Hi! It has literally been forever since you asked this, but at this point, is anyone surprised that I’m posting a fic late? (There are so many numbers in my ask box now but I have no idea what they mean...hehehe - this one was pretty easy to remember though!) This is probably more of a drabble, but I feel like all of my fics are. Prose writing is becoming less and less of a strong suit for me. Anyway, enjoy! (tagging @suits-of-woe because I’m obsessed with Henry and Margaret and I feel like we share that)
“Who are you?” the prisoner asked.
“I’m here to rescue you,” Margaret said before catching sight of a figure running to catch them. She quickly raised a blaster to disarm the enemy, leaving the prisoner startled. He appeared to have grown used to the silence over the course of his imprisonment. “You’re Henry, right?”
The man swallowed before remembering to nod. Instead of responding, Margaret knelt down beside Henry and began to untie his restraints.
“It’s alright,” she said, noticing that he was trembling under her touch. “I’m with the Resistance. You have nothing to fear now. I’m going to take you somewhere safe, alright?”
With a shaking voice, Henry responded, “That’s what they said last time,”
“I know,” Margaret said, focusing more on the restraints than on him. “Those people, they aren’t your friends,”
Henry was quiet for a long time after that as Margaret worked the restraints loose, occasionally flinching when she moved something too tight or brushed against his already raw skin. She would mumble a kind of apology, her focus nearly unbreakable. It was no wonder why the Jedi
Council said that the force was strong with her. However, no matter how strong it was in Margaret, it was infinitely stronger in Henry. It made him a desirable ally, but even more irresistible as a source of power, the kind that Edward, George, and Richard Plantagenet would have for themselves. Under normal circumstances, Henry would have had the power to break through his restraints unaided, but imprisonment had left him but a shell of himself. He had no will to break through anything.
“Meg,” a voice distracted her from her work. It was Somerset, looking rather attractive despite the cut to his upper lip and the blood on his temple. He leaned on the doorframe, his arm extended to grip the top. “We’ve got to go. Can he keep up?”
“What does that matter? You heard our orders. No matter if he can keep up or not, we’ll have to find a way to get him out of here,” she said, finally getting the last bit of restraint loose. Henry stood there, dazed, unmoving. It was as though he had no concept of what freedom had felt like, or that he had lost contact with Margaret entirely.
Somerset turned and made quick work with his blaster upon hearing more droids march their way, though he suddenly fell against the doorframe holding his thigh. Pulling his hand away, Margaret saw that he had been grazed. Without a second thought, she turned back to Henry and took a hold of his hand.
“Do you trust me?” she asked.
Henry had no time to respond before she slung him over on her back. It was likely that he had not eaten in several days and was far too weak to make it far on his own at this point. Margaret understood that as much as Henry was willing to trust others, she had to work for it now. She moved past Somerset and said without looking down,
“Cover me,”
The injured man looked up and grunted before hauling himself up on his feet.
“Are you crazy?” he asked. “You’re going to get us all killed,”
“It has to be this way,” Margaret said, continuing to move despite the dead weight on her back. He was light, and she felt sorry for him. “I said cover me. We can get back to the dock through this hallway. It won’t be far. He needs medical attention and so do you,”
Histories AU where Margaret of Anjou is the queen and Henry is her prince consort - maybe a modern AU? I just think that would make things so much better. Margaret could be the badass she knows she is and Henry could be her husband and they would be happy ahhhh
Is it canon? No. Historically accurate? No. But would they be happy? Heck yeah. Hotel? Trivago. ✨
Characters from The H6 Cycle as Things I’ve Heard on from Politicians’ Caricatures on Spitting Image
Henry VI- “Don’t you just love being in control?” *Accidentally sets his kitchen on fire*
Bonus Henry VI- “It’s all your fault, John. You let your nerves get the better of you” - “It is not my fault, Norma, it’s the fault of the nerves!”
Extra Bonus Henry VI- “It’s essential that our children learn the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral, concise and long-winded, short and one of those rambling sentences that goes on and on and on”
*There were so many I could have used for Henry VI honestly*
Edward IV- “If you vote for me I will scrap the poll tax, and replace it with free beer and sex”
George of Clarence- “I’m really stupid, so I’m looking for a pancreas”
Richard III- “Well I haven’t got a heart” - “Yes, but none of us have got that”
Bonus Richard III- “You did it, didn’t you?” *responds with maniacal laughter*
Richard Duke of York- “Michael, the last thing this country needs is a leadership contest!” - “Right, I’m on my way”
Margaret of Anjou- *throws darts at a picture of her political enemy and lands two darts right in the eyes*
Cecily Neville- “I just spent three years of my life conducting an inquiry proving that you lot can’t be trusted. Now, I hope I can rely on you to not leak any of this information for one whole week,”
Elizabeth Woodville- “I know the herbs are out of alphabetical order, I forgive you”
Humphrey of Gloucester- “I still have the support of my party” *crickets* “Haven’t I?” *more crickets* *cough* “Haven’t I???”
Eleanor Cobham- “Will the honorable bitch queen tell us what she did on her holiday?”
Jack Cade- “Just shut up, peasant! I-I mean comrade...”
Joan of Arc- *government leader electrocuted by Christmas tree lights* “It is a Christmas miracle after all”
Warwick- “Your other tasks are: shove off, clear off, push off, hop off, go away, go right away, shave your silly beard off, buy a new suit, get lost, and never steal my thunder again! I am the clever one!”
Prince Edward- “But I’ve worked the treasury, industry, and unemployment” - “Alright, you can stay up past your bedtime and help us”
Suffolk- “I think we should hear a woman’s voice! I-I mean... a woman voicing her opinion”
Cardinal Beaufort- “There’s far too much religion and not enough Tory politics in here”
Okay so if we have a 1940s Henriad, that means we get a 1970s-2000s Wars of the Roses and I want to know who is going to make that fanart/stage that production
