What can I say, for all its faults, and in the past reviews I've more than laid them out, this story is one I keep coming back to. Yeah the fight scene was all wrong and I still think the kiss at the end wasn't enough of a payout, but what this story continues to have genuine emotion. Sadly, for iCarly in its 5th Season, Sam and Freddie might as well be cardboard cutouts compared to he depth of emotion that they should have grown into and especially compared to what you show here. This was an ambitious story when you first wrote it 3 years ago, and now I think that in its waning seasons, iCarly will probably never live up to this. Thanks again!

This was awesome. You're awesome.

I didn't necessarily like this *whole* story, but it did have a nice cascading bit of ups and downs. However, this chapter was just so perfect...the arguing, the back and forth is the same sort of stuff we've seen from season one on. And I hope, dear Lord do I hope, it continues on just like this. Keep up the great work!

this was so flipping amazing, words do not even begin to describe it. i read this whole damn amazing fic in a whole afternoon/evening, and a little in the morning BECAUSE I HAD TO FINISH THIS IT WAS SO ADDICTING. everything played out perfectly. that was just.. wow.

i had a longer review planned but i have to get ready for the day n stuff. HOWEVER i just wanted you to know that i love you and this fic forever and ever. amazing first person narrative (surprisingly it worked out, as there have been so many instances where it doesn't)- the writing style was purely amazing. the angst and the drama were all there.

i can't wait to see more of your writing. :) even if this was a super long time ago.

I reviewed this story about a year ago and commented on the rough ride you put our favorite duo through. Thought I'd give it another read to see if my perception had changed. I still love everything I'd mentioned in my last review. My comments on the fight scene still stand (even a year later that was a bitter pill to swallow) but over all, I still enjoyed this one. You manage to encapsulate the essence of a great Seddie story, at a time when the second season had only just begun. Congratulations on your foresight. My only new criticims would be with the Epilogue. Our reward at the end was a rather poiniant kiss. And yet I wanted more. These two have just gone through one heck of a roller coaster ride and it all comes to an end with a simple kiss. I'm not talking about a lemon here, but it just seemed like something with a bigger impact was needed. Oh well, one again, thanks for the story!

Amazing story. Everything from the initial kiss, to the three days sick, you wrote Freddie and Sam's chemistry as such an explosive, undeniable thing that I loved, even when they weren't being that nice to each other. maybe especially because of that- they've gone through some rough times and hurt each other, sometimes unintentionally, but you showed how they really do mean so much to the other. :D

I also really liked the characterization of Amelia- you did a fantastic job there- she and Freddie were good together, but definitely not Freddie and Sam- though it took Freddie a while to realise this. and Carly too- I felt you really did get into her character, and I liked the friendship her and Freddie developed, 'cos those two have a great friendship. Thanks for writing, :-D

This was really good!

While overall I enjoyed this story, I think you’ve done Sam a disservice. As Ricky Flame and Jocelyn can both attest, you don’t get rough with Sam’s friends. However much Freddy may have grown into a jerk, she still cares about him. Tony on, the other hand, is pretty much a nobody, a disposable character she took up with to fill the void left by Freddy and who is readily ditched when Sam and Freddy are friends again. Considering Sam spent the previous 5 minutes trying to keep Tony from repeatedly groping her up, I wouldn’t expect Sam to be to happy with him. Maybe Sam doesn’t need Freddy to come to her rescue, but considering her feelings for him, she would probably appreciate the change in his interest. Bottom line, Tony should have been lying face down on the ground in one of Sam’s patented submission holds before he could even get the first punch off. Anything else just doesn’t give Sam enough credit.

So If I ever had to choose one story from fanfic to be made into a movie it would be this one. I just love your writing, first person from Freddie, the crazy discription of everthing just brought out a climax feel through all of it, like it was plausible, and real, and it had to happen and why isn't this more popular! This is honestly so good and a part of me wants this to happen in the show itself. Plus I would love to hear Freddie narrate the movie.haha.

