Fic: Grace - Chapter 18 (part 2)

[flash_indie]

Title: Grace - Chapter 18 (part 2)
Rating: M
Fandom: P!atd (Brendon/Ryan)

Ryan answers the door, and this, it has to be a first; I’m so used to Spencer, to Clare or someone else, to people I don’t know, people with sharp eyes and sharper tongues and heavy fists, so used to crashing into, imploding against these people instead.

His eyes are soft, but

Comments

[kthxrawr]

mmm, this is just wonderful, I don't really know what to say. even though it's a happyish ending, it still feels bittersweet. which makes it all the better, I guess. it's just fantastic.

[flash_indie]

Thank you.

[theslashmaster]

OMG loved it! You're amazing. You did a great job of finishing it too...you brought everything together the way a lot of people can't.

[flash_indie]

Thank you so much!

[stolen_manners]

You know what one of the things I loved the most about Grace was? The never-ending aspect of it. Because even though Grace has ended, it still goes on. We've been told "In -- months/years from now..." so many times, that it lives on. I loved how this was one of the stories you actually knew was planned out, that you knew would end (but not end-end, if that makes sense). I love how it wasn't continued on forever, because I don’t think I could’ve stand to see this stretched out for infinity, torn into pieces. You ended it perfectly; it was perfect how you re-connected it with the beginning. It's kind of a circle now, and circles are infinite and in this way it gets to continue on in my heart and mind, and I think it works better that way.

But I love(d) so much about this story. I could talk about it for hours, which I'm sure my long comments have already proven (yet I still have more to say). I love your writing. I love the metaphors, and the way that I can see and apply them to so many other things in Grace. I love how it's all these

[flash_indie]

I hate stories that are too abrupt in their endings. I wanted to leave this a little more open and *fingers-crossed*, it sorta worked that way.

I'm glad you enjoyed it (not just glad really, enormously pleased would maybe be a more accurate description), happy that the perfect-circle thing worked.

Thank you so much, sincerely, honestly, truly.

You're welcome and thank you.

(PS. It might interest you to know that I graduate in three months and I'm looking at doing a writing course at Uni to tie in with a bachelor of Arts. I want to get better and this course (three years), it'll let me do that.)

[shelbias]

its over? for real?
this is the part where i ask for an epilogue but even im not that selfish. this was the perfect ending. you tied everything together and still added new elements and im sure ill be thinking about this story when i block out teachers and parents for a long time.
i know you've heard it seventeen thousand four hundred and twelve times, but youre going to hear it again...this was amazing.
every aspect was perfect. it was real. not that whole 'i love you. you love me. we're a happy family' stuff we're taught from birth. i loved how ryan still was hesitant about brendon. coz that's life. thats how it goes. i reeeeally want to print this out so i can carry it everywhere with me, but you wrote so many perfect words that i dont think my old-as-dirt printer can handle that. so ill settle for rereading every chapter, right now, and then adding this to my memories.
never, ever, ever stop writing.
do you have anything new you're working on/going to work on?
thanks for being awesome and sharing with all of us.
<3

[flash_indie]

For real.

I'm overjoyed that people are happy with the ending, I'd worked myself into a right state thinking that it didn't work, that people would be mad at me for it.

Thank you so, so much. Really. You're too lovely for my little old heart to handle. ^^

[lemonsherry]

Tears are coming to my fucking eyes, partly because this piece of amazingness is ending.

Beautifully written, one of the best ive read in a while.

[flash_indie]

Thank you so much.