Title: Outlaws2006 - Chapter Eighteen: Marshmellow-stache
Rating: PG
Author: moonmajik and Tanya
Synopsis: Robin and his gang of outlaws, plus Guy of Gisnborne and the Sheriff, get swept 800 years into the future, to the year 2006, into the ladies bathroom of a Starbucks Coffee House. Follow their journey as they get to grips with their new surroundings. Based on the BBC's 2006 Robin Hood.
Pairings: Robin/OC, Will/OC, Alan/Djaq
Disclaimer: We do not own Robin Hood or any associated comments, such as "We go to Nottingham" or "Not being Funny, but..." Especially do not own the Sheriff. Damn. We do, however, own Charli and Tanya. In the later Chapters, there may be other characters that we own.

"I don't care that it's a Sunday" Charli shouted down the phone. "Some idiot broke down my door, and need you to fix it!…" she listened for a while. "Look… Get yourself out of bed, and up to fix my door!" She slammed the phone back on the hook, and turned to face the outlaws. "Yeah, they aren't going to fix it until tomorrow." She closed her eyes and ran her hand threw her hair. "We should have just gone and found them yesterday. At least then we could have tied them up and gagged them."

Robin smiled.

"That sounds appealing. We could tie them up, gag them and then leave them in the forest. Or feed them to some wild animal."

"We do not do that" Little John rumbled.

"I'm beginning to wish you had a different view, Little John" Robin clapped his hand on his friends shoulder. "It would be nice if you agreed to our murderous plans one of these days, instead of just knocking me out and doing what you want to do." Robin was treated to a stare from the large man.

"I think that means 'Shut up Robin'" Tanya called from the Kitchen, where she was busily adding little marshmallow to large cups of hot chocolate. Bringing them over on a tray, she handed them out, keeping one for herself and settling down on the arm of the sofa. Charli joined them, picking up a mug and wrapping her hands around it, staring gloomily into the dark brown liquid.

"What is this?" Much, too, looked at the brown liquid in his mug. "And what are the round, melting things?"

"Hot Chocolate and Marshmallows."

"Marshmallows?"

"Yeah" Tanya grinned, sipping from her mug. "You know, when you dream about giant bananas and big white, floating things? Those big white floating things are giant marshmallows."

"I do not dream about giant bananas" Much sputtered. "I don't think I even know what a giant banana is!"
"Its fruit" Charli said, blowing the steam away from her mug.

"Oh. Well, that makes it so much more easier to understand." Much said sarcastically.

"Don't start with us, Much, you'll only loose!" Tanya grinned.

"So this is food?" Much asked.

"Yeah." Her answer was good enough for him, and he took a large gulp. As he looked up, he say seven faces staring at him. As one, they all burst out laughing.

"What?" He grinned, looking from one to another. "Why are you laughing?"

"You have a marshmallow-stache" Tanya grinned. The weird word caused more peels of laughter to burst out of the Outlaws. Much's bewildered face only served for more amusement.

"What is that?" he asked, staring at Tanya like she had grown two extra heads. "A marshmallow-stache."

"You have a moustache made out of melted marshmallow!" Tanya giggled, pointing at Much's upper lip.

"Oh"

The phone rang, causing the Outlaws to jump, and Little John to spill the contents of the mug all over the floor in front of him. Charli glared, and Little John had the decency to look embarrassed.

"I said no more food on my floor" she cried, reaching for the phone. "Hello?" She climbed up off the couch and disappeared into her room to talk to the person on the other end. Will climbed of the sofa, leaving the outlaws and Tanya squabbling about who was going to clean up the mess of hot chocolate and marshmallow on the floor, and followed Charli into her room.

"Here" Tanya chucked a cloth at Little John. "You made the mess, you clean it up."

"I'm not cleaning it up! It was the telephony's fault, make that do it"

"Yeah, because the telephony – I mean telephone – is really going to consent to clean up YOUR mess. Wait, what am I saying? Its an object!"

"Well, someone has to clean it up" Robin said, from his position on the couch, and immediately got hit with the wet cloth.

"Thanks for volunteering Robin" Tanya said, settling back down.

"What?"

"Thanks for volunteering" Tanya repeated, while pushing him up. Muttering under his breath, Robin got down on his knees and began dabbing at the floor. Much, oblivious to all that was going on, had finished his hot chocolate, and was now busy drinking Will's. And Charli's. And Robin's. Alan, seeing Much begin to eye up his drink, quickly gulped the semi hot liquid down.

"So, shall we put another film on?" Djaq asked.

"We have to decide what we are going to do about the Sheriff business" Tanya said, standing up again and collecting the empty mugs now surrounding Much. "We can't just ignore it, we tried that once and look what happened." Robin held out the cloth to her and stood up.

"Finished." He glared, sitting back down on the sofa and sulking. A raised voice from Charli's bedroom caused everyone leap to their feet.

. Djaq, the only one with any hot chocolate left, manged to tip her mug all over the floor, on the exact same spot which Robin had just cleaned

"Oh you have got to be joking me!" Robin exclaimed. "Here! You do it this time!" He picked up the cloth again and threw it soppily at Tanya.

"Don't you throw things at me!" Tanya hurled the chocolate covered cloth back at him. "I'll go check on those two." She headed toward the bedroom.

