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Author's Note: Based off of the Robin Hood movie with Kevin Costnar.
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Merriam sat at the spinning loom, trying to concentrate on what she was doing, but her thoughts kept returning to Robin Locksley. Recently returned from Sherwood Forest, along with Duncan, she wondered just what had happened to change him so.
The Robin she had known had been a spoiled young child but the Robin she had recently parted with had been a man fighting for a cause. She had seen the scares on Robin's back and wondered if it was those scares that had humbled him so.
Robin had shared with her but little, and while she wanted to know more, she did not press. When Robin had first returned without her brother Peter she had believed that Robin had turned and left him there to die. Now she knew better, she knew now that Robin would have rather died than see any harm come to Peter.
Now Robin sat, with his band out outlaws, fighting for freedom and giving from the rich to feed the poor. The sheriff had given Robin the name of Robin Hood in order to strike fear into the hearts of the locals but instead the locals looked up to him as a hero.
Merriam smiled and struggled to continue to spin. Duncan had said that Robin loved her and Merriam had known the instant that Duncan had said those words that she was beginning to fall in love with Robin.
At first the very thought of it had seemed odd to her but then Robin was the same person he was. He had made changes that Merriam thought were impossible. He had left a boy and returned a man.
The clumsy child, who played with sticks and more often than not, poked himself with them, was now an excellent sword fighter and archer. Merriam let loose a small giggle at his missed shot earlier yesterday. That had been her fault.
She thought about Robin's devotion to the dark man he brought with him from overseas and how he trusted him completely. Friar Tuck, too, had learned to trust Azeem as well, after he successfully delivered the Little's child. She was amazed at he, who would never do what he was told, would so easily follow the instructions of his foreign friend.
How he has changed. He had built up an entire village in Sherwood Forest and living happily among the poor. Merriam turned her thoughts away from Robin and to her spinning. Robin had asked her to do something that could cost her anything and she was willing to do it. Not for Robin Locksley but for Robin Hood.
Perhaps, Merriam thought, perhaps when this is all over, we may be able to share a life.
THE END