Lilly had met Marian during her first week of staying in the castle. Lilly enjoyed the rebellious woman's company, and was glad to have a friend other than her blustery maid. "Where are you from Marian?" Lilly asked her as they sat in the courtyard one day, "Surely you haven't lived in the castle all your life."

Marian frowned, "No, the Sheriff wants to keep an eye on me. He has my father imprisoned in the dungeons, and Guy burnt my house down."

"He did what?"

"Yes, Sir Guy and I were to be married," Lilly raised her eyebrows, but said nothing. "when the king returned to England. I found that he and the Sheriff had faked his return and I punched him at the altar."

"You punched him?" Lilly questioned slowly.
"Yes! He had faked the king's return in only to get me to marry him!"

Lilly shook her head, "Marian, he did not want to wait any longer. Did you want to marry him?"

Marian sighed exasperatedly, "No." she looked around, "He's a cruel man, Lilly. I heard that he fathered a son, and then left the child in the forest to die." Lilly frowned and glanced down to the courtyard brick, "He has killed and many innocent people tortured!"

"How do you know they were innocent?" Lilly shot back.

Marian looked taken aback, "They were executed as innocents, Lilly."

Lilly sighed. "Forgive me, Marian, the comment was spoken in anger. I believe you at what you say he has done."

Lilly sat in her chambers with Rosemary, "What does the staff say about Sir Guy, Rosemary?"

Rosemary continued to dust. "That he is cruel. And he is! Why just the other day-!" But she stopped seeing her mistress's look. "They say that he has done terrible things, my lady. I heard that a kitchen maid had…"

"I am aware of the incident, Rosemary." Lilly blushed slightly thinking about it.

She could no longer in good faith stay in his company based on what she had heard about Sir Guy. "Rosemary, I am going for a walk."

Lilly came to the door of the Sheriff's chambers and was about to knock when she noticed the door was slightly cracked open. The Sheriff stood talking to a young man with curly black hair, and Sir Guy stood in the room just beyond the door. "Off you go," The Sheriff said to the man, and walked down the corridor hoping no one saw her eavesdropping.

"Lilly," Lilly turned and was relieved to see Guy looking surprised, not angry.

"Good morning, Sir Guy," she bowed her head.

Guy did not reply, but raised his eyebrows at her formality. "Lady Lillian, what are you doing here?" the Sheriff came out of his chambers and Lily noted a new ruby encrusted tooth.

"I came to speak with you actually, Sheriff." The Sheriff brushed past her and Lilly attempted to keep up with him, but Guy held her back.

"As you can see," the Sheriff turned towards her, "I am a very busy man. Another time perhaps," and he disappeared down the corridor as Guy gave her one last glance and followed him.

"Well," Lilly huffed and left the castle for a walk without her guard, again.

Lilly found her walk confined to Pit Street. Lilly was abhorred at the things that Marian had told her about Sir Guy. Lilly had heard of Prince John's own doings against the king, and her father had participated in planning some. Lilly had lived around violence and threats of violence for many years; perhaps it was the fact that she actually found herself liking Gisborne that appalled her. Lilly could never like Prince John, he much too full of himself and manipulative. But perhaps Guy was the same way?

She hadn't seen the barricades until much too late. "Wait a moment!" She ran as fast as she could in a few layers of skirts towards the barricades. "I'm Lillian of Kersey, I live at the palace. This is a mistake!" the guards ignored her. "Let me out of here! The Sheriff will not stand for this!" at the mention of his name the guards turned and looked her over. Lilly wore a simple grey tunic covered by a black velvet cloak. The guard scowled at her and turned away. "Does this look like the clothing of a peasant!" she held up the golden clasp of the cloak to the fence and was rudely pushed back by a guard.

She took a few steps back from the mob of people. "Come on move it!" Lilly heard the unmistakable voice of Guy down the street. She broke off into a run towards the barricade she heard him at.

"Guy! Guy!" Lily avoided a large man who had just run through the barricade. "Guy!" she reached a hand through the opening, but her effort was futile as he was too far away. Lily watched him walk in the direction of the castle and remembered the street opened near the caste at the other end. She ran to it, but ended up running into a man and two women during the commotion. Lilly looked up, "Here," the man helped her up.

"You!" Lilly sputtered, "You're the one who robbed me! You're Robin Hood!"

The man quickly clamped a hand over her mouth and dragged her away from the guards at the barricade. He nodded something to the two women and then released her. "Yes. Now, what are you doing here?"

Lilly frowned at his formality towards her, "I'm stuck here. I was on a walk and they won't let me out. Why is there a barricade?"

Robin sighed; "There is the Pestilence, but…" he stopped. He knew from Marian this girl was the daughter of one of the heaviest supporters of Sir John; it would be foolish to tell her of the Sheriff's lies, as she would go straight to the guards at tell who he was. "Come with me," he dragged her to Sarah's house where he could keep an eye on her.

Lilly struggled a bit, but followed him non-the-less.

"How is she?" Robin asked, kneeling by the small girl on the floor.

"She needs water," a woman of Saracen descent spoke as she tended the child as the mother watched helplessly.

Robin nodded, "This is…"

"Lilly."

"And she's going to help you with the quarantine," Robin gave her a questioning look and Lilly nodded.

Robin left and Lilly watched him walk out to other people who looked to be friends of his. "You don't live here," the blonde woman spoke.

"No," Lilly wiped the child's forehead, "I was walking when they put up the barricades." She didn't miss the look the Saracen gave her.

Sometime later, Robin returned and picked up Jess from the floor. Lilly followed Djaq and Sarah to where a makeshift hospital was set up. Lilly stopped. She watched as the man she had seen speaking with the Sheriff was kneeling by one of the beds. Lilly decided to ignore it, having more important matters at hand.

