Oh gosh. Wow. Just... wow. That was powerful. Things fell into place just right - with Percy openly showing he understood Oliver to outwardly showing how much he *cared*, something which Oliver hadn't experienced much from his family. And the characters! Oliver, starved for any affection from his father and denying the role of emotions. Percy, not able to get to know his father for entirely different reasons. Oliver slowly coming to grips with his feelings for his father and what he wanted in return.

Again, that was just *amazing*! Thank you so much for sharing this! Keep up the extraordinary work! D

Oh my, I haven't read this in a long time. I think I'd actually managed to forget how powerful it is. Beautiful and touching and *haunting* and enough to shatter any reader's resolve. I've always loved fics that focus on minor characters; I think it gives the writer a chance to play with their personalities more fully without risking a contradiction to canon. And this not only featured two of my favourite characters (and I don't care if Percy's moved on to become an even worse stereotype of 'ambitious', I still love him) but you handled them so wonderfully, making them real and flawed and human. God, this is utterly stunning. I'm heading over to community. to recommend this to anyone who will listen. Thanks again for an amazing read.

woah.

I'm crying *again*. Why must you make me so tearful? I mean, I'm crying beacouse it's sad, but happy, too and... just so *beautiful*.

Football does rock. Best sport in the whole world.

I like how you used Walk On and Percy and Oliver, you write them the best that I've ever seen.

Now, where did I put those tissues...

great story i loved it you do O/P fics so well.

That was... wonderfully written. It was one of those stories you read and you realise your day is going to go differently, do you know what I mean? The ending provided complete closure, as some stories do not. Thanks for writting this, seriously.

Wow this story was really emotional and bittersweet! You are a really great writer and your talents for writing is so realistic that I felt like I've been experiencing the things first hand! Well dong!

ohh angsty and deep , this is really good, write more some time, yeah, please? good stuff!

ah, yes. Liverpudlian football does have that charm to it.

I'll admit, I've never been a true fan of HP slash. However, I just saw HP2 in theatres, and it seems to be a tradition now, to go home and read smutty/angsty/erotic slash fiction. This was none of the three. it was excellent, poignant (even from a het perspective), and completely engaging. You write excellently, keep up the good work!

~EG

Wonderful, wonderful fic. I especially love that song. I had no idea it was a soccer theme song, as I've never seen Liverpool play, I only remember how much I loved to sing it after watching "Carausol" (I can't spell.) It's one of my all-time favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein songs.

Right. Back to the fic. I really, really loved this story, please, please continue to write beautiful pieces.

What a wonderful fic! I almost cry in kiss scene.

Gosh you write beautifully. ::laughs:: My words will do the fic no justice whatsoever, but I'll try my best. The characterizations were wonderful (I expected nothing less from you!) and dead-on. The words were fluid and wonderful and...garsh. I'm without words. Loved it.

I don't know why, but I think I'm going to cry. That was great. Percy was amazingly cute at the end, something I've never seen him as. You did a great job with Oliver's struggle and it was absolutely brilliant in all possible ways. And I'm not going to cry. I swear.

This is great, absolutely fantastic!

Oh golly, Percy singing off-key and acting so human and supportive for his Oilver, is there anything sweeter?

That was...aw, man...that was the *shit*. Can I say shit in these things? Ah well. But...but, *damn* that was a good read. Kudos to you for sdding realism and depth to characters who don't get much emotional attention in the books. I'm still in amazement, here...forgive me for my lack of sense-making. This is one of the best short stories i've read in this genre, and hell, I might have to read it again...