An Robin Hood/Annie cross. In this Marian didn't die

Pepper somehow gets sent into the past… all the way back to the time of Robin Hood in fact. When she's enslaved by the sheriff and runs away, she runs into a certain gang of outlaws.

Hard-knock life

(Chap 1: Pepper)

Poor Pepper. She didn't know what or how it happened, it just did. One second she was cleaning the floor after her bowl of cold gruel and the next she was just outside a Castle or something in the courtyard. Now the sheriff's forcing her to work as a maid in his home.

"ok, make the beds, dust the place, make the food, polish the silver, scrub the floors, feed the horses, muck out the stables, clean the horses, wash and feed the dogs… god! There are more chores here than the Geneva convention would allow." Pepper muttered to herself, looking at the mile long list of things she had to do… this morning.

"You will get the list of your afternoon cores after lunch, 1 o'clock, report to me and collect it." Guy stated loudly in her ear before riding away on his horse.

"I have to do all of this by morning! Talk about a hard-knock life."

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After hours she had finally finished and had to find Guy…somewhere in this castle.

After a little while she found Guy near the stables, trying to show a young woman a horse who was now panicking and getting ready to bolt. I noticed their was a corn snake near it's hooves. Pepper rushed in and threw the snake away and pushed the woman over before the horse stepped on her. Grabbing hold of the reigns she cooed softly to calm it down.

"Sorry, are you ok?" Pepper turned to the woman. She was in a beautiful red, flowing dress. Her hair was dark-brown like mine with bright blue eyes.

"How dare you." Guy hit me in the face, sending me flying back.

"Leave her Guy."

"She insulted you Marian, I must not let it happen again."

"Would you rather have had her let me die? She saved me from the horse, let her be."

"…"

"If not for her, then for me."

After a little while he nodded and left.

"I'm Marian… and you are?"

"I'm Pepper."

"Bit of a strange name isn't it?"

"Not from where I come from… what am I doing her?"

"Look, you shouldn't have to work here, your too young. I have some friends in the forest who can keep you safe."

"They want me for something don't they?"

"They think that you're a witch. They haven't killed you yet because they want to see if they can make themselves a deal."

"What kindof deal?"

"Well, there's a count in France who loves witches. He's obsessively interested in witchcraft. They want to see if they can sell you to him. I'll help you escape, but not tonight. I'll help you in a few days."

"Well, they'll be another full moon in 3 weeks, so next full moon?"

"Ok. Good luck till then." she smiled and left Pepper to find Guy and get her other chores.

This WILL get better kk.