Northern Downpour (Red Queen Fanfiction)

Chapter 1

Mare Barrow
The sunlight creeps through the window waking me. I stir in my blankets not wanting to get up from the warm bed. My leg muscles ache as I stretch them out and my body years for more sleep. We got here only a few hours after midnight last night and after spending most of the night on an air jet, I am more than willing to spend the rest of the day in bed.

But we must be here for an important reason or Davidson wouldn't have us fly out to Montfort on such short notice. As much as I want more sleep, I'm also eager to see what he has to say.

I'm lost in my thoughts until a loud yawn distracts me. I smirk over my shoulder at my husband. His sleepy bronze eyes are starting to open.

If there is one thing I learned about Cal over the past few years is that he loves to sleep in. Maybe it's because he didn't get to do it much before and rarely now but, whenever it's a weekend morning and he has nothing planned for the day he likes to get some well deserved rest.

I'm the opposite as I always wake up early and can never go back to sleep. Although on those lazy mornings, Cal likes to wrap his arms around my waist and hold me close so I won't leave.

The life I'm living now isn't the future I excepted for myself. Happily married at twenty-three and being a Nortan ambassador. I could have never imagined the love of my life would be a former Silver prince.

After the war, when Cal and I parted ways on an airbase I was set to figure out myself and what I wanted to do with my life.

I went through a lot of different career options during that time. I didn't know if I wanted to keep on going on the path I was set on, was I cut out for a government job? I thought about being a newblood trainer but, after a few days of trying that I realized I was not cut out for it.

Plus training always reminded me of Cal and even though I was the one that ended it between us I still missed him dearly. But, it's not as if we never talked to each other during that time.

He sent me the first letter about five months after we parted. It was three pages long and he told me about all he was doing in Norta. He talked about how since the Lakelanders weren't trying to attack them anymore, he suggested the idea of forming an alliance with them.

He also suggested many other ideas of how to help the country and many of those ideas were how to make Reds equal. I even remember him doing a broadcast to the country, his first one since he was a prince. He talked about what Maven did to his father and about his plans for Norta and how he stills loves his county. It made the people of Norta fall in love with Cal again, Reds and Silvers supporting him. Though I know there are a good amount of people that still think he is a traitor prince.

Now Cal is on the council of people who run Norta, with half of the council people being Silver and the other half Red. He was voted on by the citizens of Norta, like all the rest of the council members. Although I know him being a former prince probably helped him get the votes from some people, he was still so proud when he found out he got voted on.

I remember that day too. It was a year after we had spilt and by that time I had decided I still wanted to work to help Reds get their equality. I was working closely with Farley and Davidson helping nearby territories and countries get Red equality. Although I did love doing that, I was missing Norta and realized I wanted to go back to my home country to help out there.