AN- Thank you to everyone that reviewed, here is Chapter 7 tell me what you think.

Kahlan sat up waiting for Robin like she always did. He only thought she went to sleep before he got back from the pub, but she just simple pretended to sleep when she heard him coming up the stairs. Yet tonight it was later then most nights she wondered where he was now. She assumed the pub was closed now and waited to hear him stumbling in, but instead she heard a wagon and a horse along with people's voices. She hurried down the stairs in her long white sleeping gown and glanced out the window. There was a wagon in the darkness and it looked like the women Kate she had met a few days ago in Locksley sitting on it, and two figures getting something out of the back. Then she realized it wasn't a something, it was a someone, the someone she had been waiting up for. She could hear the men's voices,

"Archer don't drop hi-" said once voice, but was followed by a thump that could only be Robin hitting the floor.

"Sorry" Archer said "He will be feeling that in the morning."

"Archer can't you be more considerate?" Much asked "you can't just go dropping drunk people out of wagons."

"I can if they are as pathetic as this one, maybe if he's hurting tomorrow he will think over getting like this and being here."

"Help me get him up" Much mumbled "And to his house."

"So think he has a wife?" Archer asked

"No." Much said simply, "Robin would never marry because he loves Marian, sure he wants a family, but I know for a fact he can't look at another women and not see Marian no women would put up with him loving another while married to her."

"Not every women is opinionated as your wife, some women just want someone to take care of her, doesn't really matter about love, after all not many marry for love, they marry for Security and by the looks of this place Robin can supply for a family."

"No." Much said "I couldn't see him marrying a women that wouldn't stand up to him, he always needed someone to keep him in check." Much said, but he wondered how much Robin had really changed. How could he possibly be alive, why didn't he come home? Why had he let everyone he cared about think he was gone?

Much and Archer struggled to the door each with one of Robin's arms over their shoulders, Robin was only half awake mumbling nonsense.

"I don't like walking with some drunken idiot leaning on me and not knowing where I'm going." Archer said

"Don't worry there isn't-" he got interrupted by Archer stubbing his toe against a rock.

"Much!" Archer yelped, "Your supposed to be making sure nothing is in front of me!"

"Well there isn't anything." Much said "Now"

"Lets just get him to his house and leave this place." Archer said

"We aren't leaving, I can't leave him now that I know he is alive."

"You are more loyal then a wife." Archer growled, "Just watch in the morning he will want nothing to do with us, with you, that's why he never told you he was alive."

"He just, he just." Much tried to make sense of why, but he didn't know

Kahlan opened the door as the three approached, "What happened?" she asked seeing Robin only half awake, unable to walk on his own.

"Kahlan?" Much was surprised, what was she doing behind Robin's door? Why was she here in the house that was supposed to be Robin's, it couldn't be could it?

"Kahlan!" Kate exclaimed jumping off of the wagon and walking to the door, "What are you doing here?"

"Shshshees mine wifes" Robin said as he stumbled away from Much and Archer to Kahlan putting his arm around her.

"Robin" Kahlan said as he leaned most of his weight on her, she turned her attention back to the people that had helped Robin home. "I live here, he went out drinking tonight I was getting worried when he didn't return."

"You" Kate said "But him, but wait" Kate was confused, was Kahlan the women who had lived with her for almost a week the wife of Robin Hood?

"Would you like to come in you can stay the night if you wish." Kahlan told them "It's the least I could do after you let me stay with you and then brining my husband home."

"Husband?" Kate couldn't seem to wrap her mind around the idea.

"Told you he was married." Archer said

"Shut up." Much said, he turned his attention to Kahlan, "I can help you get him to his bed."

"Thank you Much." Kahlan said as he helped her lead Robin upstairs who now was more asleep then awake with his head resting on his wife. Once settled in the bed Much glanced at the two

"I'll go down stairs." He said

"I'll be right down." Kahlan said as she sat on the edge of the bed next to her husband.

