[Fic update] All Will Be In Order, ch 6 of 6 | COMPLETE

[shimotsuki]

Did pigs start flying? Has the eternal fire of the underworld frozen over?

...Quite possibly, because here is the sixth and final chapter of "All Will Be In Order." I can't say enough thanks to the readers who have let me know they were looking forward to updates, and to beta-readers jncar and duck_or_rabbit and honorary beta-reader jobey_in_error for all the insightful and

Comments

[hrymfaxe]

OMG! Will be back to read tomorrow. But OMG.

[shimotsuki]

OMG is right, I know!

Anyone who is still actually reading this story gets the Nobel Prize for patience. ♥

Go get sleep!

[train_lindz]

NOW I GET TO RESTART AT THE BEGINNING!!!!

[shimotsuki]

LOL! (Poor you!)

You may become the first person to read the Slightly Revised Version of chapters 1 and 4 3, heh.

Yay!

[eleanoreleanor]

Oh my goodness, I feel so satisfied now! What a great ending :) nice work!

I really enjoy reading your stories and I'm so glad to see updates!

Thanks for the wonderful conclusion of that little arc. It was perfect :)

Re: Yay!

[shimotsuki]

Thanks so much for the kind words! I'm especially glad you thought that this worked as an ending to the story. :)

[jobey_in_error]

Oh, I am so behind on everything LJ, including some of your stuff, but this is jumping right to the front of my queue... right to the front of ALL my queues, including the one where I ought to be working on something else right now. How exciting to get the last chapter! I can't even tell you.

I hope you’re proud of this ending. It just worked - a perfect finale. I loved these scenes - fewer than I hoped for, but all of them just gems.

Sirius and Remus’s talk at the window induced great flaily love. In addition to being heart-tugging and all, I felt this undercurrent of pride in both of them… Sirius for getting over stuff, Remus for speaking up even though it’s not really his thing.

Something deep flickered in that grey gaze. A bony hand gripped Remus’s shoulder and squeezed. Hard.

Still, Sirius’s voice was light when he finally spoke.Gah. *heartmelt* This is what we needed more of in canon. (So - thanks

[shimotsuki]

Thank you SO much for such a kind review. I'm honored that this update got to be at the head of your queue!

One of the sticking points with finishing this chapter was worry about making it work as an ending to the whole story, so I'm especially glad to hear you thought it worked that way.

Sirius and Remus’s talk at the window induced great flaily love.

Awww! So glad to hear it. This was by far the hardest scene to write, and it's vastly different (down to POV) from the first-draft version.

I was surprised by Remus’s reflections right before all the steeling-and-speaking: they have seemed genuinely like old friends with a close bond throughout, especially in Chapter One… oh, but that’s been revised, now hasn’t it?

Exactly -- that's precisely what the revisions were for (whether they were successful is another question, lol). I realized in the course of being incompetent with Ch 6 for more than a year that the Remus-and-Sirius plot arc should have been more about them getting over the past, and Remus having to make a conscious

[jobey_in_error]

[*]In my ficverse, Remus's ability to fall for Tonks in the course of OotP is a direct consequence of him first re-establishing a true friendship with Sirius, and finding a home at 12GP.

That makes so much sense. I hope you don't mind that I have just mentally adopted that as canon.

I think I came across as too pushy with the Remus-centric angle. "This fic isn't that type of fic, which I think would be a cool fic to read" isn't very helpful feedback (and I think was a result of reading comp failure on my part?) And I can't honestly say that I would ever object to Remusfic.

I just knew the conversation in Mrs Black's room had to have been edited a lot! It has the extra restraint but perfect, emotion-haunted detail that you only get after a fair amount of revision.

Cheers on a great finale :D

[shimotsuki]

I hope you don't mind that I have just mentally adopted that as canon.

That just made my day! :)

I think I came across as too pushy with the Remus-centric angle.

Not in the least. I especially appreciated the question you raised as to whether Remus, for all that we love him, is interesting enough to be the focal character in a story rather than a secondary one; I believe the answer is yes, but our discussion made me realize that this story wasn't doing an adequate job of showing that. Which in turn was the impetus for the revisions, which I think have made the story stronger.

Cheers on a great finale :D

Thank you so much! :D

[zia_montrose]

Looking forward to this. I also caught your R/T snippet the other day, but I'm behind on comments. : )

[shimotsuki]

My goodness -- you certainly have more to think about right now than LJ comments! :) I will be delighted to think that a story posted here might give you a quick smile in your day sometime, but please don't feel obligated to leave a comment.