Confrontations At A Lake

Chapter Four – Trouble Comes This Way

(A/N: Another update, Enjoy!)

Padmé's heart stilled as she continued to watch Kenobi and the knights, and her breath hitched in her throat as she saw the mounted knight make his way around to Obi-Wan's back and spur his horse to a gallop so he could cut Kenobi from behind. She clutched Comet's reins, her knuckles going white, and she racked her brain for a plan to help Obi-Wan.

Speaking of Obi-Wan…he had heard the horse coming from behind him, and he swung to block his attack, succeeding in that, but not expecting the slice to his side from the lead knight, which forced him to step away from the other knights swing and allowing the lead knight to hit his sword from his hand. The knight (the lead knight) which had been dueling with him smirked and gently put his sword tip to Kenobi's neck.

"Gotcha." He said triumphantly. Obi-Wan slowly raised his hands in defeat, making eye contact with Comet, who backed up to stay out of this. "Now, where's the diamond!"

"I don't know." He was completely lying, knowing it was safe on Comet's back, which is why he didn't want him to get involved in this. The knight pressed his sword tip harder on his throat, gritting his teeth.

"I KNOW you know, Kenobi. Now tell us, or we'll FORCE you to tell us." The knight said, smiling, fairly evilly like.

"I dropped it somewhere along the way. I wish I had it to give to you, but I don't."

Padmé quickly grabbed the bow and arrow, praying there were enough, and swiftly moved through the forest, hiding from view, moving towards where Obi-Wan was. Obi-Wan saw her moving, holding the bow in the trees, and tries to make eye contact, shaking his head slightly, so the knight didn't notice his signal. Just in case she didn't see his signals, he started moving very slowly in a circle, so he could block her shot, hoping she didn't notice his slight movements. Padmé continued to her destination, and didn't notice his movements under she was ready and had her bow and arrow strung up.

"Damn…" she muttered to herself, scowling as she saw Kenobi was in the way. "Move." She hissed to herself, as her arm began to ache.

"I guess I'll just have to take you back to the king. Maybe he'll give me permission to kill you. And if he does, you'll be dieing a slow, painful death." The knight taunted him, pressing the sword even hard, almost piercing skin.

Padmé tightened her hold on the bow and arrow and longed to scream with frustration, as she realized that there was no way she could hit the knight without hitting Obi-Wan, without having to move. She ignored the pain in her arm, and watched and waited.

"Why don't you just kill me here, to get it over with?" She heard Obi-Wan say.

"Because," The knight grinned evily again. "That'd be too quick a death for the likes of YOU."

Suddenly a small cry of surprise and shock escaped her lips as her arm grew numb, and her hold on the arrow loosened, and she stood in shock as she saw the arrow take off and hit Obi-Wan in the shoulder blade.

Obi-Wan let out a cry as pain rippled through his shoulder, and while the knights were trying to figure out where the arrow came from, sidestepped the blade and yanked the hilt from the knight, now point it at HIS neck.

"It seems the tables have turned…" He smiled, despite the sharp pains in his right shoulder. The knight slowly raised his hands up.

"Tell them to drop their weapons, or you're dead." Obi-Wan said, glad when the knight did so, and they dropped their weapons, the last knight dismounting.

"Hey," He didn't want to say her name in front of them. "Come here." He motioned with his head for her to step out. With her eyes wide, she clutched the bow and arrow to her chest, and stepped out, masking her face of any emotion, walking slowly. Obi-Wan whistled for Comet, who came out trotting up to him, looking happy that he was alive. One of the knights (while Kenobi was occupied with getting something off of his saddle, yet keeping a close eye on them) reached for a knife hidden in his boot, and threw it, aiming at Padmé.

Obi-Wan saw the knight reach down to his boot and once the metal glinted in the light, he knew he was about to throw it at Padmé, and he yelled. "DROP!"

While he was distracted by Padmé's crisis, the head knight punched him in the stomach, making him lose his grip on the sword, grabbed it from him, and kicked him to the ground. Obi-Wan somehow managed to fall on his left shoulder, as to not make the arrow go any deeper, though the arrow dug in about another inch.

Padmé had gotten startled by his cry and hadn't dropped in time, she cried in pain as she felt a long sharp pain in her hip, and her leg gave way. Obi-Wan resisted the urge to yell as the arrow dug in deeper, and he saw Padmé on the ground.

"Go, get out of here! Comet, grab her!" Comet galloped over to her, and slowed down so she could grab on or mount, but was ready to stop and wait for her to mount if needed.

