For once in my life I am updating a day before! Yay :)! Friday will be hectic for me because of a family event so I thought I would give you the most subtle Lams ever! Because I know that in our lovely HamFam we love Lams. I thought I would give it to you guys. Also I'm modeling King George after Rory O'Malley because Rory is so amazing and is my favorite KG3. Well any whosits back to the story!
"Alexander!" I yelled as he ran over to the door and was shocked. "We need to get him inside and close his wound." Alexander said while him and Hercules picked him up and carried upstairs. Angie and I hurried to the kitchen to get a bucket of warm water. Angelica ran out to the well with a bucket in hand while I tore old bed sheets and grabbed a bottle of whiskey. Angie hurried back inside and I heated the stove. I heard Alexander giving out orders as I heard Philip crying. I felt my world crashing down as I felt the chaos of Laurens upstairs, possibly dying in our guest room, Philip crying as I looked around and felt my heart race.
"Eliza?" Angelica asked worried when she put her hand on my shoulder bring me back to earth. I jumped at her touch and looked at her when she looked back at me worried. "Are you alright?" She asked before I nodded and grabbed the items needed to fix Laurens.
"Please see what's going on with Philip?" I asked before I ran up the stairs to the guest room and I walked in to see Laurens laid out on a bed as Alexander was mopping his forehead soothing him.
"You are alright John. I'm right here for you." He said and I felt jealously build up in my stomach as I dismissed it while I knelt next to him and I started to clean his stomach that was covered in blood.
"What happened?" I asked looking up at him.
"I was in my home and I heard a knock on the door. I opened it and it was an older man with a woman behind him. He said "This is for the King." Before he shot me." Laurens explained as I started to dab the whiskey on his wounds. He let out a small cry and went rigid.
"Laurens?" I asked concerned as I looked over my shoulder and saw Helen in the door way. Her face was pale when she looked at Laurens and she took off. "Alexander can you hand me those bandages?" I asked focused on stitching his bullet wound up before I grabbed my tweezers and pulled out a large bullet out of his stomach as he screamed in pain. I kept apologizing over and over again as I mopped up the blood. I wrapped the bed sheet around his stomach. I tied it tightly as I looked up to see my husband holding tightly onto Laurens whispering in his ears and I saw Laurens face streaming with tears as I got up and looked at my skirt that was now covered in blood. "I'm going to go clean up downstairs." I said as Alexander nodded and I walked out I saw that my sisters and their husbands had all left and that Philip was fast asleep in his play pen with the parlor room cleaned up from the party. I heard Hugh and Helen talking lowly as I walked over to the kitchen and eavesdropped by the doorframe.
"That boy came here of all places Hugh. Hugh… I think he recognized me. He knows it was us that was sent to kill him." Helen said frantically while Hugh kept shushing her.
"We are doing what is best for Elizabeth and our sons. You know that if the king finds out he is still alive. He will kill our boys and take Eliza away from her family." Hugh said as I stepped into kitchen.
"You are working for the King?" I asked shocked as Helen jumped. "Eliza? Please dear listen to me." Helen said trying to calm me down.
"How… How could you betray my husband and I?" I asked angered at their betrayal. "You protected me from the King and his minions? Did you tell them I came back here? Did you tell them where I live?" I asked panicking and I felt my world crashing down and the world became fuzzy. I was numbed when I felt someone touch my arm gently and sit me down on a chair.
"Eliza? Eliza?" someone said through the fuzz and I could focus. I kept seeing myself back in that room with Seabury with him hurting me. I kept seeing the man in the red pants and crisp white shirt watching us with a wide, evil grin and his pudgy pasty white skin while his light blue eyes were darkened by lust. I kept heaving for air. "Eliza breathe." Helen said as I focused on her voice. "Let us explain ourselves, please?" Helen asked and I looked at her when I took a deep breath and gave a small nod. "The day after you left. The King's guards came to our inn. They said we have been summoned to his presence. We went to the palace and Samuel Seabury was there. He said that his men spotted you in our inn the night before and we are to kill those around you in order that you would come back to England and us. That is why Hugh shot the man up in the guest room. We planned attack your sisters and their husbands soon…" Helen said as I gasped.
"You were kill my sisters? You understand my brother in law George… He is our president…" I said shaking with anger as Helen nodded.
"We were threatened by the King. He said he would kill our sons and you if we didn't… We are so sorry Eliza." Hugh said kneeling in front of me.
"You must leave. You must leave now." I said shaking with fear, anger and betrayal.
"We are so sorry Eliza." Helen said one last time before they walked out of the house without a trace. I just sat in the chair numbed to the core when I heard Alexander walked downstairs. I couldn't stand or do anything. I was still processing what just happened. I lost the two people who acted like parents when my real parents weren't.
