A/N - this story contains incestuous themes, it is purely fiction. If this offends you, please do not read.
This story is my first and a submission for the
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Title - My Mother, My Queen
The future was looking bleak.
James Norton III had just turned 18th today. It was supposed to be a day of celebration and positivity but everytime someone came to congratulate him, he kept on getting more depressed.
It wasn't that there was anything wrong with the party taking place, everything had been planned down to the last detail and was of the highest standards. It was the fact that as a prince there were a lot of expectations for the newly turned adult James Norton III. Now that he was 18th, his people expected him to start finding an appropriate lady to settle down with. Someone who will eventually help him lead this great nation of Cleves.
It was this expectation that made him depressed. Especially since the woman he wanted to marry was completely forbidden to him. He knew whenever he married, it would be a marriage of convenience, just like his parents' marriage. A depressing thought for a romantic like himself.
Additionally, his father, the King - Henry Norton who was not too old, but was very sickly, there was even more pressure for him to find a wife so that when James became King, he would already have a Queen to lead by his side. And while he did not like seeing his father sick and in pain, he was in no hurry to join all the other nobles who looked for pleasure outside the marriage bed.
I should just get out of here and get to bed.
James thought,
I'm really not fit company for a party.
As he made his way towards his parents, he couldn't help but notice his father, the King looking paler than usual, while his mother, the Queen was looking as radiant as ever. Where King Henry who at the young age of 53 looked old and withered due to years of a life of excess, Queen Zenobia, 15 years her husband's junior, looked healthy and youthful. He'd always admired his mother's sunny yet regal disposition.
The woman could light up a room and freeze you to a spot with just a glance. James always wondered if his romantic inclinations came from his mother, because his father did not have a single romantic bone in his body. Through the course of his life, James had seen his father with multiple mistresses, sometimes more than one at the same time. His father, like others before him, had only married for the sake of the throne, James knew there was no love between his parents.
Queen Zenobia smiled at her son, as he bowed in front of his parents and then came forward to kiss her cheek.
"Are you having a good time, dear?" she asked.
"I am, but I'm quite tired now, so I shall call it a night" she was surprised to hear this. Her husband, when young, had been the life of the party always.
"Already? This party is in your honour. Was it not to your liking?"
"No, of course it is. I'm just tired and want to go to sleep, that's all."
"Oh well, if you're sure."
"Yes, thank you for arranging this. Everything was perfect"
" Please come see tomorrow I have something to discuss with you" she said
"As you wish, mother" James kissed her one more time, bowed to his father and made his way to his room.
As he got to his room, he dismissed his valet, he was in no mood to suffer the lengthy night time routine. Misery loves company but there was no one who would understand him so he would rather just be alone - just him and his thoughts.
Lying in bed he tried to resign himself to the future. All this time he kept hoping that being in love with the most unattainable woman in the world was just a bad dream. He would wake up and no longer be obsessed with the one woman he could not have, instead he would fall in love with a suitable woman, and they would have a loving marriage and life together.
He was sure tomorrow his mother would have a list of prospective brides ready for him to get to know. As he thought of seeing his mother tomorrow morning, he could not help but think about how soft her cheek had been when he kissed her today. He hoped she had not noticed how he'd lingered the second time he'd pressed his lips to her smooth skin.
Soon thoughts of his mother enveloped him and even though he knew he should not, his hand reached in his pajamas and rubbed along his hardening dick. As the precum started to leak from his dick, he got hard and earnestly started to jerk himself off, using the precum as lubrication. Imagining instead of his hand, his mother's warm pussy, he tightened his grip and ardently fucked his own hand, panting for breath, his mother's name the only thing on this lips as he raced towards the end.
So consumed was he in his fantasy, he did not even care he was getting his clothes dirty, or that anyone passing by the door might hear him moaning for the Queen, he came all over himself.
"..mother..oh..oh god" he gasped. Wiping his hand on the pajama shirt which now already had multiple blobs of cum down the front, he realized he would have to change his clothes, there was no way he could go to sleep in these wet clothes.
** ** ** ** **
"My lord" urgent shaking pulled James from his sleep.
"My lord, please wake up" was the sound of his valet, Green, he realised as he became conscious.
"Green, my god, man stop shaking me. What is it?"
"It's his Majesty" those ominous words were enough to completely wake James.
He immediately got out of bed, and started pulling on his robe.
"Is he..." James tried to ask, but he could not bring himself to finish the question.
"The doctor has been called, but according to him it does not look like His Majesty will make it through the night. His Majesty has called for you."
With dread settling in his gut, James made his way to his father's chambers. Upon entering the room, he saw his mother already there, the tears running down her face the only indication of her grief on an otherwise stoic face.
"Father!"
"James" Henry wheezed, reaching out to grab his son's hand.
"It's okay, you will be okay"
"No...it looks like this is it"
James wanted to assure his father he would be ok,that the King was too young to die, but before he could say anything Henry interrupted him, telling him to listen carefully.
"You will be king now. It is a lot of responsibility and at such a young age too, but I know you are strong. With a strong Queen at your side, you will be a great King" He gasped for breath.
James could tell it was getting difficult for his father to speak. He wanted to tell his father to save his breath, but the King continued
"I know you will do good. I ask that in addition to taking care of this country, you also take care of your mother." upon hearing herself being referred to, his mother gasped, another crack in her armor.
As King Henry reached out for her hand, she grasped it firmly and came to sit on Henry's bedside.
"I haven't been a good husband, too different, too selfish, but you are a strong Queen. I could always depend on you" he told Zenobia.
Bringing all their hands together, he turned back to his son, "Promise me you will take care of her, make sure she does not lack for anything"