Much began to walk out and turned back as he was in the door way, he could only see Robin laying on the bed and the back of Kahlan, from where he stood it was almost like Marian was sitting next to Robin. Seeing Kahlan with Robin he could see perhaps why Robin married her, she in a quick glance almost seemed to be Marian. He turned and walked out pulling his hat off his head wondering what was to come next.

Kahlan sat next to Robin and pushed his hair from in front of his eyes,

"Why do you keep doing this to yourself?" She asked softly not expecting an answer. Robin's hand came up and softly grabbed hers as his eyes opened,

"I'm sorry." He said as he looked at her

"For what?" Kahlan asked wondering if in his drunk state he even knew what was going on.

"Runnings, away its what I'ms good ats" he told her his speech still slurred.

"Shhh" She told him, "Just go to sleep."

"I wish you knew me then." He told her "I think you woulds of liked me."

"I do like you Robin, I married you didn't I?" she took a wet cloth and put it on his head.

"It's a lie." He told her

"What?"

"Whats ever they says, don't listen to Mulch, Archers or Kayyte" he could hardly get their names out.

"Just go to sleep." Kahlan told him "We can talk about that tomorrow."

"If I sleep now I'll sees them." His eyes closed and he was asleep before Kahlan could ask who they were.

"Look at him now Much he is nothing." Kate whispered, "He couldn't even make it home."

"Maybe he just got lost." Much told her

"I didn't mean home to Sherwood, I meant tonight, he was drinking so much tonight he didn't even know how to get here."

"He has fallen before Kate, he is only human." Much told her "He wanted a family so bad that perhaps it was stronger then his will to be Robin Hood" Much glanced down "After all he does have the right to be happy, who said it was him that has to give up everything."

"Yeah Much because he looks so happy." Kate said crossing her arms "He is a pathetic drunk, nothing more."

"He's my brother." Archer said

"And our master." Much told her "He is the rightful lord to Locksley" he paused "He I is more then just a farmer."

They stopped talking when Kahlan walked down the stairs. She wore a white night robe that looked much like her old confessor dress. She walked with elegance and grace that she also appeared to be more then just a simple farmers wife.

"I'm sorry." She said to them "He does this sometimes, tonight though well he's never gotten this bad."

"I see why you travel." Kate told her

"Yes" Kahlan smiled, "But he does have his good qualities"

"I would say so." Archer said without looking at her

"What?"

"Nothing!" Much said "We just saw him and thought he needed help."

"But-" Kate started

"And we help out those who need it" Much interrupted. He wasn't sure if Kahlan knew who Robin really was, after all she didn't know the stories when she came to Locksley, she was amazed by them and never once did she seem like she in fact knew Robin Hood.

"Do you guys need a place to stay while in town?" Kahlan asked, "You could stay here I'm sure Robin won't mind."

"Yes" Kate said, "If you don't mind."

Kahlan gave her a kind smile "its nothing really you allowed me to stay with you"

The next morning Robin woke up and as he glanced around he was not sure how me hade it home at all. He regretted running away from Kahlan the way he did, he didn't know why when he got stressed he ran to the pub. Yet with Kahlan that hadn't been stress he scared himself, he almost couldn't control himself around her so he kept his distance after kissing her on the table.

It took Robin a long time to get ready for the day, he felt like he had been dragged miles by horses and everything be it sound or noise bothered him. Yet he knew he had to get up, he knew he had to tend to the farm. When he walked down stairs Kahlan was sitting reading with Ariana in her lap. She was reading a story Robin had never heard. It was about a man called the seeker and a women called a confessor, it was a love story that came of a time of war, all the great stories did.

"Mama how does it end?" Arianna asked

Kahlan's smile faded, "Well nothing like your father's stories." She told her daughter, "You see he died, in his last struggle to make the world better, in his last effort to protect his family."

