Sorry it took so long here is the next chapter. Skipping months again but on purpose for it will all make sense when it is over.
Chapter Fifteen
Chi Tai watched as the days passed her stomach swelling with life inside her. She watched as the world seemed to ignore her more. She would cry at night for the loss of a good friend. Now she was alone. Her husband always busy and her friends not talking to her. She sat alone in the garden. Fighting the tears and fighting the need to cry. Her mind and heart broken.
"My friends I miss you. I wish you were here. I am alone again. It is better this way I guess. No one will be hurt if I am gone." She said and stood. Hand on her stomach. Not seeing the rain clouds she walked into the palace and to her room. Once there she saw Sun Ce and Zhou Yu waiting. She had a feeling this would not be good.
"Chi Tai you need to rest the child shall…" She turned her head. Realizing the tears were falling on their own she would not let them see her break.
"I was coming to rest I will see you both at dinner." She was pushing them away again. Her heart shielded. Zhou Yu was shocked and surprised.
"Did you two fight again?" he asked and the man next to him shook his head.
"No I don't get it…wait we have all ignored her since the incident. She is hurting because of this. We avoid her like the plague. I will speak with her…" He was cut off by the door opening. Standing there was Zuo Ci and his wife.
"No need Zhou Yu I will birth you a child and leave I know you all still somehow blame me. I am after all the one they came for. I will be fine I am meant to be alone." She said and walked to the dinning hall. Still closed off. She sat down and ate in silence. Not once adding her opinion and left once done. Once at her room she grabbed her things and left. A single note was left saying the same as last time she would return once the child was old enough not to need her.
Her soul clouded and hurt. She rode red hair to the Nanman border but stopped. There was no place to go except to the hut but that was with permission and she knew they were angry with her. She had not protected her friend and now was alone. She turned and rode off. Finding another wooded area and building herself a home.
"If I am to be alone then so be it." She said to herself and went inside. To sleep and rest till the day came to return to Wu.
Three months later
She screamed as she gave birth her second child coming and no one to help her. She refused to go for help. As the baby was getting closer to being out she screamed. Hours later the baby was born. A baby boy and the child was healthy. Taking care of it by cleaning it and feeding her son she finally would be able to relax more.
"Once you can go with just a bottle I shall give you to your father. I will die shortly after that. I am sorry my son." She said and went to sleep with the knowledge of the child being her hope for the happiness of her husband.
Zhou Yu
He knew the baby would be coming her soon. His child would be motherless all because of his stupid mistake. His wife was out there alone and he was heart broken. He was having issues sleeping and eating. His daughter was worried as was the rest of the palace. He killed one of the council men for commenting on her honor. He was breaking down.
"The third baby for her and second for me. I wish you were here Chi Tai. I miss you." He said to the wind and closed his eyes. He knew some how when he sees her again it would be the last time he saw her alive.
"Zhou Yu?" It was his mother in law. Yue Ying stood there and he bowed.
"My lady what…" She shook her head.
"You need no such formalities my daughter is your wife." She said and then continued. "You are lonely without her aren't you?" The man nodded. His heart breaking. He knew that the lady beside him knew something.
"Yue Ying I wonder what you know that I don't?" He said and his wife's mother froze. She sighed and looked down. Knowing the truth would need to come out.
"I have had visions in my sleep. My daughter is in a battlefield standing and waiting for the ambush party that is there. We are all stopped by some force from protecting her. I am pregnant as is Xiao and Da but the thing is I never saw Tenko in it. Now I understand she was already dead. My daughter fights and fights by her self but the men keep coming till finally she is killed. Then I wake I don't know the rest. I know this we were all screaming to get to her." He nodded he knew that if what Lady Sun Yue Ying said then he was going to lose his wife.
"Thank you for informing me of this. At least this way I know I was meant to lose her." He turned and headed inside and Lady Huang cried. Her heart dying. Sun Jian found her that way. He knew she had been talking of her eldest daughter.
"Ying what is the matter?" She looked at him and broke down.
"The visions were all right I can't save my little Chi from her destined pain. My baby is going to die and I can't stop it. Jian what have I done to deserve this? What have I…?" Her tears fell non stop and he held her for what seemed like hours before she finally stopped crying. He knew then she would fall asleep soon. Picking her up he carried his loving new wife to their room. Sun Ce shortly behind him he noticed and saw that his heir was worried over his step mother.
"I didn't help the situation did I pop's?" He asked and Sun Jian shook his head.
"No one did we all ignored and silently blamed her for it. But the thing was she is not the only one to blame here and never will be. Son we will find a way to save her." Said the proud lord and in his mind he knew there was no way. The girl was destined to die on the approaching day and there was nothing he could do to stop it if only he could. Then the woman in his arms would be smiling again.
Two years later
They approached a battlefield in closed in a valley. No one knew what was awaiting their eyes and not one expected to see her again so soon but there she stood in the middle ready for battle but Yue Ying sprinted knowing she could not make it past the barrier. Screaming her daughters name. The only response was the sad eyes of her daughters broken spirit and lost looks of a child that seem to be missing her parents.
Whispering to the words for them to here before turning to the mountain side.
"Have a good life." She said and got ready to fight.
Short I know but it is another chappie.
