Rafe Sadler one shots

Yes My Queen

I smiled as I walked through the gravel pathways of the garden, I stopped to smell the sweet red roses growing, the sweet British rose smell filled my sinuses, I stood again and fixed my sweet blue dress, I stepped through the garden seeing the sweet flowers, and beautiful tree's. I found my little stone bench surrounded by ivy, and flowers, hidden away under an arch. I smiled and took a seat, as much as I wanted to relax myself I sat up ridged keeping my back up m corset helping me a little with it. I could hear people as they walked past, also walking in the gardens. I could hear their whispers, the rumours, the hushed giggles behind the hands of maids, soldiers and business men.
I did my best to ignore it all.
But there are times I can't help it, I had to listen even if each time I did it almost forced me to tears.
"Have you seen the King's little side piece?"
"she's a beauty"
"They say he's bedded her in the royal bedchamber"
"I heard the maid's saw them kissing in the drawing room"
"I heard it was the
"I heard He's going to wed her"
But I often forced myself away from the rumours, I didn't want to hear them.
I wanted to ignore the things they said behind my back, to appear as if they didn't bother me, as if there words didn't sting my very soul, I slipped off my little shoes, letting my bare feet so sweetly in the soft green grass, my dress hiding it all from the eyes' of passers by.
"My Queen," I heard making me look to my side, I knew the boy, he was tall, skinny, older than me for sure, his black clothes hugged him closely, his hat concealing his blonde hair he bowed to me seeming nervous to speak with me
"Good day to you Master Sadler, You bring news from My Lord Cromwell I presume?"
"Yes my lady" He nods "I uhh I was meant to supply your husband but know one seems to know where in the castle he is? Has he gone hunting?"
"No, he's in the castle, or so he told me" I answered "Pass it along to my Lord Harriot, he shall pass it forth to my husband"
"Yes my lady" He nods "Before I go. Might I say that your dress looks beautiful My queen"
I blushed slightly, It had been so long since I had received a compliment "Thank you Master Sadler, You are such a sweet, smart soul. I see why My Lord Cromwell keeps you in his household"
"Thank you my lady, I do not deserve such praise, but I will accept it from my queen nonetheless, for I could never deny my queen'' He smiled bowing to me again before he headed off to find Lord Harriot, heading towards the summer house, he had the right idea Lord Harriot likes a fine ale and a fine maid girl, often he can be found in the summer house converting among the young ladies there. I wanted to follow him but I didn't want to fuel the rumours and the idea that I was already hearing the whispers and rumours of my husband and the new young girl from court was enough, I didn't want to hear rumours too of the queen seen with a ward boy.
I slipped my shoes on and headed deeper though the garden holding my hands tightly together as I walked my dress moving against the grass and stones, My shoes crunching the uneven stones, My sleeves slightly moving against each other where I held my hands tightly, My sweet cotton vail to hide my hair away, from prying eyes and from the sun, I looked across the garden seeing on the other path, My husband walking with that young lady on his arm, the two laughing, I pretended to ignore it and continued on back into the castle heading up without a word to my library.
I sat in bed doing my knitting as I usually did as he returned from his 'meeting' and got changed climbing into bed beside me,
"Good Evening My king"
"Hello y/n" He sighed
"How was your day?"
"hardly a moment of peace"
"I see, I spend much of my day in the garden and Library"
"that's nice" He sighed
"What did Cromwell want?" I asked
"what?"
"There was a message come through from lord Cromwell. Did you get around to it my king?"
"How do you know?"
"His ward couldn't find you, so he came to me with it"
"And you did what!"
"I sent him off with it to lord Harriot" I answered
"Ohh, Well that was good. thank you y/n"
"You're welcome My king, So what did he want?"
"Nothing to do with you" He says turning away and blowing out the candle
"Yes my king."

