short stories

the tudors

(Flashback)

"Uncle it is good to see you" violet smiled getting out the carriage she hoped her uncle's hatred for her no longer existed

"Neice your room is one you will stay in you will not leave it without my permission not that you could but each morning you will have a servant to help you dress and undress and a servant will bring you food but most importantly you will now address me as your grace" Charles said straight face as he lead her to her room

"Why do you treat me like this i have done nothing to you" violet cried at her uncle's harshness
"My sister died giving birth to you she bled out moments after your birth you murdered my sister" Charles yelled as pushed his neice into her room harshley

"My mother was sick before my birth my father said she had poor health for years before me" violet said as she turned to face her uncle

"The room will be locked from the outside" Charles said as he walked out

"Uncle please don't do this," violet pleaded all the heard was a lock that night violet fell asleep crying

(End of flashback)

(4 years later)

"Your grace his majesty tells me you have a neice he also tells me that you keep her locked in a room tell me what happened" Jane asked

"Well my sister died giving birth to her and my neice looks so much like her i couldn't bear to look at her knowing what happened with my sister bleeding so much" Charles replied

"Your grace you must understand having a child poses great risk to a woman maybe you should see your sister's doctor to see why she bled so much" jane suggested

"Maybe" Charles sighed he had been feeling guilty of his neice lately

"Excuse me your majesty i have business to attend to" Charles bowed leaving he immediately went to see the doctor

(With the doctor)

"Your grace it's been years since i have seen you how can i help you" the doctor asked
"My sister i need to know why she bled so much after giving birth to her daughter" Charles asked

"Ah yes well your grace when the autopsy was done we found a few things" the doctor said

"What were they" Charles asked curiously
"Well your grace we found many tumors, discoloration of the lungs blood clots and tumors on the brain" the doctor replied

"Would the birth of my neice affect my sister's life" Charles asked the question he desperately wanted to know

"No your sister was dying anyway her body should not have been strong enough to carry her child some how she did but there was no chance she would have survived the birth since she had been bleeding for at least a day before the birth har tumo burst" the doctor said

"Thank you" Charles said leaving with a heavy heart he'd hurt his neice and kept her prisoner because he missed his sister hi immediately went and checked on his neice

He opened the door to a dark room with a single candle burning he silently walked around and saw his neice asleep in bed he hadn't seen her in 2 weeks once a month he would check on her he took the candle took one last look at his neice before leaving he left but did not lock the door again like he would normally

(In the morning)

Charles woke up and told a servant to bring his breakfast to his neice's room along with hers

He walked into his neice's room and saw she was up and dressed waiting on her breakfast

"Your grace i was not expecting you i believe you were not due to visit me for another 2 weeks" violet said as she curtsied to her uncle she did not look him in the eye as he forbade her from doing so

"Violet sit with me we must talk" Charles said as they made their wat over to a table in the room

Violet sat nervously infront of her uncle not sure of what he was going to say he had called her violet for the first time in years

"Are you afraid" Charles asked as he noticed her shaking slightly

"A little your grace" violet mumbled quietly
"Tell me why" Charles asked of course he knew why

"I....uh it's just that you have called me violet and you have not done in years and you are eating breakfast together which we haven't done before not that i can remember and you wish to talk which must mean i am in trouble" violet said as the breakfast arrived

"I spoke the the doctor that was there when your mother passed away" Charles said
"Oh i see" violet mumbled

"You were right about your mother's health she was sick she had tumors that burst there was no way she would have survived the birth" Charles said

"So i did kill her like you said i guess you had every reason to keep me locked in here" violet said

"No actually i was wrong you didn't kill her" Charles said he could see his neice was shocked and wanted to look at him but she was to afraid to

"I don't understand your grace" violet mumbled
"Your mother should not have been able to carry you but some how she managed to but there was no chance that she would have survived the birth she was dying violet she just happened to die during your birth" Charles told his neice who nodded

"Violet" Charles said
"Yes your grace" violet mumbled

"Look at me" Charles said gently as he took her shaking hand in his from across the small table violet slowly looked up as told he could tell she was afraid he could see it in her eyes

"You were not to blame and i was wrong to blame you and keep you in here for as long as I have i haven't been an uncle to you but it changes now" Charles said sadly

"Your grace does not have to change the way you treat me just knowing that you know the truth makes me happy it makes my room less dark" violet said

"What would you think of better chambers" Charles asked his neice

"I don't know your grace i would be locked inside them but i don't need much more room" violet said

"Violet i want you to move chambers because you want be locked in then you will be free like you should have been" Charles said
"I'll be free to walk around the house" violet asked

"Not just the house you will be free to walk around the estate to go riding with an escort so your safe and when we go to court you will come and more" Charles said
"Thank you your grace what made you change your opinion of me" violet asked

"Queen Jane suggested i look past my grief and look more into it so i did" Charles replied

"I am happy your grace listened" violet smiled
"I want you to call me uncle you are my neice after all" Charles said

"Alright thank you uncle for changing and giving me freedom" violet said

"No need to thank me violet it's what you deserved from the beginning" Charles said as his neice and him hot up and he showed her the house as she had seen nothing apart from that room

This was just the beginning