A very very late challenge response

[huntingospray]

Inspired a long time back (April 08) by a challenge on prowlxjazz and my music collection. I usually deny the deaths that happened in TF:TM but this fic demanded I just accept they happened

Comments

[huntingospray]

*Passes tissues.* I'm glad you liked it even though it made you cry.

P.S *Hug* Missed you, welcome back!

[vejiraziel]

This was so beautifully sad. I feel so bad for Jazz and especially for Red, Inferno better take good care of him. *wipes tears*

[huntingospray]

*hugs and passes the tissues.* Inferno says he'll take very good care of Red, much better care of him in fact than Red's taking of himself.

[eerian_sadow]

oh, darling! i am sitting here bawling my eyes out. its even a little blurry as i'm trying to type this out.

this has got to be one of the most incredibly moving pieces i've read in the last year. you conveyed the sorrow, the pain the hopelessness and finally real hope beautifully. this was incredible.

[huntingospray]

*Sheepishly passes the tissues*

I think that one of the reasons this has taken me so long to finish is that the characters emotions are so raw and close to the surface that I just couldn't write much of it at a time without making myself depressed and cry. The hope at the end is all due to __wilderness__ who insisted I include the Red/Inferno comfort.

[eerian_sadow]

don't be sheepish! the fact that there was actual sobbing and weeping and nose blowing means this was amazing! be proud!

i'm glad that casha insisted on some hope at the end; the story wouldn't have felt right if you had just ended it at the scene where they find jazz. and it just felt right to have them together at the end and to have some hope for poor red.

you did good, good work here, sweets. i absolutely love it.

[__wilderness__]

Well you already know how much I adore this, but I'll say it again!

Beautiful, simply beautiful, the emotions you captured is just fantastic!

[huntingospray]

Thank you, you were right about it needing the Red/Inferno comfort at the end, it would have been far to depressing had I left it where I'd originally intended.

[bluebirdsoaring]

I just couldn't stop reading in spite of how sad this one came out...the scene with Jazz and his candles paints such a vivid picture in the canvas of my brain. I could see Jazz and Red as relations - they both have their own "crazy" style of life! Gah! This is amazing!!!

[huntingospray]

Thank you, the idea of Jazz and Red as brothers just made so much sense I had to use it somehow.