A few Weeks later. Yes I'm jumping around but I don't care. It's fun and I'm releasing my imagination.

Tavington's POV

"Damn!" I shouted," Damn, damn, damn!!!!"

The ghost had somehow eluded our trap and gotten away...again. I was not looking forward to the few choice words the Lord General would have for me. In anger I turned my horse around and joined the rest of the Dragoons surrounding the continentals we managed to capture. Some of the men shrank back in response to my approach. Some stared at me with determines looks as if they were trying to seem brave.

"Get these rebel bastards back to Middleton place!" I shouted.

The men were hauled to their feet and ushered away.

"He was right there," I said to Captain Bordon as he rode up next to me," RIght there..."

"We will catch him. Just give it time."

"We have been chasing him for months," I snapped," It's time he was caught!"

I kicked my horse into a trot and steamed in peace. It didn't matter what anyone said. The Ghost was right under my nose and he got away again. I need to catch him and kill him. I need to see his blood on my hands and know that my humiliation on his account was over. The sun was beginning to set and the scene around me began to darken.

"Sir," a soldier rode up next to me. I stopped and stared at him.

"Sir?" he said again.

"What."

He replied by pointing his finger to the trees on my left. From what I could see through the dark, two figures were stumbling slowly out of sight. It looked like a couple of girls. And then I realized it...the girls!

Haley's POV

"I don't know. After smelling that meat I kinda lost my appetite. I'm good with finding nuts or leaves or something not meat," I was saying.

"It went bad," Julianna said,"That was all that was wrong with it. We didn't have anything to keep it frozen. Which sucks cause I want meat sooooo bad right now."

"Well once we find Middleton again you can chow down on all the meat you want-"

CRACK

The noise made us both jump and throw ourselves to the ground.

"I heard something over here," a mans' voice whispered.

"Shut up or they will hear us," another man said.

"Continentals?" Julianna questioned in a whisper.

"I don't know. I can try to see."

I lifted my body up a little. Right in front of me, their backs turned, were two men. In the dark I could not tell what they were...red coat or continental. I ducked back down. I slapped a hand over Julianna's mouth when she started to talk. Taking the hint she laid silent and not moving.

"They're not here now if they ever were here in the first place. Lets get out of here."

I peaked over the shrubs again to see the figures walking away. Julianna and I did not move for about five minutes. When we were sure they were gone we got up.

"Huh. I think my heart almost fell out of my ass," Julianna said," Scared the daylights out of me."

"Yea," I replied," I couldn't tell which side they were from."

"Yea well I wouldn't want to risk it not being a red coat and get whisked away by more continentals."

I nodded in agreement," Well let's keep going-WOA!"

A hand clenched my elbow and pushed me into a tree. I fell awkwardly to the ground. My leg stung painfully. There was a ton of commotion around me. I heard Julianna grunt and squeak somewhere above me and felt the tree I leaned against shake as her body made contact with it. She fell down next to me. A wave of clicking sounds echoed around us, which told me we were surrounded by guns...lots of guns.

Tavington's POV

Our group stopped when we heard the commotion a slight distance from where we had just passed. When my men had gone in the grove of trees they had found nothing. Now i was convinced that there was someone back there.

"Spread out," I commanded," If there is going to be an ambush it's not going to be on us. I want ten men guarding the prisoners."

Those that weren't watching the rebels fanned out and moved slowly and silently into the trees. Bordon, Wilkins and I moved in a group of our own. The three of us followed where the sounds had come from; where they were still coming from. Bordon stepped on a pile of dead branches and they crunched loudly under his feet. The sounds stopped. The three of us raised our pistold and cocked them. In a flash the woods were filled with the sounds and flashes from several bayonets and pistols. Next thing I knew I was diving out of the way of six horses that had come barreling out of no where.

"COlonel! THE GIRLS! They have the girls!" Bordon yelled.

I rolled over and saw on one of the horses Haley being held by a continental, and Julianna struggling pathetically with the leader. They almost were out of my sight when gun fire caused them to swirve their steeds around, and my heart leaped in surprise, anger, and excitement. It was the Ghost and his son who held Haley and Julianna. I took aim at the Ghost and fired, but I hit another man instead. For a moment he made eye contact with me, clutched Julianna tighter and went in the other direction.

"After them! Quickly!" I yelled. I ran to my horse and jumped on. Without sparing a second I was in persuit of them, Bordon and Wilkins hot on my tail with other members of the dragoons following a bit behind. We found ourselves being rained on in every direction with bullets. I saw several men fall from their horses but I kept going, firing shots and killing whoever was in my path. In minutes the Ghost was gone. I had to fall back before I was shot too. He got away again and with the girls.

"How?" I asked myself.

"Sir," Bordon rode up beside me," Are you hit?"

"No," I replied, still staring at the empty road," Did any prisoners escape?"

"Luckily no, sir. All are still in custody."

"Good," I replied," I'm sure Lord Cornwallis will take his anger out on one or more of them when he finds out about this."

I turned my horse around, ordered the men to get back in lines and we continued down the road to Middleton place. On the plus side, Haley and Julianna really were still alive, and I knew what to do to find them.