FIC: The Way Down - 9 (end)

[lettered]

Title: The Way Down
Rating: this chapter, pg
Length: this chapter, 4.6K
Warnings: sex
Characters: Harry/Draco, past Harry/Ginny
Epilogue: not epilogue compliant
Summary: Malfoy’s all, “Come out of there,” the way you say to a cat who is badly behaved. And Harry’s all like, “No, what, I’m a hermit! And I have a chest-monster! And I am crazy

Comments

[lettered]

Glad you liked it!

[maunetjeret]

I read this all in one day. I looooved it. You are a much gifted writer!

[lettered]

Aw, thanks! And wow, that's a lot of reading!

[a_execution]

It's been so long! I'd forgotten about this fic, and then you posted it and I saw the summary and went "I remember that! It made me grin when I read this fic which was surprisingly much darker but very very excellent!"

But I am glad it turned out. It was a healing story, so I was expecting a happy ending, but it could've gone much worse too, so I'm still grateful you chose to make it an actual healing fic rather than a fakeout wherein everyone just got progressively more miserable.

And, they're both still pretty screwed up, and they'll have fights and problems and need therapy still, but somehow, where you (and we the readers) leave them, I think they'll be okay now. Not perfect, but they'll help each other live.

It was a lovely lovely fic! I'll be hopefully seeing more from you soon. ^-^

[lettered]

I'm still grateful you chose to make it an actual healing fic rather than a fakeout wherein everyone just got progressively more miserable.

Thanks so much! I feel like a story that is this long, with characters consistently trying to be better, really would be a fake out if it ended sad. In general, I like happy endings *she says, right after she posted a new fic with a sad ending :o( *

I think they'll be okay now. Not perfect, but they'll help each other live.

Yay! I'm glad you feel that way. That's where I wanted them to get, because I thought it was a realistic place for them.

Thank you so so much for this comment, and for reading despite how long it had been!

[turnonmyheels]

BRAVO!

[lettered]

Thanks :o)

[nerak_rose]

*lets out a long sigh of happiness

[lettered]

Thanks so much! I always love your comments a lot :o)

in a really unobtrusive way

Hahaha. Well, I'm really glad you liked the "full circle" aspect, because when I was thinking about how to end it, I knew they had to come back to the beginning. I thought it was a little heavy handed, but I couldn't resist--so I'm really glad you found it unobtrusive!

I also quite like how time passed hereI'm glad you did. I wrote parts of this a very long time ago, and for a long, long time, it was meant to be a prelude to a central (much darker) story. Later, I decided that it had gotten way too long to really be that story. However, parts of this fic still read a lot like summary to me, because initially this whole fic was meant to get H/D into a place in order to do something else. I worried when I reworked it that it still summarized too much--that is, there are long sections in which time passes and things develop, but we're not actually seeing the scenes, just being told that time is passing and things are changing. I did away with

[nerak_rose]

you're very welcome! :D

I didn't think it was heavy handed at all. It was pretty light and subtle. It was significant, of course, and in that way it might've been heavy, but on the other hand I think it needed to be done that way to really bring some kind of closure to the whole thing. :)

I'm terrified of summarised parts in fic, tbh. whenever they crop up in mine I go all D: and pester my beta about them. <.< I think it has a lot to do with how they're written as well. There's a world of difference between 'and then and then and then' and then the sort of floating quality your writing has to it. Floating, ahaha words what are they T_T I think you know what I mean. floating, airy, car window and dust motes :P because I think in imagery, apparently.

I did! I also baked more cake so all's good. XD

Oh and I went snooping and someone said there should be podfic of this and now I'm sort of tempted to try. <.< It'd be the end of me, most likely, but I've been wanting to try to make podfic and because I'm me I always do big impossible

[vaysh]

Oh and I went snooping and someone said there should be podfic of this and now I'm sort of tempted to try.
Yes,yes,yes!!!!