Charli, exhausted from the short walk to her flat, pushed open the door. She was followed inside by the bewildered group of outlaws, who crowded in the doorway preventing Tanya from coming in.
"Mama?" Charli shouted as she dropped her keys on the table, where they were immediately picked up and examined by Alan. "Oh," Charli noticed the note tacked to a cork notice board, and ripped it off the wall to read it "Okay, my mum's gone shopping. Tanya, can you phone her and let her know she is going to need to buy more food? I'm going to outlaw proof the flat."
"Outlaw Proof?" Robin grinned. "We aren't Children. What harm could we possibly do?"
"I'd rather not find out," Charli started going round her flat, hiding all sharp objects and anything that she considered would be dangerous in the hands of the outlaws.
Tanya meanwhile, was convincing Charli's mother that she really did need to buy more food, and that no; the girls weren't just attempting to get her to buy ridiculous amount of chocolate and ice cream. Because they wouldn't do that. Ever. Of course not. Having succeeded in her task, she put the phone down just in time to catch Will wandering into Charli's bedroom.
"Hey, what's this?" The Outlaw poked his head back through the doorway. He had found Charli's globe and pin up world map, and was holding the first object up at eyelevel, peering at it.
"It's a globe, Will," Charli called from the Kitchen, where she was showing Much how to open a packet of Lucky Charms, and trying to prevent Alan from opening every single drawer and cupboard.
"What's a globe?" Robin asked Tanya, while Djaq walked across the room and took the ball off Will to examine it more closely.
"The World. The Earth." Tanya tried. When they looked at her blankly she sighed. "It's a map."
"The worlds not round!" Robin scoffed. "Its flat. If it were round, we would fall off!"
"I can assure you its round" Charli nodded. "Tanya's been all the way around it, and she's still here. She hasn't dropped off into space. Yet." She grinned slyly at her friend.
There was a crash, diverting the argument that was likely to follow Charli's comment, as Alan pulled open a drawer a little too vigorously, and knocked the box of Little Charms out of Much's hands. Charli had to bite her lip to stop herself laughing at the sight of Little John with bits of cereal in his hair and beard, and settled for swearing and ducking under the table to clear up the mess.
"Okay" Robin held up his hand. "You can convince me that I'm 800 years in the future. That's pretty easy to do. You can even persuade me about the existence of Cars. But I will not be collared into believing that the world is round!" He started to laugh, "Its absurd!"
"No Robin. It is not absurd! It has been scientifically proven. Trust me when I say that not everything is as it seems." Tanya tried to her best to convince the man, but he just shook his head and grinned at her. Oh now she was mad.
"What's that look for?" Her voice raised a few decibels, annoyed at the fact that he obviously wasn't going to believe her, or even listen to her for that matter. Robin began to laugh. Tanya, regardless of how cute he seemed, was tempted to throw something at him. "Ignorant man."
"Tanya, he's not ignorant," Charli peered from under the table, defending him. "In 1192, everybody believed the world to be flat. Wouldn't you believe that too without advanced technology and science to prove it?"
"I believe it," Will said simply before taking the globe back from Djaq and sitting himself down to study it some more.
Robin muttered something about simple men, before stomping across the room to inspect a small black box in the corner of the room. It had some sort of screen on the front, and buttons all down the side. He touched it, and yelled with surprise as he got a small shock.
"Oh yeah, don't touch that," Charli clambered up off the floor. "Its not been the same since I knocked a bottle of diet coke onto it." Glancing at Robin, who was nursing his hand, she realised that he hadn't understood a word she had said. "Its a television. It - Oh! Tanya, help!"
Tanya rubbed her for-head, feeling a headache coming on already. Hell! She didn't know how a TV worked herself. "Maybe another time…you wouldn't believe me anyway." She sniggered at the outlaw.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Robin's mouth dropped to the floor. "Are you suggesting that I…are you laughing at me?" He gave her his most threatening glare yet, but what usually worked on his men, seemed to have no effect on her what so ever. This woman was tougher than he thought.
"You'll get over it," she turned away, leaving Robin gawping at her. "Hey Djaq! Wanna see something cool?"
"No thank-you. I do not like the cold. I come from a hot country…" Tanya laughed and led Djaq away. "No Djaq. Cool is just a modern way of expressing something good, something you find interesting..."
Robin stared after the two in disbelief, his jaw still on the floor. "How come she explains things to Djaq and not me?"
"Because, my friend," Alan answered as he made his way over. "She tried to tell that the world was round, and- well…you basically laughed at her. You know how women get touchy when you laugh at them." He patted Robin on the back reassuringly.
"Alan! The world is not-"
"Round, I know."
The group made their way around the room, looking at many different things for a while, each one in turn asking a number of different questions. Robin sulked in the corner for a short while, his eyes roaming over a few books on a shelf but not really looking at them. His mind was on other things, like how to get back to 1192 and Tanya…
Little John had just managed to pick the last Lucky Charm out of his beard and bravely placed one in his mouth. He nodded in improvement to himself when he found them pleasantly tasty. Alan had found a light switch on the wall and seemed to be staring at it curiously, whilst Tanya and Djaq still studied the cool object; a photograph. Much was nowhere in sight having wondered into another room. Nobody seemed to have noticed that the Sheriff and Guy were missing.