"These people are burning up," Djaq feels Jess's face as she speaks to Robin.

The man kneeling and the other bed gets up, "You know perhaps it would be a kindness just not to interfere."

Lilly narrowed her eyes at him, a remark like that was not one for the innocent. But she would not tell Robin what she had seen. It was none of his concern.

"This is a medicine chest!" the one Lilly had heard called Much holding out a chest filled with bottles, herb bags, and small boxes.

Lilly laughed as Djaq kissed much on the cheek and he flushed a bit as Djaq walked away and gave Lilly instructions for those who were sick and what things to possibly give them.

Lilly leaned over a young man as he fades in and out of conciseness. If this is the Sheriff's doing Lilly would greatly consider writing to her father and asking to be taken back. "You're trained in medicine?" Lilly looked over to where Djaq was questioning joseph.

"No, I'm just hoping that this poor child recovers," he looks down at Jess.

"Dougal?" and old woman leans over her husband and Lily reaches him first as the man coughs and gasps.

Another hour passed and the sick slowly continued arriving as more continued dying to make space for the new. It was a cruel way to think of it, but Lily was too exhausted to think any other way.

Robin had come back and was now pacing between rows of people, "So… you're all from different families, and you haven't eaten together?"

"We've all eaten the pies though?" Sarah spoke up.

"What pies?"

"The Nightwatchman's. He brought them all last night. Every house in the street." Lilly had heard of the Nightwatchman from Guy. Guy had told her he was some vigilante who gave aid to those who needed it. Guy had been trying to catch him for over a year. Lilly liked the thought of the Nightwatchman, much more than Robin who decided to take matters into his own hands.

"Soup. I'll make everybody some soup," Joseph walked past Robin.

Lilly continued helping Djaq. Djaq was leaning over a young boy, "Have you worked with medicine before?"

Lilly nodded, "Yes. My mother was sick when I was younger. I helped take care of her and learned a few things as a result." She dabbed gently at the boy's cheeks.

"What happened to her?"

"She died."

Djaq looked down, "I'm sorry…"

"Don't." Lilly stood up. "I don't need your sorrow."

Djaq nodded, "Very well," she glanced over at another man who know lay lifeless, and sighed, "Go get Robin, tell him there is another dead." Lilly resented being told what to do, but agreed seeing as there was no other option except for sitting at the barricade begging the guards to let her out.

She followed where she knew Joseph and Robin had taken the bodies.

"Someone's impersonating me." Lilly stopped and peaked around the corner of the building to see Marian climbing down from the roof.

"I know he's giving out poisoned pies."

"What in my name?" Marian jumps down. Marian's the night watchman?

"I know it's the Sheriff's doing, but why?"

Lilly decided to leave at that moment; the body could wait. Lilly returned to the quarantine, and when she saw Marian she disappeared to where she had seen Joseph go to.

Joseph stood over a pot a bottle full of clear liquid in his hand. "What's that?"

Joseph looked up and Lilly prayed he hadn't recognized her. "Water." He slipped the bottle into his pocket.

"You keep water in a glass bottle?"

He nodded. Lily sighed and sat down at a small table as Much came in and spoke to Joseph. "Food!" Lilly watched as Robin's gang entered the house and took up the soup bowls eagerly. Joseph handed out the bowls, but Lilly declined. "And the Lord said, 'Take, eat, do this in memory of me."

"You make it sound like the Last Supper," Much remarks.

Robin comes in and Lilly let's out a small cry as three arrow's fly through the room. "This is the last supper… for you, Joseph. You poison people and then you keep a record of their suffering!"

"That's revolting!" Much throws down his soup bowl.

Lilly scowled angrily as Joseph explained his plan. It was sick. The Sheriff was sick, to want this many people killed in order to test one poison!

Joseph suddenly upturned the table and jumped out the window. "After him!"

Lilly watched as joseph ran towards the barricades. He was trying to get out. And maybe he would. Lilly took off after him, thinking only of her own escape at that moment.

"It's me! It's me! I'm coming!" the barricade slid open and Lilly watched as Joseph slipped through and Little John into yelling at the guards before returning to Robin.

"Let me out!" Lilly screamed at the guards as they simply sneered at her. Lilly slumped against the barricade, her hopes of escaping dashed. Until a familiar figure in black leather appears on his horse.

"Guy!" Guy stopped and looked wildly around to see Lilly peering at him through the fence.

"Lilly! What- Let her out!" Guy roared at the guards as the opened the barricade for her.

Lilly slipped through the barricade and Guy got off his horse and held her by the arms. "Are you hurt?"

"No."

"What were you doing there?!" Guy dropped her arms and glares at her.

"Walking, and when the barricades were set up, the guards wouldn't let me out." Guy glares daggers at the guards who now are standing very nervously. "Give me your ring."

"What?"

"Your signet ring, let me have it." Guy held out his hand. Lilly nodded and allowed Guy to slip the ring from her finger.

He held the ring up for the guards to see, "See this? You obey every order from her!" Guy quickly remounted his horse after handing the ring back to Lilly.

"Get back to the castle!" he snapped and rode off.

A/N: procrastination at it's finest! I have three months to do this and I do it the week before school starts! Yeah! Anyway, this is (maybe) the only chapter in which I will follow the entire storyline with Robin. But I had to touch on Guy's cruelty and this seemed to be where to put it. Love you! And if you still read this, leave a review down below!

Longest chapter ever! It takes up half of the pages. Seven out of Fourteen. Happy reading. Review please.