fic: promise not to promise anymore

[professor_spork]

Title: promise not to promise anymore
Author: professor_spork
Beta: marlenanargle
Character/Pairing: Gwen Stacy/Peter Parker
Fandom: The Amazing Spider-Man
Rating: R
Summary: It's a lot easier to be mad at Peter than to miss her father. Gwen's grief, from the end of the movie on.
Disclaimer: I don't own them.

Comments

[beingfacetious]

Got this open in two windows so I can comment as I go. THIS IS SERIOUS.

The first four paragraphs are all perfect. They're just disjointed and frantic enough to feel like someone's real mental process in this situation, and it's heartbreaking, the slow build to her father is dead. Perfect.

and why is it that she can only miss her father in the future tense? owwww

He was going to learn how to fish, when he retired. They’ve lived their whole lives in the city, but after he’d paid his dues to the force he was going to buy a boat and take it upstate and learn to fish. They’d joked about it.
And if Peter’s so sorry, why isn’t he here?
Again, I'm in love with the disconnect, because it makes such perfect sense. Killing me.

omg the recommendation letter and her dad crying

Again the train of thought from her dad being dead to worrying about Connors' letter to being upset about worrying about that, basically you're awesome at this whatever

she composes a thousand angry speeches of what she’d like to say to Peter as she gives her

[beingfacetious]

Like how it’s Peter’s turn on Words with Friends, and the last thing she played against him was turning his SONS into LIAISONS because she’d had a ridiculous overabundance of vowels and was trying to be flirty, and if he doesn’t respond soon their game will lapse and then…
And then the last thing he’ll have said to her will be that I’m so sorry text, and there will be one less trace of him on her phone, and one less reason for them to connect.
(She tries to leave him messages, but his voicemail inbox is full. She doesn’t know why she keeps calling when she knows he won’t answer. He doesn’t have room for her when his phone is still filled with his uncle’s voice.
But then, she hasn’t deleted anything her father left for her, either.)What the fuck Leah, you can't just do this to a person, I have to eventually get out of bed and shower and see people and face the day, I can't just sit here and cry about this fic, stop it

[musesfool]

This is spectacularly heartwrenching. Poor Gwen. I am crying at my desk.

[empressearwig]

This is just heartbreakingly beautiful.

[htbthomas]

My heart.... Great job. ♥