Welcome to part 13 readers! Thanks for sticking with me and i'll see you in the next one!
Posted- December 8 2019
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Liam's POV
Sitting up with a start, I felt someone tap my shoulder. I looked up to see...myself? "Listen to me. Will is coming over this second. He is about to knock on the door, so I need you to be quiet and listen to me, because I don't have much time. When you reach the waterfall, warn Will that there are two kids about to shoot him. If you don't, he and Graser will both die. Do you understand?" I...He said to me with a menacing look in his eyes.
"When are you from?" I asked after nodding to him.
"Tomorrow, but if you do as I say, I will have never existed. Goodbye Liam, please don't let Will die." He begged as he disappeared into thin air.
I got up and ready for the day, showering before anything though. As soon as I sat back down a knock was heard on my room door. I furrowed my eyebrows at the fact that no one ever knocks on my door for one, for two 'I' just said this would happen. Slowly standing I opened the door to see Will standing there with a smile on his face.
"Are you ready?" he asks me as I pull him into the room, closing the door behind him so that no one sees what's happening.
"For what?" I asked confused.
"First, where's Arthur?" He said as we sat on my bed.
"The Ally kingdom for a day or two, a ball has been thrown and he doesn't think I should go." I shrugged looking at our hands that somehow began to hold the other.
"Then lets go." He smiled standing up and bringing me with him. A confused look overcame my face as I looked at him.
"Again, for what?" I asked smiling just a bit.
"The beginning of our day." He grinned, pulling me over to the balcony.
I looked over the rail to see who was below. "Alright I see one and I'm pretty sure it's Joe, he slacks off a lot. Won't notice a thing." I explained looking back at Will.
"How do you know this?" He asked surprised.
"I have nothing better to do in my days and I wanted to run away sometimes." I shrugged. He smiled before wrapping rope around the railing and tying it off.
"Ill go first, just in case anything happens while you go down. Okay?" He asked stepping over the rail and wrapping his legs around the rope.
"Ill be here waiting." I smiled watching him start the way down. He looked up to double check if I was there. I smiled as he was almost to the grassy patch beside the castle, so he dropped to the floor so that I could start the journey. I slowly went over the rail, looking down with fear in my eyes. I freaking hate heights. I wrapped my legs around the rope and used my hands to get down.
After going down a floor my hand slipped, it all seemed to be happening in slow motion as I got that pit in my stomach, you know the one when your falling. I flailed my arms and legs, not wanting to die. I felt two arms around me and then I was tumbling to the grassy ground. I kept my eyes shut, keeping my hands gripped tightly to whoever it was holding onto me.
"Hey, hey, hey; your okay, I got you." Wills voice rang out as he set me on the grass gently. My eyes opened slowly and he smiled at me. "Your okay." He whispered hugging me tightly, my arms doing the exact same. "Okay catch your breath, we can go after your alright. The shift change is in 12 minutes so as long as it's before then." He smiled down at me, watching as I tried to catch my breath. That was a very very high fall. I shook my head no and held up my arms for him to help me up.
"Let's just go, help me up." I squinted as my eyes as the sun was shining in them. He laughed before bending down and wrapping his arms around me. Instead of helping me up I was being to carried. "Will!" I shrieked clutching onto his black shirt looking at the ground.
He grinned as we walked out of the bushes with me in his arms. He made his way towards the guard to seem not suspicious. "Have a good day you two." 'Joe' smiled at us as he stepped past him. I smiled back and waved while he kept walking. "Told you." I laughed. he grinned wider as we grew closer to the tall stone wall. "Will I'm not climbing up that wall." I stated starting to squirm in his arms. I would fall and I didn't want that to happen again.
"Wrap your arms around my neck and get on my back." He told me stepping up to the tall beast of a wall. I let go of his neck and moved onto his back and he started the way up from the ground onto the stone. The holes between the blocks of cement were small, just cracks and there was a large chance we could fall and I really want to live.
When we got to the top he stood straight and I slid off of his tall body. We stepped over to the tall pine tree that grew against the guard wall of the kingdom. I tried to look down and see how far up we are but then Will spoke up. "Don't do that, it'll scare you more than you already are." He explained pulling me closer to him. I mean I wasn't complaining about the closeness. He looked up and grabbed onto the rope conveniently there.
He threw it out easily and grabbed it again as he started tying it around my leg. "Will, what in the world are you doing?" I asked as I watched him wrap it around and tie it off.
"This time I'm not going to be down there so I can't catch you if you fall. I'm making sure it doesn't happen." He said throwing the rest back down. "Alright slide on down." He held the rope above me watching as I started to inch my way down. When I got to the bottom I untied the rope and looked up waiting for him to come down. He started to climb his way down with a small smile on his face. At the bottom he grabbed my hand and started to run off to who knows where.
We arrived at the little cottage and around us was a picnic all planned out. "Woah." I breathed out looking around. There was a blanket laid out in the middle with a basket on it. A horse was eating grass beside the small house as if waiting. I turned to Will excitedly smiling wide.
