Chapter 8

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Guinever brought Isabella close to her and looked at the man with disgust.

"Get out of her Nero, before I call Arthur." Nero just laughed at her and left without saying anything. "Are you ok?" Isabella shook her 'no' before rolling over and falling asleep.

A tall dark hair man came down into the dungen where Isabella, Guinever, and Lucan were at. He bent down to look at Isabella and ran his finger up and down her cheek, she flenched away and moved further into the celler.

"You?" he said pointing to a monk. "Unlock this cage."

"But captin Nero, what if she gets away." the monk asked unlocking the celler. Nero smirked and walke into the celler.

"Don't worry, she's to weak to move, trust me." he sent the monk off with a wafe of his hand and steped closer to Isabella. He roughly grabed her wrists and threw her against the hard cold stone, he pinned her hands above her head and kissed her hard on her mouth, he tasted of liqure and lust. She tried to push him off but he was too strong, he smacked her across her face, her head hit the bricks which caused her to pass out.

When she woke she was very sore, that bloody roman had stole the one thing she had left in the world, she cried herself to sleep, praying to the gods that someone, anyone would save her.

Isabella woke up from her dream and saw Guinever and Lucan asleep, she steped out of the wagon and saw some of the knight seated around a fire, all excepte Lancelot, she shruged her shoulders and walked towards the knights.

"May I join you?" she asked a blond hair knight, he noded and pated the seat next to him, she sat down and he intourduced himself.

"I'm Gawain, this is Galahad, Tristan, Bors, and you already know Dag." they all noded ther heads.

"I'm Isabella." they all noded ther head again, Bors offered her some bread and water which she gladly took.

"So where are you frome?" Galahad asked.

"Sarmatina" she replied, there jaws were so wied that they could have been touching the ground.

"Wait." Dag held up a finger toward wher Lancelot was siting. "Are you the same Isabella that was friends with Lancelot?" she noded her head and all the knight got a weird gleam in there eyes which caused her to belive that Lancelot had spoken about her. All the knight started to tell stories that Lancelot had told them but odly left out the emberising moment that Lancelot had gont through.

"Did he ever tell you of the time that his mother was trying to give him a bath and he ran out of his hut but necked." they all got wied eyed before laughing, they were all doubleing over laughing and Gawain fell off the log which caused them to laugh harder. She curtsyed and left to talk to Lancelot. "I told them of the baithing incadent." she smiled when Lancelot put his face in his hands and began to mumble somethin about payback. "What do you rember of home?" she asked laying her head on his shoulder. He smiled down at her and wrapped the both of them with his cloak

"Well I rember green hill frome horizon to horizon, and I rember rideing my horse with a young girl who would talk to me till we returned home, I also rember that same girl who would play a prank on me when ever she could." They both laugh at how they always did everything together as children. "What ever happened to that girl?" he knew something was wrong with Isabella, she wasn't her self, her eyes didn't hold that same sparkle in them, his Isabella wasen't ther any more.

"She grew up, alot happened to her, she's just to scared to come out." a tear ran down her eye and Lancelot wiped it away with his finger.

"What happened Bella?" he tilted her head up to look at her face and saw pain, and sorrow, he wasen't sure if he would ever see that little girl from Sarmatian.

"I was visting a friend in a nearby village when saxons attacted it, I was took captive and sold for horses, money, even food, finally I was sold to Marius, when I wouldn't work for him he made me live in that hell hole. Lancelot, his lead comander raped me about a week before you came." she cold fell his hart beat quickn and his arm wrapped arout her wait tighter, she buried her face in his chest and cried.

"Where is he?" he asked geting ready to stand up." she placed her hand on his chest to stop him.

"Lancelot know, I will not let anything happen to you for killing another. Please, if any thing happend to you I don't know what I would do. I love you." he placed her hands in his own and kisssed her palms, he slowly brought his lips to her own and pulled her to him, she wrapped her arms around his neck and moand into his mouth when when he sucked on her bottom lip.

"And I you." he wispeard in her ear. They both layed ther and fell asleep in the arms of the people they loved.