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landlesslord) wrote2007-06-30 12:16 am
landlesslord) wrote2007-06-30 12:16 am
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Post-Episode 1x09 "A Thing or Two About Loyalty"
Guy and Lambert had been friends from childhood. They were far closer back then than they had been before this debacle, but not unusually they had grown apart in nature and in habits. Lambert had always been interested in how things worked even then, though, and Guy had always been the one to try and find some use for Lambert's discoveries.
That aspect of their relationship had not changed. What had changed was Lambert's loyalties. How could someone who had so closely shared the early joys and harsh misfortunes of a person's life turn their back and betray them so easily? How could he turn his back on the opportunities that Guy was offering to him, now that he could? And especially when he had worked so tirelessly to try and protect him? Why? Didn't he understand?
And to betray him with his greatest enemy.
Still, it had not been easy to leave him to the Sheriff's mercy. It was not anger that flowed through Guy's veins on hearing of his old friend's treachery, but cold shock and dread and a numbness that spread throughout his limbs. Lambert had occupied Guy's thoughts all through the meeting of the Council of Nobles and even the Sheriff's games with the newly promoted outlaw failed to lift his mood. Singling out Marian and her sick father had made it worse.
Marian. She was disappointed in him, but what other choice did he have? To choose to still protect a man that had betrayed him with a known enemy or to let the Sheriff deal with him and keep what little influence he had to protect the woman that he loved? He had considered that maybe the Sheriff was wrong and Locksley had tortured his old friend for the ledger? But even if he was, he could never tell the Sheriff that he was mistaken. Not while he had so much at stake. And it was not likely that Lord Vasey was wrong, knowing that his superior delighted in revealing uncomfortable truths.
And then Robin and his outlaws discovering where the Greek Fire had been hidden and all that ensued there...
It was not just aches and bruises that kept him awake while he lay in bed that night and not just tiredness that made him irritable and bad tempered the next day.
That aspect of their relationship had not changed. What had changed was Lambert's loyalties. How could someone who had so closely shared the early joys and harsh misfortunes of a person's life turn their back and betray them so easily? How could he turn his back on the opportunities that Guy was offering to him, now that he could? And especially when he had worked so tirelessly to try and protect him? Why? Didn't he understand?
And to betray him with his greatest enemy.
Still, it had not been easy to leave him to the Sheriff's mercy. It was not anger that flowed through Guy's veins on hearing of his old friend's treachery, but cold shock and dread and a numbness that spread throughout his limbs. Lambert had occupied Guy's thoughts all through the meeting of the Council of Nobles and even the Sheriff's games with the newly promoted outlaw failed to lift his mood. Singling out Marian and her sick father had made it worse.
Marian. She was disappointed in him, but what other choice did he have? To choose to still protect a man that had betrayed him with a known enemy or to let the Sheriff deal with him and keep what little influence he had to protect the woman that he loved? He had considered that maybe the Sheriff was wrong and Locksley had tortured his old friend for the ledger? But even if he was, he could never tell the Sheriff that he was mistaken. Not while he had so much at stake. And it was not likely that Lord Vasey was wrong, knowing that his superior delighted in revealing uncomfortable truths.
And then Robin and his outlaws discovering where the Greek Fire had been hidden and all that ensued there...
It was not just aches and bruises that kept him awake while he lay in bed that night and not just tiredness that made him irritable and bad tempered the next day.