Title: Hatred
Rating: G
Word count: 259
Characters/Pairings: Marian/Robin, mentions king Richard
Summary: He has never hated the king, never.
Disclaimer:Robin Hood is copyright to Tiger Aspect and the BBC. All Rights Reserved. No copyright infringement is intended, and no money is being made.He has never hated the king. Never.
His entire life he has done nothing but serve him, protect him; he would have given up everything he had to save his king. Everything. And now, after years of wars and dutiful service, he finally has given him what he loves the most. He'll never be able to forget it – the king can, the king probably will – the image of her, so beautiful and strong, hands held out in a defiant pose; determined to protect their king with her own life.
Dying for the king he believed in.
He has never thought anything but good about his king; but now in the face of Marian's sacrifice he can't help but think that this is all his fault. The truth, whether he is willing to admit it out loud or not, is that if the king had never left his own land, if he had not deemed the Holly Land more important than his own England, than none of this would have happened. Marian would have live, she'd be by his side and they'd be happy, together. Even now, despite her sacrifice, the king still would not leave this land and war to go and save his own; he still would not return home.
If the king had done what he should have done none of this would have happened.
He leaves with anger boiling inside him, slowly growing; the sadness almost numbing it at first.
He has never hated the king but he supposes there is a first time for everything.