Stay With Me

The Aftermath

Francis's point of view
When I woke up Mary was laying next to me and my arm was over her, I smiled at her. "Your awake." She said "What? I thought you were sleeping!" I said "I've been up for hours." She said "Why?" I asked "I couldn't sleep after, I was to worried about you." She said, I love her so much. "You don't need to stay up worrying about me." I said "Well today is going to be really stressful for you." She said "Mary I love you." I said stroking her cheek. "I love you too." She said then I kissed her. "You should go meet with the nobles." She said "I would rather stay in bed with you." I said "I know you would but you have other responsibilities then making love to me." She said "Do I?" I laughed "Yes you have a lot of responsibilities now." She said "Yes I do." I said "Can we please talk about last night?" She asked "Basically I went into my fathers room and he told me he was sorry for being such a terrible father then he just died." I said "Just like that?" She asked "Yes just like that." I said "Well how did you feel about it?" She asked "Mary are you serious?" I asked "Yes I'm serious Francis, I know it was traumatizing to see your father die." She said "Mary I'm fine." I said getting out of bed "Francis I know you, your not fine." She said "Mary, I'm really fine." I said "You know what, I tried to help and your are just being unreasonable. I don't know if this your way of grieving or something but it doesn't seem like your grieving, your just being an ass." She said then pulled a sheet over her naked body and got out of bed and walked past me. "Mary, Mary I'm sorry." I said grabbing her arm. "Let go of me." She said, she looked like she was about to cry, God I'm so stupid, that was how Tomas used to grab her. "Mary I'm so sorry, I forgot, I didn't mean to seem aggressive." I said "It's fine." She said then walked past me into her closet. I hate myself. She came out wearing a burgundy dress with gold designs and her hair was half up half down. "You look gorgeous." I said "Thank you." She said then walked past me. "Mary just wait." I said "Francis I'm going to see my children, just stop, go be fine with your privy council and advisors because I'm not going to listen to this after I tried to help you." She said "Mary." I said then she walked past me, I walked to James and Charles's rooms but she wasn't in there. I went to Madelyn's room and the door was cracked open, I looked in it and Mary and Madelyn were having a tea party. "Mommy you don't not hold your tea cup right." Madelyn said "How do I hold it right?" Mary giggled "You have to stick your pinkie out." Madelyn said "Well Madelyn I have been drinking tea for a long time and no one has ever told me I was doing it wrong." She said "Well you are." Madelyn said, Mary spit out her tea. "Mommy you got my table dirty!" She said "I'm sorry Madelyn." Mary laughed "Madelyn can you excuse your mother for a little while?" I asked "No, were having a tea party." She said "Madelyn is there any way you can finish it later?" I asked "No." Madelyn said. "Madelyn, your father and I have some very important things to deal with." Mary said "But Mommy, our tea party!" She pouted "Sweetheart I'm sorry but I can come back later and we can have a tea party with just the two of us." Mary said "Can Daddy come too?" She asked "Yes, if you want him to." Mary said "Yay! Bye Mommy!" She said "Bye sweetheart." Mary said then kissed her cheek and walked past me out the door and down the hall. "Mary if your mad about we grabbing your arm I'm so, so sorry." He said "I'm not mad about that, I'm mad because your trying to act like your fine and your not, I mean last night you father died and all you wanted to do was have sex." She said "Mary I was grieving." I said "Oh you were grieving while you moaned my name?" She asked "Everyone has their own different ways of coping." I said "Yes they do, but the normal way of grieving is crying a lot and talking about your feelings." She said "Do you really want me to break down in front of you and talk about my feelings?" I said "Yes Francis that's all I want! You don't have to be strong around me! It's okay to be vulnerable with me!" She said "Fine I'm absolutely heart broken Mary! Even though he pushed me away my entire life and was awful and cold to me, he was my Father and I loved him and he's dead. He died right in front of me." I said "Oh Francis I'm so sorry." She said then hugged me. "It was awful Mary." I said "I'm sorry Francis." She said "I'm sorry about last night, I shouldn't have put you in the position, you probably felt pressured." I said "No, it's all right. I didn't feel pressured, I would have said no if I didn't want to." She said "I love you." I said "I love you too." She said then kissed me. "Can you come with me to the council meeting?" I asked "Yes of course." She said, I smiled then kissed her and we walked to the throne room holding hands. When we walked in and everyone bowed. I sat down in the Kings throne and Mary sat on the Queen throne. "You want her in here?" Narcisse asked "Why wouldn't I want my queen next to me on my first day as king?" I asked "Well what purpose could she have in here? She's a woman." He said "Yes She is a woman, I'm glad your eyes are working. And Mary is absolutely brilliant and an amazing monarch so if she serves to purpose here then you are completely and utterly irrelevant." I said, he looked shocked. "Okay let's stop the bickering and get to work." Mary said "Of Course your grace." Narcisse said
Later that evening
"Francis?" Mary asked as we laid in bed "Yes?" I asked "Can you rub my back?" She asked "Yeah sure." I laughed then straddled her back and started rubbing her back. "I don't like when we fight." She said "I don't either, that's the first time we have ever really fought." I said "I know, it was so hard to be mad at you." She said "Let's just agree not to fight ever again." I said "I agree." She said "We are going to have to start preparing James to be king." I said "Why? He's only three, all he wants to do is play outside and wrestle with his brother." She asked "My father start preparing me when I was two." I said "I will not have my son be surrounded by nobles and advisors for his entire childhood, he deserves to have the chance to be a little kid." She said "I agree, he won't even remember the lessons from when he was a child." I said then Madelyn came in. "Madelyn why are you up?" I asked "You never came to finish our tea party." She said "I'm sorry Madelyn, I completely forgot. But tomorrow why don't we go by the lake and we can have a picnic." Mary said "Okay Mommy! Daddy you will come too right?" She asked "Yes Madelyn I will come." I said "Yay! Goodnight!" She said then skipped out. "She's to cute." Mary said "Yes she is." I said "Lets go to bed." Mary said "Sounds good." I said then got off her and laid on my side of the bed. "Goodnight." I said "Goodnight." Mary said then kissed my cheek, I kissed her deeply. "Are you trying to get me to take my dress off?" She giggled "Maybe." I smiled "We can do over the clothes things." She giggled "Now your really torturing me." I said "Hush your pretty little mouth and kiss me." She said then pulled me into close to her, God I love her so much.