Hiya! Since my story "childhood crush" has only a few more chapters to go I decided to start with a new one! So here it is enjoy!
Nobody; Chapter one; Betha.
This takes place sixteen years before the movie
A young woman has sneaked into the army base. And was in labour, for three days she had been screaming she wanted to bare her childe at the same place she created it.
The lord of the healers looked at the woman with wide eyes.
He had seen many terrible war wounds, he pulled an arrow out of a man's chest with a smile, he fixed broken bones like it was nothing. But a woman in labour, that was new to him. He had never seen a woman in labour. He had always thought barring children was the easiest thing there was. But this woman had been screaming, moaning, and cursing for three days now. He had sent for nuns to help this woman bare. And he heard a nock on the door. Three nuns entered and looked at the woman with shock.
"A woman you said! This is hardly a girl!" The youngest nun shouted.
"I say fourteen years." The oldest said.
"I know nothing of women." The healer said leaving the woman to help the woman who apparently was a girl. He needed to find out who impregnated the girl.
"Lord is it true that there is a woman giving birth?" A young knight asked.
"That is why I'm here." The healer said simple. "Lords! We have much to discuss!"
The knights gathered round the healer.
"Speak freely, is someone our dos anybody know who created the child with the girl?"
"They haven't seen this female, how can they know if they slept with her." The oldest knight said. He was eighty years of age. One of the youngest knights got up. He was only sixteen, was he the one who impregnated the girl?
"Lord can I speak with you in private?" He asked the healer.
"We have no secrets for each other here!" The healer said.
"I don't wish to bring an honourable family our high placed people in dishonour." The young knight said.
Honourable family? High placed people? Who in the name of any god dos he mean? What did he know more than they others? Than they elder?
"Speak son, speak freely.
"The young woman who is barring is none other than lady Calum of Ireland, sister of the king. Who slept with her I not know."
"Foolish talk!" One of the older knights said pulling out his sword.
"I swear I speak truth!" The boy said pulling out his sword and held it in front of his face. "On anything you will make me swear I shall swear!"
The other knights started to mumble.
"You have no proof, what you have said shall remain between these four walls." The commander of the knights said. Think of the scandal it would create if anyone found out that lady Calum of Ireland barred a bastard, apparently fathered by a knight.
The healer left the knights to ponder, he wished to know how it was going with the girl who was apparently lady Calum. He entered the room to see the nuns stand around the young lady. The youngest nun stroked the thin, swollen body of the lady.
The girl let out a detestable cry.
The child had arrived.....
The nuns looked at the baby girl with sympathy. Baby blue eyes and brown-blond hair, it was a fair childe.
The eldest nun looked at the lady Calum, and turned back to the others.
"She shall not be able to look open her childe," she said softly. "The lord have her soul."
"Is she dead?" The healer asked.
The nuns made a cross and said the prayers for the dyeing.
The healer examined the baby, it didn't cry, as if it knew what had happened to it.
The commandant of the knights entered the room.
"Did the girl die?" He asked.
"Yes," The healer said. "but she died giving birth to this childe, a girl."
"Than it was the lords will." The commandant said looking at the baby with sympathy.
But the commandant soon regained his sense of duty.
"Nuns I will send an escort with you, they will bring you to my son, his wife can not bare. They will love and take car of the childe. And that," He said pointing to the ones beautiful, but now torn and mutilated body of lady Calum. "Take it with you there will be no woman's grave in the walls of the castle. And if you not wish to take it with you, than feed it to the wolves."
The nuns shiver. "that" he had said, that was a childe of god! The one's faire lady Calum of Ireland. That.....
The nuns rapt the corps in the soiled sheets and let the men carry it to the carriage. The nuns followed the oldest nun pressed the baby against her. A few men watched them leave and paid there respects to the lady Calum. The nuns needed to leave as soon as possible, they had a long way to go, the commanders sons castle was far away. The commander was from a respected family, they where quite healthy. A younger knight walked over to them and looked first at the body that was rapt in sheets and then at the small baby in the nuns arms. He looked about ready to cry, but his friends dragged him off. After this the nuns disappeared into the night.....
After about a week of travel they arrived at the grounds of lord Clarence and lady Cecily. The lord and lady where awaiting them on the entrance of the monumental castle. The nuns stepped out of the carriage with the baby still in the oldest nuns arms. Lady Cecily ran over to them. The nun handed her the baby. Lady Cecily looked at the childe and cried, she finally had what she desired, a baby. Her husband stepped up to her and placed a hand on his shoulder. It had been a arranged marriage, but they had learned to love each other, and lord Clarence had stayed with her even though she couldn't bare.
"Pleas com in." The lord said to the nuns. "Tell us of the childe."
The nuns willingly followed the joyous pair inside. It had been a long tiring trip. The nuns told them of the childe, and the couple listened and the lady started to cry.
"Let us name her Betha, it means life." She explained to the nuns. Lady Cecily was a smart woman. She knew the tongues of many people. Her father was a high placed Roman.
"Betha," Her husband repeated. "it soothes her."
The nuns looked at the loving couple and they know that this couple would take good care of the daughter of lady Calum, that they would take good care of Betha.
T.B.C
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