Chap. 5
After the death of Gerard
Jacqueline P.O.V
Gerard was gone. The realization had just hit her.
She laid in her bed thinking about what happened in her life for the last year.
She thought about her father's death and rescuing her brother. When she ran from the farm she was so scared.
She thought about the musketeers and how a woman was not allowed to join and fight. But her mother's words came to her head. "Listen to your heart and it will tell you the difference between right and wrong." She had to do something that was legally wrong to do something morally right.
Her brother was the only person who understood her. He was all she had left in the world.
She decided to follow her heart and join the musketeers and rescue her brother.
After the rescue she decided to stay and help fight. She would follow her heart and do what was right.
D'Artagnan was by her side the entire time. Some days she found it annoying but most days she found comfort in the knowledge that someone knew her secret and didn't try telling her she was wrong for doing what she was doing. Especially because she was a girl.
Ramon and Siroc didn't seem to know her secret and if they knew did they never told her.
She looked at her necklace and wondered if it would have been different if she would have hurried and got the water. Perhaps her father and brother would still be alive.
If only she had kept her necklace maybe her brother would still be alive. Why did he have to bring it back to her?
She started to cry her whole body hurt not from the pain of her wound. But the pain her heart was forced to endure.
Suddenly a thought came into her head if everyone was dying because of her who would be next.
She had to leave as soon as she could. She could never let one of her new brothers or the Captain (who was been like a father to her), or Mimou (the Captain's niece), or the man she was falling deeply in love with. How could she stay and let anyone else die because of her.
The tears flowed down her already tear stained face. She knew what she had to do and Isabelle Marie would help her. She had to put her plan to work tonight. Hurt or not!