AN-Sorry the update took so long.

At first Kahlan didn't realize she was dreaming because everything felt so real. She was putting the saddle on her horse when it spooked and reared. She carefully moved to the horses shoulder and placed her hand softly on the animal, "Easy girl easy." She said softly as the horse began to settle. "It's alright." As she spoke she heard a branch break behind her. "You have to do better then that to sneak up on me Robin." She said as she turned around. What she saw next made her realize she was truly dreaming for who she saw before her couldn't only appear in a dream.

"Whose Robin?" he asked. She felt tears fill her eyes wishing more then ever that this wasn't a dream, wishing that he were truly right before her.

"Richard." She whispered ignoring his question. She didn't want to speak of Robin in her dreams she wanted to enjoy this moment and pretend it was real. In this moment, in this dream Robin didn't matter.

"Shhh." He whispered as he stepped closer and took her face in his hand brushing her tears away with his thumb. "Why are you crying?" he asked with a smile.

"Because I miss you so much." She whispered through he tears.

"I'm here now that's all that matters." He told her.

"But for how long?" she asked softly.

"For as long as we have." He smiled back

"What does that even mean?" she asked him frowning.

"At any moment you could wake." He frowned as if he was to say more, but he didn't instead he just sighed and pulled her close wrapping his arms tight around her. Kahlan took in his familiar smell letting herself melt into him not wanting to move fearing she would wake at any moment.

"I don't want this moment to end." She leaned her head into his chest.

"Kahlan!" Robin's voice echoed through the clearing.

"No." Kahlan whispered, not now she didn't want him to wake her up she didn't want to face reality.

"You should go to him." Richard whispered.

"I don't want him, I want you." She told him back, "If I had my powers now I would confess him, I don't love him."

Richard didn't answer her back instead he leaned forward hooking his pointer finger under her chin and softly lifting it up, he let his lips meet hers and kissed her softly. She had forgotten how wonderful it felt to kiss someone that made her skin feel as if it were on fire, which could awake a storm within.

"Kahlan!" Robin called again, "Where are you?"

Kahlan broke the kiss and looked behind her into the woods that seemed so dark where Robin's voice was coming from. "I don't want to go back." She whispered as she spoke she felt Richard's arms loosen around her and fall from her sides. She looked back at him to see he was already on the other side of the clearing. "Richard." She called out tears filling her eyes again. His back was to her as she spoke, but as she finished her words he stopped and turned his head to look at her his face looked different this time, lost confused, darker.

"Its so dark Kahlan." He whispered. "So dark, so cold."

"Kahlan!" Robin hurried to her side she was laying in the clearing her head bleeding. Her eyes slowly opened,

"What?" she asked and frowned as she noticed the pain that was coming from her head, "What happened?"

"I don't know you said you were going for a ride and you haven't been back." He told her. He brushed her hair away from the injury on her four head, "it looks like you were kicked by your horse."

Kahlan frowned as she remembered her dream of Richard; Robin coming to find her had taken Richard away once more. If she hadn't been found would she have died? Would she have been able to finally be reunited with Richard forever? The instant she felt herself grow upset she didn't die she felt guilty, what kind of mother would she be if she died and didn't fight for her daughter. "I'm fine." She mumbled as she stood up she ignored the pounding in her head trying to hold on to the feeling of Richards arms around her. She already felt the storm leaving her body from when he kissed her.

"You don't look fine." Robin mumbled but knew he couldn't argue with his wife. She had changed so much since their daughter had been taken she no longer seemed all right with following his lead she was a completely different person. While he had found a new way to love her he knew he would never love her the way a husband should love a wife and knew she would never love him as well. They weren't each others person and they knew that.

"I am I don't need you to take care of me." She mumbled as she brushed off his hand.

"You know Kahlan I don't know what you want from me." Robin sat down next to her shaking his head.

"I want you to be the seeker this land needs." She thought of Richard she would have hope if he were leading them not the despair she felt knowing her husband was the last defense.

"You know you're not one to build confidence." He growled as he stood up and walked in the direction of the nearest village wanting to be away from her.

Ever since her outburst to the king he seemed more willing to let her have a little more freedom she was allowed into the village she had to wear her shawl covering most of her face, but that didn't bother her many woman in the village did the same.

"He would leave the cave even with the small army growing outside, four against thirty at least. Or rather three since he seemed frozen at her side."

"Why didn't they run?" a little boy asked.

