Tale as Old as Time | ✓

Lady Tremaine

Lady Tremaine smirked at her husband who was soon going to be her ex-husband and give her all his property which he had named in Ella's name. She tugged on the cloth tied tightly around his neck as she smiled sweetly at him as her two daughters stood behind her. She placed her shotgun at his neck as she asked him, "Where is Ella?"

"I don't know." Ella's father shrieked loudly as much as he could with the cloth tied around his mouth. He looked at her as she shook her head, "Wrong choice." Her girls laughed out loud behind evilly as she held the gun higher to his head and shot the gun. Her father closed his eyes anticipating the bullet to hit him but, nothing happened as the gun was empty and only the sound of the gun was heard as they laughed evilly at his expense.

They stopped laughing as they heard a knock on the door. Lady Tremaine straightened up as she said, "This is not your fate, darling." She gestured at the gun and then pointed at the door as Drizella walked over to open the door, "But, that is." Just as Drizella opened the door, Lady Tremaine placed the gun in Ella's father's lap and started crying loudly as she saw people enter the house. She cried as she made weird hand gestures around her, "He... he" She said through her tears as she sobbed, "He tried killing me with the gun."

The Villagers gasped at her sobs and they turned towards him as they angrily approached him. He shook his head violently at them as she said, "See, he even has the audacity to deny it." She sobbed as the Villagers pulled him up from the chair and walked him out of the house. He saw his ex-servants standing in the crowd with their heads hung in shame.

The cloth around Ella's father's mouth loosened and he shouted, "I didn't try to kill her. She tried to kill me." He pointed his shivering finger at Lady Tremaine and she sobbed more trying to convince the crowd of her innocent self.

"He's gone mad after Ella ran off somewhere." Lady Tremaine sobbed as she looked at the Villagers and they nodded their heads at her as they held him in his place, as Ella's father struggled against their holds.

He shook his head violently at them to convince them of her wrong doings but, the Villagers believed the lady who was a sobbing mess and not a father who had supposedly gone mad after his daughter went missing.

"He needs treatment." Lady Tremaine said as she looked around the Villagers and they agreed to her, she smirked lightly at Ella's father and then her smirk changed to a smile of gratitude as she thanked the Villagers for their support.

Lady Tremaine turned towards the doctor and smiled at him graciously as she asked him, "Would you please help us doctor?" Lady Tremaine walked towards her husband and stood behind him as they sat him in the wheelchair. She placed her hands on his shoulders and massaged his shoulders as she leaned down to whisper in his ears, "This is your last chance, darling. Wouldn't want to spend the last of your days in the mental asylum, would you?" His eyes widened as he stared at the carriage they brought in to transport him to the mental asylum.

For the Villagers, it looked like Lady Tremaine was whispering sweet nothings to calm him down, but she was threatening to kill him if he didn't tell her where Ella was.

Lady Tremaine walked around her husband as she smiled at him innocently and then bent down in front of him. She placed her palm on his knees as she caressed his thighs and asked him, "Where is Ella?" He shook his head as he muttered crying, "I...I...don't know. I really don't know." He cried out in vain as her finger nails dug deep into his skin as she clenched his thigh, causing the blood to spill out. "Please, let me go. Please, let me go. You can have all the money and property you want but, please let me." Her father pleaded as he looked at her but, she shook her head as she stood up from the ground and turned around abruptly.

Ella's father knew his wife's strange addiction with Ella had something to do with the glass slippers, they were worth a ton of gold and she wanted to keep them to herself. He still wasn't sure as to why she thought he knew his daughter's whereabouts since he had seen her last on the day of his trip. He had no idea of the said Royal Ball, neither did he know that his daughter had went there in a disguise, this was what Lady Tremaine had been telling him since the last few days. As, Ella apparently went missing after the night of the Royal Ball.