A/N So basically I am the worst about updating this summer. It has just been really crazy with my part time jobs, tutoring, some family drama, traveling, homework, and so much more. I also was having some major block because I felt like my writing wasn't very good. So I deleted the last chapter, revised my entire updating plan, and have penciled in some time to write amongst all the chaos know as summer AP homework. I really hope you enjoy this shorter chapter. I just really wanted to put something up. And if you are curious about this cliff hanger, just remember Alex's dad backstory, will ya?

Read/Favorite/Review/Enjoy - Jax

Chapter 19 Lily Stumbles

"Alex!" Lily yelled, trudging through the forest. "Alex! This is not funny! Where are you?" The red head asked the empty woods. She walked to where her friend seemed to head off to when she ditched the party. Flynn would be upset later on. She contained walking when she heard a sneak and a slimy substance around her foot and shoe. She looked down and found her entire foot, up to her ankle, in mud. "These were new shoes." she mumbled angrily. She lifted her foot up and tried cleaning the majority of the mud from it as she tried to maintain her balance on her left foot. She was hopping and wiping the mud away, all while not trying to get any on her and her dress. Suddenly she lost her balance and was sent rolling backwards die a hill.

She tumbled through the shrubs and bushes and found herself after a painful few seconds on the dirt ground somewhere with dirt all over her person and more scratches and bruises than she could count. She wondered why on earth Alex liked this place, even before being shot and especially after.

She got up and brushed herself off and decided to lean against a very old and very ancient tree in the middle of the clearing she has found herself in. She leaned against it, taking off her shoe to rid of its mud further when she began to see a bright light. Suddenly, she was overcome with a strange feeling and fell to the ground with a spitting headache and passed out.

Lily then woke up startled. She must have been asleep for awhile judging by the more afternoon ish glow of the sunlight in the forest. She sat u and rubbed her head, cursing her friend for dragging her into this God forsaken place and somehow causing that killer migraine and passing out. Alex was going to get some harsh words from her when she was found by the red head.

Lily stop up, taking off her mud covered heels and resolved to walking very carefully through the forest calling out Alex's name in vain. She walked for what felt like an hour but must have only been a few minutes when she stumbled across a dirt road. She looked at it and judged that it had a lot of use by the wheels and prints on them, but she knew for a fact there were no roads anymore in the Sherwood Forest. 'This is just getting weirder she thought.'

Lily, after much confusion, decided to walk along the rode. Surely she would find Alex nearby. She continued calling out her friends name when she hard a strange noise in the distance. It sounded like hooves, but Lily thought that was impossible. Who in Nottingham has horses anymore? But as the sounds increased, Lily turned around and saw three black horses pulling an ornate carriage. 'This can't be right.' Lily continued staring at the carriage, which showed no decrease in speed, in shock that she didn't hear any yelling at her because of her state. She was only pulled out of her blank mind when she felt someone ram into her and knock her down on the other side of the road.

She hit the ground with a hard thud and could feel the leaves and dirt in her fiery red hair. She could also feel the weight of the person that pushed her out of the way crushing her. She blinked a few times and shoved the person off and sat up, looking at the carriage passing by. She took a deep breath and then turned to her savior. He was a shorter man with blonde hair in a bandana and looked as if he had just finished preforming in a King Arthur movie as peasant number 5. Lily studied his face for a minute and condoled that he wasn't unattractive and then she quickly saw the shield and sword and was freaked out.

"What just happened? Where are the cameras?" she asked, standing up quickly and looking around for the King Arthur film crew.

"Lily?!" she heard a familiar voice say. She looked up and saw none other than Alex on top of a hill right by the road, wearing a similar peasant outfit and also with a sword in hand. Lily stared at he and turned around, noticing a few other people in costumes.

"What second life aren't you telling me about?" Lily joked, but the nervousness and confusion were still evident in her voice.

"You know her, luv?" a man standing next to Alex asked in a heavy accent.

"Ya, she's only my best friend in the world and my roommate from 2016." Alex replied, running down the hill, dropping her sword and hugging her friend.

"Can someone please tell me what is going on here? I really don't want to be punk'd and my heels are ruined thanks to you Alex!" Lily yelled, her face becoming as red as her hair.

Alex looked at her fired in the eyes and grimaced. "Okay so you know how I got shot by an arrow awhile ago?"

"Not something I can forget easily." Lily scoffed, flipping her hair back and crossing her arms in anger.

"Well what happened that night is I traveled back to 1192 and I met these guys. Robin Hood and his Merry Men and Djaq who is a Middle eastern woman." Alex sheepishly explained raising her eye brows waiting for Lily's reaction.

"Okay then," Lily said, staring at her fired and her companions, "If that is what happened, then why are you back here you left like only an hour, tops, ago."

"It's been a few weeks here. Time travel must be a bit out of sync I guess. Now how did you get here?" Alex asked.

"I was looking for you, saw this giant tree, got a migraine, passed out, and then was almost killed and saved by the peasants here." Lily said, "Oh I also ruined my heels." She looked over to her discarded shoes in the mud of the road.

"You get used to the near death experiences." Alex chuckled.

"I hope not. I don't even know why I believe all this." Lily sighed. "I suppose its thinly explanation why you were so different after the shooting and why you carry those necklaces and pictures so carefully." Lily unfolded her arms. "I am just glad you are okay."

"I'm doing great here. But everything here should get 10x better with you around." The two girls grinned at each other and hugged tightly. "Now for introductions." Alex turned to face the gathered gang.

"Little John." a big man with a giant staff said to a short Lily.

"Will Scarlet. Pleasure to meet you." said a skinny man with black hair and a faint goatee.

"I'm Djaq. Alex talks about you a lot." a short, tan woman said.

"I am Much, Robin's servant and your savior." the familiar blood man said, bowing and offering Lily her heels. "I must ask, how do you walk in these contraptions?"

Lily blushed and replied, "Well you really don't walk if them if you haven't noticed the fact they aren't on my feet."

"Now this is Allan A Dale, my... boyfriend." Alex said, staring dreamily at the man with a gruff accent.

"'Ello." he gave a small wave.

Lily stared at him for a while, sizing him up. "Huh, doesn't seem your type. I mean your boyfriend before uni was super rock and roll and rebellious and now I thought Finn was your type with the whole passionate nerd thing. But if you were hung up about him," she motioned to plan's general direction, "post shooting, it makes sense why you never took Finn up on that date." Allan immediately looked down at Alex with jealousy in his eyes. Alex gave Lily a signature 'look what you have done' look and started pulling Allan aside to explain that he was the only one for her. "Crap," Lily muttered.

The gang started laughing at the two lovers, who always seemed to be caught up in some drama and the last one in the group approached the new girl. "Robin Hood, Earl of Huntingdon and Lord of Locksley." He offered to shake Lily's hand by stretching out his own when Lily paused for a second.

She slowly took his hand. "Earl of Huntingdon, huh?" she asked.

"Yes. Why are you so interested in my title?" Robin asked, putting his hands on his hips.

"Does Alex know that?" Lily said, a smirk on her lips.

"Actually, know that I think about it, I really don't believe we ever told Alex Robin's title besides Lord of Locksley." Much added in, singing the other two. "Why are you smiling like that?"

"Oh, well its just the fact that you might be Alex's great, great, great to the power of ten grandfather."