House of Cards Series # 3 One Shots (QoS, KoH)

Becoming the Queen of Diamonds (1) (A Brief Backstory)

A/N: Inspired by a couple of fans' requests, I've considered Lexi's backstory. I don't intend to write a full stroy for her right now, but I like the idea of doing a mini zoom in on a character that didn't get to tell her side of the story. So thank you prylla and ChillyBeanLovesFood, this one's for fans who wanted to hear Lexi's story.

_____________________________________________

At the same time that one Alice 'Ace' Spade was fleeing from her abusive foster family and sexually deviant foster brother, Lexi Ward was about to go through her own life changing series of events. It started when her father got promoted and her mother started to expose their family to the world of the socialite.

Her father, Aubery Ward, was now one of the CFO's of the countries most successful Green Energy Corporations. Her mother was now the darling of the social elite and Lexi was quickly becoming enamoured with this more luxurious lifestyle. In grade ten she'd been cute but althetic, on the cheerleading team but not one of the most fashion obsessed girls in the school. But with the promtion came a significant pay bump and now Lexi's mother insisted that they 'present in style'.

Her favourite jeans were replaced with more expensive, just as worn looking $500 pairs. Her cute pink running shoes were rejected and she learned quickly the sadistic sting of Louboutin. And her favourite adjustment was the glorious LaPerla that never failed to make her feel sensuous and a littly naughty. It never occured to the sixteen year old that her mother was exposing her to a more mature world than she was necessarily ready to adapt to, and Lexi never once questioned why it was alright for her to drink chamagne in her orange juice with her mother and her friends.

If her father hadn't been so busy, he would have noticed these disturbing changes in wife and daughter, but then again, if he hadn't of been so busy, he would have never needed an assistant. It's funny how the world works. Lexi's mom introduced Lexi to Ambrosia Addams. Dumba** name but the woman was stunning. She was twenty to Lexi's sixteen but the two became fast friends, much to everyone's delight.

Lexi was learning from her high society friends just how to get the rest of her school to do what she wanted. At first it appalled her, how she could flirt with the boys and get them to do what she wanted, but then it became easy and Lexi was soon looking for another challenge. She started to manipulate the girls as easily as the boys, but without the flirting and teasing. Instead she started to move them like chess pieces until they were all suspicious of each other and totally dependant on Lexi. And all the while Ambrosia was teaching Lexi how to act like the kind of woman Lexi hadn't actually become yet.

 And during the summer off from school, Ambrosia almost lived with Lexi and her family, the two girls were so close. Which is how Ambrosia got the idea into Lexi's head that if boys her own age were too easy to manipulate, then maybe she was ready for the next challenge: older men.

So together the two of them decided to throw Lexi a massive seventeenth birthday party, and her goal was to seduce one of the older men that came because of her mother's social circle. It was supposed to be an added excitment that the men were most likely one of her friend's fathers and married to boot.

But the truth was, the dawn of her birthday had Lexi shaking because she was so nervous. She spent the entire morning of her brithday staying surprisingly quiet and docile for someone having the largest party of the season in a few short hours.

"I don't think I can do this." Lexi whispered to her reflection, looking at the beautiful blonde woman reflected there. It startled her, for a moment, just how mature she looked. Her eyelashes were aritificially elongated, her pale blonde hair cut in an adult style, modern and slightly edgy. Her clothes were expensive and sexual, long gone were her old favourites of tshirts and jeans and for a moment Lexi hated the reflection she saw and wished that she could dig into her closet to find the girl she used to be. But it would be a futile gesture, she remembered her mother gleefully burning Lexi's old clothes on the backyard fireplace, excited that she got to mould her daughter into the young woman she never got to be, sexy and alluring and given every luxury.

Rosi, I don't think I can do this- Lexi sent to Ambrosia, hoping her best friend would be able to salvage the party even without the sex plot.

On my way- Ambrosia texted back immediately and Lexi smiled, feeling grateful that her best friend was more mature than those snotty b****es at school she had to deal with all the time. Another text buzzed her phone and Lexi laughed at the message Now get ur sexy a$$ in a bath and let Rosi make you better

Doing as her almost sister commanded, Lexi stripped out of her pajamas and headed into her renovated bathroom. She started the jets in her jacuzzi bath and added the fancy salts and oils her mother pushed on her to 'keep her looking young and fresh'. She slipped into the perfected waters and groaned as the heat and salts melted her muscles and eased the tension out of her back.

"Wakey wakey sexy biatch. I've brought you the first of many birthday drinks." Ambrosia announced brightly as she walked into the room, careless of Lexi's nudity.

Lexi blinked, having honestly dozed off in her jacuzzi, and smiled at her best friend. With all the shopping and clothes swapping the pair did, they'd seen each other naked plenty of times, and Ambrosia's unique charms weren't entirely lost on the impressionable Lexi. She wasn't sexually attracted to her friend, but she had a fairly typical 'friend crush' on the woman. It made her jealous of her friend's successes and envious of her looks and lifestyle.

Doing as her friend said, Lexi drank the orange juice, coughing slightly from the burn of a large dose of alcohol. "Rosi, my party is in a couple of hours, don't you think it's a little early for me to be drinking this heavily?"

"Nonsense my pet, it's your birthday. You're supposed to break the rules today." Ambrosia winked at the seventeen year old. "Now bottoms up."

Lexi shook her head and laughed at her friend's antics, then swallowed the drink down quickly. She got out of the bath and laughed when Ambrosia whistled while she toweled off. Lexi quickly pulled on a robe, covering her modest endowments. Compared to Ambrosia, Lexi felt flat chested and about as sexy as a lamppost. But as she watched her friend lay out her birthday gift, a very sexy new set of lingere in a pearlescent pink colour, Lexi felt her nerves disappear and a strange sense of calm and peace dull her worry.

"Mmmm, I'm feeling much better now." Lexi admitted with a wide smile to her friend, pulling on the bare threads of lace that constituted her panties and bra. Over that she pulled on the matching corset that Ambrosia had bought to tighten Lexi's waist and push up her modest breasts even more.

"I figured you would." Ambrosia stated with a knowing smile.

"Can you pass me my dress?" Lexi asked, feeling a little drowsy despite her impromtu nap in the bath.

Ambrosia first handed Lexi another drink she'd mixed and the birthday girl drank it down without arguement, knowing her friend would outwait her. She coughed again on the taste of the alcohol, but this time it woke her up more. The strange lethargy burned away quickly and Lexi smiled at her friend, starting to feel excited for the night again.

Ambrosia watched Lexi with a critical eye, then smiled when she saw whatever it was she was looking for and handed the seventeen year old her dress. It wasn't a modest piece of fabric, instead designed to highlight her assests in the most aggressive way possible. It was the same shade of pink as her lingere, the set carefully matched so that Lexi wouldn't flash anyone ugly underwear if she fell over while drunk. The top was carefully petaled to show off the top mounds of her heavily pushed up chest, the waist was corested again, over top the one she already wore, and the shirt was to mid thigh and slitted up the front of one leg even higher.

Lexi drank down a third drink from her friend and then settled down, patient as her friend carefully did her make up. By the time the girls were done painting and coiffing Lexi, and Ambrosia got into her own birthday gear, the music had already started. "You ready for the rest of your life?" Ambrosia asked, making a kissy face at the mirror over Lexi's shoulder.

"Let's go lose my virginity." Lexi smiled back, the nerves from earlier gone completely.

_____________

A/N: the continuation will be posted later.