A/N: Again, apologies for not updating! Enjoy!


I tried not to curse as I stubbed my toe for the fifth time on the uneven cobbled street as we moved about in total darkness, Nottingham Castle looming so high it blotted out all moonlight. Scorpius caught my arm as I began hobbling.

"I still don't understand why we couldn't have a torch," I hissed, only to be shushed by Fred, who then shoved the whole group behind the side of a house as a guard patrol passed by.

As soon as they were out of sight, Robin and Fred began leading again.

"Okay, we're here," Robin called, somehow still whispering. He pulled an arrow from his quiver and held his hand out to Much, silently requesting the rope he had ordered him to bring along. Tying the end around the arrow, he worked quickly and silently and as soon as he was done, Robin wasted no time in shooting the arrow and rope up over the top of the crenulated wall. Giving it a firm tug to see if it would fall, he nodded once to his men and began scaling the wall.

The rest of us followed, Fred immediately grabbing the rope and beginning to haul himself up, then Little John, Will, Dominique, Alan, Hugo, Lily, Much, Scorpius and then me. Why I had insisted on going last when I was scared of heights, I didn't know. The sounds of a scuffle reached me when I was about halfway up the wall and I had to bite my tongue to refrain from screaming as a body flew past me from the battlements. My arms shook as I risked a glance underneath me at the crumpled, broken body.

"Who was that?" I whispered, praying it hadn't been Hugo.

"One of theirs," Scorpius grunted, forgoing the rope to climb over the ramparts.

Heart racing after stupidly looking down, I closed my eyes a swallowed a mouthful sickeningly warm spittle mixed with the slightest traces of blood after biting my tongue perhaps more forcefully than I intended to. The fear went nowhere and when I opened my eyes it was even worse as the rope swayed in the breeze, the movement much worse given I was the only person left climbing.

"Come on, Rose," Hugo encouraged, leaning over the crenulations to look at me.

I nodded and shimmied a hand further up the rope. Incrementally, I made my way up until there was no more rope and I had to let go in order the take hole of the stonework and climb through the battlements. But I froze. I'd been holding onto the rope so long that I didn't feel I could let go.

I swallowed again, trying to get rid of the scream building in my chest.

Before I could move, someone wrapped their hands around my forearms and helped me over. Smiling gratefully, I looked up to find Scorpius' eyes staring into mine.

"Thanks," I murmured, looking down at where his hands were still gripping my arms. As if suddenly noticing it himself, Scorpius dropped his hands and shoved them into his pockets before walking away.

From the side, Marian gave me what could only be described as a knowing smile and went to give Robin the key to the Sheriff's personal rooms where she believed our wands would be. She'd apparently checked the treasure room herself earlier, but not encountered them. That much I gathered from their hurried, hushed conversation, though it was obvious we weren't meant to be listening to their conversation or watching them, as Much studiously turned around and whistled a quiet tune, his hands on his hips.

"Okay?" Dom asked, smiling excitedly at me as she picked up an axe.

"Yeah," I replied breezily, accepting the mace she grabbed from the floor and handed to me. I grunted and dropped it the instant she let go, unprepared for its hefty weight. "Merlin, that's heavy!"

Dom smirked and whirled her axe against an imaginary foe.

"Just don't hit me," I warned, picking up the mace and testing its weight again. I wasn't sure what good it do me if I could barely carry it, but kept it anyway, feeling safer knowing I had a weapon.

"As if I would," Dom said, mocking me with a fake aghast expression. I still skipped backwards when she swung the axe in my direction.

"You're worse than Fred," I muttered, glancing over at where Fred was brandishing the sword he had acquired from somewhere and posing like he was in a magazine shoot.

Dom gave me a cat-like grin before going to 'take on' Fred. Finally, before they could make any noise, Robin ordered us on.

"I'm confused," I muttered. "I thought Marian said our wands were in the treasure room."

"They were," she replied, though I'd had no idea she was walking right behind me. "But the Sheriff is nothing but careful. He's constantly moving things around, changing the routes his men take when transporting goods to and from the castle and the like. He's long suspected that there is a spy within his walls; he just doesn't realise that he brought me inside his walls himself."

