I just finished reading this. I don't cry easily AT ALL, but this fic did it! Oh, such a heart-wrenching ending!
I was skeptical about Bill and Andreas at first, but this totally turned me around! (Still love BillxTom, though!)
Love love love

Let me just say I laughed through my teary eyes when I caught "We're going back to our roots." That was sooo touching. Just one shining bit in the brilliant masterpiece that is this story.
I read it all on one shot, starting last night and only stopping when total exhaustion took me. And now here I am at the end and I honestly don't know what else to say. Other than that I'll definitely be checking out what else you've written.
So thank you so much for the emotional journey

Hehe, for some reason the sticky, semen-covered hands amused me and made me smile

Author's Response: It\'s such a common thing, they can\'t make themselves care anymore whether they\'re sticky pawed. :)

EEEE! I went on youtube and listened to the song (Adam's version) while reading this. It made it three times as good.
Wow, I wasn't wrong back in chapter 2; this IS a wonderful story. It makes me so happy inside.

First off, let me say that I noticed and LOVED the way the switching parts of the marriage and the battle fit together. It was just GENIUS and I can so easily see how this would play out in a movie :)

Secondly, *loud wail of distress* how could Bushido die?! No!! Omg, I have never, ever liked Bushido in any fic! And you guys made me care for him!! DX
I'm so sad; I almost never cry, and yet I currently have tears in my eyes! :(

Wow, I remember reading this so long ago (last year), back when I first discovered this site...

Still just as emotionally twisting and raw as the first time. Tear-jerking :(

Oh no!! Georg thinks that Tom is raping Bill D:

I'd expected him to be a little heartbroken, but not come to that conclusion.

That Georg and Gustav fiasco towards the beginning was really funny XD On the flipside, guh, David/Dave really is the worst manager ever. He's the very definition of exploit.

Lol, in the next Gs section, I was crazy amused by how deep in denial Gustav is XD "It's not gay, they just sometimes have sex!" XD Anyway, they have a very interesting set-up!

Lol, towards the end, Tom's line. "Big fuckin' cat."

Positive image on David, as well. I almost regret saying that comment in the last review. Almost =P

Those t-shirts XD

Okay, this was a very confusing chapter for me :( Perhaps you should think about inserting page breaks whenever you change the scene or jump into a flashback, because I felt whiplashed.

I didn't understand the flashback at all. The parents were separating but they weren't divorced? The dad was taking Bill? Why? I'm pretty sure custody rulings are *after* a couple has filed for divorce. And it said they hadn't.

And I didn't comprehend why their father (I'm assuming that's Jorg) was yelling at Simone for separating the twins when HE was the one dragging Bill away @__@ By appearances, HE is the one separating them.

And I thought it was just strange that the dad was making it out to be like he was separating them forever. Again, all while yelling that Simone was the one doing all the damage -.-

And then it said: Every week a different strange man would come and steal Bill. Different man each time? What, was Simone dating a different man each week? Unless that was the court-ordered official who was in charge of escorting Bill to their dad's house. In which case, I think maybe it should have been made clearer.

I'm sorry, I really want to understand this :( But I've always been very bad at reading between the lines and picking up non-verbal/non-obvious cues.

Author's Response: The issue about Simone and Jorg\'s relationship was a lot more unclear when I started writing this than it is now. At the time the twins were claiming they were divorced which we subsequently learned was a bit of a stretch. It appears fairly clear they were never married and that the twins were bastards. Be that as it may, he paid child support and was entitled to custody visits as their father. In this story they are sharing custody and attempting to play nice before the divorce is final and a custody decree is in place. Since she is the one cheating on her husband, (or leaving him for a better man) she\'s being careful not to make herself look bad to the court.\r\n\r\nI made it happen earlier in the story than it really happened in their real lives. Here the parents went their separate ways when the twins were four, whereas in real life it happened when they were seven. Also the twins went to live with their grandparents and not Simone and Gordon when they finally got together. For the purposes of my story, I preferred to make them younger and omit their grandparents.\r\n \r\nTheir father would be entitled to visitation regardless of their marital situation, and his fury with Simone is because in his mind, this entire situation of him having to come and get one of his children for \"visits\" is entirely her fault for leaving him for another man. It becomes clear later on that Simone wouldn\'t let him take both of them at one time for fear he\'d abscond with them and not bring them back. Without a legal court order, if he took them, it would be extremely hard for her to regain them. He is furious that he can\'t have both his sons at once, and that he is faced with hysterical dramas when he comes to get his dearly loved child. For all he knows, she is deliberately trying to upset them before he arrives. The situation gets so bad he starts sending his friends over to collect him so he doesn\'t have to deal with screaming scenes in the street.

Author's Response: The issue about Simone and Jorg\'s relationship was a lot more unclear when I started writing this than it is now. At the time the twins were claiming they were divorced which we subsequently learned was a bit of a stretch. It appears fairly clear they were never married and that the twins were bastards. Be that as it may, he paid child support and was entitled to custody visits as their father. In this story they are sharing custody and attempting to play nice before the divorce is final and a custody decree is in place. Since she is the one cheating on her husband, (or leaving him for a better man) she\'s being careful not to make herself look bad to the court.I made it happen earlier in the story than it really happened in their real lives. Here the parents went their separate ways when the twins were four, whereas in real life it happened when they were seven. Also the twins went to live with their grandparents and not Simone and Gordon when they finally got together. For the purposes of my story, I preferred to make them younger and omit their grandparents.Their father would be entitled to visitation regardless of their marital situation, and his fury with Simone is because in his mind, this entire situation of him having to come and get one of his children for \"visits\" is entirely her fault for leaving him for another man. It becomes clear later on that Simone wouldn\'t let him take both of them at one time for fear he\'d abscond with them and not bring them back. Without a legal court order, if he took them, it would be extremely hard for her to regain them. He is furious that he can\'t have both his sons at once, and that he is faced with hysterical dramas when he comes to get his dearly loved child. For all he knows, she is deliberately trying to upset them before he arrives. The situation gets so bad he starts sending his friends over to collect him so he doesn\'t have to deal with screaming scenes in the street.

Author's Response:

Wow! That was somehow sexy, confusing, with a touch of surreal.

Oh, when the story says Dave, I'm guessing you mean David Jost. Because he's their manager. Dave, I think, refers to Dave Roth, who is one of their producers.

Author's Response: Yes, The Dave in the story is David Jost. I call him Dave in the story, and not David, because Tom calls him Dave when they are out at events, and I assume the others do to.