Oh my god, when I realized what you were doing with this a few paragraphs in I literally went OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD. This is SO FUCKING AWESOME. It’s a Quantum Mirror verse – where the characters know they’re in an alternate universe – and just. Guh.
"Hey, relax, it's me," he calmed beneath her.
OMG! Oh, House, oh, the trust. It still works. Man.
"I'm sorry," she said, "I'm sorry," and when he kissed her, she knew she was forgiven.
Eeeeee! This was the catharsis I was always looking for between those two.
and the cemetery was empty of everything except birdsong.
So beautiful.
"I thought I told you I wanted 'He Was Better Than You' on that thing," a voice said behind her.
I never squee this much in fics, I swear, but EEEEE!
And omg, I love how their conversation mirrors the one she has with his headstone in the original fic.
Stacy settled down to watch her life like a spectator, never for a moment knowing if it would end in triumph or disaster
Oh, I love this line.
"This one?" he asked. "Hasn't been used in years. They were going to use it for another department, forget what, but then the doctor died."
Even though I should have known this would happen, it caught me by surprise, and oh, my heart, what are you doing to it?
And then the end. Which reduced me to the same mantra as I had in the beginning – oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. You are… whoever you are, you are so unbelievably fantastic. And this – I mean, I love the original, and this isn’t a competition or anything, but this is so much better. It’s incredible. And I am so blessed to have gotten such a good remixer. You kept the themes of what could have been, and even the triptych structure of repetitive phrases (with “I’m sorry”, this time – I’m not making this up, right?) – and played around with every possible combination of alternate universes, except you let the characters actually deal with seeing the differences themselves, which is something I didn’t have in the original, and it’s SO GOOD. Man. I could not be more pleased. I love you. Remix isn't a gift exchange so I'm not saying thank you for writing this for me, but thank you for writing it in general.
(And also, I like that you didn’t keep the different narration voices structure. In the original fic I was playing around with them as an exercise, but this really flows much better.)
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"Hey, relax, it's me," he calmed beneath her.
OMG! Oh, House, oh, the trust. It still works. Man.
"I'm sorry," she said, "I'm sorry," and when he kissed her, she knew she was forgiven.
Eeeeee! This was the catharsis I was always looking for between those two.
and the cemetery was empty of everything except birdsong.
So beautiful.
"I thought I told you I wanted 'He Was Better Than You' on that thing," a voice said behind her.
I never squee this much in fics, I swear, but EEEEE!
And omg, I love how their conversation mirrors the one she has with his headstone in the original fic.
Stacy settled down to watch her life like a spectator, never for a moment knowing if it would end in triumph or disaster
Oh, I love this line.
"This one?" he asked. "Hasn't been used in years. They were going to use it for another department, forget what, but then the doctor died."
Even though I should have known this would happen, it caught me by surprise, and oh, my heart, what are you doing to it?
And then the end. Which reduced me to the same mantra as I had in the beginning – oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. You are… whoever you are, you are so unbelievably fantastic. And this – I mean, I love the original, and this isn’t a competition or anything, but this is so much better. It’s incredible. And I am so blessed to have gotten such a good remixer. You kept the themes of what could have been, and even the triptych structure of repetitive phrases (with “I’m sorry”, this time – I’m not making this up, right?) – and played around with every possible combination of alternate universes, except you let the characters actually deal with seeing the differences themselves, which is something I didn’t have in the original, and it’s SO GOOD. Man. I could not be more pleased. I love you. Remix isn't a gift exchange so I'm not saying thank you for writing this for me, but thank you for writing it in general.
(And also, I like that you didn’t keep the different narration voices structure. In the original fic I was playing around with them as an exercise, but this really flows much better.)