Your Freddie which I astonishingly I like the jerky part. He's a teenager and sometimes teenagers lash out at their mothers and friends because they're at the time where they are stuck between kid and an adult. So in a way, I get where Freddie's coming from, and sure I was furious at him from the treatment Sam was getting but at the end we get why and how his life is affected by how much he wants approval from his mother.

Mrs. Benson was great like she wasn't necessarily crazy but very endearing with how much she didn't want to loosen her grip on Freddie. Also adored by how she hold out on Sam, all the subtle clues from beginning till the end, it's just one of thoughs weird quiks that life just springs on you that you try to wrap your mind around only to discover that that's life and you're left going along with it. I still think Mrs. B likes Sam a lot in the series itself; I don't know why but it's odd how that has yet to be establish if Mrs. Benson severely dislike Sam. We're well into season 3 and yet to find out.

Sam was amazing, like she wasn't quite vicious and obnoxious(which I find funny how this was written back in season 2 and the Sam charcter in this gives off a season 3 vibe characteritic,you developed her perfectly to fit Sam now in the series) but still wasn't out of character. I find it funny that we know Sam is developing feelings for Freddie(I almost typed Fried, as in Fried Chicken)yet Freddie is locked between his feeling, which in toll, we watch unfold.( I'm getting this from the show now)What one heck of a rollar coaster ride that was too. I was seriously at the point of wishing Sam would kill Freddie, just to calm me dowm.LOL

I have much respect the way you wrote Carly,too many people over look her and I find her pretty awesome. Sure, she can't beat up guys, and have a diet of 10 calories but she's still a great character and probably the most realistic character on the show. My favorite scene is actually of her in the last chapter where Freddie says goodbye and she walks away. I guess it's just the way it played out and how we know that Freddie finds her as a friend and only that. I'm hoping for this to play out in the series though I get that from iSYL with him in the elevator and finding that he let go of Carly because of what Sam said.

My next favorite would be the fake dates Sam and Freddie went on, oh that balloon boy cracked me up, little sly devious kid, and of course how Mrs. B reacted to all of it was just hilarious.

Okay lastly, yeah I know you're like Finally! I love how you protraited their relationship. The last scene is how I want them to be, all subtle and sly yet endearing and not mushy. Better way to explain it is nothing like iSYL was with Carly and Freddie. I just can't see Sam being like that and I really see her as a little hesitant with her relationship, and one of her flaws is that she's not good with guys.

So props to you and your awesome story!

Loved the story, good ending though I think you made Freddie too much of a prick for too long. Though you did explain it well. Also for most of the story there was no Icarly episodes you wrote. which I was just starting to think when you threw one in lol. But great story and I hope any of my suggestions help. Maybe have toned down his anger a little at Puckett or actually write the things out that are making him mad at the time. A few little short scenes or something would have added to the feel of the story and not just talking about how mad he was.

Hey...awesome story! I love it.

I just had to tell ya, as a big Comic Con fan, that Comic Con Convention is sorta redundant: The "Con" is just an abbreviated Convention. So you were saying Comic Convention Convention. :D

Also, Comic Con is not just comic books, it's everything. I went to the San Diego one this past year, they had everything from Harry Potter to Lord of the Rings to LEGO to Nickelodeon to Disney to Marvel. So...yup. :D

Your story IS amazing, but I just wanted to point that out. :)

i like the story line but the truce was unsatisfying. Freddie never had to come to terms with the fact that he was being a COMPLETE jerk, or appoligize. and why did SAM have to appoligize i would have hit him too if he had said something like that. in-fact i would've done MUCH worse. he DESERVED it! he acted like she started the fight when in reality all she did was retaliate. usually i like Freddie but this particular freddie makes me want to jump into the computer screen and yell at him as i beat the living crap out of the boy. i ussually don't get so emotionally invested in the actions of fictional charachters so good job!

