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A Shocking Discovery (Closed to Isabella)

Feb 17, 2012 18:01

Who: Marian and Isabella
What: A discovery
Where: Locksley/Just outside Locksley
When: Night, May 11th

( Isabella?! )

marian fitzwalter, locksley:village, isabella thornton, allan a dale, ep5:while the cat's away . . .

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not_a_maid March 19 2012, 20:57:36 UTC

"He knows that I do this, he just thinks I stopped when I joined the gang." He would probably get annoyed whenever she came back to the camp if he discovered that was what she was doing. But it was not like she was the only one going off on her own. "Which I do not want to do. I have been helping far longer than Robin, I will not let that help drop."

She was a sign of safety and security to some and although she did not want to be relied on she refused to leave those in need of help.

elle_isabelle March 21 2012, 16:03:00 UTC

"Have you really? I didn't know." She smiled, impressed and amused that Marian had had a secret identity for so long. Robin had been back at least a year, maybe two? Isabella didn't entirely understand the draw of it--she gave alms at church and helped if she was asked and thought that sufficient--but she admired Marian's independence. Envied it, even.

"Why should you give it up, just because some things have changed? You certainly seem like you know what you're doing." Isabella nodded toward the guards, who were just visible through the trees. They were leaning against the wall of the manor-house, with no clue that only yards away was a very wanted outlaw.

not_a_maid March 21 2012, 21:34:32 UTC

"Yes. Just about five years." Had it really been that long? She didn't really think about the length of time or how many she had helped she just focused on making sure she could continue to help for as long as possible. She didn't want it to become common knowledge that it was her and knew what the mysterious helper meant to some.

"Because I am able to help openly, so why do it with a mask covering my face." The way she said that made it clear she thought that was not a good enough reason for her to stop. "And I do know what I am doing. Your brother hasn't caught me after numerous confrontations, nor have the guards in Nottingham. I am far more discreet than Robin ever is."

{OOC: I'm assuming five years since s1 it was 3, s2 it would have been 4 then with us moving on in years it would be about 5 XD}

elle_isabelle March 28 2012, 16:39:31 UTC

Isabella grinned. "What man could resist showing off? It is their failing for realizing we don't feel the need to do the same."

Women did need outlets, spaces of their own, just like men, though. Locked away in her house, Isabella had found solace in the garden, cultivating the herbs and plants her mother had taught her about when she was a girl, good things that could be used for flavoring in food or easing illness or injury. Isabella wondered briefly what she would have done if she'd had the opportunities Marian had. Something different, perhaps, but certainly not flouting the law to help the poor in a mask.

"But I have to know--have you really fought Guy?"

((ooc: sounds good to me!))

not_a_maid March 28 2012, 17:06:10 UTC

"Robin has been a show off for as long as I can remember, and I have known him since I was a few days old." Obviously she did not remember knowing him then, at such an age, but she knew that he had been to visit not long after she had been born. A friendship which had lasted so long meant she really did know how he acted. "But yes, we do not see the need to show off what we can do so readily. And sometimes it is better to be underestimated and catch others by surprise ( ... )

elle_isabelle March 31 2012, 05:17:24 UTC

Isabella laughed at Marian's comment about Robin. "I remember him as a boy. He was a show-off even then--it's part of why he and Guy hate each other so much, you know."

"I think often it is better to be underestimated and catch others by surprise. One of the few perks of being thought weak and silly because we are women."

She was amused to hear of Marian's repeated success at evading capture by Guy, though the tenor of the conversation changed at the mention of her injuries. "Rather fatally? Marian, are you serious?" It was one thing when it was a high-stakes game, quite another to actually be at the edge of death.

((ooc: sorry this is a little awkward, but there was so much good stuff to respond to!))

not_a_maid March 31 2012, 08:24:49 UTC

"Robin has many reasons to hate Guy. We all do." She had hoped for the briefest of times that she could help him and could guide him but soon realised that was close to impossible. And if she kept trying she would end up ruining herself, her own life, and she did not want that. So she made herself push those thoughts away. Some people are too far gone for help.

