I have only seen the movie and I'm about to go buy the books. so if you do not like this, please be nice. But I do hope someone likes this, just a little experiment. Please review if you like :)
Anna: 18 years old
Chapter 1
"Anna!" Bang Bang Bang, "Move it girl!"
"Yes." I shouted back loud enough for Jean Luc to hear. I get so tired of his shouting. I crawled out of my "bed" to get dressed. My "room" is more like a hole in the wall. Even the door was so short I almost hit my head on it, and I am not a tall girl. I quickly put on my leather boots and wench dress. It reaches just bellow my knees and its an off creme color. I pulled my long dark brown hair up with a ribbon and went down into the main part of the tavern. By the sun outside I am going top guess it's not even noon and yet there are still loud and drunk men downstairs.
"There you are girl, get a move on." Jean Luc stood behind the bar.
"Yes." I smiled sheepishly and grabbed my broom. Jean Luc is an intimidating man, even though he can be quite fun to anger. He stands over six feet tall, almost a foot taller then me.
I went outside the tavern to sweep. The morning air is wonderfully crisp this morning. The sun bathed my face with the perfect feeling of warmth.
"Morning Anna!" I looked up at Marion. A beautiful little blond twelve year old who lives with her mother and four younger siblings.
"Morning Honey! How's your mother?" I yelled.
"Not the best milady!" she yelled.
" Give her my best dear!"
"I will!" poor thing. Thinking Marion is the oldest and she still have four younger children at home. Her mothers always looks so tired when she passes by.
"Anna! I need you to wait by the gate for a shipment!" Jean Luc yelled.
"Yes monsieur." I rolled my eyes, put my broom down, and walked to the front gate. I never know what he orders, let alone do I care.
I sat in the grass by the north side of town to wait. I laid on my back and looked up at the sky. It is beautiful today. Just enough cloud cover so the day wouldn't be unbearable. A nice gently breeze blew by every now and again.
"Madam?" I was knocked out of my gaze to a man on a horse. I was thinking he would be with a cart or something.
"Yes?"
"Delivery for Jean Luc." he reached into his saddle pack and threw me an even smaller bag.
"What's this?" I asked.
"I'm just the messenger mam." he rode off without another warning. I was almost curious to see what that man has bought know, but I may regret that later.
"Good morning Anna!" I searched for the voice this time. That is wear I found Constance. She is one of the Queen's ladies in waiting. Sweet girl she is and very beautiful.
"Good morning milady." I smiled.
"Where are you off too?" she asked.
"Back to the tavern I'm afraid."
"Oh Anna that man treats you like garbage." she sighed. I just shrugged.
"Not really a whole lot I can do about that. Don't really have a lot of options."
"I've offered to take you to the castle to meet the queen."
"No disrespect Constance but that would imply me wearing more dresses. I barley like the one I'm wearing."
"Oh Anna, I still don't understand you." she smiled.
"I'm not an open book Milday."
"Anna!"
"Got to go." I darted back to the tavern.
"Did you get it?"
"Yes monsieur." I handed him the bag. "Is that all?" I asked.
"Yes, you may go." he waved me off. I bowed and left. I walked a good way away from the tavern and into an ally way. I usually come here for some alone time. On one of the walls in the ally were some targets I made from some flour sacks. I pulled out my dagger from my right boot and back away twenty feet from the target. I kissed the dagger and threw it at the target. I have gotten better at my aim. Only a few inches from bulls eye. I smiled, grabbed the dagger from the target, and threw it again. I smiled when I noticed it was closer still.
"What are you doing Anna?" I turned to see Marion behind me.
"Practicing love, are you alright?" I asked. She nodded shyly. "Marion, what's the matter?" I asked.
"It's mother, I think she's sick." he eyes stared at the ground.
"Have you taken her to a physician?" I asked. She shook her head.
"We can't afford it." she whimpered. I smiled softly.
"I'll pay for it." her eyes shot up at me.
