DISCLAMER: SUPER IMPRORTANT... PAY ATTENTION... ONLY THING I OWN IS SUSAN... SHE IS MY OC... BUT I WAS INSPIRED BY OTHER FF WRITTERS AND OBVIOUSLY THE MAIN BBC STORY... SO DONT HATE ME... I DONT WANT TO PLAGERIZE BUT I WAS SO INSPRIED I HAD TO PRINT IT... THANKS AND PLEASE NO FLAME BUT I WOULD LOVE A REVIEW! =D
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Susan stood in the back hanging the clothing on the line and folding the ones she hung earlier, when she heard a great amount of laugher coming from the front of the scarlet's humble home.
She pulled down the last of Wills shirts when Luke came up from behind her saying "Susie get out here… dad wants to talk to you."
Susan didn't turn to look at him she just said "I'll be there in a moment….."
Susan grabbed the basket containing the clean clothing and began to walk around to the front of Dan Scarlet's house. Since the death of her father it had just been robin and the village of Lockley that had looked after her. She considered them all family, but she grew especially close to Dan and his family….. After her brother robin left for the holy wars. Susan found herself spending more and more time at the Scarlet's mostly her excuse was to do the women's work, but to be honest she considered Luke to be a 'little brother' and Dan a 'father'….. Will had always been her best friend and Jane was like the mother she'd never have. When Jane died, Susan felt like her mother was abandoning her all over again. Susan clung to the Scarlet family and somehow in that time became a daughter and a sister to them.
She rounded the corner of the small house as a light arrow fell into a stack of hay next to her. She knew by the way it flew it was Luke's arrow. She moved her eyes from the ground to see a two men laughing with Will, Dan and a slightly embarrassed looking Luke. The man turned and looked shockingly at Susan. Her body stopped in its tracks as she saw the face of her slightly older and unshaven brother. Robin.
A smile broke on his face and his forest green eyes light with joy and surprise.
"My, my, Susan you're more beautiful than when I left you." he said with a smile.
As he approached Susan, she realized he was really there and she was not dreaming and almost dropped the basket in her hands as she took a step closer to him.
Robin caught the basket walking up to her saying in a cheeky tone "Susie …..Im back."
She dropped the basket completely as she threw her arms around her brother's neck. His tight embrace lifted her off her feet and swung her around setting her down gently, as Munch came into view.
She jumped from robins hug into Munch's more occupied arms holding him tightly saying "your back… you both are…"
Munch let his arms hold her in a more respectful way. As he was still just a manservant and she was still the lady of Lockley. But Susan didn't care for titles, to her much was just another brother who'd come home from a war she was sure he would not return from.
She released them as Dan said "yeah Susie has been helping us out with the women's work mostly…."
Dan was cut short when the clopping hooves of sheriff's men thundered into Lockley. The soldier's dismounted and began to pull people out from their homes. Will took the bow from Luke's hands and hid it behind some nearby boards of wood. As Susan lead the group headed towards where the towns people were being gathered.
Susan left their sides and went to Gisborne side as he was ushering a boy from Lockley village forward. "Sacks of flower have gone missing from the store…." He shouted to the villagers then in a normal and more devious tone he turned to Susan and said "they will be accounted for."
Susan stood her ground saying in a demanding tone "Lockley village has never had a problem with theft…. You know this, so go and be on your way to find the real thieves."
He glared at her for her outburst, Susan felt a bolt of fear stun threw her, but pushed it aside putting on a brave face. That's when Robin stepped forward announcing his return and defending the people of Locksley. Susan turned and went to the accused boy's mother attempting to comfort her. As she hushed the hysterical women…
Robin's voice was drowned out by a cry from Dan scarlet. "Will… Lukey!"
Susan glanced in time to see Gisborne's men tying up Will and Luke to walk behind horses as prisoners.
She rushed Gisborne taking hold of his horse reins shouting "What are you doing…. They've done nothing wrong….let them go!"
Robin was nowhere in sight and Susan had forgotten he was even home, all she could see was Gisborne taking her family from her. A solider tried to pull her from the horse as, she struggled and continued to argue. The solider threw her from the horse, she landed at Dan's feet. He helped her to stand then restrained her the best he could as the boys were taken away.
"No Susie ….. Susan stop …. They've gone…..stop." he said turning her into his chest in a comforting way.
"But Dan…. It's Will and Luke… I can't just … have to…"She fought back trying to break fee.
"NO …. Stop…I know, but you can't get arrested too ….."
Susan sobbed into her surrogate-father's chest, till she was finally able to calm herself. As she broke free from Dan's grip she spout "I'll sort this out… I promise…. I will bring them home."
Dan sighed but did not argue. Susan trotted to her stables calling for her horse to be tacked as she changed. Telling the servants to tell robin where she'd gone. That's when the servants told her he'd gone to knighting hall to visit the old sheriff Sir Edward and Lady Marian, before heading to Nottingham. She knew much would be with him, she changed for an audience with the sheriff.