"Yes," she said softly then glanced around, lifting her shirt to show the rather harsh scar across her belly. "He stabbed me with his dagger. I was close to death, did die, but I managed to fight it. I know that sounds silly but I did. I was lucky that Robin came before I was stabbed so was with me as it happened and one of his gang members has some basic knowledge on how to treat someone. All that matters is that I came back."

elle_isabelle March 31 2012, 20:19:53 UTC

"Robin may be the better man, but he is not without blame." Isabella had little intention of sticking up for Guy--not when so much had happened since then--but she could not divorce the bitterness of Robin's actions from memories of that point in her life.

Isabella leaned in to see Marian's scar, jagged and pink against her fair skin. It could not have been a pretty wound. She was not surprised to hear the Marian had almost died from it, between the possibilities of bleeding and and the wound souring and who knew what sort of damage inside. "My God, Marian!" Helping the poor meant so much to her? Though, Isabella thought, perhaps it was not so much helping the poor as the freedom to help the poor, the freedom to do what she liked, of her own volition. That was more understandable, but still a length to which
Isabella did not know if she could ever go.

"I am glad you survived, but I would say there is a good deal more that matters," she said gently, straightening. "Guy must never find out about the Nightwatchman. Never."

not_a_maid March 31 2012, 22:28:14 UTC

"I would be kidding myself to think Robin is completely blameless in any situation linked to him." She loved Robin completely but that did not mean she would pretend he was entirely innocent of things and without flaws.

She watched Isabella's reaction to her scar and as she spoke she quickly pulled her shirt down to cover it again. It was not that she was ashamed of it she just didn't want Isabella focusing so much on a wound. A wound that she would rather forget about or at least forget how it had happened.

"Believe me I do not intend on telling him at all," she responded with a soft sigh. "I dread to think on how he would react to it. I do not see that being a confrontation that I would rush to experience." If he never found out she would not mind even if part of her wished he knew just so he had to face the truth that she was one of his enemies. An enemy he had never really defeated.

elle_isabelle April 6 2012, 06:11:58 UTC

"Why am I not surprised?" Isabella asked, and she couldn't help but smile a bit. "It seems like he's never stopped getting into trouble." She shook her head.

Her amusement faded, however, at the thought of a confrontation between Guy and the Nightwatchman. "Yes, it's one best to avoid. Though there will be danger for you as long as you're here, helping Robin." But she didn't know if Marian even had somewhere else to go, if she had family or friends. "How is your father, by the way? Do you get to see him?"

not_a_maid April 6 2012, 09:28:43 UTC

"He wouldn't be Robin if he didn't get into trouble." That much was certain. He liked trouble but she could not really look badly on him for that. She rather enjoyed it too.

"And I have accepted the danger. I crave danger." It sounded silly, but she had said the same to the Count. She didn't want a life of boredom and sitting in a room with others she could not stand whilst forcing polite conversation. She wasn't made for that sort of life and never would be. "He is doing a lot better. I see him as often as we can go out."

As much as she trusted Isabella her father's hiding place would not be revealed. She would risk her own safety but never her father's.

elle_isabelle April 17 2012, 06:48:05 UTC

"Apparently," Isabella replied, amused. She had a hard time understanding why Marian would risk her life and freedom to help the poor, but something in the other woman's words clicked. She had felt a fraction of it, that thrill of excitement at having secrets to keep, an illicit conversation. Something one didn't get from embroidery. "I can almost understand why, after being confined in that castle for so long."

Isabella nodded in answer to Marian's question. "I am glad, for both of you."

((ooc: I totally missed the notification for this. My apologies))

not_a_maid April 17 2012, 23:05:59 UTC

"I have craved danger for far longer than that. I was not exactly your average child, really. I would rather be climbing trees and putting rips in my dresses than sitting in a room learning to embroider." It was why she was lucky she found Robin to marry. They were a perfect fit and he would never need her to change nor would he want her to.

"As am I. Being away from the castle has done him a lot of good."

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