Meanwhile, in Nottingham castle dungeon, Will had been strung upside down from a wall like a piece of meat. He could see everything that was happening to those that he thought of as his friends and he had given up trying to break free. He kept glancing down to the pit beside him where he could see Wulf chained up, at least the boy was spared from torture for now. Suddenly the doors burst open, and the Sherriff strode in.

"Well, look at this sorry lot," He remarked but Will just glared at him. "Well, I have heard that Robin Hood may still be alive." He spoke as he walked amongst the prisoners. "Either tell me where he may be hiding, or you'll all be hanged, and we will catch him anyway and do the same thing to him."

"I'd love to kill him for you." Will told him, suddenly having an idea.

"Will, don't!" Wulf shouted, but for now Will had to ignore him.

"So, he is alive then?" The Sherriff demanded as he walked over to Will.

"I'm not really sure," Will told him.

"Then why would I need you?" The Sherriff demanded.

"Because, my lord," By god it felt so wrong for him to say that. "If he is alive, I can get close to him, I'm one of his men. He would never suspect me."

"He knows you always hated him traitor!" Wulf's voice rang out from the pit.

Will bit his tongue to stop a sarcastic remark, and he joined the Sheriff in telling Wulf to shut up.

"He's a trusting fool, he'll believe me and if he doesn't, he'll kill me and then you've lost nothing."

"If you fail then I will personally remove your lying tongue." The Sherriff warned. Eventually a plan was concocted with the Sheriff, and he signalled for one of his soldiers to walk over.

"Sorry about this, but it has to be believable."

Will didn't have time to ask what he meant, before the whip landed on his stomach. The pain was unbearable! He just hoped that his plan worked.

Meanwhile, back at the camp, Katherine eventually went back into her little shell once she had stopped crying and Robin watched her as she fell asleep, this time against Fanny. He remembered the day that he met Katherine, he had always wondered how she didn't have some form of trauma from that day, but it seemed that she and Will kept most things private and under wraps. As it grew light, Robin, John, Azeem, Bull and Tuck went about gathering the dead and the Friar made graves and crosses for them all once they found a suitable resting place. Eventually John went back to Fanny and their remaining children and Katherine went back to being the healer. Unbeknownst to them all, there was someone walking through the forest towards them. When the job was done, Robin walked over to a trough of water, and he got himself a drink with his own hands after he cleaned up. He looked around and he noticed the mist that had set in, and suddenly he could make out a figure walking towards him- Will.

"Will?" Robin called out as he stood. "I thought you were taken?" He asked, though inside he was overjoyed to see that Will was here, especially for Katherine.

"I was." Will told him and Robin noticed that he held his stomach, and his shirt was quickly becoming stained with blood.

"How did you escape?" Robin asked, but before Will could get a word out, he was ambushed by John.

"Traitor!" John thundered. "I'll ring your scrawny neck for you Will Scarlett!" As he started beating the man, Will could vaguely hear Fanny's voice telling someone to get Katherine.

Robin ran over as did Fanny and Bull, and even Tuck and Azeem came over trying to pry John off of Will. In his weakened and weapon less state, Will could not win against John, and he suddenly found himself on the floor and all he could do was raise his hands up to protect his head at least as John pummelled his abdomen. Hitting everywhere that Will wished that he wouldn't. Will closed his eyes as he tried to ignore the wave of pain that quickly changed into nausea.

He suddenly felt his shirt rip and he looked up as he heard everyone gasp and he saw that his wounds were on display. He looked to everyone who had gathered as he heard John speak.

"Bugger me,"

"Let him speak." Robin told them.

Will refused to face them on his back, moving to lie propped up on his arm. "I bring a message from Nottingham; our men are to be hung in the square at high noon tomorrow." He told them.

"What about my boy?" Fanny demanded.

"The boy too." Will had to look away whilst Fanny made a sob as she fell into John's chest. "The hangings are to part of the celebration of the Sherriff's marriage."

"Marriage?" Bull asked. "To whom?"

Will looked to Robin this time, he wanted to see the look in his eyes. "To the Lady Marian."

Surprisingly, Robin's face ever changed, but his eyes betrayed his hurt and his anger.

