Title: All Over but the Crying; Prompt: A spilled drink in a bad place

May 14, 2006 02:54

Title: All Over but the Crying
Author: simple__manRating: PG ( Read more... )

Leave a comment

Comments 80

gaffsie May 14 2006, 08:49:39 UTC
Damn, that was powerful. Sad, yet beautiful. *sniffles*

Love the last line.

Reply

simple__man May 14 2006, 15:04:46 UTC
Thank you so much. I'm glad you enjoyed it. *hands over a Kleenex* Thanks for the comment!

Reply


polanaise May 14 2006, 09:36:13 UTC
This really got to me. The tears were running down my face. So sad.
Wonderful!!!

Reply

simple__man May 14 2006, 15:05:19 UTC
*hug and a Kleenex* Sorry, sorry. I'm glad you liked it, though. Thank you for commenting!

Reply


evila_elf May 14 2006, 09:54:12 UTC
I'm a sobbing mess over here!
So many little details--great at saying things in a way that will have the most impact with as few words.

"Could be in love with some guy named Hank right about now."
Heart breaking and I laughed for 5 minutes at that.
Loved the way you ended it. The angst nut in me was hoping for more, but I don't think I would have been able to handle it.
If my eyes are puffy in the morning, I blame you!

*adds to memories*

Reply

simple__man May 14 2006, 15:07:46 UTC
Oh, no crying! I can't handle the crying!!

Thank you so much ^^ It's always good to know exactly what it is a reader enjoys in a fic. I'll be honest, I didn't want to end it myself, but it just got that feeling of completion, y'know?

*puts cucumbers over your eyes* I sorry. Forgive me?

Reply

evila_elf May 15 2006, 10:11:29 UTC
I personally like a good cry :)

No puffy eyes this morning :D

And...I think this was one of the prompts that I submitted lol.
^.^

Reply

simple__man May 15 2006, 12:51:36 UTC
*laughing* Okay, well then I feel a little bit better. Good prompt, btw!

Reply


tears anonymous May 14 2006, 12:08:41 UTC
blinking a lot, this was beautiful, thank you

Reply

Re: tears simple__man May 14 2006, 15:08:33 UTC
Aw, thank you for commenting. I really appreciate it.

Reply


purridot May 14 2006, 13:37:51 UTC
One of only a handful of stories that have made me cry in 8 years of reading angsty fanfic. It's so powerful the way so many contradictory emotions are juxtaposed here; love and death, despair and stalwartness. OMG, can you imagine if the TV series actually ended like this? We'd all be basket cases. More than those of us reading this already are now :)

Reply

simple__man May 14 2006, 15:11:41 UTC
Holy. That awes me, it really does. I seem to have made a lot of people cry with this one *hands over a Kleenex* I sorry.

I'm glad you were able to pick up on that, the emotions that are there, along with the chaos that is House's emotions.

I tell you, if the series ends like this (or if RSL's tenure ends like this), I'm grabbing up a gun. I won't be able to handle it. It's one thing for ME to kill him off, but they better not touch a hair on his cute little head. ^^

Reply

purridot May 14 2006, 18:33:52 UTC
I can totally see the series ending with some sort of emotional bomb. I vote for yours. (Or the admission-of-love part *without* the imminent death!) And I suspect now that you actually work for the Kleenex company. Re-reading the story I am struck by all the sly references to House... ah... not sticking around after the inevitable happens [shivers because she thinks House is quite serious and not melodramatic about it].

I am so glad you're back to writing in this fandom. Your stories have all been so different from each other. I hope you have another interesting tale lurking somewhere in your brain.

The line I found most moving was: "...it feels so incredibly wonderful, like Christmas, like Heaven, like flying, all that crap he pretends he doesn't want anymore, but directly behind it is the certain knowledge that this room is all that they have left."

Reply

simple__man May 15 2006, 05:40:16 UTC
Oh, I vote for it too. Lacking the imminent death, yeah. I suspect them of keeping Wilson about, just for his angsty potential. That cute face is just perfect for torturing, and I hope like hell they don't follow my lead.

*shh* Don't tell my secret. I just bought stock in Kleenex. And there were a few references, weren't there? I just don't know if House is strong enough to take that final blow. Not without a Wilson there to help him through it. He's very matter of fact about it. No Wilson, no House. Simple math. That sort of thing.

Oh, wow, thanks. I'm sure I've got a few more packed away in there. ^^ I'm really glad you enjoyed this fic, and my other fics. That's great to know.

Reply


Leave a comment

Up