Disclaimer: I do not own Mary Bryant, Or any other characters accoicated with the mini series, If I did, I would be rich J

Writers note: This is based on the Mini series and books, so some things may be changed to be more historically accurate as things go on. It is not entirely based on the amazing mini series. Also, For those of you who don't know the story, this is based on the true events that happend toMary Bryant. Shewas a convict, who with seven others, escaped from the colony, did the impossible and sailed all the way to Timor. She was true legend.


Many years had passed, and Mary Bryant was no longer "Mary Bryant." Nor was she remembered as "the girl from botany bay," now she was just another lady, her old life gone, now she had a new husband and children, and was back in the place where it had all begun.

Even now though, she still thought of herself as Mary Bryant, because a part of her belonged to Will, and always would. it was the part that was missing from her life.

How many times had she recalled those years? Go over and over them, wondering, thinking, the torture of remembering was unbearable and yet she could not stop herself.

She had been so young, only 17 when it had happened. She should have listened to her mother, she should have listened to her father, but she didn't. She was crazy, wild, like an animal, she hadn't eaten in so long, that she had forgotten the taste of food. She had watched those around her starve, men, women and children, and fear had swept through her. She wouldn't starve! She wouldn't! and like a wild animal she ran.

She ran, the hunger driving her on and on, she wasn't thinking clearly or logically, because that is not what hunger drives you to, no, it sends you crazy, leaving no room for logic-she had seen it. Seen people in the village eat poisonous plants, driven by the isane desire to eat something.

And now hunger was driving her towards what must have been destiny.

She lay on the ground, waiting, and when a rich woman had come o investigate, she had stolen her bread and bonnet. She had fled, fled with the food, eating as she ran-it was to be the last free meal she had ever had.

Prison was worse than Mary could have imagined. Not only was she expected to starve here, in the smelly, disease ridden overcrowded cells, but all of it was to await a death sentence.

But Mary was determined to stay alive, she was not one to give up, and so she learnt that she must let go of her pride and dignity if it was life that she wanted, and like so many girls before her, desperate and starving, she gave a prison guard her innocence in exchange for food.

But then, his Majesty had been so kind to spare Mary's life, giveing her the choice tobe part of anew settlement in botany bay, Mary had no idea what that meant, but took the chance. And so it happened, that Mary who had never been five miles outside her village was to travel to the other side of the world.