P.S.

i'm sorry if i offended you at all, but i hhad to get that little rant out before i exploded. i really do love the story though

First of all, thanks for one heck of a roller coaster ride. Too few authors of Seddie stories realize that the appeal isn’t in Sam and Freddie being together, but how they manage to overcome the numerous obstacles in the way of reaching that divine state of “Seddie-ness”.

There was a lot here that I loved. Sam and Freddie’s enforced co-convalescence was terrific. The pacing here was steady and the alternating humor and tension between the two while Freddy’s mom doted over them really held my attention. Is the 7uper real?

Freddie’s descent into supreme jerk-dom with regard for Sam’s feelings thru most of this, (even more so than on the actual show) made sense as it went hand in hand with his burgeoning sense of self confidence.

I loved Amelia. She felt real and three dimensional. Not like the walking plot devices that most tertiary characters in fan fictions devolve into. She’s that everyday “normal” girl next door who is just not suited for Freddy and stands as a realistic foil for Sam and Freddy’s tumultuous relationship. The subtle hints of insecurity you have her show through out the story really convey the sense of a deer frozen in place by the oncoming headlights of the looming break up.

Finally, the week of the fake date with Sam was hilarious. What was Sam going to do with that balloon any way? Plus we get to meet one of Sam’s relatives that wasn’t in jail. How hard can it bee to hold a pool cue correctly? Finally, I was left with the feeling that Freddy will be perpetually hapless when it come to trying things that Sam is good at.

However there were some areas of contention. I didn’t really understand the Party Mouse chapter. I gather that the game degenerated into an insult contest between Freddy and Sam but without an understanding of the rules of the game I never really got the sense of how this period of insults differed from any other time. I was left with taking your word that this somehow was a deterioration in Sam and Freddy’s friendship.

My biggest problem was with the fight scene. I actually almost stopped reading this story when I read it. The brutality of Freddy’s beating was certainly cathartic. This is rock bottom for Freddy and you certainly dragged your readers down into the pit with him. However, Sam just stands there and passively allows this to go one for a while before stopping it. This idea that she is still really and angry with Freddie doesn’t strike me as being enough of a justification for her allow this severe of a beating before intervening. In spite of all of their recent history, Freddy is her friend and has been for a number of years. Further more, her feelings for Freddy, even if unacknowledged, clearly run deeper. On top of all of that, he’s actually there trying to defend her. And now Sam is going to let some guy she’s known for only a few weeks, and work Freddy over? She’s a better person than that.

Bottom line, at least for me, is that the fight doesn’t seem to fit into the narrative you’ve established. Again, I realize you wanted to emphasize how far Freddy had fallen. I just don’t see Sam allowing that much punishment. The severity of this fight was so unnecessary that the reconciliation scene between Sam and Freddy immediately afterward stands out as jarringly surreal. Where was all this compassion from Sam when he needed it 10 minutes ago? Sometimes less is more. A single punch from Anthony to the stomach (before Sam could stop him) followed by a “fight stopping taunt” from Sam aimed at Freddy’s manliness would have had the same effect. Or, Anthony could have jumped Freddy later when Sam wasn’t around.

Unfortunately I’ve probably come across as being more negative than I intended. I enjoyed most of this story and find you writing style to be vivid, refreshing and very detailed. I hope you continue to write and ask that you view my criticism as at least an attempt to be helpful. I realize you need to write what you feel and that my opinion is just one of many, but a little moderation isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

This has to be my favouritest Seddie story ever ever!

I'd have loved to ramble on more about why i loved it but i've got to go haha and i'm sure you'd get bored because, trust me i can ramble!

This was an amazing and nuanced story! I really liked how, as you said, you did not make Freddie's girlfriend the bad guy. The Freddie / Sam interactions were amazing and you could literally feel the tension between them at some points (like the chapter where Carly has her party). Great job! (Ps-Sorry for being too lazy to review every chapter.)