Fic: Hope for Healing - Chapter 2

[wastingyourgum]

Title: Hope for Healing - Chapter 2
Author: wastingyourgum 
Characters: Guy of Gisborne, Sheriff Vaizey, Allan, Much, Will, Djaq, Robin
Mentions: Marian, Little John
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Drama, Angst
Warnings: None
Words: 1973
Disclaimer: BBC & TA own anything you find familiar.
Notes: Takes place at the start of July, after 2x11. Thank you to jagnikjen and robinfanatic for their very

Comments

[wastingyourgum]

Thanks for the comment. Guy's head is still a new and unfamiliar place for me to be in so I'm really grateful for any thoughts you can give me on how I'm doing with him.

I did actually consider Guy's thoughts on how his actions would be perceived here.

I think he probably would feel it was a little beneath him but he would also see the upside of it (as Vaizey would) as reinforcing his image of ruthlessness in the people's eyes. And sadly most people would think absolutely no less of him for taking an outlaw's life in that manner since they were "non-person"s anyway. Most of the people (I'm thinking Council of Nobles here) whose opinion Guy would consider worth something would surely know what he's capable of already. He burned down Knighton Hall after all...

There is of course one other person whose opinion he cares about and there'll be a bit more of his thoughts on that next chapter - but I'm getting ahead of myself...

I also think he would think of it as distasteful more than degrading and even then he would hardly refuse to do it when given a direct order from the sheriff. He's shown some reluctance for Vaizey's less palatable instructions before (the miner in "Turk Flu" springs to mind) but never directly disobeyed him.

Hope I'm making sense here - as I said, Guy's head is an intriguing place to visit and I'm concerned about getting lost in the murky depths on my first try!

[ladykate63]

Hmm, I actually wonder if Guy's arsonist activities at Knighton would have been widely known. I think the nobles might have assumed that the house was burned down on Vaizey's direct orders.

And sadly most people would think absolutely no less of him for taking an outlaw's life in that manner since they were "non-person"s anyway.

Oh, I agree -- I was thinking that Guy might consider it beneath him in the sense of "dirtying his hands" that way.

Can't wait to see Guy's confrontation with Marian. (Poor Marian -- I think that after Get Carter! she would have seen Little John as a kind of substitute father figure.)

Oh, and I'm glad you saw Guy's reluctance to kill the miner in Turk Flu -- I definitely saw it, but sometimes I wonder if I'm reading more goodness or at least ambivalence into Guy than is really there. LOL.