This is the last chapter. I know. It's killing me. Maybe I'll write a sequel. Maybe not. Depends how I feel. And you think I should.

"I want it back."

"You what?"

"I want my ring back."

"You what?" Elena looked up at Will.

"You heard me. It's not going to work."

"Why not?"

"Why do you think?"

"I don't know! Otherwise I would know and may even be handing it over gladly! But I'm not! I don't understand." Tears were now pouring down her face.

"You started the fire."

"What?"

"I heard you tell Cari. I should have known. I mean, look who your father is."

"What? You know, you listen to to many of my conversations."

"Maybe it's a good thing, then, if you keep important things from me."

"Important? Important? I was going to tell you. I needed her advice."

"And what was wrong with mine." He looked at her for the first time.

"Yours? Yours? Don't you think you were upset enough without me telling you, it might have been my fault. Might."

"You can't get out of this on a technicality."

Elena almost ripped her finger off, taking off the ring.

"There you go." He looked at it in his hand. What was he doing? Give it back. Quickly. Elena had already walked off.

Xxx

"Excuse me?"

"Yes?" Jeri answered the door. It was an old man, with grey hair and a broad accent.

"Are you Mrs A-Dale?"

"Oh. Yes." She smiled. "I suppose I am."

"May I come in? I have information about your husband."

"Ok." Jeri began to worry. Suddenly Elena knocked her against the wall. Hands over her face, the girl was crying her heart out. Elena knocked the other man to the other side of the wall as she ran past him.

"El!?!?" Jeri followed her as far as the door, when she felt this man, he hadn't even given himself a name, Jeri was suddenly angry with her, touch her arm.

"Mrs A-Dale?"

"Come through here."

"Bloody girls, running about the place." Swore the man.

"So, what was sit you wanted?" asked Jeri.

"Can you give any evidence you are, in fact, his wife."

"I'm his wife. But I do have marriage records here somewhere." She found them and gave them to her.

"Hey Jer?" Cari appeared at the doorway. "Have you seen Elena?"

"Yes, I have, she ran that way, out of the front door, hands over face, without." She sat down on the floor as the sudden realisation hit her.

"Without…"

"Her engagement ring."

Cari rolled her eyes.

"An Will didn't go after her, or anything?"

"No." Jeri bit her lip.

"I'll go."

"Good idea. I have company." Jeri nodded, pulling out her marriage certificates. Cari had run out of the door, followed by Much.

"So, erm…" The man read the certificates quickly. "Ok, good. These seem to be in order."

"Your husband is… well…"

"Is he dead?"

"Oh no! Nothing of the kind."

"OK… then…"

"He's in jail."

"What?"

"He's crossed the king."

"What?" Jeri yelped.

"By allying with Sheriff Vaisey and Sir Guy Of Gisbourne, who both, have been, by the way, demoted, he has landed himself in jail. For life."

"No." Jeri gulped.

"Im sorry."

"You're not sorry."

"I am. Truly, Miss. For them. It's my job, you see. And as the King is to return."

"NO!" She yelled at him. He just nodded. Jeri sat down abruptly. "Miss?" she then whispered. He ripped the marriage certificate in half. Tears began to pour down her face. She ran up into Emily's room, where she was lying, asleep. She sat against the cot, and her daughter soon joined her in crying.

Xxx

"Is she alright?" asked Much concernedly. Cari looked around.

"Well, she might be better if I could actually find her!" She snapped. He took a step back. Cari carried on looking and calling out 'Elena!' Much sighed.

"Perhaps I should turn back."

Suddenly three girls began to scream. Both Much and Cari turned, but Cari just ran to the other side of the street, to a hunched up figure on the side of the road.

"Eve!" Much breathed. "Eve!" he yelled. He ran up. "What?" he looked at the guard. "What happened?"

"This one," he pointed at Eve, "Has been stealing."

"No!" yelled Much. "It wasn't her!"

"Are you saying it was you, Sir?"

"Yes. T was." Much looked at the guard. The guard nodded.

"You can join her mate, then." Much nodded, and tried to put up a fight, but the guard overpowered him. They were dragged to a newly erected scaffold. Much gulped.

Cari was making no progress with Elena. She hadn't even taken her hands away yet. Car looked around for Much. And then she saw him standing by the scaffold. With Eve. He was talking to her, smiling, reassuring her. Cari put two and two together.

She ran up to the guard.

"You there, let them go." He looked at her, nudged his mate and they laughed.

"Yeh, whatever."

"Do you know who I am?" She asked icily.

"No, but I have a feeling I'm about to find out."

"I'm King Richards only daughter and heir to the throne." She spoke smugly. The guards managed to keep a straight face for all of two seconds.

"Yeh, right. You know what, darling?"

"You're going to release them?"

"Oh yeh."

"Oh, excellent."

"Of course im not going to release them, you idiot."

"Oh?" Cari began to panic. Of course they wouldn't release them, because she was a bloody princess.

"You can join them." The guard grinned, grabbing and stringing her up. She nodded.

"Idiot." Much whispered to her.

"Thanks, Much. I love you too."

But that was a sentence he couldn't answer. For the girl on his other side.

Xxx

"The kings coming back?" Robin looked at John and Djaq, grinning. That was the only bit they caught.

Xxx

Jeri's husband is in jail for crossing the king and she isn't talking again.

Elena is no longer going to Will and he thinks her father put her up to it.

Cari is on the scaffold with the man she loves and his other love.

The camp has burnt down.

The king is coming back.

Who says being a outsider of the law is a picnic?