Changing history

Chapter 1

When Lucy woke up she found herself in a very extravagant room. But based on the furnitures she would have to say around fifteenth century. She thought she was dreaming but when she heard a knock on her door and didn't answer a young woman entered. She wore clothes that she recognized was from the time of Vasa. Probably a lady in waiting, Lucy guessed, since she didn't wear servant clothes.

"Princess Sophia, I came to bring you your breakfeast" she said and stood still waiting for a gesture to be made.

'Princess Sophia? I'm Lucy' she thought slapping herself and lied down to hopefully wake up.

"Princess!" she exclaimed and rushed to her bed. "Are you ill?"

"No, just tired and probably dreaming" she answered in disbelief.

"But princess is time fo you to wake up. It's already morning and your father expect you to be down".

"Who?"

"Your father, the king".

"Which king? My father's not a king" she got curious but still had her eyes close.

"Princess! Do not speak of your father that way! Especially since your father is king Gustav I Vasa".

Like a bolt had hit Lucy she threw herself up.

"Say what!"

'It can't be possible my father was not the king. And why does she keep calling me princess Sophia when my name is Lucy? And she also adress me your highness as if I really am a princess...'

And for the first time Lucy decided to prove that she wasn't the princess by standing in front of the mirror. But what she saw proved the opposite. She saw a young girl with dark hair and dark, sapphire, blue eyes instead of a middle aged woman with blonde hair and brown eyes.

'What is happening? H-how come... w-why do I...' as different thoughts of question kept going on and on in her head confusing her the lady in waiting stared at her confused too.

But she believed the princess was just so tired that her head wasn't clear.

"Princess are you going to eat your breakfeast. It's getting cold" she reminded her mistress.

"O-of course..." Lucy mumbled still watching herself in the mirror trying to calm herself down.

She went to her bed where her tray with breakfeast on where. Her brekfeast was a simpel piece of bread with butter and a piece of cheese. And next to it a bowl a porridge and juice. She tasted it thought it probably wouldn't feel or taste like the real food. But she was wrong. It tasted, felt and looked like the real stuff. While she ate slowly although she was hungry, she thought about how it came it was like this. Everything was real because she had pinched herself and slapped herself, trying to go back to sleep. And now this. This was real. Had she time traveled or something? It couldn't be that because otherwise she would still look like the old her. Or had her soul perhaps been switched. In that case where was Sophia's?

'Bu-t since I am here in the same century as Francis, Mary and Elizabeth and of course Gustav I Vasa, I might as well enjoy. I am of course the princess here. Perhaps I might even be able to marry Francis, even though he's gonna die' she thought. 'But what about the real Sophia? Where is she by the way? Or has she died?' In fictional stories that often happened. The original person died and the main character possessed the body due to some divine destiny, accepted and kept living while changing some things. 'Perhaps that's what happened to me?-'

"Mistress, are you alright?" the lady-in-waiting asked Lucy interrupting her thoughts.

"Yes, in fact I'm ready to meet the day" Lucy-now-Sophia answered.

The older woman nodded and took her behind the folding screen to change her clothes. Although the fabric was lovely. It was a red and gold sort of medievial dress, made of silken cloth, with embroideries made of gold thread. She just had to spun around to see how it good it would look on her in front of the standing mirror.

When the lady in waiting tried to do something about her hair Sophia stopped her and told her it was fine. She didn't after want to wear those crazy hairstyles they wore in this time period. She didn't want to cover up her hair either. Sophia asked for a hair clip, which the older woman brought. She started to slowly braid one side of her curls and brought it over to the other side of the head, sticking it there with the hair clip.

"My, so simple yet so beautiful" the lady-in-waiting said.

Sophia smiled and said, "shall we go then" she couldn't wait to see this world.

"Princess!" an old man with a long beard exclaimed.

Lucy recognized the man immediately. He was king Gustav Vasa of Sweden.

"What took you so long?"

"Sorry, I was just tired" she answered him.

"Are you okay? Are you sure you're not coming down to an illness?"

"Yes, your highness I'm sure".

"Your highness? Since when did you stop calling me father" he said with hurt in his voice.

She apologized and said the word he wanted to hear.

Because her 'new' father was the king he couldn't stay long to talk. And although Lucy felt a bit disappointed she decided to let go. And so the day would continue.

'By the way. What did princess Sophia like to do' she wondered and asked her lady in waiting who answered that princess Sophia liked to dance and sing. Because it sounded boring Sophia decided that she wanted to go outside. But because it was dangerous outside the castle walls she had to do with spending time in the garden. Actually it hadn't been such a bad idea to sit on the green grass staring upwards towards the sky. It gave her time to think of many ideas and a lot of thinking.

She thought about what she wanted to do in this life except marrying Francis. Because marrying against her will to someone who would abuse her was definitely not her plan. Suddenly she got an idea. Though she wasn't exactly the greedy person who lust after money she did want money and she needed it if she wanted afford to make stuff. Sure she could also ask The King to give it to her but since their economy was poor in this period she guessed the only solution was to try selling things. That's why she had decided to use her knowledge to invent things that wouldn't cause that much problems in the future. Like games! Games like Monopol.

"Kristina please go and get me paper, some ink and a feather pen" Sophia ordered her lady in waiting even though she felt kind of bad for doing that.