Reviewer: coleamber Signed [Report This]
Date: Feb 25, 2020 11:55 am Title: Chapter 33 - Resolution.

did read it again

Reviewer: coleamber Signed [Report This]
Date: Jun 19, 2019 7:46 pm Title: Chapter 33 - Resolution.

Love it

Author's Response:

Thanks! This story was the most difficult one to finish that I've ever tried to write. I struggled with it so much. So I'm extra glad to hear that someone liked it. Thanks for reading! TAG

Reviewer: TrueIllusion Signed [Report This]
Date: Sep 26, 2018 7:16 pm Title: Chapter 33 - Resolution.

First, I'm very glad that I was able to read this over the course of a few days instead of 4 years, because it was hard to put it down!

I think you crafted the Brian we know in canon beautifully, and filled in the holes well. Yes, there is a lot of angst, and a lot of pain, but I believe this to be true for the character as well.

I'd been suspecting for awhile that Jesse was going to be involved in bringing Justin back to life for Brian...glad that it was able to finally happen. And in this chapter, I really liked at the end, how you added in that element of fear of not knowing what Justin's response would be, to the scene in the series where it's all assumed to be bravado and showing off for Justin.

 

So, beautiful story. I really enjoyed it. Thanks! <3

Reviewer: Lorna Signed [Report This]
Date: Jun 21, 2017 7:19 am Title: Chapter 33 - Resolution.

Excellent  as always and glad you finished it well worth the wait. 

Reviewer: marie-france Signed [Report This]
Date: May 31, 2017 8:37 am Title: Chapter 33 - Resolution.

I liked this story it's a very good work TAG ! These chapters on Brian's childhood and adolescence are very angsty but explain a lot about his adult behavior. I would have liked Justin to do more things to help him and why not drop  Jack or smash something on his head so he does not remember anything and does not blame Brian!  I am surprised by the end, I thought that like "the sleeping beauty" that to make love would have "resurrected" Justin I struggle with the interaction of Jesse but  I liked it anyway! Thanks thanks thanks!!! Waiting for your summer story !

Author's Response:

Thank you! So happy to hear you liked this story. I really tried to tell all of Brian's backstory in a way that somehow fit in with the series. Thanks for reading and taking the time to tell me you liked it! TAG

Reviewer: DavidR Signed [Report This]
Date: May 30, 2017 2:10 am Title: Chapter 33 - Resolution.

  Thank you for this wonderful story.  I do admit that I had 

problems with the early part.  I found it too brutal.  Reading some

of the feedback, I am not alone.  Similar to Brian, I had a problem

with Justin.  While Jack was abusing Brian, all Justin did and really

could do was to try to comfort Brian. That wasn’t nearly enough

for me, even Brian turned against Justin.  I would have liked for

Justin to have done ‘something’ to help Brian.  I don’t know what,

but it was enough for me to throw my hands up and give up on

the story.  Of course as you can see I came back.

   Anyway, it’s over and it was well worth staying with this story.  I

loved the last part.  I knew and hoped that someway that as Justin

said, they were meant for each other.  Brain seeing Justin under

that streetlight was amazing, every effective.  

   So once again, thanks for the story.  It took whatever long it

took.  It was well worth it for me.

DavidR

 

Author's Response:

I can't argue with you that a lot of this story was hard to take. It was hard to write sometimes too, which probably explains why it took me 4 years to write. I too would have liked for Spirit Justin to do something more to help Brian - but he couldn't because he wasn't corporeal. It wasn't till Jesse came along that he had a way to do something, but even that was limited. And, besides, the point of the story was to explain how Brian became Brian - the complex, flawed, damaged, yet still-struggling and courageous character we saw in the series. Just imagine how much more damaged he would have been coming from that background if he hadn't had someone like Justin there, no matter how small Justin's intervention was. I'm so grateful that you stuck with the story regardless of how difficult it was to read. I hope the ending justified the journey for you in some small way. Thank you for reading and for taking the time to comment. TAG

Reviewer: Glo Signed [Report This]
Date: May 29, 2017 7:43 pm Title: Chapter 33 - Resolution.

I love the way you write and am happy that you got to finish this story but honestly Tag, this ending was not what I was expecting...It is still fabulous and great writing but I don't know why I feel ambivalent about it. I'm not sure exactly what I expected but 'Justin', Brian's Justin, not really coming back to him was not it. This is Jesse for sure. Did Justin's soul enter Jesse? Is that how & why he survived? I'm sorry hun, I guess I just have some questions...the whole fic was fabulous of course but I guess I thought something more mystical was going to happen. Are you going to make a part 2 to this?

Author's Response:

Sorry but there won't be more to this one. This is the way I'd always envisioned this story ending and I'm not going to change it. I guess I didn't write it well enough, but what I was going for - the big mystical thing that happened - was Jesse basically dying and Justin taking his place so that he and Brian could finally be together for real. If you remember back a few chapters in the story, Jesse said that he'd always felt like a 'place holder' - like he was only killing time in this life - which is because he was only filling in for when Justin would take over. When his heart stopped after the aneurysm, Justin was pulled into his body - that's when he vanished from the scene where Brian was confronting his father. After that, it took a while for him to get back to Brian, but when Brian had truly hit rock bottom and was about to end his life, Justin - in Jesse's body, but with Justin's soul - woke up and came to save him. Just like he'd always promised he would. That's when Brian remembers Justin's words that no matter what he'd come back, even if it was in a form Brian didn't recognize. And that's when Brian recognizes Justin's eyes - HIS Justin. And that's also when Brian's life starts over again . . . Which is what we see at the beginning of the series. It's my way of explaining how the Brian we see in the series got to be how he was. So, that's what I was going for.  I'm sorry if I didn't portray it fully enough. I tried . . . Thanks for sticking with the story even so. TAG

Reviewer: The SNO Signed [Report This]
Date: May 29, 2017 6:33 pm Title: Chapter 33 - Resolution.

Yeah!!! You did it! Congratulations for this amazing story! Thank you for finishing it.

Such a bright light at the end of the tunnel that was Brian's life until now. So dramatic, yet beautiful.

What next? The part two of this story, where Brian can right the wrongs he made in the series or a big long funny hot summer saga. What suits and motivates you. You write and we will follow you.

Cheers!

Author's Response:

Thanks for sticking with me till this story was finished! My hope was to show how Brian got to be the Brian we saw at the start of the series. I think I did pretty good, but we'll see what you readers say. Now, for the future - I'm working on a lighthearted family fic with Lorie AND there will be a big group writing project story for the summer. So much fun to be had! TAG