"He takes a bride of royal blood," The Friar told them.

"With King Richard gone, he'll be after the bloody throne." John told them as they all came to the same conclusion that Will had.

"You were to use this news to get close to me and then kill me, right Will?" Robin asked him and everyone looked between them as Will smirked before he got himself to his feet, fighting through the pain he was feeling. "What are your intentions?"

"Well, that depends on you, Locksley," He told him, and Robin saw the hatred in his eyes once more. "I've never trusted you, that's no secret, what I want to know is, are you going to finish what you started?" He asked him. "I want to know if he's going to turn and run like the spoilt little rich boy, I always took him for!"

"Did I wrong you in another life, Will Scarlett?"

The more Robin spoke, the more it annoyed Will, why was Will being the emotional one whilst Robin remained calm and poised?

"Where does this intolerable hatred for me come from?" Robin asked.

Will had to look away for a minute, before he gave up hiding it, Locksley wanted to know what he hated the most, then fine he was going to tell him.

"From knowing that," He took a minute to rethink, but he pushed on anyway, there was no point hiding it now. "That our father loved you more than me." Will told him.

Everyone was shocked into silence, but Robin broke it. "Our father?" He asked making sure that he had heard him right.

"We are brothers Robin of Locksley," Will told him, all of the hatred and emotion suddenly started to come out. "I am the son of the woman who replaced your dead mother for a time!" This time Robin went to strike him, but Will fought back. "It was your anger that drove them apart!"

"You lie!" Robin accused.

"It's not a lie!" Will shouted at him. "You ruined my life!"

Will watched as Robin's mask started to fall, he actually looked shocked to hear that he had a brother.

"I have more reason to hate you than anyone, but I found myself daring to believe in you," Will told him and part of him could not believe the words that were coming from his mouth. "So, what I want to know brother, is will you stand with us and finish what you started?"

Robin was still reeling from the news that he and Will were brothers. "I have a brother?" He whispered, deep down growing up he had always wanted a little brother, and now here he was right in front of him. "I have a brother," He spoke more carefully pulling Will into him, pressing their foreheads together. "I will make my stand with you, side by side, together, until the end."

"To the end." Bull chorused.

"We're all bloody in," John told him.

"We finish this," Robin told him, and Will found himself feeling much lighter now that his secret was out in the open.

Suddenly Will felt his strength give out, and he collapsed on his knees in front of Robin, causing Robin to drop with him to catch him.

"Will!" Robin shouted in worry.

"He needs his wounds seeing to." Azeem told him.

"I know the perfect person." Robin told him. "John, help me get him up,"

John walked over and he helped to lift Will to his feet, taking most of the man's weight, before they walked down to where they had left Katherine. Katherine was tending to one of the women who had burns to her arms from the fires, and she was just finishing wrapping her arms in clean cloth.

"Katherine, I need you!" Robin shouted to her as he and John set Will at the base of a tree, before John stood back with Fanny as they watched Katherine. Katherine washed her hands in the pail of water again, before she ran over and she stopped as she saw who it was, her eyes wide with joy but also fear – was she dreaming?

"Katherine, please can you help my brother?" Robin asked her.

Katherine looked between him and Will, and Robin realised that she hadn't known about them either, before she was suddenly on her knees next to him and she checked his wounds.

"He will need stitches," She looked to Robin. "Get behind him, let him lean on you and for gods' sake, hold his arms down." She told him as she delved into the pouch at her waist, pulling out a needle and thread. Robin moved to get into position, holding his younger brother to his chest, brushing a hand through his hair. Thankfully now, Will had slipped into unconsciousness, his body too tired to fight anymore so he didn't even flinch as Katherine started to stitch him back together.

In his unconscious state, Will could thankfully not feel any pain that was being inflicted as they tried to heal him. He did however find himself sitting in a field, the sun was high, there was a soft breeze in the air. He felt weightless, unlike the past few years since he joined the outlaws, like there was nothing that could trouble him.

"You've become a man that I am so proud of William,"

The feminine voice behind him, had him turning around and he found the same dirty blonde hair and deep hazel eyes that he knew well – his mother Dawn Scatlock was stood behind him, wearing the same dress as when he last saw her.