"They owed everything they were to him, in his moment of weakness they wouldn't step aside and let harm fall on to him."

Marian's eyes fell upon the man telling a story to a bunch of children next to a fire that helped warm some of the villagers on this cold day.

"But why?"

"Loyalty." The man told the child, "He was their leader they would fight by his side even if it was to their death." The man looked into the fire as he spoke, "They were all waiting until he came out so he could run with them, after all they didn't think they could take on the army, but when he emerged from the cave after hearing his enemy sneer his name something was different." The man paused again, "He seemed a stranger to his men the look in his eyes was only a look his best friend had seen and one of the men leading the army."

"The look in his eye?" the child asked.

"Yes. You see remember when I told you he came back from war a different man, one who didn't want to kill, didn't have the taste to kill anymore?"

"Yes."

"Well they took his love from him, they killed her and he had to watch her slowly die something broke within him and when it did it made him the man he had once been in the war. He shot first while his men watching in disbelief they had expected him to run, he used his arrows making every target he aimed for."

"He must have been good."

"He was. And when his arrows ran out his men still expected him to run, but his eyes were on one man and one man alone. He dropped his bow and unsheathed his sword and began to run down the hill."

"To fight an army?"

"He didn't see the army before him all he saw was the killer who took his love from him." The man reminded the child, "His men followed yelling after him ready to watch his back, ready to keep him safe. He cut down any solider who got in his way."

Marian got distracted from the story as her eyes fell onto the man she had seen in the forest, the one that helped her. He walked with the woman he had called his wife. What was the feeling that washed over her? Why did she see him with his wife and hate the woman? The woman had been nothing but king to her and still Marian hated her. Why?

"Yet he had no idea who Marian really was." The man's voice speaking her name broke through her thoughts making her look back to the storyteller. "You see he was tricking her into marriage not knowing she was the very intruder he had stabbed only two nights before."

She was puzzled this man seemed to be telling a story she knew, but from where? She almost seemed to know what happened next.

"He was so broken when she decided to marry Guy he wanted to give up his cause you see she was the only person, the only thing in this world that could or would make him forget his cause." The man continued.

An Image of a church sitting beside a pond flashed into Marian's mind. She could see a man with black hair and a fox like smile looking down at her. She could almost play the story in her mind.

"He rang the bells yelling that the king was an impostor, that he wasn't in Nottingham.

She heard a voice echo in her mind; 'I have morel grounds' the echoing voice in her head reminded her of the storyteller before her. 'Her heart belongs to another!' Why did this story seem too real? 'Marian, my lady. Tell them' She could still see the church, but everything was harder to make sense of, 'This doesn't make sense surely some mistake.'

"Sir?" She asked interrupting the story

"Yes?" The man looked up surprised someone other the children were listening to his story.

"Is this story true?" she asked.

"Yes."

"How do you know?" she asked

"I was there in Locksley." He told her. His voice sounded so much like the man she heard echoing in her mind.

"Much!" someone called causing him to look up, Marian looked to see the man from the forest calling out to the storyteller.

"I have to go." he said

"Aww but you didn't finish the story." The child said frowning.

"Another time." Much smiled, "That's him, the man in the story I've got to go."

"Then that must be the woman!" the child said after Much left to the other children. Yet something within Marian told her that the woman by his side wasn't the one from the story the way the man across the market looked at his wife wasn't how she imaged someone would look at a woman who would make him take on a whole army. That is unless the storyteller embellished a bit.

"She isn't" he told her before he turned towards the group. Marian watched him trot up to the group that was now forming around the man from the forest she recognized some of them now the people who had been around his camp.

"I wonder how the story ended." The child sighed as he walked away.

'He need's you.' The voice said, 'He's lost without you.' As the voice echoed through her mind her eyes met with the man from the forest and as their eyes locked she felt as if her heart skipped a beat.

"What were you doing over there?" Robin asked looking over to where children were now moving off to find their families.

"Nothing." He paused, "Just tellin' stories."

"About?" Robin shook his head.

"Just stories."

"Much"

"About you but I didn't say it was you." He paused, "At first."

"Much!"

"It was just kids they won't know anything they don't even know the seeker is Robin Hood."

Robin looked over to the fire where a woman was looking his way. He intended to look away, but her eyes made him stop and stare. He couldn't look away. He knew just by looking at her it was the girl he had met a few days ago she was covered from head to toe just like before, but her eyes were ones he couldn't forget. Before he knew what he was doing his feet moved ignoring Much and the others calling his name it was as if something or someone else took control of his body and mind and before he knew it he was standing before her.

