What Was Hidden Is Now Revealed

While married to the king?

ooc: i like this board so we will keep this going. Counselor Velar will pay Hugh alot of money to have her kidnapped and taken away by ship just prior to the wedding.

ooc: he does not like the advice she gives the king so he wants her out of the way short of murder.

lol but she's not going to fall in love with anyone else

Then she will have to have her struggles to find her way back. She will be on a ship with other women and learn that they are to be sold on the black market as slaves. She might be able to get out of that where they end up but then without money or much of anything try and find a way back to her king. I will see how far away she ends up.

Unless Trevare comes for her. That might be the only other person I could see her with at this point, but he may not want to be with her now.

ooc: no, I had an image in my head of King Louis looking up from his desk to see her being half carried, her clothes nearly in rags, wounded and filthy. They fall into one another and her game with Counselor Velar begins after that. she had no evidence but knows it was him and he tries to have her murdered. its all up to you if you want to continue but I really like her character and the way you've played her. she is street smart and wiley, I think it would be interesting to see how she gets out of what I throw at her. its ultimately up to you though and what you feel like doing.

ooc: i couldnt believe that was Stedman's first book either. a total shock to me.

I like the idea of her ending up back with the king. And then we could start things with her and the Counselor.

Yeah I couldn't believe it was her first book either.

occ: Liek most movie franchises, our first board I think as our best. We did alot with that and I may wish to revisit that for the next generation if you would help me with in the future. I had been thinking about it lately and what we could do in the 4th age.

Angelique looked up as the king came in. Immediately she could see the concern on his face and he rushed over to her and took her into his arms. She felt warm and safe there. She listened to his heartbeat and knew it beat for her. She looked up into his eyes. She wanted to tell him everything...to tell him the truth. But she knew she could not. She could not hurt him. As she looked into his eyes she knew she had made her decision. Lorelei was gone forever and she would now only be Angelique...the King's Angelique.

"It's nothing my love," she replied as she quieted her tears. "I suppose I am still just upset from yesterday. Do not trouble yourself over me."

OOC- I really want to revisit that board too and maybe focus on Nauriel and Aragorn's eldest daughter.

The King smiled down at her. A warm, loving, genuine smile as he rubbed her arms. “Oh Angelique, what I do is partly for you, you are so important to me, you may trouble me my darling,” he said and he kissed her softly. “When I married…” he paused and decided not to speak her name, “before, it was not for love but eventually love grew and from that love I have Louisa. Soon I must go...England may not want to fight but I will not let my family be made targets. You and Louisa are my family my love. I think I knew I would love you when I first met you. And when I return...I will have you beside me,” he said confidently. “For now, I wish you to stay here if you want to. I want you to consider the palace your home. I will try to get back as soon as I can. If not I will send for you to come to me. I need your love as I need your counsel. Will you Angelique, will you give this all a chance?” he asked. There were no demands in his words. He simply asked her and told her what he honestly wanted. Demands and expectations were not part of who he was when it came to her. She had captured his heart now, the hardest part was before her...how to keep it. D’artagnan would have to see how much the King meant to her. He just had to!

The King kissed her several more times more passionately and it almost came to another episode with her on his desk but he stopped her before she could get his pants off. She almost had him! She was escorted out and it was a delight to see him ‘readjusting’ himself and giving her a look that promised that her needs would be tended to tonight for certain sure.

D’artagnan was in his office filing reports when she strode in. He did not look up at her right away, he only continued to write in the security log. After what seemed like minutes he finally put down his pen though he did not look up at her. “Leave us,” he said to one of his men and he scampered out. “It is apparent you will not leave,” he said as he leaned back in his chair. “So what do you want Angelique?” he asked and he saw her troubled face.

Angelique walked down to D'Artagnan's office. She walked in without knocking and stood there waiting for him to acknowledge her. Finally, he looked up when he realized she wasn't going to leave. She waited patiently until they were alone before speaking.