"Milady no, where are you getting the money?" she asked.
"I'll find a way." I smiled and patted her head. Before I could walk away she grabbed my arm.
"Please don't hurt yourself milady."
"Why would I hurt myself?" I asked.
"That man you work for hurts you and you hurt yourself." she was getting scared. I pried her hand off of my arm.
"It'll be fine Marion." I smiled and went back to the tavern. I wasn't quite sure how I was going to approach this. I know where Jean Luc keeps his safe, but its that whole thing of getting to it quickly. I didn't see him anywhere. First I went it his back room where the safe was, he wasn't there so I just went with it. I took out my silver cross pendant in my hand and kissed it.
"Forgive me." I walked into his back room and started to tamper with the lock. Soon it popped open. I sighed deeply and pulled out a few silver pieces.
"Anna!" my heart jumped up into my throat when Jean Luc's voice rang in my ear. I had to think fast. I quickly shut the safe, went out the window and came around front.
"Yes." I walked in the front.
"I am going out for a little while. Don't mess around with anything." he growled.
"Yes monsieur." I smiled and he left. Why couldn't I have just waited a few more minutes until he did leave? My timing is something else. I waited until he was away from the tavern and I ran to Marion's home. She lives in a shabby little shack in the poor part of town. Only two bedrooms, a kitchen area, and a living area.
"Marion?" I called out from the front of the house.
"Milady!" I heard multiple children yell for me. Marion and her three younger siblings ran out. Her brother Adrien is ten, her other brother Ames is seven, her sister Alyda is four, and the youngest boy must be in the house, Andre is just barely two. All four children embraced me.
"We missed you." said Ames.
"And I missed all of you. Now where is your mother?" I asked.
"Inside." I followed Marion and found their mother laying on a couch. She is incredibly pale in the face.
"Colette." I smiled. She cracked her eyes.
"Anna? What are you doing here?" she asked.
"I brought money so you can see a physician." I laid the coins on the table.
"Oh Anna you didn't have to do that."
"Oh please, your family." I smiled. Colette is only ten years older then me. Her husband died before Andre was born, ever since then they have been walking a very fine line. Before I could walk out she called to me.
"Anna."
"Yes?" I turned to face her.
"You are walking a very fine line with Jean Luc you know." I smiled at her comment.
"Oh yes, I know."
"No, none of that I don't care nature. Soon you are going to push him so far he is going to kill you. Especially since you stole from him. If he finds out."
"He won't." she sat up to see me better.
"If he does." she said sternly. "You just let him walk all over you."
"Maybe I'm just tired of fighting back." I smiled softly and walked out.
"Thank you Milady!" The kids yelled. Marion ran up to me.
"Thank you Anna." she was grinning from ear to ear. I laid a hand on her head and smiled.
"Of course dear, be safe." I smiled and walked back to the tavern.
Flashback
8 years ago
"Move it girl!" I winced at the booming voice in my ears. The cell door opened and a large man came in and grabbed my arm. "Move it!" he pulled me to my feet and pulled me out the door. My bare feet burned on the hot ground outside. The sun blinded me. The man was practically dragging me across the ground.
"Chavelle, Charmaine!" The man opened another cell and threw me in. inside were husband and wife Chavalle and Charmaine.
"Are you alright darling?" Charmaine asked when she lifted me off of the ground. I remember her. More beautiful then any woman I remember. Even my own mother whose memory is hardly there. Charmaine is a lovely woman of thirty two. Long blond hair and the brightest blue eyes.
"Yes." I smiled. Her husband is the closest memory of a father I have. Tall, strong, and handsome.
"What slime." he grumbled. He came to me and pulled me to me feet. "Now, remember what I always told you dear."
"Keep standing." I smiled. He knelt down and kissed my forehead.
"Good girl."
End flashback
"See where standing up gets you old man." I muttered to myself when I got back to the tavern. Standing up just screws it all to hell.