Oh man, I just looked up that painting (which I have been meaning to do forEVER), and I love it. "Cranky" is exactly right. And Gabriel doesn't look too happy either. O god.

Best. Painting. Ever.

Best fic ever, too. This is one of my faves. It's beautiful, all of it. And Haniel is just perfect, all outdated speech and languid personality that May or May Not be an affectation...3333

/dies of squee

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I'm so glad I didn't already review this. I reread this beginning to end and it still made me cry, feel furious, feel rejected, and just... everything in between. The game of it, and the blossoming real feeling. Ah. Perfection and beauty, my dear. )

Loved this story. Very funny acually.

I love this story! It's fascinating to follow a courtship from the beginning to the end, and you do so wonderfully. I also love your depiction's of the other angels, it makes me laugh in all the right ways. Just one question; where is the bar in chapter 7? Is it in London? I only ask because you used the euro, not the pound, as the currency, and yet everyone was speaking English.

That was... wow XD A HELL OF A LOT OF SOMETHING.

I loved your angel depictions, and REALLY you developed them well :3 VERY NICE JOB.

/speechless-but-trying/

I love your Archangels; they are portrayed so spectacularly, especially Haniel. I just, I really can't even describe how lovely this story is. Honestly, you know how sometimes you feel like an author took to long getting to the point, or that they took out all the interesting or important bits? You and your story are the absolute opposite. S'like when I read it, I'm not awoken from the story, you know?

Ah, ineffability. :]

~Astral~

I just want to say how I adore your fics, especially this one. Their courtship certainly moves slowly. You handle their differences very well. Crowley's tentative approach, his heartache, and his vulnerability sometimes is very painful to read, but I'm glad he got Gabriel in the end. Great fic!

let me just reiterate how much i love you.

you've probably come to the conclusion that i am annoying as fark because all i do is blahblahblah about how great your stuff is and occasionally give you some feedback, but honestly sometimes even i dont want constructive criticism on mine, and mine are nothing like yours.

haniel, of course, is genius. not A genius...well he's a genius too, but the entire character that you created is genius.

wing!kink. i totally forgot about it by the end here, and i was like...oh cool, wings. and then i was like OH RIGHT. GABRIEL HAS AN UBER WING!KINK.

i love how you tied this story back to twelve days. i can't believe it.

it's been nearly a year since i read that. i think i read it in february. maybe march. but wow. i've come along way in my real life, in my writing, i'm sure you have.

this was a stellar chapter, and of course i love being a reader.

your descriptions are pretty much brilliant and your kiss scene is intoxicatingly written. makes me want it, and luckily i have it, in the form of my beautiful, if angsty, intimate.

anywho, so well written. hintingly explicit but not! a sweet change from twelve days.

thankfully, they've gotten together! and thank you for being a diligent and original and amazing author.

you give character and history and interesting random facts to the characters that most authors (including me) wouldn't think of.

not to mention creating your own.

kudos x a million, i can't wait for your next work to be updated! : D

*cough six millenia*

you're brilliant, and this has been a great success. i look forward to reading more in the future. have a marvelous forever!

When I saw the alert for Chapter Twelve of Twelve Months, I practically squealed and went straight to it. And this... was beautiful. Perfect. Ineffable.

I just went 'Aw' at the wings bit, although I was half hoping for Gabirel to be a lot more affected by someone grooming his wings, considering what you said about his 'kink' in The Twelve Days of Christmas.

The note made me laugh out loud. It's so similar to what I felt like yelling at them. And the kiss; it was done so beautifully, it was so ineffably perfect, I just felt this tugging from somewhere around my chest. I could just picture some beautiful sculpture by Michaelangelo or someone, depicting these two breathtaking angels - yes, I said two angels - together.

Raphael's 'message' was hilarious.

The ending was just perfect.

~ Sivaroobini

Wonderful chapter! I especially love the middle part; how tender and bittersweet it was. The end was a bit weak, or at least that's how it seems. But overall, this story was marvelous, and I had a lot of fun following it. :)

"chuffed."

i love that word. and, as always, crowley's sweet, silly sarcasm.

and then gabriel taking everything so bleeping seriously.

AND FIFTY PERCENT OFF SALES. oh how i love thee, holiday about the birth of a jew who was born in june or july or something!

i love the cute ending as well, with the present for sweet old aziraphale. i can just see aziraphale shaking his head with that parent-like smirk on his face.

fabulous.

i was surprised that this was still a K but i guess you've got one more month, right?

haha.

excited for the next.

happy holidays and new year to you, and, as always, keep up the fabbity work!

:) Nice to see Gabe getting jealous for once. Lol. Can't wait for last chapter!

poor, poor gabriel.

but a humourous post indeed.

i certainly loved sariel's comment "do you think theyre more dandelion or gold?"

"gold...wait."

haha. i see it isn't M'd yet, but i have a feeling it's getting there. and very quickly. or perhaps you'll slight lime in and T the thing with a click, which would be funny too. although there is the matter of the wing!kink that you spoke of in Twelve Days.

im quite loving the build of plot here with gabriel's realization of all that crowley went about doing (and who!)

and it has almost been a year hasn't it!

well, congrats on the perserverance, if i'd been the author, i'd be phayl and i would've lost interest by now.

as always, brilliant. well written. comic yet serious, and plotty. but light too.

a late happy thanksgiving, if youre in the states.

tah! can't wait to read more.

YAY!

finally we be getting somewhere. haha. definitely a good halloween story. kudos muchos.

oh gabriel, you have given him quite the silly personality, but its soo angelic and loveable. and gullible and did i mention silly?

its brilliant how you do it. created this entire character that isn't that smart in some ways, but more brilliant than crowley in many others.

and also how sometimes it seems like crowley's smarter, and sometimes it seems that gabriel is obviously one up.

the way its a little bit of a tit for tat thing.

loved it.

marvelous.

haniel is absolutely amazing.

ahh.

so are you.

thanks for making my day. so glad i checked my email so that i got this notification!

youre awesome. :D

cant wait for more.

I haven't been able to read updates since the July chapter, due to exams, so since they ended today (yes, I am a sad sod who celebrates the end of MAJOR exams by sitting in a library and reading books and checking my mail; my friends' exams end tomorrow, though, and then I might get a life) this was a pleasant surprise and good way to clear my head of all that Forces and Trigonometry and Periodic Table crap.

This last chapter just made me go 'Aw'. And so did the last. Ha, I could tell Gabriel he's suffering from withdrawal symptoms due to a severe case of Crowley-addiction, which has another and shorter monosyllabic name but I couldn't say it or he'd Smite me. Come to think of, I wouldn't actually mind a good Smiting from Gabriel and his 'fiery sword'... Honestly, Gabriel, you can't rely on other poncy angels (even angels who either teased or shagged Crowley into next month)to give you the same feeling Crowley did. The medicalconference made me laugh out loud and then feel guilty, since I'm a librarian and am in the library. But honestly, do those medical terms even exist or did you make them up? And the awkward hour spent with Michael... LOL

I LOVED your little reference to Twilight, and your awesome talents of describing Crowley's emotional state though his posture and actions is so... so... words fail me. But it makes me want to give Crowley a hug.

"But what he did feel - for the first time in a month - was alive."

This is so awesome. With one line you've given me a warm fuzzy feeling and made me go Aw and described the awkward relationship between these two and Gabriel's feelings, which even he won't admit to himself. It makes me want to spank, sorry, smack him.

I'll be waiting for the next chapter. (hey, I have no life besides books and fanfiction, it seems XD but usually I don't really mind)

~ Sivaroobini