Hidden | Jon Snow

VII

Emily woke up with a start and a pounding headache. She reached up and touched her forehead where it was surely bruised.
"Hssssttttttt," she winced as she felt her bump throbbing under her fingers.

She looked around what looked like to be a cell, and she was laying on the wet floor. The door had a small hole in it. Emily got up to look through it, but all she saw was darkness. She leaned back up against the brick wall feeling defeated, and she began to cry. With all that had happened with her father, and how her life had been a lie hit her like a ton of bricks.

The tears started dripping down her sullen in cheeks because she hadn't eaten in two weeks. Emily didn't know where she was or how she would get out. She was truly frightened of what the future held for her.

As she continued to cry, she heard heavy footsteps approaching her door. A lock was heard and the door swung open to two guards all in black. They walked into her room with a pair of handcuffs.

"Okay c' mon lady, come easily and there won't be a need for you to get hurt," the long haired guard said uninterested. Well pretending to be a man while on her journey didn't last very long at all.

"Where are you taking me, and where am I?" Emily questioned back and looked at them skeptically.

The other guard answered rudely,"You see you don't get to ask those types of questions miss."

Apparently they got tired of waiting for her compliance so they suddenly rushed at Emily, and picked her up off the floor, and put her arms behind her back.

"Get your filthy hands off me, if you don't let me go you'll regret it." She threatened while struggling to get free from their grips.

The guards just laughed at her threats and continued to put her handcuffs on. They picked her up and said, "it's time for you to meet our Lord Commander."

"Lord Commander of what exactly?" she sassed back.

The guards looked down at her with amused looks, one of them answered, " the Night's Watch."

She thought to herself well the trip here wasn't bad at all.
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Emily was pushed by the guards from the back down multiple turns and stairs, finally they reached a closed, wooden door. One of the guards knocked and said, " Lord Commander, we have the girl we found outside Castle Black," they waited for a response. A deep voice replied, "bring her in."

The guards opened the door, pushing Emily through it. She looked at the man sitting at the wooden desk that was covered in papers. The man was quite handsome, but in a tough way. He had long, curly, dark hair. His eyes were almost black, they held kindness, but also his eyes looked sad. He looked her up and down, not in a sexy way, but he was just analyzing her.

He opened his perfectly shaped mouth and asked, "So what were you doing, in the freezing cold, in the middle of nowhere with your hair cut short, and a short supply of food to live off of ?"

Emily hesitantly replied, " I was actually on my way to join the Night's Watch," she simply said as if it wasn't a big deal. When she said this, the Lord Commander's dark eyebrows rose in confusion and astonishment.