AN- I realized in the last chapter I rushed over Will's rescue, I just felt like the story was going very slow at that point and I wanted to actually get into the main plot of the story

Marian walked into the throne room where her husband waited for her. He stood in the shadows like he always did, Marian still wasn't completely sure what he looked like when ever he came to her it was at night, when ever they shared the bed to create an heir it was to dark to really see his face. As she walked in she heard the sobbing of a child, she looked around to see a small little girl sitting on the floor crying.

"What's going on here?" she asked with concern for the child.

"We found her" Alexandra said, "Well I found her wondering the woods, she knows nothing of where she came from or who she is other then her name."

"Poor child." Marian said going to the little girl.

"I am putting her in your charger" her husband said from the shadows, "you may not remember, but before our accident all you wanted was children and since conceiving an heir seems harder then we though you might as well raise this girl until we find her family." Something about the way he spoke made her think he wasn't acting on her behalf but his in some way. Marian didn't know why but she didn't trust her husband. She was told so many times that she loved her husband that she supported him one hundred percent that she would travel to the ends of the earth for him she couldn't believe it. She didn't know how she loved the man before her, he didn't seem kind at night when he came to her he had no care of her needs only his, he got what he wanted then went to sleep leaving Marian feeling lost. She didn't want him touching her or being near her, but she was his wife she had to do her duties as a wife. Looking at the child she couldn't see how helping this child, how raising this child could be like his many dark plans to keep hurting and suppressing those weaker then him.

"Will you do it?" he asked a hint of anger in his voice as he waited for his wife to say something.

"Yes." She said, "I'll take care of the girl, what is her name?"

"How should I know?" the king snapped angrily at her, "take her and get her out of my sight I can't stand her crying."

"Yes my Lord." She said as she walked to the child.

"Please come with me." Marian said kindly. The little girl looked up without saying anything something seemed very familiar about the women in front of her she stood up and took the women's hand and followed her from the room.

Marian lead the girl to perhaps the only beautiful place in the dreary castle. It seemed untouched by the darkness that held the rest of the castle. Everything seemed almost white and cheerful in this room, Marian had found it other then the gardens to be one of the few places she could be happy. The little girl was now just sniffing softly to herself trying to stop her tears.

"Everything is going to be ok little girl." Marian said kneeling down beside the girl, "Can you tell me your name?" she asked pushing the hair out of the girls eyes.

"Arianna" the little girl whispered, "I want to go home."

"Do you remember where that is?" she asked

"No" she whimpered "I remember everything from a dream." The little girl said.

"A dream?" Marian asked confused.

"I don't remember anything other then my dreams." The little girl told her, "I want to go home." The little girl began sobbing

"To your dream?" Marian asked

"Yes" the little girl sobbed,

"Shhh" Marian said scooping the little girl up and hugging her close to her "Everything is going to be ok I'll help you remember who you are and your mother and father." She didn't know how she could help this little girl remember if she herself knew nothing of her past as well. "But until then I will keep you safe I promise."

It had been almost three weeks since Arianna disappeared Kahlan felt lost, unlike most families that lost a child they did not pull away from each other. Instead it seemed Robin grew more protective of his wife, he blamed himself for not behind home to watch out for his daughter. It seemed he was a great hero for others, but when it came down to people he loved he never seemed to protect them. Kahlan hardly said a word other then mumbling things about it being her fault, that she knew this was coming.

"Robin." Much said "We haven't found anything its like she vanished."

"We have to find something." Robin said the anger was gone from his voice now, instead it held on to his last bit of hope that he would find his daughter. "Much I can't lose her I can't lose another person I care for."

"I know Robin." Much knew it killed Robin when he lost Marian, losing his daughter Much feared Robin would never get over.

"Kahlan are you sure you didn't hear anything?" Archer asked.

"Not this time." Kahlan said standing from her chair she was pale her eyes were red but dried of tears, "Zed was right." She looked at Robin, "I had a warning for this it happened before I should have known I should have listened."

