Chapter 5

"Archer? Is that really you?" asked Robin. "And is that you on the bed, Guy?"

"Yes," replied Archer bluntly. "It's us."

"But...how...?" stammered Robin.

"I should be asking you how," said Archer. "Since the last time I saw you, you were about to die."

"Tyrell saved me," I said.

"Who's Tyrell?" asked Archer.

Robin looked at Guy and instead of answering Archer's question directly, he asked Guy, "Did you know you had a twin brother named Tyrell?"
Guy, who laid on the ragged cot with his eyes closed, groaned.

"Do you think if I knew I had a bloody twin brother that I would have kept him out of my life?"

"Oddly yes," said Robin. "I mean, you sold Isabella..."

"If she had submitted to her husband like she should have, she wouldn't have been unhappy!"
Guy winced in pain slightly and Archer reached over to the small dresser beside the bed to pick up a glass of water. He propped Guy's head up and helped him to take a sip of water from the glass.

"Play nice you two," said Archer. "If we have any hope of getting out of here, we have to work together."

Guy gasped with satisfaction as he swallowed the water and Archer helped him to rest his head once more on the pillow.

"Archer's right, Robin. We can't quarrel about something so daft. We need to get out of here."

"But are you able to?" asked Robin noting that Guy had hardly moved his body at all since he had been in here.

Guy looked up at the ceiling and studied the sunset colored sky through the crack.

"When I was stabbed through with the Sheriff's sword and then my sister, Isabella's, they basically destroyed me. I'm paralyzed from the waist down," said Guy with a sigh.

"That's what he thinks," said Archer. "I happen to believe that if he didn't die, but just passed out, that he is strong enough to gain the use of his legs again."

Guy smirked and replied, "You believe in fantasies, Archer. You have to face reality."

Archer sighed with frustration, as if he had already had this lecture from Guy.

Robin looked around the room, which was becoming increasingly darker as the sun was setting in the sky. The room that they were now confined in was small. It barely managed to house the three of them. There was no window, so the only light in the room came solely from the light coming in through the crack in the ceiling. That would mean that, in a matter of minutes, Archer, Guy, and Robin wouldn't be able to see each other.

As the last of the light faded from the room, Archer released a snort of laughter.

"What are you laughing about?" asked Guy grouchily.

"I was just thinking about how the brother in arms are back together again."

Archer was right. Here they were again; reunited even though two of them were suppose to be dead.

"Archer, I heard Much say that you didn't believe in our fight and that's why you left. Is that true?" asked Robin, breaking the odd silence in the air left by Archer's remark.

All was silent in the room as they lost sight of each other in the darkness that now consumed the room. Archer took a deep breath and said, "I left because I had my own battles to fight. The farther I got away from your gang though I realized that maybe I shouldn't be so selfish. Yes, I had my own battles to fight, but this battle was bigger than all of us and we would have to unite if we wanted to win. I was on my way back to your gang when I was abducted."

"By whom?" asked Robin.

"The same person that Guy was taken and nursed back to health by. Mister Jolly himself. Lumer."

"Do you know what he wants with all of us?" asked Robin.

"Nope," replied Archer.

Before they could talk anymore, they heard the door rattle behind them. Robin moved away from the door as it opened up and someone stepped into the room, quickly closing the door behind them. Tyrell stood in front of them; his face visible in the glow of the lantern that he held in one hand. He had some cloaks draped over his his right arm. He looked at Robin and said, "We must get out of here and find your father while Lumer is distracted with his alcohol."

"You mean while he's drunk?" asked Guy incredulously while Archer asked, "Why do you need Robin to find our father?"

Tyrell looked confused for a second.

"Who else is in here with you?" asked Tyrell.

Robin found it strange that Tyrell didn't know.

"My half brother, Archer, and your twin brother, Guy," said Robin.

Tyrell stood there in shock for a second; not daring to move.

"So he's my twin brother," said Guy with a short bark of laughter from his spot on the bed. "He's doesn't look the way I envisioned him."

"What? Does he look better?" asked Archer teasingly.

Guy glared at Archer though Archer could not see that in the dark.

Tyrell shook his head as if to clear it before thrusting one of the cloaks at Robin.

"I brought an extra cloak for each of us incase it gets too cold or we need a new one, but put this one on now and put the hood up. It'll be the only way that you'll be able to look like one of us in order to get outside. Not everyone here drinks after all."

"Let me guess though," said Archer. "That is a minority of them."

"Archer, keep your two cents to yourself!" snapped Guy.

Robin could tell that the two of them had been locked away together for too long.

Robin slipped the cloak on and pulled the hood up onto his head. He looked at Tyrell and Tyrell started to open the door so they could leave.

"Wait," said Robin sticking out his hand and gripping Tyrell by the sleeve, "I'm not leaving without them."

Tyrell stopped in his tracks and closed the door once more.

"Robin, I told you that this mission was for you. I don't want to drag around their dead weight."

"Who are you calling dead weight?" asked Guy and Archer at the same time.

"Either we all go or you'll just have to kill me," said Robin crossing his arms in defiance. "I'm not going to leave with you unless they come too."

Tyrell scowled in the darkness. He cursed under his breath and tossed the other two cloaks at Guy and Archer.

"Put them on and be quick about it!" snapped Tyrell.

As Archer put his cloak on and helped Guy to struggle into his, Robin looked at Tyrell and said, "See? I told you that you could be a hero."
Tyrell scowled at Robin and said, "Remember Robin, you don't know everything."

Robin smiled and said, "Yes, but I'm right about this."

Tyrell just rolled his eyes and addressing the whole room, said, "It's time."

Unbeknownst to any of them, this was the night when their world would change even more.

For the worse.