Oh wow, thank you for all your reviews! I'm glad you're enjoying this!

I'd like to reiterate that this is a Eric/William story (just bromance), but of course it will inevitably end with either Snow/Eric or Snow/Will.

I'm not even sure how it will end, so please don't blame me for what I'm writing now!

Aphroditessister: Thank you =D In reference to your question, please check above ^.^

me: Thank you! (Now it looks like I'm thanking myself...) :P

anon: I AM being true to the movie. If you remember, Snow actually kissed William - she just didn't know it was the Queen! But thank you for your review :)

Ninofkonoha: Thanks for you review I like to know my reader's thoughts! Sadly I don't write slash though!

Chapter Three (Eric's POV):

Eric jumped back as William fell down, unconscious.

Staring at his hand, he saw it was covered in blood. A lot of blood! It can't have just been from when he had punched him...

Crouching down, he ripped the shirt sleeve off of William's right arm. Startled, he gaped.

There was a deep bloody gash trespassing from Will's shoulder down to his elbow.

That should have immediately incapacitated him... Maybe this squirt wasn't as weak as he'd thought?

Eric sat there for some time trying to remember any aid he could administer, before shaking his head furiously and jumping up.

NO...this idiot let Snow get captured! Who cares what happens to him?

He had trusted him for the first - and last (he mentally noted) - time to keep Snow White safe, believing William loved her as much as he did.

Obviously not!

He couldn't even use his bow and arrow, in which he was apparently the best at.

Spying the weapons on the floor, Eric grabbed them, intent on snapping them. Much use they'd been and will ever be.

Before he could bend them so much as an inch, he heard fluttering noises coming from behind him, and spun round.

Two fairies had flown over to where William lay and were examining the wound.

"Hey! Hey, get away from him!"

Eric ran towards them, waving his arms wildly. Were there such things as bad fairies? He didn't want to wait and find out.

One fairy looked up at him and flew up to his face, effectively stopping him.

"Eric the huntsman, we have heard much about you." The fairy had a majestic female voice, and smiled, making Eric gasp.

These creatures spoke?

Determined to take all this in his stride, he asked "What could you have possibly heard about me?"

"You have a great destiny to befall you. You have already taken up the task of protecting the princess Snow White, which will carry on until she becomes Queen. If she becomes Queen - it all depends on you."

Eric nodded. That much he knew.

Eyes straying towards William, he saw the other fairy now showering the wound with fairy dust.

Looking back at the fairy in front of him, he gestured towards them. "Why are you helping him?"

"Because he too has a destiny, and it is tightly woven with yours. You cannot succeed without him, just as he cannot succeed without you."

Eric took a step back and shook his head "No...no I've had enough of him. I'm leaving right now - alone, to rescue Snow, which is my destiny after all."

He turned around, only to stop short as the fairy appeared in front of him again. "You cannot succeed without him. You are like two sides of the same coin, bound together."

Eric rubbed the bridge of his nose, to keep his temper down. "How exactly am I supposed to succeed with this idiot? He let her go in the first place!"

The fairy tinkled a little, and Eric could have sworn she just laughed.

"That is for you to find out, huntsman. But he may not be as useless as he seems."

"Huh yeah, right." Looking behind him, he saw the wound stitching itself back together, while the other fairy overlooked the work.

Sighing, he turned back to the first fairy "Okay, fine. But if he carries on to be so irritating, I'm leaving him to fend for himself! Out of curiosity, what's his destiny?"

The fairy shook her head, and tinkled again. "I cannot say. It is for him to find out in his own time, just as you realised yours by yourself."

With a sound of delight, the second fairy joined the first, and spoke rapidly.

The female one nodded and spoke back, before placing a tiny hand on Eric's cheek.

"Be safe huntsman, look out for each other, and fulfil your destiny!"

With that, both fairies fluttered away.

Eric stood there for a moment, feeling the coolness on his skin from where the hand had been.

Then he came back to his senses "WAIT! Hang on, where in my destiny does it say I have to look after an invalid!"

But the fairies had disappeared, leaving him alone with a sleeping William whose arm - Eric now noticed - had completely healed.

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