Lie to Me Fic: Falling Skies (1/1) pg-13

[etoilefilante]

Title: Falling Skies
Cal, Gillian, Emily, Loker, Torres, Reynolds, Zoe, apoca!fic, pg-13

Words: ~4800

Author’s Notes: A massive thank you to tempertemper and iam_space for the awesome double-beta! This fic would be a lesser version of itself (not to mention more British) without them

Comments

[mack_the_spoon]

*gasps*

*continues gasping*

Whooaa.

I... whoa. That was epic, and I really mean that. You kept them all excellently in character even through everything. Wow.

[etoilefilante]

Thank you so much! I don't think I've ever had a fic be called epic before so I'm pretty excited. :) Thanks for the lovely review, I'm so glad you liked it.

[namarie24]

Dude! This is so good. I mean, srsly. Really, really good.

(Also, I didn't know anyone else had the idea of writing LTM apocafic! Mine was just in the idea stage, but still! Craziness.)

[etoilefilante]

Thank you!! I'm so glad that you like it and that it wasn't one of those stories that just worked in my head. ;)

(OH, please write yours! I'd love to read it.)

[crumpled_up]

OMG. A;LSDKJFALS;DKFJLS;KADK;F IT'S HERE. AND I CAN'T STOP FLAILING. HONESTLY. I'M LIKE GOING CRAZY. One of these days I want to write like you.

You brought Reynolds back. REYNOLDS. For that alone I could kiss you. Or hug if you prefer. ;) And it was epic and awesome and you had him and Gillian pretend to stargaze and of course it'd take the end of the world for Cal to apologize to him and of course he'd die being a hero. And Torres. And Loker! Oh Loker. And of course at the end of the world, Cal and Gillian get together for like a second before he's gone and I'm torn between flailing like crazy and crying because you killed like everyone. There's just too much awesome in this to even comprehend. You had everyone together and it was beautiful as the world fell apart only to kill them all and jsaldkfjls;dkjfalsdkfjasf. The part with Zoe was so heartbreaking as well. That'd be so like her to say all that to Em and hang up. Guh. Way to just rip out my heart like that.

I freaking love you for this. ♥ x infinity.

[etoilefilante]

Thank you for saying such LOVELY things. I knew you'd love Reynolds coming back. I enjoyed most of season 3, particularly the last run of episodes, but I do think Reynolds needs to come back at least occasionally. I still want to know what happened to Dupree, by the way. I've just been watching S1 and he was awesome and like Reynolds V.1. Ha, I'm sorry for killing everyone. But it is an apocalypse, after all! ;) I gave them their happy ending, sort of. The Zoe part was hard to write, actually, because for all her faults I actually did really like her in the end.

♥ So, so glad you loved this. Thank you.

[lynnonpointe]

Oh, gosh. This is absolutely breathtaking. You didn't pussyfoot around anything, or make giant leaps to get to a happy ending. You made it *real* and it's gorgeous and you've captured the characters perfectly. And that in the end, it's Gillian and Emily together . . . just perfect. This is excellent, and an instant favorite for me. Amazing work. <3 <3 <3

[etoilefilante]

Thank you so much. I'm really happy to hear that it felt real to you, and that the pacing worked. I wrote the first and last lines of this first, actually, and then filled in the blanks. Not how I usually work, but I knew from the get go that it was going to end on Gillian and Emily. I really can't thank you enough for your kind words, I'm so glad you enjoyed it. ♥

[kris10_loveee]

This was incredible.
Just....incredible.
No. Scratch that. Incredible doesn't do it justice.

This was..perfect.

I don't know what to say.
Just, poetic.
Gah.
ILY.

[etoilefilante]

Thank you so much! Perfect and poetic? That's high praise. :) I'm really glad you enjoyed it, thank you for your review. ♥