Chapter 14

Tristan didn't say anything even when I tried to start conversation with him; he just kept wrapping the bandages. He seemed like he was in a hurry.

"Have you got somewhere to be?" I asked as he finished tying the bandage on.

"No, why?" he asked not looking up

"You just seem in a hurry."

He shrugged and turned towards the door. "Sleep." He called back before leaving.

I sat there thinking that was very strange even for Tristan. I ignored his request for me to sleep and stood up my cut didn't hurt as I walked to the door Tristan had done a good job cleaning and fixing it up.

Out in the courtyard all the knights except Tristan and Galahad were drinking in the pub, suddenly a thought raced across my mind. Tristan was in such a hurry, but he wouldn't. I started walking faster then towards the knights. As the thought of Galahad and Tristan fighting grew bigger in my mind.

"Jess you should be resting." Lancelot said standing up just as I reached them

"Does anyone know were Tristan is?" I asked curiously

The knights looked at each other and shook their heads. "No haven't seen him." Gawain said looking around the courtyard.

"Why?" Dagonet asked

"No reason." I said quickly which made it sound a bit suspicious

Dagonet said something again but I didn't hear it. I had turned to see Tristan coming towards us. I walked up to him calmly I didn't want to blame him of anything.

"Where have you been?" I asked it came out wrong and really sounded like I was accusing him of something. "The room?" I asked stupidly trying to cover up my accusation.

"What room?" he asked tilting his head slightly to the side.

"You know for the thing…" I said getting confused myself.

"What?" he asked

"Who?" I said trying not to laugh at the look on his face.

He shook his head and moved to walk passed me.

"No really, where's Galahad?" I asked as he sat down with the rest of the knights.

"I don't know I haven't seen him." He said looking up at me.

"Oh…" I couldn't think of were he might have gone, Galahad hardly ever went of by himself.

I had a bad feeling in my stomach that something was wrong so I went to the stables to look for him, when I got there Galahad wasn't there and neither was his horse.

I quickly saddled up my horse and led it out of the stables, when I got outside the sun shined warmly across my skin; I looked up and saw Lancelot leaning against the fence and watching me.

"Where are you going?" he asked without any real emotion in his voice.

"To find Galahad, his horse is gone." I answered

He smiled but didn't say anything

"What?" I asked as I led my horse out the gate.

"He's probably just gone riding." He said walking over to me.

I felt a little stupid that this thought hadn't crossed my mind earlier. I was still convinced that something had happened to him.

"Just to be sure." I said straightening the saddle

"Do you like Galahad?" he asked getting straight to the point.

I was a little taken a back by his question and didn't answer; Lancelot took this as a yes and walked past me.

"Lancelot." I called trying to stop him.

"You better hurry, Galahads probably waiting for you." He called back coldly before disappearing from view.

I stood there confused and was about to go after him before the thought that Galahad was hurt came back. I mounted the horse and took of through the gates, I was riding along the tree line thinking about what Lancelot had said, I didn't think I liked Galahad not in that way at least.

My thoughts were interrupted when a glint of a sword caught my eye, I got of my horse and walked into the trees towards were I saw the shine of metal.

I walked up to find Galahads sword lying useless on the ground a shock went up my spine as I looked around for any sign of Galahad, I walked deeper into the woods and made my first mistake when I noticed I didn't bring a sword. My second mistake came soon after when I called out.

"Galahad?" I shouted through the forest, almost instantly I heard a stick break behind me, I spun around expecting to see Galahad there smiling but instead saw nothing. I took a step back and started thinking this wasn't such a good idea, and wished more than anything that Lancelot was here.

I was far enough into the forest that the light had gone, the trees blocked most of it leaving only the smallest fraction of light scattered everywhere.

"Galahad?" I said nervously as another stick snapped.

In one swift movement an arm reached around my neck and started dragging me, I tried struggling free but their grip was to strong.

Almost as quickly as they had started dragging me they had stopped, I spun around to see a Saxon holding his sword up to my throat. We were in a clearing a big enough space to set up a couple of tents.

"Try to run and I will kill you." He said pressing the sword more firmly into my neck.

"What do you want?" I spat at him.

"I want my freedom, to go home." He said taking a step back but leaving the sword at my neck.

"What's that got to do with me?" I asked.

"The only one who can guarantee me a safe passage home is Arthur."

"This is a ransom?"

He nodded and gave a triumphant smile.

"The knights would not trade for me, I don't even know them." I lied

"Maybe not for you, but what about for him?" he said motioning towards a sleeping figure on the ground I had not noticed before.

I ran over getting a small cut from the sword, I knelled beside Galahad I was relieved to see he was alive, he had probably just been knocked out.

I looked back to the Saxon he was now sitting on a rock watching us, his triumphant smile had returned.

I sat against a tree watching Galahad slowly breathe in and out. I didn't want to talk to the Saxon or hear about any of his plans. An hour of silence had passed before Galahad started to stir.

I moved slowly towards him and watched as his eyes opened. He looked confused when he saw me and started rubbing his eyes and sitting up.

"Jess?" he asked but when he looked up and saw the Saxon I could tell the memories were coming back and he quickly stood up.

