.:Chapter Two:.
Colonel Tavington sat in the darkness of the night outside the house in Fort Carolina, holding a bottle of rum in his hand, and of which half of it was gone. He rubbed his head and looked around thinking that he wasn't going to change his ways, he wasn't going to show any chance in his ways with the continentals. He lifted the bottle to his mouth to have a large gulp, when suddenly something stopped him from doing this. A figure moved in the darkness, towards the backend of the Fort walls. Tavington frowned and then placed the bottle on the floor, picked up his pistol, and began following the cloaked figure.
Anna moved quickly through the darkness and headed to where the Fort Walls would be guard-less and where she knew she would be able to think and sit, looking up at the stars. Quickly finding her way there, Anna took of her cloak and placed it on the floor. Turning, she looked up at the beautiful clear night sky, and was lost in the amount of stars up there. She didn't know any of the constellations so she just gazed at the stars. Suddenly she heard a click and Anna felt something touch the back of her head.
"Miss Beaumont. How lovely to…..See you" Tavington smirked, and looked down at the night dress that Anna was wearing.
Anna quickly spun around and came face to face with Tavington and his pistol pointed at her head. Anna was scared, but she wasn't going to let him see it.
"Colonel Tavington, would you be so kind as to remove your pistol from my face" She spoke slowly to him, staring into his eyes.
Colonel Tavington grinned.
"Would you care to tell why your out here? And with hardly anything on as well" He asked, once again that smug look plastered on his face.
Anna sighed, and her hands nervously played with each other as she looked at the ground, and then back at the Colonel's eyes.
"I just wanted sometime to myself. I get bored been in that room all the time, and then I am been watched the General's guards!" Anna nearly shouted.
"Don't go shouting now! If anyone should be shouting, it should be me. You've been here no less than 2 weeks, and your already breaking Lord Cornwallis rules, sneaking off in the middle of the night. Its not lady-like" Tavington gave her a dangerous look, but keep his voice calm, with no hint of anger in it.
Anna breathed in deeply, feeling herself becoming angry. Her mind was giving her two options Answer back, or be lady-like, and go back to the room.
"Tell me, Colonel. How many innocent Americans have you killed these last 2 weeks?" Anna sneered back at him, almost looking as if she was challenging his pistol.
Colonel Tavington's eyes flashed anger, and he quickly moved forward, dropping his pistol on the ground, then grabbed Anna's neck, pushing her up against the wall.
"Don't speak of things you don't understand" He growled, his large hand wrapped around her porcelain skin neck, and his whole body was pressing into hers, keeping her pushed tight against the wall. Anna's breathing became ragged, and it was now that she looked frightened, but only for a moment, both Tavington and Anna knew that she wouldn't give him the satisfaction.
"Colonel Tavington, un-hand me now, otherwise, Lord Cornwallis shall be hearing about this" She warned him, in panting breathes.
Colonel Tavington smirked slightly, and his other free hand came up to reach for her cheek, and he gently ran the back of his hand down it. Anna quickly moved her head to the side, but Tavington grasped her chin, forcing her to look at him.
"You know Miss Beaumont. Your very lucky that I found you out here, and not another. They might be a bit more eager…To see what's underneath that night dress than myself" He let his eyes fall down her neck and to her chest, which was rising up and down quickly.
"Keep your hands off me!" Anna dangerously said, knowing that if he wanted his own way with her, he would win the fight.
Colonel Tavington smirked.
"Don't worry Miss Beaumont. I have no intention of harming you" He sneered, then let go of her chin, but lingered in front of her for a while, looking into her eyes and saw that she was now frightened. He moved his body from hers and watched as she brought a shaking hand up to her chest and begin to breath heavily.
Colonel Tavington frowned, feeling slightly concerned.
"Miss Beaumont' He turned slightly and looked at her with a raised eye brow.
'Are you alright?"
He walked a little closer to her, but stopped when he saw her flinch, and move away from him, then she nodded.
"You just…..Scared me a little bit" She admitted.
Colonel Tavington looked slightly shocked for a moment, seeing that she had admitted something that she normally wouldn't. But that wasn't it, it was also because of the feeling that he got. The feeling of guilt. He never felt guilt.
Looking softly over at Anna he did something that shocked her. He held out his hand for her.
"Come, I'll take you back to your room" He quietly told her.
Anna looked taken aback. She knew that this was his way of apologizing. After a short while of looking at him, Anna nodded, and walked past him, picking up her cloak of the floor, and continuing to slowly start walking.
Colonel Tavington took a moment for him to gather what had just happened, but then he turned in the direction of Anna, and started following after her.
He eventually caught up, and then they began silently walking back to the room. Once inside the house, they made there way to Anna's bedroom door. Once there, Anna held her clock to her chest and she turned to the Colonel, there eyes meeting each others.
Anna opened her mouth as if about to say something when there was a abrupt cough to the left of them, both of them quickly moved there heads to the intruder.
It was Charles O'Hara, General Lord Cornwallis man-servant.
"What do you want O'Hara?" Colonel Tavington snapped.
Anna had to suppress a grin from the disgusted look on O'Hara's face.
"I am wondering, Colonel Tavington. What exactly you are doing here, escorting Miss Beaumont to her room, in the early hours of the morning?" O'Hara seemed quite glad to have seen this.
"I assure you Mr. O'Hara, that what you are thinking is not true" Anna politely told him.
O'Hara smiled.
"And what, pray tell, is it that I am thinking?" He smirked at her.
Anna allowed a gasp escape her mouth.
"Mr. O'Hara, would you please tell me what you plan on doing with what you have seen?" Colonel Tavington asked, his eye brow raised.
O'Hara's smile grew even bigger as he walked closer to the two.
"Bribery" He told them.
Anna laughed.
"Well, if you think that was going to work, you have got to look as dumb headed as you look in that ridicules powdered wig!" Anna spat out.
O'Hara stopped smiling and glared at Anna.
"That's no way to speak Miss Beaumont" He told her, threateningly.
Colonel Tavington stood in front of Anna, and looked down at O'Hara, who was quite a bit shorted than he.
"Are you threatening Miss Beaumont. Tut tut. What would Lord Cornwallis think of this?" He smiled.
O'Hara frowned.
"What would he think of me. What about y-" Colonel Tavington stopped what O'Hara was about to say.
"What would he think of one of his most faithful servants, trying to…..Rape, one of Lord Cornwallis women, that he trusted to keep safe. I believe you were threatened tonight Miss Beaumont, but Charles O'Hara, were you not?" He asked Anna, but continuing to stare at O'Hara.
"Yes, yes I was" Anna smirked at O'Hara.
Charles O'Hara frowned and then glared at the both of them, and then turned and began stalking off to his own room.
Anna smiled, and looked at Colonel Tavington as he turned around to her, a rare smile graced his face. He looked quite good-looking, Anna thought.
"Thank you Colonel" She smiled at him, and then opened the door behind her, but her back still to it.
"Your welcome. And please. Call me William" And with that, he began walking down the corridor, until he was out of sight.
Anna frowned to herself, and felt herself beginning to have strange feelings for Colonel Tavington, or William, now.
Shaking her head, her smile still intact, she walked into her room, gently closing the door behind her.