AN- even though I didn't get any reviews for the last chapter I can't sleep so I decided to write another. Those of you that are enjoying the story leave a review and let me know how I'm going. Do you think I'm dragging it out to much I'm starting to feel like I am and perhaps losing readers if you guys think so I shall get more to the point and start the big final of the story.

"You have no idea what's this means to me" John the poor lord asked

"Let me guess you can't sleep without thinking of her, you can't turn a corner without hoping she'll be there." Robin spoke of everything he felt with Marian, but would never admit it, not to a half stranger anyways.
"You have those feelings?" John asked as he felt the same things for the women he loved.
"I'm just guessing." Robin said with a grin placed on his face.

The fire cracked bringing Robin from his memories. So much was going on in his life now far more then ever before. He felt tired of the struggle, tiered of the fight, and tiered of the constant fight that came with life. Yet he had to keep on going until his daughter was safe, safe from the evil that had her. Yet times like these when he was awake while everyone else slept he couldn't help but be reminded of the time when he thought life was going where he wanted, back to a time when he saw the good in the world and fully believed in his god. As he watched the fire he couldn't help but think of his time with Marian and everything he felt. He glanced at his sleep wife wishing he could even feel the way he had once felt for Marian even in the slightest of ways.

"I meant what I said before." He stepped in front of Marian

"What?" she couldn't remember what he was talking about?

"You know" he said pointing up referencing back to when she was hanging from his trap. "I said you were Gorgeous I meant it"

Marian couldn't help but smile at his words, "and I meant what I said one day you will pay robin of Locksley" She mounted her horse trying to show what he just said didn't mean the world to her.
Robin watched her go as she rode her horse away wishing she could stay with him, so he could watch over her.
"Just guessing Liar" the lord said causing Robin to smile, he couldn't denied his love for Marian in the slightest of ways.

"Robin?"
He turned his head to the voice that spoke brining him from his memories it was Kahlan she must have woken up and noticed he wasn't asleep "huh?" he mumbled not really wanting to speak.

"What are you doing awake?" She sat up more awake now, Robin knew he would have to speak now she was in one of her modes that women got into that caused them to talk about everything.
"Thinking." He hoped if he gave her one-word answers she would understand he wanted to be left alone.

"Don't you think you have done enough of that?" she asked she didn't mean to sound nagging, but Robin seemed lost in thought most of the time when ever she saw him.
"No" he said "Ask anyone I used to get in trouble by not thinking enough." He thought back to all the times he thought of plans and half plans, of how many times half way through one plan he had to quickly re think it and come up with a whole new one.
Kahlan just shook her head, "Robin please just listen to me what happened at the last village, you can't use Robin Hood as your name, you must leave him behind you are now the seeker."

"Robin Hood is who got the village on our side, being the seeker made them hate us." Robin told her

"But like it or not you are still the seeker!" She had hardly been awake for five minutes and she was already angry at him, how she spent so many years being subservient to him she didn't now, now all she saw him as was a stubborn egotistical man.
"Like it or not Kahlan I am Robin Hood, or I was and no matter how hard I try to not be him I will always be." He sighed, "I don't see why you are so mad that they embraced Robin Hood and not the seeker."
"Because." Kahlan said, "The seeker is the hero, he is the one who will bring balance to the world, not Robin Hood." She looked at the fire, "the prophecy says it will be the seeker who will fight the challenge of the darkness."
"It says that in its exact words?" Robin asked

"No, not exactly." Kahlan said, but translated that is what is means."
"And what does it really say?"
"Through the darkness two shall enter blinded by darkness only one shall remain." Kahlan paused, "The ancient hero will rise or fall blinded from the truth." She looked at Robin, "I'm sure it say's that in a more complicated way, but that is what Zed told me."
"I don't see anywhere it saying that the seeker is the one to save the land not Robin Hood." He told her

"Ancient hero, that part means Seeker, you as Robin Hood that isn't Ancient, so that means you must embrace being the seeker perhaps that is what it means you could fall or rise." Kahlan wanted to believe in Robin, but it was so hard he did everything against what she said.