Obi-Wan swung his legs around, kicking the head knight of off his feet, and the sword went flying from his hand, harmlessly to the side, near his. Padmé ignored the huge pain and grabbed onto Comet and tried to mount him with one leg, and collapsed again the saddle, one hand clutching the pummel, the other trying to stop the perfuse bleeding in her hip.

"What about you! I can't leave you!" She cried out, a bit louder than intended, the pain was getting to her. Comet took off at a dead gallop through the trees, heading the way they'd been going, carrying her to safety. Obi-Wan watched them go, and attempted to stand up to fight the men left.

"YOU!" The head knight yelled, pointing to one of his knights, 'Go after her!" He said, attempting to stand and meet Kenobi with the other knights there to back him up. Padmé looked behind her, breathing hard, watching as Kenobi and the knights got farther and farther away, and she cried out as she looked down at her wound, still bleeding, her hand soaked in her own blood, the knife still in her hip.

Both Kenobi and the knight stood up, and ran for their swords, pushing each other behind them as they ran. Padmé, meanwhile, continued to urge Comet on and cursed herself as she knew that she wouldn't be able to tie something around her hip, until they'd've stopped, otherwise she would fall off if they didn't stop, and somehow she had a feeling, an awful feeling…

Obi-Wan reached his sword first, but realized that the head knight had taken a sword from his companion and was now advancing on him. He struke up a swordfight with him, keeping the other away from the sword on the ground.

The knight who had been ordered to follow Padmé, galloped after the escaped girl and her horse. Padmé jerked her body around as she heard hoofbeats behind her, and she saw a knight after her, her eyes widening in horror. "Shit!!" She urged Comet to go faster, and as she turned back to the front she realized Comet was swerving to the right, since the pathway went that way, and since she didn't have a good enough hold on the pummel, her grip loosened, and she moved her right hand away from her bleeding hip to grab onto the pummel, and cried out as she lid down a bit on Comet, and unfortonetly for her, her bloody hand did nothing to help and after what seemed like eons, her fingers slipped, and she landed on the ground, rolling a couple of times, the wind severely knocked out of her. The knight galloped up to her, glad to see she was on the ground.

"Easy catch you are. Easier than your friend back there."

Comet suddenly felt the weight gone from his back and never got an acknowledgement that his passenger was getting off, so he slowed down and turned around to see the girl on the ground. He hung back for a bit. Padmé quickly sat up, breathing hard, and she frantically looked around for something to have for a weapon, and she felt the dagger in the sheath, and grabbed that, trying to stand quickly, but cried out as her hip continued to bleed.

Obi-Wan was still fighting with the knight and saw the other knight draw a dagger, so he got the sword on the ground onto his foot and flipped it up to his waiting right hand, knowing this was going to be extremely painful. The knight who was with Padmé dismounted his horse.

"Got a hip problem, dearest?" He smiled and drew his sword. "You going to come quietly, or am I going to have to kill you?" Padmé scowled and raised the dagger, wishing to the gods it would turn into a sword.

"I'd rather go to hell than go with you." She spat out.

"Then I guess I'll just have to kill you." He said, raising his sword.

Comet saw the raised sword and whinnied warningly, then charged for the knight, rearing up and kicking out at the man, knocking him to the ground.

Meanwhile..Obi-Wan was taking on both of the knight, attempting to not use his right arm, but failing miserably, and could barely stand the pain of the arrow and his side and arm. He finally managed to hit the knight in the chest, and killed him, as he had no armor like the head knight did. He continued to fight the head knight with two swords, one stained with blood.

Padmé quickly hobbled over to where the knight's sword had fallen, and picked it up, biting her lip to keep from crying out, and jerked her body around to where the knight was, breathing hard.

"Stupid horse!" The knight yelled out, seeing the girl advancing on him with the sword and smiled. "Please, little girl. Don't try to play knight." He seemed unafraid of her. She scowled at him.

"Don't underestimate me!" She yelled, hobbling over to where he was, raising the sword. To her aggrevation the knight snorted at her.

"Please. You have a dagger in your hip. You can barely walk."

"That doesn't mean I wouldn't kill you!" She said, clutching the sword in her hand, till her knuckles were white, putting the sword on his neck, clipping the skin.

"Hey! Watch where you're pointing that thing! You have no idea what you're doing!" He said, as if reprimanding a little child.

