Europe / Florence / Palazzo Medici Riccardi (A Bedroom): June 23rd, 2020.
Dear reader.
I didn't know that you were there.
I guess that is how you all thought I would greet you.
Unfortunately no
Why.
Because, I don't know you.
And I don't greet strangers.
But considering you've apparently decided to watch an old woman crawl her way through a dying dynasty, I suppose introductions are necessary.
My name is persia zarwick.
Although if you ask anyone inside this palace, they'll tell you my name is annabelle de' medici.
They're wrong.
But we'll deal with that later.
For now, I have more important problems.
Matilda didn't bring any food to me yesterday, I'm hungry.
I'm crippled.
My family is apparently worth five million fucking dollars.
And somebody in this palace is lying to me.
(Annabelle de' Medici's POV)
*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*
My eyes opened.
The room was completely silent.
"Come in." I said calmly while staring up at the chandelier on the roof for a moment and then right at the door, my right hand very steadily gripping the loaded pistol underneath the sheets.
The double doors opened and a chunky 6'5 with a luxerious robe attire on, light olive skinned man with, slicked back jet black hair, dark brown colored eyes made his way into the room with his head held high, his bottom lip pursed, his eye lids lowered, his arm resting behind his back and his gold cane supporting his big frame as he robe fluttered behind him.
"The fuck." I said with a what the fuck look on my face.
Romeo froze for a second, almost stumbling on his own clothing and said with creased eyebrows "Excuse me. Aunt belle."
The room was silent for a moment.
"What." I asked calmly, genuinely confused.
Romeo was silent for a moment and adjusted his throat and said louder "I said excuse me. Aunt be..."
"Your excused, leave at once you fat daddy loving fuck." I said calmly with a wave of my hand.
The room went completely silent.
The atmosphere heavy.
A bulging vein appeared on romeo's forehead and said loudly "YOU…"
*KNOCK* *KNOCK*
"Am I Interrupting something, mother." Asked a very deep voice from out of nowhere. It being a handsome 7'0 man with a diamond shaped face, dark brown eyes, a ripped muscular body in a florentine guard attire with a warm medium brown skin tone and jet black short curly hair with a fade.
The room went silent Immediately.
Romeo froze.
I stared at the man by the door for a moment, my gaze falling to the plate of breakfast food in his hand and said with a gesture of good will "Come in, come in, there is plenty of room. This egg built daddy loving bitch was just leaving."
The room was silent. A snicker was heard by the door.
I glanced at the man again and suddenly a image of a baby flashed through my mind and thought with narrowed eyes "Right, he is the bastard of annabelle while she was still a man before the transitioning into a woman, he will be useful since he is the captain-general of the 380 palace guards, keep the enemies close but the hoes even closer I like to say"
The room was silent a moment longer.
"Ahem…I shall excuse myself." Said romeo as he adjusted his attire and straightened his back with his head tilting high, his eyelids lowering themselves with undeserved arrogance as he started to take his leave.
Romeo glanced up at the man and brushed past him while saying "Enjoy your position for now you tainted blood."
"I will, piggy." Said the man while catching the grit in romeo's teeth as he quickly left the room and disappeared down the hall.
The room became sil…nope.
"Gimme my food." I said Immediately with a wave of my hand back and forth.
The man had a whiplashed look on his face for a moment and closed the double doors behind himself and quickly brought the food over to me.
I grabbed the plate of food and was about to eat it but froze and glanced up at him and asked "is this already tested for poison, bartholomew."
The room became silent.
Bartholomew was silent a moment longer and said calmly with a nod "Yes mother."
I stared at him for a moment and picked up the spoon and fork and started to eat.
Bartholomew was completely silent and took his seat while suddenly placing something onto the bed.
I froze and glanced at a box with the image of a iphone 12 pro max on it.
"You asked me to buy you a phone, so here's the phone." Said bartholomew while tapping the phone lightly.
He means the former belle, dear reader.
I stared down at the box for a moment longer and thought with squinted eyes "But I'm glad he brought this because I wasn't just a pimp in my previous life but also a hacker. I would call it my biggest skill"
The room was completely silent.
"Thank you for the food, you can excuse yourself now." I said calmly while putting the emptying plate in his hand and grabbing the box with the phone inside of it.
Bartholomew nodded and said calmly with his voice lowered by a large margin "Before I go I have information."
*Sks*
I opened the box and took the iphone pro max out of the box.
Bartholomew was silent and watched me as I took the iphone pro max out of the box and started playing around with it.
"Ahem…mother." Said bartholomew calmly with his voice raised.
I looked at him and said calmly "What motherfucer, why haven't you left yet."
The room went completely silent.
"Did you hear anything I just said." Asked bartholomew calmly with a serious look in his eyes.
I was silent for a moment and said calmly "I'm 98 years old."
"It's that simple." Asked bartholomew calmly.
"It's that simple." I said calmly, confirming the situation.
Bartholomew adjusted his throat and said calmly as he got up "Pope francis withdrew all vatican support from the medici family. He told romeo directly that the church would no longer help legitimize medici rule over the modern florence. Francis specifically said that although dlorence belonged to the medici under your AU arrangement, "ownership is not sanctity" and the church would no longer present medici control as divine order. It is unclear what romeo is currently scheming in that piggy brain of his but I suspect that it is something related to the covid outbreak."
The room was silent.
"Interesting, thank you for informing me about this." I said while rubbing my wrinkled chin for a moment.
Bartholomew nodded and started taking his leave from the room.
*Boom*
I glanced down at the phone and stared at the powered on screen for a moment and thought "Let's see if my laundered bank account exists in this life. It should be since it is the year 2020, that is around the time that the back door plot happened."
The room was silent.
Heavy.
Hmm…why are you still here, dear reader.
"This is not something that you should be seeing in this chapter, bye now." I said calmly while looking at the reader and lifting my left hand up.
I snapped my finger.
*PAH*
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THE END…