A/N: Since I made ya'll wait so long for the last chapter, here is another one. This is it. The last chapter. It kind of closes everything up, but leaves it with a huuuuge cliffhanger. Enough of me talking, I'm sure ya'll are waiting. Here you are...
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"There was no sign of her body. I'm so sorry Dom."
The words rung neverending through Dom's head. How could no one seem to find Brea's body? Everyone had presumed her dead, because Julianna hadn't been able to find her after the run-in with bandits at the fort. Dom's blue eyes filled with tears as he stared at Brea's tomb, which was empty. This couldn't be true. Brushing the tears off his cheeks, he was suddenly struck with a thought.
If no one had been able to find her body, didn't that mean that she was still alive? Maybe she had wandered in the woods or something. Jumping to his feet, Dom laid a single orange rose by Brea's tomb, they had been her favorite, and then turned, walking quickly to reach the top levels. Once there, he went to the stables and ordered that his horse be saddled, then returned to his room.
Kel, Neal, Rebekah, and Mikol were in the sitting room. All of them had blood-shot eyes, looked beaten and downright tired. Signs that they hadn't slept in days, just like him.
"Where are you going?" Neal croaked, stroking Kel's hair.
"To find Brea." He muttered, starting towards his room. That got everybodys attention.
"Dom...she...she's dead." With that, Rebekah broke down and started crying again, Mikol was quick to comfort her. Once he was done chunking clothes and other items into saddle bags, he returned to the sitting room.
"Your going to believe the word of the woman that hated Brea?" He asked them quietly, a certain ferocity in his eyes and voice that frightened them. "Her tomb is empty, there was no sign of her body at the fort. Anything could have happened to her. She was probably injured and delirious and is wandering in the woods right now." He paused and stared at the carpet before continuing on. "I don't want to give up on her. I have to find her...whether it be dead or alive; I just have to do this, for myself. I don't expect any of you to understand that, but if you want to come, I won't fight the extra help." The room was quiet for several minutes after that.
"I'm coming with you." Kel said softly, wiping tears off her cheeks.
"Me too." Mikol echoed, standing up next.
"And me, can't go without Sir Meathead." Neal was now standing, an arm wrapped around Kel.
"I'll come too." Rebekah said, standing up next.
"Good. Pack some clothes, I already ordered your horses be saddled. Rebekah and Kel, I'm putting you in charge of getting food. Neal. Mikol. I want the two of you to gather anything else we will need. Maps and other things. I figured we would start back in the woods and go from there, because there has to be some sort of sign of where went from there." The assembled people nodded their heads and then turned, filing out of the room. "Gods be with us." He whispered and sighed, sitting down on a couch, face in his hands.
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Gabriel dismounted from his horse and glanced at the oddly shaped lump that was among the other things in the back of the cart. The lump was a girl he had found in the forest that seperated Tortall from the fief for which he was a soldier in the army. The girl he had found was unconcious and bore a rather large bump on the back of her head, along with visible bruises and scratches on her hands as if she had been holding tightly on to something.
"Gabriel, we told you not to come back here with anything else." Joked one of the other soldiers.
"Yes, well this is not an animal of any sort." Gabriel tugged the blanket back to reveal the girl, who had yet to wake up. She was a small thing with raven black hair that was matted with leaves and twigs, and "Found her in the woods. Unconcious."
"You might want to take your new find to the healers. She does not look so good."
"I know and that is just where I was headed." He gingerly lifted the girl from the back of his cart and started inside, carrying her as a groom would his bride. "Roberto!" He called as he reached the Healers Wing. There was movement heard and then the door opened.
"What can I help you with, Gabriel?" Roberto, who was the head Healer, asked as his eyes roamed over the unconcious girl in the young soldiers arms.
"I found her in the woods that seperate us from Tortall. Unconcious." Gabriel replied and was waved in, then led to a seperated room.
"Lay her on the bed." Roberto instructed and began pulling bandages from a cabinet, along with medicines. Sure he was a healer, but what was the point of wasting magic when simple cuts and bruises could be taken care of easily. "Gabriel, go and inform Lord Alexander about this. There is nothing more you can do for her."
"Yes sir." Gabriel replied and strode from the room, leaving Roberto with his patient.
"My dear, what happened to you?" He murmured, brushing hair away from her face and sending his magic flowing through her to check for any internal injuries. A few broken ribs, which he healed up nicely and an ugly bump on the back of her head, which surprisingly caused no head trauma. What surprised Roberto the most, was that the babies she was carrying, were still living. He expected whatever had caused the bump on her head would've killed them, but no, they were still alive and moving around. Once he finished his examination, he pulled his magic back to him. "Twins huh? Maybe when you wake up you will be able to tell us who you are and where you belong." He went about applying the bruise balm and bandaging the cuts on her hands.
Once Roberto was finished, the girls eyes fluttered open briefly to show him the brightest blue eyes he had ever seen. She moaned in obvious pain, tossing her head.
"Wh...who ar...are you?" The girl croaked, staring at Roberto through half-lidded eyes.
"My name is Roberto. Can you tell me what your name is?"
"My name?"
"Yes, young one, your name."
"I...I do not know my name..."
TO BE CONTINUED...
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A/N: Soooo, this is the end of Only Time Can Heal Your Wounds. Now, don't panick, because as I told you at the end of the previous chapter there is a sequel coming up! This story will not go untouched.
Keep an eye out for my new story, the first chapter is coming up!
