This is the sequel to 'Friends or Family, Friendship or Fiancés?' Hope you enjoy it.
The Children.
Part 1 – Our Children!
They had been in Scarborough with there two year old children for hours, but as Marian, Robin, Will and Djaq headed back they still felt as if they should have stayed longer. They knew that the children would know who their parents really were but wouldn't they grow up to love the family they were staying with, may be more than their real parents? Would they forgive them when they were older for not keeping them in the forest?
Ten Years Later.
Both children were twelve and looking forward to seeing their Aunts Marian and Djaq and Uncles Will and Robin. The two siblings had just had baths for the visitors, but Dan didn't understand why, they lived in the forest, they wouldn't care about hygiene.
"Hello." Marian and Djaq smiled as she came in and hugged their brother and Robin and Will gave their sister a small pat on the back before they all sat down at the table.
"Thank you for making us this meal." Marian said politely.
"You gave us the money for it," Mark, their father, laughed.
"We should be thanking you; in fact we are thanking you!" Mary, their mother, thanked cheerily.
"What have you been doing lately? Sword fighting? Archery? Will, have you been practicing fighting with your axe?" Dan asked, eager to hear about the outlaws adventures.
"Well we stole the money from the tax collections from everywhere north of here as the cart came through Nottingham and…"
"Robin, please don't encourage them." Mary begged with her eyes.
Robins eyes suddenly went cold, "We should talk."
"Dan, Freya, we need to talk to your parents, could you go upstairs for a minute?" Djaq asked kindly.
The children nodded, stopping as soon as they reached the top of the stairs ready to listen.
"They're our children; you can't stop us telling them things." Robin hissed.
Dan and Freya looked at each other in amazement, rushing back down the stairs they both shouted, "What?"