My Red Queen |Red Queen fanfic|

Plotting

~Mare~

  "I don't know " Evangeline says to me.

  Her voice, usually laced with a toxic hatred is smooth, silvery even. After all we've been through, after all the shots fired between the two of us how can she help me now?
   She hates me. She has loathed me since my first appearance among the Silver Lords and Ladies at Queenstrial. Back when I was just a servant. She was the one who promised to kill me should I ever get in her way, in fact I distinctly remember her trying to a handful of times.

Why now? What has changed?

   TIME SKIP

  A cool washcloth is brought to my face, Evangeline dabs the irritated skin with such gentleness. Such tenderness, never in a million years would I have expected the hand picked 'perfect' Silver princess with a bone chilling hatred for Reds would ever willingly show kindness. Not me. Not to anyone .

While she washes my face another set of hands takes hold of my arm. Heavy, overly calloused hands rub up and down my wounded arm. The second touch feels like a dead weight. Feels wrong and unwelcoming .
My eyes flutter open, I cannot see far beyond my nose but I sense there's others. "Mare? Can you hear me?" I tried to nod but failed. The pain, it hurt too much. I used what little strength I had to squeeze a hand, not sure who's but I squeezed like my life depended on it.

"Did you see that?," a voice which I presume belongs to Evangeline fills my ears, "she's trying to communicate- do it again Mare. Squeeze my hand".

I wrap my weak fingers around the side of her hand adding small amounts of pressure.

"She's alive!" She almost sounds... happy?

"Someone fetch me a skin healer, I want those wounds aided immediately" she barks .

Why would you save me?

The wash cloth is replaced with her hand . Evangeline pushes strands of my messy hair out of eyes. "As much as I hate.. hated you I sympathize with your pathetic miserable life ". If I didn't know any better I'd say she cares for me.

"Can you see me Mare?" She inches closer .

Mare

"Y-y-you know my name" I grumbled.

I don't have to see her to know she's giving me a 'knowing' look.

"Everyone knows who you are. You're famous".

"Yes but you always called me lightning girl or whore or Red rat".

She twist strands of my hair around her fingers, "jealousy is quite the ugly monster isn't it?", I have a quizzical look.

"From the moment you were brought into our world I knew he was in love with you- he was completely head over heels for new Red girl disguised as a lost Silver princess. I knew it and he knew it. You were the one thing that could jeopardize my chances of becoming queen. Things were made even worse once Maven fell for you too".

Jealous of me?

"Mare... Silvers cannot bear their hearts. It's dangerous to leave yourself so vulnerable- so exposed. That is why we hardly ever love anyone, not our friends, not our children and certainly not our spouses. Love is the death of us".

Neither of them loved me...

"You wanted to destroy me to protect your status, I understand that" I admit .

Her dark eyes seem to brighten to a comforting chestnut brown.

"Sadly for you, if you ever hope to have change among the Silvers and the Reds they need a Red to be in power. While the guard can make news headlines here and there they aren't strong enough to take down two Silver kingdoms".

I smell a plan

"No, they'll need someone on the inside. Someone who can fight the system from the inside" she wears a mischievous grin.

She turns to me fully, grabbing both my hands making sure she has my undivided attention.

"You're going to be Norta's first Red queen".

A storm is brewing and the message is clear