Winter

Niall was holding me as if I had been gone for several weeks instead of a day. This made me feel slightly better because this meant he hadn’t forgotten about me but I was still feeling hurt about the way he had paid the other Winter attention. Speaking of her, where was she?
I stepped out of Niall’s embrace and looked behind him but there was no one. “Where is lady Blackwood?” I asked him and he smiled at me. “She is with James.” My mouth had dropped open because that was not a good thing, I was sure about this, there was something off about James and Lady Blackwood’s husband proved that, as he was a gentleman and he was obviously in love with her. Niall saw something was wrong right away, when his eyes locked on mine.

“What’s wrong?” He still didn’t address the guy who had brought me back, which was a little bit rude to be honest. “Niall, meet Lord McLochlan, Winter’s husband.” I gestured towards the man who was watching us patiently. Niall focussed on the guy and walked to him offering his hand as a greeting. “Hi I’m Niall Horan.”

“Where is my wife?” Niall was looking between us and I saw his expression turned into a worried one. “She is with an old friend.” He told him but Duncan wasn’t having it and without warning he lifted Niall on his collar into the air “Where is she?”

“Duncan put him down please.” I started walking towards the two men but they both stopped when they saw something behind me and as the expression became murderous on Duncan’s face I could guess what he saw and within a second Niall was back on his feet and Duncan was storming passed me. Niall quickly walked back to where I was standing, he slipped his arm around my waist and pulled me close to him. We turned to see what was happening and there was Lady Blackwood kissing James but when I looked closely I knew it wasn’t right. Duncan ripped James away from Lady Blackwood and threw him against the shed behind them.

Lady Blackwood, was just standing there not sure of what to do, she wanted to run into Duncan’s arms but she also wanted to go help James, I could see she was torn between the two men but the knowledge she could lose the man who worshipped her made me take a step towards them, it was like Duncan had felt my movement because he turned to look at me and when his piercing blue eyes locked with mine, he shook his head.

That made me stop immediately. I turned back to Niall who was looking really confused and I could understand this because we didn’t know any better than that Lady Blackwood was in love with James and not with this big guy but boy did that big guy love her.

James was getting up and he looked absolutely wrecked but he wasn’t backing up. He was either foolish or just plain stupid, he approached Lady Blackwood and even managed to grab her arm, trying to pull her towards him but Duncan wasn’t having it and pulled her roughly out of his grip. “Stay away from my wife.” Duncan was trying to be nice to him but the expression in James eyes told me he wasn’t going to be friendly, he looked down right evil as he stood there.

“She is mine.” He was seething with anger and it actually terrified me a little because I didn’t think he could be like this. “She had never been yours, you bewitched her.” What in the hell were they talking about, this was becoming confusing and it also made me curious because Duncan couldn’t really mean bewitched as in magic right? That was just impossible but then again, Niall and I ended up here from the future so this wasn’t that weird. “She belongs with me and I had to make her see that.” He yelled back at Duncan and at this point I was actually staring at them in full disbelief.

I knew something had been off but never in a million years had I thought about magic but James just admitted to using magic to make her see, she belonged with him but it still didn’t explain why Niall and I were dragged here from the future, it was not like we could magically fix everything. We couldn’t make Lady Blackwood fall in love with him especially not when she was clearly in love with her husband. “Winter?” James was looking at me and it was like I didn’t have control over my own body because the minute he gestured for me to come to him, my feet started to move. I didn’t want to leave Niall’s side but it was like I didn’t have a choice in the matter and it made me wonder what I had taken for him to have total control over me and to be honest I could only think that maybe Harry Potter was a real thing, which would be awesome.

He made me stop when I stood next to him and I looked back and saw Niall was still standing on his spot but it looked like he couldn’t move, which was an odd thing to be honest. Duncan and Lady Blackwood were also not moving and that's when I knew James was really evil.

“What are you doing James?” I asked him with a small voice, which annoyed the crap out of me because I didn’t want to sound this insecure. “You want to know why you’re here right?” I nodded because duh I did want to know this.

“You’re here so I could get her back to me.”

“Okay how were you planning on doing that?” he smiled at me and started to laugh as if I was the dumbest person in the whole world. “I saw you and Niall walking through the forest that day and I was stunned about the resemblance between you guys and us, that it seemed like the perfect distraction, so I transferred you here, without a way back.”

“You did what?!” I was yelling about now. I stared at him with pure shock because there was no way we would be used for something like this, this was just ridiculous and so weird, this couldn’t be happening right, I must’ve fallen on my head or something because there was no way this was real, this looked like a really bad movie or even a book.

“You heard me, the day you showed up at my door, was no coincidence, if I didn’t want you to see me, You wouldn’t have but the minute I saw you I knew my plan would work, I just had to get you and Niall out of the castle so I made people attack John’s army and I made John accept your lie about wanting to go on a honeymoon but instead of going on a honeymoon, you were going to look for the one person I wanted to have and now you brought her to me.”
“You’re crazy.” I saw a movement in the corner of my eye, Niall was walking towards us but he didn’t do anything as he stood next to me. He was also listening but I could feel that he was tense and I felt his anger.

“Maybe but thank you for helping me.” That’s when he did something that made me sick, he pulled out his sword and put it through Duncan’s frozen body. He grabbed Lady Blackwood by her armed and tied her hands together and as he lifted her on his horse, he immediately walked back to where Niall and I were frozen to the floor. I wanted to back away from him but I couldn’t move an inch and that’s when he grabbed me by my neck and pulled me towards him and as he pressed his lips against mine, I could actually feel the vomit coming up.

“Good luck on trying to get back home love.”

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