Europe / British Empire / Cheshire (Fletcher Castle): May 26th, 1817.
It was a beautiful day for the world. The birds were chirping their songs as mankind went about their daily routines with smiles on their faces at beauty of the city, but also sad looks on their faces at the horror of it whether it be financially, emotionally or physically, yet if you were to look closely in cheshire. To be more specific, inside of a luxerious castle. You can see 8 people inside of a drawing room making themselves surprisingly a little to comfortable.
The atmosphere extremely tense.
(Mordred's POV)
I sat down on a soft couch while saying calmly "It is nice to be of nobility. Is it not."
"GYAHAHA. Indeed my son, Indeed it is." Said svyatapolk laughing loudly as he picked up a luxerious vase and examined it.
Abigail bit her lip as she went over to william and snatched away a dagger from his hand and said with a stern voice "Don't touch anything. Go sit down."
"Hahaha. It is fine little man, I am to be your father soon." Said Ivan with a smile as he ruffled William's head.
William looked up at Ivan and asked with very piercing eyes "Dose that mean you and mom will hunch."
The drawing room was silent.
"Who told you that." Asked adelaide calmly.
William shrugged and said calmly "I heard uncle vladimir talking about milky breasts."
The drawing room was absolutely silent.
"Fascinating. Speaking of vladimir, where is he." I asked calmly while looking around at different silhouettes but not spotting a familiar one.
Ivan chuckled and said calmly "He went to the brothel. I gave him a bag of dollars."
"HAHAHA, he wasted no time, no time at all." Said svyatapolk laughing loudly as he sat the vase back down.
Adelaide stared at svyatapolk for a moment and said calmly "Don't get any funny ideas."
"N...not at all my dear." Said svyatapolk stuttering with a nervous laugh and sweat dripping down his face from his forehead.
*Knock* *Knock*
Ivan looked back at the double doors and said calmly "Come in."
"My lord. I have brought the family registry as you've asked." Said a old man calmly as he came into the drawing room, in a butler attire and handed Ivan the family tree / registery book.
Ivan grabbed the book and went over to a table and sat down in a chair while opening the book and flipping a few pages and took a quilt pen out of the ink dip and started writing down names in it.
"Efficiency at it's finest" I thought while tapping my left finger onto the chair, watching a echolocation map of the room inside my mind.
Abigail went over to Ivan and said stuttering while twiddling her thumbs "H…hi. I'm abigail."
"I know what you're name is gorgeous, you can be comfortable around me. I won't do anything you won't like." Said Ivan calmly as he put the quilt pen back into the ink dip and handed the book to the butler.
The butler took the book and bowed while saying "I will be downstairs my lord if you shall need anything."
"Very good." Said Ivan with a nod at the butler as he left the drawing room.
*Boom*
"Then can we not get married." Said abigail Immediately with a smile.
Ivan chuckled and said while getting up and lifting abigail's chin with his right finger "That won't be happening sweetheart. I will have your heart even if that means you will end up hating me."
"Very poetic, well said my son in law. You have my blessing." Said svyatapolk with a look of approval as he stroked his bearded chin. His eyes closed.
"Not that he needs it from a different species but ok" I thought while getting up from the sofa.
Abigail chewed her bottom lip hardly and said with a serious look in her face "Why can't we not get married."
"I already registered you as my wife." Said Ivan with a smile as his right finger brushed against abigail's cheek gently.
William looked up at both abigail and Ivan and rubbed his chin for a moment and said with a look of realization "You and mommy really are gonna hunch."
"Yeah little man, eventually. I have to tie this beauty down and, oh do I love a challenge." Said Ivan while ruffling william's hair with a low chuckle.
"I had a dream, that one day you will all go find something to do so I can discuss something with Ivan here." I said calmly in a martin luther king jr. voice.
The drawing room was absolutely silent.
Adelaide got up from the sifa while saying calmly "I will take my leave then, it was nice meeting you Ivan. Do make my daughter happy and not break her heart. Come along you rat."
"You have nothing to worry about ma'am. I intend to." Said Ivan calmly with a smile that abigail wanted to punch off his face.
Abigail gritted her teeth and followed svyatapolk followed adelaide out of the room.
*Boom*
Ivan looked at margaret and asked with his eyes squinting "Are you not leaving."
"She will be staying." I said calmly as I stared at Ivan's silhouette.
The drawing room was silent. It being very tense.
Ivan rubbed his bearded chin and said while going over to a case of wine and grabbed a bottle and opened it and poured some into three glasses while saying calmly as he came over and handed both me and nargaret one "I see."
"I'm not a person that likes to beat around the bush, we still have unused grave smoke in russia. I want it." I said calmly as I grabbed the wine glass.
Ivan's eyebrows creased and said while handing margaret a wine glass "If it were me I would just ab…"
"There was a total of 77 already finished. I maintained strict rules and made sure that everyone left before I did. William counted all of it before we left." Said margaret with a very serious look on her face as she took a sip of the wine.
Ivan was silent for a moment and asked "Do you both want renew our deal despite wanting to fuck both of you over."
"Yes. Only that this time you won't be getting anything. You seem to already be doing quite well for yourself and you also got the hand of my precious delicate sister, you've achieved the ultimate life." I said calmly while gesturing around at the luxerious room.
Margaret nodded and said with a cold look in her eyes as she sat the wine glass down onto the table "We haven't considered your apology valid yet. It isn't enough and you still benefited from us despite becoming family and if you think deeply in the matter you still benifit from us since we are now a family and you will only gain more power by being tied to us."
"You have my ear." Said Ivan with a sigh as he chugged all the wine in one go.
I rubbed my chin and said calmly "We will be distributing it in the british black market and not the the russisn. It is to dangerous and very inefficient, just not effective so we will use the british underground market."
Ivan was silent for a moment and said with a resolved look in his eyes "Very well. We have a deal. Where do we began."
"Hmm…" Said margaret with a smile in the background.
My lip curled up slightly while saying calmly "London."
The beginning of house of ainsworth.
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THE END…