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S through Z › The Tudors
Rating:
Adult ++
Chapters:
8
Views:
3,175
Reviews:
4
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
0
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I do not own The Tudors on Showtime, I make no profit of this story.
Sinful: Gluttony/Gula
Sinful
Chapter Five
Gluttony/Gula
50 hits wooooot!
Notes: I could be wrong about the dates in this chapter, but I know Charles Brandon did visit Queen Catherine of Aragon. Sense I did not know the exact date I just picked one from the pile. Sorry about that ^^; also about some of the stuff is true. I also put a * at words that may be kind of confusing (unless you know about it I just wanted to explain it for the story's purpose XD.)
Warnings: Death
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Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. (French Proverb)
August 2nd, 1532 Moor in Hertfordshire
The energy in the room lifted from his shoulders and settled back into his stomach. Never had he felt more nervous then in front of the Queen herself. Catherine sat dignified in bed, her chin slightly raised as she looked over the Duke of Suffolk with harsh stare.
“So, you have come to ask me to agree that my marriage was never valid?” her words were thick with ice. Causing Charles to shiver slightly at the impact of Catherine’s tone.
“Yes…It is the only way that the King could marry Anne Boleyn…”
The Spanish Queen only scoffed at his words while listlessly toying with a golden cup. “I gave this to him…He sent it right back…Excommunicating with me as if I were a disease…” Charles could see a film come over her beautiful blue eyes while the Queen composed herself.
“Tell me Duke of Suffolk…How do you think your wife feels when you fornicate with other women?” the question was direct, leaving Charles to feel utterly stupid. In the past, he had cheated on one woman, but now it was a different story. He was the person used for the cheating and he could not bear to tell Catherine in her most fragile state of what he had done.
Licking his lips nervously, the stoic man gazed at the Spanish Queen. “Awful…” perhaps the only word that could ever befit the situation. However the Queen still was not satisfied with the answer.
“More than that dear Duke…She feels as if death had already corrupted her body. Rotting away flesh and blood while the other woman enjoys the fertile life of happiness…When she too feels this way…Tell me so that when I die I die in peace…”
Coughing up phlegm, the Queen took the piece of cloth from her mouth to reveal bits of blood. Being strong, she ignored the signs, knowing well she will survive no matter how much the King puts her down.
Charles glanced down at the ground shortly to regain his strength. Why had he felt that he had bitten the hand that so graciously fed him? He got up swiftly to notice the Queen coughing. However, the servants had poured her another glass of water and she drank humbly.
“I am not the only who is getting hurt in the situation I presume?” now it was Charles whose eyes widened at the sheer question. He sat back down in the gilded chair slowly while watching the Queen clean her chapped lips.
She chuckled softly, letting her three servants exit the room. “Do not take me as a fool Sir Charles…I have people watching…”
He could not breathe, his lungs collapsed in his stomach where his heart pounded furiously. “I do not take you as a fool my Queen…” he mustered to say while she settled the glass down.
“I believe you do Sir Charles…I think you take everyone as a fool…You expect to hide from everybody that you had a relations with the King?” she coughed again, trying to hide her weakness. Charles’s mouth opened slightly to retort but could only muster saying “I would never do that..”
With another chuckle, Catherine could feel the lies pouring from Charles like poison. Not that she was trying to hurt him no, but she wanted her questions answered. She is the first Queen for God’s sakes! She had every right to know what her husband is doing no matter who it was.
“No dear Duke you would, it is without question that you and Henry had some type of relations…My servant had seen enough to give me details…”
Without further words, the Duke got up from his chair hastily. Feeling trapped within the Queen’s room as he tried to breathe again.
“You can never run from your past dear Duke…I may not be so harsh but I know what you are doing is clearly wrong and unforgivable…I do not think I could look at you again much less talk to such a disgusting creature as yourself…” she shook her head in defiance and stared at Charles with heated stare. “And to think of making friends with me would bring you closer to the King…You’re as much as a snake as Anne Boleyn…”
Each word punctured his soul, and without warning the Duke of Suffolk left. Not a word spoken again to Catherine…His world had shattered by a single finger prick as he walked outside the manor. Vomit spewing from his mouth as he neared the bushes. His horseman tried to comfort him but instead he pushed him off.
Not only did lose Catherine of Aragon’s trust, he also betrayed his King.
June 5th 1533 Outside of Greenwich Palace
There had been an enormous crowd for the wedding of Anne Boleyn and King Henry the eighth nearly a month ago. Yet in that same little square a new kind ordeal was happening behind the palace walls; the burning of those who are sinful against God.