I sat as I usually did in my library, I wanted nothing to do with the flying rumours, the things they said about my husband and that they said I was blind or that I was a fool. I didn't want to react even if I hated that my husband spends his time with a little thing from court. I knew If I made a scene I would be losing my head faster than a slap would land on his cheek. I knew about it all... the long nights, the days away, the hidden kisses in the castle, The girls, half my age, and twice as beautiful as I had ever been, the only thing that brought me peace was a simple knowledge.
I am the Queen.
I am the Queen.
I am the Queen.
I am the Queen.
and it's not as a pride, or as if I was hungry for the position, but that
Of all the beautiful women in the world, He chose me, He might have eyes that wonder but I am the queen he chose to be the queen.
I sat in my usual chair close to the fire place, I always felt at home here with my books, the balcony doors closed tightly watching the rain batter them, the glow of the fire and few candles I had lit the library with the beautiful fire glow, I hummed a sweet tune making notes in my book.
"My Queen?" I heard at my door making me get up from my seat putting my book down hiding it among others I looked to the door where I saw
"Master Sadler, to what do I owe this pleasure?' I asked
"The uhh the king sent me my lady, he had businesses with my Lord Cromwell, he said that they will be busy for most of the day and that I should make myself useful and keep you company"
"That's very sweet of you" I smiled "my husband didn't sent you"
"I'm sorry?'
"Cromwell sent you, didn't he?"
"He did"
'why did you lie to the queen?"
"He asked it off me my queen,"
"To make it seem as if my husband thought of me" I sighed "I would adore to have your company Master Sadler" I smiled
"Then I shall happily supply it my lady" he smiled shutting the door
"Will you sit?" I asked
"If you ask it of me"
"Master Sadler please came forth and sit with your queen" I laughed sitting back in my chair he nodded and came over putting his hand on the other chair a moment, it was strange, they had put in the chair to match my own for when the king was courting me, he would come and read me poems pitching my woo and all moments, but the chair dusty and dirty he hadn't used it since we were married in all honesty I didn't mind. "Is that a new coat Master Sadler?" I asked as he has been standing there with his hand on the chair a while now
"Ohh uhh yes my lady,"
"It makes you look handsome" I smiled as I began to knit "please sit, I insist"
He nodded and took off his coat sitting in it on the back of the chair before sitting down on the chair "you look beautiful my lady"
"Thank you master Sadler, you are always one to complement"
"Because I feel the queen deserves to be complimented more than she is" he says "would you ask anything of me my queen?"
"I would ask of you to smile, and to keep me company"
"Then I shall do so my lady" he smiled "I should always smile, for I am one so very few lucky in this world."
"Lucky?"
"Too look freely upon, the most intelligent, the most gracious, the most beautiful woman in the world, I could die moments from now and I would die happy, truly joyous to have seen your face my queen"
I blushed hard stopping my knitting to take a breath
"Knowone has spoken to me that way in years" I blushed "been a long time since a man had pitched me woo master Sadler, not commonly done to a married woman"
"In sorry my queen"
"You need not apologize master Sadler, it was beautiful" I smiled "are you practicing?"
"Practicing?"
"For a young lady?"
"No, my queen. I meant it for you"
"Oh, well it was very beautiful, thank you" I blushed "you should save things like that for your Young ladies"
"I do not have any young ladies, hardly the time I suppose"
"Boys your age should always look to young ladies, people may start to question? Your getting to that age when boys break off and begin there own households"
"I know, but I cannot bare it"
"Whyever not?"
"For I love one... that I can never have"
"Don't we all"
"My queen" he says gripping the chair tightly barely looking at me "may I speak frankly?"
"You may master Sadler" I nodded
"The king... he is a fool."
I glanced up at him curiously eager to hear the rest of his words
"He is a fool, the most foolish man in England, for only a fool would act the way that he does"
"Master Sadler, as queen I could have you executed for saying such treason against my husband?"
"You could" he nods "in fact I beg it of you"
"What?" I asked in shock
"I beg that these words will send my queen to call the guard upon me, to end my life for these treasonous words against the king, for perhaps... if my heart stops beating. It may end this ache inside my heart, this ache for you. My queen"
".... Master Sadler" I said in shocky heart racing my breaths quick, my breasts heaving, my toes and fingertips tingling, I felt as if I was to faint, It had been so long since I had heard sweet words from a man, but never like this my husband had never said words to me that affected me in this way, I stood trying to regain my composure "I uhhh I uhhh" I stuttered
"My queen." He says moving to his knees in front of me "please, hear me."
"I will master Sadler"
"The king is a fool. A hollow man. He is foolish beyond compare. That he chooses to lie to you. To make a fool of you. To... take another woman. To consort with her. To abandon his oaths, his duties to you, to be with her. This girl she doesn't compare to you, in any way." He explained "she is a slut. A witch. A whore. To have dragged your husband from you. I can only imagine he is under a spell of small mindedness to ever even dream of stepping away from you my lady" he explained "I truly cannot see why any man of stable mind would turn his back on you. For you are more beautiful than the most perfect english rose. More breathtaking then even the most beautiful stars in the sky. Kinder than a thousand mothers, sweeter than the most freshly picked sweet summer strawberries, you are immeasurable to any other woman on this very earth, every second that I spend with you I wish for a thousand more," he explained
I was struggling to breath these beautiful words, better then any poetry the king had ever wooed me with
"I am enamored by thee, even though thou enjoined to another, I know not of your maidenhood preserved and I do not care. I wish to be with you, physically, emotionally, in all the ways that you may permit me to be I know these words against the king and these words to you my queen are enough to ensure my execution, and you will suffer no I'll favor from myself if you were to have be taken to the gallows for any of these words but... if so, I ask only for one kiss upon those lips and I can die joyous and peaceful for just for a moment I would have touched higher than heaven."
"Master Sadler I uhhh... I uh, I have been heard such, beautiful words" I smiled taking hand pulling him to his feet ''you should not have wasted them on me"
"Why not, there will never be another woman in this world more deserving of them then you,"
"You should have saved them, for a beautiful woman. You could marry, have a life and family with."
"I don't want to be married"
"You-you what?"
"I do not want to be married. I do not want a life. I do not want a family with... anyone but you"
"But I am the queen... I'm married. I - I"
"If the king can have his consort girls" he smirked "I see no reason the queen can not have me"
"Ohh master Sadler" I blushed I thought a moment I knew I did desire him and that knowing he felt this way about me too only made my decision more complex, he was right my husband runs off with younger women has nights and kisses with them what is to stop me from having my own little.. play thing "Kiss me."
"Yes my lady" he smiled gently pressing his lips against my own, his lips where smooth and soft, his gentle movements against my own, I kissed back moving in time with him as much as I could, I closed my eyes feeling such heat and emotion in the kiss knowing that my husband had never kissed me this way, my moved my hands from his slowly going up his arm he moved a step closer and slipped his hands to my waist his thumb rubbing on my dress as he moaned into my mouth I moaned gently back moving my hands up more to his chest and shoulders gently rubbing him as our kisses grew more passionate "m- my queen I-" he stuttered between kisses unable to truly Remove himself from my lips, I pulled back resting my head on his own
"Yes?"
"I beg for forgiveness my lady"
"Forgiveness? Whatever for?"
"For... for... myself" he says between gasps his eyes tightly closed, I glanced down and saw the tightness that now restricted him, but more importantly a patch darker then the rest of the fabric of his clothes and some even on my dress
"Ooh. Master Sadler" I giggled blushing hard "I think you may have gotten a little overexcited"
"How could I not? Being permitted to kiss the most beautiful woman in the world, how was I supposed to contain myself?"
"I have not felt the touch of a man for so long. Let alone the touch of an eager man" I smiled playing with the ties of his shirt
"I have never known the touch of a woman. Let alone a woman as beautiful as you my queen"
"Did you enjoy kissing me?"
"Did I? Do I need to answer that, my lady?" he blushed looking at the mess he had made of himself "did you enjoy to kiss me?"
"I did" I smiled moving my hands from playing with his shirt up his chest to his shoulders grabbing his collar with my hand and pulling him back to kiss me, he instantly kissed back eagerly wrapping his arms around me tighter till I pulled back leaving him needy
"Master Sadler! Time to go!" We heard as cromwell knocked on the library door
"Yes Lord Cromwell" he answered unhappily but he had to reply or riso our Discovery
"You will be returning to his house now I suppose?"
"I shall, but I will beg the heavens for us to be reunited again my queen,"
"Will you write?"
"Yes my queen" he blushed "and uhh it's Rafe. Rafe Sadler."
"Rafe, such a beautiful name." I smiled "such a lovely name for Such a lovely boy" I giggled "y/n. Y/n y/l/n"
"Y/n.... Angels themselves couldn't make something that sounds more heavenly to me my love" he smiled giving me a gentle kiss before he moved away getting his coat and covering himself from what had happened "I will pray to all the gods in this world that it will be soon I shall get to see your beautiful face again, to feel your sweet hands, to... kiss your perfect lips my love"
"I shall do the same my love" I smiled giving him a tight hug he hugged me back before he hurried off to Cromwell and whatever he needed him for.

