Fight! Fight! Fight! Figh-Oh, shit...
"Angelica, slow down!" Lafayette pants, struggling to keep up with her. She was nearly running, dodging through the people that had accumulated around the castle, which was getting full. "Hold on!!"
"If we don't hurry we'll be late!" Angelica frowns, nearly tripping as she slides around the corner. "How far are we from the throne room, Sybil?"
"Ah, five minutes? If we can get through these people- Where the hell did all these people even come from??" Angelica stumbles to a stop before they could get into the throne room itself, looking at all the people crowding the entrances. There were men, women, and children everywhere, in fancy clothes and nice outfits. Angelica tried to squeeze through, failing as the cowd gets slightly bigger.
"Uh, sxcuse me, sir?" Angelica taps a man beside her. "Whats going on here? Why is everyone here?"
"Oh, havent you heard? The King is making an example of some traitors he's caught. He'll be branding them in the throne room, he thought it would be the best place to brand them."
"Is there any other way we can get into the throne room? It's important!"
"Theres only three way's and those ways are all blocked right now. The best chance is to wait, young man." Angelica frowns, looking back at the others, who were gasping for breath.
"Sybil, please tell me you have a different way in."
"I mean, there is, but it'll take a couple of seconds to get there. Unless we go in through the front door but I'm sure that's blocked with lots of guards." Angelica growls in frustration.
"What the fuck is this, Shrek the movie?? Do we have to get a fucking dragon to help us in?!" Lafayette laughs, going silent when Angelica glares at him.
"Let's just go through the passage way. It'll put us directly in front." Sybil argues, and Angelica huffs.
"Take us to the passageway."
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George stumbles forward as the guard pushes him yet again, holding Peggy closer. Her fever had not gotten better, like he hoped, and he knew that this 'branding' (if Fredrick went through with it, he knew the man made petty insults and empty threats.), Would NOT be good for Peggy's health.
"We need to get the fuck outta here." Thomas says, letting Alex and Aaron walk infront of him. "This is bullshit."
"We have no where to go." Alex mumbles. "And we'll probably get fuckin shot before we get out." He glares at the guard to his right, whose messing with his gun.
"He can't be going through with this. He makes empty threats all the time." George says, shifting Peggy in his arms. She had her hands covering her boobs, and she looked uncomfortable. He couldn't blame her, they were all shirtless. George himself felt highly uncomfortable, knowing the scars he had earned from the Army were showing. He didn't exactly like them."I bet, and hope, that this is all a lie."
"Lie? The man who kidnapped us and put us in a fuckin tower, got me sick is lying?" Peggy stops to cough, holding onto George. "Don't make me fucking laugh, George. I know he was your friend once upon a time," George frowns, glancing off. "But you need to see that he's not the same person you knew as kids."
"I can see that, Margereta," Peggy huffs loudly at her first name. "But I really just- it wasnt- we didn't know each other as kids. He was my boss, he taught me how to fight, how to lead. I just don't know why he hates me. I was his best feild marshal, his best General, I tried my best as a teen and young adult to make the king proud."
"He's changed, George. That's what happened." Aaron says quietly. "People change. You changed. I changed. So did Alex and Thomas and Peggy. You made a life for yourself with Alex and Lafayette and Martha and your grandchildren. He went crazy and hurts his child because he can." A shove at Thomas, who bites his lip before he yells at them.
"Brandings worse than getting a tattoo." Alex says, seeing the tapestries getting nicer. They were getting closer to the throne room, he was getting worried. "I should know. A friend of mine, William P. Vaness-"
"You mean The William Vaness who ran around naked as a dare through the cafeteria while the dean was there?" Peggy says accusingly, and Alex half-heartedly chuckles.
"Yeah. Vaness got a brand and a tattoo when we were in college. I saw him a couple of weeks before my... Accident... And he regretted the branding he had. He got a job as a lawyer, but he hated the brand he got on his chest. Speaking of which-" Alex shuts his mouth as the doors infront of him open, and his eyes widden as he sees everyone in the room.
It was packed, people milling about, talking and laughing. There was a small table with drinks, and most of it was red, leaving Alex to believe it was either punch, or Alcohol.
"Ladies and Gentlemen!" Alex hadn't even noticed Fredrick. He was dressed in a dark red outfit, with a nice red cape on. The cape, at the top, looked fluffy, with black and white spots, while the lower parts looked smooth and nice, light red with gold flecks plucked in.
"Fuck." He hears George whisper, and he agreed.
"A couple of weeks ago, almost a month, I told you all I managed to find and wound a traitor." Fredrick holds up his sceptor, pointing it at Alex, who looks confused. "He was the very first traitor I told you about. He's alive." Alex ducks as cups and food is thrown at him, yelping as a sandwich hits him smack dab in the face.
"Ow, what the fuck-" He frowns.
"The rest of these traitors have been found and captured, as you see here. I have decided to do a public banding to show these traitors of the crown that the crown will always wins." Fredrick pauses for the cheers, crossing his arms with a smile. "Now it's time to-"
"Oi fuck face!" Alex turns to his right, looking at an upset Angelica- and feeling all the blood drain from his body. She wasn't normal angry, like she usually was when Alex fucked up. She was the angry Alex saw when she broke up with Thomas. At the time, he had been so glad to not know who the fuck Thomas Jefferson was, and to be going to a public school, instead of a private school, like Angelica and Eliza(not that he could have afforded private school anyway.)
"Angelica..?" He hears Aaron say before wincing as Angelica stomps closer.
"Who the fuck do you think you are, kidnapping my friends?!"
"And who the hell are you?" Fredrick stands up again, raising an eyebrow. "Where did you come from?"
"Angelica- fucking- Schuyler. You messed with my sister, and now-" Angelica cracks her knuckles, approaching again. "I'm going to fucking beat your ass."
"Like you would attack-" Angelica tackles Fredrick, getting a good couple of punches in before two guards grab her.
"Get the fuck off her!"
"Move dickwads!" James Madison appears on one of the guards back, yanking him back, and the guard yells, stumbling back and they tumble down on the floor, James scrabbling around with the guy. Lafayette punches the other in the face.
"Hey guys." Theodosia smiles at Aaron,who lets out a heavy sigh of relief.
"Theo!" Alex grins.
"Babe!!" Aaron says. "What are you doing here?"
"Oh y'know, just chilling and shit y'know." She grins. "I'm getting your asses out here. Follow me, we can get out the way we came through-"
"What the FUCK is going on here?!" Everyone stops, Angelica's fist stopping before she punches Fredrick in the face again. Caroline was standing infront of them all, Amelia on her right side with Jay, while William stood on her left with Sam. Zara was right behind her, holding her hand.
"Caroline!" Fredrick coughs, trying to clear the extra blood out of his mouth. "I can explain."
"I think I can explain better." Angelica punches Fredrick again. She was straight up trying to break his nose. Honestly, she really wanted to beat him senseless, but she'd take beating him until he had to get his nose removed because of how bad she broke it.
"I just need one person to explain." Caroline huffs, glancing at the guards who had followed her in. "You guys, go and get everyone out of here. Angelica, I would love if you stopped trying to break my brother's nose."
"But!" Angelica frowns, letting Lafayette pull her up. She lashes out one more time, kicking Fredrick in the face- and grinning when she hears the sharp crack in his nose and the whine of pain he makes.
"Now." Caroline says, walking over. "I want an explanation."