Journey's End
chivalric78 Reviews | 7.47/10 (78 Ratings, 0 Likes, 30 Favorites )
A rainy day in winter. Hermione, lying ill in bed, is haunted by memories of the past and makes a final decision. This is a sequel to "Unkissed".
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chivalric
Member Since 2007 | 65 Stories | Favorited by 776 | 213 Reviews Written | 4,182 Review Responses
Located in Germany. Female, around 40. The first chapters of my published novels/novellas can be found here on the archive.
Other than writing, I am reading, cycling, running, and singing in a choir.
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Reviews for Journey's End
I knew I should've used waterproof mascara this morning.
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Um... sorry? I could promise never to write sad stories, of course, but it would be a lie.My next one will be something hot or something funny. Promise. And many thanks for reviewing!
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Um... sorry? I could promise never to write sad stories, of course, but it would be a lie.My next one will be something hot or something funny. Promise. And many thanks for reviewing!
*sobs hopelessly for several minutes**gasps for breath and finally gets control of herself* *ignores the odd looks she's getting from her brothers*This. . . is one of the most powerful stories I have ever read. I now have a death wish, darn you. (No, not that kind!) I want to die in my husbands arms. *cries a little more*This is truly amazing. In a really sad, slightly bitter sort of way. I really loved the rose, although I'm sure it would have meant more to me if I had read 'Unkissed' before this one. Now I'm going to have to! 
Anyway, thank you for the wonderful story!~Katie
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Huh, your review caused goose-bumps. Didn't expect this story to make such an impact! But I am glad it did :-)Have fun with Unkissed and be warned, there are a few bitter parts in it as well. And the rose, of course. In case you haven't started yet, I recommend to begin with the beginning: Valentine Mischief".Best, and many thanks for reviewing!
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Huh, your review caused goose-bumps. Didn't expect this story to make such an impact! But I am glad it did :-)Have fun with Unkissed and be warned, there are a few bitter parts in it as well. And the rose, of course. In case you haven't started yet, I recommend to begin with the beginning: Valentine Mischief".Best, and many thanks for reviewing!
Very poignant, a fitting end to the story:)
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Thank you!
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Thank you!
Beautiful. Just beautiful.Warm regards,Fizzabella
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Thank you, dear! I'm always happy to see your name *hugs you*
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Thank you, dear! I'm always happy to see your name *hugs you*
Just when I've almost succeeded in convincing myself that I'm becoming more flinty and less sentimental as I get older, a story like this one comes along and proves me wrong. Lovey story, but nonetheless heartwrenching.
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Well, I try to convince myself that soon, very soon I will read proper literature soon. Next month. Next year. Next millennium *g*Thanks for reviewing! And being flinty is overrated...
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Well, I try to convince myself that soon, very soon I will read proper literature soon. Next month. Next year. Next millennium *g*Thanks for reviewing! And being flinty is overrated...
absolutely beautiful!!!!1
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Thank you!
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Thank you!
A haunting and sad, yet peaceful end. Eloquent words and images to show a lifetime of love in a few paragraphs. Thanks for sharing another side of their story, JoAnne
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Hi! And many thanks for your lovely review!
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Hi! And many thanks for your lovely review!
Awww how sweet.Sad that Hermione is so ill, but the fact that Severus loves her so much to let her die with dignity and decides to die with her rather than be alone should have me screaming Nooo! but your Sev melts my heart once more.Brilliant! as always... hope you'll write more SS/HG
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Are you kidding? The plot bunnies are haunting me into my sleep, there will be at least two more sequels alone for this story :-)Thanks for liking and reviewing. The next story will be either hot or funny, promise!And... I like him melting hearts *grins*
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Are you kidding? The plot bunnies are haunting me into my sleep, there will be at least two more sequels alone for this story :-)Thanks for liking and reviewing. The next story will be either hot or funny, promise!And... I like him melting hearts *grins*
That was terribly sad, yet so beautiful. Loved it!! Thank you very much.gab
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
My pleasure, gab. The story wanted to be written...
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
My pleasure, gab. The story wanted to be written...
"sniffles, wipes tears away, blows nose"Wow! I couldn't stop crying.Well done!