Marian didn't know what to do the man began walking over to her she wanted to move away to turn around, but she didn't. The way she felt about him was wrong. He made her feel a way her husband should make her feel or the way she thought her husband should make her feel.

"So we meet again."

"We do?" she asked surprised her knew who she was.

"I couldn't forget those eyes." He said a grin spreading across her face

She felt herself smile this man seemed to make her do so whenever he was around. "Is that so?" she asked

"Beautiful eyes like yours I doubt anyone could forget them." A fire seemed to burn within him; he felt his old wit coming to him his old flirtatious personality that only came out when he had been around Marian.

"Well its good to see you again Sir." She smiled she knew he couldn't see her smile or her blush.

"It's Robin." He smirked, "Remember?"

"Like in those stories?" she asked, "Did you really do those things?"

"Much has a bit of an imagination." He told her.

"Robin." Allan said walking over, "Your wife sent me over saying we are heading back to camp."

Robin looked over to where the group was and saw them walking away he could tell just by the way Kahlan walked she wasn't happy.

"You." Marian said recognizing his from the stables.

"Me?" he asked

Marian remembered she had her face covered unlike last time, and this time she couldn't let anyone know who she was, "Sorry I thought we might have met before."

"Nah, just got one of those faces." He grinned.

"Did you end up finding your way back to your family?" Robin asked with a soft smile.

"Yes, thanks to you and your" she paused as the word gang came to mind, but she pushed the word from her head, "Friends."

"That's what the gang and I are for." Robin grinned, "To help those in need."

Marian couldn't help but stare at him, his smile was infectious and when he spoke she was reminded of her own ideas. "Then it is good the land has you isn't it."

"I suppose so." He told her, "It's king has no care for it."

"That's not true." Marian frowned, how could this man who believed in helping people hate her husband.

"You support him?" Robin's voice sounded surprised. "A girl like you?"

"A girl like me?" she asked frowning, even though he couldn't se the frown some how he still knew she was.

"You just seem so." He paused

"So what?"

"Good." Robin told her.

"What's that even supposed to mean?" she asked.

"You remind me of someone." He said softly.

"Who?"

"Someone." He paused again as Marian's image came to his mind, the image of a face with the same eyes of the woman who stood before him. "Someone I used to know."

"You said that last time we met." She reminded him.

"Yes I supposed I did." He looked away for a moment then back at her, "and I guess I was so lost in how much you reminded me of her I started to think you would be like her in other ways too."

"I don't understand."

"She was the type to want to help those who can't help themselves, she was the type to stand up against injustice she did so by my side." Robin thought of all the times Marian had been by his side, even when she had dressed as the night watchman only to protect her father. He missed her everyday he missed the fire she had within her and he missed the fire she sparked within himself.

"That's what I want too." Marian was almost hurt how he made it sound like she didn't want to help the people, her people.

"Then why would you support that man?" Robin asked, "He is nothing but pain and darkness he doesn't want to help his people he just wants power."

"No." She argued.

"That's why I'm here." He told her, "I'm here to stop him to bring a better tomorrow to this land."

"Then you're the-" she paused.

"Seeker." Kahlan said walking up next to Robin and taking her hand in his as if to show the new woman that Robin was already taken.

Marian felt tears begin to fill her eyes, "No." she whispered. She remembered all the stories Alexandra told her about the seeker how he was coming to take everything from this land, bleed it dry. How he was coming for Arianna and her baby how he needed the children's power to do so. "You can't be."

Robin shook his head, "I'm Robin Hood above anything else." His eyes moved to Kahlan.

"He's the hero this land needs." Kahlan said her eyes moving from Robin to the girl.

"I have to go." Marian mumbled before she turned as fast as she could and hurried off. Tears now freely falling from her eyes. Why was she feeling this way? Why did it feel like her heart was braking into two after learning that this man was a monster. She hardly knew him, why was he affecting her the way he was now. How had she felt so safe with him? He was after her children he wanted to hurt them to take their power away from them. She hadn't really believed Alexandra was telling the truth she hadn't wanted to see the fact someone was coming, but now she knew the truth. There was someone called the seeker, he was coming for her children and he was close. She knew now what she had to do. She would have to fully give in to Alexandra and let herself be trained in what ever area she needed to so she could protect her family from this monster.

AN- Ending coming soon what do you guys think?