Hey guys! This is my first Robin Hood fic, so I'd REALLY appreciate reviews! Some of you may know me off of my Harry Potter fics, but I'm planning on changing my writing style with each story that I write. I obviously don't own the characters or the BBC version of this story or Season Three would not be the disaster that it is. This is set after "Lardner's Ring" and before "Walkabout" R&R and don't forget to be awesome!
Marian sighed heavily while walking down a dark corridor. Robin had just given her the engagement ring that she had been waiting for for five years and now she was stuck in the dreary castle with Vaisey and Guy again. It didn't bother her too much, for she was getting Robin the information that he needed on The Black Knights and all of Vaisey's future plans, but it was Guy that bothered her the most. He still did not want to give up on her, and thought that maybe someday she might return his feelings.
Marian shuddered at the thought of being within five feet of Guy. He was a horrible man, smelling always of sweat and leather mixed with the ale that he drank religiously. Walking quicker towards her bed chamber, she saw a dark figure leaning on her doorframe. Oh, not again. Marian thought.
"Marian." Sir Guy nodded his head and seemed to stand taller and she walked towards him.
"Sir Guy." She replied politely. She was in no mood to chat, and wished he'd leave her alone. Sadly, things did not usually go her way when Guy was concerned.
"I wished to speak to you about a private matter." He said and she instantly remembered the time when she herself had uttered those words.
"Very well." Guy stepped back and allowed Marian to walk in her bed chamber first before closing the door.
Marian took a deep breath before seating herself in one of two chairs by her dressing table. Guy seemed hesitant, but he finally sat in the chair opposite her.
"Two days ago you were taken hostage by Robin Hood." Guy said simply. Images flooded through Marian's brain as he spoke. Robin proposing over a fresh grave, the tree that Lardner's cage was stuck in, the look on Robin's face when he realized that Marian was right and that they needed a diversion to get them out safely and there was only one way to do it. Sacrificing herself.
"I was." Marian said simply. The thought of Robin hurt her deeply and she wished over everything else that he could come and see her now, but she knew that was impossible, what with Guy posting round the clock guards at every entrance of the castle.
"Was there something else you wished to ask, Guy?" Marian was getting impatient. Maybe if he would leave, Robin would find a way to sneak in.
"I wished to know about your engagement."
"My what?" Marian's heart beat picked up immediately. How could he have known? Robin had only just proposed and she had made sure to hide the ring from Guy before he had "saved" her.
"You're previous engagement to Hood before he left for the Holy land." Oh. Marian thought. Of course he meant our first engagement.
"What of it?" She asked, regaining her composure.
"He still carries a torch for you." He said quietly. It wasn't a question.
"What makes you say that, Guy?" Marian put on her best "shocked" expression.
"Why would he kidnap you if he did not?" Of course he would answer her questions with another question. "He obviously wishes for a secret friendship."
"That's absurd." Marian stood up and turned her back to Guy, walking instead toward her window over looking the courtyard. "I did once love him, but that was a long time ago. He chose war over me. He chose glory." She spat the word out of her mouth as if it were a retched thing she couldn't wait to be rid of. Thinking of Robin made her heart fly, but she would never let Guy know this.
"You no longer think of him in a romantic way?" Guy asked.
"Of course not." Marian said softly.
"That's funny." Said a voice from the corner closest to the window. "The feelings are mutual."
"Hood!" Guy said and he jumped out of his chair and ran towards Robin who was leaning against Marian's bed frame as if he'd been there all along. But Robin was too fast for him. He jumped out of Guys way and was at Marian's side in an instant, the bow and arrow pressed firmly against the small of her back.
"What do you want Hood?" Marian asked menacingly, although she knew that he was just as happy to see her as she was to see him which was ecstatically happy.
" I just came to pick up a little gift, that's all. A donation if you will." Guy stopped in his tracks when he saw the weapon much too close to Marian for comfort. Robin nodded towards Marian's jewelry box and her sack of coins as if to make sure Guy understood him.