"Do you like it?" He asked, a blush formed across his face.
"Like it? No." I told him looking around again before remaking eye contact with him. He was frowning a bit. "I love it." I smiled again pulling him to the picnic. We laughed and talked about how everything has been, while we ate a variety of things that I know Will did not cook, because while eating he told me he wasn't good at making food. I learned so much about him and I bet he learned a lot about me as well.
"So time to get a little depressing. My parents died a few years ago when they tried to stop Arthur getting into the castle. My dad was a guard while my mom was a baker but she decided to stop by during my dads shift to give him some pastries and they both didn't make it." Will suddenly said casually.
"Oh, uh...Will are you okay?" I asked placing my hand on his thigh(NOT NASTY) and he looked up to meet my eyes. He smiled but his eyes still showed pain.
"'m fine. C'mon lets go horse riding." He stood up holding out his hand for me after wiping his palms on his pants. I hesitantly took his hand before following him to the brown horse waiting for us. He showed me how to get up before climbing on himself. "Alright, off we go." He looked at me and smiled before cracking the rein and our journey began.
Will was sat behind me and he controlled how we went and where. After trailing through the woods for a while we came across a cliff with a beautiful view. "This is our final stop. After this I'm taking you back to the castle." Will spoke up, sliding off of the mule. He reached up and pulled me off and made sure I was steadied before walking off to the edge with me tailing behind him.
He sat on the edge and when I went to sit beside him he moved me onto his lap. I turned so I was facing him, causing my legs to straddle his waist. His eyes went from my own, down to my lips. I realized what he was silently asking for and leaned into him. I closed my eyes and right as I was about to touch his lips with my own, a heard the sound of a string being pulled.
This is what the guy-- or I said would happen. I pushed him down onto the floor and my eyes went wide as a searing pain went through my arm. My mouth was wide open with a silent scream making its way out of me. Will sat up and looked to his right, my left, and two kids were there with annoyed faces.
Will picked me off of him and ran after the two. I stared down at my arm and there was an arrow imbedded into me. Not one of those tricks with two pieces glued on, no it was inside of me. There was blood dripped down the two sides, a puddle reaching my legs as I was sitting on my knees. Will ran back into the clearing a scowl on his face.
"King Arthur hired them to assassinate me if I was outside the walls. They didn't do too well. How did you know they were there?" He asked staring at his bow. Looking up he seen me with tears falling down my cheeks, clutching onto my arm. "Oh my god!" he yelled running to me, sliding onto his knees when he got close. "No no no no no. Liam your-your gonna be okay. Don't-Don't worry."
"Will it hurts." I croaked out.
"Okay I got you." He picked me up, tears falling from his eyes. He started to run towards the way we came, I stayed tucked into his chest. Everything in my left arm hurt. I could tell I would be trembling if Will wasn't holding me so tightly. He burst through the door to the red building, running to a closet door and inching his way inside, opening another door inside of it. There was so much blood on us. I squeezed my eyes shut wanting this to be over.
As much as I wish this didn't happen, I'm glad Will isn't dead. "Britt! Graser! Somebody!" he yelled which got me to open my eyes. We were in an underground tunnel like area. Noises of animals and people were everywhere. That is until Will yelled and now all eyes were on us.
"Will! How did it go my man?" Graser's voice rang out. "Oh no okay follow me. Lets get him into your room!" Graser ran off and I closed my eyes again not wanting to see the faces of everyone watching. "Shelby! Get the first aid kit!" Graser yelled out.
"Someone get Britt for (NO NO WORD AHEAD) fucks sake!" Will yelled out running after Graser. I was laid out on a bed, footsteps going haywire besides me. Will was holding my hand, the one without an arrow above it. "How did this happen? Why would you do this to yourself?" He asked wiping my tears.
"Someone came to my room, it was me I think. They told me they had a bit of time to make things right. Said you were going to be killed at the waterfall. I couldn't let that happen. I'm sorry." I whispered as I looked him in the eye.
"Liam I'm gonna need to pull this out. Bite your shirt, this is gonna hurt." Shelby said gently touching the wooden arrow. I nodded and pulled my shirt up and over my head, after having Will rip the sleeve off of course. I shoved it into my mouth and nodded signaling her to go ahead. Another girl came into the room and looked at me in shock. Shelby pulled all of the feathers off of the arrow and looked at me pitifully before yanking the arrow out. I screamed on the top of my lungs, that being the most painful thing I've ever felt.
I looked down to see my arm with a gaping hole in it, blood flowing freely from it. Everyone ran around trying to get the bleeding to stop and get ready. Will was crying and trying to talk soothing things to me. "Oh Liam you shouldn't have done that for me." He sighed. My eyes got really heavy and I smiled at Will. "No, No, No, keep your eyes open. Don't leave me Liam!" he yelled but my eyes were already shut, and it was already quiet.
There we go I finally posted. Its a long post too so I'm sorry for being gone for so long