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Noon had set in, in Loxley and Robin's gang sat around the table eating, while Much fixed the food, "Do you think Guy wants anything to eat?" Much asked, trying to get accustomed to calling him by his first name, and getting accustomed to him,
"Why don't you go and see if he wants something to eat." Allan answered,
"Allright I will." He said defiantly, as he climbed the stairs to Guy's bed chamber; he entered quietly and walked over to the bed,
"Guy...Guy." Much called quietly,
No response.
"Guy." Much called again this time giving him a small nudge,
Guy moaned painfully.
"Guy do you want anything to eat?" Much asked,
Guy mumbles quietly and Much just sees his lips move.
"I'll take that as a no." Much said guessing, as he walked back down the stairs,
"Did he bite?" Allan teased,
"He's still sleeping I'll ask again later...Tuck I think you should give him something for the pain." Much said,
"I'm worried that giving him something for the pain might relax his body too much and he might die before Robin comes back." Tuck said explaining his worry,
"Well you can't just leave him in pain to suffer." Kate protested, she had finally managed to appreciate Guy as a valuable addition to the gang, because he was now dying because he saved Robin's life, to her that was all she needed to respect him and welcome him with open arms into the inner circle. Although she wasn't sure about the incident where he had killed the woman he professed to love, she was ready, willing, and able to sit and listen to his explanation.
Tuck rose and walked over to the shelf where he had placed the medical kit, opening it he drew out several bottles, he then handed them to Much and gave him instruction on what to do with each of them, Tuck oversaw everything that went on to make sure Much had it right. Tuck wanted someone else to know how to prepare the medicine incase Guy needed it when he wasn't around, and even if he was always around it was a piece of knowledge that would surely come in handy later.
Meanwhile in a fever induced sleep Guy tossed weakly, his mind racing a mile a minute, racing back to the tragic day that meant the death of his love:
Guy didn't know where he was because it was a dark room and there were no lights, all he could here was the chirping of tiny birds, then a shaft of light shone through the window, and it seemed to light the world that stood before him. He then heard a voice, he turned towards the sound and found the beautiful woman, he had saved, loved, and cherished, till death they did part, and here she was now calling him to her, he soon took her side.
"I have waited for you Guy." Marian said, a beautiful smile cast across her face,
"Am I dead?" Guy asked, wandering why he was privileged to see Marian again,
"No Guy but you will be soon." She said, "I have come because I want to show you something." She added,
Just then Marian's beautiful white dress that she wore began to change to the color of blood, by her side a stain grew a stain of her blood, when he had run his sword through her, he had never forgotten that day. He never expected, that the day he saw Marian again would mean remembering that fatal day,
"You killed me Guy...why?" She asked, her face now turning to te pale color of death,
"Because I had had enough I loved you and I showed you that...but every time I did you used it to get you what you wanted, and closer to Robin, I wanted it to stop but it never did, so I stopped it the only way I knew how." Guy explained, filling every word with a felt pain and anguish,
"I have regretted that day since if I could take it back...if I could sacrifice my life for yours I would." Guy said, neglecting to fight back the tears that spilled from his eyes, he than put his hands on Marian's shoulders,
Her touch was as cold as ice, then they felt like a sticky wet, so he instantly drew back his hands, to see that they were covered in blood, her blood, he immediately tried to rub it off on his tunic, but it wouldn't come off it seemed fused to his hands.
"My blood is on your hands Guy and you can never change that, nothing you do or say will change what you have done, no good deed, no amount of sacrifice will get me back, not even sacrificing your life for Robin's will redeem the evil in you, not even death will wipe away the wrong." She convicted,
"Marian tell me that isn't true...tell me that I can redeem my wrongs to you and the people around me." Guy begged, as he dropped to his knees infront of Marian,
"There is nothing you can do; you have destroyed anyone who ever cared about you." She said, reassuring his fate,
"No you're wrong." Guy said, refusing to believe what she had said,
"Archer he cares about me right now as we speak Robin is on his way to bring our brother here." Guy said, and it was true,
Just then Marian's eyes burnt with fire, "You are exiled to a life of misery Guy starting from this point onward." She said, as she extended her arm over me, "Now go and see what the rest of eternity will hold for you, you are a condemned soul." She said, as her figure began to fade, he looked at his hands but the stain of her blood remained,
There was a yell from behind him, and instantly he whipped himself around, to see the baron town center of the abandoned city, he walked carefully into the town center, and when he did he saw Vaisey had shot Richard in the back. Then he saw himself, dressed in his usual black leather, his coat hung over his shoulders, his sword was drawn, and a look of determination was set like stone on his face. Then from the corner of his eye he saw Marian, dressed in white how beautiful she was, brown hair flowing, flowing as it had before the sheriff had ordered it to be cut off. She raced across the town center, and so did guy, he knew what was about to happen and he had to stop it, but when he tried to lay a hand on the ghost of himself, his hand passed right through him, there was nothing he could do to intervene.
