowned if he didn't. His mother was young enough, she could still produce another heir or two if needed and he did care for his people a great deal. Yet he acted trapped. He had a beautiful, willing wife in his bed at night yet all he wanted was the wretched 'princess'.

I would hear rumors of them sneaking off into the night time together. Of him being with her instead of with me. Though I hoped they were false. I also heard worse rumors that SHE was pregnant. If there was any validity to that it could be devastating to this marriage. To my reputation. As in 'how does the princess of a foreign land, a foreign world become pregnant to the prince of this world and his wife remains childless.'

I have to see if the rumors are true. I just don't understand why. He has me. I'm beautiful, I've got a woman's body, men used to line up to want to take me out for dates, I could have any man I wanted. I chose the prince because he was the ultimate man, the epitome of men, and yet he says no to me. He avoids me. He acts like I'M the plague when his wench of a moon princess could have any number of known diseases on her.

Yet I'M the one who gets cast aside, the one who's ignored, and sidestepped. His most basic response to me if I try to engage with him is 'alright' in the most uncaring delivery put to man.

It's been nearly six weeks since we married and yet I haven't gotten any romantic advances from him at all. If I suggest something for us to do, he doesn't give me a response or deflects by saying to have one of my handmaidens do it with her. When I tell him it's something for us to do he flippantly tells me that he's too busy with palace work. He's avoiding me and I need to find out if its because of her.

Prince Endymion POV

I breathe in the fresh air by the lake. It's so calming and refreshing. It really takes my mind away from the droning of dealing with Beryl and her never ending infatuation of me. Manipulating my parents into forcing dominion over my choices on who to marry to the point where it was either marry Beryl or lose my position of being able to protect the people of earth. It's no secret to many WHY Beryl wants this. Power. We have it, she doesn't.

She's been trying to get her people into positions of power for the last few months and this marriage was supposed to seal it. I've spent every waking official second keeping her people away from those in power so that they don't meet with unfortunate ends. Many have already been banned from the kingdom. I've been sending regular correspondence to Queen Serenity of Beryl's quest for power and dominion.

Queen Serenity has been sending her daughter, Serenity as an advisor of sorts to help me in delegating the matter. Princess Serenity, besides being the love of my life, is tactically intuitive to say the least. She understands the need I have to protect my people and while she hates that I married Beryl, she knew why. She understands why and therefore accepts why I did what I did and I tell her everything she needs to know.

If she asks if I even so much as kissed Beryl, I tell her the truth. On the cheek as a gesture for the royal courts yes, on the lips any time, no. Do I touch Beryl intimately, no.

Did she make an attempt on me intimately, yes…once. It was during my sleep and it felt invasive. Once I was fully awake and realized that not even sleep induced me, I was attracted to this woman in any way I turned over.

I felt nothing but irritation, contempt, and honestly the woman made me shiver in disgust at times. She glared at staff sometimes, she was dismissive of others. She often criticized those who wanted to discuss joining the silver millennium, feeling that we on earth had enough power and didn't need that of foreign planets that held who knew what kind of 'diseases' to spread around and contaminate others.

Honestly for someone who's never been to another planet she sure seems to have quite an opinion of things she has NEVER experienced. I recall asking her once what her basis was and she merely balked at me for contesting her words, before complaining to me about not having her back in a council meeting session. It's as if she just wanted to act as though she knew better and for no one to question her words even if she sounded utterly wrong.

She held no basis for her claims and wants people to agree with her simply cause she stated so. I for a fact knew this is NOT how things are to be. Things are stated out of fact and proper evidence, NOT someone's opinion on that of whom they hate or have issues with. Her personal hatred of the moon kingdom bears no grounds for her claims, only that of bitterness. It's why I work so hard to have these meetings with Serenity.

As I see her walking forward I see her leaving the teleporter and greeting me as Sailor Venus nods and turns her back as she greets General Malachite. Serenity comes forward.

"It's good to see you again."

As she reaches me I can't help but kiss her. I miss her warmth, her body against mine. It's been weeks since I've seen her, let alone held her body close to mine. Almost a month in fact but I've been busy.

"Beryl has been at it again," I tell her once we part ways.

She snorts a bit in near laughter, "What is it this time? Touching you in your sleep again?"

I shiver at the memory, "No, this time she's been getting bolder at not only her attempts to do that BUT in her attempts to usurp people that I know to be good and true to the crown and put her people in place. I've been recording everything and I believe I finally have the evidence needed to show my parents that she's a bad person and is after the crown."

It was a sad find really, but Beryl is clearly after the crown for herself. When I had to have four of the good counsel members be put into escort security I knew something was wrong.

"And thanks to you I was able to map out and sort out where everyone was going to and fro. Honestly I don't know how you saw the patterns. It's quite ingenious."

She smiles at me as she gives me a kiss, "I have a ton of planning to do for myself besides…"

She pulls out the latest papers that I gave her to look over and she shows me all the intricate ways that she was able to spot the inconsistencies.

"The way the time frames would match on point over here don't match over there and when I tell you that the staff know everything…hon, they know everything…all it takes is to be friends and some of the staff are my next closest friends other than the Senshi."

I nod. "I know it's one of the reasons why I love you so much. Everyone is a friend to you."

She blushes. "Not everyone…your…," she replies as she turns away. "Beryl isn't."

