Waiting For The Rest Of The Gang To Return

[Gary Taylor]

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[Gary Taylor]

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[loz]

little john walked back into the camp. he looked around but couldn't see anyone. he was really upset becasue he missed all his friends. he sat on a log and started thinking about everyone. "please can everyone come back soon" he said to himself.

[sazjj17]

much walks in and sees little john sitting on the log walks over and says "hi little john what you doing and where is everyone", then sits down beside little john and puts his head in his hands and starts 2 cry softly

[Will Scarlett]

Will into the camp tentatively, a little nervous as to what the gangs reaction would be, not when they saw him and Djaq again after all this time, but when they found out about why it was that they came back...

[Djaq]

Djaq ran up behind Will and grinned as she caught sight of Much and Little John solemnly sitting side by side. "Did you miss us?" she shouted without being able to control the grin spreading across her face.

[Will Scarlett]

Will turned to her and carefully handed her a small bundle, before putting a loving arm around her and turning back to Much and John, awaiting their reaction.

[Baby Shafiq]

Shafiq gurgled as he got passed from his father to his mother.

[Will Scarlett]

Will smiled down at his baby son. It was only just over a month ago that he had become a father, but since then so much had changed. The Holy Land was not a safe place to bring up a young child, and even though England was far from safe, England had Robin Hood, and that made all the difference. Some parts of him were filled with fear - would he be able to give his son a good start to life? Could he teach him all of the things that his father taught him? Would Robin allow a child to live in the camp? But then as Will gazed into little Shafiq's eyes, he saw his father's eyes staring back at him - he missed his father terribly and still grieved his death, but now, Will had his own family of Scarlets to care for and protect, and he knew that his father would be proud.

[Robin Hood]

Emerging from a small cave to the side of their camp, Robin Hood looked worried. The love of his life, Marian, was lying in that cave asleep. Despite the fact that they'd been back from the Holy Lands for a couple of months now, she still wasn't recovering well. The stab would she'd recieved from Guy had been near-fatal: if only Djaq had been with them to nurse her, as she had done the last time Marian had been stabbed. He just had to hope she was going to get better from this; even if she did, Gisborne was going to pay.

As he left with a sigh, he turned round, and when he saw two fellow outlaws he was shocked. Then, he grinned: he hadn't realised how much he'd missed Will and Dajq until he saw them again. "Will! Djaq!" he exclaimed, walking over to them but not noticing the baby. "Are you back for good?"

[Manjusha Mani]

Manjusha stumbled into a cave. She was scared. Who was this strange woman?

[Djaq]

Djaq grinned as she caught sight of Robin "YES!!!" she exclaimed as she ran over to Robin and embraced him. She quickly released him as she remembered she was still holding Shafiq and he coughed and started babbling. Djaq had wondered what Robins reaction would be to the child, and she wondered whether Robin would let a child stay in the camp. Children were troublesome, and hardly something Robin and the gang needed to complicate things. But she hoped Robin would understand that Shafiq was her son, and if Robin disapproved, she would leave without a second thought.

[Robin Hood]

He embraced Djaq as she ran up to him with a grin; he was glad to see the two outlaws he thought would stay away for good. They needed more people in the fight for good; on top of that, he hoped Djaq qould be able to offer some sort of help to Marian that he was unable to give. He'd tried everything he knew, and it didn't seem to be working yet...

As they embraced, he noticed the bundle between them; it began to splutter and cry, and he took a closer look. In Djaq's arms lay a little baby, a baby that looked very familiar. A baby that look like Djaq, and Will. "A baby?" He glanced at Djaq, then Will, with one eyebrow raised. "You two had a baby?"

He paused for a moment; if they planned on staying, with a baby, then things weren't going to be easy. But then...when were things ever easy? "Congratulations!" Robin grinned, and hugged Djaq once more. He walked over and patted Will on the back. "Parents, hey? How old is he?" He looked down at the little baby, and took hold of one of his tiny little hands. "What's he called?"

[Will Scarlett]

Will let out a huge sigh of relief and thanked the lord that Robin didn't mind the fact that they had just bought a baby back to live in the camp. "Just over a month..." he said gazing happily at his son, "...in some ways it seems like only yesterday he was born, but in others it seems like we have had him forever..." He looked up and turned to face Robin, breaking his trance, "His names Shafiq. Shafiq Scarlet" he beamed proudly.

[Djaq]

Djaq smiled at the pride she could see in Wills face, she walked over to him and snuggled towards him. "Yes, we're very proud parents" she said, now herself glowing with pride at her son. "Thank you so much Robin...I'm so glad you understand...I'm sure you'll have children of your own one day..." she suddenly came alert. "Hows Marian, is she making progress?" Her face that a few moments ago was filled with pride had turned to a worried expression. She knew how it felt to have someone you loved in a fatal position, she had experienced it with Will several times.