SIX the Musical One Shots (Discontinued)

I Don't Need Your Love

(Parr stares at the other queens, trying to figure out what to do.)
Parr: Yeah, I'm done.
Howard: What do you mean?
Parr: What I mean is, I think we're done with this stupid competition. Why should our lives with one man have to decide who wins? It's not like us.
Boleyn: It is like me.
Seymour: We don't need to hear about that.

Parr: You all want a story? Fine, I'll tell you a story. Take a seat. So, Henry and I do share something in common. We both married multiple times, but at least I got through it without decapitating anyone. After my second husband died, Thomas Seymour came along.
Seymour: Wait, WHAT?!
Parr: Let me tell you, he was incredible. We agreed to marry as he would stick around rather than die on the spot. But, we had to put our arrangements on hold. I caught the eye of the King, and you know the rest.
Seymour: Are you telling me that-
Howard: Not now, Janie.
Parr: So, I had to write a letter to Thomas, ending things. It went like this: Dear Thomas

You know I love you, boy
In every single way
Though I love you, boy
I'll miss you every day
Oh, I love you, boy
I wish that I could stay with you
And keep the life I made with you
And even though this feels so right
I'm holding back the tears tonight

It's true, I'll never be over you
'Cause I have built a future in my mind with you
And now the hope is gone
There's nothing left for me to do
You know it isn't true
But I must say to you

That I don't need your love, no, no
I don't need your love, no, no
It'll never be better than it was, no, no
But I don't need your love, no, no

I've got no choice
With the King, I stay alive
Never had a choice
Been a wife twice before just to survive
I don't have a choice
If Henry says "It's you", then it's you
No matter how I feel
It's what I have to do
But if somehow, I had the choice
No holding back, I'd raise my voice

I'd say Henry, yeah, it's you
I'll never belong to you
'Cause I'm not your toy to enjoy till there's something new
As if I'm gonna give up my boy, my work, my dreams
To care for you. Ha!
Darling get a clue
There's nothing you can do

(Howard and Cleves get up and join Parr as the three of them begin dancing).

I don't need your love, no, no
No, I don't need your love, no, no
There's nothing left to discuss, no, no
But I don't need your love, no, no

(The three queens stop dancing.)

But I can't say that
Not to the king
So this is goodbye
All my love,
Catherine

So I sent that letter to my love
Got married to the king
Became the one who survived
I've told you about my life
The final wife
But why should that story
Be the one I have to sing about
Just to win? I'm out!
That's not my story.
There's so much more

Remember that I was a writer
I wrote books and psalms and meditations
Fought for female education
So all my women can independently
Study scripture
I even got a woman to paint my picture
Why can't I tell that story?
'Cause in history
I'm fixed as
one in SIX
And without him
I disappear
We all disappear

Boleyn: I don't get it.
Howard: Of course, you don't.
Parr: All right. Why do people remember us?
Cleves: My illegal relationship with Kitty?
Boleyn: My sixth finger?
Aragon: Put it away, darling!
Parr: Let me put this a different way. Queen consorts of the other Henry's that ruled England. Can you name any of them?
Aragon: Elizabeth of York married Henry VII.
Parr: Any others?
Howard: Katherine of Adoya- I mean, I don't know.
Parr: It's obvious when you think about it.
Cleves: Five hundred years ago, the same guy fell in love with us.
Seymour: I wish we can remove his love from our lives; claim our stories as our own.
Aragon: That would be the perfect life.
Howard: We can do that. Right now. Come on, queens! We have the perfect audience.
Cleves: She's right. Let's do this. Remove Henry's love from our lives and say everything we wanted to tell him-
Parr: And he can't answer back. I like it. (The other queens nod, then turn to the audience.)
Boleyn: How about instead of saying it, we sing it?

All: This is the remix!
Aragon: So we had no choice
Boleyn: But now it's us alone
Seymour: So we've got a choice
Cleves: Yeah, we've got a choice
Howard: We're taking back the microphone
Parr: We're gonna raise our voices
All: They always said
"We need your love."
But it's time for us to rise above!

It's not what went down in history
But this time we're singing this for us

Henry, yeah, we're through
Too many times it's been told
And we've had enough (we've had enough)
Love stories do get old
And you might think it's tough
But we've got to let your love run cold
We're taking back control (we're taking back control)
You need to know

We don't need your love, no, no
No, we don't need your love, no, no
Can't let it get the better of us, no, no
We don't need your love, no, no

(Aragon and Seymour are standing together, as are Cleves and Howard).

We don't need your love, no, no
No, We don't need your love, no, no
We don't need your love, no, no
Parr: We don't need your love! (The queens throw their fists in the air.)

Seymour: I wish we thought to do that sooner, then we wouldn't have wasted most of the show.
Aragon: Wattpad, are you ready for a royal happily ever after?
Howard: She said, are you ready?
Boleyn: Well, we don't have one. We wish we could say that our lives had a happy ending.
Cleves: But in truth, they didn't.
Parr: And there's nothing we can do about it. Well, Wattpad, you've been an incredible audience. Thank you for listening to our bickering.

(The stage grows dark, then lights up again. Boleyn is playing candy crush on her phone.)
Cleves: Turn it down, Boleyn!
Boleyn: Sorry, not sorry. (Parr moves, sitting down next to Boleyn. Cleves sits on the throne. Howard is about to sit on the floor beside her when Cleves pulls her onto her lap.)
Cleves: No, darling. You're a queen as well. We all are.
Aragon: If only we could be queens in our own right. Now, that would be a story!
Seymour: I would happily read it all the time. If only that did happen, and we could define ourselves rather than someone representing us.

A/N: Requests are still open, for the Wattpad Six the Musical and the oneshots.