"Do you honestly think I care? Now," She scowled at him and cut the skin lightly, so a drop of blood appeared. "Get up." She hoped he'd get the point, so she actually wouldn't have to kill him. The knight showed some respect for her and got up slowly, waiting for a chance to take her down. Padmé was glad that he was standing up, and as he did, she suddenly balled her left hand into a fist and punched him in the jaw, and whacked him on the back of the head with the sword hilt. She groaned and turned away, and cradled her hand, as the pain subsided. After she punched him, the only thing he could get out was 'holy' before he fell on the ground, unconscious. Comet whinnied at her happily. She stared down at the man, breathing hard, and turned to Comet, smiling at him.

"Thanks, boy."

Comet brought his head close to hers for a moment, and then took two steps forward, so she was standing next to his back.

Finally after what seemed like hours of fighting, Obi-Wan knocked the knight's sword from his hand, and didn't even hesitate, cutting his throat. He stood over the body, breathing hard for a few seconds, he then sheathed hiss word and grabbed the knight's horse's reins, and mounted, riding off in the direction Comet had gone.

Padmé quickly grabbed some rope from Comet's saddle and tied the knight up, and dragged him over to a hidden spot, and left him there, hobbling over back to where Comet was.

The knight's horse continued to walk down the path, Obi-Wan almost falling off frequently. Padmé looked at Comet and then back at the sword in her hand, and back at Comet, and attempted to mount him, however painful she knew it would be.

Obi-Wan came riding down the path, almost sliding off the slow moving horse. He came around the bend and saw Padmé attempting to get on Comet.

"Hey! Wait!" He trotted over. "Are you alright after that dagger wound?"

Padmé jerked her body around to look at him, startled, her arm had raised, the sword in her hand, and she breathed a sigh of relief. She tiredly slumped against comet. She nodded, her hand on her hip.

"As alright as I can be, considering the circumstances. How about you?"

Suddenly he seemed to become a completely different person. "I can't BELIEVE you friggen SHOT me!" He was shouting at her. "You almost got me killed!"

"Well I'm SORRY! You stupidly moved in the way. I was TRYING to help you! Apparently you don't need or want my help!" She was yelling at him too.

"I was trying to be nice by 'not getting you involved in screwing up my life'! You seemed quite interested in saving my life when you hate me! I didn't need you to save me, I'm fine on my own!" He retorted angrily.

As Padmé listened to Obi-Wan speak, she realized that the adrenaline was draining out of her body, and the pain seemed to intensify 10 time sworse, and fought the feeling of being unconscious.

"Well, all I have to say is that I'm sorry. At least we're still alive! Now, how…," She fought against the blackness and clutched onto the saddle. "Are we going to get out of this?"

Obi-Wan saw her slight sway and dismounted quickly, fighting his own blackness to stand besider her so she wouldn't fall. He saw the dagger still in her hip.

"Padmé…ok, we can fix this." He took off his already bloody shirt and crouched down. "This is going to hurt, but you can't leave that knife in you."

"What?!" She looked down at him, her eyes wide. "I…I'm not ready for this." She said, in a small voice, betraying how old she really was. "But…if it must be done, so be it." She said, trying to be brave.

Obi-Wan was starting to feel his own pain, but tried to ignore it, as he rolled up the shirt, leaving the sleeves out, so he could tie them around her leg.

"Don't be scared. You did great out there." He said, trying to distract her, as he put his hand on the dagger hilt. "Break that stick off the tree, you'll need something to chew."

Padmé broke the stick off and clamped it between her teeth, her hands clutching the saddle. Her breathing quickened and she struggled to calm herself. She nodded down at him to let him know she was ready.

Obi-Wan slowly, gently started to pull out the dagger. Finally it came out all the way. Padmé screamed loudly in pain and fainted. He hated to hear her scream, and managed to catch her, as he'd been expecting she'd faint. He quickly reached into one of the saddle pouches, pulling out a salve and smeared it on her wound, quickly covering it up with the shirt and tied it tightly around her leg. He stared down at her and felt the pain in his shoulder. He felt as if he should blame her, though it really wasn't her fault.

"Bitch." He muttered at her, picking her up and setting her in the saddle, so her head would lay on Comet's neck. He looked at Comet.

"Take care of her, don't let her fall off. " He said to the horse, patting him on the neck before mounting the dead knight's horse, and started trotting toward the nearest town to get help for Padmé and himself, hoping he wouldn't fall into unconsciousness while riding. Comet whinnied and silently followed Obi-Wan, the unconscious Padmé on his back.


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