Breaking Through Time

Chapter 30 Last Goodbye

I am glad to have Michael back. I did miss him, but without him, I have learned so many new things... I guess I should say because of him...

We arrive in the year 1010 AD, just outside Boleslaw's father's home. 

It is early morning and the sun is starting to come up and lay its warm rays on us and everything around us. 

We walk through the front gate, my heart starts beating faster, thinking that I will see Boleslaw in just a moment. Planning in my head what will I say... The front gate is wide open already, but I can't see anyone yet. We walk to the main house and the front door is wide open. There is complete silence surrounding us... This doesn't feel right. A shadow of complete fear falls upon me and I run inside the house...

The place had been plundered. There are dead men lying around. Isabel activates our suits defence mechanism's and now my suit is scanning the rooms for any signs of life or threat. I run to the main room and find Boleslaw's father and mother lying dead next to each other... 

Ziemowit is also in this room, laying further away... There is no life here, just death... I follow the corridor to the bedrooms and find Boleslaw... He is gone... His body is completely cold and his lips are blue... 

I scream in shock and tears gush out of my eyes. I turn him on the side and see his blue eyes, lifeless... I close it for him and take his hand into mine and say

"I am so sorry..." As I sit next to him with tears falling down my face I remember the day we first met, how he brought me to this house... How he wanted to reunite me with my father and decided to take me back across the world, so I could be safe with my people... I remember how he reacted when I told him the truth about me...

As I reminiscence I look around the room... There is a dead woman on the floor. She is young and beautiful. Her long black hair covers the deadly scar on her body, allowing me to only see the small puddle of blood on her side.

Maybe she was his wife? Maybe he did got married and was happy for a bit? I suddenly see her still and stiff body jerk a bit and a strange noise coming out from it. I get up and walk over and turn the body on its side reviling the pale skin of this beautiful girl stained with blood... 

I then notice she is cradling a blanket in her hands, which is now moving and making noises. I pick it up and realise its a baby... Baby boy... He might be about six months old. He has Boleslaw's eyes and his mother dark, strong hair... He was looking at me and smiling.

I can hear a commotion in another room and then I hear Isabel calling

"Bethany, you must come here!" 

I feel completely frozen and mesmerised by this baby... Suddenly I hear Michael's voice

"Come, we found someone that is alive... You will want to hear for yourself what happened here...Oh... What you got there?" He asks as he starts to walk closer to me and looks at the baby...

We stand there in silence looking at this baby boy alive in my arms, unaware of what had just happened to his entire family... After a while, Isabel finally finds us and joins us.

"What's going on? I found a woman that is alive, she said..." Isabel stopped talking as she saw the baby in my arms. 

"What is this?... Is this baby...?" she asks with her eyes going wide.

And Michael joins in with her as they say together

"Baby Bo..."

I ignore this weird outburst and say...

"I think this child is Boleslaw's son... I think this was his mother" I point at the dead woman lying in front of us and continue

"She hid her son in her arms and protected him with her own life... I am going to take him home with me... That's the least I can do for everything he's father did for me..."