Episode 2x01 "Sisterhood" Part I

He had spent long enough hiding from life in Milliways and now it was time to get on with it.

Carry on somehow.

Back to business, as it were.

So why couldn't he stop thinking about her? What they might have had together? What the future could have held, had events turned out a little different?

The Sheriff hadn't helped things either, when Guy had strode stiffly into his office that morning, with his "Ah Gisborne, a little job for you...your leper and her dear old daddy..."

He stared blindly out across Vasey's map table. Had Marian not left him at the altar, all those weeks ago, he might now be sitting down to supper with her instead of preparing to carry out the Sheriff's latest plan. Asking her about her day. Listening to her plans.

"Tell me you would rather have a woman, Gisborne."

He started slightly, at the Sheriff's sudden presence next to him. Guy hadn't hear him enter the chamber, he was so lost in thought.

"Pardon?"

"Tell me you would rather have a woman, than all this...power." Power was all that he had left, now, without her. "We are so close."

"Indeed." He had been close to having Marian.

"Talking of our lady leper friends, time to go get the pretty one" Guy received a few jabs to his arm, as his lord made his point. "And her daddy."

"Edward and Marian?" It would be unlikely that they would come willingly, he realised, especially Marian, but they had brought this on themselves. "If they resist, shall I use force?"

"Get up to speed Gisborne." The Sheriff looked at him as if the answer should be obvious. " Use force anyway."