As she spoke Robin remembered the old man that warned him as well. "It's not just your fault" he told her "an old man he warned me he told me something was coming for her." He looked at his wife, "because she was the daughter of two important people who became less then who they should be." Robin paused "His name was Zed I think."

Kahlan looked up, " I remember her telling me that." Kahlan paused "I know him from my past, I should have known he spoke the truth instead of trying to hide from what he was telling me."

"What did he tell you?" Robin asked

"Just that the darkness was coming." She told him, "That because she was our daughter she held the key to leading everyone through the darkness."

"What does that mean?" Robin asked,

"It means she is the daughter of you a hero who is destined to be even more, and me a mother confessor."

"A What?" Robin asked

"I once like you fought for what I believed in, but I gave that up a long time ago when it-" she stopped she had never told Robin about her family before him, never about her first husband, never about her son.

"When what happened?" he asked "Kahlan you must tell me everything you know the gang will follow any leads to the ends of the earth so please just tell me."

"I know who took her" Kahlan said, "Not exactly who, but it's the same people that-" she paused struggling for words, "that took my first family from me."

"First family?" Robin asked, "What do you mean first family?" while he knew that he wasn't truly in love with her he had always thought he was the center of Kahlan's world that she loved him.

"Yes I was married before you, I had" she paused "I was happy I loved my husband we went through so much together and each time coming out together in triumph no matter what our love seemed strong enough to keep us safe." She thought of how her powers didn't work on Richard all due to the strong love they shared, her powers couldn't force him to love her anymore then he already did. "But love isn't strong enough, we were happy living in our palace when I heard a noise in the nursery I went to check on the baby and a blonde woman was there holding my son, she said he was an abomination and killed him. Richard tried to fight her off, but she killed him as well and took my power." Another tear fell down her face; she had thought she had no more left, but thinking of Richard and her son seemed to find the tear within her.

"Blonde woman?" Will asked looking at her, "Remember a while back when she went missing and I found her with someone, she was blonde she was trying to take her away."

"Oh god it's her" Kahlan said hating the fact her daughter was now in the hands of a monster.

"Can you tell me the story again?" Arianna asked Marian a smile on her face. She had grown happy in the past three weeks living with Marian in the castle. Yes it still scared her traveling to the other parts of the castle and eating dinner with the king, but for most of the day she was with Marian either in the gardens or the beautiful white room.

"What story?" Marian asked, she told the women many stories that seemed to come to her mind.

"The one about the man that became an outlaw to save people." The little girl said jumping on to a chair in the white room.

Marian smiled, "Alright." She said picking the girl up and sitting her in her lap. "Lets see if I can think of another adventure he went on." Marian didn't know how these stories came to her mind, perhaps her mother used to tell her these stories as she fell asleep she didn't know, all she knew was these stories seemed to put Arianna's mind as ease.

"This time can you tell a love story?" Arianna asked

"A love story, how could someone living in the woods have time to fall in love?" Marian asked with a smile,

"I don't know you're the one that makes up the stories." Giggled the little girl

"Alright let me think for a moment." Marian said as she tried to come up with a new story for the girl, "What should we call Robin Hood's love?"

"Marian, because she is as beautiful as you" the girl said looking up at Marian.

"Well thank-you." Marian said a smile on her face, "Alright we will call her Marian." For a moment Marian seemed lost in though as ideas flew into her mind that happened, but in her mind she seemed to place herself in the story within her mind. Taking it all in Marian closed her eyes trying to remember some of the story before she opened her eyes and began her story. "Alright so a long time ago, when the land was full of injustice one Lord stood above the rest, and instead of putting himself first and making sure he kept himself in favor of those in power, he spoke for his people, by doing so he made enemies with the evil sheriff."

