Leaving behind Damon Salvatore who was a lead character in all of my other stories, I decided to venture into the back story of Katherine Pierce and yes, she's far too likeable for me not to write about her- Adelaide! I'm really making the entire story up; The Vampire Diaries plots are really not playing the role as a backbone in this story.
The Background information: A Silver Lining, takes place far before the Salvatore time (as far as the onyesha goes) and sets the stage for two human girls entering the vicious arena of Tudor England. When Lord Luther Pierce sends his two daughters to King Henry VIII's Court to wait on the Queen Catherine of Aragon, the two girls are thrust into a world of people vying for power, a notorious king, a sly lady-in-waiting, and the first entry into the other world of vampires. Tudor England sets the competition for Katherine and Adelaide as to who and what they will become in the uncertain future. A prequel to "Forever Immortal."
Chapter 1: Her dark hair fell around her, in pretty ringlets as she allowed the maid to corset her. She felt the corset squeezing the life out of herself that she had to remind herself to breathe, as she felt her blue dress finally be thrown upon her and roll outwards in silk. Adelaide Pierce sighed slightly as her governess tusked slightly at her falling posture.
"Straighten up, Adelaide!" she exclaimed, her Russian accent firmly setting her warning. Adelaide suppressed a sigh as she stood straighter and taller, turning to face Freya, the governess. "You should be proud, Adelaide. wewe are going to become a lady-in-waiting...you are going to jiunge Katherine who has finished her work in France...at sixteen and eighteen, the both of wewe girls will make quite the scene at the court." As Adelaide just stared dumb-founded, Freya tried again,
"You understand what this means Adelaide? Being a lady-in-waiting?" Adelaide pursed her lips, her eye brows furrowing.
"What all girls of my aristocratic birth have to become?" she said."We just sit around waiting a Queen who is rumored not to even be as loved as she's supposed to be kwa her king and in the event have to wait until some earl au lord au the other comes and picks us off our feet. Quite a life." Freya shook her head and mumbled something about never having these opportunities and how the girl who does have it just complains wishing she'd rather be a person of the sciences. Which was true, Adelaide had always wanted something different for her life, but she knew it was far from her sole power to change anything that her life had in store for her. There was a knock on the door and Freya got up to open it as the maid struggled to fit the final pin in Adelaide's hair. Another maid stood at the door, directing her words to Adelaide,
" 'Is lordship wishes to see wewe miss," she stammered, her eyes moving to look at the floor, as Adelaide in her regal, presenting dress stood up and walked out of the room. She walked down the spiraling stairway, and into the casual parlor where her father was waiting.
"You look lovely, my dear," Lord Pierce alisema as his younger daughter dropped a low curtsy. Lady Pierce was also standing there, her formidable manner rising as she looked over Adelaide. The younger Pierce girl held her gaze until a small smile broke out on Lady Marianne Pierce's lips and she nodded reprovingly. The Lord and Lady sat down and Adelaide took a kiti, kiti cha across from them and waited for her father to speak.
"Well Adelaide, today is the siku wewe will enter the King's Court. Where wewe will truly become a lady. And find a good husband at that," her father announced. Adelaide smiled a fake smile and muttered her excitement. Lady Pierce glanced at her, but didn't maoni about Adelaide's odd behavior. "Katherine has arranged it so that she will meet wewe there." Adelaide felt her world crash. It was hard enough to have to go and stay in what felt like to Adelaide a total foreign world. Her safeguarded nyumbani of Winchester was being stripped free from her hands. But now she had to endure the carriage ride, gloomily and perhaps be presented alone without Katherine kwa her side. Katherine was the one who had been thoroughly excited for all this. She had bought new gowns from Paris and showered herself with the French etiquette. Katherine had always been interested in the city of Paris and it's great parade of fashion. Adelaide nodded half-heartedly at her parents, before excusing herself to her room until the carriage arrives. Adelaide entered her room door, slamming it shut and sat on her bed, running her hand over the silk canopies. She would miss her room, with its girly edge. She'd had the room since she was a baby, sleeping in her utoto and then onto the fluffy beds. She was from ready to leave Winchester. It was her home...the only place she had known as home. One tear trickled down her cheek, but she brushed it off as soon as it came. She sighed. She was a young woman now and as far as she could see she would have to not act childish and songesha on with the things she didn't want to so. And besides, maybe while she was receiving the Queen's herbs, she could enhance her knowledge of plants. So there could be an up-side to all this. Freya burst into the door, suddenly,
"Quick Adelaide! The carriage has arrived!" Freya ushered the girl out of her room and soon Adelaide found herself crying "Papa" in her father's arms, but her mother pulled her daughter together before letting her into the carriage.
"You will be fine," Lord Pierce said, kissing the Adelaide's head for the last time. "I promise you, Adelaide." Adelaide choked out her final sobs, before Lady Pierce once again took over the scene kwa grasping Adelaide's arm firmly and leading her away.
"Now, Adelaide Elizabeth-Rose Pierce, wewe are not going to sulk when wewe get there. Remember every songesha wewe make Adelaide is being speculated," Lady Pierce alisema causing Adelaide's eyes to dilate involuntarily in fear. The Lady sighed, "I don't mean to scare you, my child. But wewe will find that the court is nothing like home. wewe might feel the surrounding danger and always be alert. Don't be too open, but don't cut people off either au it will seem suspicious. wewe are the family impression at court- wewe and Katherine. Don't forget that, Adelaide." Adelaide swallowed down her fear and hugged her mother before stepping outside and into the carriage. As the carriage jostled into movement, the younger Pierce sighed knowing that her life was about to change forever.