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Now isn't it funny that I am most happy having made you cry??Thanks for liking and reviewing!
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Now isn't it funny that I am most happy having made you cry??Thanks for liking and reviewing!
Oh , how beautiful. I cried. I was so perfectly written. I just couldn't help the emotion. Was there a story about their daughter or their wedding? I know about the valentine's day rose, and Unkissed, and the sequal to Unkissed where she gets grass in his bed. I was just wondering if the rest was written and I missed it. I love you work and would hate to have missed anything.Thanks so much for sharing. Hugs, Muggle Mom
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
You might have missed the epilogue to Unkissed, where Sasha is born. I posted it after I had declared the story as complete, due to nagging readers :-)Haven't written a wedding story, at least not in this timeline, but in another one. And for Unkissed, I will write two more sequels and one variation.Goods, I must be mad, promising this *g*Thanks for reviewing!
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
You might have missed the epilogue to Unkissed, where Sasha is born. I posted it after I had declared the story as complete, due to nagging readers :-)Haven't written a wedding story, at least not in this timeline, but in another one. And for Unkissed, I will write two more sequels and one variation.Goods, I must be mad, promising this *g*Thanks for reviewing!
Oh , how beautiful. I cried. I was so perfectly written. I just couldn't help the emotion. Was there a story about their daughter or their wedding? I know about the valentine's day rose, and Unkissed, and the sequal to Unkissed where she gets grass in his bed. I was just wondering if the rest was written and I missed it. I love you work and would hate to have missed anything.Thanks so much for sharing. Hugs, Muggle Mom
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Thanks for the review!
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Thanks for the review!
You write so beautifle tender and sad story . I can see them and fill their overvelming love and it makes me cry and smile at same time.Bravo!
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Thank you so very much - that was my intention.
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Thank you so very much - that was my intention.
I'm glad you brought Sam into their lives. Glad he was their friend until the end. This is sad, but not as sad as unending pain. Thanks for sharing this sequel.
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
My pleasure, dear. I wrote the beginning a while ago, then tied it to Unkissed. It seemed to fit. Thanks for liking and reviewing!
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
My pleasure, dear. I wrote the beginning a while ago, then tied it to Unkissed. It seemed to fit. Thanks for liking and reviewing!
How sad and touching! Very poetically written.
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
*blushes*Thank you!
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
*blushes*Thank you!
That was beautiful and sad. The picture of the wilted rose really socked me in the gut.
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Made the picture on my balcony. Really glad you liked it. And many thanks for taking the time to review!
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Made the picture on my balcony. Really glad you liked it. And many thanks for taking the time to review!
Oh dear, this is so lovely I am at a loss for words. However, I don't feel like crying, although it is always sad to lose someone. But on the other hand, it may be very selfish for those who remain to wish to keep their dear ones for their own comfort. Sometimes love means letting go. Hermione and Severus are old, they have had good 60 years together and they die in each other's arms - there are far worse possibilities, believe me. I have recently lost my grandmother (she was 98 years and 11 months old and tired of living, although she was neither seriously ill nor demented). The way she kept looking at a photograph of my grandfather, who died in 1983 after 50 years of marriage, made me believe that her soul flew straight off to his cloud in heaven, where she is now sitting and watching the lives of her children, grandchildren and great-(great-) grandchildren. Maybe she would have loved to have a possibility like the one you described here.
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
My gran is 101 years old and has a faraway look in her eyes since a couple of weeks. I bet she would have preferred not to outlive her husband for two decades. I was abit afraid that Snape killing himself would cause an outcry. Obviously, fandom readers are a lot more tolerant to different live-concepts (and death decisions) than normal people.Thanks for reviewing, dear. Your story is finished, and will be posted soon. I'll let you know!
Response from Muggline (Reviewer)
(Jumping around like Rumpelstiltskin (does anybody know this fairy tale in the English speaking world???): I will get my own story by chivalric! Yeah!
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
My gran is 101 years old and has a faraway look in her eyes since a couple of weeks. I bet she would have preferred not to outlive her husband for two decades. I was abit afraid that Snape killing himself would cause an outcry. Obviously, fandom readers are a lot more tolerant to different live-concepts (and death decisions) than normal people.Thanks for reviewing, dear. Your story is finished, and will be posted soon. I'll let you know!
