Wow. What an incredibly powerful piece this is! Nice work.

Okay..I am not exaggerating when I say I have only cried once before when reading a story and that was when Fred died in Harry Potter and right now I am lying in bed bawling my eyes out because my heart is so heavy with their grief. I can feel it and it's making my heart hurt so very much. This is the most raw and honest (not sure if that's the word I am going for but forgive me) piece of literature I have ever had the honour to witness. I have no more words but just words of thanks and I hate (love) getting my heart torn into tiny pieces by this story and this chapter in particular.

Ok, so I just found this fic and oh my word. Blown. Away. Never have I enjoyed reading something so incredibly painful. You have captured both of them so wonderfully, and that's something that I feel like a lot of future fics overshoot in the portrayal, but you've blended this complex picture of what a completely shattered caskett marriage would look like for them. And it's still completely THEM. I still have a lot more to catch up on but I just hit the end of CH 16 and her prayer to Jack. I'm sitting in the middle of a Starbucks and literally just started sobbing in public. And I NEVER physically cry from fics. Having her put a voice to how much she loves Castle and confessing this to her baby boy. GOOD GOD. You have ruined me for all other fics, I hope you know that. lol And should be proud of yourself. Gonna be reccing this fic (with proper tissue warnings of course) to everyone I know.

So much Angst Am going to stop here so I can continue later.

This piece is unbelievably brave, emotionally raw and sensitively written. Beautiful but terrible journey for the characters to go through. Tremendously respectful of the pain that parents must feel in the face of such tragic and sudden loss.

SIGH. What an amazing story you've written. I can't express in words all the emotions I've raced through as I read. It truly blew my mind, all of it - the quality of your writing, the level of emotions, the gut-wrenching intensity and heartbreak that felt so true. You treated this tough topic with elegance and so much care for who they are. Nothing in this felt overdone or out of character for these people and I'm simply amazed at how you managed to put them into this situation and brought them out the other side stronger and yet still themselves.

Just when I think I've recovered you do something so very beautiful and here I'm crying again. The baby's room was such a lovely and loving idea, such beauty to valuing and remembering his short life like that.

Oh I can practically feel them healing in front of my eyes, and it's so soft and joyful and so very beautiful and right.

*sniffles* I really love seeing that all-out adoration Kate feels for him, how much she loves all the parts that he is. I love seeing him come back to himself, that joyful presence of his, and seeing her come back as well, find that strength and empathy she's always possessed. They are both such amazing people and you've captured those facets so well.

I'm so glad he goes there with her, showing that he's embracing her back into his life as well, and I can empathize with the uncertainty and nerves she feels about being there. The guilt still gnawing at her is so sad and yet so believable too - women don't easily forgive themselves anything.

Aaaaaand I'm crying again. "Shhh... baby sleeping" just killed me. It's a loss so incomprehensibly terrible. I love how she acknowledges how strong he's been; even on the show her strength is more easily accessible to see but we know he has it too, in spades, and it fits that he'd be the one doing what had to be done. She's Jackson's mom, she grew him inside her and I think it's very common and believable that she'd just check out in the face of that terror (not to mention that she had to find him too), and he was her strength.

Ooooooh! So much sadness culminating I'm such love. I think I was holding my breath again as they grappled with the significance of this day, and sought each other to make it through.

So beautiful! Reluctant to call it hot - even though it certainly was - because that doesn't give justice to all the emotions you've twined into this scene, the sheer intensity of their love for each other, finally culminating again.

I cry with how beautiful this is, the way they seek and need each other so much, my heart pounding as they kissed and his declarations for her, his love so open and encompassing.

My feels are having whiplash, I am basically holding my breath, stomach clenching with hope for them.