The arrow thudded into the tree behind Louise, missing her by millimeters. Guy pulled Louise out of the way of any more arrows, shielding her with his body, but everyone there knew that it was more of a threat than an attempt at her life because if Robin wanted her dead he wouldn't of missed. This didn't stop everyone looking at Robin in confusion and shock, he had just shot at his sister, and would've killed her if Guy didn't pull her out of the way.

Guy glared at Robin as he retreated back into the forest, his gang following cautiously behind him but he looked in confusion as the Nightwatchman looked over at them. Behind him Louise mouthed her thanks at her disguised friend but all Guy saw was the Nightwatchman nodding his head at them before running after the gang.

"Are you alright?" Guy asked, after the gang had disappeared, turning round to face her. His eyes ran over her face, looking for any signs of pain.

"I'm fine." Louise assured him, but he wouldn't meet her eyes. He was too busy checking her over, for any injuries, and the surrounding woodland, for any more outlaws. "Guy." Louise called, placing her hand on his shoulder, turning his head to face her. "I'm fine." She told him and Guy sighed slightly.

The lord of Locksley then became aware that, whilst one of his hands rested on his empty scabbard, his other hand was still on Louise's hip, holding her close to him. One of her hands rested on his shoulder, her the other was holding gently onto his arm. Guy brought his hand up from his scabbard and pushed her hair behind her ear, smirking softly as Louise looked down blushing. This time Guy gently moved her face up to look at him and he kept his eyes on her as he bent his head slowly. Louise's eyes kept flickering between his eyes and his mouth but she was smiling as his face moved closer to hers.

Guy pressed his lips softly to Louise's, he could feel Louise smiling into the kiss and it made him smile also as he pulled back. Both of Louise's arms were now around his neck and she was gently pressed against him.

"Are you sure-" Guy tried to ask

"I'm fine." Louise interrupted, stretching up to press a quick kiss to his lips, "Perfectly unharmed."

"Good." Guy murmured, suddenly becoming aware that they were still in the forest. "We need to leave." He removed himself from Louise, picked up his dropped sword, walked over to his horse and pulled himself into the saddle before holding his hand out to Louise who just looked at it confused.

"Unless you would like to walk back?" He asked her. "Because you seem to be missing a horse." Louise glowered slightly at Guy as she took his hand, placing her foot in the stirip that Guy had not yet put his foot in, and pulled herself behind the man on the horse, Louise wrapped her arms around Guy's waist. The lord waited until she stopped moving before he kicked the horse in the opposite direction to the gang, towards Knighton Hall.

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What on earth do you think you were doing!" Marian shouted, ripping her mask and scarf away from her face, when they arrived back at the camp. Robin kept walking, ignoring her. "Don't walk away from me Robin of Locksley!" John stood in front of Robin in order to stop him moving.

"Move John." Robin growled lowly but John didn't budge. "MOVE!" The gang flinched but John still held firm.

"No." He growled.

"Robin." Marian called.

"What!" The outlaw snapped, whirling round to face Marian.

"What possessed you to attack Gisborne and Louise!?" Marian asked, half shouted.

"I have my reasons!"

"Well I'm not being funny right, but we'd like to know your reasons." Allan chipped in.

"Its my business!" Robin roared.

"Allan's right Robin." Will argued

"What happened Robin?" Marian asked.

"So this is it, is it?" Robin snarled. "Your siding with Gisborne?!"

"Don't be so stupid." Marian scolded, not completely sure how Robin had made that conclusion.

"Well you don't seem to be particularly on my side anymore!" Robin shouted.

"Sides!" Marian shouted in disbelief, walking over to him. "You sound like a child! This isn't one of the games we used to play Robin! Not everything's black and white anymore!"

"And you're talking about Gisborne I suppose?!" Robin cried.

"As it happens!" Marian admitted, "But not just him!"

"What do you mean by that?!"

"Face it Robin, you wouldn't hate Gisborne quite as much if he wasn't courting Louise and you know it!"

"He's courting her to get at me!" Robin roared. Marian groaned in anger, half turning away from the outlaw in annoyance, running her hand through her hair. "He doesn't care about her, only the power that being her husband would bring!"

"Not everything." Marian growled, turning back. "Is. About. You." She punctuated every word with a jab to Robin's chest.

"But this is about me!"

"Djaq." Marian called, turing to the saracen for help. "You're relatively neutral in all this, did it look like Gisborne didn't care about Louise?!" Djaq didn't say anything, her eyes flickering from Robin to Marian because she was unwilling to be dragged into it.

"No." John answered eventually.

"Robin." Will put in calmly. "I had Gisborne as my lord and master for five years and I hate him as much as you do but you do come to know them. There's two things I know he cares about. His own power and...your sister." Robin shook his head, turning away.

"Robin listen to him." Marian urged.

"He didn't use Louise to influence his own power" Will called at the retreating outlaw. Robin stopped but didn't turn round. "But he used his power to try and impress her instead."

"That wouldn't work." Robin scoffed eventually, turning round

"Even so." Marian continued off from Will, who gave her a grateful look. "He believed it would, doing anything and everything the Sheriff asked to improve his power."

"It's still wouldn't work." Robin argued.

"It did." Marian argued back. "Just not in the way he wanted. Louise noticed what Will just pointed out and was touched by it." Robin just scoffed disbelievingly. "Robin, the man was buying her gifts every two seconds, and being a gentleman about it."

"I'm sure that went down well."

"You don't get it do you?!" Marian shouted "You're too stubborn to see it! There was nothing to stop Gisborne forcing her to marry him because there was no one he had to ask for a blessing, no one protecting her! But he didn't" Marian lowered her voice as Robin's whole body shook with barely concealed anger. "And he has spent the last five years courting her, trying to get her to trust him."

"So?!" Robin asked, angrily

"So. You cannot come back and suddenly think that everything in her life is still up to you." Marian argued, as if he was a child. "She's not a little girl anymore."

"I'm her brother!" Robin growled,

"And you have a very good way of showing it." Marian replied snarkily, losing her patience with the man.

"What do you mean by that?!" Robin growled, lowly.

"You almost shot her." Marian shouted, "Gisborne was the one that was protecting her. The one who used himself as a shield so YOU, her own BROTHER, didn't kill her."

"No." Robin growled, "It didn't happen like that." His voice caught slightly as he realised that that was exactly what happened.

"It did Robin." Marian informed him, her voice hard. "You almost killed Louise and she is only alive because Gisborne was there to save her." Suddenly the sound of approaching, pounding footsteps could be heard in the distance and Marian only just had enough time to replace her scarf, hood and mask before three men crashed into the camp.

"Hey what's goin' on?" One of them asked

"Where have you been?" Allan asked,

"Dinner gents." The leader of the three replied, holding up three rabbits.

"Where'd you nick em from?" Allan accused.

"We caught these!" The man defended as Much looked them over.

"These are from our traps." Much realised quickly and Allan shook his head in disbelief.

"Ere who's that?" The man asked, looking at the disguised Marian.

"This is the Nightwatchman" Robin told them before turning to Marian. "This is Tom A'Dale, Allan's brother, and his friends." Marian nodded at the men. "You need to get back." Marian gave him a look, which clearly showed him how clever she thought he was, before running off into the forest.

"Not very talkative is he?" Tom asked

"Normally he is." Allan replied.

"I cannot risk his identity." Robin told them in answer to Tom's confused look. "I still don't know if I can trust you."

"Fair enough." Tom agreed, "Rabbit?"


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