"Let her go Hood, you've already taken her once."
"What's to say I won't do it again?" Robin said cheekily. "After all, you don't make your feelings for her a secret." He sneered.
"Let. Her. Go." Guy said again, this time slower.
"Drop your sword and leave the room and I will do as you ask dear Sir." Robin was slowly making Guy angrier.
"Do as he says Guy." Marian tried her hardest to sound frightened and flustered. She felt the bow pressed harder into her side.
"I'm not leaving you in the presence of an outlaw!" Guy yelled, and glared at Robin, his sword hand twitching.
"Please, feel free to listen outside the door, but the Lady Marian and I need out privacy." Robin said sweetly. Guy seemed to debate this for a moment. The bow was pressed harder into flesh, causing Marian to whimper in pain.
"If you hurt her, I will not rest until I find you."
"That's a comfort, I'm sure. Now leave." Robin drew his bow as if to emphasize his point. Guy backed out of the room slowly. When the door closed, Robin ran and locked the bolt on the door. It was easy to hear Guy yelling for guards to block the exits.
"That was an idiotic move, even for you!" Marian whispered to her betrothed across the room.
"I can't help it if I wanted to see you. How was I supposed to know that Guisborne hadn't gone and off and proposed to you again?" Robin whispered back and sat on Marian's bed where she joined him as she talked.
"You could trust me." Marian said. "Besides, all alone out there in the forest, and I know for a fact that it gets very cold at night. How am I supposed to know what you're doing?"
"You could trust me." Robin mimicked and leaned over to plant a chaste kiss on her lips.
"Guy will be returning with more guards soon." Marian mumbled pathetically. She desperately wanted Robin to stay, but if he did it would most likely turn into a blood bath between her two suitors. Or more appropriately, her husband to be and a desperate man wishing for reconciliation.
"Then I must be on my way." Robin did not seem eager to leave.
"You could always come with me you know." Robin said, drawing little circles on the back of Marian's hand with his thumb.
"I cannot, you know I cannot. I'm more help here than I am in the forest, not to mention Guy will suspect you if I leave." Marian looked down at the golden duvet on her bed.
"I'm sure I wouldn't mind if Guy wanted to fight me for you. He knows that I would win not only the battle, but your heart as well." Marian turned her head away from him and scowled at her bed sheets.
" I am not some pretty trinket to be bought or won." Robin's hand brushed her cheek and Marian looked up at her betrothed.
"You know I didn't mean it like that." He smiled at her and she returned the favor.
"HOOD!" They heard a bang on the door which Marian supposed to be Guy throwing his full weight against the dead lock. Guard's footsteps were getting louder and increasing in numbers.
"You should leave." Marian got up off of the bed and put some of her jewelry and coins in a leather pouch.
"And miss all the fun? Never!" Robin said smiling. "I just need to borrow something if you don't mind?" Marian got the trick when Robin picked up different herbs from her window sill.
"It won't hurt, I promise, and it'll wear off in about twenty minutes." Mashing all of the different plants in his hand, he gave them to Marian who swallowed them in an instant.
When the door to Marian's chamber was finally opened Guy stumbled into the room with around twenty guards at his heels.
"Looking for me Guisborne?" Robin said from the window sill. He was standing in the frame, supporting an unconscious Marian.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HER?" Guy roared, running across the room to the couple.
"Not much compared to what I can do if you come any closer." Robin emphasized his point by inching Marian's body closer and closer to the open window. Guy stopped a few feet from Robin but hesitantly moved forward.
"Ah ah," Robin held Marian's head outside. "Not one more step." Guy growled but stepped back.
"Now if you fine gentlemen will excuse me!" Robin said louder, mostly for Guy's expense. He leaned over Marian's limp body, and kissed her full on the mouth.
"HOOD!" Guy yelled for the third time as Robin smiled angelically at him.
"I'll just take this," Robin held up Marian's leather pouch. "And be on my way." He dropped Marian, who was caught by Guy, and was out of the castle in an instant.