My wish for all of you is to find a fic that you love as much as I love this one. One that's all-consuming, and preferably a long one so it lasts for a while. I am currently so wrapped up in it, I can't focus on what I'm actually supposed to be doing in my life. And I haven't read something that affected me like that in YEARS.
On Saturday, I ran across a TBB/Hunter fic Free wrote on Ao3. In our comment conversation, she gave me the link to the story on tumblr. It was spicy, so I reblogged it on my side-side. Then, looking at her blog, I saw a Howzer post, and I was so excited, because I hadn't seen much Howzer content around here. I mentioned that and she linked me to her Howzer x OC fic.
I started reading it yesterday evening, and read the first 3 chapters before bed. Then at 10:30 I went to bed (which is ridiculously early for me, but I had stayed up until 6:15 am the night/day before reading other fics, so only got 1 hr. 45 min. of sleep Saturday night, so I was really tired.) I had every intention of just reading a chapter or two, knowing I would fall asleep before long.
Or so I thought...I was so enthralled with the story that I did NOT fall asleep. In fact, I was still reading at 2 am when my phone battery started screaming at me that it was dying. I was up to Ch. 21, and I just took a little peek ahead and read a part that had me so emotional...
I had to put my phone down, or I wasn't going to have enough battery life for my alarm to go off in 5 hours (and I wasn't going to get my charger, because then I would have kept reading and I just couldn't do that for a 2nd night in a row.)
But when I put my phone down and laid my head on my pillow, I just started crying. I was legit crying about this fic. It was a happy cry for the most part, and I realized I had been so concerned and anxious about what was going to happen, that I just needed a good cry to release all that emotion.