AN-Here is the next chapter sorry for the delay.

It wasn't hard getting much to forgive him; at least it didn't seem so. Robin didn't know how much he had actually hurt his dear friend by allowing him to think he had died. Kate was much harder to convince to join him in saving Will, she didn't know him at all, she almost didn't care he was in the dungeon. She wouldn't listen to a word Robin said, the only one that broke through her hard head was Much. Kate made sure to point out she was helping only to help Much's dear friend, not Robin's she refused to risk her life on anything that Robin said was important. Djaq wasn't happy to find Robin told her that she couldn't help. He wasn't going to risk her due to her being with child, or risk her children losing another parent if this didn't go well. She had to stay with them, hopefully Much and Kate would be enough to pull one of his half made plans through. He couldn't ask Archer to help; he was blind and a liability so it was down to the three of them to save Will.

Robin hadn't gone home to his wife yet; he went and found Much, then Kate, but never home to Kahlan. He didn't want her to worry about what he was going to do, he didn't want her to know of his plans. As he stood around Djaq's table working out a plan with his small gang his mind thought of his wife and child, if he did this he ran the chance they wouldn't have the life they were used to. If he was caught his daughter wouldn't have a father anymore Kahlan would be forced to supply a life for their daughter without the help of another. If his face was seen then even if he pulled off saving Will then he would never be able to return home.

"We must cover our faces" Robin told the two, "I have a life to lead here, if my face is seen then it will be over, you have been seen with us I won't have my family fall under suspicion so you two must as well." All the time when he had wondered why Edward didn't try and fight the sheriff he never understood until now. Edward didn't stand up for fear of what would happen to Marian. And Marian, he had always hated her being the night watchmen, yet he finally understood her now, she hid her face to protect her father so her enemies couldn't use him against her.

"Yes master" Much said out of old habit he had long ago been freed, yet he still saw Robin as his master and no matter the years that passed he would never see Robin as anything less, he was his master, his protector, his bet friend.

"You are a free man," Robin told him "I am no longer your master I don't want that title nor do I deserve it."

The doors burst open as Kahlan came into the old barn they were planning the rescue in.

"Robin please" she said as she reached him "don't do this think of your daughter, do you want her to grow up with a criminal as a father."

"Well as he is already a criminal before you met him she already is growing up with a criminal as a father." Archer said, if he could see he would have caught Kahlan's death glare.

"Kahlan please I must do this, it is what's right." He told her

"No you said we would start over, we can we can try a life together as man and wife should, but if you do this if you chose this glory I won't be waiting for you to come back."

""You could have stayed here in the first place, instead of following your king to the Holy Land, if you cared so much about your people. But you didn't. You chose war. You chose glory."

The Voice played in his head saying much the same as Kahlan did before him yet the voice in his head didn't belong to her, it belonged to Marian. Looking at Kahlan now he could see Marian in her in the fact they had the same color hair, and sometimes sounded the same. Looking at Kahlan he couldn't help but be reminded of his lost love,

"We were fighters and I am proud."

The voice in his mind spoke again he shook his head to Kahlan, "I'm a fighter Kahlan I've ignored it long enough and I'm not about to stand by and let something bad happen when I can fix it, when I can stop it." Robin looked at his wife, "he's my dear friend Kahlan he has laid down his life so many times over for me it is about time I repay him."

"Please if you do this its only the start Robin." Kahlan said, she didn't care about the simple crimes he committed in the past, she didn't truly care if he broke this man out of the prison, she only knew it was a gateway to what Zed said would come. If Robin began to pick up hero qualities it could awaken the seeker within him if Zed had been telling the truth. "Don't go."

"I'm going." He said "Please be here when I get back." He looked at her knowing if she took his daughter from him he would have nothing left to live for.

Kahlan bowed her head in defeat,

"Just this once then?" she said softly.

"Just this one, I promise" Robin told her, "then we can go back to a honest life starting over as a family."