Three men and one woman were strapped to a stake. Pounds of hay was laid about while the woman whose face was dirty with rouge screamed for mercy. The man beside her tried to calm her down while the other two tried to encircle their fingers around another for the sake of dying together.
Thomas More knew of what kind of people they were. The sodomites with their evil ways of practicing an unworldly religion with the couple beside them. Another person who was present but not seen was Charles Brandon. He leaned against the frame of a stone archway while watching as the priest read allowed their sentence.
“I hereby declare that these four have divulged themselves into Heresy and Sodomy*…Going against the practices of the church. Using devices for their own pleasure. Indecent exposure and believing in polygamy… They will be burned at the stake so that we may be purged of their sinful ways. May God have mercy on your souls…”
It was the executioner’s cue to light the hay. The woman screamed again for them to stop, but the man by her side only seemed to scream it was no use. The two men on the other side, fairly decent looking only watched each other as the fire engulfed them both…
After the execution, the bodies were being thrown upon an open wagon. Charles could see that the two men, even in death, were still holding hands.
“This is what could have been done to you…”
A silky voice created shivers up and down his spine as he turned to face his King. No longer did he feel right, he felt more then awful.
“You should be as well…Burned together…The King and his Duke…”
Henry only chuckled maliciously as he bit into a pear he had been feasting on a few minutes ago.
“No one would believe you if you ever said anything..” he replied in a coarse voice as Thomas More started talking with the priest.
“I would never tell…So long as you can keep me quiet…I do have proof you know..”
Henry only smiled again, tensing his shoulders slightly knowing he had been caught. “Enlighten me…”
Charles grabbed the pear from Henry’s slender fingers “someone who knows you too well…” blue eyes glanced over at Thomas More who seemed to be scrutinizing them with a stare. Henry only leered at Charles before he bit into the pear and gave it back to him. “I would be more careful your majesty…People are watching our every move…”
Leaving Henry to gawk, he watched as Thomas More bowed his head and left the area were the sodomites had been burned.
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Notes:
Sodomy: It is the intercourse that is abnormal or unnatural, particularly anal sex, it also known as beastiality. (If you need more information on it then you can note me ^^ I do not want to do a whole lot of sex ed on here because it may embarress someone ^^)
I hope to get more reviews and more hits. (Don't worry I won't stop the story because I do not have a review. I think that is just plain mean to do to stop the story and I like this story to much.)
*Also, sorry if I made Catherine sound kind of...Well mean, these are just her feelings towards the whole ordeal.
Chapter Five
Gluttony/Gula
50 hits wooooot!
Notes: I could be wrong about the dates in this chapter, but I know Charles Brandon did visit Queen Catherine of Aragon. Sense I did not know the exact date I just picked one from the pile. Sorry about that ^^; also about some of the stuff is true. I also put a * at words that may be kind of confusing (unless you know about it I just wanted to explain it for the story's purpose XD.)
Warnings: Death
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Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. (French Proverb)
August 2nd, 1532 Moor in Hertfordshire
The energy in the room lifted from his shoulders and settled back into his stomach. Never had he felt more nervous then in front of the Queen herself. Catherine sat dignified in bed, her chin slightly raised as she looked over the Duke of Suffolk with harsh stare.
“So, you have come to ask me to agree that my marriage was never valid?” her words were thick with ice. Causing Charles to shiver slightly at the impact of Catherine’s tone.
“Yes…It is the only way that the King could marry Anne Boleyn…”
The Spanish Queen only scoffed at his words while listlessly toying with a golden cup. “I gave this to him…He sent it right back…Excommunicating with me as if I were a disease…” Charles could see a film come over her beautiful blue eyes while the Queen composed herself.
“Tell me Duke of Suffolk…How do you think your wife feels when you fornicate with other women?” the question was direct, leaving Charles to feel utterly stupid. In the past, he had cheated on one woman, but now it was a different story. He was the person used for the cheating and he could not bear to tell Catherine in her most fragile state of what he had done.
Licking his lips nervously, the stoic man gazed at the Spanish Queen. “Awful…” perhaps the only word that could ever befit the situation. However the Queen still was not satisfied with the answer.
“More than that dear Duke…She feels as if death had already corrupted her body. Rotting away flesh and blood while the other woman enjoys the fertile life of happiness…When she too feels this way…Tell me so that when I die I die in peace…”
Coughing up phlegm, the Queen took the piece of cloth from her mouth to reveal bits of blood. Being strong, she ignored the signs, knowing well she will survive no matter how much the King puts her down.
Charles glanced down at the ground shortly to regain his strength. Why had he felt that he had bitten the hand that so graciously fed him? He got up swiftly to notice the Queen coughing. However, the servants had poured her another glass of water and she drank humbly.
