Later on that evening in Mary's bedroom; Kenna, Greer, Aylee and Lola are reluctant to help Catherine with her plan as they don't trust her, but in order to gain their trust Catherine tells them a story of how she was kidnapped as a child and tells them she was held hostage for years until she was rescued by the Pope after she prayed.
Catherine and Mary show the secret tunnel to Olivia and tell them how they are all going to escape with the demonstration of the knocks on the doors. Olivia then asks them why she's the one that has to do that; Catherine then tells her that the Count wont suspect Olivia for helping them.Catherine tells Olivia that if she fails her duties in any way that she will meet with the Queen's extreme displeasure and then shoves her into the doorway and commands her to close the doors.
About dinner time, everyone arrives and enjoys the feast and the Count's men are extremely pleased and are playing with the gold that was offered to them. Mary takes a good use of her time and makes an excuse to get away with her ladies and get to the secret door, unfortunately Olivia isn't at her post as she was earlier when Francis and the others came down. Mary and her ladies are caught by the Count's me and are returned to the feast. Catherine's shocked to see them come back, and get up telling the Count that Henry will go to war for his heirs; she begs the Count to not take her children and offers Mary and her ladies instead, but the Count cuts her off by telling her to "give him her heart and cut it out of his chest so that they might be able to understand him."
Soon the Count's men begins to manhandle the ladies and the Count tries to rape Mary as Catherine tosses the hourglass onto the floor to silence the room. The Count's men begin to have nose bleeds and die and the Count doesn't understand because there wasn't any poison in the food so they couldn't have died because of that. Catherine reveals that the men are dying because they touched the gold because it was poisoned and since the Count never touched the gold he still tries to rape Mary and then Mary ends up stabbing him and Francis comes in and cuts off his arm. Kenna is injured in the process and Francis takes her to the infirmary.
Later that night, Francis and Mary argue about why he stayed behind and that the Italians could have killed him and Francis tells her that they need to be together to stay sane.
Word Count: 455
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