I did this chapter between an exam and sorry its short
love,
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Chp 10
Escape
La-Lune was up early the next morning and waited for Fran to wake up. Sleep the past night was non-existent, she didn't trust Nico. Her father always told her only trust someone as far as you can throw them, she wouldn't be able to throw Nico. She felt Fran stir and smiled down at her a little sister and gently moved Fran's hair out of her face.
"morning sunshine" La-Lune said and Fran let out a smile as La-Lune kissed her forehead and then sat up "me and you all day Fran"
"but what about what momma said" Fran said
"I don't care Fran" La-Lune said as she stood up and Fran followed her out of the room and they walked into the next room where they saw their mother and Nico was absent.
"all my lovely daughters" she said with a smile and La-Lune notice how much older her mother seemed to be.
"Fran would you go get some eggs while I talk to mother for a moment" La-Lune said and Fran nodded and ran off with a small basket in her hands.
"what would you like to talk about dear" mother said
"how is that all of a sudden I am to be married off…father said when he got back we would decide what would be done about that" La-Lune said with a hard stare at her mother "father will be displeased to hear you went against his wishes"
"your father isn't around anymore" she said with asmile and La-Lune's face darken "Nico said he saw him days ago with some common whores"
"he lies" La-Lune said
"don't talk to me that way"' mother said and shot up "you will marry Nico's son Willam by the weeks end"
La-Lune stared at her mother like she had two heads when she heard a small yell and darted out of the door and saw Fran on the ground and a man laughing down at her and Fran was crying.
"she will be lots of fun" Nico said laughing with a younger man next to him.
"what did you do" La-Lune said and hurried over and picked up Fran and saw her tear streaked face and kissed her face.
"ahh there is your bride" Nico said
"I guess she will have to do" Willam said with a sneer as he grabbed La-Lune's arm "come on we are suppose to spend the day together"
"if you don't remove your hand I swear you will lose it" La-Lune said and Willam just laughed so La-Lune quickly turned and kicked Willam in the stomach and darted into the house.
La-Lune ran past her mother who was raged at seeing what happened outside and was yelling at her but La-Lune slammed the door and locked it and then put Fran down.
"Fran listen to me carefully" La-Lune said and kneeled down to eye level with Fran "take what you need from this room, we are not coming back here you hear me"
Fran nodded and then began hurrying up to get the few things that she had. La-Lune had put a table in front of the door and hurried to get her few items. She smashed a floor board and pulled out a small box and opened it to reveal two very decorated silver daggers. Her father had given them to her before he left, she would not leave them there. She closed the box and put them in her bag and saw Fran was putting the doll their father gave her last year in a bag. La-Lune opened draws of a small cabinet and opened the back to get the money that was hidden there and a few other random items as she heard a louder bang on the door.
"I'm ready" Fran said as she held her small bag around her and a doll in her hand. La-Lune smashed the glass window and gently put Fran out of it before jumping out of it herself and then picking up Fran and running.
La-Lune heard angry shouts behind her as she held Fran tightly to her body and ran into the forest. Adrenaline was coursing through her body as she dodged between trees and over them to get as far as she could. She knew she probably should have gotten a horse but, it would have wasted too much time. After a few more steps she stopped and looked around and listened and heard hooves. She looked around and saw an older tree and she ran over and hoisted Fran up.
"climb Fran" La-Lune said and followed her up the tree. Soon they were high above the ground hidden in the leaves of the canopy just as they saw horses pass below them "shh" Fran was against the back of the tree as La-Lune kept watch towards the edge of the limb to make sure even if they got close she would take care of them.
Hours passed and La-Lune only heard the noises of the forest and thought it would be safe to exit the tree. Once she told Fran to wait she started to climb down the tree, she jumped the last 4 feet and landed on her feet and looked around not hearting anything out of the ordinary.
"come Fran" La-Lune said and watched as Fran carefully climb down and jumped the last few feet where La-Lune caught her. "now we are going to walk as far as we can today okay Fran"
"okay La-La" Fran said as La-Lune grabbed her hand and they both walked through the forest.
La-Lune was happy that she and Fran had slept in pants so that they were able to move easier than if they were in dresses. She knew that Nico would continue to look for her, he had a darker scheme planned than for her to just marry his son. Her mother had changed and La-Lune didn't recognize her at all, this morning confirmed what she had dreaded. She only had two options, try to find her way to Paris back to Aramis or find her father. Both options were hard because she was now in the forest in the opposite direction of Paris but it was the only safe way to travel for both of them at the moment. Finding her father would prove just as difficult, he had been off to sell his wares to a neighboring village, but was attacked and vanished, no one knew where he was or even if he was alive.
"we will be okay wont we?" Fran asked as she looked at La-Lune who smiled down at her
"of course we will Fran" La-Lune said and kept walking through the forest.
It was beginning to get dark, Fran had been worn out hours ago so La-Lune was carrying her on her back along with her back around her front. La-Lune didn't want to stop till she found a safe spot for them to spend the night, the woods were no safer at night than it would be to stay with her mother and Nico and Willam. La-Lune had found a small cave that wasn't very deep and didn't have anything living in it but it was deep enough for them to not be seen from the entrance it had a curve towards the back. La-Lune had laid Fran down on the moss covered cave floor before putting down their bags and walking back outside to set some large branches and leaves to keep them warm for the night. The night was creeping in faster than La-Lune had though it was and notice the sound of a storm out in the distant. She hurried and got most of what they needed for the night. She wasn't going to risk a fire so she gathered some roots and some herbs that she found in the forest and headed back to the cave. Once she got back La-Lune saw that Fran was still sleeping and gently placed a branch to cover her and some leaves to keep her warm through the night. La-Lune laid down next to Fran and after she had surveyed the area again for danger closed her eyes to get some sleep so she would have energy for tomorrow, she felt safer here than at her home. It was a mistake.