Terri stood slightly in front of Mandy as if to protect her from the strange men who hovered over the man who she'd just operated on. What had he said? His accent had been so thick it had almost been a foreign language. 'It seems we got two more'? Two more what? Kills? She looked over quickly at the bodies of the men she knew as Marks and Cunningham. Yep, definitely two more kills. She was a damn fine doctor, but even she couldn't save someone who had their head cut off. For a moment Terri wondered if she could make it to one of the guns before the men could act. "We mean you no harm." she told them slowly and what she hoped was calmly. "I'm sorry your friend got hurt, but he should be okay now. My friend and I are just going to go back up to the road and make our way back to the city."

Mandy's eyes were darting around wildly. "Dr. Randall...where are we?" she was nearing hysteria.

"We're just down the road into the woods sweetheart." Terri soothed. "Don't worry, I'll help you, and we'll make it back to the car." Yes, she could get the keys off the body and they could take the car.

The large man had gone back to checking on the man, Tristan. The blonde man was still staring at them with some fascination. "Not really knowing what a car is lass, but I can assure you if'n it twas there, it's not anymore."

"What do you mean?" Mandy almost shrieked.

Terri looked at the blonde man angrily, as if to say 'see what you did'. "Nothing sweetheart, he didn't mean anything."

The blonde man approached cautiously and put his hands out to show he didn't have any weapons. He crouched down and looked into Mandy's eyes. "Why don't you and your friend come with us to our village, and we can sort the whole thing out?" he offered, "We'll get you a nice drink of something, and get you comfortable...I promise you lass, no one here'll harm you."

Terri didn't know if it was his tone, his words, or his eyes, but obviously something spoke to Mandy because she nodded and looked to Terri. "Is that okay?" she asked.

"Of course." Terri said a little unsure. "Are you feeling okay now?"

"Yeah, yes, now that I have my breath back." Mandy assured the doctor. "My stomach isn't hurting anymore."

"Okay." Terri nodded.

"I'm Gawain. This is Dagonet. Have you ever ridden a horse before?" he asked the women.

"No." Mandy murmured.

"I have." Terri nodded. "This is Amanda. I'm Theresa Randall. Dr. Theresa Randall. I guess you can call me Terri."

"Mandy, call me Mandy."

"It's beyond a pleasure to meet you both miladies. Perhaps Lady Mandy would ride with Dagonet? Tristan can ride with me seeing as he's wounded and Lady Theresa you could take Voslow, Tristan's horse."

Tristan frowned. "I don't think Voslow'll allow it." he said shortly.

Terri cocked an eyebrow at the man, and approached the dappled gray horse who'd huffed when he'd heard his name. "And you must be Voslow." she murmured. The horse eyed her for a moment before nuzzling into her neck. "You're a beautiful boy." She said and mounted with ease. The horse didn't seem to have any qualms. Tristan looked slightly surprised but didn't say a word. "Lead the way." she told the man Gawain once he'd gotten both Mandy and Tristan settled.

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Dani had made bread, and she was quite pleased with it. She'd taken it out of the wood oven to let it cool, and now Brianna was babbling at her and Galahad about something while Galahad ate some stew for his midday meal. Kass was busy teaching Vanora's children, and Brandon was out getting horse riding lessons from Bors and Lancelot. Arthur and Guinevere, well, she didn't quite know where they were, but they were probably doing something royal.

She heard Jols cry, and saw both Bri and Galahad look up in surprise. They ran from the kitchen and she was hot on their heels. The gates were opening and everyone seemed to be waiting for whoever was on the other side to come through. Dani's mouth dropped open in shock when she saw the riders.

"Good thing we've been patrolling." Galahad murmured to Bri and moved forward to help Gawain with Tristan.

Kass, Dani, and Bri were moving to where Dagonet cradled a heavily pregnant girl, sixteen at the most, and another woman sat astride Tristan's horse. The woman wore a skirt, a blue top, a white lab coat, and blue low heeled shoes. Her dark, strawberry blonde hair was pulled into a chignon on the back of her neck, but quite a few tendrils had escaped.

"Let me help Dagonet." Kass told the man and moved to take most of the pregnant girl's weight. The other woman's head snapped back to look at Kass.

"Oh, an American, thank God." she said in relief. "I tried to tell these men that we could just go back to the road. There's a car there, but the man, Gawain, seemed sure it wasn't. Are you all part of some Renaissance Festival?" Terri frowned as she looked around.

Dani's eyes widened even further if possible. This was not exactly the same situation she'd had to accept. Kass seemed to think before she spoke. "Why don't we do this? Let's get this young lady, and Tristan back to our infirmary, and then we can all talk."

Terri nodded. "Okay, that's probably a good idea. I can talk to your doctor." The group began walking. "I'm a doctor. Dr. Theresa Randall. This is Mandy, Amanda Grimes."

As they made the two comfortable Kass looked at Terri, "Dr. Randall, could I ask what happened?"

Terri sat down on the edge of the bed. "Please call me Terri."

"I'm Kass." Kassidy smiled warmly. "This is my sister Brianna, this is Danika, but we call her Dani." Kass left it at that for the moment although the men were also there.

"I was coming to the close of a twenty four hour shift when the medics brought Mandy in. She was covered in blood, but there were no visible wounds. Come to find out her boyfriend had been shot in front of her, she started having labor pains. We got her cleaned up, and calmed down; light sedation. There were two men. They said they were detectives, showed me their credentials. Told me they were taking Mandy as soon as she was clean and calm. She told me they'd killed her boyfriend, but I thought it must have bee in a fire fight. I told them they could only take her if I went with her. They finally agreed. We passed where we should have turned off to go to the police station. That's when Mandy told me they worked for Jensen."

"Holy cow Maxwell Jensen?" Brandon had moved forward in the tent.

Terri looked at the teen boy and nodded. "Yes, the crime boss, Maxwell Jensen. They were taking us to Jensen and were going to kill us. I had to do something to get us out of there. So I did, and we began to run. They started shooting at us, and unfortunately the man got shot. But Gawain and Dagonet, they killed the men. Then I helped Tristan so he would stop bleeding. Luckily the bullet was a through and through. No major damage. I got him sewn up and then realized things were weird."

Kass smiled. "More than you would want to believe."

"Where are we Kassidy? I mean, these costumes everyone is wearing, the infirmary with a dirt floor. England isn't a third world country."

"Terri, I want you to sit back while I tell you the story of how Bran, Bri and I came to be here, and then I'll tell you how Dani came to be here." Kass proceeded to tell the doctor, and Mandy who listened intently, the tales of their separate arrivals in Camelot. When she finished everyone was silent.

Terri blinked. "You're telling me we, somehow...we ended up something like sixteen hundred years in the past...in the time of King Arthur and Camelot?"

Kass nodded, and without realizing it Dani shadowed her nod. "Yes Terri, that's exactly what I'm telling you."