A letter popped through the bottom of the airship and Robyn grabbed it with the same finesse with which Sportacus grabbed his. She opened the canister and pulled out the letter, it read: 'Forgiven?' Robyn thought on this for a few seconds and then went over to the platform, "platform down!" she instructed and the platform lowered.

She knelt down on the platform and looked over the edge; she could see Sportacus on the ground waving what looked like a white handkerchief in a gesture that said he surrendered. A ghost of a smile touched Robyn's lips. She looked up towards the airship and said, "Platform up."

Sportacus felt saddened when the platform rose but upon hearing the familiar sound of Erin squawking he looked up. Erin dropped a note on the ground in front of Sportacus and flew back to the airship and through the open door. He knelt down and picked the note up. Opening the note with trepidation Sportacus read the one word answer, 'yes'.

Sportacus smiled and minutes later he was back in the airship. He spotted Robyn sitting in the middle of the floor, the same sheepish expression she'd had on her face when a few hours before. Sportacus smiled slightly and went to sit down in front of her, they had to talk.

"Robyn I'm sorry. I shouldn't have yelled at you." Sportacus began, "I also shouldn't have grabbed your arm like that. I hurt you didn't I?"

Robyn looked down unable to meet Sportacus' eyes with her own, he was making her feel worse about she'd done with apologising for disciplining her. She'd make him feel worse if she told him the truth and couldn't do that. He had hurt her arm but she knew she deserved it and had to make Sportacus stop feeling guilty about doing what he had a right to do.

"Yes," the word she'd dreaded saying. Sportacus' face fell. "I deserved it though. I frightened the life out of you and it was a stupid thing to do. I'm the one that should be apologising, not you. I'm sorry."

Sportacus frowned a little but more in a perplexed than angry way, "why did you do it?"

"I wanted to be like you. I've seen you do it a hundred times and wanted to try it myself. It was a stupid thing to do and won't happen again."

"It's only stupid if you do it unsupervised, maybe we can try it together now."

"Really?"

"Yes, come on." Sportacus got up and called for the door to open.

Robyn got up but sat down again, "I can't."

Sportacus frowned again and walked back into the airship, "why not?"

Robyn took in a deep breath, "You grounded me. I upset you and deserve to be punished. We can try the sky chaser thing in four days when I'm not grounded anymore. I know you want to unground me but I won't let you. What I did was wrong and as I said before deserves punishment."

Sportacus filled with pride at these words. She had spoken with such integrity and sincerity that it moved him that she was just a child of seventeen. She'd accepted what she'd done and had accepted if not pressed punishment for her actions upon herself. Sportacus could say nothing in response to any of this and drew Robyn up into a huge hug. He drew back instantly when he heard Robyn draw in a sharp intake of breath.

"Let me see," Sportacus said pointing to Robyn's arm. There was no room for argument this time.

Reluctantly Robyn drew up the loose sleeve of her lilac blouse and showed her injured arm to Sportacus. There were bruises where his fingers had dug into her delicate skin and they looked extremely sore. Sportacus took Robyn's injured arm gently in his hand looked over the damage he had done. Tears filled Sportacus eyes, he'd used his immense strength to harm a defenceless girl and what made it worse was that he'd done it in anger. Robyn perceived Sportacus' anguish and this time it was her that drew him into a hug. She put all the comfort Sportacus needed in the hug and he soon calmed.

Sportacus drew back from the hug slowly and looked deeply into Robyn's clear blue eyes. He could see no traces of hate or anger in her eyes and relief filled him. He still felt bad about what he'd done but the fact that Robyn didn't blame him for it made it feel a little better. Robyn had always had a forgiving nature and never condemned those that wronged her unless the harm that been done had been great. To look in her eyes which were the very windows of her soul was to see every emotion she felt at that time and every ounce of love that resided in her heart.

"This reminds me of the time you told me how daddy died. We were in much the same position then if I remember rightly. You accusing and torturing yourself for being human and me slapping you back into reality and letting you know that being human is ok. Don't feel bad about the arm; you were angry and rightly so." Robyn paused and Sportacus was about to speak when Robyn cut in, "don't tell me that it was no excuse for hurting me. I made you angry so all in all it's my fault my arm got hurt. The arm will heal. This has been a lesson to both of us today and we can learn from it. Agreed?"

Sportacus shrugged shaking his head, Robyn had done it again. Looking up at Robyn again Sportacus smiled and simply answered, "Agreed."

Robyn smiled in answer and both hugged again. When the hug ended Sportacus looked around the airship in confusion for a few seconds, something was different somehow.

"I cleaned." Robyn said in answer to Sportacus' questioning look.

Robyn chuckled when Sportacus narrowed his eyes a little and comically inspected every surface by running his index finger along it and then rubbing two other fingers against his index finger. Sportacus then went over to where his sports equipment was stored and gasped in melodramatic horror when he saw everything had been rearranged.

By this time Robyn had dissolved into laughter and her laughter grew when Sportacus made a huge melodrama over a spot of dirt she'd missed. Sportacus soon joined Robyn in laughing and it was some time before either of them could say anything.

"It'll do I suppose," Sportacus remarked jokingly wiping tears of laughter from his eyes.

He was extremely impressed with Robyn's efforts and decided he'd have to ground her more often if this was going to be the result. He'd never seen the airship so clean.