Prompt from marcia2014: I would like to read about a jealous Robin

Robin was fuming. How dare that Will Scarlet ask the Queen for a dance!

Robin shook his head, clearing his thoughts. She wasn't his to control. He didn't even really understand why he was so jealous. He didn't even get along with Regina, for heaven's sake!

But now, here he stood, angry over the fact one of his Merry Men had asked the Queen to dance with him. Little John would make a fool out of him if he knew what Robin was thinking.

And suddenly, Robin found himself pleased when the distant monarch turned Will down. The Merry Man merely shrugged, not much affected by the Queen's rejection. Robin was so caught up in his delight that he didn't even notice Friar Tuck walk up beside him.

"She's illusive, that one. Like a sparrow in the woods," the friar observed quietly to Robin.

"Indeed, she is," Robin replied. He turned to look at Tuck. "Friar, what does it mean when a man feels...possessive of a woman he does not posses?"

Tuck smiled at him kindly. "I saw a lovely little sparrow outside yesterday. Suddenly, a whole flock of them was upon her, pecking and nipping at her face and wings. Then, out of the blue, another sparrow came along. But instead of pecking and nipping, this one spread its wings and shielded the abused sparrow."

"Friar Tuck, what on this earth does that have to do with my question?" Robin asked, frustrated with the older man's confusing story about birds.

"Ah, look. It seems the pretty little sparrow is being pecked at again."

The friar pointed in a direction across from them. Robin followed his finger and found Charming pestering Regina for a dance.

Tuck sighed. "If only that brave sparrow was here to protect the little one."

He smiled and watched as Robin marched across the ballroom to where Charming and Regina were standing. He laughed with amusement at Charming's shocked face, when the Queen accepted the thief's hand and followed him onto the dance floor.

He sighed with deep contentment as the two sparrows danced the remainder of the night away.