"And Sir Guy!" the little girl added

"Sir Guy?" Marian asked

"We both can tell the story when we get an idea." said the little girl

"Alright, lets see where was I ah yes he made enemies with the evil sheriff and Sir Guy who wanted all Robin's lands for himself." Marian continued the story about Robin Hood to the girl, speaking much the same of what the girl already knew. "There was another reason Sir Guy hated Robin and that was simply because Sir Guy was in love with Maid Marian a strong willed girl who wasn't the type to sit an do her embroidery." Marian smiled as she thought of the women in the stories, she wished so much she was like that, not afraid to do what she believed in, not afraid to stand up and help others. "You see Sir Guy loved her and wished her to give her heart to him, but she gave her heart away a long time ago, to Robin Hood yet she was angry at our young hero for leaving her for so long to fight in a war so very far away."

"But she still loved him right?" the little girl asked.

"Oh Yes, very much so." Marian told the little girl, "As time went on helping the people seemed to bring them closer, and melt the anger Marian held for her love." Marian was about to speak more when Arianna interrupted her again,

"Unlike many of the stories you have heard they weren't perfect, they fought, they yelled, they didn't always get along. She always spoke her mind to him, and he always joked with her pretending to never take her seriously. She was strong willed and so was he, so much the same person they were far from right together, but yet the perfect match. While he was a hot head, she thought things through, when his temper got the best of him she was the only one that could keep it under control." The little girl seemed to recite her part of the story right out from a book.

"well alright." Marian said trying to figure out where this little girl's imagination was coming from.

"They were in love, when they looked into each others eyes they could see they found the person that god had laid on the earth for them to find." Arianna smiled up at Marian, "They found true love."

"That is a lovely idea." Marian said with a smile, yet as the little girl spoke she couldn't help but feel a part of her missing, she knew she didn't feel that type of love for her husband, she wondered if she ever did. "And they lived happily ever after." Marian finished "Because they were-"

"The stuff of legend" Arianna finished Marian's words with a smile on her face, "I love your stories Marian."

"They are beautiful aren't they?" Marian thought of the stories, when she told them to the girl she felt like every word said in them was so write in her mouth, when she spoke of Marian and Robin it seemed they were meant to be together, why didn't she feel that for her husband? Why couldn't she love her husband the way Marian loved Robin Hood in the stories?

"Would you fight for your husband the way Marian fights for Robin Hood?" the little girl asked,

Marian looked at the little girl stunned for a moment, and then gave her a soft sad smile, "Those are only stories, no one really falls in love like that, and no one fights for those they love." As Marian said those words she wondered if they were true. Were there people out there that would risk everything for love? She knew she didn't feel for her husband enough to risk her life and she doubted he would risk his life for her.

The little girl said, "I think love is out there and that it is powerful, I think love will help my mommy and daddy find me, and that its strong enough to do anything." Arianna told her

"You are one wise little girl." Marian smiled at her half wishing she could believe in something the way a child could, if only she could see the world in the way the child did before her, perhaps then she would have hope for happiness, or at least hope to finally remember everything she was told about her life. She hoped she would remember her love for her husband soon she felt lost without it, without knowing how much she truly loved him.

Robin watched his wife, she was now asleep for the first time in these weeks she slept soundly, but it was only because Djaq put something in her drink to allow her to fall asleep. As he watched her sleep he couldn't help but wonder who she really was. Why hadn't she told him she had been married before? That he wasn't the first guy she loved or had ever been with? He was foolish to think she really did love him, after all how could she after the way he had treated her. The way she spoke of her first husband Robin knew she loved him even still that man that was dead. At first he wanted to be angry with her, but he realized that he couldn't be after all he himself was in love with a girl that was dead as well. The only one who had gotten him to think about being a better husband to Kahlan was his dream about Marian. When he drank it was Marian's name that came to him and not Kahlan's he knew it was unfair to his wife, but the only reason he married her was because she resembled Marian. He had put Kahlan into an unfair life and expected to much of her, he now knew why she was so willing to just allow Robin to care for her, just allow Robin to have her as just a wife that pleased him, it was because she was as numb as he was.