Tanya rolled her eyes and mouthed the words 'what does she want?' as she took a seat on the bed next to Charli.

"Who is it?" Will asked curiously.

"Her mother," Tanya answered. "She's probably wondering what the hell is going on here."

Will looked slightly worried for a moment as Charli continued to try and calm her mum down. "Should we leave. I mean, I'm sure we can find somewhere else to stay"

"No" Tanya grinned. "Charli's mum likes to worry. In fact, if shes not worrying, she's not happy. So don't worry! Besides, she gets to spend quality time with her brother."

"Yes, okay, okayI will seee you soon, bye!" Charli finally hung up the phone and, with an exsaperted sigh. "She's going to want to come home soonwe need to get that door fixed."

"And how are we going to do that?" Tanya enquired. "Like you said, it's a Sunday."

"I could do it" Will offered, cautiously. "I mean, i'm a carpenter by trade... I don't know about making one of these new doors those."

Charli sat up.

"You could make a door?"

"Yes," Will shrugged as if it were not a big deal. "I can get it done with in a day or two, maybe?"

Charli shot off the bed and threw her arms around him. "I love you! Just tell me exactly what you'll need and I'll get it for you!"

Will looked on in complete shock as Charli made her way back into the living room leaving Will alone with Tanya.

"She loves me?"

Tanya chuckled and patted him on the back. "Don't take it too literally."

Will looked half relieved and half disappointed as the two of them followed Charli back into the living room. The five outlaws they had left on their own were crowded around the TV, the cloth and the hot chocolate stain on the carpet forgotten, arguing with each other about which film they wanted to see. Much and Robin wanted to watch James Bond again, while Djaq had found "High School Musical" and was trying to persuade them that it was a good thing to watch. Little John was inspecting the wires sticking out of the back of the television and Alan was trying to get static shocks of the screen

"Guys, GUYS!" Charli yelled. They all stopped what they were doing to look at her. "What the heck is going on? Somebody knocked my front door practically of it's hinges and broke into my flat. Guy of Gisborne and the Sheriff could be back at any moment to kill us all and you squabbling over what MOVIE to watch!"

The men stopped and turned to face the three of them, who were stood in the doorway to Charli's room. Djaq quickly put the DVD she was holding down, while Much hid his behind his back. Robin grinned at Tanya; Little John appeared from behind the back of the TV, And Alan cursed as he received a large shock from the TV. He had the decency to look embarrassed as he too turned to face Charli.

"I'm going to take a nice hot shower," Tanya was the first to step forward. "I'm so out stressed after meeting you guys and just thinking about what is to come! Ugh! You guys can do whatever the hell you want."

The guys outlaws all started talking and squabbling again as Tanya made her way to the bathroom. "I think I'll do my hair too" She continued to mumble

"Will!" Robin shook his head in disbelief but half grinned. "You're not going to let her go on her OWN are you?"

Will snapped out of his thoughts before jogging after Charli as she made her way to the door. "Wait! I'm coming with you…it would be better if I could see exactly what you…were buying…yeah"

Tanya popped her head around the bathroom door. "Look after her, or else."

Robins eyes popped out of his head when he saw the half naked girl hanging from the bathroom door. She had only wrapped a small towel around to say goodbye to Charli

Tanya was about to close the bathroom door when a foot appeared from nowhere, jamming it. She gasped and looked up to find the face of Robin smirking at her. "Can I come in?"

"No you most certainly cannot!" She tried the door again but failed when he pushed against it and held it tight. "You know, in 1192 this may have been acceptable, but today mate, believe me, I could have you done for sexual harassment! Now get lost!"

"No!" She kicked him harshly in the foot causing him to let out a loud 'oof'. "Leave me alone. You promised earlier today that you-"

"That I wouldn't kiss you, yeah I know." He stood back and rubbed his foot. Tanya opened the door a little bit more and glared at the sheer audicity of the man. "I'm not trying to kiss you though. I'm just trying to get in to the bathroom with you."

"Its the same thing!" Tanya half shouted, her hands on her hips. Robin, clearly lost by her logic, settled for looking her up and down now that the door was wider. As she was about to hit him, Little John appeared behind Robin, grabbed him by the scruff of his neck, and dragged him away from the door.

"Sorry Tanya" Little John grunted, literally chucking Robin onto the sofa

"Asshole," she yelled after him but shut the door quickly before anyone could see the small smile on her lips.

Robin sat and sulked on the sofa for a while and even more so when Djaq finally managed to put her stupid 'musical' movie on. Where was James Bond when you needed him? He wouldn't have put up with this kind of nonsense.

The outlaws, like Robin, were less than impressed when the musical began, and didn't even try to watch it. Much wandered into the kitchen and began opening all the drawers, looking for something to eat.

"Hey!" Much grinned as he opened the freezer "Why is it so cold in here?"

"I have no idea, I'd ask Charli but she's not here and Tanya's in the bathroom so"

"I'll ask her!" Robin leapt to his feet and started off in the direction of the bathroom, only to be stopped again by Little John, who reached out and grabbed the back of his t-shirt.

"No, you wont" he said firmly "Don't make me knock you out again! I swear this time it'll be for a damn good cause."