I frown and pull her face towards me, "Beryl is my wife only in name, she's not my wife in the bedroom nor in anything else. She married me for my position. I married her to protect my people. Honestly though…"and this is something that I have been wrestling with for a moment, "Sometimes I wish I'd picked you."

She touches my arm in comfort.

"That I had given up everything to live with you."

Serenity hugs me, "You couldn't do that, not your people. You've known them your whole life. This planet it's all you know. I get it, never doubt that I get it."

I nod in acute frustration, "I know but I hate that I hate to meet the woman I love in secret. That we can't even be happy about it or about the secret life growing in you."

She puts her finger to her lips.

"Once you get this to your parents, they will have proof of Beryl's deception. Do yourself a favor though, make copies to be safe."

I take her words under advisement. I sit her down as I rub my hand over her stomach, her very small, flat stomach. "How big is it right now?"

She giggles, "About the size of a pea."

I laugh with her as we enjoy a nice moment together, "I can't wait till I can marry you in front of the courts."

She smiles at my words, "I know that the Lunarian ceremony we had in private may not be legally accepted here but it means a great deal to us, to me."

I smile back at her, "Serenity as far as I see it, the marriage on earth is for show and it will be demolished when Beryl is found to be guilty of her crimes. Then the people will see how great you are and we can make our marriage on the moon binding here too."

She pulls me down to her.

"How did I ever get so lucky to have you?" she asks me.

"No I'm the lucky one, I'm trapped in a bad legal agreement and you're helping me get out of it and save people."

I can't help but go to her and enjoy the fruits that she has to offer. Neither of us cared about Malachite or Venus as we began to be with each other. Our needs for each other have brought us together time and time again.

Her dress gets hiked up and pushed out of the way as I start to shove my armor off. In motions old as time, we strip each other and ourselves down to barely anything. Both of our guardians are far enough away for us to have privacy as they probably want some themselves. It's as if I can't get enough of her. Once she's in my lap, the corset she has on comes loose as I push it down revealing her to me and feel her lower lips part for me.

"I miss this…," I tell her as I slip inside of her. Weeks of dealing with Beryl, weeks of feeling physically harassed by her, for her to get pregnant which was NOT EVER happening. The moments when I got to sink into Serenity, when I got to feel her warmth, when she clutched at me tightly were the best of my life. I always missed her scent, her warmth…all of it…and now as she slipped me inside of her I felt the heat consume me again.

I rolled her onto her back, enjoying her breasts bouncing in supplication as I pressed myself into her, slowly at first, as I savored the feeling of her.

"Oh Endymion…" she whispered to me, her moan like angelic whispers of love. I looked down at her and saw how happy she was to be here with me. Any time I thought she'd get tired of waiting for this debacle to be done with and she'd surprise me further.

It was her love and compassion that drove me forward. It was her love and compassion that made me hard as a rock as I pressed forward into her. That made me grunt with the effort to not come on the spot as I pressed gently yet forcefully into her. I held my breath so I could enjoy more time with her. I watched her enjoy me from below as her legs entwined around my hips. Her feet touching my rear.

She pulled me in closer, as if she needed me for a better connection. I loved her so much it killed me that it wasn't her in my bed at night. As I pressed into her, and glanced down at her non visible pregnant belly I was never more grateful that I had the presence of mind to see past the lies Beryl told and see Serenity for the person she is. As of now I have the most wonderful woman with her legs wrapped around my waist and I've never been more thrilled in my life to know that my future lies with her.

When I feel her muscles beginning to contract around me I know I need to make this last longer than what it is. I flip us both over for her to be in my lap and me on the bottom as I pull her legs out to widen her hips. It's a very wonton position but one she gets into with ease with me as she moves up and down, pressing him into herself over and over again. I enjoy the view and watch my member disappear into her.

As she bends back to do this I watch her breasts fall to the sides but before she can lose her balance I wrap my arm around her waist and pull her back in.

"You're getting lost there…," I remind her.

"How can I not, with you inside of me?" she teases.

I grin back. "You're the best thing to ever happen to me," I confess like she didn't already know this from previous conversations before.

She smirks and lets her feet out from beneath her, slamming herself down and causing me to let out a massive grunt from the impact. My member feels like it's encased in the most saturating delicious sensations as I try in vain to keep control and not pound into her like my life depends on it. Yet once I see the expression on her face, once I see that she wants it as much as I do my control is gone. Like she zapped it away.

"Oh hell…"

Unable to stop myself unless she herself told me to, I begin to slam into her with more power and urgency than before. I feel her muscles pulling on me to release more of me into her. I feel my balls emptying out to begin to pour into her and all I can do is roar out my own blinding end as I feel her muscle clamp down and hear her scream my name.

"Endymion!"

Her name is blindly shouted out after I release my seed into her. I hold her close and feel her curl up into my side. Her lithe frame is perfect against my own as I feel my heart rate return to normal.

"I can't wait till we do this in our marital bed," she tells me.

I smile, "Me either."

In my blissfully unawareness, I still feel something prickle on the back of my neck. I look up and see Beryl looking at us…the blinding hatred towards Serenity is so clear as day that I pull her closer into me.

Normally I'd understand the full hatred towards Serenity being that I am married to Beryl, however it's a marriage of two Earth houses, and it's been made well known from my abstain how much I don't love nor care for her. Besides it's not uncommon for lords or Kings to take on mistresses so why is Beryl so hostile towards Serenity and the moon? Perhaps there are still things I have yet to learn from her…however I hope I don't have to care much longer and hopefully she can let go of me in the process.