Gisborne steeled his heart, knowing what he must do, and hating himself all the more for it. He silently asked Aria to forgive him for what he was about to do. He tore is gaze away from her and focused his attention on The Sheriff. "As you wish m'lord, but on one condition..."

Once again, Guy tries to woo Marian, but she slips away from her unwanted suitor like the proverbial sand is slipping through the hourglass. But when Robin's life is in peril, Marian may perform any desperate artifice to save Robin without caring about a possible moral indictment. A canonical scene from 2x08 written from Guy, Marian, and Robin's POVs.

As Allan's betrayal places the lives of Marian and the outlaws in terrible jeopardy, Robin takes the matter into his hands and is determined to inflict a retributive punishment on Allan. Only Marian's plea to spare Allan saves the traitor. Then, Robin's finagling of his beloved's attentions makes Marian reward the hero generously. A canonical scene and canon extension from 2x07

Marian wants to know whether Robin often uses hairpins of other girls for lockpicking. Not disapproving of her unexpected brashness, he is happy to respond to her innuendos. Canonical scenes and a canon extension from 2x06 which are written from Robin and Marian's POVs.

Induced by his last shred of honor, Guy warns Marian about the danger from the Earl of Winchester. But Vaisey derails his plan, and Guy surrenders to the temptation of power and wealth, and to the fear of being murdered by his master. Together with the sheriff, Guy continues his way through the waters of purgatory to hell. Canonical scenes from 2x06 from Guy and Marian's POVs

Finally, the illustrious Robin Hood has been captured thanks to the crafty scheme of Lady Davina, Vaisey's sister. An angry Guy faces a helpless and bound Robin dangling over the poisonous abyss. What goes through the heads of two sworn enemies in these moments? Canonical scenes from 2x01 that are written from Guy and Robin's POVs.

S2 Finale AU. Robin Hood arrives in the courtyard a moment before Guy can stab Marian. True love is worthy of any sacrifice. There is God's will for the world and for a man, and, sometimes, God spares lives out of His divine mercy.

Marian meets with Robin Hood in the woods after the siege of Nottingham, and love blossoms in the greenwood under the starry night sky of Sherwood. The action takes place after the episode 2x10 ("Walkabout").

This is an AU set after the S3 Finale. Robin Hood isn't killed by Isabella's poisoned dagger. Unbeknownst to Robin, Marian survives her seemingly mortal wound in the Holy Land and returns to Nottingham in a few days after the bloody siege. Robin and Marian are reunited on Earth, not in Heaven. Robin and Marian are deeply in love, romantic, happy, mischievous, and very amorous.

S2 Finale AU. The journey to Acre to save King Richard ends with the necessity to face harsh reality instead of daydreams. Disillusionment is a painful experience for one to bear. Nothing is sadder than the death of an illusion.

AU to S2E18, the episode "Lady in Waiting". Anne Boleyn discovers Henry kissing with Jane Seymour, and her grief results in her premature, difficult labor. The unfading glory of death in childbirth giving the king a son suddenly seems to Anne more appealing than the doubtful glory of queenship.