Stop All the Clocks (This Is the Last Time I’m Leaving Without You) by firethesound

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Title: Stop All the Clocks (This Is the Last Time I’m Leaving Without You)
Author: firethesound
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 44,000 Approx.
Summary: Living with Draco was difficult; living without him is unbearable. But if there’s one thing Harry learned from the war, it’s that even when one life ends, the rest of the world goes right on living.
Warning(s): Major Character Death


This story is heart-breaking beautiful. It's without doubt one of the best Character Death story I've ever read.

The author wrote perfectly the devastating pain that is to lose the most important person in your life, and I have no words to describe how beautiful and painful it is this journey, seeing their relationship begin, bloom and end in this tragic way, everything Harry went through until he's trying for the first time to find solace after his loss. It's amazing and painful and beautiful.

Comments

[sophie-french.livejournal.com]

I agree. This was amazing in many ways. The kind of story that haunts you for a long time. Beautiful in the emotions it conveys and in the writing.

[capitu]

Yes, exactly, it stays with you for a long time. It was beautiful and painful, and I know I'll *always* remember this fic.

[sylvaticginger.livejournal.com]

I only have to read _about_ the story to start crying! It sounds so good but I don't have the courage to read it, I know how I felt after oakstone730's fantastic story "Christmas in August" or the story I forgotten the name of about Draco's dark mark turning poisonous. I love these stories but I'm so scared! *cries for real*

[capitu]

I answer you under a cut, just in case other people don't want to be quite spoiled.

It's an amazing story. It's beautiful, and it's so very well written, the emotions are raw and it's incredibly touching, but it is painful. It hurts, it hurts bad because, as the warning says, it's a character death fic, and the focus of it it's Harry's pain over losing Draco, his life after Draco. Though there are parts that show their life together, which are simply gorgeous and just as amazing, but it leads to the moment in which Draco dies.

I know it's hard to decide to read. I find I have to be in a very particular state of mind to bear reading character death fics, but this one, with all those warnings and all the pain Harry (and you through him) feel, is one that you're not going to regret reading. It's beautiful, and all the good things you've heard of, are all true.

[sylvaticginger.livejournal.com]

You are right, this kind of fic requires a certain mood to work. I've bookmarked it, in case I change my mind, because it tempts me so, but I'm uncertain if that will happen any time soon! Thanks for trying to make me dare!

[capitu]

I do hope you give it a chance one day. It's beautiful. <3

Also, I'm not sure if I mentioned this before, but as much as this story is about loss, it is about healing, too.

[zeitgeistic.livejournal.com]

I am so scared to read this story because I know that I won't be able to forget it for weeks.

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And you'd be right. It's the sort of fic that you're not going to forget, but so, so good.

[zeitgeistic.livejournal.com]

I just finished it. And I'm ruined. How could such a perfect Draco be dead? It KILLS me.

[capitu]

*sobs* I know. When Harry saw the shadow, it almost died. I mean, I knew he was dead, but man, I FELT it, you know? That tiny hope and then it being crushed. God, this fic. ^^

[zeitgeistic.livejournal.com]

It's really not fair. I didn't cry, but I am STILL upset about it today.

[capitu]

You didn't cry? Omg, you have stone cold heart. lol

It'll be a while, trust me. I had to find some of my comfort read for a day or two afterwards. *nods* Not right away though, I was a mess after I finished it.

[zeitgeistic.livejournal.com]

I'm totally torn up over it, but I think I'm too stressed to cry, lol. And also, I kept looking at other things in between scenes so I wouldn't be completely heartbroken. I wouldn't be able to stand it. I can't even imagine what I would do if I loved someone like that and then they died. Omg, poor Harry.

[capitu]

I, too, had to stop a couple of times because I knew I was going to wail id I didn't. It seems such an impossible thing to do, for Harry, to live, survive such a loss.

[firethesound]

Thank you so much. <3

[capitu]

Totally welcome. This story is ♥♥♥