Title: Outlaws2006 - Chapter Forty-One: Just Being Charli
Rating: T
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.

"Hey," Tanya pushed herself away from the wall she had been leaning on as Robin finally emerged from the toilets. "You okay?"

Robin turned quickly, surprised to see her there. "How long have you been stood there?"

"Um...since just after you went it."

"You followed me?"

"Yeah, you got a problem with that, Hood?" She grinned, poking him in the chest.

He caught her hand, not smiling back. "What do you want?"

"To see if you're okay, what do you think?"

"I'm fine," he said, shortly. "Why wouldn't I be?"

"Because you got up and stormed off like a woman, that's why." She rolled her eyes.

"Like a -" Robin gasped. "Tanya, your friend insulted my home, my time, my king, everything!"

"No she didn't, she was just being Charli!"

"Well I didn't like 'just being Charli'."

"Oh quit sulking." Tanya poked Robin playfully in the arm. "You like her really, you just didn't like some of the things she was saying."

Robin let out a deep sigh; from what he had known of Charli in the small time he had been there, it was expected of her to say such things. He guessed he'd have to put up with it. Still, her own opinion or not, the words had stung him slightly and he wasn't about to forgive her so easily.

"Besides, maybe you see the truth in them," Tanya pointed out cautiously, taking a step back. "I mean...she knows things that haven't happened to you yet..." she weakly defended her friend. "Moreover, she hates the Royal Family, pick any monarch and she will reel of a whole list of things wrong with them...you heard her yesterday with Marie Antoinette..."

"The truth?" Robin's eyes narrowed dangerously. "She knows nothing about something that happened eight hundred year ago to her. Like she said, it was practically the 'dark ages', nothing was recorded! So how dare she sit there and lecture me on what's right and wrong in a period she knows little about!"

"How much did she get right?" Tanya narrowed her own eyes, matching his expression. "Or close to being right?"

Robin shook his head in disbelief again, but thought back to what Charli had said at the table. Gisborne had taken his lands from him, Charli had been right there, but that was not the reason he had become on outlaw. "Some parts were true, although some weren't. I became on outlaw fighting for a cause I strongly believed in. Men would have died otherwise."

"Not about you, idiot" Tanya smiled affectionately. "I know she didn't get that right, and she knows it, she was just riled. I meant, how much did she get right about King Richard?"

Robin frowned at her, his eyes troubled. Tanya touched his arm lightly, smiling.

"You honestly believe in him, don't you? King Richard, I mean. Without a doubt?"

He nodded.

"Well then, just accept that in eight hundred years, views can change. Perspective definitely changes. You believe what you believe... its like religion, which is something else you shouldn't discuss with Charli by the way; you just have to accept that people believe different things. Doesn't make it true or false, right or wrong..."

Robin let out a deep breath. As much as he knew Tanya was right, he still cared deeply about what people thought of his King, whether it were 1192 or present day. "I think he's a good man. So do my people." He shrugged. "I suppose that's all that matters"

"Yeah. To be fair, what's Charli going to do about it?" Tanya grinned. "Take the cross herself and charge to the Holy lands to challenge him? Can you see Charli doing that? She'd have a hard enough time getting on the horse in the first place!"

Robin let out a small chuckle, regardless of the annoyance that swirled around in his head. "She IS a terrible rider."

"It's an irrational fear she has, which is odd, because she's a gymnast and she has perfect, natural balance and she's not scared of heights or anything..." Tanya smiled when he laughed; glad to see some humour return to his face. "She's convinced the damn things are possessed or something!"

"It's a horse," Robin said blankly. "You get on it and ride. Easy."

"Yeah for you and I," she defended her friend a little. "Not everybody has the ability to ride. And it's not easy actually."

"Yes it is." Robin protested.

Tanya rolled her eyes. "You've been riding since you were in nappies!"

"Yes because we HAVE to-what is a nappy?"

"Forget it."

"Why?"

Tanya groaned. "Always the questions!"

Robin placed his hands on his hips, and stood staring at the young woman for several moments. Tanya mimicked his stance challengingly. "You-"

"What?" She snapped back, though the humour was evident in her voice. "We could do this all night, Locksley."

"I could think of so many things I'd rather be doing, but if you insist." He started to grin.

Tanya continued to glare at him, but unable to stop the smirk growing on her face too. "I'm going back to the table." She went to move past him but was quickly stopped by the man grabbing her wrist.

"No you're not." He stated.

"Yes I am. Let go of me." She half-heartedly tugged her hand back, but he blocked her way again.

"No." He said again, beginning to back her up.

Tanya rolled her eyes. "If you even think about starting on your 'I am Robin of Locksley. Earl of Huntington' speech." She warned him.

"What?" He grinned as her back collided with the wall. "What will you do?" He leaned closer to her. "Shut me up?"

"You're so full of yourself," she muttered, trying to defend herself but becoming more and more distracted by how close he was to her instead. She felt her heart pounding in her chest as his lips brushed against her ear.

"Go on then. Shut me up, I dare you to try."

"Was that a challenge?" She turned her head, capturing his lips with her own gently, and then pulling away. "Shut up Robin."

Robin's pupils dilated, his body automatically leaning in, pressing her into the wall. "You're very bold. Telling me to shut up."