The only thing good that came out of being married to Kahlan had been their daughter, she was the only thing in both their lives that made them smile again, the only thing that kept the two of them living. While they didn't know it they were much the same people, lost without their true love taking care of their daughter together numb and alone even though they had each other. Robin hated to think where his little girl was now he didn't want to think of what monster now held her scaring her. Arianna had many nightmares of what she called the darkness coming after her, Robin had always told her the Robin Hood stories as a way to get her mind off the darkness and into a sound peaceful sleep. She had no one now, no one telling her stories as a way to chance the darkness from her mind, no one to hold her and tell her everything was going to be ok. She as probably so scared and alone Robin felt like a failure unable to find his little girl and protect her from the cruelties of the world.

"She isn't with child yet?" Alexandra asked the king "Is something wrong with her?"

"Perhaps her body sustained more damage then we thought when we brought her back." The king told his right hand,

"I will get more potions and figure this out so she can produce you with a child of power."

"Yes I need this child to complete to prophecy and we must compete it before the seeker is named." He said through his teeth

"I will make sure she gets pregnant." Alexandra says, I will use all the magic I know of."

"What of the child?" The king said changing the subject.

"Child?" Alexandra asked to catch the change of subject.

"Yes child, the one that belongs to the mother confessor." He said angrily

"Oh yes, she seems happy and content to stay here with your wife the child seems to have grown found of her and she seems to have quieted your wife's questions." Alexandra told him

"Questions?" he asked,

"Yes she seems very confused at what's around her she questions everything I tell her and everything we remind her of." Alexandra didn't like Marian, the king knew it but didn't care he ignored the look of distaste on her face when she spoke of the queen.

"Well perhaps its harder to implant fake memories into someone." The king told her, "We need stronger magic to force the memories into her mind."

"That's impossible she already has the strongest magic spells cast around her mind, but it seems she is holding on to something. Something so strong that it can with stand even a confessors power."

"It isn't exactly a confessors power you use Alexandra you must remember that." The king told her,

"It's not the power exactly, but it is as strong for I have her power within me, I just channel it into something more productive I can make people think what ever I wan with the power a mother confessor can confess with, its impossible she can't remember anything from her real past." Alexandra told him

"But yet she still holds on to something" the king said puzzled.

"Yes" Alexandra said, "I think it's to love, you know as well as I do she loved another before we brought her back."

"Love is powerless, perhaps you just aren't trying hard enough."

"My Lord I'm doing my best." Alexandra said bowing to him

"You better hope your best doesn't allow her to remember, for if she remembers it will be your head." He growled at her, "now go do your job, make sure tonight when I go to my wife's bed she will conceive a child.

Kahlan couldn't believe she let her daughter be taken from her bed. She had been so fearful that Robin would bring about the start of their journey into the darkness she hadn't paid attention to what was going on around her. She had been a warrior long enough to always pay attention to what was going on around her, but now with these years of being a farmers wife she had allowed herself to relax, allowed her daughter to be put in danger. She should have known even though her confessor powers were gone the girl could possibly hold them, that she could possibly be in danger. Kahlan walked through the small garden that she kept up behind the house when she heard footsteps behind her she turned as fast as her body would let her to see Zed.

"Kahlan." He said softly "I'm so sorry."

"Why didn't you stop it Zed?" Kahlan asked, "If you knew it was coming you should have stopped it."

"I wasn't here I returned home to see how far the dark lord was pushing is power, Kahlan its getting bad there far worse then lord Rahl." Zed told her

"I don't care, all I care about is the fact my daughter was pulled into that mess!" She almost yelled at him, "And now I have to find a way to save her without-" she paused as she choked on her words. She hadn't noticed Robin walking up behind her, "Now I have to continue the fight without him by my side, Zed I can't do this without Richard he was the hero he was the one to free the land last time." She took a deep breath as everything seemed to come flowing into her at the same time, she would have to fight without her powers and without Richard to save the daughter she had allowed to fall into the hands of those in the darkness. "How am I supposed to fight without him? Even when I was ready to give up, Richard was the one that never faltered in his path, he never failed."

"Kahlan he failed many times, it was only a matter of trying again until he got it right, until he saved everyone he set out to save. If it wasn't for you Richard would never have achieved as much as he did." Zed needed to get the point across that without her Richard wouldn't have been the hero he was, without her Richard would have died or perhaps never even been named. "And now you have Robin he shall be named and continue on where Richard left off."