Response from Muggline (Reviewer)
(Jumping around like Rumpelstiltskin (does anybody know this fairy tale in the English speaking world???): I will get my own story by chivalric! Yeah!
So beautiful and heart-wrenching. You have me in tears. I'll go and read some fluff now.
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Did you find some? Hope you feel better now ;-)Many thanks for reviewing!
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Did you find some? Hope you feel better now ;-)Many thanks for reviewing!
Truly sad. But so incredibly romantic. You could not have painted a better picture of true love. This was perfect. There were tears, yes, but they were more than just of sadness.
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
I should have warned you... Knowing that you usually read what I write, I am imensely glad you liked that one. I promise, the next one will be either hot or funny.And your story is about one third done *g*
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
I should have warned you... Knowing that you usually read what I write, I am imensely glad you liked that one. I promise, the next one will be either hot or funny.And your story is about one third done *g*
Oh, dear! I really should hate you, but I just can't! This was too lovely, too touching and too perfect.I really think you've hit a home-run with this one: how else could they live (or not) without each other? It would be very hard for me to see Severus without her or vice-versa.Very, very well done!You deserve some kind of medal for this! Bravissima!
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
You just gave me the medal with your review!*bows*Maybe love like theirs is rare in real life; that's why I have to write about it in fandom. Thanks for reviewing, dear!
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
You just gave me the medal with your review!*bows*Maybe love like theirs is rare in real life; that's why I have to write about it in fandom. Thanks for reviewing, dear!
You made me cry!Beautiful, but oh so sad.
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Thanks for liking and reviewing!
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Thanks for liking and reviewing!
*sniff* Moved to tears. But I don't think it's a sad story. When people die young, without having lived their life to the fullest, when they die unloved and needlessly, that's sad. Dying after a full life, having loved so much, even if it's because of a disease, isn't sad. It's moving. :)
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Like Snape dying on the floor of the Shrieking Shack. Ever since I read that, I do all my best to make it undone. I give him a life, love, children, quite often. That's how I want it to be and that's how the story really ends, in my world. Thanks for reading and reviewing, dear!
I have tears running all the way down the neck of my nightgown in rivulets between my breasts. I know it's something that happens to all of us someday, but it is something that leaves such a lonely and empty sadness to realize that we will all likely miss someone we loved...forever. And that is what makes our faces crumble, our lips to quiver and the tears to flow with every blink of our reading eyes, unimpeded down our cheeks, our necks and our breasts. How sweet that Severus and Hermione don't have to worry about that. Isn't magic wonderful! I am sad that Hermione and Severus are dying, but these tears are not the bitter angry ones I cried when Severus Snape died alone in the shrieking shack after a lonely life of pain, being misused, hated, tortured, and having sacrificed himself to save a bunch of stupid, ignorant people who didn't even care that he was killed needlessly for the sake of their useless arses arses I am happy for Hermione that she had the choice and Severus who loves her so much that he helped her. I am happy for Severus that he can go with her. I wish I thought my own death someday would be so lovely. At the time of my choosing, in the arms of my lover, knowing we would meet on the other side right away and be together forever. O, that it would be so. I am sorry for their children. Will they ever meet again in the sweet by in by, dear chivalric? Off topic, did you choose your name for Prince Chivalric in the Assassin's Apprentice? That book series made me cry but I read all of them the and the spin offs and sequels numerous times.
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Thanks for reading, and crying, and reviewing. It was the sole reason for me to write this story, making people cry...And yes, my name was stolen from Ms. Hobbs great books. Although I had Fitz in mind when I nicked it. So glad finally someone recognized it *hugs*
As sad as this was, it was beautiful and touching.
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Thanks for liking and reviewing!
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
Thanks for liking and reviewing!
This made me sad but not in the sense one might think. This made me sad because having watched my mother suffer with cancer, I wished she could have gotten the 'happy ending' yours got here. Beautifully done.
Response from chivalric (Author of Journey's End)
*does not know what to say*Thank you for reading this story although it made you sad; thank you for leaving a review and letting me know about it.