This is a sweet little two part story that takes place at the end of episode 7 of Season 2 when Sir Edward dies and Robin is comforting Marian. Told from Robin's point of view and what he was thinking. Happy reading!

Disclaimer: I don't own Robin Hood ladidadida, but believe me, if I did, you would know.

Never Letting Go

Part One

Here I am, in Marian's room at the castle with her crying in my arms. I find myself crying a bit as well.

Edward, he was so close to freedom, but I suppose he did achieve some form of freedom, he proved himself to Marian, to England and he died a hero.

I stroked Marian's soft hair as tears started to seep through my shirt.

There is nothing keeping her here anymore. She can finally come with me to the forest, now I can fully protect her and not have to always worry about her...

"Marian, come with me to the forest. I have a horse waiting."

She nodded her head.

Good, now to get out of here. We shouldn't risk walking through the castle, especially with that revolting Gisborne probably waiting at the door.

I looked around and spotted the window. Okay but how do we get down...

"I have an idea on how to get out of here. Can you help me?" I asked going over to her bed and gathering the sheets, "We need to knot these together to make a rope to get down from the window."

She looked at the window and then me with shining eyes and said, "Okay."

So for the next few minutes we tied the knots in silence until I asked, "I heard Gisborne outside the door, what was he doing, he didn't hurt you did he?"

"No but he wasn't exactly comforting me either." she whispered.

"Well you should know that I'm always here to comfort you and would never take advantage of you." I assured her.

"Thank you Robin," she said giving me a smile.

"My pleasure." I said as we finished up. I tied the one end to a bedpost and the other end to an arrow.

I took her by the window, notched the arrow, brought my bow up, pulled back the string, took a breath, and released. The arrow went straight through the window with a crash, the sheet rope following behind. I went down first with her following close behind. Once both our feet were firmly on the ground I led her to my horse, we got on, and started to ride off.

This is it; she's finally leaving the castle to be with me. I hope she'll like living in the forest, it will be a big change for her. But she's tough, she'll survive.

As we rode along Marian nuzzled her head into my back and tightened her grip around my waist. I put my hand on top of hers and said, "It will be ok." I assured her.

It will be ok, I assured myself.