A/N Woo Woo I got a new chapter up. I want to thank all the people who added my story to a story alert or whatever. It touches me. I do hope that you review though I always welcome any sort of comment.

Chapter 2

"Sometimes people care too much. I think it's called love. Winnie the Pooh

"Don't take what she says to heart," Galahad heard the woman sitting with his brother call out to him.

"What?" he called back turning in the saddle to look at her.

"Don't take what Liliana says to heart," replied Mandi Faye. Quietly she looked at Gawain and asked him to move closer to the young knight. "I'm really saying this to all the knights," she called out trying to look at each man.

"Why should we not take what she says to heart," asked Arthur curiously looking at the sleeping girl in front of Galahad.

"Ana hasn't had the best of experiences with men," explained Lena.

"So?" asked Lancelot whom Airen hit in the head. He glared at her before casting his attention back to Lena.

Lena looked at each girl silently asking for their permission before telling about the rather disastrous love life of their 'sleeping friend'. "Liliana has been courted, so to speak, by many men," she began hesitantly. "Of those many men only two have courted her out of love. All the others either felt sorry for her, courted her because of her looks, or courted her out of a bet. Recently a man whom she thought loved her courted her. It turns out that she was only his punching bag."

The men not wanting to appear stupid only nodded. Lena realizing their dilemma explained in a bit more detail. "She was only something that he let his anger out on. He abused her," she spat closing her eyes only to see the bruises that were present on Liliana's arms, legs, and back. "He beat Ana severely. She still has bruises covering her arms, legs, and back. It's been little over a month since she quit seeing him."

"Two months," everybody heard a woman whisper.

Realizing it was the once sleeping girl in front of him Galahad looked down her blonde head. "It's been two months Lena," the watery whisper came again.

Everybody stayed quiet no knowing what to say to the poor girl. Many secretly stared at her in pity while others blatantly stared at her in both shock and woe.

Once upon the wall all the men were shocked as each of the women jumped off the horses. They were in even more shock when the female knights ran quickly to the gate that blocked the entrance to the interior of Hadrian's Wall. Liliana looked back at the men, who had stopped, and yelled at them, "Well aren't you coming?"

This spurred the knights into a frenzy to catch up with the agile women. Laughing the girls linked arms and walked quite sedately into the open area. The seven knights soon passed them on horseback that seemed to be racing towards the stables trying to see who could get there first. Without breaking their chain, the women caught up to the men, arriving at the stables the same time they did.

"How do you do that?" questioned Gawain coming up behind Mandi Faye.

"It's called practice," sang Airen walking past Lancelot pinching him on the butt.

Lancelot, shocked at the short, black haired woman, spun around narrowly missing her arms as they came up to smack him on the head. "Why do you keep doing that," he yelled ignoring the giggles he heard from her friends.

"Cause you're an easy target," she replied reveling in the snickers and giggles coming from her comrades and his. She smirked at him before running and hiding behind her friends as he took a step towards her.

Liliana smiled at her once shy friend before addressing the knights' leader. "Arthur I know I promised to explain all that I said back at the waterfall but I must ask for one more favor of you."

"And what would that favor be Lady Liliana?" he asked smiling.

I call upon your hospitality and ask for a room for myself I also believe that my friends would also agree that they wouldn't mind one as well."

"That is no problem," he replied before calling for his squire, Jols. "Jols please show these ladies to the rooms opposite of the knights. Each woman is to receive a room of their own."

Jols nodded his head in agreement and understanding before motioning for the women to follow him. Grabbing their satchels and weapons, they followed the squire down several long hallways before reaching an empty corridor lined with heavy wooden doors. Each woman was given a room opposite to another door. Jols waited patiently for them to put their items down and to come back out. This way he wouldn't have to make multiple trips to the meeting hall. Once they all had congregated around him, he quite calmly escorted them all to the meeting hall.

Single file, the four women came in and sat down in the seats that surrounded the round table. Airen sat between Arthur and Lancelot, Mandi Faye sat on Gawain's left, Liliana sat on Galahad's right, and Lena sat next to Dagonet. "Lady Liliana you can now explain what you said earlier," commanded Arthur gesturing towards Liliana.

"All right but first I must ask that you stop calling me 'lady' and that you don't call any of the girls 'lady' only because we aren't one. Now it is time we got down to the nitty gritty. As I said, earlier Airen is a Woad woman, Faye is a Celtic, Lena is a Sarmation, and I am a combination of both Celtic and Sarmation parents. I am sad to say that Airen's father is the only one who is still alive. The rest of our parents either died from heartache or went crazy and killed themselves while others died in battle.

