A Hawk's Love

Chapter 5- How Do You Speak To An Angel?

Author's Note: I do not own them. I only own Ravenna.

Author's Note 2: The next couple of chapters take place during the movie.

6 Weeks Later

The knights sat around the Round Table awaiting the Bishop whose ass they had just saved. They were drinking and toasting to their freedom they thought they were about to get. Tristan on the other hand was sitting in a trance just wanting to get his papers and go find Ravenna. He couldn't go home without her. Just then the little man servant (a.k.a the guy who was shit scared praying under the carriage) came in and announced the arrival of the Bishop, "His Eminence, Bishop Naius Germanus." He stuttered as he said the words and then fell back behind the Bishop when he entered the room. He then asked Jols, "A round table? What evil is this?"

"Arthur says that for men to be men they must all first be equal." Jols answered back semi-annoyed by the question and then went on serving wine and then left the room.

Tristan sat not really listening at all until he heard something about a large Saxon Incursion in the North. 'Ravenna!' he thought. He knew what Saxons did to the women they captured. He couldn't think about it and then they were asked to leave the room. As the knights filed out of the Great Hall to the get drinks Tristan felt as though he needed to kill something but when Galahad asked if he wanted to throw knives he knew that would have to suffice.

North of the Wall- Dungeon

Ravenna had survived six weeks of torture and was now showing. When the monks saw that she was with child they stopped torturing her but left her in the cold of her cell, naked and with little food. They gave her enough for her and the baby to survive because not even they could take an unborn child's life. They thought that Ravenna would give birth and they would take the child from her and raise it as a Christian. They thought they would release it from the heresy that its mother had known. When they saw that her and Gwen had become friends they put Gwen in another cell so she could watch as her friend withered away. She was so delirious that she thought she was talking to Tristan most of the time and she would cry when she would reach out and he wasn't there.

In the past six weeks she had picked out named for the baby. She and Tristan had agreed that they would name their children after her mother if it was a girl and after his father if it was a boy. But now she wasn't sure that they would survive long enough to even see him again.

Back at the Wall

The knights were enjoying their drinks and Tristan was winning at knives against Galahad. Then Gawain asked Tristan, "How do you do that?"

"I aim for the middle." He said absently as he remembered teasing Ravenna with the same comment.

A few minutes later Arthur was out of his meeting with the Bishop and all the knights did not like the look on his face, "Knights I have one more mission to ask of you." He said somberly.

"Drink?" Bors replied drinking an entire cup of wine.

"There is a family trapped North of the wall and they need our help" Arthur said and this peeked Tristan's interest. He knew that this family might have Ravenna.

After many minutes of fighting over something they knew they couldn't get out of they all went their separate ways to get ready to leave in the morning. Tristan went back to his room and looked up at the ceiling. For the first time in a long time he spoke to their gods, "I will find her. I just need you to guide me to her."

Two Weeks Later

The knights arrived at the house of rich Roman whose son was the one they were looking for. They looked around and were appalled at the conditions they saw the servants living in but they had a job to do and went on packing up the family. But Arthur could not let it go. He went over to a man that was chained up and asked the crowd what he was like that for. One of the men answered him, "Our master had him beaten and chained for asking that we be allowed to keep more food for ourselves. We're so hungry, we're eating the grass."

Then Arthur cut the man down and told the knights that the people were going with them. This caused the knights to grumble but do it they did. Then Tristan came back and told Arthur that the Saxons were headed this way and the rest of the knights heard it too. But Arthur had to get all the people out. He couldn't leave anyone behind. He looked over his shoulder and saw two monks standing near a walled up hut. He walked over to them and asked them to open it up. When they refused he had Dagonet kick the door down. As Arthur, Dagonet, Lancelot, and Gawain entered the chamber and descended the stairs the odor of death met their noses. When they got to the bottom of the stairs they saw a sight that made them all cringe. Many of the people were dead but they had to check them all. Then a monk came out of the shadows, "Who dares defile this holy place?"

"Step aside." Arthur asked and then when he didn't Lancelot ran him through with his sword and looked to the other monk that had appeared, "One word and you'll join him."

They split up too look around and after a few minutes Gawain said, "These are dead."

And Lancelot said, "By the smell of it they are all dead."

Then Dagonet looked into one of the cells and saw that a boy was still alive and he pulled him out, "You must not fear me boy." He said to him and carried up the stairs and outside.

Lancelot and Arthur looked down and saw Gwen in her cell and quickly went to get her out. She was in really bad shape and carried her out slowly. Then came a tiny voice from the cell next to hers, "Tristan, venio retro ad mea. Feci non desero mea iterum." Ravenna said in the Latin she had been learning slowly in the years they had been on the island.

This startled Gawain and Galahad who had heard the whispered voice. They couldn't make out what it was saying or who it was but they knew someone was alive. When they found the cell the voice was coming from they quickly got it opened and what they saw shocked them. There was Ravenna, naked as the day she was born, almost three months pregnant and she was cold and delirious. She looked up at them and tried to move away but she screamed in pain and Gawain grabbed her while Galahad wrapped her in his cloak. They carried her up the stairs carefully and then led her outside and laid her on the ground. She looked around her and saw Tristan on his horse. The way the light hit him she thought he was an angel. She cried out to him, "O! angelus! O! Interfector angelus." She then passed out.

Tristan realized who it was and ran over to her, "Ravenna? Ravenna? I will kill them for this."

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