Right after finishing lunch, a Marshal appears before you and Napoleon.
He and Bonaparte are talking to each other in french. You learn that his name is Nicolas. He seems in a hurry, you think to yourself.
Napoleon's horse, Blanc, appears behind Nicolas and walks forward towards you two.
You notice that the horse is carrying Napoleon's greatcoat and hat.
Napoleon gets up, puts on his hat and greatcoat, and begins to mount the white beautiful horse. He looks at you and says in a sexy tone: "Je reviens bientôt, Y/N." (I'll be back soon, Y/N.)
While this is all happening you remain silent, just admiring him.
Blanc gallops away with Napoleon on his back while Nicolas stays in the camp.
Nicolas looks at you and says: "Alors tu es la femme dont il a parlé..." (So you're the woman he spoke of...)
Y/N: "I'm so sorry, I can only speak English." You say, looking over at the man's face.
Nicolas: "Oh, désolé!" (Oh, sorry!) "I was just wondering if you were the woman that le Petit Caporal spoke of this morning." (the Little Corporal.)
Nicolas: "Is your name Y/N?"
Y/N: "Yes that's me, who is this little corporal you speak of?"
Nicolas: "C'est Napoleon." (It's Napoleon.) "All of his troops call him that."
Y/N: "Oh I see, and you are Nicolas?"
Nicolas: "I am, yes. Nicolas Oudinot. It's an honor to meet you! Did he spoke of me to you too?"
Y/N: "No, I just noticed Napoleon using the name Nicolas while addressing you. My french is getting better!"
Y/N: "But why is it an honor to meet me? I'm just a homeless woman passing by."
Nicolas: "The Emperor doesn't think so. He and his brother fought this morning about where you should spend the night."
Nicolas: "It is certainly an honor for everyone in this camp to be even talking to you. Le Petit Caporal clearly likes you enough to share his bed with you."
You blush a lot, this pink rosy color surfaces from your beautiful cheeks.
Y/N: "Where did he go? Could you tell me that?"
Nicolas: "There was some movement made by the enemy, we might need to move out of this camp quite soon. Are you coming with us?"
Y/N: "I'm not sure yet, I'd have to speak to the Emperor."
A soldier appears and calls for Nicolas' name, as he starts to leave he is reminded of something and quickly says it to you: "Oh! Le Petit Caporal told me his clothes were back in his tent, you can try everything you want on and keep it for yourself, he said."
After saying this, and not giving you enough time to thank him, he starts to walk away quickly, with the soldier beside him, while looking back and waving at you.
You decide to help clean up the table you ate at but a man stops you by saying that there was no need for such thing, as it was his job to clean it.
After many attempts to offer your help, the man finally accepts it and so you start cleaning the table with him.
Every minute, he pauses a bit and admires you. It's like he was never offered help before. As you think about this, you smile at him; warming his day with a small but genuine act of kindness.
After helping the man, you decide to go back to the tent and look for Napoleon's clothes.
Arriving there, and sometimes looking over at the desk with Bonaparte's letters to Josephine haunting your thoughts, you decide to look for his clothes.
You spot a vest, another high collar shirt, but this one didn't have holes in it, cleaned fresh trousers and... SHOES!
Your toes start to dance, rubbing into each other after seeing such object. It's the first thing you put on but had to take off again seconds later just so you could put the trousers on.
These clothes not only smelled and look better than the other ones but were extremely soft too. Such high quality that only an Emperor could have access to. You feel extremely grateful for wearing them.
Carefully folding your old clothes and placing them gently on a chair, you decide to walk for a bit around the camp.
The first thing you notice is that you can't feel the grass anymore; missing it under your gentle feet, the feeling of looking down at it and see the grass between your toes was gone and it was bothering you.
The comfort was there but there was no beauty in it. You decide to take the shoes off and you hold them in your hands until you go back to the tent.
It's strange, you think to yourself, how you'd rather hurt yourself for the beauty surrounding you. How stepping on rocks was painful but the grass wasn't. And the ground you were stepping had both of them.
However, it was worth it. After all, you can find a rainbow only after rain.
Coming back to the tent, you place the shoes where you found them.
A big long yawn escapes your mouth so you decide to take a nap, but without wanting to mess up your new clothes you decide to take them off and place them on the floor, near the bed.