"You are worse then Marian!" Robin said annoyance in his voice, "Why can't any of you believe for a moment I could possibly know what I'm doing or just allow me to do it my way!" He thought to all the times Marian questioned him, all the times she thought his ways were wrong. "I may not be who I once was but I do know how to fight I do know who I am."
"Or who you were." Kahlan said, "I worry because it is our daughter who will suffer if you slump back down and leave everything you have proven it before that you are nothing more then one that gives up when times get hard." She knew she was being harsh, but she couldn't help it, "you gave up after your believed Marian died and you will give up again I can just feel It."
"You know nothing!" Robin was angry now, Kahlan didn't know how his life had gone, she only heard storied she hadn't been there she couldn't say anything to him. "Yes I gave up when she first died, I let myself get lost in the loss her death brought to me, but I came back I fought for another year I fought until I thought our fight was won." He paused, "I really thought I was dying I went off to die on my own where I even saw her, I saw her coming for me, telling me we would be together forever in heaven." He hadn't told anyone yet how he got away with leaving everything behind him. "Then I woke up, I woke up alone in the woods filthy like I had been buried and then dug up." He remembered his confusion as he tried to peace together what happened. "My first thought was I must find my gang and once I did I saw them, everyone was happy settled back into their life living among the villages again. I was going to return and be lord once more, but I couldn't something stopped me, the thought of living in that house without Marian settling down with another and having her be lady of Locksley was unthinkable so I just left everyone thought I was dead anyways I planned to start over fresh so I took a horse and went." He sighed "I still didn't feel well as the poison was still in my system and that's when I found you."
"You thought your fight was over?" she asked
"Yes, I wouldn't have left them if I didn't think that, I had always thought I wanted to get out of that life style living in the woods fighting each day helping people I thought it reminded me of Marian way to much. But it wasn't until I settled down until I was just a simple farmer that I thought of her the most." He looked at Kahlan, "it wasn't until I gave up the fight did I fully realize I was alone."

"Or in other words you didn't realize how much you missed her until you were with me." Kahlan could feel her heart drop, while she still loved Richard with all her heart she couldn't help but feel saddened by the fact Robin had felt his loneliest while he was married to her.

"That's not how I meant it." Robin knew it sounded like that, perhaps that was fully the truth but it was simply because she seemed so much like Marian when he drank, while back then she hadn't spoken like Marian after drinking he could fool himself into thinking she was the women he loved, but that would only cause him to miss her more in the morning.

"Yes it is" Kahlan said, "I know the feeling, but it wasn't the same for me."

"How so?" Robin asked

"As you know I loved the seeker before you, I loved him with all my heart, for so long we had to pretend we didn't or even when we knew we loved each other due to who and what I was we knew we could never be together, or at least I did he still didn't care what I could do to him." Kahlan paused, "for the short time we realized our love was so great my powers couldn't hurt him we were the happiest we ever were," Kahlan smiled remembering back to when she found out she was pregnant. She remembered how happy he was, how happy they both were. "When he was taken from me I found being alone made me think of him more, when I found you and we had Ariana I could make myself think of other things, of her and of you." She paused, "perhaps that is why I was such a quiet doting wife, because as long as I was taking care of you, making sure you got what you needed and Ariana got what she needed there wasn't enough time to think of what I needed or what I really wanted."
Robin leaned forward and kissed his wife he hadn't expected her to kiss him back, back she died. Robin didn't push for more then just kissing perhaps a little bit more of a kiss as they lay down together and his hands began to roam, but he didn't try to remove any of her clothing or his own. They both knew how similar they were, how much they missed the one they lost. They were perfect for each other. After a while both of them grew tired, still cuddling close together Kahlan laid her head on her husbands chest feeling him breathing slowly in and out.

