Hiya people sorry about the long time it took me to update so here is the reason; Its hot, scratch that its just wow, dark, a great kisser and male! So now you know you can't blame me for the late update!

And next time I will answer my reviews again...and I can't remember if I send this story to my Beta our not (again the boyfriends fault)

But if it wasn't the next one will be sent to my beta again so.....

Okay I'm rambling on again see ya guys next chapter.

(And "the apprentice" and "Childhood Crush" will be updated soon!)

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Betha stands there as Arthur turns around and walks away. She found this Arthur and his men a tad disturbing; to her they seem arrogant and honourless.

She snapped out of her train of thoughts and decided to do what needed to be done. She walked to the stables and got her horse.

There he stood a magnificent black stallion; a birthday present from her cousin on mothers side. She patted the horse's gigantic flanks and smiled.

"I think we're in trouble old friend." She thought patting the horse lovingly.

"Lady!" A gruff voice called.

Betha slowly turned around; looking right at her was the knight with long blond hair.

"Yes?" Betha asked not forgetting her etiquette lessons.

"We're leaving." The knight said shortly.

Betha nodded. And then something came over her.

"May I ask for you're name lord knight?" She asked.

"That was pure brilliance! I ask the name of a person I really don't want to know." Betha thought looking around nervously.

The man looked amused; it had been a long time since he had been spoken to politely.

"Gawain lady, my name is Gawain." He said with a small smile.

"I shall remember that." Betha said offering the knight, named Gawain a smile of her on.

The knight nodded, turned his heal and walked away.

Betha prayed to the gods that the other knights would be as kind to her as he. She didn't count on the curly haired knight Lancelot to be kind; he was a man wordy of being the son of the devil....

Betha road, as she was told with the knights. She didn't speak to them but did find out there names. After a while she was riding Arthur. He was looking at the woman in the caravan, the Woad woman. Lancelot cam riding up to him:

"We're moving too slow. The girl's not going to make it and neither is the boy.
The family we can protect, but we're wasting time with all these people." He said to Arthur.

"Dos the man have no hart? How cruel can a he be?" Betha thought enraged by the man's words.

"We're not leaving them." Arthur said simply.

"If the Saxons find us, we will have to fight." Lancelot said.

"Then save your anger for them." Arthur said getting mad at his friend. Betha watched with fascination.

"Is this Rome's quest? Or Arthur's?" Lancelot said aggressively.

Arthur and Lancelot looked at each other; Lancelot's eyes where filled with anger and Arthur's where unmovable.

Lancelot gave Arthur one more angered look before riding off.

"What an annoying man." Betha sighed.

"He just wants to get out of this alive." A voice said.

Betha looked behind her and saw the younger knight, Galahad riding up to her.

"That is no reason to be so cruel." Betha answered stubbornly.

"And Rome isn't cruel?" The knight said; he was clearly trying to out smart her.

"Rome is not cruel, Rome is fair." Betha said, she had never bin in Rome but the way her father speaks of it was more than enough for her to know that it is a grand city.

"Than why do they take young boys away from there homes to fight for the great Roman cause?" There was a large amount of bitterness in his voice.

"The same reasons they make young woman marry men they never meet."-Betha said- "Fore the good of Rome."

"And you accept that?" The knight asked frowning.

"I haft to, I have no other choice." Betha sighed.

"Yes you have, just don't marry." Galahad said.

"If only it was that simple." Betha said. This man obviously didn't know a thing about the ways of high Roman families.

The knight shrugged and road off.

Everyone remains quite for awhile; giving Betha the time to think about everything that happened;

"Why did Rome send these men? They hate us; they hate everything that has to do with the Roman Empire. They are more likely to kill us than save us! If only my cousin was here, he would know what to do...he is so much stronger than I am. He would surely put this Lancelot in his place."

Arthur and his knight where raiding in front of her.

Arthur was looking at the Woad woman he saved. Lancelot noticed this and looked annoyed he road of without saying another word. Arthur gave him a look and shrugged. He stopped to ride next to the Woad woman.

"I know eavesdropping isn't polite but I want to know what they will talk about!" Betha thought riding shorter to Arthur and the Woad.

"My father told me great tales of you." The Woad said.

"Really. And what did you hear?" Arthur asked.

"Just what I wish to hear." Betha thought very pleased.

"Fairy tales. The kind you hear of people so brave, so selfless that they can't be real. Arthur and his knights. A leader both Britain and Roman. And yet you chose your allegiance to Rome. To those that take what does not belong to them. That same Rome that took your men from their homeland." The Woad said with contempt.

