new rules - fourteen
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word count: 2.5K
warnings: 18+ ONLY. Language, mentions of regicide, mentions of violence, angst, mentions of cheating (not on the Reader), vaginal fingering, oral sex (f receiving), talks of virginity and sexuality.
prince! steve rogers x princess reader
amazing moodboard by @pictures-inmy-mind | divider by @firefly-graphics
new rules masterlist
summary | done with his daughter’s antics, a king makes a decree that she will marry one of his king’s guards, whether she wants to or not.
Grace peers outside, the handwritten letter crushed in her hand, aware of the person standing behind her.
“Are you here to give me your apologies?” Her voice is controlled, even as she feels herself losing the battle with her composure.
“Would it make it better?”
Your father stands behind her, eyes focusing on the letter in her hand. Grace lifts her head higher, breathing in deeply, her back to him still.
“No. I’d much prefer you tell me that you told me so. Do you believe this is the best course of action? Removing a queen from her kingdom?”
“Better than her being dragged out by her husband’s mistress and his bastard son.”
Her breath catches in her throat at his words, the letter fluttering to the ground. Her forehead presses against the glass, her exhale fogging up the window.
“I always thought that I did everything right. I followed the rules to the letter, Father. I gave up what I wanted for a title. A marriage that joined our two kingdoms together because I was the oldest and I needed to set an example. I have always been the golden child and now, because of a scandal, I have to leave everything I’ve gained? Do you not see how insulting that is for me? For my girls? I wanted a life of my own and I almost had that once but this… this was my duty and I did it.”
“Do you not trust your father? It is for the best.”
“The best for whom?” Grace whirls around, tears in her eyes. “For your precious other daughters? The ones who share your very blood?”
“This is not what this is about. It is about the strength of our family, despite the circumstances you have found yourself in. You are my daughter, through and through. If I did not have the amount of love for you that I have had since I laid eyes on you, since the moment I knew your mother was going to have you, I would not be standing here to help you out of this scandal.”
“It is his scandal to bear! Not mine!”
“Then you will never understand what it means to be a queen. Nor will you ever understand the amount of slander and libel that will be lobbied in your direction once they hear he has decided to move in his new family. I will handle this, make no mistake, my child. For when you hurt, I hurt. When my family is broken, I will exact revenge, I promise you that. I promise my granddaughters the same. You will move from this house, to Codmare Cottage with the girls.”
“Father, I -”
“Now, Grace. I will have your things packed up but you must go.”
Sniffling, Grace pushes past her father, leaving him to pick up the letter and examine it, before he lowers his head in dismay.
Thor peeks in on Brunn, her weapons laid out on the counter, freshly cleaned and repaired. Without even turning around, she places her hands on the counter.
“What do you want?”
“There’s a briefing in a little. Queen Grace is heading to Codmare within the next few hours.”
“Noted,” Brunn says quietly. “Anything else?”
“Yes.”
She turns to look over her shoulder, Thor swallowing hard at the sight of her. She’s never cried before in front of him, let alone show any emotion but he can see her teeth running over her lower lip, as if she wants to say something.
“Will you be assisting her?” Brunn asks him.
Thor shakes his head at her question.
“No. She will be assigned to Sam. I told you, Brunnhilde, it was in the past.”
“So that makes it okay?”
“No, it doesn’t,” Thor answers her, taking a step inside. “I want you to understand that just because it’s the past doesn’t mean I turn my back on it. It isn’t a closed door, something that remains off limits. It won’t be until I can make it up to you.”
“Make it up to me?” Brunn scoffs, nodding her head in disbelief. “Does she know that you’re finished? That you can just walk away like it never happened? Does she know about you and her younger sister?”
“She knows I’m finished,” Thor responds. “I let her know in the best way I could. I’m sorry, Brunnhilde. I can sit with these feelings that I have, the feelings I have for you and reconcile that what I’ve done was wrong and that I have hurt you. I know that.”
“Good,” Brunn shoots back, turning her back on him. “Then you’ll know me well enough that I need to be alone.”
“I do. Sam will be around in an hour or so to settle in and get information. I’ve told him to come to you if you have any questions on what she would require.”
“Where will you be?”
“On a task.”
When she can no longer feel him behind her, Brunn exhales a breath, focusing on the weapons on the table in front of her.