"Mother?" Will asked as he got to his feet, before he seemed to realise. "Am I dead?"

"No, my darling, you are merely unconscious," She told him, and she walked over pulling him into her arms in a hug. "You are such a handsome young man William."

William looked to his mother, and he smiled, but then he realised someone was missing.

"Katherine?" He asked her.

"Your wife is beautiful," Dawn smiled. "She's currently looking after you, with your half-brother."

Will nodded. "What is this place?"

"It's in your mind Will," She told him. "This is what you crave, peace and quiet,"

Will looked out at the surrounding area again and he smiled slightly, the only thing that would make everything perfect would be if he had Katherine with him. As if by magic, he suddenly heard people laughing, looking around he saw a campfire ahead of him with his friends all gathered around. John, Wulf, Fanny, Bull, even Robin, Marian and her lady in waiting Sarah were sat around, but he didn't see Katherine.

"Katherine come and join us love," He thought that Fanny was looking to him, but instead he saw that it was someone behind him, so he turned, and he saw Katherine. But she was different, she appeared to be glowing, and as she walked over, he could see why, her stomach was rounded in what he could clearly see to be pregnancy. She had the biggest smile on her face as she joined the group; Marian, Sarah and Fanny doting on her and gently touching her bump as they talked amongst themselves. Suddenly the scene around him changed as he heard childish laughter, and he saw a riverbank, Katherine was walking along the river, with a man that looked like a slightly older version of himself. She was wearing her shawl around her shoulders as they walked hand in hand. Suddenly there were shouts behind them, but they weren't shouts of fear, they were shouts from children. One was a young girl, no older than four, and a young boy who looked to be around the age of ten. The young girl ran to him, and he picked her up in his arms as the boy threw his arms around Katherine. They were all laughing and smiling with each other as they carried on their walk, the boy talking a mile a minute as he played with a knife.

"This is why you're not dying yet my boy," His mother told him. "You have so much more left to experience."

Will nodded as he watched the group and he walked over to join them brushing his fingers through Katherine's hair, he didn't care that his mother was watching, or that Katherine couldn't feel it, but he kissed her head.

"How do I wake up?" He asked.

"You'll wake up when you're ready." His mother told him. "I'm going to leave you now Will," She continued. "Just know that I'm so proud of you."

Will watched as a mist seemed to set in in front of him and his mother vanished, just as Katherine and his friends did and Will found himself wandering around in the mist.

Meanwhile, in the land of the awake, Robin watched as Katherine worked dutifully and quickly. Will didn't move against him, choosing to remain in his brother's arms, either by choice or by exhaustion, Robin did not know or seem to care. Eventually, Katherine was finished, and she smothered the wounds in a paste made of healing herbs before she wrapped Will's chest and abdomen in the last of the clean rags. Once his wounds were dressed, Katherine looked to Robin.

"You called him your brother?" She asked.

Robin nodded. "He's only just told me." Robin explained. "My father and his mother…Katherine I made such a mistake."

"That's putting it a bit mild, I think." She told him. "But I agree, you have, and now you need to fix it."

"So, do I call you, my sister-in-law?" He asked.

Katherine looked at him. "When he accepts you, and tells me that you are his brother, then yes you can."

Robin nodded, after everything, that seemed fair. He watched Will as he lay against him and he marvelled at how young he looked, even in his sleep, he then realised that he didn't know anything about his brother, not even his age.

"How old is Will?"

"Twenty." Katherine told him. "He's got a year on me." She gently brushed some hair from Will's face.

Robin watched them and as it grew late, he looked more to Will as he felt him shiver.

"Does he have a fever?" Robin asked, suddenly worried, and he watched Katherine feel his forehead.

"No, he's just cold, come on, our hut should still be standing, it will be enough to give him shelter."

Robin moved to stand, bringing Will with him, as he and Katherine somehow managed to get him into the hut and onto the bed. "You go and eat; I'll keep watch on him." Katherine told him.

Robin looked to her. "No, honestly-"

"Robin, I'm his wife, it's my duty." Katherine told him and Robin had no choice but to bow his head and take his leave.