"And you're very bold, still talking after me telling you to shut up," she smirked, placing her hands on his waist.

"Well, it obviously didn't work," Robin muttered. "Care to try again?"

"Cheeky."

His hands wondered, lifting the hem of her shirt slightly. He pressed his lips gently against hers. "When we go back to the hotel...we should...spend some time together...if you know what I mean..."

"We'd have to ask the others," Tanya said, knowing that either Charli or Much would have to vacate their room. She tried to kiss him back, but he was pulling away teasingly. She groaned. "Robin!"

"Oh so you want to play now?" He stared at her, his expression innocent.

"Robin don't..." Tanya's legs began to weaken beneath her, her eyes closed, her breathing becoming a little ragged.

"Don't what?" He smirked as he began to nudge her mouth open.

"Just shut up," she breathed, pulling his mouth to meet hers, lips parting to allow him to slip his tongue inside. Robin was caught off guard, but soon relaxed into the kiss, pushing her further into the wall, his hips pressing into her own.

Tanya let out a small gasp at the contact and her hands automatically slipped round his waist as his tongue pushed against hers. She moaned; she had only come to find him to see if the man was okay, and now he had weakened her and reduced her to this. Not that she minded.

"We should get back," she said in between kisses.

"We should, but we're not. We're going to stay right here instead." His lips trailed to her neck, and he groaned as he took in her perfumed scent.

"Robin…" she protested weakly. "The others - they'll come looking for us!" She tilted her head back, eyes half closed as he placed light kisses along her collarbone.

"Let's go somewhere more private then," he chuckled and before Tanya could protest he had pushed her sideways and into the ladies toilets.

"Yeah, because this is more private," Tanya muttered sarcastically, but her protests faded when Robin again pushed her against the wall and resumed his kissing, bringing his lips back to hers. She moaned, wrapping her arms around his neck. "What are you doing?" She asked as he began to move the pair of them towards the counter worktops that held the sinks. Robin did not answer, instead he lifted her swiftly and placed down on the top.

Leaning in closer to her, he whispered into her ear, "Much better," before resuming his kisses.

"The sinks will break," she muttered, her hands clutching his waist as he pushed closer to her.

"Shut up," he told her as he took her legs and wrapped them around his waist. Tanya groaned, this was not a good situation to be in, if anybody were to walk in now...not to mention the fact that he was driving her crazy in this particular position. But her hands grasped his shirt and within a moment had lifted it over his head, dropping it on the floor as he crushed her lips with his again.

"Robin..." she gasped, the fact that they could have been caught at any moment spurring her on all the more. He smiled at her moan, slipping his hands under her top, caressing her skin, pushing his tongue into her mouth once more. Her grip on him tightened.

"We seriously need to go back," she moaned.

"Let them wait."

"No, I mean back to the hotel."

Robin stopped and pulled away from her, his eyes wide. "You're serious?"

"Yes," she placed her hands either side of his face. "I've never been more serious in my life."

A smile grew on his face and he kissed her again, linking his fingers around hers. "Lets go" he pulled her off the counter and she went willingly, stooping to pick up his shirt.

"Robin – here."

"Oh yeah," he laughed, taking it from her.

"Head a little messy darling?" She teased as they made their out of the toilets.

"Like you wouldn't believe it."

"Oh, I was just looking for you..." Much stopped looking surprised as they walked out the bathroom, hand in hand. "Charli says its time to go...why is your shirt off?"

Robin looked down at his chest to see he was indeed still shirtless. "Um...I got a little hot?" He offered.

"A little?" Tanya coughed.

He turned and grinned down at her, forgetting Much was there for a moment. "Well maybe more than a little..."

"I think we nearly reached boiling point."

"We will be reaching boiling point lat-"

"Um EXCUSE ME!" Much interrupted. "I suggest you put your shirt back on, people are beginning to stare at you, Master. I will not ask what you were doing."

"No," Robin said as he placed his shirt back on. "You will not."

Tanya rolled her eyes as Robin took her hand again and the three of them made their way over to the table. She just wanted to get back to the hotel as fast as possible...

"Robin," her friend interrupted her train of thought. "I'm really sorry about before, I shouldn't have gotten at you and said those things."

Robin stopped in his tracks and looked at Charli, his mind having forgotten for a moment exactly what she was talking about. "Oh...yeah...apology excepted." He nodded at her. "Just...be careful how you say things in the future, if you know what I mean?"

Charli rolled her eyes, but before she could say anything, Tanya stepped in-between them. "Don't start fighting again! Can we go? Please?"

"Why the rush?" Charli looked a little surprised. "We have all...ohhhh!"

"Ohhhh what?" Alan stepped forward, a sparkle in his eye. "I say we wait a little longer."

"NO!" Both Tanya and Robin said at the same time.

"I agree with you actually, Alan." Charli grinned. "Much, you can have that cheese cake you wanted if you like."

Much gulped. "If I say yes, Robin might kill me. He's glaring at me."

"Much, for the first time in your life, you are going to go without food, do you understand me?"

"Let him have cheesecake, we can leave now," Tanya suggested.

"No, we can all walk back together," Much offered. "I'm full anyway."

"WHAT?" They all chorused.

"You heard me!" Much said, looking uncomfortable. Robin gave a satisfied smile and a nod.

"That's settled, lets go!"