The Charmed Life

Summary: An arrow wielding assailant is discovered living in the Storybrooke Library. David tries to help and is met with another "friend" of his brother James as she tries to kill him. The bigger surprise is, when he meets her son. Characters David/Prince Charming, Jacqueline/Jack/Robin Hood, Emma Swan, Mary Margaret/Snow White

Ch 2

-Sherwood Forest-

The forest was still and quiet, a two horse carriage rumbled along the dirt road. The lone driver whistled to himself. Suddenly he heard a soft whispering sound go right past him and something landed in the trees. His horses took off running as he looked at the severed reins in his hands.

Another arrow flew through the open window of the carriage this one had a rope attached to it and when it found its target in the tree across. The rope went taut lifting the carriage into the air.

The driver leapt off the carriage as that happened and rolled as he hit the ground hard. He moved to get up and first felt the cold metal on his neck before his eyes followed the sword held by a bear of a man dressed in a black hood. He looked around as many hooded men on horseback trotted up alongside the floating carriage.

He looked up and saw someone leap from the trees and land softly on top of the carriage. This person is dressed in green leather with a quiver of arrows on his back with the bow slung around the shoulders, dark brown breeches and green tights with a hood covering the face. The green hood turned to look at him the face is cloaked in shadow.

This was the famed Robin Hood and his merry men. He tried to warn his boss that going this way was dangerous, but the man insisted that he was in hurry and this was the fastest way. He could not argue anymore and took the man and his wife down the empty road. And now he watched helplessly as the thief slipped inside the suspended carriage. Another hooded man jumped on top of the carriage and followed Robin Hood inside.

The finely dressed man and his wife's screams are cut short when a knife is held to their throats. "Don't scream and you'll live" said Robin Hood in a raspy voice. Then he and his partner proceeded to rip the jewels off his wife's neck and the gold cuff links from his wrists and threw them into the bags on their shoulders. The man tried to hide a box under his seat but the green hooded man found it and swiped it from him. Robin Hood placed it on the seat and used the back of his knife to break the lock then dumped the gold coins into the bag.

Then they jumped out of the window and landed on the ground. The driver was still held by the end of a sword as the carriage was slowly lowered back to the ground. Robin Hood jumped on his horse. He held the reins and trotted over to the driver. He pulled out two gold coins and dropped them on top of him. "For your services my good man" the raspy voice said to him. He whistled and the rest of the men mounted their horses and as quickly as they appeared, they were gone.

Robin Hood sat that back of the table in the tavern sipping her ale and watching her men drink and dance around. She smiled as the bar maidens were gladly helping them to more ale and laughing at their jokes and sitting in their laps since they were drunkenly throwing their money around. She was happy for them, had things been different she would've gladly joined in on their fun. However she had far to many important things that needed to be done first. She looked towards the door and saw him standing there. She nodded and he left. She downed the rest of her ale and stood up. Her men were far too busy to notice her leaving.

She dismounted her horse. She led Bo to the water trough and tied him to the post. He shook his mane and grunted at her. She smiled and took a carrot from her bag and gave it to him. She patted his hide and opened the doors to the church. She walked down the aisle and knocked the code on the door on the far left. A small old woman opened the door. She smiled her toothless smile when she saw who it was.

Robin entered the small room; she took her hood off and let her auburn hair cascade down her shoulders. The woman left the room. And she saw him standing by his broken desk in his ramshackle of a room staring at her. She walked over to him and handed him the satchel.

The Friar stared at it timidly. "I should not be doing this. It is not right" he told her.

"And the King should not be taxing us so high" she replied. "Take it" she grabbed his arm and put the satchel of coins in his hand. "There is more than enough for all of us and you are doing me a great service"

Another door squeaked as it opened. A little boy waddled into the room and a smile spread across her face as she knelt to the ground "Mama" the boy squealed with delight as he ran into her arms.

-Storybrooke-

David ran into the hospital with the woman in his arms with Red and her son following him. He ran into one of the rooms and laid her on the bed.

Red followed Dr. Whale's scent and found him eating in the lounge. "Dr. Whale, we need your help" she told him. Viktor wiped his mouth and threw the napkin on his plate and followed Red out of the lounge. He walked into the room to see a dark haired woman dressed in green leather lying on the bed. "Who is this?" he asked.

"Robin Hood" David replied.

