Random Robin Hood drabbles.
Title: Truth and liars
Characters: Allan, Will
Word count: 100
Allan, depending on his mood and very occasionally the situation, can make lying look easy as breathing, lie so well no-one would suspect him, tell the truth so poorly no-one will believe him (he likes using this one more than he should - it allows him righteous indignation later when proved right) and turning lying into an art form which is not so much about plausibility as it is about creativity.
With the others he has a secret weapon - he has found that no-one will contest him if Will nods along to his story; truth-tellers always make the best liars.
Title: Secrets of the war
Characters: Much, mentions of Robin
Word count: 101
Much does not return home decorated with war wounds as his master is; instead Much dreams terrible dreams. Dreams of rivers thick with bloated bodies, of blood dripping and splashing in muddy puddles, of the shrieks and war-cries. Remembers crouching there behind his shield thinking this was wrong - not holy at all. God could not condone his children killing and tearing at each other in this way.
Sometimes Much doesn’t even need to be asleep to have these dreams - but that’s a secret. You can’t tell anyone, not even Robin. Just pass him the onions, would you? Stew doesn’t cook itself.
Title: [Un]Happy memories
Characters: Will, John and Robin
Word Count: 100
Warnings: Swears!
Will can remember the good old days in Locksley; before Gisbourne, before Vasey had even set foot in Nottingham. Those days before Robin to join Richard in the Crusades were the best (those were the good old days for Robin too - when he had his lands, his house, he was betrothed to Marian and if ever he had to order the hanging of his peasants the bastards probably deserved it); the starving could be helped by their neighbours, people stole because they were greedy, not desperate.
John can remember the old days too. And there was nothing good about them.