This is not a typical Djaq story as you will discover soon enough, I have no idea why I thought this would be a good idea but the plot bunny threatened to eat me if I did not write this story.

Please don't flame me about the bizarre pairing but as always I welcome constructive critisism

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1267 Nottingham.

Lady Sophia of Norwich had always loved her great grandmother, a woman in her nineties she had outlived all three of her children and Sophia, the granddaughter of Alicia, her great grandmother's only daughter knew the elderly woman could not live forever.

When news reached Sophia's father that his grandmother was dying he and Sophia had headed straight for Nottingham. So here they stood at the bedside of the legendary Djaq, people still referred to her as Djaq the saracen woman who had joined Robin Hood's gang of outlaws and masqueraded as a boy.

Djaq, or Lady Saffiya as she was offically called was the last surviving member of Robin Hood's gang, in fact she was probably the only person in England who truly remembered what it was like under the regency of prince John. Saffiya had never spoken about her days as an outlaw, she had once told Sophia with her strong cheekbones and dark hair she resembled her when she had been younger but when Sophia had pressed for answers she said no more.

"Grandmother" Sophia began only to be shushed by the elderly woman.
"Hush Sophia" Saffiya said calmly her voice was still strong, not the voice anyone would expect from a dying woman and still tinged with a saracen accent despite the fact she hadn't been to the land of her birth for almost seventy years.
"I'm not afraid to die" Saffiya continued, "My husband, my children, all my friends are long dead.I will see them again."
Sophia wiped the tears from her eyes "Is there anything I can do grandmother?" she asked.
"Leave us Edward, please" she asked Sophia fathers who kissed his grandmothers cheek and left.

"I want to tell my story, what really hapened not what the storytellers say happened, write it for me Sophia, please" Sophia nodded trying to conceal her eagerness to hear what her grandmother had to say.
"There's a pen and paper in that draw over there" Saffiya said nodding towards a chest next to the window. Sophia fetched them and sat down in a chair beside Saffiya's bed.

Saffiya began dictating to Sophia,"These are the last words of the Lady Saffiya of Gisbourne".

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I must be mad, but Djaq and Gisbourne are my two favourite characters so I thought, why not?