Wow! That was intense! You did a great job conveying the deep emotional pain and conflict that Leo is struggling through.

Cheers!

Great story! I wish I had some real constructive criticism for you. Maybe, who's taking care of Spot? Ha! But the story was well written, gramatically correct and easy to relate to. I think that's exactly how I would be if confronted with that - or perhaps like Hillary Swank's character in P.S. I love you.

Brilliant.

Why am I surprised?

I'm not; I expected this, I expected brilliance of a caliber so blinding, that my disinterest in fanfiction, if for only a moment, would diminish and my need to write, to read, would bloom once again.

'Forever' did just that.

Thank you, or blast you, since F.F. can be SO absolutely addicting that time itself is non-existent and I lose myself completely within its unrelenting embrace! I thought my love affair with fanfiction was kaput, over, done with...and then...and then I just HAD to read this.

Evil person, that's what you are! LOL

As always, you rip every morsel of emotion known to literacy and using as few words as is possible. Simple, to the point, and yet with such depth and despair for Leo, that though she is but a 2 dimensional character, I feel her pain.

Marvelous work and - seriously - I could find absolutely nothing wrong with this. Hard to critique near perfection! And I say 'near' because this was just too short for how quickly and ravishingly I read. :0) You could quite honestly write mainstream novels for this genre of reading. I half expect to discover one day that you actually do, but 'hide' behind your F.F. penname just to have a bit of fun with Star Trek, without the stress of publishing deadlines.

In any event, I loved this. You've captured Deanna's personality perfectly.

I see you've continued this topic, so I'm off to read a bit more.

Be blessed,
Rene'

Wow, this was really powerful. I could really feel for Leo. I felt so bad for her...You did an amazing job bringing across what Leo and Deanna were feeling and it was written really naturally. It was really powerful. Great job.

Poignant, agonizing and terrible. In other words, an exceptional piece.

Oh. This was heart-wrenching and awful, and brilliant all at once. The "where did you go" is still ringing in my mind's ear.

Thank you for your new story.

Guess what! First review on my shiny new computer. My old one was going to send me to the asylum for crazy grad students long before my prelims get the chance!

So very sad. In your firs stories, we saw Leo grieving, but it was a different thing, with Data "back". The struggle was to accept it and to process the old lingering grief, with the knowledge that it would be ok. But here we are, back around the circle, and no one know that it will be ok. Leo and Troi have always had a more difficult friendship than the ones Leo formed with the guys, and they can't quite find a way to make it work here. And Leo's "where did you go" offers all sorts of interesting fodder for speculation, given his return.

Anyway, good stuff. Thanks for posting.

Liz