"Leave her out of this." he shouted at the Saxon

The Saxon just laughed and shook his head.

"Let her go." Galahad spat at him

"I could let her go, but then I'd have to kill her." He said swinging the sword in a threatening way

Galahad was about to say something else but I kicked him in the shin making him stop.

"Go to sleep." The Saxon said "We will go and see Arthur tomorrow."

"We could make a run for it?" Galahad whispered to me. We were sitting under a large tree watching the Saxon pace about.

"I was thinking the same thing, do you remember the way back?" I asked

Now that I thought about it that might not be such a good idea, I couldn't see two feet in front of my face and had forgotten which way we came in.

"No." he sighed

"Take the sword?" I suggested

"Oh OK why didn't I think of that earlier? I'll just go and get It." he said getting ready to stand up

I thought he was being serious and pulled him back down, he started to laugh quietly.

"How can you joke?" I said smiling and punching him in the arm.

The Saxon looked over I could tell he was getting tense he was probably thinking someone might come looking for us soon. He walked over and knelt in front of us.

"Here's what's going to happen…" he stopped and thought and swallowed hard before continuing.

"You are going to go into the village and tell Arthur I am an old friend of Galahads." He said to me. "Then Arthur comes out, and if all goes to plan, I'll be home in a couple of weeks."

"If you don't co-operate both of you will die." He added when Galahad or I didn't say anything

He stood up and motioned for us to do the same, keeping the sword close. It was hard walking through the woods every third step I took would be straight into a tree, I cursed Galahad silently he hadn't run into a single branch. The Saxon was walking in front but keeping a close eye on us, I still didn't have any idea where we were so running wouldn't have much effect.

Galahad finally took pity on me and grabbed my hand; he started leading me through the forest so I wouldn't run into anything else.

When we finally reached the edge of the forest I could tell it was early morning. The Saxon started leading us down towards the village. He looked pretty confident now.

We reached the gate I could see the knights from where we were. The Saxon stopped and turned to me.

"Go and get Arthur." He instructed. "Only Arthur, if anybody else comes I will kill him." he said turning the sword on Galahad.

I nodded and walked inside the village. I saw all the knights in the courtyard eating breakfast.

I walked over to Arthur who was sitting at a table with Lancelot, Tristan and Gawain. They looked up when I came over.

"Where have you been?" Tristan asked.

"In the forest." I said truthfully "I went looking for Galahad."

"You spent a night in the forest with Galahad?" Gawain asked smiling.

Lancelot looked back to his food, I was about to argue but remembered the Saxon.

"Galahads friend wants to talk with you." I said to Arthur.

"Galahads friend?" he asked

"Yes, he's outside the gate with Galahad."

"Jess are you ok?" Tristan asked. I was talking awkwardly which made it sound suspicious.

"But be careful." I said to Arthur ignoring Tristan's question.

"Of what?" he said standing up.

I bit my lip and brushed some hair out of my face

"Jess what's going on?" Arthur asked noticing something was wrong.

"Nothing." I lied remembering that the Saxon could see us.

"Ok where is he?" Arthur asked

"At the gate." I said turning around to show him, my heart skipped a few beats when I saw Noah standing talking to Galahad and the Saxon, he must have been in the stables and went over to talk to them. Arthur walked out of the courtyard and over to Galahad, the Saxon and Noah.

I stood watching them and didn't even notice I was biting my nails.

"Are you sure you're alright?" Tristan asked

"Fine." I nodded quickly.

"

What's his name?" Lancelot asked

I turned around at the sound of Lancelot's voice.

"What?" I asked

"Galahads friend, what's his name?" He asked me again.

"His name… his name is." But I stopped when I couldn't think of anything.

"Jess, what's going on?" Lancelot said standing up.

I was about to answer when a hard clanging noise came from were Arthur was, followed by a cry of pain. I turned quickly to see the Saxon dead on the ground but Arthur and Galahad were knelling over someone else.

I rushed over Galahad saw me coming and stopped me he grabbed me around the waist so I couldn't get any closer, I didn't have to be nearer though I saw Noah but it didn't look like him there was blood all down his front and his face was white.

"Noah?" I called. I waited for an answer but it never came.

He was shivering a lot worse than I had been. And his lips were moving like he was talking very quickly but no sound was coming out.

Tears started streaming down my face as Bors rushed over and lifted him up.

"No, he's fine, he's going to be OK." I yelled at Bors. Galahad passed me to Tristan and followed Bors.

"What happened?" I hurriedly asked Tristan trying to struggle free of his grip.

I would have fallen to the ground if Tristan hadn't been there, my whole world had gone hazy and I couldn't think clearly.

Bors had taken Noah up to one of the rooms. And I finally got free of Tristan's grip, I ran through the courtyard knocking down a few villagers as I went. It seemed to take forever but I finally got to the corridorGawain and Lancelot were standing out the front of a door. I rushed past them to go in; Lancelot came forward and grabbed my shoulder to stop me I didn't have time for this. I threw my arm out and my fist connected with his jaw. He didn't let go but I could tell it hurt.

I would have aimed another one but Arthur finally came out.

"Is Noah OK?" I asked quickly rushing up to him.

With one slow movement Arthur shook his head.

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