"All of our parents lived along Hadrian's Wall and that is how we met each other. The inseparable five' my parents called us. "

"Five? There are only four of you," interrupted Lancelot nearly getting smacked his head smacked again.

"There is one more," continued Liliana smiling sadly. "Her name is Renna. She is both Sarmation and Woad, and a dear friend of all of us. She disappeared about a year ago and we have no conceivable idea on where she could be. However, she was here with us when we were all little girls. We were all kidnapped, at the ages of three and four, by shining men in white. They took us to the waterfall where you found us. They put us in the middle of a circle and began to chant.

"We held hands, closed our eyes, and when we opened them again we were in a land unknown to us. We knew right away that we weren't at home and that scared us. Airen, being the youngest of all of us, started yelling and crying for her parents. This was how a strange woman found us. We would later come to know her Mrs. Owen, the owner of the orphanage we grew up at. We did not speak their language and they did not speak ours. We eventually suppressed the memories of our childhood here in Britain and began to speak and do in the mannerisms of the people," Liliana explained casting all of her attention to the entire people present.

"When Faye reached the age of eighteen she changed her name to Mandi Faye, keeping her original name and modernizing it. Then five years later Renna disappeared causing all of us a great sadness. I will tell you this we never felt at home in that period we were a apart of. Something about it just didn't feel right. Now we know why. It was all because we belonged 1500 years in the past instead of 1500 years in the future."

All the knights stared in amazement at Liliana. They all found it hard to believe, but something in her voice told them that she wasn't lying. Therefore, they chose to accept the tale. "So what do we do now?" whispered Airen quite loudly across the room to Liliana.

Lili couldn't help herself she burst out laughing. The men looked at her in wonderment while the females smiled brightly. They all eventually started laughing, Tristan included, because Lili's laughter was so infectious. The laughter eventually died down with Tristan wiping tears of mirth from his eyes and Lili, who was grabbing her sides in pains of laughter, still chuckling. "Arthur," she chuckled, "I think I'm gonna leave."

As soon as she stood up Airen, Faye, and Lena attacked her causing Liliana to laugh some more. In the end the girls let her go allowing her to leave as she had planned. When she left the room, the remaining girls sat back down earning curious glances from all the men. Faye answered their looks by explaining why they had acted the way they did. "Lili hasn't really laughed in forever. Yeah she laughed but she hasn't laughed to the point of tears since she met Rafael. He just sorta sucked the life out of her. If we weren't here he would probably be without several appendages and I would probably be in jail."

Galahad had left unnoticed while Faye had explained things. He was now wandering aimlessly the halls of the fort lost in thought. He found himself in front of a room that was across from his. Not knowing reason why, he knocked. He hadn't expected anybody to answer considering it had been unoccupied for several years now but when Liliana opened the door with just a large shirt covering her Galahad stopped and stared. He hadn't really believed that Liliana was covered in bruises but to see her with a hand print bruises on her arms and various other bruises on her legs he felt repulsed by the man who did it to her.

Lili had at the point of changing when she had heard a knock at her door. Deciding that her shirt was long enough, she walked across the room, and opened the door. She had half expected to see one of her 'sisters' but was pleasantly surprised to see Galahad standing there. She smiled at him before saying, "Is there anything you need Galahad?" When he didn't reply she took her time staring at him.

He had a strong jaw that was slightly covered with a beard, he had a scar on his face that ran from his nose all the way across his cheek, he had beautiful green eyes that had flecks of brown and gold in them, and at the top of his head was a mass of curly brown blonde hair. She continued her inspection following from the top of his head all the way down to the tips of his toes. When she finished she came back down to earth remembering she was only in an oversized t-shirt causing Liliana to become embarrassed. She was about to ask him if he needed anything when she noticed him staring at a particularly large and nasty looking hand shaped bruise. "Galahad stop staring," she whispered her head bent away from his face so he could not see the hurt and shame that she thought was written plainly across her face.

His head snapped up and away form the bruise realizing he'd been caught. He was ashamed when he saw her head bent away from him. "I'm sorry," he whispered.

"About what?"

"About everything."

"You couldn't have done anything about it and besides I didn't want to believe that he could actually hurt me," she chuckled softly to herself before continuing, "I thought he loved me turns out I was just sport."

Galahad closed his eyes and shook his head in denial before looking back at Liliana. "Listen, Galahad, why don't you give me a couple of minutes to finish changing and I'll be back." Liliana closed the door leaving him to stand there aimlessly for several seconds before the door opened again. She smiled at him, gave him a wink, and began walking towards the exist that was at the end of the corridor. She smiled coyly at him before turning the comer, waiting patiently on the other side for Galahad. Seconds later Galahad came tearing around the comer, grabbing Liliana's hand, and dragging her outside.