I first read this fic in 2007 when I was fourteen on an account that I can no longer remember the username or password of and would probably make me cringe if it knew. I kept up with it on and off over the years. Now seventeen years later a chance remark made me think of this fic, I came back to remind myself how it had gone and to my surprise and delight it had grown so of course I had to reread. It is now nearly 2 in the morning, I forgot to eat dinner and I have a headache from crying. I have laughed, been anxious and hyperfocused on finishing this epic and I cannot thank you enough for the literal decade plus of coming back over and over despite how your life must have changed. Is it weird for you? To look back on the earlier chapters and think about where you were as a person when you wrote them. It's lovely to me that despite all the changes in the world, lives and fandoms that I've come back to this fic as a touchstone and as I read it again, now an adult, I think about how my younger self was excited by every new chapter. I know you said that you want to rewrite some of the earlier camp chapters and I look forward to reading the re-written ones but please know that the original versions still hold a place in at least one reader's heart. I love your horrible monster baby who will - I hate to inform you - in about ten months no longer be a horrible monster baby but will actually be a horrible monster who'd be a legal adult. Isn't that wild.

Wishing you a happy life from a long time reader.

Love how you edge crack

Hiiii i was just wondering if you still have the rest and in that case if you could update? I would love to see the others reactions to what Alex has been through

I’ve been following this fic forever and this is my yearly check in on it. Still love it!

I know you probably won't see this but of all the cliffhangers this one truly hurts.

You wrote a great story!

Keep coming back to reread this it's brilliant. Any chance of another chapter?

Fantastic story, if perhaps a little too engaging as not been able to stop reading it in every spare moment for a few days! Hope you to get round to posting an update at some point, would love to see Chloe and Alex meet again…

This is highly addictive and I don't even follow the series but I love the way you write. Looking forward to the next chapter.

Whooooooooh. Loving this. Had to take a break and the withdrawal was crazyyyyyyy. It's cool that you're in law now. I'm ok with the long breaks between posts. The only thing I worry about in terms of posting is you getting sick and dying before the end. (Which I hope is at least 50, 60 yrs from now.) Didnt review many of the previous ch, so this is me catching up. It's been cool to read your notes in the beginning and hearing about how your life was at the time of making that ch. I could put this fic at the same level of greatness as Pongnosis's the Devil in the Great Blue Sea. Which I recommend if you haven't read. Every wait is worth it friend. See ya.

Damn dude, if you ever write a book, send the link in a new chapter. I'm gonna read everything under your profile and am gonna need it. Else the withdrawal is gonna be crazyy

I've spent the past three days reading through this after coming from your rewrite on ao3. It is one of the best stories I've ever red. I love the characters, your writing and the plot. The story evolves so beautifully, and it caught me through all 450k words. I should be learning for my exams next week, but this had me stop to read beginn to finish.
Thank you for putting your writing out there. This has made my day(s) better.
This is the frist time that I am using this site, and I did not see a button to download this, so I'm asking if I could copy the words into my own document as download? It is one of the fics I would like to print and have a physical book one day, so if it's OK for you please let me know.
Thank you for brightening a stressful time.
Have a great day/night!

I think I read that beautifully written artpiece of a fabrication 20 times already.
I hope you will one day finish it.
In the meantime I will just read it all over again. 3

Awesome! I can’t wait to hear the testimony. Poor Alex is finally near the end. Hope all is well! X

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Hey there! I can't tell you enough good things about reading this fic. This is one of my favorite AR fics, and one that I continually come back to time and again. I got into fanfiction in 2014 and have been following this fic ever since. I was so glad to get a huge round of updates in 2020-2021, and it's brought us right up to the end. It might be weird, but I have had dreams about this fic (though my dreams are always disjointed and make little sense). I really truly hope you decide to finish the last couple chapters.

I especially am looking forward to seeing what exactly Alex tells his audience (Yes, I know it's technically in the books): the the horror, outrage, and realization as everyone gets on the same page as far as what hell he has been through. What about Sir Christopher and Chloe and their reactions? Any more Eagle? What does Alex's future hold?

Even though I have read HIOP in its entirety multiple times, I can never just put it down. I finished it again at about 4am this morning (my bad). I just love, love, love this story and hope that it will one day be finished.