“I’m not supposed to be here, you know,” Steve says against your forehead, your eyes closing at the feel of his arms around you. “Your father would have my head for this.”
“Would he?” you whisper, nuzzling his beard before kissing him. “I believe this is your proper place.”
“Not yet,” he purrs against your neck. “Though your pictures did you no justice when I see you in person, you brat.”
His fingers slip between your legs, his fingers inching up inside you.
“I can’t tell what you like better,” he wonders, your back arching slightly when his lips kiss your collarbone. “Earlier it was my mouth… maybe it’s both?”
“Maybe.” You shiver, feeling him move down lower, his hands seemingly everywhere and nowhere all at once, enough to make you dizzy with how he knows just where to touch, where to kiss that you’re uncertain that he doesn’t have a map of your body somewhere.
Or, he’s just that good, something your brain realizes, shutting down the jealous response that threatens to rear its ugly head. None of that matters now, not when he’s spent the weekend in your bed, teaching you new things and learning what you like, stopping short of giving you what you truly want. Lia has made it seem like heaven and earth but you’re not sure if it could be better than his hands.
“S-Steve,” you keen, your thighs in his hands, his tongue dipping into your entrance.
“Hmm?”
“Oh my god,” you pant, Steve nipping at the sensitive skin.
“It’s Steve,” he teases before his fingers find a rhythm that leaves you breathless.
King Adam opens the door to his office, a man sitting in his chair, looking up in surprise.
“Ah, King Adam,” the tall, slender man purrs with a smile and nod. “Lovely to see you in the flesh.”
“I must say that you are bold. Last time I heard news of you, it was that you were locked away, awaiting a trial, was it? I don’t think King Joseph takes kindly to one kidnapping a princess, lest it be one that is in the sights of his prodigal son.”
“A mere piece of a puzzle, I assure you, Your Majesty,” Loki responds with a grin. “Though I assure you that no trial can hold me. I created the narrative for Brokelen and I simply do not any longer.”
“They know you as a traitor to the crown.”
“And you know me as a keeper of your secrets,” Loki reminds him. “Or at least, I was, until you decided to think with your other head. How do you think your people will take your mistress? Your bastard son? To install them into the palace is quite bold, Your Majesty. Some may say foolish.”
“What I do is my business. My wife is frigid, a bastard of her own name. What is another?”
“Precisely why I am here. You tell me what you know and I will craft your relationship into a more… palatable story.”
“You’re a wanted man.”
“And you’re about to be a disgraced king. Which will it be? Lose what little respect you have on the world stage or keep your secret.”
“Grace knows already.”
“So she does. Banished to Codmore Cottage, I believe. The family is doing its own damage control. Not that I can blame them. She’s done much to bring shame to her family.”
“So have you,” King Adam sneers. “You’re worse than I am.”
“No, Your Majesty. We are simply cut from the same cloth. I’m slightly tailored better than you, of course. It’s quite simple. I want Brokelen to fall and you want to keep your secret from getting out. We can come to an accord, I am sure.”
“What is it?”
Loki stands, extending his hand.
“That’s for me to create and for you to follow along. For now, keep your mistress and child where they are. Let me handle the rest.”
King Adam shakes it, Loki nodding.
“Lay low,” Loki instructs. “Not a peep out of you, Your Majesty, until I say so.”
The door opens for Grace, a handsome man standing at the door, offering his hand. There are no photographers, no paparazzi yelling her name. Only the sound of the water fountain in the background, the crunch of her heels on the gravel when she finally stands.
Codmore Cottage seems smaller than she remembers, the lights on upstairs as she’s well aware that is where her daughters are. Humiliation hits her when she’s led up the steps, thinking of what she’s left behind.
There’s only so much emotion one can keep inside, the door opening to the well decorated space. This is where she will call home until she can find a suitable replacement, even if her father has told her that it may take a while. It feels surreal to know she’s removed from a place that she once only dreamed about, only to have it cruelly stolen from her.
This man that introduces himself to her as Sam isn’t Thor, the comfort she once sought out but now knows will never happen again.
He said it himself in writing.
