This is so sad! But I love it. Somehow I feel like it’s nice to see her get that one final moment with the two of them. Anyway, love this story! Even if it did almost make me cry. —Emma

*bawling*

So beautiful.

You know, if you just take out the "screams started" part, this would be the closest thing to an ideal "death scene" *if* there had to be a death scene (which I don't think there had to be) but if there had to be one...I wish it had been like this, where they had a "proper" goodbye, where they held one another and kissed and she got to hold her daughter and say some parting words...ooohhh how the heart breaks!

I'm really looking forward to the follow-up! I'm sure Tom will still have a good, fulfilling life; Sybil would want that for him, and I know he will be a wonderful father. That being said, I still want to read/live/believe in a universe where she LIVES and they go on to forge a life together for many years to come :oP

I loved this. I'm not sure why because it made me so sad. Maybe its because I love the idea that the three of them had one happy moment together, that Sybil was able to say goodbye in a way before it all went to hell.

Oh hun... I just... The thing is that ever since Sunday, I've been at loss ofr words to say how I feel, but I feel like I want to say something about this but I can't. But I'll try.

I wanted them to be a happy family so very much, and I am glad we at least got to see that one short moment when everything was alright. The fact that you added another one, a much more bittersweet one, within the timeline of the episode, just broke my heart. That you gave Sybil one more moment with the two people she loved the most.

When she realizes that she isn't ready... that just... broke me. She's so young, of course she's not ready, no one should be ready, and there was so much for her to do. I keep thinking of the very last scene in Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Frodo's voice over to Sam. "You have so much to enjoy. And to be. And to do. Your part in the story will go on."

Sybil's should have gone on. She should not have had to die... And not like that, not in such a horrific, violent way.

But I love what you added to the story here, having that one short moment as a family, and it even fits within the episode. We don't know where Tom was before THAT scene started, so this works perfectly well, and I'm going to go into a corner and cry now. Because it is all so terrible.

But you wrote this beautifully, and very tenderly. It's like I can feel your grief, and it does not help my own, but it help in knowing that we're all in this together. If that makes any sense at all.

oh my goooosh :(((( I'll need that follow-up story! well done.

This is incredibly beautiful yet hauntingly heartbreaking. But you what made me cry the most? Your AN at the end - I'm glad yoiu'll write something more uplifting, but honestly all I could think was 50 years without her! Sorry
But thanks for sharing anyway
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