Where are you Gloria?

Scene 9: Run Away Home

Roderick ran down the stairs, Gloria saw him and stopped yelling. Roderick walked over to her and slapped her across the face, so hard that the chair actually fell over, he picked the chair back up,

"I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!"

Gloria didn't say anything to him, she just looked down and wept. Roderick walked away, than looked back at her,

"They are still looking for you..."

Gloria looked up at him with tears running down her face and Roderick walked over to her, and looked her straight in the eyes

"...Have you made your choice?"

Gloria looked back down. In order to save herself and for her people she knew she had to do it.

"I will marry you" she mumbled.

"What was that?...I couldn't hear you" Roderick said to her.

Gloria looked up at him,

"I said...I will marry you"

Roderick smiled, he walked behind her and started uniting the ropes that held her hands together to the chair.

"I'm going to let you go back to the castle on your own..."

Instead of uniting the rope he tightened them for a moment saying,

"BUT"

Gloria let out a shriek of pain, the rope dug into the cuts on her wrists and she spat out,

"BUT WHAT?!"

Roderick smirked and loosened the ropes Gloria was relieved from the pain and put her head down breathing heavily.

"But, I will warn you..."

Roderick finished uniting the ropes and walked around in front of Gloria and lifted her head so she was looking at him,

"...I will be watching you, you are to go back to your little castle and tell your father you have changed your mind, that you wish to marry Knight Roderick"

Gloria turned away from him,

"GOT IT?!"

Gloria didn't answer him, he walked away. Gloria wanted to just run away from everything right than and there but her body was in a different state of mind than her brain was and wouldn't move.

"Of course you got it, because I know that you don't want to die"

Roderick walked back over to her,

"Well? aren't you gonna get going?, I untied you, you are free to go"

Gloria put her head down, and Roderick got down to her level and made her look at him,

"GET GOING I'M NOT GETTING ANY YOUNGER!!!"

Gloria had enough, she used the rest of her strength to push off Roderick, bolt up the stairs, out the door and back into the woods...

She ran as fast as she could, even though every bone and muscle in her body ached and hurt when she used it, she still didnt give up. She turned around to see if Roderick was following her, she saw no sign of him, she turned back around and smashed into something she turned out to be a person. Gloria had fallen face first into the dirt, she pushed her body away from the ground just so that her face was free from the dirt,

"I'm sorry, I was just getting back to my father..."

Gloria said with tears falling from her face and fear in her voice.

"Gloria?" a famillure voice said,

Gloria looked up with tears still falling from her face to see Henry looking at her with a soft worried look. Henry knelt down to her and helped her sit up, Gloria kept her head down, and Henry looked at her for a moment studying her cuts and bruises, he than lifted her her face,

"Who...who did this to you?" He asked her worriedly.

Gloria looked at him,

"I...I have to get home to my father..."

She pulls her head away from his hand and and looks down,

"...I'm getting married soon"

Henry looks at her with wide eyes,

"But what about us?"

Gloria looks at him, than she gets enough energy to get up and bring Henry behind a big tree, she looks at him for a moment and Kisses him,

"I will always love you, no matter what happens Henry, but I have to go now"

She goes to turn around and walk away but she falls in pain. Henry helps her up,

"You can't go anywhere you can barley walk"

Gloria steadies herself and says

"Than do me a favor, lead me to my castle, than at the front, let me go"

"But why?, I want to be with you." Henry says to her.

"Shh!" Gloria covers his mouth,

"Just do this for me" she slowly takes her hand off of his mouth.

Henry just looks down and starts walking, holding on to Gloria's arm.

Gloria and Henry made it to the castle by sun set, Gloria took a deep breath and unlaced her arm from Henry's and starts walking forward,

"Gloria!" Henry Said loudly.

Gloria stopped walking and stood still trying to hold back tears,

"Don't go.." Henry said.

Gloria turned around and said,

"I must do this Henry, I have to, but you are making this harder than it needs to be, Go! Leave!"

Gloria starts crying,

Henry looks at her and starts to tear up,

"I trust you Gloria" he than walks away.

Gloria turns back around and gets herself back together, she walked up the long path to the entrance of the castle where she collapsed in pain. The guards realized it was her and they picked her up and got in contact with the nurses of the castle, they settled her down in her bed for the night.