The four female musketeers stumbled into their apartment and collapsed on their beds.

"Oh!" Aramina groaned "My back! My neck! My feet!"

Corinne chuckled, her face buried in her pillow.

Viveca pulled off her boots "You're telling me!" then she lifted the hem of her skirt "Once again! Ripped!"

Renee huffed "If a ripped hem is the least of your worries, you are lucky."

Corinne rose up on her elbows "That well was in a bad place."

Aramina nodded "Next time, I'll help fight while Renee pulls you out."

Corinne laughed "Well, at least I'm not that heavy."

Viveca yawned and laid back on her bed "Tomorrow comes early." She said, pulling the covers up to her chin "We're on town patrol."

Renee nodded "Yep. Good night."

Corinne buried her head in her pillow and quickly fell asleep.

The next morning, the four girls headed to the castle to do their daily cleaning before heading out to patrol.

"Good morning, Corinne." King Louis said as he walked past, heading for his office.

"Morning Louis." The blond greeted, then she raised an eyebrow "More experiments?"

Louis nodded "Yep. Care to test them with me?"

"I can't today." Corinne answered "As soon as we're done here we've got a day on the town."

"Tomorrow?"

"Sure."

"See you then." He teasingly bowed, then walked away.

"Ooh." Aramina swooned "Did you see that? He bowed to you!"

Corinne looked over at the red head "So?"

"He considers you his Queen!"Aramina swooned.

Corinne snorted "Yeah, right."

"She could be telling the truth." Viveca said "He totally likes you."

Corinne rolled her eyes.

Aramina and Viveca were total romantics. Okay, Viveca wasn't near as big a romantic as Aramina was. Corinne, she didn't really think about it. But Renee, she could care less if romance was never mentioned. Especially when Aramina started talking about her meeting her .

The subject was dropped as they finished their chores, saddled their horses and rode out to town.

As they rode the streets of Paris, people stopped and waved. The reputation of the girls had spread far. They were considered the most trusted musketeers in Paris.

Aramina sighed "A beautiful, quite day in Paris."

"Help!" A voice suddenly screamed.

"Think again Aramina." Corinne said as she turned her horse around.

A woman standing in front of a store was pointing to a man running down the street "He stole my money! I need that to pay my bills!"

"Don't worry!" Viveca called as they rode past "We'll get it back!"

When the thief saw the musketeers riding after him, he ran faster "I need leverage!" he said to himself. Then, he spotted a young girl not too far away.

In one swift move, he swept the child off her feet and held him in front of her like a shield "Come any closer and the child pays!"

The musketeers dismounted as the child kicked and screamed "Put me down!"

Corinne was about to make a jump for the child to get her away from the crook, but she froze as she looked at the girl.

A pale blond ponytail, blue eyes, red jumper with a white long sleeved shirt and red boots. She looked to be about five years old.

Renee, Aramina, and Viveca took action while Corinne was staring at the child.

Renee whipped off her necklace and sent one of its gems flying into the man's right hand.

He yelped in pain and dropped the girl.

"Ow!" The girl said running her head, then she jumped to her feet and kicked the man as hard as she could.

"Ooh!" The man growled "You little brat!" he pulled back his hand to hit the girl, but Viveca flicked her ribbons, wrapping them around his left foot and yanked him off his feet while Aramina leapt forward and grabbed the girl.

Renee walked over to the man that was laying on the ground now and took a bag of money from his pocket "I'm sorry, but this doesn't belong to you." She waved down another musketeer that was riding by "Hey! Take this guy to jail, will ya?"

The musketeer nodded and took the man away.

Aramina sat the blond girl down on the ground "Are you alright?"

The girl nodded "Yeah. Good thing he dropped me when he did, or he would have been sorry!"

"Spunky little kid, aren't you?" Renee commented.

Viveca glanced back at Corinne who was still staring at the child "What's up?"

Corinne glanced up at her, then walked to the small girl "What is your name?"

The child raised an eyebrow "Who's asking?"

"I am."

"Oh." The girl shrugged "Makes sense. My name is Corinne."

Aramina, Viveca and Renee gasped and backed up.

"Now I know why you were staring." Viveca said, looking from her friend to the child "She looks just like you. Same name too."

Renee shook her head "Ok… Who's your parents?"

"My mommy's name is Marie." Little Corinne answered "My daddy's a musketeer. You've probably heard about him. D'artagnon."

Corinne's eyes widened "There is no way."

The girl looked around "What?" then she looked up at the older blond. Her eyes flicked to the blue hat and then to the cape "You're a musketeer?"

Corinne nodded, still trying to process what was happening.

"I knew girls could be musketeers!" The small girl whooped "Yes!" then she stopped "Wait. Daddy told me there were no girl musketeers."

"There aren't." Corinne said "I mean, there are. Um… do you know where you are?"

Small Corinne shook her head "Nope. I'm not in Gascony anymore." Then she gasped "You looked just like me!" she backed away "What's your name?"

"Corinne."

Both blonds stared at each other, then in unison they said "You are me!"