Archery
Summary: Marian picked it up to show Robin up.
Prompt: Milliway's Bar DE Challenge
Recipient: Filemyclain
Summary: Marian; Archery
Disclaimer: All characters belong to the Robin Hood legend, and the BBC series.
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Marian picked it up to show Robin up.
She never told her father that. She never told him that. In fact, they both believed it otherwise, when she refused to shoot against him the whole first year she was learning it. She'd only been about ten, and her father more concerned with her cutting her fingers on silver tips than being able to hit the broad side of a barn.
It'd be three more years before she gave up trying to. Show him up. To fight the most obvious thing everyone acknowledge: Robin had a God-given gift undenied with a bow, that men twice his age, and practiced all their lives couldn't best in a lad. So she had eventually had to give up that notion.
But only after she'd managed to best him with a staff and a sword at least once a piece.