“I am not the only who is getting hurt in the situation I presume?” now it was Charles whose eyes widened at the sheer question. He sat back down in the gilded chair slowly while watching the Queen clean her chapped lips.
She chuckled softly, letting her three servants exit the room. “Do not take me as a fool Sir Charles…I have people watching…”
He could not breathe, his lungs collapsed in his stomach where his heart pounded furiously. “I do not take you as a fool my Queen…” he mustered to say while she settled the glass down.
“I believe you do Sir Charles…I think you take everyone as a fool…You expect to hide from everybody that you had a relations with the King?” she coughed again, trying to hide her weakness. Charles’s mouth opened slightly to retort but could only muster saying “I would never do that..”
With another chuckle, Catherine could feel the lies pouring from Charles like poison. Not that she was trying to hurt him no, but she wanted her questions answered. She is the first Queen for God’s sakes! She had every right to know what her husband is doing no matter who it was.
“No dear Duke you would, it is without question that you and Henry had some type of relations…My servant had seen enough to give me details…”
Without further words, the Duke got up from his chair hastily. Feeling trapped within the Queen’s room as he tried to breathe again.
“You can never run from your past dear Duke…I may not be so harsh but I know what you are doing is clearly wrong and unforgivable…I do not think I could look at you again much less talk to such a disgusting creature as yourself…” she shook her head in defiance and stared at Charles with heated stare. “And to think of making friends with me would bring you closer to the King…You’re as much as a snake as Anne Boleyn…”
Each word punctured his soul, and without warning the Duke of Suffolk left. Not a word spoken again to Catherine…His world had shattered by a single finger prick as he walked outside the manor. Vomit spewing from his mouth as he neared the bushes. His horseman tried to comfort him but instead he pushed him off.
Not only did lose Catherine of Aragon’s trust, he also betrayed his King.
June 5th 1533 Outside of Greenwich Palace
There had been an enormous crowd for the wedding of Anne Boleyn and King Henry the eighth nearly a month ago. Yet in that same little square a new kind ordeal was happening behind the palace walls; the burning of those who are sinful against God.
Three men and one woman were strapped to a stake. Pounds of hay was laid about while the woman whose face was dirty with rouge screamed for mercy. The man beside her tried to calm her down while the other two tried to encircle their fingers around another for the sake of dying together.
Thomas More knew of what kind of people they were. The sodomites with their evil ways of practicing an unworldly religion with the couple beside them. Another person who was present but not seen was Charles Brandon. He leaned against the frame of a stone archway while watching as the priest read allowed their sentence.
“I hereby declare that these four have divulged themselves into Heresy and Sodomy*…Going against the practices of the church. Using devices for their own pleasure. Indecent exposure and believing in polygamy… They will be burned at the stake so that we may be purged of their sinful ways. May God have mercy on your souls…”
It was the executioner’s cue to light the hay. The woman screamed again for them to stop, but the man by her side only seemed to scream it was no use. The two men on the other side, fairly decent looking only watched each other as the fire engulfed them both…
After the execution, the bodies were being thrown upon an open wagon. Charles could see that the two men, even in death, were still holding hands.
“This is what could have been done to you…”
A silky voice created shivers up and down his spine as he turned to face his King. No longer did he feel right, he felt more then awful.
“You should be as well…Burned together…The King and his Duke…”
Henry only chuckled maliciously as he bit into a pear he had been feasting on a few minutes ago.
“No one would believe you if you ever said anything..” he replied in a coarse voice as Thomas More started talking with the priest.
“I would never tell…So long as you can keep me quiet…I do have proof you know..”
Henry only smiled again, tensing his shoulders slightly knowing he had been caught. “Enlighten me…”
Charles grabbed the pear from Henry’s slender fingers “someone who knows you too well…” blue eyes glanced over at Thomas More who seemed to be scrutinizing them with a stare. Henry only leered at Charles before he bit into the pear and gave it back to him. “I would be more careful your majesty…People are watching our every move…”
Leaving Henry to gawk, he watched as Thomas More bowed his head and left the area were the sodomites had been burned.
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Notes:
Sodomy: It is the intercourse that is abnormal or unnatural, particularly anal sex, it also known as beastiality. (If you need more information on it then you can note me ^^ I do not want to do a whole lot of sex ed on here because it may embarress someone ^^)
I hope to get more reviews and more hits. (Don't worry I won't stop the story because I do not have a review. I think that is just plain mean to do to stop the story and I like this story to much.)
*Also, sorry if I made Catherine sound kind of...Well mean, these are just her feelings towards the whole ordeal.