Katherine didn't know how long she and Will remained undisturbed, but she did know that eventually the moon was shining bright. She leant against the wall watching out of the window, she had been busy since Robin left. She had taken Will's ripped clothes off of him and replaced them with fresh ones after she had washed him. Now she was sat by the light of the small fire that she had made as she mended his doublet. She occasionally looked through the darkness towards her husband, the light of the fire just enough for her to see that he was still breathing, before she went back to her sewing. It seemed like a lifetime had passed as she listened to Will's breathing, and she looked up as she heard something move and she saw that Will had started to stir.

"Kat…" Her name left his lips almost like a plea, and she put her sewing down before she moved to sit on the edge of the bed running a hand through his hair.

"It's alright darling, I'm right here," She told him quietly. "I'm right here with you Will."

Will's eyes opened slightly, and his hand came up to hold hers. "Kat…I love you."

"I love you too," She told him, leaning down to kiss his forehead. "Always."

She leant down to press her forehead to his and Will closed his eyes once more.

"Can you help me to sit up?" He asked after a few minutes, and Katherine got to her feet helping him to sit up with his back on the wall where their bed had been placed.

"I thought I'd lost you," Will told her quietly. "I saw my life, our life, flash before my eyes in that dungeon."

"You have nothing to fear, I'm right here," She told him. "I promised to never leave you."

"Katherine, I'm sorry for everything," Will told her. "I'm sorry for questioning you and for how I made you feel."

"Will, you don't have to apologise." She told him. "It's alright." She brushed her hand through his hair. "There is someone else who wants to see you though."

Will looked to her and she got up, walking to the door and she poked her head out, whispering to someone outside, before she came back in to join him.

It did not take long before the door to their home was thrown open and Robin stood in the doorway. Behind him, Will and Katherine could see John, Fanny, Azeem, Tuck and Bull.

"Do you not know how to knock Locksley?" Will asked him and everyone behind him laughed.

"I believe I'm allowed to walk in when my brother suddenly collapses in front of me." Robin told him and he watched Will tense as he realised what he had said to Robin before he collapsed.

"Why didn't you tell us, lad?" John asked him. "If we had known you were a lord's son-"

"You'd have what?" Will asked him. "I'm not a lord's son, I'm the son of a peasant woman, and that is all I will be." He told him. "Your father didn't want me or my mother, Locksley, so it doesn't matter what I am to you."

"That's not true Will," Robin told him. "It matters greatly to me."

"Why?" Will asked him. "I've lived twenty years without you Locksley, what has changed now?"

"Now I know who you truly are." Robin told him, before he looked to everyone. "Can I have a minute with him, alone?"

Katherine nodded and she watched everyone else leave, before she moved to take her leave and Will's hand grabbed her wrist tightly, causing her to sit back down.

"My wife, stays." Will told him and Robin nodded, before he moved to sit on a chair. Will looked to him and he stayed quiet, he was curious to hear what was going to be said at this point.

"I didn't know you existed Will." Robin told him. "If I had known, I would have come to find you."

"Really now, you would have taken in a starving beggar?" He asked.

"I would have," Robin told him.

"Then why didn't you?" He asked. "I came to Locksley Manor when I was a boy, I was sick and starving and all you did was send me away."

"Will, I was a foolish man back then, please I can only ask for your forgiveness, and I know that I do not deserve it, but I will do what I can to make it up to you." Robin told him.

Will watched him and for his sins, he did look sorry, so Will nodded. "Alright, I haven't forgiven you, but if there is anything that I have learnt from my wife, is that forgiveness can be earnt."

Robin and Will both looked towards Katherine who looked between them and she smiled. "So, Robin Hood is your brother?" She asked Will.

"Yes, Robin Hood is my brother." Will told him.

Katherine smiled as she looked to Robin. "Now you can call me it."

"Call you what?" Will asked.

"Sister-in-law." Robin and Katherine told him with big smiles.

That evening, Fanny and John brought them all some food that they had managed to rustle up, and they all settled down to sleep. Will, pulling Katherine to him on the bed, keeping her in his arms as Robin took the floor. It was agreed that the brothers stay together so that Robin could help Katherine to keep an eye on Will.