I sat in the garden on my usual bench watching the gentle rain bouncing off the roses and the leaves of the trees, the gardens empty of people, but I liked them this way.
"It's beautiful to watch the garden in the rain" I smiled
"It is. Not half a beautiful as you my queen, but beautiful nonetheless" Rafe smiled holding my hand on the bench hidden by my dresses huge skirt, "but I suppose of I judged the world in comparison to your beauty nothing would even seem pretty at all"
"Where did you ever get so beautiful with your words?" I asked
"Reading mostly. Or perhaps it is due to having the most wonderful muse" he says kissing my cheek
"Where is your master today?"
"With the chancellor. Why do you ask?"
"The king said he was with your master"
"Umm" he nods "and I suppose you told him you were with your handmaid's?" He smirked, stroking his fingers against my hand "if only they knew? Right darling?"
"I know what he's doing" I laughed
"Do you?"
"I can see him"
"Where?"
"Third window from the door,"
"Left or right?"
"Left"
"Ohh I see. It doesn't bother you?"
"I can't allow it to bother me. I do not wish to give him the satisfaction of getting a rise out of me."
"Why don't we... make him jealous?"
"Is that a feeble attempt and asking for a kiss?"
"Yes it is"
"Good" I smiled giving his lips a sweet kiss "come on, he's busy so the bedchamber is empty" I smiled tugging him  with me heading inside and up to my bedchamber.

I smiled laying in my bed the cotton sheets hugging my naked skin, as I gasped for my breath. Rafe laid with me too naked, sweaty, gasping for breath against the other pillow "ooohh my god, y/n." He gasps
"I love you" I smiled nuzzling into his neck pulling his body close
"Uhh I love you too..."
"Did that feel good?"
"Good. There are no words in this or any other language for how amazing that was my love" he explained holding my chin "I can only beg my queen for forgiveness... for the mess I made of her"
"You are forgiven my darling" I smiled pulling his sweet hair a little to kiss him deeper he wrapped his arms around me again pulling our bodies inches from each other "again?"
"Yes my queen" he smirked.