The Background information: A Silver Lining, takes place far before the Salvatore time (as far as the onyesha goes) and sets the stage for two human girls entering the vicious arena of Tudor England. When Lord Luther Pierce sends his two daughters to King Henry VIII's Court to wait on the Queen Catherine of Aragon, the two girls are thrust into a world of people vying for power, a notorious king, a sly lady-in-waiting, and the first entry into the other world of vampires. Tudor England sets the competition for Katherine and Adelaide as to who and what they will become in the uncertain future. A prequel to "Forever Immortal."
Chapter 1: Her dark hair fell around her, in pretty ringlets as she allowed the maid to corset her. She felt the corset squeezing the life out of herself that she had to remind herself to breathe, as she felt her blue dress finally be thrown upon her and roll outwards in silk. Adelaide Pierce sighed slightly as her governess tusked slightly at her falling posture.
"Straighten up, Adelaide!" she exclaimed, her Russian accent firmly setting her warning. Adelaide suppressed a sigh as she stood straighter and taller, turning to face Freya, the governess. "You should be proud, Adelaide. wewe are going to become a lady-in-waiting...you are going to jiunge Katherine who has finished her work in France...at sixteen and eighteen, the both of wewe girls will make quite the scene at the court." As Adelaide just stared dumb-founded, Freya tried again,
"You understand what this means Adelaide? Being a lady-in-waiting?" Adelaide pursed her lips, her eye brows furrowing.
"What all girls of my aristocratic birth have to become?" she said."We just sit around waiting a Queen who is rumored not to even be as loved as she's supposed to be kwa her king and in the event have to wait until some earl au lord au the other comes and picks us off our feet. Quite a life." Freya shook her head and mumbled something about never having these opportunities and how the girl who does have it just complains wishing she'd rather be a person of the sciences. Which was true, Adelaide had always wanted something different for her life, but she knew it was far from her sole power to change anything that her life had in store for her. There was a knock on the door and Freya got up to open it as the maid struggled to fit the final pin in Adelaide's hair. Another maid stood at the door, directing her words to Adelaide,
" 'Is lordship wishes to see wewe miss," she stammered, her eyes moving to look at the floor, as Adelaide in her regal, presenting dress stood up and walked out of the room. She walked down the spiraling stairway, and into the casual parlor where her father was waiting.
"You look lovely, my dear," Lord Pierce alisema as his younger daughter dropped a low curtsy. Lady Pierce was also standing there, her formidable manner rising as she looked over Adelaide. The younger Pierce girl held her gaze until a small smile broke out on Lady Marianne Pierce's lips and she nodded reprovingly. The Lord and Lady sat down and Adelaide took a kiti, kiti cha across from them and waited for her father to speak.
"Well Adelaide, today is the siku wewe will enter the King's Court. Where wewe will truly become a lady. And find a good husband at that," her father announced. Adelaide smiled a fake smile and muttered her excitement. Lady Pierce glanced at her, but didn't maoni about Adelaide's odd behavior. "Katherine has arranged it so that she will meet wewe there." Adelaide felt her world crash. It was hard enough to have to go and stay in what felt like to Adelaide a total foreign world. Her safeguarded nyumbani of Winchester was being stripped free from her hands. But now she had to endure the carriage ride, gloomily and perhaps be presented alone without Katherine kwa her side. Katherine was the one who had been thoroughly excited for all this. She had bought new gowns from Paris and showered herself with the French etiquette. Katherine had always been interested in the city of Paris and it's great parade of fashion. Adelaide nodded half-heartedly at her parents, before excusing herself to her room until the carriage arrives. Adelaide entered her room door, slamming it shut and sat on her bed, running her hand over the silk canopies. She would miss her room, with its girly edge. She'd had the room since she was a baby, sleeping in her utoto and then onto the fluffy beds. She was from ready to leave Winchester. It was her home...the only place she had known as home. One tear trickled down her cheek, but she brushed it off as soon as it came. She sighed. She was a young woman now and as far as she could see she would have to not act childish and songesha on with the things she didn't want to so. And besides, maybe while she was receiving the Queen's herbs, she could enhance her knowledge of plants. So there could be an up-side to all this. Freya burst into the door, suddenly,
"Quick Adelaide! The carriage has arrived!" Freya ushered the girl out of her room and soon Adelaide found herself crying "Papa" in her father's arms, but her mother pulled her daughter together before letting her into the carriage.
"You will be fine," Lord Pierce said, kissing the Adelaide's head for the last time. "I promise you, Adelaide." Adelaide choked out her final sobs, before Lady Pierce once again took over the scene kwa grasping Adelaide's arm firmly and leading her away.
"Now, Adelaide Elizabeth-Rose Pierce, wewe are not going to sulk when wewe get there. Remember every songesha wewe make Adelaide is being speculated," Lady Pierce alisema causing Adelaide's eyes to dilate involuntarily in fear. The Lady sighed, "I don't mean to scare you, my child. But wewe will find that the court is nothing like home. wewe might feel the surrounding danger and always be alert. Don't be too open, but don't cut people off either au it will seem suspicious. wewe are the family impression at court- wewe and Katherine. Don't forget that, Adelaide." Adelaide swallowed down her fear and hugged her mother before stepping outside and into the carriage. As the carriage jostled into movement, the younger Pierce sighed knowing that her life was about to change forever.
