Nottingham Forest
Sunnepho (previously Atrophy)
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This will be something of a repository for any Robin Hood BBC drabbles I might come up with in my first tentative foray out of Xena: Warrior Princess territory. I'm mostly writing these as a sort of exploration of the characters I'm interested in, so forgive me if I've gotten any details wrong, and feel free to yell at me for butchering any characterization. That would be helpful, since I'm still feeling around and trying to get a handle on these characters.
This one is set in season 3.
1. Guy
August 22, 2011
Guy/Robin (Friendship?)
Guy of Gisborne despises the life of the fugitive.
He thinks maybe he has gone soft after the days in the Holy Land, when the sun beat down mercilessly until he thought his skin charred, but it was nothing compared to the heat of the feverish tightness inside him as he clawed at any hope of saving Marian, saving himself.
He does not think of the nightmares now. He focuses on the rocks under his feet, the fetid dark corner he is given to sleep, the irritation and pathetic gratitude towards Allan A'Dale, who will always stand too close when speaking, and the bloody squirrels.
He likes to think that he can go back sometimes. Those are the bad nights, when he wakes up with a foul taste in his mouth and a black rage he cannot swallow.
But then Hood—Robin, his traitorous brain whispers sometimes—turns and looks at him with an impatient scowl, and the light hits his face in such a way as to cast his shadowed features in sharp relief.
Hood gestures at him to hurry up, and Guy thinks again that he despises this life. But he finds himself moving quicker.