Amazingly well-written and believable in a way that happier, lighter stories aren't. I still want to go read some light, fluffy, feel-good stuff now, and I don't think I'll re-read this very often, but it feels REAL in a way that more comfortable stories don't.
WOuld like to see the epilog, maybe with a bit more cuddly happy stuff, and see Neal staying in the relationship after his four years are up and his tracker-anklet is off and he's FREE... After all of this, Neal and Peter and El deserve warm and fuzzy and happy-ever-after... but if it's still like this, with occasional flinching and hurt and mornings when Neal wakes up shaking from a nightmare, that's REAL, and I know that Peter and El will wash his face when he cries and hold him just for comfort and not for sex, and he'll be okay...
Thanks for taking the time, doing all the work, and finishing this, not leaving it at that so-painful place where Chapter 1 ended!
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This made me cry...
Date: 2010-05-16 08:52 am (UTC)WOuld like to see the epilog, maybe with a bit more cuddly happy stuff, and see Neal staying in the relationship after his four years are up and his tracker-anklet is off and he's FREE... After all of this, Neal and Peter and El deserve warm and fuzzy and happy-ever-after... but if it's still like this, with occasional flinching and hurt and mornings when Neal wakes up shaking from a nightmare, that's REAL, and I know that Peter and El will wash his face when he cries and hold him just for comfort and not for sex, and he'll be okay...
Thanks for taking the time, doing all the work, and finishing this, not leaving it at that so-painful place where Chapter 1 ended!