Robin slowly walked to the market only one thing on his mind, finding those of the gang he could so they could free Will. He first made his way to Djaq so he could tell her she had his bow to help; he had to make sure she wasn't going to do something stupid. As he reached her door he moved his hand to knock, but he stopped his hand right before it hit into the wooden door. He took in a deep breath, as he made sure he was ready for this, if he was ready to take up his bow and sword once more and stand up for those who couldn't. He had to make sure he was truly ready to be Robin Hood again. He brought his hand in contact with the wooden door as he realized there was no more time for thinking it was time to stand up once more. Djaq answered the door with a crying child on her hip, she looked tired and over whelmed and for the first time Robin actually saw tears in her eyes.
"Djaq" Robin started, but she didn't give him the chance to say anything more.
"Don't start Robin, I don't want to hear what you have to say." A tear rolled down her face "Are you happy I have given up as well? Are you happy that tomorrow I have to watch my husband die? That his children have to watch him die?"
"Djaq I-"
"No save it Robin, you are far from the man I knew you could be, or that you were. Will is by far a better man then you, and now you are going to stand by and watch him die."
"Djaq would you listen to me, please" Robin said, "I don't plan on watching him die."
"So your just going to stay home and pretend that nothing is happening, just pretend that he really isn't being murdered and just pretend that he is alive in the holy land?"
"I have no intention on staying home either, Djaq if you would just hear me out, please."
"Hear you out? Let you sit here and tell me why you can't ruin your life to save my husband? Why you can't stop those monsters from killing him?"
"Being a hero has a price Djaq" Robin told her
"Don't even start that, even if Will was a hero the other day to that women doesn't mean he has to die!" robin could tell Djaq was getting angry, but he was finding it very hard to get her to let him really talk. In the past he never would have had a problem getting Djaq to listen to him. Yet that was back when she respected him back when he was her leader and she would follow any word he said.
"Will is paying the price for being a hero sitting in jail awaiting excision." Robin told her, when she tried to interrupt her he just simple raised his voice above hers. "I have paid the price over and over, I find Much has paid the price and as of recently Archer has to." He could see that she wanted to speak again, but he spoke quickly so she couldn't, "We all have, but as I came here to say as of tomorrow Will won't have to pay the price."
"What?" Djaq was now very confused, Robin could see and he gave her one of his cocky smirks.
"How would you feel about one last rescue mission again, just like the old days." His smile played on his lips, he could feel himself coming back, he could feel the excitement that came with planning a daring rescue, planning one of his original ideas that hardly anyone else could come up with.
"You" she stuttered, "You are going to save Will?"
"Yes, rescuing Will made me become Robin Hood in the past, might as well have rescuing him again create Robin Hood once more."
"Robin!" Djaq said as she placed her child in a chair and threw her arms around her old friend. "Your back, your you again."
"I'm trying, but I'm not there yet Djaq, we have to make a plan, a plan to save Will, a plan to do so without getting anyone caught or hurt."
"Alright, but I do have a question for you." Djaq said to him, "Who are Archer and Kate?"
Robin smiled "I forgot" he told her "You weren't around when they joined the gang." He told her, "Kate is a women from Locksley she joined after she rebelled against her brother getting killed." He paused "and well Archer he is my brother, Guys brother as well."
"How?" She asked
"My father, his mother and Archer was sent away as a baby, they were going to pretend like they found him once it was official she wasn't a married women, but they both died before they could get him back and he grew up alone, turns out my father wasn't really dead, but he might as well be." Robin glanced down for a moment, "I guess the men in my family end up losing the women they love and have to live with it, after all my father lost my mother, then he lost Guy's mother, and I've lost Marian."
"At least you have Kahlan now." Djaq said to him with a soft smile.
"Yes, today I talked to her, I told her I wanted to start again, I told her I wanted to be a real husband to her." Robin looked at Djaq "Hopefully her and I can be happy."
"What changed your mind?" She asked, "What made you want to be good to her?"
"Well" Robin told her "It has to do with two dreams I had." He paused "One was me talking to Marian she said I wasn't the man I once was that she wouldn't be waiting for me, she was mainly talking about me becoming Robin Hood again." He then paused for a long moment before he spoke again, "And a second dream, last night I was so drunk, so drunk I can't remember anything, but I remember a dream, well sort of it's a haze, but Kahlan was in it." He looked confused as he tried to explain it "She was standing on a large rock near a beach with a man who was explaining some kind of strange event that took him to the future and how she had stayed behind and had to marry the enemy. He said something to her that made me remember Marian, he said, When we first met you told me you would give your life for the seeker and that's what you did. Even when it looked like you had no hope you loved me across time." Robin paused "Just seeing those two together in my dream made me feel like my wife was going to go find this man and marry him and I realized I couldn't lose her, While I don't love her the way I loved Marian I feel like I need her, she puts up with so much and she still stays, and perhaps if I let myself move forward I can be happy with her, perhaps she can make me feel again."
"So seeing your wife with another man in a dream made you want to change?" Djaq asked,
"Yes" robin said with a smirk, "That and a letter Marian wrote a letter Much and Kate found.
"She wrote you a letter?"
"Yes I don't know when, but sometime before she died she wrote down what she had to say in case I gave up." He gave a soft laugh "I mean she must have known me well to know I would give up without her, and she knew the voice I would hear in my darkness, her letter was her telling me to keep on going, to keep on fighting, if not for the people for her, to not let her die in vain. And she was right, in my darkest hour I could hear her, she was able to reach me with her words that she wrote down, and now when ever I feel like giving up I know to look to her letter, to look to her words and to look to her and it reminds me, if she was here right now she would hit me so hard and she would pull some stupid stunt to try and save Will that would end up causing more harm then good." Robin said with a smile.
