Daendels Estella's
Daendels Proposal

Daendels walked towards his desk, the man stopped his steps and noticed the small box that seemed to change its position. Daendels smiled and took the box and approached Stella, who was still standing at the door.

“I do not know if you have opened this box, but this box is indeed I prepared for you.” Daendels opened the small box showing the beautiful red ruby ring on Stella “Without seeing the news that has spread, I would like to propose to you. It feels so rushed that I don't even know you very far, I don't know where you come from and where your family is. But I can't hold my feelings any longer, I don't want you to be far away, I don't want you to be out of my sight. I want you to be by my side as long as destiny can be.”

Stella was just speechless, she could not say anything but digest this incident well even though her mind could not think calmly. This situation can not be described properly, even the state of Stella now she does not understand what the reason is and whether she can return to her world or not. In between the silent Stella, Daendels held Stella's hand gently.

“I understand what you are worried about, but I have promised that I will take care of you during my stay here.”

Stella releases her hand from Daendels' hand, falling in love is not as easy as what is said. But it felt like loving Daendels was easier than Stella had imagined, she had even fallen in love for so long with the man, not only because of his handsome face but also his heartfelt warm attitude. It's a lie that Stella doesn't fall in love with a guy like this, but the reality slaps her so hard that sooner or later Stella will come back, unless she's stuck in this age forever, it's just that Stella is so sure that time will bring her back sometime.

“Sorry I can't.” The short sentence ended their conversation, Daendels just stared at the departure of Stella who left her room.

Stella walked quickly towards her own room, ignoring Sumi who called out to her. He doesn't want Daendels to see his feelings while he's still there and let Daendels notice his facial features that aren't okay.

Just inside the room, the door of his room suddenly opened, the footsteps came to Stella and pulled Stella's body to face her. Very close even Stella could feel her breathless roar hitting her face, Stella's visible puffy eyes and tear marks drenching her cheeks became proof that what Stella said were all lies.

Their lips meet, very softly, Stella's lifelong first kiss taken by a man from the past who introduces himself as Daendels, a historical figure known to be very cruel and powerful at the time. Stella closed her eyes, enjoying every touch of their deep lips, a feeling of love that invested into one until it slipped apart as the two needed oxygen to breathe.

Daendels looked at Stella, wiping the girl's tears on her cheeks with her thumb. “I know how you feel, I do not insist if indeed your decision is like that, but I hope you do not hide your feelings until it hurts slowly.”

Stella's cry broke, Daendels could only take her into a hug, calming down and rubbing Stella's back gently. Once calm, the two sat on the edge of the bed, Stella with her own thoughts and Daendels who was trying to find a gap to melt this atmosphere.

“I give this to you, I am sure this ring will be beautiful if it is on your ring finger.” Daendels showed me the ring.

“Thanks for everything.”

Daendels smiled, he took the ring out of his box and paired it on Stella's ring finger “Cantik.”

Daendels clasped Stella's hands gently “I knew from the beginning, my decision to love you was a decision I had to consider long enough. But I've prepared for a lot of things, it's going to hurt, but each of these stories I'm going to make good use of, make you happy and make all the good memories, I want to start those memories early so I have plenty of time to carve them.”

Sweet, that sentence was very sweet for Stella, even making her forget that she was in a place that was not supposed to be.

“I want you to do the same, I want you to be honest with yourself, do not care anything because every step there must be a way.” Daendels.

The man with the appearance was always neat and unlike other leaders it managed to conjure up a state of being calmer and full of confidence.

“Do you accept my application?.” He came back with hope on his face.

Stella nodded, she could not believe it, Daendels still could not believe that the woman would accept it. “I accept you.” Said Stella while giving her sweet smile.

A warm embrace, a body that gives each other unusual affection, everything will change and Stella knows that history is likely to change but she doesn't care, if Stella changes history and makes it unbalanced, Stella should be returned now, in fact, not.

As it should have been, the rush began to haunt the house. From the arrival of some flowers and congratulatory gifts on the news of the wedding between Daendels the Governor General and his lady puja. The gift received was only a gift given by the Dutch, especially those who came from Europe directly, may take a long time either when it comes, or even when it comes, but that was the only gift Daendels received.

The news spread throughout the Dutch East Indies, not only Stella was preoccupied with the selection of fabrics for her wedding dress, but also the servants in the house were added because it was busier than usual day. Stella did everything herself, from the decoration of the wedding ceremony to her wedding party which brought many Dutch and local officials, especially Java.

The busyness of the two makes them not much to never even meet again, Stella who is too busy with the wedding preparation business and Daendels with a lot of documents that she has to work on, which is, there is no time for them to just say hello.

Today, after weeks of busy activities, Daendels intends to take Stella to Landarchief (now a national archive building). It was a storage building, the former home of the previous Governor-General, which Daendels converted into Landarchief after his arrival in Batavia, after his task of eradicating corruption by the VOC government. Landarchief is used to store archival documents owned by the Netherlands, for Daendels every decision made must be based, and basically is from the existing documents, which have been there before, so that the Archive building will be the main pillar in making decisions.

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