"He has already given up the fight once, what is to say he won't give up when times get hard again?" Kahlan asked Zed without knowing her husband was listening.

"Because Kahlan your husband gave up when he lost site of what could be, when he lost site of what he was fighting for." Zed told her, "That's why he needs you."

"What is to say he won't lose site again?" she asked

"His daughter I have watched Robin grow up." Zed's eyes were no longer on Kahlan's but Robin's, as Zed knew that Robin was there. "I watched him go off to war and return with a distaste for killing, but when it came down to defending a cave that held someone he loved Robin stood his ground and protected her without any regard for what happened to himself." Zed knew Robin needed as much convincing in himself as Kahlan did, they were both two very broken people that needed to be glued back together in order to fight the fight they had in front of them. Zed had to make sure they were whole again. "And again when she was taken far away he traveled thousands of miles to track her down and rescue her." Zed knew that Robin's rescue mission had failed that time, but he still attempted to rescue her, it wasn't his fault she died he had fallen in love with a fighter a women who wasn't about to let anything take away what she was fighting for.

"Yes and failed to protect those he loved." Robin said looking at Zed a solemn look on his face.

Kahlan turned to see Robin, "How long have you been there?" she asked

"It doesn't matter that you failed Robin, what matters is you would do anything to protect what's important to you." Zed paused "You without trying turned yourself into a legend that was whispered around a land you made yourself a beacon for hope, for those who had thought there was no way to stand up to injustice you told that you couldn't-"

"Stand by and let bad things happen if you can stop them." Robin finished, "I'm not saying that I won't fight for my daughter I'm saying that Robin Hood is still dead and buried that I'm not the man, not the man I was back then I don't care about injustice to those I don't know I'm not going to put my life on the line for those I don't love."

"Robin Hood isn't dead." Zed told him, "I can see it in your eyes the fight that is still there you will fight even if you don't want to that's just who you are."

Kahlan looked at her husbands, the look in his eyes reminded her of Richard the determination to do the right thing to save people.

"He's right Robin, your eyes tell a different story then your words." Kahlan took a step to her husband, "Perhaps there is more to you then I thought." She looked at Zed for a moment, "But I don't think he is destined to be the seeker you have to be willing to fight for those that are weaker then you, you have to put others before yourself." She paused "and Robin you just aren't like that."

"That's my master" Much said walking up, "and don't you dare say any different."

Kahlan turned to look at Much when she had traveled to Locksley he had seemed nothing more then a man supplying a life for his wife he didn't seem to believe in much at all, but here looking into his eyes she saw something that he seemed to be missing those many weeks ago. Loyalty and faith. The way he looked at Robin, the way he spoke of Robin, Much made him out to be so much more of a man then he really was.

"I wasn't saying he hasn't done any good, but he is no where on the level that the seeker has to be, no where on the level Richard was."

"He is more then Richard was when he started." Archer said as he walked up to the group, he had heard the voices talking and walked to them, "after all Richard was just a simple farm boy who never fought for anything before." He paused "and well Robin, Robin freed a land from injustice even if it was only for a short time, and he did so without Magic."

Kahlan looked at Archer knowing he was right about that fact, but she couldn't or wouldn't believe that Robin could be the seeker that he could simply just replace Richard. In her eyes Richard was the one and only seeker, the only one meant to hold the sword and fight the darkness. It hurt her heart to know that he hadn't been able to fight off the darkness that killed him. She doubted that even if Robin was named he would be able to fight this darkness off, it was ten times stronger then when Richard fought it and she refused to believe or even think that Robin could possibly have the power within him to fight it himself. "If Richard couldn't defeat it what makes you think Robin will have the power to fight the darkness himself?"

"Because." Much said looking at Kahlan then Robin, "he won't fight alone, we will fight by his side until the very end."

Robin looked shocked at Much then at the others "Why would you be willing to fight for me?" he asked

"Because I know you lose your way, that you need to be reminded of who you really are, you're human after all and once you're reminded of who you are and what you are meant to do you do it." Much smiled at his old friend, "Robin when you have your heart set on a cause you come up with every kind of half thought up plan that really works you may falter in your path at times, but Robin you are the best there is."