"That's just great, yet another Roman hater. They are very common here!" Betha thought, she felt her face grow red with anger.

"Listen, Lady, do not pretend that you know anything about me or my men." Arthur said getting made. "How many Britons have you killed?" The Woad woman asked.

"What a Little cow! I wish I could shut her up!" Betha thought, her cheeks most be flaming by now.

"As many as tried to kill me. It's a natural state of any man to want to live." Arthur said simply.

"Animals live. It's the natural state of any man to want to live free, in their own country. I belong to this land. Where do you belong, Arthur?" The woman said with a naturally air of cockiness.

Arthur was quite for a moment. "How's your hand?" He finally asked.

"I'll live, I promise you." The Woad said.

"What a pity." Betha thought.

"Is there nothing about my land that appeals to your heart? Your own father married a Briton. Even he must have found something to his liking." The Woad said. Arthur however didn't replay, he just road of to his scout.

"You shouldn't try to lead him astray." Betha said to the Woad before she realised it.

"And who are you?" The Woad said rudely.

"Betha, daughter of Lord Clarence and lady Cecily." Betha said showing her pride.

"Lady Cecily, aunt of the great commander Maxim?" The Woad woman said raising an eyebrow.

"Cousin is even known to the Woads, I believe that will pleas him." Betha thought with a soft grin on her face.

"Yes." Betha said to the impressed Woad.

"I have heard tales of him as well, is it true he has a Celt in his army?" The Woad asked.

"Yes, it is true. His second in command is a Celt." Betha said; thinking of the Conlan, the great friend of her cousin.

"Are they as brave as people clam?" The Woad asked curiously.

"I would personally call them disturbing. There way of fighting battles is very strange." Betha said shaking her head.

"Pleas tell; what is so disturbing?" The woman asked.

"Well, they attack there enemy before thinking and when the battle is over they discuss their tactics." Betha smiled.

The Woad woman laughed.

"I can see why you find that disturbing."

"O god I miss them, they where always so nice to be around; Maxim the loud but mannered Roman and Conlan the quite, mysterious Celt." Betha thought.

"My name is Guinevere." The Woad said.

"It is a pleasure to meet you." Betha replied.

Guinevere smiled and went back inside the carriage.

"This Woad might be not as bad as I thought." Betha thought smiling to herself.

"Lady Betha!" A voice called.

Betha turned around to see the knight, Gawain standing in front of her.

"Yes?" Betha asked politely.

"We camp here tonight." He said with a small smile. He didn't see the point in being hostile to the girl. "So prepare for night fall."

"I will." Betha said simply. She dismounted and looked around it was already getting darker.

"I think I have time for a small walk." She thought, as she ventured into the woods.

She walked around thinking of what happened and the hostility of the knight Lancelot. And suddenly the object of her thinking was standing in front of her, but he hadn't seen her, he was looking at Guinever who was bathing.

"What an improper thing to do." She thought and before her mind thought threw she had already spoken;

"What do you think you're you doing?"

Lancelot looked at her and acknowledged her presence.

"What are you doing here?" He said completely ignoring her question. He was walking straight at her.

"I'm taking a walk." Betha said nervously; there was something in the knight's eyes that made her feel afraid.

"What a little Roman brat like you all alone? Isn't that dangerous? Or is you're god protecting you?" He said that last bit with mockery. He was getting closer.

"Do not mock me or my faith!" Betha said unconsciously taking stepping back until she was against a tree.

"So the Roman woman is afraid of me." He said; he was almost in front of her.

"I'm not afraid of you." Betha said taking a step forward so she was right in front of Lancelot.

"To bad." He said softly. He placed a hand beneath her chin forcing her to look straight into his eyes.

"If it was up to me we would have left you and they others in that villa to die."

"You have no honour!" Betha hissed, her anger becoming clearer by the second.

"You try having honour after fifteen years of killing for lazy Romans." He said.

"Watch you're tongue, knight." Betha said aggressively.

"Why?" He asked.

Instead of answering, Betha slapped him on the right cheek. A bright red spot appeared on the place where she had slapped him. He immediately took a step back.

"I'm sorry." Betha said. "I don't know what came over me."

Lancelot looked at her confused. He was the one who had been insulting her. He actually disserved it. He didn't mean to scare the girl like that he had just been testing her. There was something about her; she didn't seem Roman.

Betha gave him one last look and ran off.

T.B.C

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