Emily's POV

Yesterday Jacob proposed to me. When I came home uncle was up a little late. When he saw me smiled.

" Did Jacob propose?" he asked. My smile faded.

" How did you...."

" He asked me for your hand," he said before I could finish my sentence. I thought to myself ' What a gentleman'. 

Today, I was kind of nervous to meet Jacob's gang. I really hope they aren't like the Blighters. Before Jacob comes to get me I head to the kitchen and make myself some eggs. I'm an okay cook but I'm not the best. Mother taught me enough. After I ate, I sit in a chair and read Pride and Prejudice, a book I haven't read yet. Oh how I love reading, it makes me feel like I'm in another world, like I can get away from the problems in my life.

As I'm reading I hear a knock at the door, I close my book and walk to the door. There I see Jacob with a bouquet of red tulips, I smile.

" Red tulips, a symbol of undying love," I say, and I take the flowers. I get a vase and put them in it. I walk to my room and I find a spot for them on a table that is against  the window. I walk back down stairs, and I kiss Jacob, " Thank you," I whisper while smiling.

" Are you ready to go?" he looks down at me. I nod. He looks a little pained.

" Jacob, are you okay?" he nods.

" Yes, I'm fine," he sounds a little agitated, " Lets just go," he grabs my hand but I yank it away.

" Jacob, I'm not going anywhere until you tell me what's wrong," he sighs.

" Evie and I had a falling out, well apparently my tactics are destructive, we are too different so we are going to go our separate ways after we kill Starrick,"

" When will that be?" I ask.

" At the Queen's ball, which is in 2 days," I nod. I smile, remembering Erik is coming tomorrow, but I'm not too happy about father coming, " So, may we go now?" I nod.

Jacob takes me to a carriage, and he drives, he still drives horribly, but not as badly as the first day we met. About 10 minutes later Jacob stopped at a run-down, a little dirty place. I've never been to a place like this before.

" Jacob, where are we?" I ask him. Jacob looks at me and smile, he puts his arm around my waist and pulls me close.

" Why, my dear Emily, we are in Southwark ,at a Rook stronghold," We walk to that place which makes me very uncomfortable. There were both civilians and men and women in green.

The place looked very poor. Me and my sort of fancy purple dress didn't fit in. I feel like a fish out of water in this place.  As we walk, I see more and more people in green.

" Jacob, who are the people in green,"

" Emily, they're my gang,"

" Oh," I say, feeling stupid. As we walk we see a pub Jacob sits at a bar stool and I sit next to him. He orders a pint of beer.

" Emily, do you want anything?" I shake my head.

" I actually want to explore this place," I say.

" Do you want me to accompany you?" Jacob asked.

" No thank you, I think I can manage," I tell him so he won't worry.

I walk around the Rook stronghold and I see children happy and playing ball. Everyone here looks happy. Jacob told me before we came here that he and his Rooks took this stronghold from the Blighters.

I walk around for about 30 minutes then I head back to the pub. When I there I see Jacob with two Rooks women and two Rooks men drinking. I start to head towards them, then suddenly I'm pulled into someone's arms. I see a man that is about 30 years old. He smells of beer, I gag  little. " Let me go," I say to the man. He starts kissing my neck. I try to push him away, but his grip is too strong.

" Your so beautiful," he says in my hair. I cringe, at his as his breath touches my face. I try pushing away from him harder. But it is not working. He starts griping me tighter and tighter. So I kick him in the leg. He lets go of me, so I start to run, then he grabs my arm and pushes me to the wall. He has a look of anger on his face. " Don't you dare try to run away from me again!" He yells. I cower in fear. He starts skidding his hands down my dress, I start to cry. Then I start to scream.

"LET ME GO!" I scream. I kick him where a man shouldn't be kicked. Then I run as fast as I can with tears rolling down my face. I see Jacob running toward me, he must have heard me scream. I run into his arms and cry in his chest.

" Emily, what happened?" Jacob asked worried. I look up at him.

" A drunken man tried to have his 'way' with me," I manage to say though my crying. Jacob looks around and puts his arm protectively around my shoulder, and he leads me to a chair.

About 20 minutes later I start to calm down a little. Jacob hands me a shot of whiskey. Which I gladly take.

" Are you okay Emily," I nod. He smiles. I look behind him and I see the same group of Rooks that Jacob was with, looking at us. I give then a small wave and they wave back. Then a female Rooks comes to Jacob.

" Mr. Frye, we have word from Clara that the Blighters are running a factory that is being run by child labor," she says urgently.

" What?!" Jacob says surprised.