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Snowy's POV

"What on Earth is wrong with them?" I ask as I wring the water out from my dress.

"Jealousy." He say's as he gets the water out of his boots.

"Jealous of what? Me? Impossible. They're beautiful." I say in protest.

"Yes, you. You just don't see it, Princess. While indeed you are beautiful, there's something else. It's your heart. That's what people are jealous of."

With this said I start blushing like a mad woman.

Stop it! I tell myself.

"So how did you know them?" I ask changing the subject.

"Let's just say, I got a little too drunk one night and not realizing what I was doing" He says with a sly smile.

He doesn't know it but I feel a sting of jealousy.

I look over at him while he's looking for his shirt. And see his stomach and chest muscles. But that's not what I focus on. I focus on the scars. The scars from all the wars. If I looked closely, I could see a story unfolding. I don't know what type of story. But I'll be damned if I don't find out.

"Can I put my shirt on now?" he asks

"Pardon?"

"You were staring."

"I was not!" I object horrified.

"My Queen, it is not kind to lie to your faithful subjects." He say's teasingly.

"I was looking. Not staring." I stay walking around a tree's stump.

"Well did you like what you saw?" He asks coming around from the other side towards me

I turn my back on him, not answering.

"I'll take that as a yes." Damn him and his accent.

"So, you're not originally from here, are you?" I ask him changing the current subject.

"No. I'm from Scottland."

"So how did you end up here?" It's a fair way away from Scottland to Tabor.

"With you? I'd like to know myself." He say's with a teasing chuckle

"No. Here in Tabor." I say still walking around the tree stump hoping that my hair is hiding my face.

"There was a war going on in the parts of Scottland that I lived in. Every man of rightful age, from every family had to be enlisted into the army."

"And you were of age?"

"No, my father was. The war raged on. Body's began piling up. After a year after the war, when my father didn't come back, we all figured that we knew what had happend to him."

I felt a strange sense of hurt and sorrow. But also an uderstanding feeling also. My father was also killed when I was young. I didn't know what to say so I nodded in response.

"My mother, my brother, my sister, and myself decided we needed a better life. So we packed up what little we had and just walked with it for miles and miles. We finally made it to Tabor. And everything was beautiful. People were so full of life, compassion, and love."

This was during my father and my mother's reign. I remember everything being like that as well. I still kept my mouth shut not quite knowing what to say. So I,again, just nodded my head.

"We moved into this small little village. It was filled with people. After about a week of moving into the village I met a young girl. Her name was Sarah. She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. We spent days, and days talking to eachother. I knew I was in love from the moment I had laid eyes on her."

This time I smiled at him. Oddly enough I didn't feel jealousy when he spoke about her. Maybe because she was a good person. Probably unlike any other woman Eric had ever been with.

"Now I was of age to go and fight in the war. My brother and I both were. Sarah and my mother begged us not to. I agreed that I didn't think that my brother was ready for war, so I went for the both of us. "

I remember this time as well. This was when Reveena's reign was full and thriving.

His voice was beginning to shake so I sat down on the tree stump and patted a place next to mine so that he could sit beside me.

When he sat down next to me, I put my head on his shoulder and rubbed his back with my right hand, urging him to continue.

"When I came back, my family was slaughtered. I felt so horrible. My family. I left them unprotected."

I felt one of his tears hit my cheek. I wanted so badly to tell him that it wasn't his fault. But no words came. Just my eye's filling with tears for him.

"Sarah was the only person left. I couldn't stand the thought of loosing her. So I took her to the nearest chapel and we got married. That was the happiest day of my life. Well one of them. The second was the day she told me she was pregnant."

My mind started to get fuzzy. Eric was a father?

"You could not believe how excited I was to hear that, Princess. Unbelievably excited. But the joy soon ended there. Another war broke out, and I was drafted into it. I wanted so badly to stay there with Sarah and my unborn baby. But the soldier's told me that if I didn't go then they'd kill me. I didn't want to leave the baby without a father, so I went with them. Something.. I will never forgive myself for. "

By now, the tears he was trying to fight were falling like waterfalls.

I came back a month later walking into my small village only to find everyone gone and the village burned to the ground. I was in denial so I went to the next village over and asked everyone there if they'd seen where anybody from the other village had gone. But all I got was the same answer. Everyone in the village was killed and the houses were burned to the ground just to be sure."

He lifted himself off of the tree stump. I raised my eyes to his and found only sorrow and misery.

"Thats when I turned to alcohol. The relief it let me feel. It made me feel numb. No emotion, greif, or suffering in my body. Just numbness. I had left the two things left in the world that I cared for the most were taken from me. When I was sober, it was as if I lived that day all over again. Day after day." his voice began to trail off into none understandable murmurs.

I walked over to where he was grabbed his hand and had him sit down on the stump again.

"That's something I'm going to have to live with forever! My bestfriend..I left her unprotected. Her and that little baby. My baby, gone! Everything I loved the most had been taken from me!"

The only thing I could do was hold him. I pulled him into a hug and just let him cry all the hurt, pain and anguish out of his body and onto my shoulder.

Awwwe. You guy's that was so sad. I didn't even know the direction that this chapter was going to go in. I said it before and I'll say it again. You guy's know as much as I do when it comes down to me writing the next chapter!

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