Loved this story to pieces! I laughed and gasped and awed. This was so much fun reading. You are very much loved. 3

This was an excellent story, Thanks for sharing :)

This is probably going to be the longest review in the entire world, and I'll probably ramble a lot, so feel free not to read it.

The TL;DR is: I loved it.

I do believe this is one of the best fics I've ever read, and I don't say that lightly, I've read a LOT of fics. But this one is definitely up there.

It just... is everything I love in a fic. Especially right now, when I'm sorta still heartbroken (eight months later and I still can't get over her) it's just almost a beacon of hope that maybe something like that could still exist out there, for someone, at least, if not for me.

There were multiple times while reading this that I came across a line so brilliant I was compelled to quote it in my Facebook status (with full credit, of course). Were it not two thirty in the morning, I would have squeed all through this fic. I was just reading, trying to pass the time until I could get and open my presents (my family does on Christmas Eve) and this... for the whole Christmas, and... AWWWWWHHHHH! It's supposed to be snowing here, but it isn't, unfortunately, I wish it was. I love the snow, and I also love the time you talked about, that time right before the sun comes up. I'll get up and go out into my back yard in inadequate clothing and freeze to death just to be outside like that when it's snowing.

Basically, almost everything you said about why Kirk likes winter is why I like winter. Those and the lack of mosquitoes, even if my room doesn't have proper heating. And I loved that hug between Kirk and Spock, where Kirk just hugs him. And just the whole Spock having feelings for Kirk secretly and from his pov thing and if I told you everything I loved about this fic I'd just have to summarize the whole thing.

Also, Kirk's mother kind of reminded me of me, I'm sad to say. But... I can blame mine on something else. I have bipolar disorder, so it's really hard for me to... control my emotions and my reactions. I am very unlike Spock in that manner. How she was in your fic sounds exactly like me, where I'll be mixed for a day or a week or sometimes a month or, on one really absolutely horrible occasion, six or seven months. And everything that happens I have to turn into a challenge, to get mad at everyone no matter what they do, and I have to snap at everyone and be mean to everyone and I don't want to do it, but I can't control it when I do, even though I don't mean it. But there are some people who when I'm around them just make it absolutely horrible. And then after mixed I'll generally slip into manic or depressed without evening out first, and if I slip into manic it pretty much follows the line of this fic, with at first being mean to everyone, and then feeling really bad and trying to make it Proxy-Connection: keep-alive

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and just being really nice and energetic and stuff, except after a while I'll just slip back, and it never really ends. Yeah, I'm a bit of an emotional woobie. Just sorta. I've never met anyone who was more emotionally damaged than I am.

GAH! See, I didn't mean to unload like that, but I'm mixed right now, so I'm channeling everything really weird between the mania and the depression.

But, yeah... I absolutely love Chekov taking their picture in the end! *SQUEE*

And then the sex scenes, those had to be some of the best, maybe even the best, sex scenes I have ever read. Ever. Seriously. Especially the first one. I have this thing for guys coming in their pants in fic...

Anyway, long rambling review is long and rambling. I'm sorry for wasting your time. As a consolation, have a picture of a kitten: /cat-pictures/Tiny_Kitten_Face_

Whew! That was...great! not too angsty, got in a bit of fluff...and the STEAM! Gosh...that was, great.

I think I need to go smoke a cig :P

You have made me stand up and cheer, and it's after midnight here so that's saying a lot! Your story was excellent, developing slowly and taking its time. I got to know all the characters and their backgrounds. I felt for them, and hoped for the best for them. And then you slam me with chapter 4. Dude! You have written a most excellent story and I thank you for letting me read it! I am in awe at your talent. Thank you thank you thank you. This is a great Christmas present for me. I'm so honored to have read it! Thank you!

I have to say, that was amazing. Usually I have to complain about spelling or grammar, but no. You caught my attention and kept it the whole way through. Beautiful. Usually I put a generic note to people who can't spell.

(your) is used when you say. "your eyes are pretty." it is used as a form of possession.



(you're) is used when you say "you're the funniest person in the world" when you speak About a person.

(there) is speaking of a place "go over there"

(their) is speaking of a group's possession "their house is huge!)

(they're) meaning they are " they're going to be here soon"

(Here) refers to A place, as in "I'm right here!"

(hear) is used for receiving sound. "I can hear you!"

These are some basic writing rules. Please follow them if you want to be a good writer. Other than that you've done really well with your story keep up the good work.

(This is a generic comment, meaning I saw one or more of these mistakes in your fic, this doesn't mean you made all of them or that you're a bad writer, it just means that you need to fix it up a little)

YOU, didn't need this comment and I thank you for that. For being such a good writer.

I absolutely loved this story. I enjoyed the flow of it, the drama, the various emotions you brought out in the characters and their reactions to situations. It was very realistic and I commend you on that! It was certainly a good, steady build up of plot. You did an excellent job

This was a very nice and sweet Christmas story. Perfect for this time!