Rafe Sadler one shots

The Blue Lady

I stood talking with my master cromwell discussing the business we would be dealing with this day. I looked away from the hallowed halls for a moment looking across the house corridor to the sweet sight, y/n. Stood in her long blue dress sweeping the floor she caught me looking and smiled sweetly to me doing a little curtsy and giving me a little wave. I blushed a little giving her a little bow and a wave back blowing her a little kiss making her hide her face innocently before we both went back to our work even if I had thoughts of her throughout my day.
The young, beautiful, miss y/n y/l/n. She was of no breeding to speak off a lower born then even I, she was a maid girl here in the cromwell household taking good care of my master cromwell, richard, gregory and I. And it could be said we where close, I did truely love her but I knew nothing could come of it, even if I rarely saw or heard much from my father I knew marrying a lowborn girl like her would enrage him even if I wish I could.

I smiled cosier and happier then ever, laid in my bed on my back the room a tender burning glow from the firelight casgading across the wooden room, my sheets against my bare skin y/n sweet face against my chest her arm there too her hand stroking my skin, her naked body nuzzled to mine the covers around us to keep out the chill I was still hot and staring at the ceiling still calming down after we had made love, I gently kissed her head and played with her hair as she smiled too "y/n?" I asked a little hushed
"What is it?" She smiled
"Did you want me to marry you?"
"What do you mean?"
"Would you ask it off me?"
"... No."
"Why not?"
"Your worth more then I am"
"Y/n. I don't care about that. I love you, I adore you, if you'd let me I'd we'd you by the morn my darling"
"You mean it?"
"Will all my heart"
"I'd like to get married Rafe but..."
"But?"
"But we shouldn't?"
"Why not?"
"Your father- court-"
"I don't care what they say. Yes or no y/n do you want us to get married?"
"Yes"
"Then I'll marry you. Whenever and wherever you want"
"On the solstice. On the hill"
"Okay. It will be done my darling" I smiled giving her lips a gentle kiss.

I sat in the office with Cromwell as we went over some paperwork and some letters when we heard someone running almost sprinting down the corridor we both perked up a little confused as the door opened
"There's boats overturned!" He yelled we both bolted up and ran down to the river where the little boat was leaving this morning the queen off to have her child with many of the staff many of the women all coming into the banks coughing where they had all struggled getting back from the overturned boat we helped the ladies back and sent them into the house and I counted a moment
"Where's y/n?" I asked noticing she wasn't here "where is she?"
"She was in the boat as we tipped" one of the handmaids said
"No... No! NO PLEASE! Y/N! Y/N!" I screamed trying to swim out to hind her but Richard wouldn't let me go
"Rafe. She's gone"
"No. No please. she can't be gone! She can't be!"
Richard sat on the bank do the river with me waiting but nothing by sunset
"She can't be gone"
"Its alright Rafe. She was just a maid girl"
"No! She wasn't. Richard we were going to get married only next month"
"Ohh. Rafe I'm so sorry"
"I don't know what I'll do without her"

I walked the hallowed castle halls carting paperwork and messages from this lord to that lord since I had been employed in the king's household I had to keep my composure even if at all moments I felt like bursting into tears. When I would get back to my chambers at night I'd collapse against the door and weep. I missed her so much I could barely even function knowing she was dead I loved her so much I'd have given anything to make her happy I finished up a meeting with the king and began walking down the corridor to my next meeting with the Lord chancellor but as I did I looked across the way and I could have sworn I saw a flash of a blue dress, I turned but nothing. This went on for weeks swearing by all gods known in this world that I was seeing her but I knew it was merely my greif playing tricks on me, I went walking at night swearing to see her walking in the palace on her blue dress like a ghostly figure from another place and time, I would hear her voice at night singing in the corridors. And I learnt it wasn't just me people in the castle began to say it was haunted it began with maids and kitchen staff but it grew as more people said they where seeing a figure they named as the blue lady some thought it was one of the queens scorned by the king, some said she was a witch taking revenge but I knew it was y/n.
One night I laid in my bed listening to the sweet song echoing thought the palace until it stopped and I felt a kiss on my cheek and a body in bed with me I panicked for a moment thinking someone had come into my bedroom but as I stroked the curves and ridges of the girl beside me I knew them all so well, it all just as I remembered her. My y/n. I kissed her as passionately as I could whispering a million times how much I loved her and adored her she just held me so I held her too "I don't know if I can go on without you y/n"
"You will Rafe. I know it"
"Will you stay?"
"I will. Until it's your time to come with me"
"I want to come with you"
"It's not your time Rafe. One day you will"
"Until then you'll stay? Like my own little angel?"
"I will. I'm never far away Rafe."
"I know. I still miss you though lots of things I can't do now, we can't get married, have children, have the life we wanted."
"I know. Well we can still cuddle" she smiled "and we can still visit"
"Good. I won't miss you as much" I smiled giving her a kiss as I held her close "y/n? What's death like?"
"Quiet" she says "it's just silence. Suddenly silence. A silence that I can't explain it's just nothing. No wind. No birds. No water. No breathing. Your own heart not beating it's... Just silence." She said "sorry"
"No it's okay. I asked." I said "well I'm here my love and I'll take the silence away for a while"
"You do" she smiled "I'll always be here Rafe just beside you. And when the times comes we go together"