"I really believe I could have loved you." He said, "If I hadn't known Marian."
"But we argue all the time, hardly ever get along I thought everything you said before we left you no longer felt." Kahlan spoke softly as she was beginning to drift to sleep.

"About wanting to start over and be a proper family?" Robin asked glancing down at her seeing only the top of her head.
"Yes." She mumbled

"I meant every word, once we find Ariana we will go home and we will I promise you we can return home and be a real family." Robin placed a kiss on the top of her head, "just trust me I know what I'm doing, I may be knew to this whole seeker thing, but I'm not new to inspiring people, to brining hope back to people and according to Zed hope is light in the darkness."

"Robin!" she yelled at the top of her lungs as she hung from a rope

"Yes my love?" he asked amusement in his voice

"Get me down!" she said angrily "You're in danger" she added half worried

"But you look so good up there." He wasn't giving up his good mood he enjoyed the fact she got caught in one of his traps.
"You will pay Robin of Locksley" she struggled trying to free herself, but knowing there was nothing she could truly do.
"Honestly you look gorgeous from any angle." He said as someone lowered her to the ground. As she hit the ground she moved right to him and punched him strait in the grut causing him to bend over and grunt in pain, she didn't hit like a girl by far. The rest of the gang all shied away with a slight noise showing they knew all to well she didn't hold back by far.
"How do I look from that angel?" she asked still mad at him

Marian couldn't shake her thoughts, why was she seeing this man, her dreams had either been a blur or she had seen her husband's face, which was this man, why did she see him so clearly? Did he mean something to her? Or was she just thinking of the stories her and Ariana came up with, the stories of Robin and Marian? She tried to write it off as her mind coming up with another idea for a story, but something told her that wasn't true.
The baby was asleep, Ariana was off training with Alexandra, Marian hated having the little girl leave her side, but she knew there was nothing she could do about it. Watching the baby sleep she thought back to the man she had met in the village, the one that had seemed to know of her stories. Something about him seemed so familiar, but why? She watched the wall staring at nothing in particular as once again her mind brought her to some unknown place.

They were fighting on the ground she could hear them rolling around smashing things as she ran down the stairs. As she got there she saw the blonde man pinning the other to the ground a knife at his throat.

"Now" the blonde panted

"Please" the other spoke "I don't want to die."
"Well that's the only way you're going to escape me." He still was out of breath, but the look in his eyes showed he meant what he said.

"Robin." She felt herself yell "Spare him!"

"I can't" he said

"Please" she couldn't let him do it, she couldn't let this man die at Robin's hands she knew it would destroy him "Do it for me." She put her hands on his.

"Marian I'm doing this for you." He looked into her eyes, he wanted to protect her, to keep her safe that she could tell just by the look in his eyes. "To protect you."

"Robin Please if you love me" she took both her hands now and held them to the side of his face, "you will let him go"

"I do love you." He whispered "and that's why I can't let him live." She could hear the desperation in his voice. "Because one day he will do something to take you away from me." Just by the sound of his voice she could hear the fear that it could be a possibility in his voice.

"I wouldn't" the man said on the ground.

"Please" she felt herself pleading "don't taint us with his blood." As she spoke Robin let go, the man hurried away, but before he got to his feet Marian threw the knife, "you owe me your life." She yelled at him, "don't you ever betray me."

"I won't" the man whispered as he left knowing all to well that if Marian hadn't been there Robin would have killed him.

Marian sat back and looked at Robin a soft smile coming to her face, "It took you a long time to tell me that"

"Tell you what?" Robin asked as he now began to settle from his fight

"You know?" she said with a smile, they both knew what he meant, before that moment he had never actually told her he loved her.
"I must have been half concussed." He said with a smirk, he was coming back to her now, the craziness that came from the fear of losing her leaving his eyes.

