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While the townspeople were driving to the castle in the early morning, Bridgette and Courtney were trying desperately to find a window or door that hadn't been blocked. It didn't help at all that Bridgette was still weak and not much help. If it came to breaking out, Courtney would have to do it all herself.

It took half an hour to get out. Not because it was hard to find a window, but because it was the bathroom window, and it was hard to get up to it by standing on the toilet's flush button, and hard to suck it in enough to fit through such a tiny space. Then they had to get down safely. Courtney's dress got torn while she was climbing out, and she scraped both her knees. Bridgette actually managed it more easily, since she was in practical clothes and was more athletic, weak as she was. But without their GPS, they'd just have to try their hardest to remember what roads to take, and they were still far behind the other townspeople. Besides that, it was early morning, and Courtney was tired, having not slept since the night before. The sun was just starting to come up when they reached the castle, it having taken seven hours with them having made a few wrong guesses about which roads to take. At least it gave Courtney the time to explain to Bridgette why they should be on the side of the people in the castle, enough for the blonde to support that side, despite how Duncan had treated her.

Meanwhile, the townspeople had reached the castle a couple of hours before. DJ had been the first to see a bunch of people coming. Duncan had been up in the forbidden staircase, but there was a much easier alert.

DJ went through the castle, saying to everyone he could find "Lockdown! There's a mob approaching. Something tells me they're not here for any good reason."

When he told Gwen, she rolled her eyes and said "What was your first clue? Their angry faces or the fact that I can hear them yelling 'Justice must be served' over and over, even here? I think the people in Courtney's town found out where she'd been."

"But Courtney wouldn't turn us in!" Cody protested. "She's not very nice to me, but I know she wouldn't."

"Shut up, I know she wouldn't either." Gwen said. "But her sister might've, and Courtney wouldn't have had time to stop her before now."

The lockdown went into effect just as the townspeople reached the door. It took them a good hour to work out how to break the door down, and although they didn't know it, Bridgette and Courtney weren't far away by that time.

All the servants were gathered in the hallway. Geoff spoke quietly, his almost permanent smile absent for once. "We can't stay like this forever. If they break in, we have to attack. Work to your strengths, guys, all right?"

Everyone had their own strengths. Even the unfriendly tailors were agile and quick, and ditzy Lindsay could drive anyone insane by making a distraction by acting more dim than she really was (which was no easy task).

The doors flew open, and first in was a good-looking dark guy with muscles to rival DJ's. Instantly, the personal butcher, Jo, jumped at him and attacked like he was tough beef and she was going to pummel him into tenderization. But there were far more people to come.

Soon, both women and men from the village were fighting, even the unmarried women who were still considered too young. It was a free-for-all, everyone dedicated to their side, some winning, some losing.

Heather had already drawn blood from Gwen with her nails. Sierra knocked out anyone who tried to challenge Cody. Lindsay was able to push people away with her impressive cleavage. DJ, though not a fighter by nature, was able to use his strength to keep the stragglers out of the castle completely. Geoff was further into the action and had already taken on and beaten Max, an overconfident teenager who'd thoughtlessly challenged him.

However, not everyone from the castle was winning. After a few pushes, Alejandro cleverly distracted Lindsay and caught the attention of a few of the other women, but sadly, he also caught the attention of Taylor and Amy, so they were out of the fight. Izzy was one of the best at fighting from the village, laughing as she finally managed to win her battle against Josee (they were evenly matched, but Izzy started to predict Josee's moves and chose to be unpredictable herself) and went to help out Heather with Gwen.

Justin was standing by, looking for the guy he'd seen in the mirror. He glanced in it, seeing himself for a moment and preening. "Show me the lord of this castle." he ordered, and the mist in the mirror cleared to reveal that Duncan was most definitely not in the hall. Justin took one of the many staircases, not knowing that in fact, he'd chosen the right one.

Courtney and Bridgette arrived at the scene in time to see about half the villagers winning, and the other half losing. Bridgette hung back for a moment, analysing the situation and wondering what she should do, but Courtney dived into the action. She instantly saw that Izzy was winning her latest fight, and jumped on her.

"Get away from my friend, you psycho!" the brunette screeched, pulling Izzy off Gwen and kicking her away. She helped Gwen up and whispered to her "If one of the men is attacking, go for the kiwis."

Courtney used that move herself, several times. Bridgette, on the other hand, didn't fight, but whenever she saw someone hurt who was from the castle, she tried to help them so they could continue fighting. With the girls' help, most of the villagers gave up, seeing they couldn't possibly win with so many competent people battling them. After all, their health was more important than bringing some lord to justice, and it didn't really matter if the only people he'd acted against were Courtney and Bridgette, anyway.

Bridgette, who was checking out some wounds that Geoff had acquired, looked up. "We won?"

"Not quite." Courtney said grimly. "Justin wasn't with them. I think he's somewhere in here, trying to find Duncan. I have to find him first – I know Duncan can handle himself, but there's no way I'm letting Justin get any further."

"I'll stay here and check out everyone else." Bridgette offered. Healing was her specialty, rather than fighting. And Geoff certainly seemed happy with her staying, since he was looking at her as if her taking care of his injuries was his idea of heaven.

Courtney nodded. "Good idea. " She had to set off alone. And if her hunch was right, she would have to go somewhere in the castle that she'd been forbidden to go to.

Yes, it's time for the final showdown!