How did we get here?

Chapter 4:

She could see a flickering light from the house she knew to be hers. She would have to remember to thank Maria who she knew would have been the one to light the lanterns. She cringed and grabbed her stomach as the muscles contracted again this time crying out. She wasn't sure how it was that she'd made it back to the house from the castle. Time was a blur. She wasn't even entirely sure how she'd gotten out. When another shot of pain sliced through her stomach a gasp escaped her trembling lips and she flinched when her knees hit the ground her legs collapsing beneath her. She held a hand to her stomach and forced herself up.

One step after the other. She couldn't do anything else but take one step at a time. Every movement hurt, every step made her body convulse in pain, her head to throb even harder and her eyes to well even more.

Will.

She needed Will. She wanted to yell for him, scream for him and beg for him to help her but she knew that if he had been there he would have been right by her side at the fight. He would have never let her go into the castle in fact the entire thing probably wouldn't have happened. She shook her head. It wasn't his fault. There was only one person at fault and it was the man who now had all the power in the town,

Great.

Finally she managed to stumble through the door or more fall through it only just catching herself on the table by it. As she pulled herself back upwards she heard a gasp from behind her,

"Oh Gosh" Maria exclaimed slapping a hand over her mouth in horror when she caught sight of Sophie. She met the woman who nearly fell again as Maria wrapped an arm around her waist helping her to the bedroom,

"I'm alright, I'm fine" the young woman was quick to try and calm the others but Maria shook her head turning to Anna who had frozen behind her,

"Anna get David, go quick!" Maria hissed quietly towards the young blonde who was staring at Sophie in disbelief. After a second she shook herself and grabbed her coat from the table taking off out the front door.

Maria helped ease Sophie down in bed,

"Jane, Charlotte?" She asked frantically and Maria shushed her telling her to calm down,

"they're fine Sophie the girls are in bed, they're fine. What happened?"

"Maria...Maria" Sophie gasped out trying to catch some hair as her heart began to race even faster and her body began to convulse more violently,

"I'm pregnant Mari..Maria..I'm pregnant the baby...help the ba...please the baby" She cried her words becoming more and more jumbled and slurred as her body began to lose its fight for consciousness.

"You're pregnant?" Maria gasped and Sophie nodded again,

"please" she pleaded her hand on her stomach. Maria sat soothing the distressed woman the only way she knew how. She'd never seen her like this. This was Sophie...the strong, independent woman who practically kept the entire village going. She was Sophie. All she could do was pray that David would get here fast.

Update...sorry it's soo short.

Please review and I'm starting on the next bit now!

Thank you

Nina xx