Robin Hood's Shadow

by jadewych

When Lillian finds out that she is going to be married to a complete stranger, she decides to run away to live in Sherwood forest with her dog Shadow and her best friend Sparrow. She disguises herself as a boy and takes the name 'Robin Hood', after her endearing nickname and the cloak she wears to hide her hair. First fanfic, please don't judge to harshly!

1. Prologue

All the best stories have a hero, and all the best heroes have a purpose. Whether I am a hero or not is debatable, but this is a tale of my purpose and my journey to freedom.

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I was born in Loxley, an unexpected daughter to a family with five sons. I had good, law abiding parents that gave me a wonderful start in life and of course I had my five older brothers to protect me from any boys that might have otherwise be vying for my attention had they not been terrified of my brothers' over-protective nature.

My parents mistakenly assumed that I had all of the ambitions expected of a young woman and I was blessed, so I was told, with a significant amount of my mother's beauty. With my red-gold hair that fell in ringlets to my waist, my full lips and striking green eyes, I suppose I was reasonably pretty but it has never mattered to me.

As my parents had expected another son, I was named Robin after some long-dead relative. My father had seen no reason to change this just because I was a girl, and anyway, I preferred this to some sissy girls name like Lillian or Petunia, although I never could understand why people thought I bore resemblance to dead person, but I suppose everyone was intitled to their personal opinion.

I lived an easy life, for the most part; my only jobs were to cook if my mother was ill (which happened very often-she was quite sickly) and to look pretty when we had any guests.

But there was a part of my life unknown to all but one.

After dark, every night without fail, I crept out of the house to meet Sparrow.

In my village, it was unheard of for a boy and a girl to be involved with one another without some kind of romantic feelings, but no matter what you may otherwise think, Sparrow was like a brother to me.

I only wish that I had appreciated what I had while I still had the chance.

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Hey this is my first story on fanfiction, I would really appreciate it if anyone who reads this gives me a review as I'd like to know what people think and it helps if I know how to improve my writing :-)

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