"That's not a happy story," Ariana said

"No darling its not." Kahlan sighed, "How about you go outside and play?"

"Alright." The little girl agreed as she ran from the room. Kahlan turned and was taken by surprise when she saw Robin, but she didn't let on she was surprised she simply smiled and asked, "And how are you feeling?"

Robin didn't answer instead he just looked at her for a moment then spoke, "Can we start again?"

"Start again?" Kahlan asked not sure what he meant.

"I remember everything I've done to you, all the words I said and all you forgave even after I hurt you many times." He told her "You always were there. What if I give all that up, what if I let you in, what if I learned to love?"

"I don't understand." Kahlan said to him

"I can make this right, everything, us our family, I can make us happy." He took a step to her, Kahlan looked in his eyes, for the first time they looked kind and soft, but his eyes still seemed empty, like he had seen to much, been through to much.

"We are happy." Kahlan told him "We have a home we have food"

"We have a house, we don't have a home." Robin told her. "Can we start again, from this day on act as a married couple should?"

"Robin-" she started

"Just listen, I don't want to be this man I have been, he's not me." He looked at his feet then back at her, "I used to care, care about everyone around me in the past I would never have treated you the way I have."

"You have given me a beautiful daughter, you provide for us what more could I ask for?" Kahlan asked.

"To be loved, to be cared for, to have someone you can lean on after a hard day. Someone you can talk to, someone you can yell at, someone that understands you."

Tears came to Kahlan's eyes as she thought of Richard. She once had the husband that was better then any other, she had the man that listened to her, took her anger when needed and held her when she cried. How could Robin ever be like that? Because he is Richards's cousin a voice said in her head. "Robin you are a goo-" she tried to talk, but he interrupted her,

"I have been nothing but wrong to you." Robin told her "Don't say I have been good to you because I haven't I was raised by my father to treat my wife like she is my queen after all she is a lady and a lady of the house must be treated with respect."

Kahlan's heart dropped, did that mean Robin had once been a lord? "Lady?" she asked.

Robin looked down again, "I should tell you" he paused "If I want us to start over I should tell you something."

Kahlan felt fear grip her what if he would say exactly what Zed had told her? What if he was more then he appeared? What if he was a fallen hero?

"I wasn't always a farmer" he told her "I was once a Lord, but in time I didn't have enough money and ended up losing my lands."

Kahlan gave a sigh of relief, she didn't care that he was a lord at one point in his life, he was her husband now that's all that mattered. Just as long as he wasn't Lord of Locksley and Earl of Huntington "Where were you a Lord?" she asked

"That does not matter" Robin was afraid she would know of Locksley, after all she had went there, and in all the stories he told their daughter he always mentioned that Robin Hood was a noble man that took to the forest, that Robin Hood was Lord of Locksley.

"It does, please Robin." Kahlan hoped he wouldn't say Locksley she hoped with all her heart.

"Bonchurch" he told her

The name sounded familiar but Kahlan couldn't place it she just smiled when she didn't hear the name Locksley. "Do you really want to start over?" she asked softly

"Yes, I no longer want to be alone." He told her. Robin no longer wanted to live alone, he no longer wanted to fade away lost in a world that no longer had hope. To him the world was so cold, he just wanted a light that would warm him again. He just wanted to see a smile at the end of the day that told him he was home, he just wanted to feel the warmth that love brought. Perhaps he could really love his wife, perhaps while he still was on this earth he could love her just awaiting to be in Marian's arms in heaven.

Kahlan took a step closer to her husband, "And we will be like a man and wife should?"

"Yes" Robin told her with a smile

"That means I can reprimand you when you are wrong?" she asked her face only inches from him.

"Yes, you tell me when I step out of line" He whispered, as their lips were only a moment from each other.