"Alright if it is just this once." She said hating the fact he was still going on with the plan. It almost made her angry when she thought of how many times he never listened to her, but her heart seemed to skip a beet when she realized what he was about to do was exactly like Richard had done in the past. Even if she had tried to order him to give up on a rescue mission he wouldn't have. She was already walking away by the time she realized that the qualities that Zed said Robin possessed were true. She stopped in the doorway and turned to look at him, he had already gone back talking over his plan with the others. Seeing him holding a dagger dragging it over a map almost sent a chill down her spine. From behind Robin looked so much like Richard, the way he moved the way he planned, the way he wouldn't stop a rescue mission for anything. A tear rolled down her face, as she knew she couldn't deny what Zed said any longer. Robin if he had looked back would have thought she was crying due to fear he wouldn't come back, but he was wrong she was crying for the end of the life they had led she knew something was coming something big that would rip her family apart. Something that would possibly take her whole family from her as it had done once in the past.

The queen walked slowly around the gardens hardly anything grew her maid had told her it was because there hardly were any plants that could grow without the sun, hardly any that would grow in the darkness. She sighed as she tried to pull thoughts from her mind, she couldn't remember anything this whole place felt so foreign to her it was a as if she woke up in some different land. Whenever she saw her husband she felt nothing it was if the woman that married that man never was. She looked at her feet, perhaps she never married him out of love, after all who ever did truly marry for love?

"We should be together"

She looked up as if she heard a voice; a voice that seemed to be talking to her, she glanced around looking for who ever spoke. Sarah her maid who seemed to be her only friend looked curiously at her,

"Are you alright Lady Marian?" she asked unsure why the queen was looking around.

"Did you hear that?" Marian asked still trying to find the owner of the voice.

"Hear what?" the girl asked confused.

"Wait Listen, you hear it? That kiss spoke volumes."

"That!" Marian said, "Did you hear that man?"

"My Lady there is no man, only your voice and mine no one is here." Sarah told her

"But I heard him." Something was so familiar about the voice Marian had just heard, something so secure it made her heart skip a beat, but why?

"Who my lady?" Sarah asked, but Marian just shook her head,

"I don't know." She looked around one last time trying to find a familiar face that went along with the voice, but she saw no one.

"Perhaps your mind is just playing tricks on you." Sarah said "lets go inside perhaps taking this walk is to much strain since your accident."

Marian said nothing, but just followed Sarah inside. She had been told many times she had an accident, but she didn't know what happened or what type of accident she had been in only that it effected her memory. Yet everything felt so wrong here everything and everyone.

Kahlan stood in her yard watching her daughter play her arms crossed across her chest. Her tears had long since dried; she cursed herself for allowing them to fall in the first place. Watching the little girl play however she understood herself for crying, if what Zed said was true then the little girl's life wouldn't be care free and happy. She would have to face dangers no mother wants for her daughter. She tried to tell herself that it wasn't true what Zed had told her, she tried to tell herself Robin could never pull of a mission if he failed it would prove Zed was wrong, it would prove that Robin wasn't the new seeker and that he wasn't related to Richard.

"Do you believe what I have said now?" Came a voice she didn't want to hear from behind her.

"Go away Zed please!" Kahlan pleaded "Leave my family be I can't do this, not again." She turned to look at the old man,

"I'm sorry Kahlan, but I can't help being here it is destiny." He told her trying to not upset her anymore.

"My husband can't be the new seeker I can't do that again, I can't lose another." She paused as she looked up, "and I refuse to lose another child."

"No one wants to hurt your daughter" Zed said, "She is still young untrained the dark forces want to use her for their side they want to train her to fight for them."

"That will never happen I will never allow it." She said

"Well as already proven they almost got her once if it wasn't for Robin's friend she would be lost to you forever."

"We don't know that for sure, Zed." Kahlan said stubbornly.

"That friend, Robin goes to save him now?" Zed asked knowing the answer already

"Yes." She whispered trying to not upset herself anymore.

"He goes without practice and without a plan?" This Robin was sounding more and more like Richard the longer Zed watched him, sure Robin had made a plan but it wasn't truly a plan it was more of half a plan.

