Yup! I first came across your stories on Teaspoon with "And then the TARDIS fell into Pete's World", and then moved onto the others. Heh. That's exactly how I read too - find something I like and work my way through the back catalogue. :) (Also I am very flattered!)
I really love the world you've created with this AU. *flails happily* (I love my little AU far too much, and getting a new reader is like gold dust!)
And then I realized you had an LJ and lurked for a while. And I am very happy that you de-lurked!
I love it when that happens. And especially in this case, because it isn't a throwaway line. You've made it so it really does impact him. I've been waiting for the right moment to use it, and when writing this up from the sketchy draft I had, it suddenly struck me that of course this was the right moment. (There's also the fact that Alex has - instinctively - chosen very appropriate friends. Matt is very 'normal', with a very stable, loving family, and - although everyone fights all the time in 'the Saxon household' - Alex knows that everyone loves him, and would never leave. Josh has been brought up by his mother and grandmother, who are, quite literally, the only family he has, the rest of his extended family having been killed during the holocaust, something Alex of course can empathise with... And vice versa.) ETA: Actually, what I was going to say was something about the fact that the events here impact Josh to such an extent that things are never really the same. If you've read 'Dating the Cleverest Boy in the World' you can see some of the fallout in action.
Aaaaand now I've rambled again. Hope you don't mind, I just have a TON of stuff sat in my head. :)
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Heh. That's exactly how I read too - find something I like and work my way through the back catalogue. :) (Also I am very flattered!)
I really love the world you've created with this AU.
*flails happily* (I love my little AU far too much, and getting a new reader is like gold dust!)
And then I realized you had an LJ and lurked for a while.
And I am very happy that you de-lurked!
I love it when that happens. And especially in this case, because it isn't a throwaway line. You've made it so it really does impact him.
I've been waiting for the right moment to use it, and when writing this up from the sketchy draft I had, it suddenly struck me that of course this was the right moment. (There's also the fact that Alex has - instinctively - chosen very appropriate friends. Matt is very 'normal', with a very stable, loving family, and - although everyone fights all the time in 'the Saxon household' - Alex knows that everyone loves him, and would never leave. Josh has been brought up by his mother and grandmother, who are, quite literally, the only family he has, the rest of his extended family having been killed during the holocaust, something Alex of course can empathise with... And vice versa.) ETA: Actually, what I was going to say was something about the fact that the events here impact Josh to such an extent that things are never really the same. If you've read 'Dating the Cleverest Boy in the World' you can see some of the fallout in action.
Aaaaand now I've rambled again. Hope you don't mind, I just have a TON of stuff sat in my head. :)