Perhaps the apology was a deathblow to her pride, Thor putting an explanation to paper as to why it was and always had been a mistake. Through his words, she can tell that someone else is on his mind, one that cannot compare to her – though it sounds like he doesn’t want to even begin to try.
“Your aides will be here tomorrow,” Sam reminds her gently, Grace simply nodding at his words. “Is there anything I can do for you in the meantime?”
“I want to be alone.”
“Of course. I’ll be outside if you need.”
Once the door closes, Grace lets herself cry, ripping off the wedding ring from her finger and throwing it against the wall in a fit of anger, covering her mouth to keep from crying.
Exiled.
It’s a heavy word, one that she repeats over and over until she can’t hold it in any longer. Her lapses in judgment ended as quickly as they had come. You would never have to endure such a thing, such a rampant disrespect as she.
Neither would Lia.
Speaking to the press is forbidden, something Grace knows is completely off limits and yet she yearns to tell her side of the story, to accuse her husband of the same cruelty that she has inflicted on her own family.
So much to say and no one to say it to that will listen.
“Mother?” comes the voice of one of the girls. “Are you alright?”
“Fine,” Grace answers quickly. “Stay upstairs, my angels. I’ll be up in a moment.”
Patting her pocket, she realizes that she doesn’t have Thor’s letter, her panicked thoughts sending her toward the foyer to search through her purse.
Steve knocks on the door to your father’s office. It’s early enough for him to know that there is no one else there to answer as his aides aren’t up until another hour.
“Come in,” your father instructs from the other side, Steve opening the door and closing it behind him.
“Your Majesty,” Steve says with a bow of his head.
“This is formal,” your father says with a hint of curiosity in his voice. “And early.”
“I’ve come to tell you that I’m heading out to Brokelen. There’s a threat. Loki escaped his cell and fled.”
“My God,” your father mutters. “What do you need?”
“That’s not why I’m here. I can handle Loki on my own. I’ve come for another matter.”
“Oh?”
Steve places a box on the table, your father looking up at him.
“I want to marry her, Your Majesty. I don’t care where, quite honestly. I just… I know what I feel, former agreements notwithstanding. I would like your permission.”
Your father stands up, pushing the chair back.
“Then you shall have it, my son.”
Steve nods, your father handing him the ring box.
“You must promise me one thing,” your father continues.
“Anything, Your Majesty.”
“You will never crush her spirit the way I did once. Let her be wild, let her be herself. In that, she will be your greatest gift.”
“Of course,” Steve says, emotion overwhelming him for a moment. “Always.”
You catch Steve leaving your father’s office, following him silently as he heads outside, taking in the first sight of dawn.
“Are you leaving me again?” you ask, Steve’s shoulders slightly dropping at your question.
“For a little.”
“Why?”
“Because there is unfinished business I need to complete.”
“Loki,” you reply with a nod of your head. “I understand.”
“Do you?” Steve asks you, his head turning toward you.
“I do. Whatever you must do, I trust you to return.”
“Trust or order?”
“Order,” you reply, your head held high. “There’s much I haven’t learned yet.”
“Is that only what I am to you, Princess?” Steve cups your face in his hands. “Or more?”
“A lady never tells.”
“You tell me so much without words.”
He winks at you, making you laugh before you hold him closer.
“Do you promise to make it back in one piece?”
“I can’t promise that. I couldn’t keep you safe, myself.”
Reaching up behind you, you unclasp your necklace, letting it fall into his hands.
“What did they used to call it in the old times? A favor?” you tell him, closing your hand over his. “You keep it safe until you come back and I promise to be on my best behavior.”
“I’ll have a surprise for you when I return.”
You nod, reaching up to pull down his collar to kiss him.
“I love surprises.”
James opens the door to see Brunn standing in front of him, tossing him a bag that he catches square in his chest.
“Where’s the fight?”
“No fight yet,” Brunn says, turning on her heels. “But we’re going to find King Adam. I have an inkling he knows what’s to come.”
“Does Steve know?”
Brunn continues walking, giving a signal to the Valkyrie that are waiting, rounding the corner while James follows.
“Who do you think sent me?”
“You realize that King Adam probably has his army guarding him wherever he is.”
James looks at the contingent of guards that are waiting, their commander in front of them as he nods at Brunn.
“Then it’s a good thing I know exactly where to find him,” Thor answers him.
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