'Love you forever' by Rosa17.

Sequel to Salvation

There will some flashbacks in this story to various points in time, which I will define by posting it italics if I can manage it. It may prove to be a bit tense on occasion but I hope I have evened it out with romance/fuzzy bits. This begins about three months after Salvation finished.

Part 1

The man walked through the shadows; the streets were narrow, closer together than the town of Nottingham, known as snickleways and far dirtier and smellier too. He jostled past smaller men and women in his haste to reach his destination. The house in which he finally stood was grand as he expected it to be. The front door was not for him, nor was the back. The man skulked in the shadows, for the remainder of the day and eventually his patience which was not his best attribute paid off, the portly figure he was waiting for slipped out of the servant's door and headed down the street.

He followed him keeping a very close tail on his journey; the portly man entered a church, an imposing building and still the big man watched. He noticed several people exit the building and when he thought it to be all but empty went in.

He was relieved that the building was indeed empty save the lone monk on his knees at before the Alter and stood waiting for him to turn and notice he wasn't alone. This took longer than the big man had time for but eventually the monk moved, turned and immediately noticed and recognised the man who had come to see him.

Tuck walked towards the man he knew, not well but enough to trust, thinking he looked haggard, worn, tortured and whatever he had come to Tuck for could not be good news, especially this far from Nottingham and alone.

"Little John," he said in way of greeting.

John's mouth was in a grim line as he replied, "I need your help."