Author's Note: Thank you ever so much to everyone who has reviewed and favorited this story. I really do appreciate it and it makes me smile every time I see how much people are loving this story. Anyway, here is another chapter so enjoy and let me know what you think. :)

Disclaimers: Anything you recognize, I don't own…although believe me, I would love nothing more. Also, I make no money from this, it is purely for my own enjoyment and love of the characters. No copyright infringement or harm meant.

Spoilers: None, except that this takes place before Allan was Guy's man so an indeterminate part of season two as everyone is still alive and Allan hasn't betrayed anyone yet.

The sunlight coming through the branches and leaves of the trees woke me up the next day. I opened my eyes slowly and stretched as I sat up, realizing that it was too quiet in the camp. Once I was sitting up in the bed, I took a look around, seeing that the fire in the kitchen had died down to just embers and that there was no one around, save for Djaq, who I could hear whistling a tune softly to herself as she went about her work.

"Djaq?" I said softly, swinging my feet out from under the blankets and slipping my bare feet into the boots sitting on the floor beside the bed.

"Oh good, you're up. Robin said to tell you that they all went to rescue Will and they would be back in a bit," she said, looking up at me with a smile.

"Oh, I wanted to go with them into Nottingham," I said to myself but I saw Djaq look at me with a frown.

"That would be a very bad idea right now. The sheriff and Gisbourne are looking for all of us right now and if you were to go with them into Nottingham, so soon after your own rescue, it could create a problem and expose all of us to the sheriff. Don't worry about the boys, they all know what they are doing and anyway, I have a project for you to help me with. Even with the boys in Nottingham, we still need to make deliveries to the villages and towns surrounding Sherwood. You can help me make those deliveries," she said, her frown turning into a smile again.

I returned a smile as we began to gather the supplies and a couple of weapons to protect ourselves as well. We left the camp and made our way, in companionable silence toward Locksley.

"Wait here for a minute until I give you the signal that we are safe," Djaq said, turning to look at me when we were standing at the edge of the forest in Locksley.

I simply nodded before I watched her turn and walk away toward the village. She stopped a few times, crouching down behind a water barrel or hiding on the side of a house in order to scout the village. Finally, she turned around and waved me forward. I came forward quickly, carrying the bundles of food parcels as I did. I dropped a couple of the bundles at Djaq's feet before looking at her expectantly.

"What are you waiting for? Go ahead and start making deliveries. When you finish with your parcels meet me right back here," she said, somewhat exasperated which caused me to frown.

Without either of us saying another word, I grabbed the parcels at my feet and began to make rounds through Locksley. I felt the smile pulling at the corners of my mouth as I did and I realized that I felt really good helping these people, even though I had never met any of them before this afternoon and I could understand why Robin cared about the people of Locksley and the surrounding villages. Thinking of Robin made my thoughts return to Will being trapped in the castle dungeons and my smile turned down into a frown. I finished my job quickly but lost deep in my thoughts. I felt my heart clinch in fear again as I thought about the gang being too late to save Will. I finished with the rest of the parcels quickly, smiling pleasantly at the villagers who returned a grateful smile or a quiet thank you before hurrying back over to the spot that Djaq had told me to meet her at.

"We need to go right away," Djaq said when I came over.

"Why?" I asked, but that was when I heard the voice I dreaded hearing.

Before Gisbourne could see us, Djaq grabbed my arm and pulled me around behind one of the houses, peeking around the side of the house to see Gisbourne and his "security" riding into Locksley village. I felt myself cringe when I saw him step down to the ground off the horse.

"Come on, we have to get back to the camp and find out if the boys made it back safely with Will," Djaq said, grabbing my wrist and pulling me away from the side of the house and back toward the forest.

I turned away from watching Gisbourne and followed Djaq back toward the trees and into the forest. Neither of us said a word as we ran as silently as we could through the forest and back to the camp. When we got back, the camp was silent and empty.

"They haven't made it back yet. What if something happened to them on the way back? What if that's the reason that Gisbourne came back to Locksley?" I started to freak out as I paced back and forth across the floor.

"Heather, would you calm down? Nothing happened to them. Robin and John wouldn't have let anything happen to any of them," Djaq said, coming over and stopping my pacing by grabbing my arms and shaking me just slightly so that I would pay attention to her, "Now let me check your wounds and make sure that they are healing properly. That eye still looks bad."

I nodded and sat down on the end of the bed I had spent the last four days in as Djaq kneeled on the floor in front of me, checking all of the scratches and bruises over my body. She had just finished redressing the wounds on my face when Robin and the others came into the camp.

"Oh my…" Djaq said when she saw them come into camp.

I opened my good eye to see Much and Allan supporting Will as they came into the camp behind Robin and I gasped when I saw all the bloody bruises covering his body.

"Will," I whispered, coming over to his bunk when they had laid him down on it and Djaq was looking him over to check the damage.

I ran my fingers through his hair as I sat down on the edge of the bed, getting in the way of Djaq's examination but not caring. She began to clean up the blood on his hands before she sighed in frustration at me.

"Heather, you need to move out of the way. Go over and lay down for a few minutes until I finish," she said.

I frowned but saw the look Robin gave me and finally got up without a word, going over to the bunk I had spent most of my time in lately and laying down, staring up through the trees at the sky as Djaq finished cleaning up Will's wounds but I began to doze off before she finished.

"Heather," Djaq said when she got up from Will's bunk.

I heard her but it sounded a bit fuzzy as I had just gotten settled and comfortable in the bunk I was in, quickly falling into a deeper sleep.

"Let's just leave them both to rest," I heard Robin whisper to her before everyone left the camp again one by one to do whatever it is they were doing, leaving me in peace and quiet, except for the sound of Will's shallow breathing.

Okay, there is another chapter. I don't think that this is one of my best pieces of work but I have been suffering a bit of writer's block on this chapter because nothing particularly active is happening in this chapter. Anyway, on the wonderful review that I received from irishgirl on the last chapter, I am trying to incorporate more description into my chapters to make them a bit longer and better. Let me know what you think in a review.