*sighs* I read this before, ages ago, but for whatever reason neglected to review it and had completely forgotten about it untill re-reading it just now.

I think it's very well done, the transition in point of view is sudden and a little akward both ways but not too bad. You get a real feel for the characters and personalities in a very small amount of text, something that isn't neccesarily easy to do.

And, of course, the last four lines were wonderful bittersweetness.

Good job!

Your stuff is amazing- I might be late with all my reviews byt I just came on here and I love your fanfiction!

very nice. The ending was especially lovely.

This fic hit really close to home for me. Albel is a character that I can relate to very closely, and the way you've characterized him describes my own inner conflict perfectly. Very in character and thought-provoking. Great story.

I love it, and the last four lines are simply beautiful.

The entire fic captured Albel very well. Not a single touch of OOC-ness here.

I'm still trying to recover at the abundance of Fayt X Albel, but I know a good fic when I see one. ^^ You totally nailed The Wicked, with all the "hate" stuff going on. So... pat yourself in the back. xD

Very Good! Nice story plot, a little wordy, but that may be because its 2am...The ending, the memory, was really good. I love stories that end that way. Its like it just hits you and makes you go 'Aw...' Good work!

OOh, nice touch at the end! ^-~ I really liked this one, good job!

*eyes water and waves noxfayt flag*alsome i love it!*sniffles*

Second to last line: beautiful.

< enjoyed so much >

very confusing :P is this a one-shot??

And line between love and hate huh? and he don't know why he so ease with him can he see the hints. but love it anyways.

This might be the best-characterized Albel I've ever read. Seriously. And I don't say that lightly; God knows *I've* never managed to write him well, and it doesn't seem like many other people have, either. But...guh. Just...guh. Of course, there's also the AlbelxFayt thing, which just raises this fic to a whole new level of rawk. Fangirl? Who, me?

Also. I.love. the sense of distance you've created between Albel, Fayt, and the rest of the world: the innkeeper, the rest of the party...equal kudos for "Let them think what they wished, derive what conclusions they wanted from the situation; it mattered not at all to him," because it's true. They *don't* matter to Albel, and I think one of the great mistakes of fanon-so-far is trying to make him care.

Another great line: "Why was it so important that Fayt hate him as much as he hated himself?" Again, speechless noises of frenzied joy. That pretty much nails their relationship right on the head. Not to make a (really bad) pun or anything.

You've got a few typos/grammatical snafus, which I'll take the time to note individually because this fic just blew me away that much; hope you don't mind u.u:
-"finding it's way in through" in the first paragraph should be "its
-when you're talking about the innkeeper, the idiom's usually "set foot" not "stepped foot," but that could have been a deliberate choice
-silly nitpick: in canon, Fayt's eyes are green, not blue, though as I read doujinshi I really have no room to complain
-in the one-sentence paragraph following the game line about easy wins, "fingers curled tightly" has to be "fingers curling tightly" and "eyes growing darker" needs to become "eyes grew darker" if you want to avoid the Dreaded Non-Artistic Fragment/Verb Tense Confusion
-another idiomatic nitpick: "that didn't settle well" should probably be "that didn't sit well"
-just after Fayt's woken up, and Albel's asking himself all of those questions, it really seems like they should be ended by question marks, not periods, but if that's a stylistic choice you just read nothing
-"His eyes never left the older swordsman, but there was no accusation within," should probably be more along the lines of "...but they held no accusation"
-You mentioned verb tense trouble? The "woke" in the next sentence is properly "woken"
-"more" is comparative, so when Fayt's griping about Albel being a closed-off bastard you need to either compare him directly to something or pick another word
-"such emotions were an everyday thing": "emotions were" is plural but "thing" is singular--pick one or the other, they'd both work

Woo. That's done. Again--I *love* this fic. *Love it to death.* And I just, uh, hope that you won't take my meant-to-be constructive criticism the wrong way; I only bothered because wow, this fic is already *so* good that fixing those little niggling errors would make it about as close to perfect as I've gotten in the SO3 world ^^;

pretty plz updata soon

Oh they have been so though and lot of emotions and lot of loss and paine but some what I think they'll find and way once more...right?.