The return of the King

by julie20007

Robin gets a late night visitor who bears a letter from the King, is this letter genuine or is this another of the Sherrif and Gisbourne's schemes, read to find out. R/M. Rated for violence.

1. Prologue

Hi everyone, well this is my first BBC Robin Hood fanfiction, I mainly write Doctor Who fanfictions, so please be nice.

DISCLAIMER: Do I own Robin Hood... Uh no, if I did, Marian wouldn't have died, would she. Here we go, be warned updates will not be very frequent cause I have at least 6 other stories in progress.

Late one night in the heart of Sherwood forest, no one was sleeping in the outlaw camp, thanks to the fact that they were worried about their favourite noble (Lady Marian), she had not met Robin at the market in Nottingham like she was supposed to and that was never a good sign.

Suddenly John stood up from his place beside the small fire in the centre of the camp and walked up to the road; he thought that he'd heard hooves... so he went to investigate, he looked up and down the road several times before he spotted two horses coming towards the camp, he returned to the others and told them.

Instead of scattering as usual the gang went to the road and waited in ambush.

When the horses came close enough to identify their riders the gang was relieved to find that it was Marian and a man that Robin recognised as one of the King's messengers, he stepped out from his hiding place and the rest of the gang followed, Much took the reigns of the strangers horse and Will took Marian's, both riders dismounted from their horses and walked towards Robin who stood a few feet away from them.

Marian hugged Robin and quickly pulled back, Robin took a good look at her and realised that she was far too happy to have just came from the castle.

"What is it?" he asked the messenger.

"I have a message for you from King Richard himself, Sir Robin." He reached inside his cloak and pulled out a letter, which was sealed by the King's official seal. Robin opened the letter and read it quickly, before grinning broadly and handing it to Marian who also smiled.

The messenger got back on his horse and rode away.

As this is only the prologue I think that it would be wise for me to stop right there, I won't be updating this until tomorrow at the earliest.

TTFN

Julie20007