"Good" she whispered as she moved her lips closer to Robin. She felt him smile and move in to kiss her right as his lips were about to touch hers she put her finger in between them. "If you ever come home like last night again you will pay Robin"

Robin pulled his head back surprised; he hadn't been expecting her to stop him from kissing her. His mind flashed to a time before anything began, before he was Robin Hood and when he was instead Robin of Locksley

"After all this time you can see in to my soul" Robin whispered to Marian. It had been so long since he had last seen her, he wanted more then anything to wrap her in his arms and hold her close, never letting go. He moved in to kiss her, but was surprised when she stopped him with her finger and playfully tilted her head as she pushed him away.

"Five years and your still peddling the same old drivel" Marian said with a soft smirk playing at the edge of her lips "tell me, does it ever work?

"You'd be surprised" He told her his eyes were on hers he wanted to move forward and kiss her, but knew all to well she would never allow that.

"Amazed" She said as she walked away, gently walking into his should as if to make him move from her way. As she walked away Robin turned and watched her go, even after all these years Marian remanded the same. The woman he would have to fight for the woman that never made anything easy. He knew after all these years of being away from her he still loved her, he still only had eyes for Marian. Watching her leave he knew he would make all his dreams a reality with her, they would one day be happy together he just knew it.

Robin looked at Kahlan and smiled, if she kept up her way of acting, just the way she had now he knew he could like her. Never love, but he could enjoy being with her, perhaps she could really make him happy.

'Well" He said with a smirk "Can I kiss you and promise to never do that again?"

Kahlan smirked at him "Perhaps."

Robin leaned forward, but right before his lips met Kahlan's the door opened.

"You were right I could sell so many here!" Kate exclaimed as she burst into the room. She looked at Robin and Kahlan close to each other, "Sorry am I interrupting?"

"Kate?" Robin exclaimed. He had no memory of last night, he had no idea Kate, Much, or Archer were here, let alone staying in his house.

"I'll leave if I am" she said waiting Kahlan's answer ignoring Robin.

"Kate what are you doing here?" Robin asked as he walked away from Kahlan and over to the blonde women.

"I'll go." Kate said as she turned to leave, but Robin grabbed her arm.

"Kate talk to me!"

"Your dead!" she spun around yelling at him "How can I speak to a dead man?"

"What?" Kahlan asked unsure of why Kate was yelling at her husband.

"Let me explain!" Robin tried to talk over Kate, but Kate wouldn't let him

"How could you do that to us?" she yelled "How could you just leave? Do you know what your death did to Much? Your brother he's blind now!"

"Kate-"

"Don't Kate me, I don't have to listen to you, you are no longer my lord or my leader, you are a pathetic man who doesn't deserve your name!"

"It's my name I-"

"No! You made a name for yourself and that was all of us, we were all together, you created a man greater then any before, you made hope return to a land that no longer had it. For once people could get up in the morning and think perhaps their world could get better. They had the chance to hope they had something to look forward to." Kate told him "And now we are back to where we were, the outlaws take from anyone, even kill, the lord or your lands is worse then Gisbon, the new Sheriff is worse then the old. People are dying Robin, Dying again because without you we couldn't fight on." Tears now filled Kate's eyes, "Do you know how ever day Much would look to the sky and apologies to you because he couldn't keep the fight going. Even after everyone gave up, Much was the last and he only gave up because I begged him to!" the tears now fell down her face. "We were lost without you we thought you died, but now we find you decided to leave us, you didn't want to keep on fighting!"

"I lost everything!" he told her "I saw a way out, the last year was hard on me, all I wanted was to make my dream a reality I wanted a family, I wanted to be happy!" Robin told her "Why couldn't I be happy."