"He's a fool." Kahlan said, "I threatened to leave him, but he still went." It hurt her when he was still intent on going even when she said she would leave him.

"That is because your heart isn't the one he seeks he is acting on the heart of another." Zed told her knowing about the letter Marian had wrote he had been spending time watching this family in the shadows and with magic that made him unseen.

"I know when he looks at me he see's someone else Zed that isn't new to me." She sighed knowing she would never have love like she had once had.

"I know you know this, but the reason he goes on this mission is because she told him to, she told him to keep fighting and being reminded of that promise being reminded of who she was and who they were together put kindling on the fire in his heart."

"Why are you telling me this?" Kahlan said half upset half angry.

"Because you must know it wasn't me that opened up his heroic nature it was your friends who brought the letter she wrote, your friends that reminded him who he really was." Zed wanted her to know he wouldn't have come here if he had any other choice she had earned her freedom from this life, but he couldn't ignore who was supposed to be the new seeker, he needed Robin the world needed Robin a darkness was coming, a darkness they wouldn't be able to stop without a seeker. "You must remember Kahlan who you were and not who you have become if you have any hope of helping your husband keep your daughter safe from harm and protected the world."

"I don't want this life I just want to be a farmers wife, Zed let us be hide us with magic do what ever it takes to let her grow up like a normal little girl." Kahlan knew he powers were gone no matter what she wouldn't be able to help her daughter.

"You are more then what you have become." Zed told her, "you are so much more then a farmers wife and it will be you in the end that will help Robin see the truth and do what needs to be done for the better of the world."

"Why must I help him? Why must he do it? He isn't a seeker he is no where close to how a seeker should be!"

"If I remember correctly you said the same thing about Richard." Zed said, but then continued, "He must kill the dark lord and the dark lord's queen, killing is something Robin has struggled with in the past, and killing the queen will be by far the hardest for him." Zed paused, "she is not as she appears you must remind him of that when the time comes."

His plan had worked; for the most part they had gotten inside of Will's cell, but once inside Robin realized how he originally planned to get free wouldn't work. Luckily Will already had a plan once they entered he just needed their help. Working together it as like no time had passed, Robin Hood and his band of outlaws working together like old times in a smooth orderly manor. This time there was no Marian to distract Robin enough to go into the castle. It wasn't hard for them to sleep into the darkness where Archer was waiting with horses. Djaq was waiting in Robin's old barn with her children pacing back and forth, she knew her home wouldn't be safe once the guards noticed Will had escaped so she waited somewhere she knew was safe. She waited for Robin to return with her husband she hoped he would after all Will was her pigeon she would do anything for him, she didn't know what she would do without him.

The doors opened and Djaq froze as her eyes registered on the person that opened the door, relief washed over her when she saw Robin and Much with Kate and Archer behind them. They said nothing as they walked in, but they all looked please, Djaq's knees went weak when she saw Will appear in the door way, she hurried over to her husband and threw herself into his arms.

Will hardly noticed the pain that came from the wounds he sustained from the guards beating on him as he held his wife in his arms, he was so happy to see her to hold her again, he never thought he would get the chance he never thought he would see Robin strolling threw the doors of his cell as if he owned the place with the old cocky smile he always used to wear before all the pain of his life began to set in.

Robin watched a smile on his face as the couple embraced he wished more then anything he could grab Marian the way they now grabbed each other. He glanced down as it dawned on him he hadn't lost Marian just once, but twice. His heart had been broken before when he had thought Gisbon killed her the firs time, yet his heart soared when she awoke. He couldn't help but smile thinking of the feeling he had when Allen suggested that Marian was actually alive; that happiness he only assumed was the happiness that Djaq and Will now shared.

