Two Heads Are Better Than One (Anastasia)

[Sir Kay Marquis]

(July 14th. Morning.)Kay was walking around the house. He was dressed in a blue T-shirt, and dark blue jeans and his feet were bare. He was looking for something to drink and to see if he could find that cute redhead. He'd seen her around cleaning. She didn't look too happy about it so she must likely be a servant or a slave. He wished he could help her somehow and he paused with a grin deciding he had to help. And it also was making him regret how he treated Wart... Arthur for so long. He was the closest he had to a little brother and he treated him awful. And yet he still looked up to him. It just made Kay feel really low but he had no idea how to make it up to Arthur.

He grabbed a couple water bottles from the fridge and closed it. He took a sip from on e and capped it. He began searching for the mystery girl frowning as he couldn't even remember her name. As he was about to give up he spotted her cleaning one of the rooms. He nervously walked up to her and held out the other water bottle to her.

"I heard work makes you thirsty. Wouldn't want you to get sick." said Kay.

He paused feeling a little nervous.

"I'm Kay. I wish I could help get you out of this mess but some of the others are way too powerful or scary. So I was hoping maybe I could help you clean or bring you some food." said Kay.

[Anastasia Tremaine-Fatale]

Anastasia was rewarded overall for good behavior with a couple more breaks than when she usually started. But even then she had to work to the bone. Nella made it very clear she intended to have a couple more slaves in her army to do the heavy-lifting. After all, a victory from war didn't grow on a tree. Anastasia at times contemplated maybe running away to escape to critic's but remembered that if she did, they would most likely hurt cinderella. For it was confirmed that she was here. And there was no way she was going to crawl back to her controlling mother and her hurtful sister. So she was forced to accept this reality.

As days went by, Anastasia remembered the years of abuse that she put under cinderella and now realized that somehow this was karma coming back to bite her. As children Anastasia felt that cinderella deserved it but now, as she was older now she realized how wrong she was. And felt like a real tool. She actually missed cinderella and missed the king. But all this was hopeless now, she didn't really seem to have a lot of people have her back besides Natasha and this sweet boy she met. It was one exchange, and a small one at that before nella corrected her to get back to work, but it was a exchange she couldn't stop thinking about. He had nice red hair, he seemed quite brave and overall pretty nice. But she knew there was no chance. At least that was what she believed. So she kept cleaning the room she was in and was so focused she didn't even notice the boy until he spoke. Anastasia looked up immediately to see that same boy and smiled at him. She glanced around to see if nella wasn't watching then gratefully took Kay's bottle. "Oh. Thank you. This is so thoughtful" She then drank the water and smiled to him.

She then smiled as she finally got a name. Kay. Anastasia couldn't help but appreciate his bravery and determination to see her. Army members weren't exactly supposed to help slaves that much out and could get a firm punishment if found caught. But the fact he wanted to try both flattered her and scared her. The last thing she wanted was for someone to get hurt on her behalf. She replied nervously "You're so sweet and it's not that I don't appreciate it but..." She then blushed "My... um, mistress said that I'm not supposed to get help. That my chores are my responsibility. I, just, I, well, I don't want you to get hurt because of me" She then smiled again giving a slight curtsy before replying "My name is Anastasia. It's really nice to meet you, Kay" She then looked outwards to see nella not around and replied "It should be my break really soon so maybe if you'd like we can talk more near the kitchen?"

[Sir Kay Marquis]

Kay smiled glad to see her smiling. He wished she would smile more but being stuck as a slave was pretty awful.

"Well, what she doesn't know won't hurt her. Besides, how can anyone expect one person to do everything?" said Kay.

He smiled at her name.

"Anastasia. What a lovely name. " said Kay .

Kay nodded.

"I'd like that." said Kay.

He had a mind to talk to Dark Nella about freeing Anastasia or at least giving her fewer work hours. But he feared she might just retaliate on him or Anastasia. Maybe he could talk to Ask That Guy. He seemed more reasonable of the two and might be able to talk to his wife. He would figure this out somehow.