Five: Hermione.
He had hurt her, but she always forgave him.
She would sit with the small group of outlaws, smiling at Much as they made dinner together. She had known about his feelings towards the new girl Kate, but she could see Kate had some for Robin. She would sigh and continued to smile even after Robin came back. She avoided his stares as she talked with the others.
She started to visit the group against after a few weeks alone for her to heal. They one occasion had sought her out, to ask for help for medicine and when their clothes needed help. They never told Kate or Tuck about Hermione being a witch, it wasn't their right to know.
One day, she was in her cave, fixing some potions to help the village south of Nottingham with an illness when Little John and Allan brought Robin in. "He got really hurt in a fight." Little John told her. "He's been reckless lately and we don't know what to do."
She nodded and sighed. She glanced over to Robin's body, they had laid it on her cot, and he was unconscious from the head wound. "I'll look after him, just don't do anything stupid until he's back on his feet." She told them with a smile as they nodded and left. She watched them leave and put her wards back up. If someone wanted to kill Robin, he was in a good state to do it in.
She got to work, quickly cleaning and sanitizing his wounds before applying medicine to them. "I have half a mind to expect that they did this to you." She muttered.
"They did." He coughed, moving slightly to look at her.
"Well, some friends they are." She muttered as she cut open his shirt t get the other wounds. His breathing was getting regular, that much she was happy.
"I haven't been much of one either." He stated, hissing as she put the medicine on him. "I was angry at Gisbourne for taking Marian from me, but I was angry you for leaving me, not thinking that you wouldn't just leave."
"What would you have wanted me to do if I wasn't taken Robin?" She asked him. "You were so in love with Marian and you expect me to just fill her slot, just like that?"
"I started to love you the moment you asked me to teach you how to use a bow." He coughed. "Since then, it's like there was my love for Marian, this girl I've known my whole life, I was suppose to marry her and then you… the witch that stole my heart."
She sighed and rolled her eyes. "It doesn't matter now. I heard that you and Isabella have a secret romance. And than there's Kate who's madly in love with you."
"I kissed Isabella." He told her the truth. "But every time I looked at another woman, I saw your face. I don't know what to do anymore. I want you back."
"You never had me Robin. You had Marian." She whispered. "You were always suppose to be with Marian."
"I want to be with you." Robin grabbed her hand. "Hermione please?"
She sighed and sat back, looking away. "You left me Robin, when I needed you the most, I stepped back and let you be in love with Marian, I didn't fight for you. I'm not from this time, I could be taken back any moment, or someone could find out that I'm a…" She didn't want to say witch loud incase anyone could hear through her wards. "I would be killed on the spot and so could you and everyone else."
"I will fight for you." He whispered, squeezing her hand.
She snorted. "You're not doing much fighting now are you?" She tilted her head sideways and stared at him.
"I will always fight for you." He stated in a firm voice this time. "I will not lose you, ever again."
She sighed, and bit her lip in thought. "Okay. I'll give you another chance. But heed my warning Robin of the Hood, hurt me again, I will end your life myself." She stated. " I wont really kill you, probably just hex you."
He smiled. "I can live with that." He pulled her close and kissed her on the lips.