"I want you to understand," she said. "When I married Armand I believed it was because of love. Armand was the first man who didn't treat me as others had. I truly believed he loved me as well. But I have come to understand that I do not love him as I once thought. I do care about him deeply and would never wish to hurt him, but our time is over. He does not trust me and I know that no matter what I do that will never be. Lorelei is gone. I cannot be her anymore. I am I love with Louis and it has nothing to do with the fact that he is king. He makes me feel special and truly loved. I know that I am lying to him, but he can never know the truth. I can see how much stronger he is with me and I feel I can help him and France. I tried to tell myself that I do not need your support in this, but you are the closest thing I have to a father." There were tears now in her eyes. "You have no idea how many sleepless nights I've had. I haven't eaten properly in days. Please understand D'Artagnan."

ooc: I will say that RPing with you has been a real pleasure K. Your posts have been something for me to look forward to each day and when I am busy or you are, I take real notice when we do not post much, real life must intercede at some point though I dont always have to like it! It's like something is missing without them. I'm not trying to make any kind of 'inference' about anything more though I do enjoy learning tidbits about you as a person. I just thought you deserved some recognition for your time and effort you have given to this. I appreciate your creativity, your time, your honesty and your kinship. Thank you!

He listened but for the most part his expression did not change. He could see that her conviction to her words was there but to have her near him...she looked to him as a father figure, a man she respected and yet his eyes wanted her as a man wants a woman. (She might see a little of that if she were paying attention) He was Armand’s friend and comrade. Trevare’s friend and comrade. He was older now, graying hair touched at his temples but he still had dreams about her. Dreams he knew would never be. She never saw him that way and now...she was in love with a King. He calmed his face to the thunderhead that threatened to rush out of him at her right then.

“Close the door and sit down, will you!” he said annoyedly. Ok, so maybe not all of his anger was in check. At first he wasn’t certain she would comply but when she did he relaxed. “Angelique, do you think you will stop serving yourself with Louis? You’ve been doing what you wanted since I came to know you. The men in your life either let you do it and let you go or they are hurt by you. Trevare requested to be transferred. You did that. You took a good man and broke something inside of him. Thats what you do and what bothers me is that you say you care but you really don’t. You ‘get over it’ and move on because that is who you are,” he said honestly. “Armand was a fool for believing in you, you will prove that here and now if you do not go back to him. Is being loved by him, starting a family and being his wife such a terrible thing to contemplate? I don’t think you thought it was until you met Louis. Think Angelique about your past before you settle on yet another man. You fall in love and then you are content until it happens again. You won’t commit to Louis and somewhere deep inside yourself I know you know thats true to. You might help him, for a while. But when you leave him you will leave another man...another man who loves you and is heartsick over you. Please Angelique...please don’t do this yet again,” he said almost pleadingly.

OOC-I have really enjoyed rping with you too. It is something I look forward to and gets me through the day. It's been difficult finding good partners and one's who share similar interests.
BTW you now have me thinking about Angelique and D'Artagnan lol

ooc: oh shit

ooc: to add to my shameless star trekkie persona, I am very good with movie lines from almost any movie Ive seen. feel free to test me when one comes to you if you like. On my honor I will not look it up.

edit: Books and movies, I almost remember everything I've ever read or seen in a movie.

OOC-that certainly could be interesting, but he seems rather intent on her going back to Armand and I'm not sure he would do that to his friend

ooc: if she say, were to come onto him, seduced him he might come to understand that it is not only her fault, which is his major flaw in his thought process. she needs to prove that to him and im sure she can do it.

Edit: take the whole, 'if she wears a short skirt she is asking for it' argument. Mostly just men ever say things like that so she needs to change that perception toward her that men respond to her beauty and its not always easy for her to think rationally. i.E. not all her fault.

ooc: and who knows, she may meet Armand again, sometime. He is one of the best swordsmen alive. Imagine if, while she was trying to get back, he was able to find her and in the process, get her out of a bind. Its like...when you are in a long distance relationship (i know, ive been in one) then you meet someone near you that you really like alot. You try to avoid it but eventually it just happens that you end up spending more time together. feelings change like that. Armand then is in her face, less naive, more swashbuckler, just as sexy if not more so due to his age. The king is a long ways away. They could travel together, create mayhem and become renoun bandits or thieves or whatever.

OOC-Yeah, I was kinda thinking about something like that...but with D'Artagnan actually. That idea had him actually going after her when he finds out she's been kidnapped and finding her and then she falls in love with him, but is still engaged to the king, but then maybe the king is assassinated. But the Armand idea is interesting too. He could kind of win her back.

ooc: D'artagnan is older though and the king might send him to go find her so any of that has legs.

I could do either. Which do you like better?

it depends on what happens here I think. Do you think she would be attracted to the older, experienced sort like D'artagnan?