reincarnation and broken bonds

Iron walls

TW: Mentions of what happened to Elisabeth

A year, for an entire year, Catherine Parr tried to make amends with Anne Boleyn. Keyword tried, she really did, but Anne seemed to have built iron walls to block her out. The fact that halfway through that same year, they were contacted by two people that had written a musical about their past lives didn't make it any better for the blue-eyed woman. They needed the money though. So, after signing their contracts, they were officially part of 'six' the musical. So, when Boleyn first heard her sing her song during their first group rehearsal, she was not thrilled to hear the name of her last ex-husband.

Her first attempts at explaining herself were thoroughly ignored, after all, Boleyn would just turn on her heel and flee. The blue queen was admittedly a little chagrinned at this, but, even so, she would not voice her discontent. The next ones resulted in a much less discreet way of ignoring her advances, she would just look at her, dead in the eye, scoff, and totally pick out her phone to use it in front of her before leaving her behind. The last time she tried to reach her in a spoken way, she actually managed to make the green-eyed woman talk to her, though in this case, it must have been for the worse. she still had fresh in her mind the way Boleyn broke down before her very eyes.

(Boleyn was standing before her after one of her many attempts of making peace, she was expecting her to reject her like she always did, but the next thing that came from her lips really caught the writer off guard "Stop it! just stop it! I don't care about whatever you are trying to tell me! If it's not clear enough then I will sum it up to you, I don't want to talk to you! Heck, I don't even wanna see you! My cousins may have grown fond of you, but I did not in fact 'befriended' you neither did I try in the first place. Don't try to explain yourself and magically 'win' my friendship for it doesn't work that way! I will never forgive you or that monster of a husband you had, you may have not touched MY baby, but you still neglected her, you sent her away when she needed comfort the most, you never really bothered in apologizing when you had the chance!" By this point, the tallest woman's voice was loud enough for all of their housemates to listen so she was even more surprised when her voice dropped to a whisper "No Parr, I'm not forgiving you, not for what you did to my baby girl... I'm not letting you justify nor explain your reasons as if this was some kind of sick joke to you... She was 14, you left your husband do that to a 14-year-old, don't expect me to forgive that." After that, the older one left her standing in the kitchen with her own insecurities barging in)

Ever since that day, she stopped trying to approach her directly, and let's be honest, the guilt that was heaving her since day one. That day the guilt just multiplied endlessly. After all, Anne was right, she didn't deserve her forgiveness. Why was she trying? Was that the right thing to do or was she just trying to feel less miserable? Was she selfish for wanting the second queen to befriend her? Of course, she was... It was always about her! She never stopped to think about how much it hurt the other woman, just knowing the person who let her daughter down lived under the same roof as herself.

The tension between the two was evident. It was noticeable on and off stage. Something that not only the other queens but their fans started to notice over the course of their performances was that Parr never looked thrilled to sing her own song. She always sang it with a sad tone that could easily pass as the pain of losing the love of your life. But, there always seemed to be more. The second and sixth queens never looked at each other to the eye in the whole performance, and during megasix, they stayed as far from the other as possible.

All of this could be passed as to how they did not get along at all, but it seemed to be something deeper for the queens. Yes, the arguments stopped ever since Cathy stopped 'bothering' Anne, but the tension doubled. Those two had to get in separate dressing rooms after the tension was strong enough to drive Kat away. Also, with this, some issues that were not clearly visible became a bit more obvious. For example, at the stage door, Cathy commonly stayed as close to her godmother as possible. Whenever a man was to direct their eyes towards her, she would be as brief as possible. Anne's nightmares were also at their peak, they were never evident to anyone but her cousins, but now, everyone knew when their local gremlin had a night terror.

They all knew this had to do with something of the past but, no one dared ask any of the two who were affected what happened. Catalina being the good godmother she was, one day after their last show was done, dragged Cathy out of her room turned studio and lead her to her own room where they sat down both wrapped in all of Lina's blankets. "Mija, I don't intend to sound rude with this, so if I do, please tell me." A bit confused by Lina's statement Cathy only nodded. "What happened back then? With Anne's daughter? I know you don't want to talk about it, but this, this is touching you in more ways than back then when you were just arriving." The survivor took a deep breath before speaking.

"Back in the days, when Henry had just passed away, I married this man... His name was Thomas, at first, I thought he genuinely loved me, it was later on in our relationship that I found out he... didn't. Before our marriage, he had already asked for both Mary and Elisabeth's hands. he didn't love me, no, he loved the power I carried on with me. When I married him, I decided to raise Elisabeth by his side, in my mind we were going to be a family! From what I know, he started visiting her in her chambers while she wasn't dressed yet. I didn't know this at the time so, I never really did anything to make him stop. It became worse when one time he told me he and I could visit her and tickle her like a real family. Of course, my foolish brain didn't notice his ulterior motives. Then there was this other time. He started ripping off her dress. I held her to protect her! That night I realized what little power I held against him. He was stronger and, I didn't have anyone to protect me from his rage! I couldn't move for two days... The last straw dropped when I found him in a room with her. I didn't know what to do to protect her! I was heavily pregnant and, if I were to stand against him, he would kill my baby! I decided that in order to keep his hands away from her, I had to send her away... We still wrote but, I couldn't apologize over a letter. I really wanted to hug her and tell her how sorry I was for letting him move in with us, but fate wasn't by my side. I died just a few months later, after giving birth to my daughter. I'd do anything to be able to change it, to stop him on time. I'm sorry you have such a bad excuse for a person as a goddaughter." Lina just hugged her tightly and whispered some sweet nothings in the writer's ear. She knew Cathy needed the affection. After a while, the writer passed out on Lina's arms. Little did they knew; a certain green-eyed gremlin was listening intently from the other side of the door.

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Note:
I tried to make this as historicaly accurate as I could, but I did add one headcanon of Thomas' behavior towards Cathy