Disclaimer: I don't own Robin Hood or any of his Merry Men (or Women) either – I am just using them for my own entertainment.
Lioness's Wrath
A lioness will always protect the ones she loves…
…But even Marion couldn't protect someone who had chosen to place himself directly in the firing line…
She can't quite believe he has the gall to tell her face to face, but then she remembers that this is Robin Hood and gall is his middle name…
"What do you want me to say Marion?" His calm, measured question hits her like a slap in the face. It seems to shock her out of her reverie and she realises with a start that she has absolutely no idea. Both of their stubborn natures have reared their stubborn heads and there is nowhere left for them to go.
And it is because of her stubborn nature that she answers all the same:
"I want you to tell me that you never loved me."
The words fall from her lips slowly and deliberately, twisting a cold blade into his aorta, desperate to hurt him as much as he is hurting her right now.
He seems visibly shaken by her words. "Marion, you know I can't do that."
It occurs to her now that maybe he only came to see her to stave off his own guilt and for that she resents him all the more
"Get out," she whispers, trying the words out for size at first, the way they feel around her tongue feeling strange, alien somehow.
"Marion –"
"Get out."
"Wait for me..?" His question is more in hope than any real expectation and he can't say he blames her. The ring hits him square in the middle of his forehead and he can't help but be grateful it wasn't a right hook instead.
She catches his arm as he turns to leave, gripping him not as a lover but as a stranger and she murmurs softly but firmly: "Robin of Locksley, you are nothing to me."
… If she says it enough she knows that one day she can convince herself that it's true.
…He saw his future reflected in her eyes and it scared him…
…He wanted to tell her but the words stuck in his throat…
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