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Summary: Takes place after Season 2 Episode 9. Will has decided to make a move. Will/Djaq
Author's note: Thank you so much for the lovely reviews! They gave me such a warm, fuzzy feeling inside. :) I was really nervous about posting the fic, but in hardly any time at all you posted very encouraging reviews.
Djaq stared at Will with wide eyes. He smiled at her nervously waiting for her answer. Never in a million years would she have believed that this could happen to her. She suddenly realised her mouth was hanging open and shut it with an audible click.
She had firmly believed that the men in this camp were not capable of seeing her as a woman, let alone a woman worthy of being courted! She was just one of the gang. Yet here was Will, the man she dreamed about day and night, the man she thought she could never have, ever so politely requesting that they start a courtship.
This thought in turn led her on to a worrying thought – how would this change their lives in the camp? How could they maintain a proper courtship when they were camped out in a forest? Courtships were a very formal affair! There were rules to be observed, not to mention chaperones to be found! She knew that if all things were well and she were at home, her father would have been negotiating her marriage to someone of worthy standing, and Will would not even feature in that list of interviewees. But her father was gone now and it was up to her to make this decision. She knew how she felt about Will and she knew his worth better than her father ever could have known. He was worth a thousand of any of the men her father would have offered her.
Djaq was brought back to the moment when she saw Will's smile falter and fall from his face. He had had such an intense look in his eyes, but that was fading now into sadness and embarrassment. She realised that she had been staring at him for too long without saying something and he thought she was going to reject him.
"Will, I – I never thought..." She was the one who was struggling to find the right words now. She knew in her heart what her answer was. But could her head agree with her heart?
She saw Will's face falling further, if that was possible, and squeezed his hands gently in hers. She couldn't bear to see him like this. She knew that she couldn't bear to be without him.
"Yes." She said abruptly. Will blinked.
"What?"
"Yes!" She said, laughing now at his surprise. His face broke into a grin and he released her hands, just to put his arms round her waist and lift her off the ground into a tight hug, laughing with joy. Still keeping her off the ground and clasped to his chest, he pulled back to look deep in her eyes, wanting to be sure that this was real and happening. She smiled lovingly back at him and he knew that it was real. Their faces were so close that their noses were almost touching. They slowly began to close the gap between them, the moment becoming more and more intense.
"Ahem." Someone cleared their throat behind them and Will dropped Djaq and they leapt apart as though they'd received an electric shock. Robin was standing a short distance away, looking slightly embarrassed. "Sorry, guys, I didn't want to intrude, but I left it as long as I could. I just wanted to tell you that Much and I are off to Nottingham to check on Marian. John's staying in camp and I figured you two would want some time alone."
At this last, he smirked a little, but Will just nodded somberly. Djaq, however, whipped her head around and looked at Will incredulously.
"Robin knows?!"
So what did you think of Chapter 2? Did it follow on as you expected? I don't really know very much about 12th century Saracen social practices, so I had to make a bit of an educated guess. :) I hope I'm not too far off!