"I feel so cold, so lost, so alone." Marian said speaking out in the stable to her horse the only thing since she woke up that seemed to bring her comfort. "I feel like I'm stuck as someone I'm not, I hear a voice, a voice that feels so right its like he's calling to me." She pet the bay horse as it shook its head, "It's like he's calling my name I just can't see him I can't find him, it's like he is here watching over me, but I don't know who he is." She moved to the front of her horse and looked him in the eye, "When I hear his voice I feel something in my heart that seems so right it seems to stop my heart and make it soar at the same time. A feeling I should get when I see my husband, but I don't." She closed her eyes trying to remember the voice she kept hearing in her dreams and even when she was awake, she tried to see the man in her mind that the voice belonged to. "It's like I woke up in some strange land where nothing is right and no one, but that voice it seems like the one real thing I can hold on to yet it's the only thing that is made up in my head."

"My lady are you in here?" came Sarah's voice taking Marian from her conversation with her horse,

"Yes" Marian said letting herself out of the stall as she stepped out of the stall a boy came riding in on a horse a bow around his arm, it caught Marian's attention something felt so familiar about the bow and then she heard it again, the voice

"The first time I held my bow I knew it felt right like it had been made for me and that's how I feel about you."

She knew by now the voice came from within her mind, but she didn't know who said it, whose voice it was she could remember.

"We are stronger together"

She didn't know how but she knew the voice was speaking to her,

"Who are you?" she asked without realizing she said it allowed. The boy with the bow turned to look at her,

"Name's Allan." The boy said without realizing who he was speaking to, when he turned something around his neck caught her eye, it was a brown wooden necklace with en engraving in it, she knew that engraving, but how? What did it mean?

"Where did you get that?" she asked softly to the boy,

"Er it belonged to me dad." The boy said, "His name's Allan too."

"And what does it mean?" she asked another question,

"Don't remember much of the story." He said, "All I remember is my father says it was a symbol of hope and that wearing it meant you were a parts of something big."

"I've seen it before." Marian said in a whisper,

"Well I don't know if that be to true." The boy said, "My father comes from a far away place. I don't think a woman of your beauty has traveled there it's a far travel."

"And where is that?"

"England." The boy said, "I was born there, but traveled here with me parents when I was a baby."

"Allan!" Called a males voice as it came closer

"That's me dad" the boy said, "Allan A Dale, father in the stable." The boy called out to his father.

"Allan A Dale, that name." Marian said softly as the man came into the stable, Marian turned to look at him as he eyes focused on him his eyes focused on her and when they did the man looked like he had seen a ghost.

"Sorry I took so long father there is hardly any game in the forest."

"I don't believe me eyes." The man said, "You look like someone, someone I used to know." His eyes were on Marian, "If I didn't know any better I say you are her."

"Excuse me?" Marian said confused,

"It's just the woman you look like she died, died a long time ago." The man told her,

"I'm so sorry for your loss." Marian told him, "Was she important to you."

"Rather important to my er." He paused "Boss without her are cause began to falter he was consumed by her loss even though he kept up the good fight well he was never the same again I never saw him smile the way he did round her."

"It sounds like he loved her." Marian said to the man.

"Yes we all liked her she was a fighter not one to be pushed around, I think she was the only one that could truly tell him what to do."

"Father she knew what this was." The boy said holding up the necklace, the man looked up shock in his eyes,

"You did?" he asked

"Well, no I just thought it looked-" the man interrupted her,

"You know of Robin Hood and his gang and all this symbol stood for?" the man seemed to get excited,

"Who?" she asked, "I just thought it looked like something I have seen in the past, I know nothing of what it means or stands for." Marian told him startled by how excited the man got.

"Robin Hood." The man looked at her closely and it seemed to register who she was, he bowed his head quickly, "I'm sorry my lady I did not realize who you were."

"Robin Hood." She said softly, it was perhaps the one name that didn't feel wrong, it was the one name that seemed to have some truth in her mind. But why? "Who was this Robin Hood?

"A Hero" Allan said, "From where I am from, Robin Hood he was a hero." He looked at his son, "We must go your mother has finished dinner."

"A hero." She said as the man and boy walked from the stable, "Robin Hood." Why did that name sound right to her, why did the name of a hero from a far away land sound like the only real thing in her world?