"Because you were a fighter Robin!" Kate told him "You stood up to the injustice in the land, you fought for your people, you showed you were more then a lazy lord living off the suffering of your people." The tears began to stop. "I hate you if you had watched what Much went though you would hate yourself. If you had to care for Archer when he was close to death you would hate yourself too." Kate shook her head. "Your brother, the traitor, the muscle for hire, never gave up, still tries to fight without his site, sure if never ends well, but he keeps fighting I forced him into the village as well He couldn't live in the woods not after what happened to his eyes." She paused "But you, you decided you were tired, that you wanted a family." Kate glanced at Kahlan then back at Robin, "But let me guess you still aren't happy, why you are here and why you gave up, all of this is for one reason and one reason alone. Because you lost Marian."

"Yes" Robin told her "You try losing the person you think about all the time, the person you can't breath without. The person that when you see them your heart sores." He paused "Marian made every day better, the thing that got me through all the fighting in the holy land wasn't my skill with a blade or bow, sure they helped, but the thing that got me through were simply dreams. Dreams that I had to make it home, only to get back to her, to start our life as Lord and Lady of Locksley."

"Locksley?" Kahlan said her heart skipping a beat, but the two ignored her.

"She would hate what you have become!" Kate told him.

"I know." Robin said looking down.

"I'm sure you do-" she stopped "wait" she hurried over to her chest that she brought that had a few documents and money they had. She pulled out a white paper. "I found this when I was in the manor, it was under the floor board in your old bed room. Read it."

"Why?" Robin asked.

"Because that is what she wrote, if you have fallen from your path then you must read it." Robin took the letter from Kate, he looked at it for a few minutes "I have work to do." And he hurried off out of the house, leaving Kate to collect herself and Kahlan standing with her hand on her stomach trying to make sense of what just happened.

"What just happened?" Kahlan asked

"Since I no longer have loyalty to him I will tell you, even though obviously he doesn't want you to know." Kate told her

"All the stories I told you, about Robin Hood, Much's best friend, Archer's brother." Kate said to her "Do you remember them."

"Of course, that Robin Hood died a hero." Kahlan said still confused.

"I got the last part wrong. Robin Hood is alive." Kate told her

"What?" Kahlan felt fear once again grip her as she seemed to know what Kate was about to say.

"Your husband" Kate sighed "Is the former Robin Hood, he was our hero and our savoir, but before that he was our lord. He was so skilled with a bow that he could govern and protect us even at the young age of twelve."

"That's impossible." Kahlan felt her knees going weak, Zed had been right, did that mean everything Zed had told her was true? Was something coming something bad?

Robin walked out to the barn he needed to clear his head; he didn't want to hear another word from Kate. He glanced at the letter in his hand; slowly he sat down and looked at it for a moment. He then carefully opened the seal, his eyes fell upon words written by his beloved in her hand. Carefully looking over the letter he began to read.

My Dearest Robin,

I hope you shall never read this letter because then it must mean I am gone, but then I also hope you do for it will mean Locksley is once again in your hands. I know with you leading them the people will flourish once more, happiness and prosperity will return back to the land and once again it will be the home we once knew as we grew from children to adults. The home that we planned to one-day share with each other. I may be gone, but I still want this to be your home, I still want you to wake up every morning as the Lord you are meant to be. Gone the days when you woke in the forest hoping that Much had been able to find something to cook, gone are the days you have to steal in order to allow your people to live, or the people of your fellow Lords that couldn't stand up and do the right thing, as you have done. We have said our goodbyes by now if you are reading this, and I hope it means I for even a moment became your wife, I hope the fight didn't take me, and I certainly hope that if you lost me before the fight was over you wouldn't give up. I have seen you give up before because of me, but please Robin keep fighting. I am sure that if I died in your arms I have made you promise me that you won't give up and you better keep to your word Robin of Locksley. If you are reading this because you have just gone into the manor while the lord is away and you are still an outlaw, or perhaps one of your men has found this and you have given up please listen to my words. And Much if you are reading this and you know Robin has given up please I beg you give this letter to him, you know as well as I, when your words can not reach him mine can. If I am gone I know my words will never reach his ears again, but perhaps if I write them down then there is a chance he can see them and do as I say.

