Excellent story. Charlie took a difficult and brave action to reach out to his brother.

Sooo, Charlie draws all attention back to himself again. Very detailed emotions, though!

love it

I felt this was very moving; although the episide with Don and Charlie was very good and revealed a lot, I believe your scenario, especially regarding Charlie, would have fit more realistically.

This was such a touching fic and I could totally see that with the way Charlie's mind works this could have happend most likely. Great fic.

I loved this ! Aha, kickass job(:

That was a really good story!

I love this concept and I love how well you wrote our boys. Very nice work. _

Wow. I just found this and I really liked it. I don't think this conversation is reallistic in the sense of what we saw later in Charlie's reaction to Don asking him to come to his session but initself, the story was beautiful and so well done!

I could feel Don's pain, Charlie's too. Wow.

This is going straight to my favourites

Interesting addition to the episode. I like the insight into Charlie's past and how it connects to what Don is going through right now. Thanks, Beth

Wow, this was really good. Charlie's admissions were disturbing, but in a way that struck a chord deep down rather than just making you feel disgusted on the surface. I can imagine it impacting Don just this way - I think you wrote both characters spot-on. I love fics that show the two brothers working together to help each other outside of cases, and this was beautiful. You have talent, and this is going into my Favorites without delay. :)

loved it! characters very realistically written.

Good story.

Hi Alice! I emailed you but I wanted to reply here as well. I won't be anymore coherent here as I was in email though. LOL!

First, this was absolutely positively wonderful! I really loved this story. You captured exactly what I would expect from Don and Charlie. I loved Charlie's history at Cambridge and how you involved Susan. I have to admit I liked her and was happy to see her name. ;-) I can't say enough how you brought out what I wanted to see on the show. They are having Charlie witness Don's darkness to his job but they don't seem to want Don to witness Charlie's. Don focuses so much on what Charlie has accomplished: the fame, the awards, the money all of it...but he never realizes there IS a downside to him being a genius. I can understand why Charlie wouldn't tell him because he doesn't think Don would understand or show sympathy to him. That's why I liked how Charlie told Don all of this and it made him realize he needed to see the shrink. I wanted Charlie involved in this shrink business with Don and you gave me just that. Thank you!

Like I said this probably makes no sense and I'm rambling...I'm sorry this isn't more coherent, I'm just so happy :-)

Also, I can't say enough how much dedicating this story to me and my dad means to me. I've never had a story dedicated to me before and I will always cherish this.

Thank You!

~Bonnie

I have to say...WOW. When you sent this over for a final Beta, I was really amazed. This would have fitted in so well with the actual episode.

You do such a great job with these characters, I'm honored to have you as a writing partner. (Now I feel guilty for not keeping up with you on Child of My Heart. DO YOU HEAR THAT luvnumb3rs! It's all my fault! I'll start writing faster! I swear it!)