I already told you how the first part of this broke me into a billion pieces over email, but I'll paste it here, for prosperity's sake, too. And so everyone else can see how much I love it. ;) And add to it, now that I can.
You give like, the best squee ever. You and cero_ate. *carefully glues broken-bits back together*
Okay. So this made me cry like a little girl.
*wipes tears gently* Sorry? Except, no I'm not, because you made it possible, and I bawled reading the inspiration-piece for this.
Just Ollie and Dick and him reacting like that to Kory - Ow.
Ollie... *pets Ollie sadly* Dick... is a shattered thing, and not coping well with anyone that ever took him away from the man he's never going to have more time with.
And Mia. God, poor Mia.
Like Filly said, Mia gets the short end of the stick SO BADLY here, because Ollie's... yeah. What Filly said.
I love that Ollie knows what Dinah is going to do, even before anyone else. ""For our boy, it would be," Green Arrow choked out." *cries. so very hard.*
I did, too. Lots.
Here? Is where I started to choke up. Because YES, Him having any reaction to his team is so very wrong that it has to startle them. *shivers.*
Yeah. I couldn't cry, during that, because Dick couldn't, but I wanted to be...
*whimper.* All the history that implies? Makes me cry. And oh, god, Dick, I'm sorry. So sorry that you finally broke in a way that you were heading towards anyway.
Yeah. Again with the wishing I could cry, and feeling his rage and guilt and pain so strongly that they just wouldn't come... Yeah, he's broken, utterly and completely.
*whimper*. Of course you do, sweetheart. And it's eating you up inside, isn't it?
Eating him alive, yes. So much.
Though I'll add, that the guilt? You utterly deserve for not making sure the serial killer was in prison in the first place. It's not like you didn't have every reason to know he'd kill someone you love.
*points at Filly's very eloquent reply to this part and nods* What she said.
Also, afaict, the only Titan Slade ever killed was the son he loved very much, and he hasn't permanently injured any of the Bats...
This? Made me cry so hard I couldn't see. I just. . I could *see* Ollie's normal self getting dressed, going about his business, not expecting, for anything in the world, to get that bombshell that would break his heart.
Filly wrote that part entirely on her own, and god almighty did it hurt to read, yes. I cried, too. (and had flashbacks to the 'Titans morning' scene in ADP, which really didn't help any).
And oh, Ollie, knowing Dinah so well. Sobbed. Honest to god.
You, me, Filly, yes.
Of course they do, because it's Ollie, and he's normally open anyway. Never mind how he is when his heart is ripped out.
*cuddles Ollie close, sadly*
*whimper.* And now you'll never get to know him either. And that makes me cry. Lots.
It’s all your fault. Really it is.
Oh, Dick.
Dick: *blank, dry-eyed look* What? He went too far this time. It ends now.
*hugs Dick hard.* Thank you for thinking that, Dick. Both for agreeing with Dinah's sacrifice and for being angry that it's out of your hands.
He absolutely went off at her, within the quiet of my head, and has a few times since. ...he also says not to touch him.
Ow. I just. . .ow. Several times over.
Oww and lots of it. I love Filly's nitpicky canon brain, for remembering that.
*smirks at Dinah's triumph.*
Pyrric victories aren't supposed to be her stock in trade, damn it!
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Re: Part 1
Date: 2007-02-06 09:57 pm (UTC)You give like, the best squee ever. You and cero_ate. *carefully glues broken-bits back together*
Okay. So this made me cry like a little girl.
*wipes tears gently* Sorry? Except, no I'm not, because you made it possible, and I bawled reading the inspiration-piece for this.
Just Ollie and Dick and him reacting like that to Kory - Ow.
Ollie... *pets Ollie sadly* Dick... is a shattered thing, and not coping well with anyone that ever took him away from the man he's never going to have more time with.
And Mia. God, poor Mia.
Like Filly said, Mia gets the short end of the stick SO BADLY here, because Ollie's... yeah. What Filly said.
I love that Ollie knows what Dinah is going to do, even before anyone else. ""For our boy, it would be," Green Arrow choked out." *cries. so very hard.*
I did, too. Lots.
Here? Is where I started to choke up. Because YES, Him having any reaction to his team is so very wrong that it has to startle them. *shivers.*
Yeah. I couldn't cry, during that, because Dick couldn't, but I wanted to be...
*whimper.* All the history that implies? Makes me cry. And oh, god, Dick, I'm sorry. So sorry that you finally broke in a way that you were heading towards anyway.
Yeah. Again with the wishing I could cry, and feeling his rage and guilt and pain so strongly that they just wouldn't come... Yeah, he's broken, utterly and completely.
*whimper*. Of course you do, sweetheart. And it's eating you up inside, isn't it?
Eating him alive, yes. So much.
Though I'll add, that the guilt? You utterly deserve for not making sure the serial killer was in prison in the first place. It's not like you didn't have every reason to know he'd kill someone you love.
*points at Filly's very eloquent reply to this part and nods* What she said.
Also, afaict, the only Titan Slade ever killed was the son he loved very much, and he hasn't permanently injured any of the Bats...
This? Made me cry so hard I couldn't see. I just. . I could *see* Ollie's normal self getting dressed, going about his business, not expecting, for anything in the world, to get that bombshell that would break his heart.
Filly wrote that part entirely on her own, and god almighty did it hurt to read, yes. I cried, too. (and had flashbacks to the 'Titans morning' scene in ADP, which really didn't help any).
And oh, Ollie, knowing Dinah so well. Sobbed. Honest to god.
You, me, Filly, yes.
Of course they do, because it's Ollie, and he's normally open anyway. Never mind how he is when his heart is ripped out.
*cuddles Ollie close, sadly*
*whimper.* And now you'll never get to know him either. And that makes me cry. Lots.
It’s all your fault. Really it is.
Oh, Dick.
Dick: *blank, dry-eyed look* What? He went too far this time. It ends now.
*hugs Dick hard.* Thank you for thinking that, Dick. Both for agreeing with Dinah's sacrifice and for being angry that it's out of your hands.
He absolutely went off at her, within the quiet of my head, and has a few times since. ...he also says not to touch him.
Ow. I just. . .ow. Several times over.
Oww and lots of it. I love Filly's nitpicky canon brain, for remembering that.
*smirks at Dinah's triumph.*
Pyrric victories aren't supposed to be her stock in trade, damn it!