FRAGMENTS OF A DYNASTY
Summary: Anne, Henry, Mary, and Kat think about how perfect Elizabeth is.
Pairings: Maternal Anne/Elizabeth, Kat/Elizabeth, Paternal Henry/Elizabeth, Romantically Henry/Anne, Henry/Katherine implied.
She was perfect.
She was strong. She was healthy. She had her eyes and his hair. She cried loudly as Henry shouted in a temper. She was so aware of her surroundings and she knew that she would be intelligent and bright as her and Henry.
But she was a girl and a girl is not good enough.
She was perfect.
She was strong. She was healthy. She had her eyes and his eyes. She cried like a true Tudor and she had an intelligent look about her. She was his jewel, more than that; she was his jewel in St Edward's Crown that was how precious she was to him.
But she was a girl and that is not good enough. She is a girl even though he went through hell and back to have her mother and made himself the Head of Church making himself an enemy to some of the most powerful men of Europe. All this trouble, all this fuss, all this hard work and she was a girl.
She was perfect.
After everything she went through because of Anne Boleyn and hearing how the Boleyn's will do what Katherine of Aragon never could and what Mary could never be. After being denounced as a bastard and being forced into practically poverty and yet it didn't make a difference. She was a girl.
Mary laughed delightedly and gleefully. Oh this was perfect.
She was perfect.
It did not matter that she was a girl. It did not matter that her mother was beheaded for adultery and people whispered that she was a witch. It did not matter that there was little money and she would have to budget. What mattered was that she was charming, polite, graceful, elegant, intelligent (she was learning so much everyday), beautiful, and hers.
Kat helped the Lady Elizabeth get dressed and every day she would stare at her young charge's reflection and think...
She is perfect.
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