Post by givelovesolong on Jun 18, 2010 4:02:01 GMT 10
Martine and I have been recommending fanfics to one another recently, and she told me to come and check this out. So for the past few hours, I’ve worked my way through all 23 chapters of this story, and I have just loved every second of it.
If this was what was going to happen on the show – them losing Joe (which, every time I think of, makes me tear up, because I can not imagine them without him) – then this is the direction I would have needed to see the writer’s take.
I love that they went to Croatia and Abby got to meet his family (and form that relationship with his father); that they got to lay their baby to rest there; that they were able to grieve there.
I love that they got married; I love that they went to Darfur and worked there. I loved how that opened Abby’s eyes – that she was able to reconcile with the fact that as hard as it might get, as hard as it might be, life does, and can, and will move on.
As hard as it to imagine them not having Joe, I love that they came out of it stronger, that it didn’t tear them apart or ruin their relationship. I think it was important to show another side to this that didn’t involve them being all doomy and gloomy, and instead actually showed them dealing with their loss in a real and believable way.
And – the ending? When Abby said, “We’ve kind of come full circle here, haven’t we?”, sitting in the ambulance bay once again – I immediately teared up; you know, when you get that little frog in your throat? That was just so… pivotal, and… poetic. I don’t know how else to describe it. It was just lovely.
Thank you for writing this with so much care and passion – it is most certainly something to be proud of. And I have loved this journey.
If this was what was going to happen on the show – them losing Joe (which, every time I think of, makes me tear up, because I can not imagine them without him) – then this is the direction I would have needed to see the writer’s take.
I love that they went to Croatia and Abby got to meet his family (and form that relationship with his father); that they got to lay their baby to rest there; that they were able to grieve there.
I love that they got married; I love that they went to Darfur and worked there. I loved how that opened Abby’s eyes – that she was able to reconcile with the fact that as hard as it might get, as hard as it might be, life does, and can, and will move on.
As hard as it to imagine them not having Joe, I love that they came out of it stronger, that it didn’t tear them apart or ruin their relationship. I think it was important to show another side to this that didn’t involve them being all doomy and gloomy, and instead actually showed them dealing with their loss in a real and believable way.
And – the ending? When Abby said, “We’ve kind of come full circle here, haven’t we?”, sitting in the ambulance bay once again – I immediately teared up; you know, when you get that little frog in your throat? That was just so… pivotal, and… poetic. I don’t know how else to describe it. It was just lovely.
Thank you for writing this with so much care and passion – it is most certainly something to be proud of. And I have loved this journey.