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"Hey!" Merton yelled after me as I walked into his personal chambers without a thought. I flung myself down on his bed with a huff.

"something wrong?" he asked tentatively.

"a lot's wrong." I said looking upward at the ceiling. Staring at the mural painted there gave me a sort of calm. "Morgan Le' Fey has the orb displayed in her room. That's the first thing wrong. Two, Tommy's sister is supposed to be in our care! And who know where the heck she is. She might even be back in present times for all I know. And well third…I'm pregnant."

"What!" Merton exclaimed. "Here…now? Do Tommy and-"

I cut him off. "No they don't, and you're not going to tell them. I told you so that maybe you could find something in these old spell books for morning sickness."

He grinned. "I can try. Most likely there'll be something. This was the age of herbal medicine y'know. Now about the orb."

"I'm just gonna have a servant snitch it." I said.

"Yeah, sure." His voice dripped with sarcasm. "I'm sure that she doesn't have any ward spell around it ad all. She's only the worlds most powerful witch at the moment after all."

"Oh, you're right." I stared back up at the ceiling. "I can-"

I was interrupted by a sharp knock at the door. I hastily got up off Merton's bed so the scene didn't look wrong. The door jerked open and knight stepped into the room. When he saw me he bowed respectfully.

"Thank you for the medicine good sir." I said to Merton.

"You're welcome my Queen." Merton bowed slightly, then turned to the knight. "What medicine do you need?"

"No medicine, just the queen." Having said this he walked out of the room. Merton winked at me.

"Remember don't tell Tommy." I whispered before leaving. He nodded.

The knight was waiting for me when I emerged from the chambers. He bowed again, and started to speak. "My queen. I am Sir Lancelot."

I gasped and almost choked when he said his name, wondering if he knew just how famous he was. I'd done the same things when I'd met King Arthur and Merlin, and it now repeated.

"There's an execution today. You are to go in the Kings place to over see it." He went on.

"E-Execution?" I stammered. "Killing someone?"

"Are you of sorts?" Lancelot looked concerned. "Perhaps I should suggest to the king that you rest a spell."

"N-No I'm fine." I shuddered. "Um, so I have to oversee it?"

"Yes." He looked at me queerly. "We know it is an unusual job for a queen to carry out but King Arthur must go to the battle fields to see the knights. He and the prince are departing-"

All thoughts of executions were immediately pushed from my head, and my sons face flowed through.

"Where is the king?" I asked in my most dangerous voice. "He is not taking my son to any battle fields."

Lancelot stared at me like I was possessed or something. I must have looked it, 'cause to put it mildly…I was pissed. I knew, from history class, that it was customary for kings and other nobles to take their young sons out to see the fruits of battle. I also knew that it was customary for the other side to find out when the king and his heir would be there. This would usually result in the in side being attacked, and either the prince or the king dying.

Josh was NOT going.

The knight wasn't talking so I walked off down the hall like a woman possessed looking for them.

"where is the king?" I asked a random serf carrying trays.

"The king left five minutes ago My Queen. I was on my way to your chamber now to tell you, and to tell you also that the execution is in one hour. It will be in the yard where the sun makes the trees gold."

"what?"

"My Queen, your favorite garden. With the white and yellow roses." She elaborated.

I understood now, and thanked her. I took the long way to my chamber walking in almost total numbness.

"Cass I'm so sorry." Cally said. "But you can't just act like you're not going to see him again."

I continued to walk to the rose garden in silence.

"You will see him again, I know it. You're being paranoid. The king will probably just drop Josh off at another castle and never even let him get close to the fields."

"Cally." I looked at her almost mechanically. "That last time I was away from him for more than a day, he'd been kidnapped. I've a right to a bit of paranoia."

She sighed. "And you're being made to over see an execution too. Your mood is not going to improve. I can feel your aura. It's feeling quite dark right now."

"Joy." I half glared at her and took my seat on a high podium that had been moved to te garden just for this purpose. Cally sat beside me in thoughtful silence. It was about half a minute before she leaned over to me with accusation on her face.

"Ah, Ha! You're pregnant. No wonder you're so ticked." She said triumphantly. "You've two auras around you."

"I'm ticked because my son is somewhere where I can't see him."

"and mood swings from pregnancy." She retorted.

"shut up." I growled.

"You must say 'Let it begin'" whispered some one behind me. I turned and nodded my head at them. When I stood up everyone around shushed. The whole garden was quiet. That might not seem like much to you, but let me verify…this garden was as big 1½-foot ball fields. So now you see why it was such an amazement to have the whole place quiet.

"Let it begin." I said, then sat back down.

From almost out of nowhere two people came in holding a struggling and bound girl between them. There was a bag over her face, so I couldn't see her. But my super hearing was picking up her words just fine. She was insulting the two people frog marching her with vehemence ("My boot has an urgent appointment with your groin!" she'd said.)

"We present to the court Laryssa Leeks. Guilty of thievery from the royal stores, and sabotage of weaponry. Punishment, Death by beheading from the hand of a sword."

Cally and I gave each other queasy looks, like we wanted to barf.

"the criminal will now show her face and beg o the queen for mercy." Announced a guard. The roughly pulled off the hood, taking some of her hair with it, and kicked her in the back to her knees. She landed face first in front of the podium. She moaned and lifted her head.

I just about dead fainted away.

I looked to where Merton was standing and watched him grab onto a poll to keep from passing out. Tommy was standing with the other servants. When he caught a glimpse of the girl he started to wolf out. He left quickly to go back inside the castle. I was working hard to control the wolf out urge, and fortunately succeeding.

"Cally." I whispered meekly. "what'll we do?"

"what can we do?" she muttered back. "what a stitch this is."

The girl started to speak softly looking up at where I was sitting. I wanted to send her a message, maybe saying 'I'm going to help'. But I didn't know how to get it through. She kept muttering. I caught some words like, Tommy, and London. Not much more.

"You will." Said Cally through gritted teeth. "get Lena outa there."

"It's Lyrissa this year." I said faintly. "I-I don't know what to do. Oh God, t-this-"

Cally and I along with the whole audience looked up. We all had heard the loud howl.

"Tommy, don't do anything stupid." I prayed out loud.

"Amen to that." Said Cally frantically.

People started screaming and yelling of cursed wolves. They were moving quickly back to the castle. Tommy, in wolf form, was scaring them half out of their minds. The two guards left Lyrissa and ran like there was no tomorrow. She crawled over to Tommy and climbed onto his back. I saw him lick her once, then they were gone.

"Cass, c'mon lets go." Cally pulled my sleeve.

I was reluctant to go, but I slowly followed her off the podium and back towards the castle.

(a/n- sorry about the time it took to post. I've been having writers block with this one. I'll try to have the next part up as soon as possible. Damned writers block, it still hasn't gone away.)