What a beautiful fic! I read a few fics about the deleted PTSD scene and I feel this was the most realistic. Some of them had Halstead really ooc. Halstead isn't going to open up within a few episodes when the guy has essentially masked his demons for 9 freakin years.

I love this so much it's what I imagined he scene would be like!
Tbh still salty it got cut haha but this totally helps!

hey Christina, it's ellie here from twitter. you are a really great writer. I could actually feel his emotion in this short fanfic which is hard to find on this site. I wish the way you had written it here was played out in that episode. You will make a really great screenwriter one day.

seriously, your work is amazing. thank you for giving us this. i surely needed it.