"Well you will be fully concussed if you don't watch out." She joked back. She saw him grin and knew he had fully returned to his old self, but she could still see the soft glimmer of fear in his eyes that he would lose her.

Marian didn't like the places her mind brought her too, it was becoming far to much lately and it only made her feel more lost. When she was brought to those places she felt so much love and happiness that when she came back to reality she felt so alone. Why was this happing why was she seeing these things in her mind. She knew they weren't memories for she remembered her life now, she remembered her husband and growing up in a similar castle, meeting her husband and then saving this land with him from itself. She remembered her love for her husband, but still felt like she didn't know him. She didn't know why she shuttered at his touch or hoped each night he wouldn't come to her bed. She wished she could feel the way she remembered when they first got married, the way she felt before her accident she knew there was a time when she wanted nothing more then to be in his arms. She closed her eyes and thought back to him wrapping his arms around her and making her feel safe, but his face wasn't the one she saw she saw the man her dreams called Robin.

"My Lord we have to tell her." Alexandra said, "we have to find a way for her to become our shield with her using her power they won't be able to stop us the seeker will be powerless no magic will be able to reach us."

"What are we to tell her." The Lord asked

"That before her accident she may not remember but she was an important key to why we won." Alexandra said, "I will tell her and I will show her how to use her power."

"Once she learns the seeker won't be able to stop us?" he asked

"He won't be able to touch us and the mother confessor won't be able to take her powers back from me." She paused and looked at a maid, "Go fetch the queen and take the children from her so she comes alone."

"Yes Ma'am." Said the maid as she hurried off knowing well enough to not upset Alexandra she had a nasty temper and had no problem taking it out on the help.

"Good." The lord said, "Everything is going to go according to plan then?" he asked

"Yes as long as she takes what we are going to tell her well we should be plenty safe." Alexandra smiled up at him, "there is nothing stronger then dark magic."

"There is no magic greater more powerful then the love the two of you share." Came an old man's voice.

"Who was that?" The lord's head said snapping up to see Marian standing in the throne room before him.

"It's me." Marian said confused "your wife."

"No the voice, the old man who is he?" The lord was confused why did he just hear an old man speak and not see one, "Show your self!" he yelled

"No one is there." Alexandra said, "My magic repels any unwanted people from the throne room."

"I heard-" he stopped and shook his head, "Never mind" his attention turned to Marian. "We must speak about who you once were."

"Who I once was?" she questioned.

"Yes, before the accident how you were the key to why we were the victors." The lord paused, "We hoped you would remember on your own and perhaps if we had more time you would, but my love you have powers, powers that are needed to protect this family and this land." He had to lie to her to get her on his side no matter how strong the magic was that Alexandra had the good within Marian was so pure she couldn't truly be turned to darkness.

"What do you mean?" she asked confused " what power, why now do I need to help protect the land?"

"There is a man who calls himself the seeker." The lord said, "He is turning the people against us promising them riches if they fight by his side he wants Ariana and our baby." He needed to play on her need to protect the children. "Arianna has power that he wants and needs and our child is the child of two powerful people the seeker wants them both to kill them so they can't reach their full potential."

"He wants to kill the children?" Marian asked horrified

"Yes that is why you must help us fight him off and restore balance to our lands." He told her knowing she was right where he wanted her.

"What must I do?" she asked for she would never let anything happen to the children not over her dead body.

"Go with Alexandra she will try and teach you what you have forgotten." He placed a kiss on her lips, "my love you must do this and protect our family."

Surprised by her husband's affection she only blinked and looked at him after a few moments she breathed a soft, "I will."

AN- So leave a review and let me know what you think is going to happen and what you think of the story. I have so many ideas on where this is going or rather how I'm going to get to the ending I planned because I already have the last chapter Written I just need to get the story to that point. So please leave a review and let me know what you think because every review gives me more muse to write more. I'm thinking of working on a new story and unless I get more muse for this one my muse is going to probably go to the other story I'm writing.