All the stories don't always have a happy ending.

Drabble 6 : A king is never perfect.

Centred on the king in Poison

Pairing : The king/his first wife The king/Lilith (Evil Queen)

Spoil : Poison

The thing that everyone in the kingdom could have said, is that their king was not someone excessively good; some people would have qualified him of frightening (after all, he was an ogre) or as someone vain or also as searching for the glory (because of all the wars he made).

If someone had asked to the actual queen, Lilith, this one would have probably qualified her husband as being a slob (which he was). Or would have said that he really loved his daughter or that he was just a weak king.

No, no one could say that the king was particularly loved, except by the crowd or by his daughter; of course it was reciprocal just with his daughter. The king didn't love his people, in the sense that he had no consideration for him and wasn't preoccupied with him.

On the other hand, the king adored his daughter; it was something that no one could deny, even if it appeared clearly that the true love of the king should be the war, that he practised with diligence since forever.

Except for his daughter, the king loved no one except himself, no even the queen. At least not the one that was in his bed; the other, his first wife, the queen Christelle, (dead since a certain time) had been sincerely loved by the king.

This one, at her death, really mourned her and was in mourning for long months. It had been probably the only time he showed to the eyes of everyone that he suffered.

Then, he had to get married again, with Lilith and if he didn't love her, she really pleased him; the queen, on her side, couldn't retain a shiver of disgust by seeing him move closer to her, then sleep, and beginning to snore.

Yes, she thought by thinking about all theses tales that had been told about the princes and the kings, and about how much they could be wonderful, and thinking about the fact that it was false, a king is never perfect.