When no further explanation came, Much needlessly added, "Marian has been placed under house arrest in the castle by the Sheriff."

"And he'll live to regret that decision," Marian said through gritted teeth. I didn't need to look back to know that Robin had stopped her and had taken her hand, the other of his own hands cupping her cheek in sympathy.

"You should get back. We don't want to blow your cover," he told her quietly. The rest of us milled about waiting for Robin to get back to leading us. Without him, we were like headless chickens. After saying goodbye, Robin wordlessly moved ahead, walking at the front of the group and taking out any guards in the way with ease.

Every time, he took out a guard, someone changed into their armour.

"Rose, look," Hugo guffawed, tapping my arm insistently. I turned to find him wearing one of the fallen guards' helmets, though it was much too big, covering his eyes and wobbling every time he moved.

"Hugh, be quiet," I reminded him in a whisper.

He rolled his eyes but removed the helmet and instead placing it on Lily's head, snorting at how ridiculous she looked. I shook my head at the pair of them, forgetting momentarily that they were still only twelve.

Eventually we had moved so far through the castle that we were all clad in armour, and I was sure that Hugo and Lily weren't the only ones who looked absurd in such poor-fitting armour. At the next intersection, Robin sent Little John, Will, Alan and Much off to the treasure room to collect funds for the poor, whilst he carried on with us to the Sheriff's personal quarters to find our wands.

It was all going perfectly until Hugo's massive helmet fell off. Then all hell broke loose.

At the clang of Hugh's helmet landing on the stone floor, the Sheriff jerked awake, yelling at the sight of Robin Hood. Before anybody could stop him, the Sheriff was off, running out of the room and down the corridor.

"Guards! Guards! Robin Hood! Robin Hood is in my castle! Guards!"

Robin rushed after him, leaving the rest of us in the Sheriff's quarters with no idea where our wands would be.

"Now what?" Dom asked, flinging her axe down on the Sheriff's empty bed.

"I know what to do," Fred said. "I'm in my element. We ransack!" With no further words, he used his sword to slash the curtains on the Sheriff's four poster bed then moved onto pulling open all the drawers in the bedside chest. Hugo dived onto the chest at the foot of the bed, pulling out and throwing its contents across the room. That combined with Lily stabbing the pillows, left the room strewed with pillows, fabric and feathers and us no closer to finding our wands.

"They're not here," Lily declared, throwing her hands in up in frustration.

"If I was a wand, where would I be?" Hugo mused, tapping his chin as he thought.

"Or better yet, if you were the Sheriff, where would you hide stuff?" Fred asked, before dramatically dropping to his knees and sliding under the bed. A moment later he reappeared. "Damn! Not under the bed…but how about under the floorboards!"

With a quick spell, he'd removed a few of the floorboards, revealing a hoard containing numerous gold, bejewelled rings and what looked like a very old map.

"We're close," Fred muttered. "I can feel it."

Dom and Scorpius turned and pulled up some different boards, revealing yet another hoard of treasure, but still no wands. On and on, Fred, Dom and Scorpius continued, until finally, Fred let out a triumphant yell, holding three wands aloft. I could have kissed him. Dashing over, I took my wand and ran my fingers over it, checking for damage whilst savouring the feel of holding it in my hand again.

"Can we go now?" Hugo asked, looking around the room that closely resembled a bombsite. "I've got a Potions essay due in tomorrow."

I smothered a laugh and wrapped an arm around his shoulders.

"Yeah, Hugh, we can go now."


A/N: So I hope you liked this chapter. I originally intended to make it longer, but I'm suffering with a bit of a headache at the moment. So this is the last in the Middle Ages with Robin Hood and the gang, but I can promise you that the next chapter will be very exciting, though I won't say where Rose and co are going. If you've got time, I'd really appreciate some thoughts on the chapter. I hope there are no typos in this, but I haven't checked very thoroughly since it's been so long since I gave you guys a chapter and I feel guilty about that. If there any typos/mistakes that you notice, please tell me ASAP because it's virtually no effort to edit them now, but the longer it get's left the harder it gets seeing as you can only have so many documents in the manager and for a limited amount of time.

Anyway thanks for reading! Much love, SabreDae

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