Kahlan stood by herself just watching the fire so much had happened in just these few short weeks. Her husband went from being half present in their life, to being so much more. Ever since Zed showed up and Robin's friends it seemed to have awakened her husband's spirit, something she didn't like.

"You're husband has made it back safe." Came Zed's voice from behind her, causing Kahlan's heart to fall.

"We can't run from this can we?" Kahlan asked softly,

"No one can run from destiny." Zed told her, "You should know that by now."

"What does the new prophecy say then?" she asked still watching the fire, not turning to Zed.

"That a new seeker will rise and fight those lost in the darkness." Zed told her,

"Lost in the darkness?" Kahlan was confused but she still didn't turn to him,

"I can only guess it is those that killed Richard and your son." Zed looked down at the floor beneath his feet.

"And Robin must fight an evil that not even Richard could defeat." Another tear ran down Kahlan's face as she thought her new family would reach the same end as her first. "I should have never come here, never created a new family." She shook her head, "never cursed another child to this life."

"It was destiny Kahlan you couldn't have stopped it even if you wanted to." Zed told her, "Perhaps this time the outcome will be different, perhaps this time in the end you will be able to live a long and happy life with your family."

"I've lived in this life long enough to know that happiness doesn't come for those that fight the darkness." Kahlan said softly.

"You must hold on to hope Kahlan, hope that you will find happiness again."

"I am happy!" She said turning to look at him sadness and anger both in her eyes. "I am finally happy again for the first time since I lost Richard, Robin and I are planning to work things out, we are planning to be a family I can see happiness only an arms length away and now here you are pulling it from me!"

"I'm not pulling it from you" Zed told her trying to calm Kahlan down. "I am preparing you for what is to come they are after your daughter!"

"Get out" Kahlan said, "Robin will be back soon I don't want him to see you."

"I will go Kahlan but soon everything is going to fall apart I wish it wouldn't but everything points to your family you must be prepared." With those words Zed left leaving Kahlan behind trying to dry her tears. Just as he left through the backdoor Robin walked in the front a smile on his face.

"I forgot how good it feels when a plan comes together." Robin said smiling at her, but his smile faded when he saw her tears, "What's wrong?" he asked frowning.

"Nothing" she lied "I was just so worried so very worried, when I married you I married a famer not someone that went and risked his life to save others."

"I know Kahlan and I am sorry." He told her "I just couldn't let Will die." Robin walked over to his wife and kissed her on the top of her head, "It won't happen again."

"You won't put our family in danger again? Promise me Robin Promise me you won't fight anymore."

"Keep fighting for me Robin, promise me you'll keep fighting."

"I promise." He said to her trying to ignore the voice he heard in his head. "I'm going to check on Arianna" he said as he let go of his wife and walked up the stairs to his daughter.
Kahlan turned back to the fire and sighed, with hope the darkness wouldn't reach her family she would only have to keep Arianna close to her watch out and make sure the girl never left her site, she wasn't about to let her daughter fall in to the hands of the enemy that Zed spoke of.

"Arianna?" she heard Robin Call from upstairs causing Kahlan to look to the stairs, Robin appeared at the top of them and looked at Kahlan, "Where's Arianna?" he asked.

Kahlan felt her heart drop "no" she whispered as she ran up the stairs hoping the girl was only playing a joke on her family.

"Arianna this isn't a game, come out from where ever you're hiding!" she yelled half panicked. "Arianna come out!" she cried out loudly. Robin grabbed his wife knowing something was wrong and held his wife to him.

"We will find her, I will get the gang on it they will find her." Robin then took her by the hand and hurried out of the house to the old barn where he had left the gang.

"Where are we going?" Arianna asked the women holding her hand,

"We are going to see a magic place." The blonde told her, "Remember this is your dream we are going to see a place full of magic, but in order to get there you need to willing walk into the magic castle."

"This sounds fun!" Arianna giggled walking with the women not even realizing this was the very same person that took her from her family not to long ago. After all this was a dream you could travel anywhere in your dreams without fear right?

AN- I know its been a long time but here is the next chapter tell me what you guys think.