My Red Queen |Red Queen fanfic|

Stranger things have happen

~Mare~

     Just when I thought I'd seen everything... my most fearsome enemy rushes to my side to rescue me. After having my emotions toyed with more times than I care to remember I should think twice about aligning my loyalties with another Silver.

How much are you willing to lose?

Everything. I am willing to bet any and everything I have left . Clearly I'm unable to relinquish myself from the never ending Mary go round that is the infamous Calore men (not the mention that I stupidly fell for both of them).

As much I'm ashamed to admit it... I need her. I need her to give me the one thing I have truly been lacking.
I need her to be my strength, to be the muscle propelling my body to keep moving. I need her faith so that I have reason to believe that we can do this.

But most importantly- I need to be free.

"Where shall we begin?"

A devilish smile curves her lips, I can practically see the wheels turning.

"You have to win and woo Maven. Be so unrealistically irresistible that he begs you to marry him. Be charming and inviting, tease him a bit to catch his attention".

Be like Maven

"First thing is we need to doll you up" she says as she looks me over.  I realize she is only trying to help but I can't help but feel offended as if she's implying that my appearance is unappealing.
    Evangeline, with the help of a few maids she recruited, are busy trying to make me 'beautiful' .
     I sit uncomfortably on a wooden stool as four women work to polish me. One maid is detangling my hair, doing her best to out wrestle the large knots. Another cleans and buffs my nails, the third is painting my face with makeup while Evangeline sorts through the dresses.

"Is all this really necessary?" I whine.

My eyelids are closed so that maid number three can properly apply my eyeshadow. She tells me we're going for natural Smokey eye. She claims it agrees with my skin tone.

"Of course!" Evangeline snaps, "beauty is pain Mare, plans not going fro last 2 seconds if you look gross".

Gross!

"Ugh! Did you find me something to wear- you've been rifling through that closet forever".

"I might have", I hear slyness in her tone, " oh yeah I found you a pretty little number, he's going to love it".

The undertone of that seemingly harmless statement makes me shudder in fear

The maids finally stop making me over long enough for Evangeline to slip me into my gown, she blindfolded me so that my appearance would be a surprise.

"Okay now open" she cheers.

I'm now standing before a full length mirror, eyes rooming over my petite frame in a mixture of awe and sheer horror.

"Damn Mare you're a babe" Evangeline gives me a whistle.

I can't help but blush as I leer at the sultry pale yellow mermaid dress perfectly hugging my body like a glove. Angelina myself to the side I can see my tail falling a few feet behind me.

"This might be too much" I try to cover myself using a blanket .

Evangeline is quick to retort. Snapping the fabric from my grasp causing me to jump in surprise. I nearly fall back on the makeup counter.

"Nonsense! You look hot as hell" she glares at me through the mirror.

Hot?

"B-but I feel exposed... my breast are peaking out a-and my butt is -is"

"Perky. Its bubbly so it will stick out a bit, that a good thing", she turns me around so that she can attach studded earrings, "as for you breast, that's going to happen when your chesty".

My face heats up once more, I try to shove down the bizarre feeling of craving to hear how bewitching I was.

Sometimes I forget that  I like to be reminded that I'm pretty

I'm pretty...

"Maven won't be able to keep his hands off you".

I laugh nervously, unintentionally snorting in between anxious giggles. My hand slams over my lips in embarrassment. A blush once again pricks my cheeks.

"That was surprisingly cute".

"Now head to his chambers in the west wing, he should be back from the elite meeting by now" .

She gives me a gentle nudge towards the door signaling me to get moving. Strangely I feel afraid to be alone with home .Especially after he caught me sleeping with his brother.

What if he sees right through me? What if he won't accept me after I gave up my virtue?

He was always jealous of the elephant in the room that was Cal and I, the inability to ignore that we wanted each other ate away at his sanity. I knew it and he knew it. 

Suddenly I fear that this is his opportunity to kill me. I broke his heart in such a way that had never crossed my mind as a means of revenge. Giving that one part of me that he hadn't- no one had experienced was my final f- you to the boy king.

I am a damn fool to not consider that he won't want me. Not now. Not after this.

Evangeline arranged for me to be escorted to Maven's chambers by a friend of hers. He of course was a sentinel, cold and intimidating as all are. He lead me to my destination, disappearing behind the large door to have a private word with the king.

"The king will see you now" he says calmly.