The Queen of Hearts has had a child who is now 15, when a ball is thrown in her favor, she starts thinking rebellious thoughts. Join the Princess in her quest for restoring her kingdom, and it she might pick up some old friends along the way. For th...
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"Our name is the White Roses."
"So Jest, now that we've settled that, care to tell us your story?" Adriel asked, in a way that wasn't asking but acting like you had a choice.
"Where should I start?"
"Probably with how you're alive," Raven suggested. As Anna walked in, seeing what she missed.
"Eh, I'm still a little confused by that myself. All I know is one second I'm jumping in front of Cath to save her from Peter Peter, then I was in this random cave. I wandered around and noticed that people didn't seem to see me. So eventually I got desperate enough to go see the girls at the treacle well. They seemed shocked to see me. Then they talked among themselves saying that it must've not been the right time."
"So how did they make you mortal again?" Lex asked.
"Some ritual, extracting all the magical essence unneeded from my body. They eventually extract too much until I wasn't able to have visions," He nodded at Alex, "And I was only a Rook, but my powers were weakened." Raven and Alex gasped, apparently, they knew something that everyone else didn't.
"The girls collected the essence and put it in a box that they said was their most valuable possession. I didn't think much of it at that point in time, but now I'm wondering what exactly was in it. The next day they came to me, yelling at me, screaming 'what have you done!' I, however, had no idea what they were talking about. Well, until I heard crying. It was like a newborn baby left alone without anyone caring for it. I looked around and eventually found the baby. She had lemon-yellow eyes just like mine and black hair. I could tell that she had a kind heart just like Cath. I brought her to the sisters and they took her away to examine where she came from."
"It was me wasn't it?" I asked so quietly I was sure no one heard. Jest glanced at me and gave me a knowing smile like he heard what I said but knew that he would answer it eventually.
"They came to the conclusion that the child was made by two things combined, my extra magic, and a heart as pure as gold. The sisters then started debating who to give the baby too. I suggested that I could take care of her, but they said that I wouldn't give her what she needed to grow up and fulfill her destiny. That I couldn't give her what she needed to thrive. So I agreed, I recommended Cath as I thought at the time she would be an excellent mother, they snickered together and agreed. At the time I didn't realize how bad of an idea it was."
"You didn't know that the heart was Cath's and that she had turned heartless?" Oceane asked accusingly.
"Well, yeah! What did you expect me to know? It's not like I could go and see her, the sisters made that pretty clear! So it's not like I could've known!" I could hear how Jest was struggling to keep the sarcasm out of his voice.
"I guess, that's fair," Oceane admitted.
"Anyway," Jest continued, "They took the baby and I guess somehow made Cath pregnant so she would have no choice but to keep the baby. So she had an official offspring. All I know is that the kingdom accepted Princess Rose, into the royal bloodline about four months later. The king obviously thought it was his, and Cath went along with it since you know we never did that. A few years later the sisters told me that I could see Rose, on the condition that I didn't tell her where she came from. So I went to see my 6-year-old daughter." I started remembering something about my childhood.
"You were that stranger that kept his eyes hidden, and gave me your hat! You told me to never tell my mother of our meeting, and for some reason I trusted you, I know why now," I smiled slightly, "I'm apart of you."
"Yeah, I guess you could say that!" He laughed and smiled, but then it dimmed.
"Rose, the sisters said that I was too kind to take care of you, I want to know," he took my small hands in his gloved ones, "Was your life okay? I mean did Cath take care of you?" I shifted uncomfortably in my seat, but he continued to ask questions, "Did she care for you the way a mother should? How was the king as a Dad?" At this, I snapped.
"My father died when I was 10, before that he kept Mother in check, but after he died she started running the kingdom her own way, way more executions than needed, making me sit through each of them, if I did something wrong there normally was a punishment, at that point Raven stopped watching over me. He stayed by Mother's side pretty much every second. I became a shell of a person. Followed all her rules, I didn't complain, didn't cry, covered up the marks when she would punish me. It was the same thing every day it seemed, wake up, go sit in on an execution, eat a small lunch, go to etiquette classes, learn how to be perfect," I was crying at this point, "Then when I started maturing, Mother started 'teaching' me how to be a queen, or basically how to be her. How to run the kingdom her way, how to make sure that everyone was terrified of me. She never once asked if I wanted a break, never asked me how I felt, never letting me out of the castle, never saying that I did a good job, only telling me what I was doing wrong, focusing on the little things that I was bad at," As Jest came to comfort me I shot up out of my seat. He was the one who did this to me. He was the one who left me with that monster of a mother. It was his fault, for once I wasn't the to blame. For once I could be mad at someone else. It kind of felt good.
I ran out of the room, looking for an escape from all of their eyes on me. I didn't need their pity, I didn't want to waste their time. I looked for a way outside, I needed the comfort of fresh air. I needed to not be cooped up in a singular room. I took so many twists and turns that even if I wanted to backtrack I couldn't. I could hear the echoes of people looking for me, wondering where I was, why I ran off. If there was one thing I was good at it was disappearing. I eventually found a dead end with a window, if I only I could fly, I thought to myself. Then I felt myself shirking and reforming. Once the sensation disappeared, I looked at myself, I was now a Raven with red, white, and black feathers. I knew what I had to do and flew through the window disappearing into the night.
A/N: Hey! I'm not dead, and I updated on time! Who's proud of me? Anyway, I still need a name for the rebel group and if I don't get one I'll eventually come up with a stupid one, so help please, I'll pretty much give you a character, and access to the google doc I write it on for like a month, and anything else that you might want. Also, I will definitely update next week, because I finally wrote a chapter before I needed it! I'm so proud of myself, I told you that I get more done in school than I do over the summer! Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter about the past and learning more about Rose. Just to clarify, Rose is a supernatural being that is technically not related to anyone since she is basically magic. If you have any questions feel free to ask! I also have too much free time so if you have anything that you think would be cool if I read, feel free to share it with me! Who knew that I could write an author's note on basically nothing? Have a good day/night/afternoon/whatever time you are reading this!