The next morning, Katherine was up before the pair of them, and she noticed some similarities between the older and younger brother. One thing was that they both talked in their sleep. She walked out of the hut and into the sunshine and she covered her eyes as she checked the location of the sun, seeing that they had a while off until noon, so she set about making some breakfast. The other villagers had disappeared into hiding, only the eight of them remained at camp. She sat before the dying embers of the firepit that the others had made outside of Will's home, and she started to make a fire. She was so entranced with her work, she did not notice that someone else had left the hut until she stood, and Will's arms wound around her waist, pulling her into him. She rested back into him with a soft smile, tilting her head back to kiss his chin, before she got out of his grip to make them breakfast.

Slowly, everyone came to join them, all of them wishing Will well, and wishing Katherine a good morning, before they all started eating the food that she made. Robin was the last to join them and he fussed over Will, being the big brother figure that Will had previously needed. Will told him to leave him alone quite a few times and when Will started to get annoyed, Katherine grabbed Robin's arm and pulled him away for 'firewood'.

"If you want Will to talk to you, that's not the way to go about it." She warned him as they picked up sticks for the fire.

"What do you mean?"

"You're smothering him," She told him. "He's lived his whole life on his own Robin, you can't just come in arrows flying with 'brotherly affection'."

Robin sighed. "I'm just messing it up again, aren't I?" He asked her.

"Just a bit." She told him and she looked to the number of twigs and branches that they collected, and she deemed it enough to keep their small fire going.

When they got back to the fire, Fanny excused herself to take care of the children, and Robin called everyone to the fire pit except for Azeem and Tuck. Every so often, they would hear explosions from Azeem's hut and Tuck's joyful laughter. Katherine moved to sit next to Will as Robin told them of the plan to get the others back. They had hastily put together a wooden 'replica' of the square that the hangings were taking place in.

"John, I need you on this ledge to aid our escape," He told him as he used his dagger to point out exactly were. "Bull, I need you here to cut off reinforcements." He pointed to another area. "I will be here, below the scaffold to cut our men loose at the signal."

"No, I can do that, you can cover us with your bow." Will told him.

"No, it's too dangerous Will," Robin told him, and it caused Will to laugh.

"So is your aim." He told him as he held up the hand that Robin had shot an arrow through, and everyone around them laughed. The wound itself had healed, but it had left a scar.

Katherine looked to them. "Can I ask, what about Fanny and I?"

Everyone looked to her, just as Fanny came over. "Kat, you need to stay out of harm's way." Will told her.

"I agree with Will." Robin told her, suddenly feeling protective of his younger brother's wife.

"You weren't saying that when I saved both your asses." Katherine told the brothers, looking between them.

"She has a point." Fanny told them.

"What are you doing lass, where's the little uns?" John asked his wife.

"They're safe, they're with my mother." Fanny told him.

"Have you gone bleedin' cracked girl?" John demanded. "You could get hurt."

"I've given birth to eight babies, don't you talk to me about getting hurt, you big ox," Fanny told him. Will and Katherine looked to each other throughout this, they knew that this was a lost fight. "And I'm not just going to sit here and let one of my kids die, am I?"

Robin looked between the two, both of the women had their weapons, Fanny holding a sword and Katherine, he was sure that she had a knife in one of her boots. He didn't fancy dying by either of their hand, so he agreed to let them help despite the looks of protest that he got from Will and John. When the plan was complete, Katherine being the one to cover them with her bow, Katherine got to her feet, and she went off to get ready, when she reached their hut, she got her pouch of herbs from inside along with her bow and arrows and her cloak. She hid an extra knife in her boot just in case. Will leant against the doorway watching her.

"There is nothing sexier than watching a woman conceal a blade in her boots." He told her and it caused Katherine to smile.

"Only thing sexier is a man showing off his skill with a knife." She told him with a soft smile, before she walked over to him. "When this is over, we need a proper night to ourselves."

"I agree," Will promised, walking over to her, sliding his hands to her waist. "We just have to survive a suicide plan."

Katherine nodded. "We can do this." She told him.

Will nodded, kissing her head before he let her go and walked past her to get his own knives and cloak.