Chapter Eleven

No Tomorrow

"How could I hurt you?

Lie and offended you

My twin soul I can't forget you

Even if I tear my heart out"

"Where is the girl?" Elizabeth`s father David growled with impatience pacing in front of the lines of Redcoats, with his hands behind his back. The cold wind enhanced the redness of his face. He gritted his teeth once again when he saw another group of Redcoats approaching with nothing.

"Admiral" David turned around to see his Vice-Admiral along with a soldier. He knowledge the man with a nod and made a gesture with his hand for the man to talk. "He says that the girl went out of Boston with a man. The same man that had caused the ruckus in the docks"

David said feigning he was not interested in the information given; he wasn't going to tell them that the girl was actually his daughter. "Is that so?" his tone was empty of emotion; he raised an eyebrow and looked at the soldier.

"Yes sir. We followed them, but they disappear like vapor in the air" The soldier responded, he gulped watching the Admiral stood in front of him.

"What an embarrassment!" Charles Lee said, David looked over his shoulder and saw the three men walking toward him, Charles Lee, Johnson and Haytham. He turned around and stood straight to look at them.

"Leave us alone" David demanded coldly to the Vice-Admiral who only nodded and hurried along with the soldier. He ignored Charles's comment and smile at the three men. "Gentlemen" he greeted them and then proceeded to enter the tent.

"So is true?" Haytham said entering the tent and walking to the table where a crumbled and old map of Boston was laid.

David took a deep breath. "What is true?" he questioned trying to feign confusion he walked to a wood cupboard, where an opaque bottle stood along with a crystal glass.

"Elizabeth went with the man that tossed my tea into the sea" William stated, David took the bottle carefully removed the cap.

"Ah that, I believe so" David said with disdain pouring himself a drink. "I suppose she would be charged with treason, Grand Master?" he questioned looked at Haytham then took a drink of the glass.

"Do you have any proof that she went willingly with him?" Haytham asked David, who was going for his second drink but stopped in the middle of serving it. "We must be sure before doing something drastic David, she is your daughter"

"Be sure? I saw her…" David stopped before saying anything else. He gritted his teeth remembering that scene, his only daughter hugging that savage, he took a deep breath trying to dissipate the hatred that was building inside him.

"Saw her?" Lee questioned sitting in a wooden box by the entrance of the tent. "It must have been the girl─" Lee looked up at the entrance where the man that had interrupted him spoke.

"You must have a very good reason to send your daughter to be executed" said a male voice with a French accent at the entrance of the tent.

David stopped his drink in midair and glared at the intruder. "Mr. DuPont, care to explain?" Haytham asked Pierre.

Pierre nodded and entered the tent. "The soldiers were trying to kill her along with the boy" Pierre said quietly looking at David who soundly put the empty glass down into the cupboard.

"Of course they had to. The boy was to be killed and well Elizabeth was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I had no idea it was her" David said

"Is he angry?" Nathaniel asked Elizabeth as they galloped through the darkness of the night. The man in questioned hadn't directed a word to him since he had arrived with the horses and provisions for the journey.

Elizabeth looked at Connor`s figure going in a steady and firm pace in front of them. He had said nothing to her or Nathan, Nathan had only come with two horses, Connor suggested that she ride with Nathan since the horse seemed stronger than the one he was riding.

"I don't know" Elizabeth truthfully said biting her lip. Maybe he was mad because she had to escape with her. She took a deep breath then looked at the dark path in front of them, she needed to think, by know the Order would be thinking of ways to charge her with treason. "Did Pierre tell you where I am staying?" she whispered to Nathan.

Elizabeth was riding along with him in a very black horse, she was behind him holding him by his waist and Connor was riding a more medium brown horse.

"Yes, he said in Johnson`s house" Nathan said to Elizabeth.

"What?" Elizabeth said with bewilderment, was her trainer becoming senile. That was the most thoughtless suggestion, she was to stay in the house of the very man Connor was trying to kill, that seemed very wise indeed she thought bitterly.

She stopped feeling something hitting below her ribs, she easily loose her grip from Nathan`s waist and everything started to look fussy.

Connor turned around and saw Elizabeth falling down the horse. "I am alright" Elizabeth said looking at them with a smile.

He took out his tomahawk and started to survey the woods trying to catch any kind of movement. "Did someone follow you?" he questioned Nathan who seemed to unnoticed tat Elizabeth had fallen from the horse.

"No" Nathan said stopping the horse, he leap down the horse and looked around, but he couldn't hear anything. Then she saw Elizabeth in the ground trying to stand but failed miserably.

"Are you sure?" Connor asked again, he could sense someone but it was too dark and the darkness was very treacherous more in these woods that every shadow was something dangerous.

Nathan looked at Connor. "Well, I didn't have time to check my back" Nathan spat back; he walked to where Elizabeth was trying to stand and kneeled beside her.

"Sorry to interrupt but I…" Elizabeth weakly said her voice it was only a whisper, but apparently they were more preoccupied of who had followed them and had shoot her well if it was what happened.

"You have time to check that nobody was following you" Connor said as he dangerously approached Nathan. Nathan stood up and turned around to face Connor.

"Of course, but they would question a soldier with an empty horse going out the city" Nathan glared at Connor.

The two men glared at each other, Connor was taller than Nathan by at least two inches. They both to turn around to the sound of a broken branch, Connor looked behind Nathan to see a cloak figure retreating silently through the forest.

Nathan followed Connor`s gaze and saw a figure retreating then started to run. Connor quickly reacted and took out his gun to shoot the figure that fell down ungracefully just of couple of meters from them. "Great, now we would know who was following us" Nathan said to Connor.

But Connor ignored him and went to Elizabeth, who was laying in the ground with red stains in her dress.

Connor bended down and looked at Elizabeth. "Eli─"

"They actually shot her" Connor looked up and glared at Nathan. That was obvious but he hadn't hurt any sound from the gun.

"There was no sound" Connor stated rather harshly to Nathan.

"Where is the blood coming from then?" Nathan said bending down to the other side of Elizabeth.

"I am not a doctor" Connor stated trying to find the wound.

"Elizabeth, wake up" Nathan said, he tried to reach her face but Connor glared at him.

"Connor" Elizabeth whimpered "I─ Templar"

Nathan went to the horse and put something in Elizabeth`s mouth. Elizabeth eyes fluttered and she went limp.

"What are you doing?" Connor asked Nathan. The rag that Nathan had put over Elizabeth`s mouth gave a foul odor.

Nathan started to roam through the bag. "I am sorry, is the master`s orders"

"You`re one of them" Connor stated accusingly taking out his tomahawk.

"No, I am an Assassin. I have been following the Dove family for a long time" Nathan said putting down the bag and the rag. Then he tried to find the wound but the trails of blood only lead him to very private places or non-wounded parts of her body.

"What are you talking about?" Connor asked Nathan.

"Here see" Nathan said taking out of her jacket a necklace with the Assassin`s symbol on it. "Now listen"

"I don't believe you. Achilles didn't mention more Assassins" Connor said standing up.

"Of course not, he had been disconnected from the brotherhood for a long time. He let the Templars to gain control" Nathan said trying to find the wound but it seemed so evasive.

"I was assign to follow her family, I am a spy. Her uncle delivers letters for Kenway to the grand master in Britain; her father is the main slave trader in the south"

"Found it" Nathan said filling the wound where the blood was coming from, it was just below the right side of her rib. "Is just a scratched she`ll live"

"She is one of them then?" Connor asked watching Nathan ripping apart the top of her dress to clean the wound.

"She is"