"Marian was good at being the night watchmen" Djaq told him "I think she could have pulled off saving Will." Djaq then smirked "Or perhaps gotten caught, she did go off on her own a lot."
"She never did make sure anyone had her back" Robin said
"She knew someone had her back" Djaq told him, "She knew no matter how hard things got, no matter where she was taken that you would find her, that you would save her, she knew that you always had her back."
Robin smiled sadly "I miss her."
"As do I, but you must live on as the man she loves, and not a man she would hate."
"I know."
"Good, then lets find the others and make this plan to save my husband.
"My Lord your queen is asking for you." Said the blonde women while she bowed her head to the man in front of her.
"Alexandra tell her I'll be there when I can, tell her it isn't her way to ask for me, tell her that because of her memory loss she can't remember but she must be seen and not heard." The lord told her
"She is strong my lord, she asks questions ones I can not answer." Alexandra told him. "I fear that no matter the magic you put on her that she is braking through."
"Nothing can brake my magic, nothing is stronger then magic, her memories of her past are nothing compared to them, she is just a simple women, one with no magic of her own no one can break my spells, no one." The lord told her, "Now leave me and tend to her, and don't answer any questions that would make her even more confused then she is, we just need her to create the prophecy."
"Yes my Lord." Alexandra told him, "I will do as you wish." She bowed to him once more and walked from the room.
She clenched her fist and tried to put on a smile as she entered the queens chambers, she had only spent a few short days with the queen and already didn't like her. Alexandra had always hoped she would be the Lord's queen, after all she was one of the most powerful sorceress in the world, yet here the Lord was planning a future on a child that would be bore from a simple women, one who was no better then a commoner. A woman he made believe she had been in a accident and couldn't remember who he was, all because the prophecy said she had to bare a child willingly to him. As she saw the queen she let go of her anger and put on her fake face, her fake voice, a voice that said she happily and willingly was here to help the queen.
"My Lady." Alexandra said, "The Lord wanted me to remind you that you don't call on him, you never have in the past that you are the type of women to be seen and not heard, you wait for him to come to you and you never say anything to him other then what he asks of you."
"Really?" the women asked confused, she had felt like she was used to calling on him, she felt like she was used to giving her opinion when it was wanted and even when it wasn't.
"Yes, My lady." She told her
"I could have sworn that I tell him what's on my mind, I could have sworn that." She stopped as she small a smile appearing in her mind. His smile, his grin. "Are you sure that I don't?"
"Yes my Lady, you never tell him anything, it isn't you who runs this country, but him, you are the pretty face on his arm and you are more then happy to be." Alexandra told her, "Remember?"
"Yes." She said unsure, "Of course how could I forget, I am his queen I" she paused as the words felt wrong on her tong "Enjoy being the pretty face on his arm, who doesn't speak her mind and who doesn't stand up for herself."
"See I knew you memory would begin to come back." Alexandra told her with a smile. "And in no time at all you will be back to being the wonderful Queen we all know and love."
"I will?" the women asked, then shook her head and said firmly "I will."
"Good, because the Lord will need you with this new rebellion going on." Alexandra told her, "every times he stops one another rises as if these people won't realize they are better off with his ruling."
"They won't stop." The women said looking out her window, "They have a real purpose to fight for, they are fighting for their home the one he took from them."
"The Lord took a land that was in ruin and made it great" Alexandra said her anger bubbling
"He took a free land and made the people his slaves." The queen told her, "he is far from a great king let alone a great lord, he cares nothing for the happiness and well being of his people, just as long as he lives happily."
"My Queen." Alexandra said trying to keep her anger in check. "You stood behind him in the whole take over, you are one hundred percent behind him and loyal to him not to these outlaws, these men that have no concept for the law these men that are unjust."
"Perhaps the only way for them to enforce justice is for them to break these laws." The women told her "Perhaps-"
"No Perhaps my Queen, don't ever let anyone hear you talking like this, you love your husband, you love what he has done, and you are his queen you are behind him and not behind these outlaws."
Outlaws.
"Yes." The women said as the word outlaw played in her mind, for some reason the word didn't strike fear into her, for some reason the word outlaw seemed so right. "I'm sorry I am behind my lord one hundred percent, I don't know what I was thinking." Yet something still seemed wrong, she felt like she didn't really support him. She sighed if only she could remember who she was and her life with her husband.
Alexandra smiled but inside she felt like something was wrong, why did this woman fight so much to remember? How was she still trying to remember and getting glimpse of who she was even after the lord had put all his spells on her? All Alexandra knew was the queens will power was strong and something told her no matter the magic she would keep fighting, she would keep trying to remember until the day that she did remember who she was. She stood and excused her self from the room leaving the queen to look out the window on the dark lands in which her husband ruled over.
"Excuse me." The queen said to the maid that was in the room, "I'm sorry to bother you, but has it always been this dark outside every hour of the day?"
"No my lady." The girl said "before the lord took over then sun would shine bright and you could hear the birds singing their songs, but not since he took over, it seems he has silenced even the sun." Then the maid stopped fearing that she spoke far out of turn, that it would be her head for speaking poorly of the king.
"Don't worry." The queen said with a soft smile "I won't do anything to you, know that you may speak your mind when you are with me, do not fear your opinion." Then the queen sighed, "I just wish I could remember how I'm supposed to act."
"My lady." The girl said, but the queen stopped her,
"You may call me by my name, no need for formalities in this room."
"As you wish Lady Marian." The girl said.
AN-Sorry I havn't updated for a while I've been busy getting ready for finals week. But Intheuniverse1994 reminded me that I should uplode this…I finished it a few weeks ago and forgot to uplode it. I thought I did and was wondering why I wasn't getting any reviews or feedback on it….blonde moment its because I didn't uplode it oops.