"Eliza? What's going on? Don't you hear Philip crying?" Alexander asked concerned as he brought me back into reality. I gasped for air as he touched my shoulder. I turned and faced him with my hair in my face. I took a deep breath before I wiped off my cheeks.
"I should… I should go get him ready for bed." I said before I went to the parlor room and picked him up from his playpen. I was on auto pilot and got Philip ready for bed. I tucked him into bed before I walked out and checked on Laurens. He was fast asleep in the bed with the bandage on his not bleeding through as I sighed. I blew out the candle in his room before walking out. I went to my room and I readied myself for bed when Alexander walked in.
"Eliza?" He asked worried as I ignored him and tied my night dress ribbon around my waist. "Eliza my love? What is going on with you?" Alexander asked. I tensed up and finally broke my silence.
"Helen and Hugh were captured by the king of England… They were told that they are to kill anyone I love and then take me with them so that Seabury would have me back…" I said with my lip quivering.
"They shot Laurens didn't they?" Alexander asked shocked and I nodded.
"Hugh said they had to or the king would kill me and their sons." I said shaking and Alexander embraced me.
"I'm so sorry Liza… I know that you cared about them so much." Alexander said rubbing my back and I started to sob into his chest. "Come on Eliza let's get into bed." Alexander said helping me into bed.
"Alexander I just don't understand why they would do this… They were like parents to me… How could they betray me like this?" I said snuggling into his bed as he laid next to me for the first time in three months.
"I don't know Eliza. Now come on let's get some sleep now." Alexander said as he kept stroking the back of my head soothing me to sleep.
"Alexander why am I so lucky?" I asked looking up at him.
"What do you mean by that Liza?" He asked confused and I smiled at him.
"You've been so understanding about everything." I said kissing his lips lightly before we sat in content silence and to the fireplace in our room crackling contently. I fell asleep in Alexander's arm relaxed considering tonight's events. I woke up to a loud thump coming through the floor. I jumped out of my skin and I saw Alexander was still asleep and I got out of bed. I through on my dressing gown and tied it on tightly. I hurried out to see Laurens laying on the ground as day break started to pour in through the window. I helped him stand up as he groaned in pain. I helped him into bed and started to clean his wound.
"I'm sorry to waken you." He groaned and I shook my head. I lifted up his shirt that was soaked in blood. I started to clean it up gently as he winced. "You need to quit moving around so much. You tore up your stitches." I said overly-motherly. I started to sew him up as he grabbed my hand and I looked up at him. His darker tanned skin was now almost as white as a ghost with his dark brown eyes distraught. He pushed his brown curls out of his face as I looked at him worried.
"John what is the matter?" I asked and he shook his head.
"Eliza. I know I am not going to make it…" He said starting and I shook my head.
"Don't you dare say that." I said as he stopped me.
"Eliza… take care of our Alexander." He said starting to drift away.
"No! No! Laurens stay with me please." I said shaking his hand.
"I'm alright just going to sleep. I'll wake up in a moment." Laurens said as I held onto his hand and I kept squeezing it as he would squeeze back. "Eliza? You know when we all first meet how we would go down to the creek?" Laurens asked with his eyes closed. I nodded and smiled slightly.
"Yes I do remember. I remember the time I nearly broke Alexander's nose, and when I nearly drowned you in the river, that river was the best place to relax." I said as he chuckled.
"You fell into the damn river and I was the only one who was out that far. You were flailing your limbs around the water and when I finally caught you." He said chuckling as I squeezed his hand.
"Then I dragged you under. I felt so bad. But then when we got to shore. Alexander nearly killed you for holding onto me." I said giggling as I heard the baby starting to cry. "I should go check on him." I said and got up. "I'll be right back." I said and brushed off my dressing gown. I hurried out and went to Philip nursery to see him fast asleep but sobbing hard. I hurried over to him and rubbed his back. "Oh no my little lamb. It's okay. It's just a dream." I said rubbing his back as I soothed him softly. He finally settled down when I heard yelling coming from the room with Laurens in it. "What now?" I asked myself before running out of Philip's nursery and went to the guest room to see Alexander running around franticly looking for something. "Alexander!" I exclaimed as he stopped.
"The bleeding won't stop. It won't stop Eliza. Help me please! He is dying!" Alexander yelled as I put my hands up to silence him and went to work. I started to clean his wounds and was confused by his bleeding.
"I just fixed these wounds." I said shocked as I couldn't stop the bleeding.
"Alexander run and fetch a doctor!" I commanded and he bolted out of the room as I started to clean him up some more before he stopped me.
"I will be okay… Please promise me something?" He pleaded in a small whisper.
"Anything." I said as kneeling next to him.
"Love and protect my Alexander." He said before he turned to his head to the side and his chest stopped moving.
"Laurens…." I said clutching his hand as I felt the life leave my husband's best friend.