"Why are you so angry we saved you, Kate?" asked Alan as they walked through the woods, heading towards the camp. "Seriously, what were you going to do? Stab the guy?" Have some compassion, Alan! She's just been made an outlaw and she's had to leave her family behind.

"Well yeah, if I had to." Kate answered. "It wouldn't have been a great loss to the world."

"We helped you. We're giving you a bed for the night. Aren't slightly grateful?" asked Alan. I bit my lip. I knew Alan meant well, but this wasn't helping.

"Oh, I'm so grateful!" said Kate sarcastically. "Thank you for ruining everything. I can really see why you guys are so legendary."

"Aren't you sweet and charming." said Alan, also sarcastically.

Kate turned on him. "Aren't you full of yourself."

"Full of myself?" repeated Alan as Robin turned around to look at the two of them. "You've gone too far now, Kate. I'm wounded, my heart's broken." His tone showed otherwise.

"Well, I'm sure a drunken girl with no taste will make it better." said Kate. Ouch! I grinned. That is mean, Kate. Alan smiled.

"Funny you should say that..." said Much, who had been walking behind Alan and overheard the entire conversation.

"You alright, Kate?" asked Robin. He alone seemed to understand that Kate's frustration was coming out in her words and that she wished to be left alone.

"I'm having the time of my life." she answered, obviously not meaning it and walked past Robin. Robin gave Alan a look that clearly meant "Knock it off, Alan."

"What?" asked Alan. Robin didn't answer, instead he just turned and followed after Kate. Much now walked in front of Alan.

"Did you hear that?" he asked.

"Which bit?" asked Alan. "Kate being sarcastic? Kate being ungrateful?"

"What she said about us. 'You guys are legendary'. Plural, referring to all of us, not just Robin. She may have turned me down, but she thinks I'm legendary."

Kate was sitting by herself when John joined her. "Homesick?" he asked. I smiled fondly at his image. John was like a father, one who cared for anyone in need. He always seemed to understand when people were suffering and he sympathized with him.

"No, it's fine." said Kate, but they both knew that wasn't true. "I can handle it. I'm not just some stupid girl."

"I know you're not." said John, as if the thought hadn't even crossed his mind, which I knew it hadn't. It was not like John to think like that.

"Maybe I'm a bit homesick." she admitted.

"It gets easier, being an outlaw." he told her. She hesitated, and I could tell she was getting ready to ask a question whose answer she dreaded.

"Do you ever get used to being apart from your family?"

"No." he said honestly. "You don't get used to that."

"That's what I thought." Kate sighed.

"Whatever happens, you're not on your own, Kate." She gave him a small smile, thankful for his sympathy and nodded.

"Sounds like a good plan." They looked up to see Tuck and Robin heading towards them. It was Tuck that had spoken.

"Yeah, and we need to leave now." They knelt was that they were at the same height as Kate and John. "I know what we're going to do." Robin said, speaking mainly to Kate.

"We're going to kidnap the tax collector." said Tuck. "To scare him silly."

"And get rid of him." Robin added. "For good." Kate smiled, the first real genuine smile I had seen her give.

"He took the bait." Rufus told Edmund and I wondered what they were talking about. "Stupid sheriff. By the time we're done that scum he will be crying like a baby." I suddenly understand that they were playing the sheriff! But why?

I didn't have time to think about all that this could imply when Rufus and Edmund entered the stables only to have it shut behind them. They turned to see Tuck, who just gave them a cheeky grin.

"Well, we just keep running into each other, eh?" said Robin as he appeared behind them. Rufus just smiled. "It must be fate." added Robin. Rufus drew his sword, but before he could even make a Alan who had been hiding above them was on the ground and had a bag over Rufus's head.

"Father!" cried Edmund, but he quickly found himself in John's grip. Rufus was quick, even with the bag over his head he managed to push Alan way from him and he swung his sword wildly through the air. Then Alan and Much both charged him and grabbed his arms and Much kicked him in the stomach, making Rufus drop the sword. "You can't do this!" said Edmund.

"Who's going to stop us?" Much asked. "You?" Instead of answering, Edmund just bent his head down and bit John's hand. The big man yelped in pain and instinctively pulled his hand away, freeing Edmund.

He took off running towards the stable door. "Guards! Help!" Kate side stepped him and tripped him, sending him sprawling on the ground. John and Tuck shared an impressed look.

"You heard him! There'll be guards on the way!" said Robin. "Come on!"

"Ready?" asked Robin, keeping one hand on the reigns of one of the horses, while the other was ready to throw open the stable doors. He threw open the door and smacked the horse on the rear sending it and a few others into the paths of the guards who had been sneaking up on the stable.

Robin, Tuck, John, and Much took on the guards while Alan dragged Rufus and Kate Edmund it the alley way. The others were quickly able to follow, but in a matter of seconds another group of guards and circled around, cutting them off from Alan and Kate, who were now surrounded by guards on both sides.

Robin and those with him did the best the could and they were able to hold off the guards, but Alan and Kate were out numbered.

In order to deal with the guards, Alan had to let go off Rufus, a mistake as it turned out. The man was no sooner free than he threw the bag off his head and had a knife to Kate's throat. "Thank you, little lady."

"Let me at them, Much!" bellowed John, trying to get past the guards blocking them in order to go help Alan and Kate.

"I'm trying, I'm trying!" shouted Much, as he fought two guards at once.

"I'll get the horses." said Edmund running off as Rufus turned around and hit Alan unconscious with the hilt of his sword. One of the guards grabbed Kate by the arm was began to drag her away.

"Kate!" Much shouted, only able to watch helplessly.

"Stop this!" said John, and he rammed a door next to them, breaking it down.

"They've got Kate!" Much protested as Tuck shoved him past the broken door.

"No time!" said Tuck.

"He's right." said Robin, following them. "This way! Quick!" They ran past a man, who in his surprise accidentally dumped flour all over them, and out side.

"Hello." said Robin, spotting Edmund struggling with a couple of horses.

"Robin.." said Tuck, who seemed to understand what Robin had in mind and agreed with him.

"Get him on the horse!" Robin ordered.

"Come here!" John approached the young man who looked suddenly frightened.

Rufus was walking with the guards who held both Kate and Alan captive when Robin and the others rode by...with Edmund. "Edmund!"

"Father!"

"Follow me!" Rufus ordered, grabbing a horse. I watched wondering what was to happen next. It looked like it was going to be close because now both sides had captives.

Author's Note: Hmmm...this episode may end up having more chapters.