I just saw the finale last night, and you're right - Allan's death made me want to CRY! (So didn't Gisbourne's, but I was expecting that one) This story just...it was perfect. Amazing. Fan-tabulous. I love the idea of Allan loving Will and Djaq, and the entire thing just broke my heart all over again. His death was just so unfair! Gah! Great work, this is definately my favorite Robin Hood fic ever.

I'm crying. Poor Allan! I cried for him when he died, and I wanted the others to know he wasn't a traitor!

Oh dear me, I have welcomed tears to my eyes!
That was beautifully written and, even though I wanted to stop reading so I wouldn't cry, I couldn't help but keep on.
Well done. You captured each thought and feeling of Allan perfectly and it all seemed very true and real. (:

Join me in the land of denial, in which this never happened. I actually never watched this episode: I just couldn't bear to see it for myself.

But this, in its way, was lovely, knowing at least that his final thoughts were with the people he loved most. As an Allan/Djaq shipper, this paragraph in particular really hit me:

"He wants to gather her into his arms and hold her tightly and kiss her all over her dark cheeks and tell her that he lied when he said his infatuation was shallow and fleeting and there was nothing to come of what he felt for her, and tell her that loves her, he loves her, and he wishes he could have said something of it before so that at least he wouldn’t die and she would never know of it."

I recall when you wrote "Second Chance," I wondered what you thought Allan's true feelings toward Djaq were...now I know...*sob*.

The Will paragraph that follows is also heart-breaking. I think Allan was a little in love with Will: not in a slashy way, and yet not entirely in a platonic way either: there was so much resonance and depth to this particular OT3, that I'll never, ever understand why the writers chose to destroy it in such a horrible way. (In which comes the denial).

I loved these three characters, they're the only fictional people I've ever felt compelled to write fanfiction about, and so it felt like a punch to the guts to see them disregarded in this way. But at least there are other writers who loved the OT3 as much as I did...I hope you won't give up on AU fics for these three, as I'd love to see the reunion that they so dearly deserved.

Also: "He doesn’t think of Kate, either—there was nothing to think about her." Heh. Silly cow never knew what she was missing.

very nice, and very well written!

This story was absolutely wonderful. I love the way you wrote his thoughts, and the details he heard. I could see him so clearly the way you wrote him. I like very much that you put in that he was attracted to both Djaq and Will. WillXAllan is my favorite pairing, and I don't think they get enough credit. This whole fic was wonderful. His discovery and eventual embrace of death was very powerful, especially that one line, "death is an anticlimax". I'm sorry this review is so short, but the story is brilliant.

There is something really poetic about your writing.
And i really loved this story.. makes up for the stupid BBC not even mentioning Will or Djaq once throughout the series!!
Thankyou once again for your inspiring work :]

You are not over emotional but this amazing fic captures everything. I was so gutted to hear they weren't coming back for the finale and you gave this fandom justice.

Allans death hit me hard, mainly because I wasn't expecting it. My sister and I were watching, and I saw the arrows zipping round him, and was in the middle of making some comment about how arrows only ever seem to hit their target if Robin fires them, and then...bamn. Down he goes.

Him never seeing Will and Djaq again, or vice versa really, I suppose, really gets me. Can I request a oneshot of them finding out? Either by returning, or by pigeon, prefererably by returning? I've seen a couple of attepmts up already, but their mostly hurried, out of charecter and messy, and I love Will and Djaq as you write them anyway.

Feel free to ignore that.

Anyway. Brilliant. Bought a lump to my throat. I loved the bit about death not being a fanfare, and really quite anticlimatic.

Looking forward to more of your stuff, as always.
Emma

That was really beautiful. I hate that Allan died alone and thinking he was unloved. I love the way you described the very special relationship he had with both Will and Djaq. I've always felt that it was something that defied any attempts to label or explain it and it was so touching that Allan was only really able to see it clearly as he lay dying. I'm still hurting over his death. I didn't realize how much the character meant to me until he died. Weird.

This was a lovely tribute, not only to him, but also to the OT3 that is gone forever. I guess we should be glad that Will and Djaq stayed in the Holy Land if a similar fate is what was awaiting them in England. I hope they never find out about Allan and just live out their lives thinking he's alive and up to his old rascally ways. Okay, I really must stop thinking of these characters as real people. ;)

ARGH! I'm crying over Allan AGAIN. I can't believe the BBC did that!

Very good story, you have reduced me to an emotional wreck for the third time today... gah. I hate you BBC, I really do.