Negotiating with thine attacker

(OOC: "This is an intervention" ok that was just funny *snorts*)

We are just having a bit of wine, nothing sinister, perhaps you will join us?

*looks her up and down*

Oh, yes Richard we were talking about whether you could handle me.

*Tries to think of a question I could ask Richard that would prove if the potion was working without tipping him off if it wasn't ...*

Richard, do you love me?

(OOC: Elizbeth and Walsingham are wondering if the little bit of truth serum Marie took off the rim of Richard's cup will have any effect on her)

(OOC: Marie always tells the truth. I don't know why you would even say something like that.)

(OOC: In the realm of her own derrangement, perhaps she does. Personally I think she needs some serious therapy to get over all her weird behavioural freak outs. ...wonder if Anne hath any spare prozac she cudst share.)

*all is silent ... somewhere crickets doth chirp*


*Richard looks around to ensure the chaos is indeed over then turns to Marie*

You wished to ask me something? *takes a sip of wine*

I wished to know it you loved me?

*Richard opens his mouth to speak with out thinking first, which is his way. But he finds his choosen response refuses to come*


I ... *forces a laugh* I think the drink doth go to my head. I ... *sighs* I do as much is possible for someone like me.

Have you ever kissed a man? (OOC: You so knew I was going to go there, lol).

(OOC: hehehehehe now how would I know that)

No! of course not *a look of disgust spreads across his face*

How old are you?

37

*Looks deep at him* If you married me, what would be your first act as King?

*Pours Richard another glass of wine*.

*give a sort of snort* Make hiers


Really, that is hard to answer,I hath never been in a postion to rule, I really am unsure. I wuldst only be King consort and so the real power wuldst lay in thine hands, not mine

What was the worst thing that ever happened to you?

The worst? The day my brother was born .... no no that is not true ... the day I found out my father .... he was not my real father

*Gasps and drinks some wine, forgetting it's for Richard. Re-fills his glass and hands it to him*. What do you mean? Tell me!

*Richard looks totured. but he takes a sip of wine and goes on*

He was not my father. My whore of a mother was apparently already with child when my father married her. He was kind enough to me, treated me as I was his own son ...

unitl Nicholas was born ... then he had his real son *he says bitterly*

*Looks at Richard with genuine sympathy*.

I cannot know how you feel, but I can come close. I was the real child with a bevy of bastard siblings. They all hated me so much, they're the reason I was brought down. Oh, Richard, I'm so sorry *Leans over and gives Richard a hug*.

*he stiffens but allows her to do so*

quid pro quo *Richard turns on her*

Do you love me ?

What? *Looks at Richard with a face full of terror realizing how dumb it was to drink the potion. And then looks around for Nicholas.* Yes, I do. I do, but I ...

*Richard begins to grin*

But what ? You do or you do not. Which is it?

Yes I do. But it's ... Oh God ... I don't know *Prays to God to help me with this*

I feel a bond for you. I've met so many people like you who have been hurt and become gruff and cruel. I know you are a good person and I've decided that if it kills me, if you break my neck between your fingers like so much driftwood I will bring the good part of you out.

I see myself in you so much, only what I could have been instead of what I am. *Leans over and kisses Richard on the cheek, in a way that is totally acceptable*.

*Richard nods slightly concidering*

Thou wishes to "fix" me then? *issues a bitter laugh*

Thou professes to love me, but it is not a love between a husband and wife ... thou does not love me as you do my brother?

(OOC: Can I please advise you to miscary the child before it shows, I said changing history can be possible but please keep it reasonable. A marriage could be kept a secret but a pregnancy couldn't, especially the Queens. Thanks.)