Kahlan listened to Much talk about Robin, she couldn't believe how much faith he had in him, how could someone believe so fully in someone that lied, that left the cause that carried on life where he choice to leave. "How do you have so much faith in him? She asked

"Because he is my master, but most of all because he is my dear friend someone I have been through the hardest of times with; we have fought side by side many times seen many horrors but in the end I always knew I could rely on him to fight by my side."

"Much I'm not who I once was." Robin said, "I don't even know if I can fight like that anymore." Robin told him, he hated to see his friend having so much faith in him that he did not hold himself, how could he carry on fighting when he proved he couldn't fight to save Marian, or even protect his daughter from harm?

"You can fight again Robin and you will, you have something worth fighting for." Much wanted Robin to believe in himself the way he did, he needed Robin to believe and Robin himself needed to believe, Much knew Robin had what it would take to save his daughter he just needed robin to see it too. "Robin remember you are England's hero the hope of the people just hearing your name can renew the hope in many."

"What if I'm not that man anymore?" Robin looked down, "What if I can never be again?"

"I don't believe that." Much said "I don't believe that not even for a second."

"How do you have so much faith in me old friend?" Robin asked looking at him

"Because you are the only one I know that can bring hope to those who had all but lost it before, you are the only one that helps those who can't help themselves when we all fought with you Robin we made a difference."

"Yes I suppose we did." Robin said

"And you can do it again." Zed interrupted, "just accept what you are and allow me to name you seeker."

"Robin listen to the old man." Archer said, "I have heard legends of the seeker, with their guidance you can be ten times what you were when you were just a simple outlaw."

Robin looked at his little brother wondering if he should hear the old man out or if he should continue on looking for his daughter without him.

Marian hadn't felt well for almost a week she still tried her best to put on a good face for Arianna knowing the girl didn't like anyone in the castle. When the little girl heard the king coming she hid from him she even hid from Alexandra as well. Marian herself wished she could hide from both she didn't know how she could have ever fallen in love with her so-called husband. When he spoke she felt as if she should be afraid of him, but instead she got a feeling she wanted to fight back, to spoil his plans, to set his people free from his heavy hand. Again she felt herself thinking of freeing the people from her husband, but why? And once again when her mind was thinking of her husband it wasn't his face she saw, instead she saw another face one she did not know. She heard a voice in her head that didn't belong to her husband; instead it often said kind little things to her simple things about what was right and what was wrong. She tried to shake the thoughts from her mind, but no matter how hard she tried the thoughts always returned. She had no choice in the matter of her husbands land, she couldn't do anything to help the people she had no choice in how she should live her life.

Everything is a choice everything we do, the other man's voice echoed through her head. She had to find out who the voice belonged to, whom the face belonged to. Somehow she knew that the voice and the face belonged together, that they were one, but why were they stuck in her mind was this man the answer to her questions?

"My Queen." Came Alexandra's voice from the door way, "you seem lost in thought, are you alright?"

"Yes I'm alright." Marian said wondering why Alexandra was always so concerned with what she was thinking.

"Well I have wonderful news" the blonde said a smile on her face, "I have figured out why you have felt ill these past few days."

"Yes?" Marian wondered hoping Alexandra had the cure

"You are with child, there will finally be an heir to the throne the Lord will be so pleased."

Marian knew she should smile at the news her heart should leap, but instead she felt her stomach sink. She forced a smile on to her face for Alexandra to see, but on the inside Marian couldn't help a sinking feeling that this wasn't what she wanted a child with a man that couldn't show love or at least wouldn't, what kind of father would he be? As Alexandra left the room Marian let her hand move to her stomach wondering what was in store for this child wondering if this was the life she wanted to bring a child into. She closed her eyes and prayed for her memories if only she could remember everything they told her, if only she could remember her love and loyalty to her husband.

AN-Hope you like it the next chapter everything will start picking up.