Gary and Djaq - captured

[Djaq]

Djaq sat shivering in her cell, her legs bent and her back against the cold hard wall. There were peasants everywhere, in the cells around her, their arms sticking out the bars of their cages flailing, begging for food, water and warmth. Djaq held back the tears as she remembered when she was a Prisiner of War, everybody in the same cage, no room to breathe, like some sort of caged animal. Even animals didn't disserve that kind of treatment.

There were a few guards standing by the doors, smirking at her. One of them muttered something that sounded like "Dirty Saracen." and she turned away from them and looked down on the ground. A tear trickled down her face. She was going to die. Gary and her were due to be hanged in a while. There was a long list of people needing to be hanged, so they had to wait. Wait for their own painful deaths. A few more tears came streaming down her cheek. She didn't even get a chance to say goodbye to Will...

She heard movement in the cage next to her. She wiped away her tears and shuffled herself over so she was pressed right against the bars of the cage. "Gary?"

[Gary Taylor]

Pain in his head.
Stiff bones.
Hard floor.
Groans and cries around him.
Tastes like blood
Gary's sences slowly came back. Lastly the dull light. He sat up and groaned. He looked around. He was in the dungeon. He wiped his mouth and blood covered his hand. He groaned again. His ears were ringing.

[Djaq]

"Gary...?" Djaq asked worriedly. "Gary are you alright?" she looked at his wounds. Blood. Everywhere. She gasped and a few more tears trickled down her face. She needed to tend his wounds. But she couldn't...they were in different cells.

[Gary Taylor]

"Oh..." Gary looked over to Djaq. "Oh! Are you ok? Did they hurt you? What happened?" He mumbled as he crawled over to Djaq, althogh the bars still separated them.

[Djaq]

"I'm fine..." said Djaq unconvincingly. "For now. Look Gary, their going to hang us. Their going to hang us soon. I don't know how soon, but pretty soon. That doesn't give us much time." she said, tears streaming down her face. She wiped them away hastily. She could not show weakness at a time like this. Is she was going to die, she might as well die with dignaty. "There's no way we can escape." she said, looking over at the guards who were still smirking at them. "There's no hope..." she said, tears not being able to help falling.

[Will Scarlett]

Sunnenly out of no where, there was a loud bang, a shout, a thump, a yelp, and two guards came tumbling down the steps, their armor clattering as they did so. No sooner had they reached the ground, a hooded figure appeared at the top of the steps, in one hand a sword, in the other, an axe. In a flash, he was at the bottom of the steps fighting the two remaining guards like there was no tomorrow. They fought for what seemed like an eternity, but eventually, many thumps, yelps, cuts and bruises later, they were both lying groaning on the floor.
The hooded figure grabbed the set of keys from around one of the guards necks, and set to work finding the right one for the cell with the saracan and the peasant in. He knew he would find them there... he had heard two guards talking about a saracan woman in the dungeons when he was out walking around the streets of Nottingham... he had known straight away which saracan woman they had been talking about, so come here to find her.
It was actually not as hard as he thought it would be... there weren't very many guards to get past, but it was still very dangerous. It was only his love for this particular woman that drove him onwards. If it were anyone else in this cell, he would have given up long ago... but for this woman... no... he would never give up on anything for this woman... he would risk his life for hers any day.
He found the key and turned it in the lock. It came undone.
He needed to get them out, and he had to be fast.
"Quickly... come with me..." he said worridly but trying to keep himself calm whilst gesturing for them to come on out of the cell and producing a sword for the woman and a familiar dagger for the peasant.

[Djaq]

Djaq looked up at him, crying with happiness. She backed away abit though, not quite knowing who this stranger was. He reminded her of Will...but no...he was visiting his brother. She looked at Gary, who was looking back at her and then looked back at the stranger. "Who are you?" she asked moving still further away.

[Will Scarlett]

He looked at her worridly through the small gap in his hood. She obviously didn't recognise him and she was still scared and upset. He didn't know what to say, but he knew they didn't have much time, so he guestured again for them to come out of the cell. His heart was pounding in his chest like it had never done before. If a guard appeared now, they would all be dead. They would all be executed right there. Right then.

[Djaq]

Djaq smiled at the stranger. If he was a traitor, they would end up dead anyway, so she might as well take the chance. "Help Gary," she said, looked over at Gary, who was beginning to loose consiousness. "he's hurt," she said getting up. As she stood up she screamed in pain and collapsed back down, clutching her rib and wincing. "Help...Gary..."

[Will Scarlett]

The man stood there staring between the two of them. Who should he help? But before he knew it, he had raced over to the woman, pulled back his hood, and knelt down beside her clutching her hand "It's ok... it's me... I'm here... you're gunna be ok... both of you..." he looked around desperatly for help.

[Djaq]

As the man knelt down beside her, and she saw it was Will, she smiled and was crying at the same time. As he held her hand, she touched his cheek with her other hand and looked up into his eyes. "Will..." she whispered. She needed the strength to just leap into his arms, and hug him, but she couldn't, however much she tried. She brought down her hand and held it back onto her rib. "Help Gary first....he's bleeding...don't worry about me..." she said, looking away from Will.

[Will Scarlett]

Will didn't know what to do. Djaq was hurt... but so was Gary... He squeezed Djaq's hand and smiled sadly down at her "I know... but I don't love Gary... I love you, and I want to help you first..." he looked around again for help even though he knew that there wouldn't be any and then looked back at Djaq sadly "Besides... I wouldn't know what to do, but if I help you, then you can hep him..."

[Djaq]

"You can't help me..." said Djaq shaking her head. "I can't get up Will..." she said, her voice started quavering as she started shivering again. "But you can help Gary. Give him some of this..." she pressed some of the herbs she gave him earlier into Wills palm and winced. "And then run. Theres nothing you can do for me..." she said, a tear trickling down her face.

[Will Scarlett]

Will looked at her distraught and felt himself starting to shake. "No. No Djaq... don't talk like that... you will get better... you will get through this... we all will..." he looked over at Gary sadly, and then looked back at Djaq, took a deep breath and said. "Ok. Ok, I will help Gary, I'll give him these herbs, but then I'm coming back for you. I will not leave you. I will never leave you..." he trailed off feeling tears starting to well up in his eyes, and repeated slowly "I will never leave you... I love you..."

[Djaq]

She looked at Will smiling, her eyes watering. She held onto his hand for a while. "I know..." she whispered. "And thats why I love you..." She held his gaze, loving Will more than she had ever done in her whole life. After a while, she released his hand, sighed happily and closed her eyes smiling.