Fic: Observations, Ch 163

[anon_j_anon]

“Whatever you choose, it’s your right.  There’s no one true answer, nothing set in stone to say you’re wrong or not.  A person’s either able to give up that much of himself, or he’s not.  But I want you to know that whatever you choose, we’ll stand by you both, through thick and thin, like we always have and always will.  As long as this ship’s

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[danahid]

"Let me help."

Yes.

"As long as this ship's flyin', we'll help you."

Yes.

A meditation on love as profound and moving as anything I've ever read. (From Leonard McCoy of all people. And it just feels right. :-) )

Once again, you've proved that fanfic can transcend the idea of a derivative work shared on the internet to something more like literature than anything else.

I am in awe.

[starlettmalfoy]

Oh Bones.

[maya_spins]

OMG DARCY QUOTE!!!

" It came upon me so gradually that I was in the middle of it before I was aware that I had even begun."

Thank you for this. I'm going to be ctrl+cing it and saving it and writing it down and thinking about it and quoting it to every fucking person I know. My sister's getting married next year. I'm going to put it in the speech I know she'll ask me to make.

Thank you for this. I think it's going to change my life.

[davyjonesing]

...it’s not that the other person completes you. It’s that they stand by you while you complete yourself, and accept you for who you are every step of the way.

At the risk of sounding like an Herbal Essences commercial... Yes. Yes.

Goddamn but I do love these little McCoy/alcohol/Spock scenes.

[plot_h0les]

“Love doesn’t complete anyone or anything. And it alone isn’t enough to keep a relationship going. The thing I never learned-and I wonder if I ever will-is, it’s not that the other person completes you. It’s that they stand by you while you complete yourself, and accept you for who you are every step of the way. You can’t find yourself in another person-there’s only one place for that. Love’s what happens when someone’s willing to help, not expecting any gain, not expecting any sort of reciprocity. They’ll lend you strength when you need it, support when you want it, give you faith when you ask for it. Love’s what happens when you’re willing ta do the same.

This is one of the best descriptions on the topic that I have ever read.