If you have given up don't hate me for saying this my love, but I don't believe you are the man I fell in love with anymore. If I was so important to you, why did you just give up on the fight that took my life, the fight that I gave my life for? Did you love me at all to let my death happen for nothing? Our plan was to find Lardner, Bring the king home, and then get married. Even if we could no longer get married why give up on the rest of the plan, even if we couldn't be happy here on earth one day we will be happy in heaven, but if you allow the people of Locksley to suffer because you lost me, then you aren't the man I thought you were, you would then be no better the Guy. Please Robin, my love keep on fighting. I will never forgive you if you allow your people to suffer, if you don't help them and just wait to join me in heaven then you won't find me there, I won't be waiting for you. I love you more then anyone could ever know, but love isn't enough when it comes to doing what is right. I have told you many times that our fight is important please honor my wishes, please fight for the land that was to be ours. Regain your lands, regain your people in the eyes of the law, but only after you correct all the injustice in the land. I know it is a lot to expect one man to do alone, but remember, you are not alone. It was you that said that your gang is Robin Hood, that if it wasn't for them Robin Hood wouldn't exist, you are simple the face everyone puts to the actions, but together with you by their side there is nothing the gang can't accomplish. I must go now my love, but remember even in the darkest of times if you look hard enough you will see the light, you will see the path you must follow.

Now and Forever my Love,

Marian

Robin Looked up from the letter, he knew she as right. He was more then just a farmer, he was supposed to stand for what was right, he was supposed to keep fighting. After all he wasn't alone, he had Much and Archer, if they would still have him. His mind flashed to the one other they had in this village, the one other that needed saving.

"Will" he said out loud. Looking down at the letter he smiled, "Thank you my love." He folded the letter and put it in his pocket, "Once again you know exactly what to say." He knew that Kate had come here with Much and Archer, he only needed to find them now, he needed to find them and Djaq and make a plan, a plan to save Will from jail.

"Soon" Came a man's voice "Soon we shall find this girl born of seeker and confessor, and she will join us." A man wearing a dark rope walked across his throne room. "But you failed me, you failed to bring the girl."

"Master she began to use her power." A blonde woman said. The same Blonde women that had tried to kidnap little Arianna. "They must be training her."

"No I know Kahlan to well, she had run from who she is, after you took her powers from her, after you took her child and husband she ran, she would never risk training her daughter to follow in the life she once had. The life she wants to hide from. I doubt the child even knows of the power she has."

"But master" The blonde started

"No" he hissed "The child is powerful, so powerful in times of danger the power protects her already at the age of ten."

"What shall we do?" the blonde asked.

"We shall wait, we shall wait until the time is right." The man laughed, "Now where is my queen."

"She is laying down master, she didn't feel well again." The blonde paused "Perhaps master the spell you cast over her is wearing off, her memory may be coming back, soon she may realize she isn't your wife, but another's, she may remember she doesn't fight for us."

"We will make sure she never remembers" the man told the blonde. "She is a full sister to Kahlan, yes she doesn't posses the power herself, but the prophecy states that a child will be born of confessor blonde, not to a confessor and that child should be the deciding factor in the war."

"Yes, but if she figures out who she really is then we will lose her, lose the chance of the child being sired by you."

"Yes, well that will never happen every night I make sure the spell last, nothing is stronger then my magic, she can't remember who she is, or who she was, her mind is to be molded by me." The man laughed "She will bare me a child, a child to shift the power in our favor, with that child and Kahlan's child no one will be able to stop us." He laughed

"Now go, watch the child, find where they are weakest and then strike." He told the blonde, "And do not fail me again."

AN- ok here is another chapter, Robin is beginning to become Robin again, and the evil plot is beginning to be revealed. Kahlan finally knows who Robin really is and now she has to deal with the fact Zed was telling the truth. I hope you guys are still enjoying this because I enjoy writing it.