Revolution Page #5

-They was tooken, Bill.

-By who, tooken?

-lt was a man who came and took them.

-You made no alarm?

I didn't mean to.

I didn't mean to. I thought

you liked him better than me.

Ben, Ben.

You'll always be dear to me, Ben.

Now, go on.

-Pike.

-Sir.

My knife.

Give it to who brings back me boys.

Now, go on.

Sir.

Oh, Ned.

Here. You gotta keep awake, son.

You got to keep awake.

Wait!

Over there. You go over.

Oh, what means to safety now?

How to leave this place?

I know it well in peace time

for all I hunted...

...but now with its sharp, rocky hills,

it's enemy land.

Tom, sir.

American.

I hate les Anglais.

I hate lroquois. They kill Huron.

My father sont Francais.

Mama, she was Huron.

The man who kill my enemy...

...is my friend.

A real feeling of kin and sameness

come over me for these colored men.

These natives of this country...

...who try to remain

where and what they be.

It carries me in my mind

to my early years.

Taken as a young ignorant from

my frighted folk in this new land...

...sold for a few coin of the realm

and a written paper...

...binding me to be a worker

for my food bed...

... till I came in age when the paper said

I were no longer bound.

And now a memory also of how I felt

akin to the black slaves at those days.

Though no folk of them was given coin,

and no paper freed them after any time.

Those things of old...

...have gone almost complete

from my mind...

...now flood back on me.

You gotta stay awake, son.

-You gotta stay awake.

-Just hold on.

Pa.

I'm here, Ned.

I got you. I got you.

I got a terrible dream.

-I'm drowning, Pa.

-No, no, no, you ain't.

No, you ain't. No, you're here.

Hold my hand.

You hold my hand

like they're rope.

I won't let you sink.

I won't let you sink.

You hear me talking, Ned?

-Yeah.

-Come on, come on.

I'm gonna talk to you now.

I'm gonna tell you...

Tell you about your Ma.

Now, you remember your Ma?

Yeah. You tell me about her.

Come on. You just tell

me what you remember.

The way she smelled.

-Yeah.

-All warm.

-Yeah.

-How she rocked me.

Oh, she loved you, Ned.

-She loved you too, Pa.

-Oh, yeah.

-She died.

-Yeah.

It was fever took her, Ned.

Took everyone. Man, wife,

the Indians, by the thousands.

And your sister, Nell,

and James, your brother...

...and little baby Ann.

Remember Ann, Ned?

Yes, Pa.

It's all right, Ned.

It's all right.

Okay, hold on.

Hold on, hold on.

Here we go. Hold on.

Pa.

I'm with you.

I'm with you.

I'm with you, son.

I'm with you, son.

Ned.

Oh, Ned. Oh, Ned.

Bite on it, Ned. Bite on it.

There, Ned.

That's it, Ned.

They're finished.

Ned. Ned.

-There.

-Pa.

-Yes.

-Pa?

Yeah. Yes?

-You saved me, Pa?

-Yeah.

Yes.

-Pa.

-Yes.

-I thought you was a coward.

-You did, Ned? You thought that?

-But you ain't a coward.

-No, I ain't.

I was, Ned. I was.

It was me got you in this mess.

What'd I do that for?

-Pa.

-It was needing you, Ned.

It was just needing you.

-Needing to hold you.

-Pa.

You're my son.

That's all I got.

Pa.

-I'm drowning, Pa.

-No.

-Pa.

-No, no, no.

No, don't sink.

Don't fall on me. Don't drown.

No, Ned. Damn you, Ned.

Damn you, Ned. No, no.

Pa. Pa.

Can't you feel me rock you?

I'm rocking you.

I'll rock you like

when you was my baby.

-Oh, Ned.

-Pa.

Oh, Ned.

I'll rock you now.

-Come on, Ned.

-Are we on the river?

No, Ned. No.

-I can feel it moving.

-No.

It's just me rocking you.

I'm gonna keep rocking you.

Just rocking you back and forth

like when you was my little baby.

Where are we going, Pa?

We're going...

...somewhere.

Somewhere new.

-What's it like?

-Oh, I don't know.

It's like nowhere else.

-Please tell me, Pa.

-I'll tell you.

I'll tell you.

We're gonna find us a place...

...where there ain't no one

to bow down to.

Where there ain't no

lord or lady better than you.

Where you can say what you like

and climb as high as you want.

And there ain't nobody gonna

treat no one like a dog in the dirt.

I look around me, Ned,

and I see all kinds of people.

Men, women.

And they got families like mine.

And we all stand together

like brothers and sisters.

And we make a place for ourselves.

We'll make a place where our babies

can sleep safe through the night.

Are we there, Pa?

We're almost there, Ned.

You come through, Ned.

I spake words to Ned

I did not know were in me.

And now with them said, I am new.

And there's new purpose

in this bloody and uneven fight.

I can now see what parted

Ned from me these many a month.

He knew deep in him

this land of his birth was home.

Hyah!

Cuffy, the flag.

-Halt.

-Whoa.

-Where's your tally?

-Whoa.

-Here.

-All right.

Thank you.

All right, let's go. Go on.

Come on, go.

-I'm coming to get some.

-Hey, wait for me.

-Corn.

-Corn.

Food.

Come on, food.

-The food is here.

-Hello, there.

Oh, sergeant.

You got any tobacco?

Yeah, I got some tobacco.

-Come on, keep them moving.

-Hoped you might.

Come on, move on.

Come on up here.

-What else you bring?

-Move.

Come on, Charlie,

food's arrived.

-Come on. Help me get it unloaded.

-Two pigs, three sheep...

-...three barrels of fish.

-Right.

As much cheese as we

could lay hands on.

There's also sour grass, chamomile

and mistletoe for the medicine chest.

Get these goods unloaded.

Captain Cray,

here's a team and wagon, sir.

Is there anything

I can do to help you?

I'll need you and your carts.

I've got sick men to be taken

to the hospital at Yellow Springs.

Water. Water.

Doctor,

this wound is festering badly.

-Sergeant.

-Yes, ma'am.

-These men are dying.

-That's why they must go.

There's food, just arrived.

The general don't want

no men dying at Valley Forge.

Get them loaded now, sergeant.

Yes, sir.

Corporal,

get the stretcher cases over here.

-Get this man bandaged.

-You, go with him.

-I want him ready to be moved.

-All right, now, move.

Those men that are able to be moved,

I want them on this wagon ready to roll.

I know you. Miss New York.

You wouldn't come to war.

-Well, I've come now.

-So you have.

I remember you.

-You had a fella.

-Bill was killed at Trenton.

Nurse, for God's sake.

-Is that his son?

-Don't move.

-Yes. And I'm heavy with Jack's now.

-Nurse.

Daisy?

Daisy.

It's me, Ned.

Ned. Oh, Ned.

God, you're safe.

God, you've grown. Look at you.

Oh, my God.

-Look at you. You got a rifle.

-Yeah.

We're scouts now.

-My mother once told me...

-Scouts?

Mm.

-Where's your dad, Ned?

-Over in the hut.

Oh.

One, two, one, two, one, two.

Pa, look who's here.

What have I to say to her?

This woman I took to be a girl of

fantasy playing at a toy-soldier war.

Through all the thunder of battle,

soft and smiling she appears still...

...like a guiding angel.

God, I prayed for you, Tom.

I prayed for you so much.

You got thin.

A soldier' s life.

Come on. Oh, you're cold.

Here. Ain't got much.

Some pumpkin soup.

Ain't much in it, but it's warm.

Here.

I got salt.

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