Cho/Zoey - Musketeer AU
There are men who still insist that the life of a King's Musketeer is not one fit for women, that the fairer sex has no right to take up arms in the defense of their Monarch, or that these mere slips of girls can't possibly match wits or blades with any man, let alone the best of the best that France has to offer; these are men who have never met Zoey and Cho, have never seen the former make the air sing with the tip of her sword, or witnessed the tactical mind of the later turning any shortcoming to an unexpected advantage, and they have certainly never seen the two of them join their considerable talents to become a deadly force of nature.
It never has, never will bother the women - all for one and one for all, but above that, these two for each other, because they know who they can count on, know that the adversity makes them stronger, that the doubt drives them to heights few can hope to reach; and how dizzying their perches are now. Unrest may be on the horizon (as it always seems to be) but that will not shake their confidence, and when enemies come to the same conclusions they have had to fight their entire careers, that is simply another advantage they can turn to their own ends in the quest for victory.