"Stop it's over Guy." Marian shouted, trying to stop his ghost from committing the act,
"Get out of the way." His ghost simply said back, how heartless it felt when he was finally able to hear it,
"All this time I've been fighting for England do you really think I'm going to let you kill England." She said, with reality in her tone, she was right the whole time she had been fighting for England, why didn't he see that then and at the time when he could have done something.
"Marian...get out of the way!" His ghost yelled, as it swiped it's sword by her, how dangerously close it had been, but when he did it he didn't mean her any harm,
"You'll have to kill me first." She said, how that had stabbed him in the heart, killing the one woman he cared so dearly for , little did he know then that he was going to do as she dared,
"No... we're going to get out of this...I am going to do this thing...and I will have power beyond measure...we will be together." The ghostly figure of himself said, how driven by power he was then, how stupid he had been to care only about material possessions, how stupid he was to have listened to the fool that was finally dead for so long.
"I would rather die then be with you Guy of Gisborne." She said, how that had sealed the faint hint of suspicion, that he had carried with himself for so long, she didn't love him she had just said so, what was there left to know, he now knew all he needed to.
"No." The ghost said, in disbelief, but really it wasn't disbelief, because he suspected this long ago, he was just shocked that she finally had the courage to say something about it.
"I'm going to marry Robin Hood." She said, Allan had refused to tell him if they were still together, and now that he had a chance to see everything that had gone on in those few fatal hours, he realized that Allan knew all along.
"I love Robin Hood." She said, Guy now had tears streaming down his face, as he recalled how his heart had ached, and how she had torn it from his chest, and threw it to the ground, crushing it into the dust.
"I love Robin Hood." She said again, as if feeling more confidence after she had said it once before, and that had only sealed the fact that the love he had shown her was a waste of time, or was it, maybe if he hadn't of run her through there would have been the slightest sliver of hope.
Then there it was the will to see it all fall away, and leave him forever, the will to destroy the one thing that was destroying him now, the will to destroy the only person who brought out the better side of him, and there was the action, the action that had taken her from him, the action that pinned her to his ghostly figure.
Guy ran over to her, and cried loud and hard for all he was worth, with every bit of love and kindness that existed inside of him, "Marian!" He yelled, Then she fell to the ground his sword still in her, how that sword looked so evil now, how he wished he had never held a sword in his life from that moment on, and how he had feared to raise that instrument of death again, fearing that the images that flashed before his eyes of her death would never leave him.
When she dropped to the ground so did he, he fell to his knees beside her, he tried to grab her hand, and found that he could, he then clasped it in his, "Marian!" He cried, ashe lowered his head resting it on her chest, to cry harder than he had before, "Marian!" He sobbed loudly,
Then he heard the voice he did when he stood over her body, "Marian!" Robin yelled, and when he did Marian's touch became phantom touch, and once again his hand swept right through her ghostly body, "Marian...don't leave me!" He cried, as he lifted his head, only to look into her eyes that were quickly loosing their fight, their spirit.
Robin knelt beside her not daring to touch her incase he lost her, then he saw the sheriff come out from his hiding place, he then ran over to the horses, "This isn't over Hood!" Vaisey yelled, "I will have England."
Guy saw his ghostly figure run off with the sheriff, and mount a horse, they left the town together, Guy soon had his attention trained on the dying love of his life, Djaq knelt beside Marian, and looked up at Robin with a horrified expression.
"The King...Where's the King?" Marian asked, worrying not for her own life but for the King,
"It's allright Marian, Marian he's allright you saved him." Robin comforted, how Guy wished he had of been there to comfort her too, but Robin would have killed him, maybe that was better than what he was going through now,
"How's it looking down there?" Marian asked, unafraid, Guy couldn't help but show a small smile due to her courage, "Am I even beyond Djaq's amazing talent?" She asked,
"Marian we will think of something." Robin comforted,
"Can we at least get this thing out of me it hurts?" She asked, but even Guy knew that if it moved from where it was she was a dead woman, Guy Looked up to see Djaq shake her head, and even a tear rolled of her eyelashes,
"Marian we can't take it out just yet." Robin said, Guy could tell he was close to tears,
"Why?" Marian asked, "Why?" She asked again, then realization hit her, "Will I die when it comes out?" She asked, and she knew she was right so she laid her head back down,
"Marian you are a brave woman what have I done to you Robin I destroyed your world as well as mine." Guy cried loud and hard,
"Well then we don't have much time then do we." Marian said,
"We have forever my love." Robin said, as Guy saw unshed tears glaze his eyes,
"I hope we have forever in Heaven because we didn't have enough time on earth...not nearly enough time." She said, tears now seeping from her eyes,
"We were busy." Robin said, Guy knew now that Robin regretted going to war,
"We were fighters and I am proud." Marian said, and she was telling the truth, even though she criticized Robin thousands of times for being so good at it,
"You keep fighting for me Robin." Marian nearly begged,
