The Drow Queen of Glaley [Very NSFW]

[Lux]

Coquette hasn't known the twins long really, less than six months in fact. And it hasn't exactly been the best circumstances to get to know someone. Neither man knows exactly what happened either just before or right after they arrived with the Mistress of the house, but something certainly did. Something that had lead to some very obvious punishments, the least among them being her constant nudity on the Household lands. Regardless, if she had been pressed-- assuming she could be brought to care and to give an honest answer at the same time-- she would have guessed that it would be Nox who would take initiative or act in a crisis.

But it's red skin and dark hair that she sees in the beautiful, clear water. It's bright blue, slitted eyes that met hers as she's laid out on the grassy slope next to the pier. It's Lux's spiced sugar lips that cover hers and force breath into her lungs.

[Coquette Blacquin]

Which means, as she coughs and sputters, that it's Nox that gets a chance to sit back and take in the little details: her favorite dress, the weights from the weight room in her side bag, the fact her hair is in a messy braid instead of carefully pinned up. Not to mention, despite her punishments, despite whatever was going on, she'd been thrilled to be pregnant, at least as far as they knew. She'd been designing a nursery, had asked their opinions on paint just two days prior -- and now, she'd gone to this? What had changed?

She will live. They got there in time. The overwhelming relief helps, though it doesn't erase the questions. Her eyes flutter open, and she coughs, vomiting up water on her side. 

[Nox]

"--have to- -now and not--"

"--can't just--"

"--not? It's not our--"

"It is! She- -need to- help- -before we--"

"--more importan- -ore and take--"

[Coquette Blacquin]

"..Nux?" she asks, slurring their names together in her shock and despair. Dammit. Why are they here? They should have let me die. 

[Nox]

Both voices go very silent for a long moment. Finally Lux appears next to her, kneeling next to her head. "...Lady Coquette?" the aasimar asks warily. 

[Coquette Blacquin]

She stares up at him for a moment, her face a picture of despair and torment. "I lost the babe," she whispers, and though her eyes are free of tears, she seems more to have cried them all out than to be unaffected. 

[Nox]

Nox blanches, rocking back on his heels, utterly and completely without words to offer. On the other side of Coquette, out of sight, she hears Lux let out a pained moan that ends with a sob.

[Coquette Blacquin]

"I haven't told anyone but... but you deserve to know and... and I don't.... I can't go on like this, I can't. I thought I could but I just can't. I sent Bull into town on an errand, I just have to... just let me go."

[Nox]

That strikes deep, tearing lose some words. "You... you selfish bitch," Nox whispers harshly.

[Coquette Blacquin]

Coquette turns to look at him blankly. What?

[Nox]

"Were you even going to tell anyone?" he demands, chest heaving with emotion. "Were you just going to let us think you killed-- that our daughter-- that-- And what about The Iron Bull? He loves you and you just-- how would he--"

[Coquette Blacquin]

"I left a note," she says weakly. "I just... she's going to have you rape me again and I can't do it, I can't get pregnant again knowing what happened, I need time and she won't give it to me, she needs me to be pregnant and what I want doesn't matter to her and I can't, I just can't go through that again."

[Lux]

Nox opens his mouth, expression indicating he's not mollified by her answers. But before he can speak, a wet, trembling hand reaches out and takes Coquette's own hand. "You don't have to," Lux whispers, voice broken by tears. "We'll petition for a divorce. Tonight."

"Lux, what are--"

"Were you not listening to her?" he snarls, causing the sun-hued twin to recoil in shock. "Did you not hear her? 'Rape me again!' She--" Without warning, Lux twists to the side and vomits.

[Coquette Blacquin]

"I'm sorry," she whimpers. "I'm sure you're good people, I just... I'm just so tired and I can't.. Varisia took everything from me, I can't keep going like this."

[Nox]

Looking rather sick himself, Nox presses a hand against his mouth. "Then-- then we change things," he finally manages hoarsely. "Whatever-- no more sex. Divorce. Anything."