Hood Rose

Louis Tomlinson is dead/ I was with your brother when he died

Harry's POV:

Today was just like any other whilst this war was happening all I could do was worry about Louis, I'd struggled at first to keep his manor and his lands going strong but the people who lived and worked there all rallied to support me. This morning I made my way into Nottingham to pick up the delivery of horse feed, I used to enjoy going into Nottingham with Louis but it was different now the Sheriff had driven most of the commoners out of Nottingham and forced them to live and work in the mines, once I'd finished loading all the bags of feed onto the wagon I stopped to let my horse rest and have some water and that was when I heard the sheriff making his daily announcement. 

I walked over to the crowd and stood next to Louis friend Tuck who was one of the friars at the church here in Nottingham he smiled at me and said 'Good morning Harry how are you today' I smiled in return and said 'I'm ok, just counting down the days until Louis home', Tuck was about to reply when the Sheriff said 'So now I have the sad duty of reading out the list of names of the soldiers who have fallen in the Crusade'. So many lives had already been lost in this crusade and now even more had been lost, I looked up as the Sheriff said 'And the last name on the list of the dead is, Louis Tomlinson. I repeat Louis Tomlinson is dead, his sacrifice will be remembered' I literally felt my heart snap in two my Louis was gone. 

Louis's POV:

One minute I was laying on a hammock in a disease infested hospital boat, and then the next I was woken from my fever dream by the captain shouting about a wave and the next thing I knew the side of the ship broke and loads of water came flooding in. As I was pulled into the water I thought back to day when I took Harry riding through the woods to the secluded waterfall and we went swimming together and laid under the stars by candle light, and now I was probably never going to see him again Harry's face was the last thing I saw before darkness took me. 

I came round when I felt something nudging my face I slowly opened my eyes and saw a beautiful Black horse stood looking down at me, I sat up but a massive pain erupted in the back of my head and I had to lie back down quickly. As I closed my eyes again I saw the black horse run off towards the fields where someone was calling his name. 

Niall's POV:

I had to find Black Beauty otherwise my parents would be so mad at me, I walked down through the fields shouting his name. After searching for what felt like ages I heard him neighing and the sound of his hooves galloping up the path towards me, I stood still as he came to a halt in front of me before rearing up several times before constantly turning look at the beach. I put his halter on and said 'What's wrong Beauty, what did you find down there boy' I could tell he wanted me to go with him so I climbed up onto his back and held on as he galloped back down onto the beach turning sharply at the bottom of the path and going along the beach to the right. 

As we got to the end of the beach I saw wreckage from a ship and amongst the wreckage was a boy around my age, he was wearing the torn remains of what looked like a crusader uniform I crouched down beside him and said 'Hello can you hear me'. The boy stirred slightly and started shivering as-well, I carefully picked him up and placed him on Black Beauty's back and lead him back up to my parents farm, as I got back to the farm I saw my mother hanging the laundry out I shouted 'Mother I need help please'. 

My mother ran over and said 'Niall what happened who's this' I carefully took the boy from Black Beauty and said 'I don't know his name mother, I found him down on the beach. There's been a shipwreck I think he was on board the ship he's from the Crusade army'. I carried the boy into the farm house and placed him down on my bed my mother came in carrying a bowl of hot water and her medical bag, she looked at me and said 'Niall why don't you wait outside, I need to wash him and there maybe a lot of blood' I shook my head and said 'No it's ok I'll stay and help you mother'.