Monsters

Blackness

            

Cathry pairing, when Henry drugs Catherine in "Monsters" what if he realized what he's done? What if it turned into Cathry? What if Penelope got what was coming to her? Well guess what we're going to find out.

Rated T for violence

Disclaimer: Nope still don't own Reign, if I did Cathry would have had one of those fairy tale Disney spins where Henry twirls Catherine around while she's all giggly. 

Suddenly she felt as though someone had hit her over the head with a frying pan. Her vision started to blur and she vaguely heard Penelope say, "It was poison wasn't it?"

"W...what are you t...talking about?" Catherine stuttered, swaying slightly in her place.

At this Henry spoke up, stupid smirk in his face like he'd just won a contest. She supposed he had, in a way, someone had finally taken a blow to the great and powerful Catherine de Medici, "I wanted to teach you a lesson so I had her put the vial in your wine, you don't look well darling." He drew out the word darling to taunt her.

"Henry..." She whimpered, reaching a tiny shaking hand out to him. Her nimble fingers grazed the back of his hand before she retracted it, paler then before.

Henry turned and Penelope smiled at Catherine, "I wanted to thank you Catherine, for teaching me to think long term." With that the two of them marched over to the bed, to watch her slow spiral into the blackness.

She tried to find her way to the door but everything looked like a blur of orange, red and Henry. Henry was there...no wait that was a dresser, oh wait there...nope never mind that's a wall. She could see him smiling at her, open arms waiting for her to fall into his chest, to breath in the smell of him, have him stroke her hair. Her head was pounding vigorously and her eyelids felt as heavy as metal. Once again she thought she saw him and stumbled forward tripping over her own feet and trying to keep tears at bay. She tripped over something lying on the floor and her Medici form fell to the ground, she was on her hands and knees, unable to hold back tears any longer. Slowly hot tears seeped from her eyes as she found her elbows giving out she knew she must have been putting on quite a show. The pain in her head made her whimper as she clawed the ground aimlessly. She could hear the two of them talking and she prayed he wouldn't take advantage of her any further.

At first Henry thought watching Catherine stumble about like a lost and injured feline would be entertaining, he thought she had it coming to her. He thought that she deserved whatever she'd tried to poison him with, he thought she deserved hell and beyond. Yet from the moment her fingers drifted over his hand he felt amiss but, being the egoistic king he was he ignored it. However when she began to stagger forward in a fruitless attempt to reach the door his heart twanged. Her face was pale and scared even though she probably didn't realize it she looked like she was about to die. Then the thought hit him, was she going to die?! Had he just killed his wife, his queen, his world, for some kitchen servant? Then he heard something, his attention once more turning to his wife, she had now just impacted a wall and was mumbling.

He strained his ears to hear what she was saying, if she was saying anything at all, her foot had temporally gotten stuck under the carpet and Penelope was giggling madly. Suddenly he had an urge to slap the girl beside him yet he was still concentrated on Catherine and although the King could do many great things, multitasking was not one of them. Her foot had come loose at this point but her pointed red shoe lay stray by the carpet, her words filled his ears, gushing in all at once like a tidal wave, "Henry...Henry...please...Henry...I thought

...Henry...don't...hurt...Henry....me...Henry...my head..." She clutched her head in pain.

His heart snapped like a twig underfoot and he sprang from the bed as she collapsed to the ground. She was hunched on the ground so defeated, helpless, beautifully innocent. Penelope stopped laughing to briefly look at him, "Are you going to hurt her?" She asked and he swore he heard hope in her voice.