Viktor nodded. "Robin Hood, right" he said and walked over to her. "What happened to her?" he asked. Her skin was colorless, so he felt her forehead which was burning up. He picked up her arm and let go, it flopped back down. She was unresponsive.

"That's what I'm hoping you can tell us. She was talking then she just collapsed." David told him.

"Did she look like this?" Viktor asked as he grabbed a syringe to draw her blood. He looked and saw a boy peeking around the door. He looked at David and Red.

"That's her son" Red replied. Viktor stared at her, telling her without words to take him somewhere else. Red turned to the boy. "My name's Red" she told him. "What's your name?"

"Will" the boy replied strongly.

"Will, nice to meet you" she said holding out her hand to him, he shook it. "Are you hungry?" she asked him. "They have…food here" she said stopping herself. The cafeteria's food was not that great. She'd call Granny and have her bring something here that was more edible for him. She placed her hand on his back gently and led him from the room and to the waiting area. She sat down on a chair and Will sat down next to her

Viktor looked at the blood slide through the microscope, he felt David hovering over him. "Do you know what's wrong with her?" he asked impatiently.

"I have to run some more tests, but from what I can tell, she's been poisoned"

"Poisoned? With what?" David asked looking worriedly at the woman, then back at him.

Viktor held his tongue and let out a breath and just said. "That's why I have to run more tests" He told him. "I can put her on a ventilator to keep her alive for now"

Snow White walked into the hospital with bag of food. She found Red sitting in the waiting area with a young boy. "Granny told me to deliver this to you" she said as she went over to them and handed the bag to her.

"Thank you" Red said to her and put the bag on the table, reached in and took out the containers.

"Who is this?" Snow asked smiling at the boy when Red didn't appear to be introducing them.

"This is Will" Red replied. The boy hadn't said a word since they sat down but he was fascinated by the television when she turned it on for him. And now he was watching some cartoon she didn't remember the name of. They didn't have tv in their world so it probably was amazing to see it for the first time. She turned back to Snow. "The Prince is with his mother, they are in room 315"

"David" Snow said as knocked lightly on the door.

"Snow" he said smiling at her. She walked over to him and hugged him. She looked at the woman lying in the bed. She looked up at her husband.

"That's Robin Hood" David told her. "Her son is with Red…he's James' son."

"Your brother?" Snow asked knowing the answer to that. She put her hand over her mouth as she looked out the door. First Rumpelstiltskin's son is Henry's father and now a nephew, how many more family members did they have?

"Conium" Dr. Whale said when entered the room. "That's what she was poisoned with" he walked over to his patient. "It results in paralysis. It takes out the muscles first and then shuts down the respiratory system. I don't know how she's still alive with the amount I found in her system."

"The curse" Snow piped up. David's eye brows rose in her direction. "Time stopped for the people left in our world too" she told them.

"That could explain it. The poison was frozen in her system, until the curse broke. But that was awhile ago" Viktor said thinking out loud.

"She must've had something that kept her alive" David said staring sadly at her. "Is there an antidote or something?" he asked turning towards Dr. Whale. He promised the boy in the car that they'd save his mother. So they needed to that.

"There is no antidote" Viktor told them. "I can try to clean out her system and pump her stomach but those are things you do right after ingestion. And this happened to her twenty seven years ago so I have no idea if it will work"

"Do what you have to do" David told him. Then he and Snow walked out of the room. David rubbed his face and ran his hands through his hair.

"So that's Robin Hood in there and we have a nephew that's our grandson's age" Snow said to him.

David let out a little laugh and looked at his wife. "A messed up family, I guess that makes us even more part of this world."

They both looked up when they heard footsteps thundering towards them. "Tiny, Grumpy, what's the matter?" David asked.

"Regina and Cora. We saw them wandering around the town like they were searching for something." Tiny told them breathlessly.

"I don't know about her mother, but if the Queen is looking for something it's not good"

"Cora's ten times worse than Regina" Snow informed them. "If they are working together, we're in trouble"

"What is she doing here!" Tiny suddenly shouted and charged towards her room. David and Snow ran to stop him.

"You know Robin Hood?" David asked a little surprised.

"Robin Hood? I don't know any Robin Hood" Tiny told them feeling the anger flow through his veins. He thought she had died like Arlo had. But when he came back from burying his brothers she was gone. And now here she was. "I know her" he said pointing to the woman. "Jack the Giant killer"

Tbc…