Covering yourself up to your neck with these silky-soft sheets, you look up to the tent's ceiling, and your eyes slowly close themselves without you commanding them to do so.
= 2 hours later =
You are awakened by a shake, someone is gently shaking you and saying your name.
You open your eyes and it's Napoleon. What a beautiful thing to wake up to, you think.
As your eyes become wider, you can see that he's in an extreme hurry but is still gently shaking you.
Y/N: "Napoleon...?" You say with a husky voice while rubbing your eyes.
Napoleon: "Y/N, we need to leave this camp, à présent!" (now!)
His voice becomes louder and he stops shaking you. He grabs the clothes on the floor and puts them over the bed.
Y/N: "What happened?"
Napoleon: "It's not safe here. Are you coming with us? Do you want to be left in a specific place?"
Y/N: "I- What-"
Still trying to wake up, you answer his question without thinking much.
Y/N: "I want to be with you, Napoleon."
Napoleon: "Then get dressed quickly and come!" His tone rises but he blushes a bit in the process because of your words and proceeds to get out of the tent rather quickly.
Starting to hear guns being fired more closely to your location, you decide to get up and dress up fast.
While still doing the buttons on your trousers, you step outside to check what's happening.
Everyone is in a hurry, not a single person is sitting down or looking at the beautiful sky. You can tell by everyone's movements that they all have something to do, and fast!
You look for Napoleon and you find him mounted on his horse. He looks back at you and, while talking to Nicolas, he points at you.
Nicolas approaches you and says: "We're ready to leave. Bonaparte told me you are coming with us, would you like to go with him and Blanc?"
Right after his question, Nicolas grabs a chair and puts it near Napoleon's Horse, Blanc, and gestures you to step on it.
You pause for a second and begin to put your fragile feet on top of the chair.
Napoleon looks downwards at you, moves backwards on the saddle, grabs you by your waist and lifts you up; gently placing you in front of him.
He removes his right hand from your waist and holds the horse's reins. His left hand, however, stays on your waist for a few more minutes while giving orders to other soldiers and marshals.
You can feel his breath on your neck and his chest pressing against your back.
After a while, Napoleon commands Blanc to gallop away. Soldiers surround Bonaparte in a square formation, putting the Emperor and you in the center of that formation.
You feel safe with Napoleon by your side and now even safer with soldiers on high alert around you.
You look back at him. He looks at you.
Napoleon: "Don't worry, Y/N. We're meeting a carriage not so far from here and then we're heading to my Palace." He says this and gently puts his left hand on your waist again, rubbing it in a slow motion.
Y/N: "Thank you for letting me come with you, you've been very sweet and kind to me..."
Napoleon: "You are very special to me...I could not leave you back there, I would never do such a thing."
The horses abruptly stop, the soldiers tell him that the carriage is ready just up ahead.
Grabbing you again by the waist, he lifts you up and Nicolas helps you get down.
He gets down too, holds your hand gently, and tells you to hurry.
A fancy carriage appears before you and only you two get inside. The marshals are ordered to wait for the next one coming and two soldiers follow the carriage you and Napoleon are in.
The carriage starts leaving the place, you look outside and see that Blanc is left behind with Nicolas.
You are sitting in front of Napoleon and now looking at him you notice him taking off his hat and greatcoat and relaxing more.
Your blushing catches his attention and he fixes his eyes on you.
Napoleon: "I heard what you said the first night you spent with me, Y/N."
Y/N: "What do you mean?" You know exactly what he's talking about.
Napoleon: "That you find me handsome." He says this with a smile on his face.
He grabs both of your hands and leans forward.
Napoleon: "Et je pense que tu es belle." (And I think you are beautiful.)
Words don't leave your mouth, mostly because they are too afraid to do so.
But there is no need, your pretty face speaks for itself.
Looking away, blushing as hard as ever, and holding his hands gives him all the signs he needs to understand what you feel about him.
His face slowly leans forward towards yours and kisses you.
His lips touching yours, his hands still holding yours until he moves one of them to hold you by your waist.
His eyes now closed, you close yours too.
One of your hands moves upwards towards his face. The other touches his chest, grabbing him by his uniform, pulling him towards you.
All of this is happening while you listen to horses hooves violently press against the ground near you, shots being fired at men, and cannons exploding land in the distance.
What a beautiful and yet tragic moment.