Yelena tells Kate she's banned from royal court, and Kate takes that way too personally. She already felt like a peasant among peasants. She doesn't belong in a castle. So she sits in her room and re strings her bow. Then does it again. And again. And again.

Yelena finally finishes and goes back to the room, not expecting to see a beaten down archer at the foot of their bed. She's ready to summon a kill squad for whoever made her big idiot sad until,

"I didn't know I was a problem," the big idiot says, breaking Yelena out of her murder brain.

"Oh," the queen says, feeling every bit like an asshole. "You're not, dear. I just need you out of that room during meetings."

"Because I'm stupid and don't understand things?" Kate sniffles.

"No, well, yes. But not for that!" Yelena stutters.

"Then what? I'm not royal enough for the royal court?" Kate snaps.

"Because you're distracting!" Yelena yells back.

Kate blinks once, twice, the rodent on her mental hamster wheel struggling so hard to run. Damn thing is almost rusted stuck.

Yelena rolls her eyes and climbs into her archers lap, trying desperately to keep her composure despite the delicious way her legs spread across those muscular thighs and the calloused hands of her wife find her ass like it's the only other thing they know how to hold besides bows and arrows. She kisses the bumbling idiot before answering:

"Seeing you try to keep up with the generals and advisors is adorable. The way your eyes glaze over when we talk numbers,"

Yelenas hips start moving.

"The way you can't understand whats on the parchment,"

Her hands tighten in that massive mane of luxurious black hair.

"The way I can fucking hear that walnut of a brain vibrate trying to understand diplomacy and lawmaking."

Yelena is growling now, thrusting herself into Kate's lap and humping one of those stupidly strong thighs. Kate's eyes are black with lust at this point. Her hands have squeezed her wife's ass so hard, they're leaving divots where blunt nails have sunk in.

Kate can't read parchment, but she follows orders like a good archer and when Queen Belova demand you eat your fill, Kate will indeed eat her fill.

I said horny angst, not just angst.

“Kate blinks once, twice, the rodent on her mental hamster wheel struggling so hard to run. Damn thing is almost rusted stuck.”

She can't read. She just points at the words and the items in the stalls.

She can't count money. She just hopes Yelena won't be mad at how much she spends.

She's hungry and gets a turkey leg. Now her parchment is greasy.

She helped an old woman carry her groceries home. Makes her feel good.

Yelena quietly ordered all the supplies a week ago. She loves watching her dumbass have a good day though.

Consider Kate on the same exercise regimen (hunting for hours and practicing archery), but with readily available fresh food and not starving for days on end. So she actually recovers and builds muscle. She gets a proper 8 hours of sleep (mostly worn out because again. Yelena loves this idiot and needs to show it the best way she knows how (ride her face like it's her job)).

Kate is wearing the same shirt from when Yelena found her a year ago, but Kate's put on a solid 20lbs and so those sleeves are TIGHT, and Yelena is trying her best to conduct royal court, but "my dear, please see to the archers out on the towers, please. This is getting a little tight-I mean complex, so you might get a headache."

Yelena catches Kate shirtless from behind. Where there was bone is now corded muscle and Yelena doesn't know which is making her wetter: Kate being strong, or Yelena knowing she is taking good care of her precious dumbass. Yelena leaves nail marks all up and down this woman that evening.

Also. Kate trying to carry her Queen into the bedroom, being stupid, and hitting Yelena's head on the doorframe immediately.

Yelena learning she is in fact, no better than a peasant woman when her wife hauls a deer in.

Kate learning slowly that it is NOT in fact, customary for a wife to bathe their hunter when they return from the woods. In a closed room. Alone. Naked. Slowly.

1. Shoot arrows

2. Eat

3. Eat( >=] )

4. Rail her wife like its their last night on earth.

“We don’t, it’s for you.” And Kate gives her that no braincell stare where her eyes don’t even blink together before asking her why “Because the last time I left you alone? You managed to get lost in the woods for two days, nearly starting a war with one of the neighboring castles.” Yelena ignores the fact that she thought her adorable wife had been kidnapped with Kate just answering “But it was (insert wild animal here) migration and I wanted to see them before they left for the winter.” To which baffles Yelena “You know what migration is but not about the history of our nation???” Not to mention Kate has a tendency of getting herself locked into random and weird places or breaking various bones. The sweet big dumb dumb that she is. And Yelena does feel bad because she worries she might be infantilizing her wife but Kate has common sense to realize Yelena is just trying to keep her safe. That lizard brain of hers might be running on E but she has sense enough to know Yelena isn’t making fun of her and just wants her safe