Mike,
My God, this was a fantastic story.
No. This was one of the best I have ever read here, and lately I have read some really good stuff. Es, like others Garner pointed this one out to me, and I am so glad her did.
At first I was worried about the first-person narrative from John. He seemed like an intruder and a lot fics with highly involved new characters rarely go over well. But you changed my mind rather fast.
John is us.Whether we choose to admit it or not, we feel everything he did. We would have made the same choices. He knew he was an intruder in their love, but he was going to do everything and anything to be sure that things were going to be right.
The quotes from the show were amazing. Willow’s longing is so intense and palatable that I felt it right along with John. She was a broken little girl that used to be a bright, vibrant and powerful young woman.
This part got me so worked up,
Quote:
Sometimes in this world there are exceptions.
Sometimes, love never dies.
I could hear them both now. Echoes of words whispered in love long ago. Between two souls for whom the universe had made an exception.
Where would you go? If you felt lost and alone? Where would you go?
To you.
I could SEE Tara’s soul there, burning like a sun in the center of Willow’s darkness and pain. It made so much sense.
Raw doesn’t even come close.
Part four was intense. At John’s “very well” I knew that he crossed some line that even he was not coming back from. I am glad Henry got it.
Willow’s first word in weeks, “Tara” as John and we knew it would be.
So many good lines too, Marion’s thought “For you, my love. I would do this for you.”
Who wouldn’t.
Garner called these gabs at ME, I agree, but they are also much deeper than that.
Quote:
"If the Powers needed her dead for some tortured, unfathomable design, then to hell with them, for all time."
and
Quote:
"Oh Tara. Here you are. Cold and lonely while the sun comes to warm the world. What monsters are they that think you could deserve this? Who judged you, and said “No more?”
I can’t let it end here. I won’t."
Who is talking here Mike? You, John or us?
One of these is going to be my new sig file.
Summoning Arawan. Good choice. Screw Osiris.
John’s final words were loving and intense. Like a man who sees his children happy again knowing that he can die in peace. I know that what ever John has done in the past he can go to oblivion knowing that his last act was one of such profound good that all the pleasures of heaven or the tortures or hell will mean nothing.
This is the story that was too passé for Joss to tell. Life is not always about pain and suffering, sometimes things go so right and that story can be as heartfelt and happy and sad and as powerful as anything. More so in fact. I left this story feeling more than I had coming into it. “Buffy” of the last year has left me feeling less.
You beat them at their own game.
Warlock
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Web Warlock
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Edited by: WebWarlock at: 7/19/02 7:34:41 am