"I can't keep fighting without you." Robin said, and Guy could tell his heart was breaking piece by piece,
"I would argue with you but we haven't got the time you promise me you keep fighting." Marian said, Guy had no idea that she had made a death promise, "Now where were we?" Marian asked,
"What?" Robin asked, puzzled she didn't know what Marian was referring to,
"The last time we were dying we were getting married can we carry on please?" She asked, Guy could see now that she really did want to marry him, and that she really did love him to death,
"I can't remember." Robin said,
Marian chuckled slightly, "That's the last time I marry you if you can't even remember." She joked, then Richard called Robin's name and handed him his ring,
"I Robin take you Marian to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness or in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part." Robin vowed, even if Marian was giving herself to another man I couldn't be happier to who she was going to,
"I Marian take you Robin, beautiful, beautiful, lord of Loxley to be my wedded husband, promise to love you, and to cherish you, on earth, and especially in heaven, for now and forever, till death do us part." Marian said, and if she had of lived I wouldn't have minded one bit if she was to marry Robin, infact I would be happy to attend the wedding,
"Kiss me." Marian said, Robin then made to kiss her, but she turned her head, "No...give me the ring first." She said, remembering the way of the law,
"Make an honest woman of me Robin." She said, with a small chuckle, Robin then slipped the ring on her finger and kissed it,
"You may kiss the bride." She said, Robin then leaned over and kissed her,
"I love you my husband." Marian said,
"And I love you my wife." Robin said,
Then behind Robin's back she placed both her hands on the sword, Guy could have screamed the words no over again, if it meant she would leave it where it was, but he had done the same when the sheriff plunged his sword through him, she then pulled it from her body with a cry. Guy's heart had now broken in the places that had remained a whole and he was a completely broken man, Robin comforted her.
"Well that's better." She said, just before Guy heard her breathe her last breath and she was gone,
"Nooooooooooo!" Guy yelled, as he buried his face in his hands, she was gone and he had seen her go, "No...No...Marian." He sobbed, as he quaked feverishly,
After that Guy walked beside Robin as he carried her body to it's awaiting grave, their faces as hard as stone the tears removed from their eyes, and faces, Robin carefully laid Marian down on a white sheet that was waiting, both Robin and Guy knelt down, and though all Guy had to kiss was a ghostly hallucination, he wanted to say goodbye properly.
Later he walked with Robin as he walked with the King, finally they turned and faced each other, "You've saved my life...now go home and grieve your loss." Richard said, as he cast his gaze upon Robin,
"No your majesty for every man there is a purpose in which he sets up for himself let yours be the doing of all good deeds." Robin answered,
"The Karan." Much said, Guy had always known Robin to be faithful to his beliefs, and in a way so had he been,
"Then do those deeds in my name you are my representatives in England you are King Richard." Richard said,
"And you?" Robin asked,
"Us we are Robin Hood." He replied,
"Yes." John said, "We are Robin Hood." He added, as all of them joined in,
"Come on lads let's go home." Robin said, But for Guy things started to change to a shade of black, and somehow he managed to feel light headed, the he crumpled to the ground, and the world lost it's color changing to a nothingness black.
Allan who was sitting in Guy's room noticed Guy give one final breath then all was quite, "Damn this can't be a good thing." He cursed, as he rose from his chair and halted at Guy's side.
"Guy." He called, but there was no response,
He then placed his hand on Guy's chest, despite the fact that there was no rise and fall of his chest, there was also no heart beat, "Crap this is not good." He cursed again, but this time he ran out the door, showing himself on the stairway,
"Tuck get up here!" He yelled,
"What's wrong Allan?" Tuck asked, as he immediately jumped up and ran to the stairwell,
"It's Guy he's not breathing and I can't feel a pulse." Allan replied, as Tuck brushed by him and into the room,
"Not breathing you say?" Tuck asked, as he kneeled on the bed,
"Yeah I checked." Allan replied,
And it was then that Tuck separated Guy's shirt and tunic more, exposing his bare chest, he then made a fist and placed it in the center of his chest, he then rose the other hand, and slammed it on his fist.
"Oi! What are you doing?" Allan asked,
"If I do not do this than he is as good as dead." Tuck said, as he slammed his hand against his fists several more times, another few attempt finally had a smile on Tuck's face,
"He's back." Tuck said, just as Guy opened his eyes so he could see slightly,
"What happened?" He asked quietly,
"That's not important but it's good to have you back...after all you made a promise that you would wait until Robin came back, before you decided to go anywhere." Tuck replied,
"Now that you're awake how does some lunch sound"?" Tuck asked,
"Yes thank you that would be nice." Guy said appreciatedly,
Tuck and Allan then walked out of the room together, both of them exchanged a glance before Tuck spoke, "We must be careful now every time he sleeps, if he is asleep you must wake him every hour and give him this." He said, as he handed Allan a bottle, "Pour a little in some water, we'll all take shifts every hour some one else will watch him." He added,
That was a close one because Guy had actually died for a few moments then, and if Tuck didn't do something he would be dead, and Robin's efforts would have been in vain on one behalf, he still needed to get Archer out of prison, but hurrying back would be a waste of time.
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