I have only just found this fic. Like other reviewers, I love it and hate it at the same time. I thought it very believable. The reactions of both R & H are very IC and quite normal for them. I find it weird that Kudos chose the ending they did as opposed to something like this.

Well written but so sad.

Oh GOD. I love this but hate it at the same time! (in a completely good way of course!) haha

LBx

Gah! No! :( Desperately sad but beautifully written. I hope Kudos don't come up with an ending like this but as others have said, it would fit with the characters.

Great writing. :)

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Oh I really hope this doesnt me so written anyway.

*throughly devastated* I know all about the niggling plot bunny that won't let one rest despite the angst filled theme. I remember bawling as I wrote a fic involving a certain spooks death. This was beautifully written and so heartbreaking. I can only pray that this type of scene will never take place on screen. Well done. Hope it's out of your system now to favor us with some fluff. ;)

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I loved it because it is true to the characters! Thanks!

I don't think this is how any of us want it to end, but there's a definite chance. Beautifully written even if it's sad. :)

He couldn't disobey her final request to him, not matter how much it hurt. He loved her too much for that.

I just about died. So sad and so perfect.

I should have moved my French essay, because I've just gone and wept and all the tears have fallen onto it amd smudged all my writing.

But, so worth it. One of the most heart-breaking H/R fics I've ever read, and all the more so because I'm so scared this is the path the writers will for go next series.

All I can say is, as brilliant as this was, I hope they don't.

That's beautiful! *sniffles*

Gem x

Ohhhh! All too plausible, but the telly will go through the window if Kudos dare do this! For all that, beautifully written.

Woah, that was heartbreaking! It's how I see things developing in series ten aswell and that's going to be really sad to watch. I love the way you made it mirror her leaving in series five with the kiss.

It's Valentine's Day tomorrow - are you just bucking the trend! Heartwrenching. Heartbreaking. And entirely possible.

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Oh wow.. this is so moving. Let's pray this isn't the way it will end with these two, even if it does make for brilliant fic!

Aww this was so sad but very likely I fear in my darker moments *cough hence why I subjected everyone to One Crowded Hour cough*

This bit especially cut me deep because it is sadly all too true;

"There will always be something between us. But I can't let that rule my life, not anymore."

It strikes me that Ruth is caught up in the morals of what MI5 does. In the Christie novel One, Two, Buckle My Shoe a situation arises where Poirot has to choose wether or not to let a murderer of very high standing in society go. I quote:

"You sacrificed four human lives and thought them of no account."

"Don't you realize Poirot, that the safety and the happiness of who whole nation depends on me?"

"I am not concerned with nations, Monssieur. I am concerned with the lives of private individuals, who have the right not to have thier lives taken from them."

Harry is forced to make judgements on what people are worth in order to achieve security and that is what Ruth can't accept methinks. She's the Poirot of the story; the moral voice and it seems like since series eight the idealism of earlier has fallen away and she understands what Harry does and doesn't like it. Oh writers. What a mess.

I just hope this doesn't happen in ten.

So sad and yet so beautiful. There's no need to apologise for this fic - I too think this is quite a realistic possibility for them, even though I want them to end up together. Gorgeous writing x