Chapter 4 - I Have To Do This My Way

"Ermm… Doctor what did you do?!" Rose asked after a long period of silence. They were staring at complete blackness, when clearly they shouldn't be.

"I have no idea!" He walked back over to the console, studying the monitor. "We are definitely in the right place… and right time… oh I know!" The TARDIS whirred as if to set off again, seemingly shutting its own doors. As the noise quietened the Doctor seemed to think he'd solved the problem. "Okay open the doors again." Jack opened the doors, this time revealing the sandy coloured buildings of the Holy Land.

"That's better!" Rose laughed as she and the Doctor left the TARDIS. "But what did you do?!"

"You see that wall over there?" The Doctor pointed to the wall that the TARDIS was backed up against. "Well, we were facing that!" The Doctor blushed slightly.

"Genius!" Jack remarked, strolling out the TARDIS after the others.

"Oh shut up!" The Doctor locked the TARDIS doors. "Okay everyone remember where we're parked!" He laughed.

"What?!" Robin asked.

"Oops, sorry, twenty-first century joke… never mind." The Doctor had half forgotten that Robin lived in the twelth century.

They walked off around the corner after Robin, they assumed towards the place where he knew Marian would be.

"Wait a minute, if we're going to do this, we need to make sure we are prepared; this could easily go wrong."

"What like a plan?" Robin questioned the Doctor.

"Yeah, here's what we do…" Jack started, he had clearly been thinking it through. He told them all the entire intricate plan that he'd come up with, involving distractions, fights, all sorts of possibilities and the solutions to them.

"Okay then…" Rose commented sarcastically. "Thought that through just a bit too much Jack!"

"Right, Robin and Jack you stop the Sheriff from shooting the King, Rose you come with me and we'll make sure Guy stays away from Marian. Everyone understand?"

"Yeah."

"Yes."

"No."

"What?!" The Doctor didn't quite believe what he'd just heard Robin say.

"I understand perfectly. I just don't agree."

"But we're going to save Marian, isn't that what you want?!" The Doctor didn't quite see why Robin would disagree.

"Of course that's what I want, but I have to save her. She's my fiancée, I'm supposed to be her hero, and I'm supposed to save her. I can't let a group of strangers that she doesn't even know, be the ones to save her! I am thankful for your help so far, but I have to find her myself, explain why I'm here, myself… I'm sorry, but I have to do this my way." Robin jogged away, heading through the alleyways towards the walkway overlooking the lower courtyard; he would make sure he found her before she ran in to protect the King, meaning there would be no chance of him being too late.

"So here's the new plan." Rose started, she found it completely understandable that he wanted to be the one to save her, and decided it would be a better idea to deal with the Sheriff and Guy rather than go chasing after Robin. "Jack, you find the Sheriff, stop him shooting the King. Doctor, we've got to make sure that Guy doesn't get anywhere near the King, or Marian for that matter."

"Okay, let's go." Jack headed off alone; he knew where he was going since Robin had told so much detail in his story, he'd been able to work out where he needed to be to find Vaysey.

"I think I can safely say your plan was much better than Jack's!" The Doctor laughed, as they walked round to the lower courtyard, going the opposite way Robin had.

"It wasn't exactly hard though was it?!"

"Not really, but we need to put it into action, prove that we're not just 'a group of strangers'."

"Shouldn't we be putting the plan into action for the greater good, that kind of thing, for Robin and Marian…?"

"Maybe, but then again who says I'm not just doing this for you?!"

"Now I'm thinking that might be why you're doing it, but if anyone asks you're doing it for Robin okay, or for both of them."

"Of course, that was always why I was doing it; because they both deserve to be together."

"Yeah, they do… okay I believe you!" Rose laughed, kissing him on the cheek and linking arms with him as they continued down the sand coloured passageways.

A/N: So there you go, another chapter, I'm thinking two more to go - the plan and rescue then, what happens after... no clues :D So lets hope Robin does his job properly! lol... anyway review please, show me you love me and want more!