I love this! I cannot wait to move on to the next installment!

Author's Response: Thanks for reading through the first one first. Have fun reading the next. I'm still posting on that one.

Brilliant story. I liked it very much. All the tension and chemistry between them, I love stories like this. And Bill was definitely very sexy character. :) I spent all day reading this whenever I had time. And I'm going to read the sequel right now. You did an amazing job :)

Author's Response: Thanks you so much for your kind review. I worked so hard on Sense of Touch and it's nice to know that people enjoy reading it equally as much.

This was as wonderful as I expected it to be -even better, given it's finished and there's already a sequel being posted. You may want to consider marking this as completed so those wary of WIPs will give it a chance :) it's too good to pass up. I love how you made Bill powerful, masculine, and strong while still beautiful and attracted to men. It's refreshing and very skillfully done. Everything about this is less fanfiction and more real, honest-to-God storytelling than most fanfiction is. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute and can't wait for the rest :)

Author's Response: Oh that's great that it exceeded your expectations! I forgot to mark the story complete, but have just done so, thanks. I tried soooo hard to create a Bill where he was powerful and masculine but still the androgynous attractive guy we love. I didn't want to write girlBill anymore like I used to, so the fact that you loved that means so much to me. Go quickly now and read the sequel.

Hahaha couples' therapy with that group...wish I could see it!

Author's Response: It'd be special, that's for sure.

JESUS!!! oups! Sorry Bill!! This Story is so freaking GOOODDD!! i couldnt stop Reading for the last 2 days! I Love how you write, the Story is AWESOME and really really really interesting! Im your new fan!!! :D i Love the hate and Love relationship they have and everything seems so profound and real! I would like to live in your story!! :) i cant wait for Tom to let Bill in though... And there are still so many Things that arent explained!!! I CANTWAIT FOR THE SEQUEL! :D

I Love Love loveeeeee this story!! :)

I Love youuuu! :)

Author's Response: Haha, Bill would definately scold you for your cursing, lol. I'm glad you like the dynamic between Bill and Tom in this fic. Even though Tom is quite stubborn, I'm goign to try and soften that dynamic slightly in the next installment, to move their relationship furthur along.

I've had this fic in my tracked stories list ever since you posted the first chapter. Unfortunately, I hadn't had a chance to read it until now. I wish I would have read it from the moment I saw it because I am regretting not reading it then. I am glad I was able to find the time to read it now, though.

I'm not normally big on vampire/paranormal fics, but I couldn't not check this out. Not only do I love your writing and other fics, the description of the story got me really interested. I wasn't disappointed at all.

I love that this isn't like any other vampire fic on here. It isn't cheesy, where the characters fall in love and live happily ever after. It's got some substance and the pace of the fic is perfect. I absolutely love the characters you created and I am looking forward to the rest of this series.

Author's Response: I'm flattered that this fic was different enought to draw your interest, and it's great to hear that the summary was enticing. I worked really hard both on the depth on the characters, and on restraining myself from letting the plot move too quickly, so it's very reassuring that you like how that's all gone.

I really liked it... most of your stories are NC-17 but i didn´t miss sex in that one :D

Author's Response: Actually, it means a lot that you said that. I always like putting sexyness into my stories, but unfortunately in this segment of the fic, it just would have been sex for the sake of sex. Hopefully I'll be able to insert a bit more intimacy into the next installment.

YES, IT'S ME AGAIN!!! university survivor! even if i have 4 exams in sept and.... ._. yeah, sucks.

anyway, this chap was AWESOME even if not so long, but it fits like that, because it's not deep with action but...DAMNNN deep with emotions, and one of all is DETERMINATION! i felt it on Bill even when he broke his nose by making tom aware over the fact that he was shamelessly studying tom's face! ahah! i'm in love with this!!!! and i don't know why but i get the feeling tom is gonna be...." bottomized" by bill aha, tell me if i'm wrong, but yeah..feels like bill is going CRAZY over the need to HAVE tom, under him in every way possible, under his gaze, under his power, under his protection, and under his body!

i'm in lovee with this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and thank you so much for not putting in the police scene you just mentioned here, about them wanting to speak with tom, ... ah you remember what i think about it unfortunately XD

and about the sequels, i CANNOT WAIT seriously, CANNOT!!! i wanna see how tom's feelings will develop

OR NOT WAIT, they are already there, under the surface, is so obvious, he just has to...let it go a little of his stoic surface..

gosh they would make such a couple! and i can't wait for what kind of actions ( EVERY kind of actions ahah ) you will put us into!! ( even andrej jealousy mhh mhh... )

what worry me is the time, i imagine you had no free time because updates were so quick at first and later so slow, but that's life i guess... but i really wanna hope this "late update" thing for the sequels will not transform into a " forgotten fic" :'( i hate when it happens, and i really like this , like, like so much to be featured! because let's be honest, there is a big good twc fic gap here these times :/ and you really saved me XD )

Said that, i wanna apologies again for my english :' i'm Italian and i do what i can in writing

Author's Response: As the story was closing, I didn't feel that introducing more police action was a good idea. I'm glad that the dynamic of Bill and Tom's relationship seems to be botTomish to you, since that's fully what I intend. Tom and Bill's relationship will progress in the next sequel, and then even more in the last installment. I do have very limited time for writing these fics now that I am in pastry school, but I promise I will try to get the stories done as quickly as I can, and I will definately NOT forget about this story, so you don't have to worry about that. Your English was good enough to convey your thoughts, so it's no problem :)

Wow, this chapter had so much happen in it! I don't know where to begin~ I suppose a "thank you" first, for giving us such a long and eventful chapter!

It's cool to see how Tom and Bill's powers increase and augment each others'. And then they kissed twice! It's nead to read how Bill is attempting to reason through why he likes Tom so much, and Tom is reasoning through how he feels about Bill and the role Tom has in these events!

The boat scenes were like watching a movie! And as always, I love the first person perspective! You write it very well and you make Tom's narrative interesting and sassy.

The creature on the boat was very sad, I thought. Tragedy surrounded that creature. What does Sabine have planned and how is Bill going to keep himself and Tom from being targeted further and killed?

Author's Response: You're welcome! I was excited to write and post the big "culmination" action-packed chapter. I am slowly introducing more acceptance and openess, on both Bill and Tom's parts, towards their "relationship." I always say that hearing from a reader that my fic read like a movie is the BIGGEST compliment. That means I've done my job in conveying my vision to you! I'm glad you were left with a few questions come the end of the chapter, hopefully the next chap will provide some satisfying answers and conclusions.

Sarah sarah sarah, I just can’t keep way!
I’m so relieved you liked my review! Like I said it was the first opinion I ever gave on the internet, so I don’t know the etiquette, blah blah blah I was worried it was way too long -I’m terrible at moderating myself- and would accidently say something that would annoy.
‘lurking in a bush’ lol. Don’t worry I think my bush is well and truly gone! Razed to the ground.
I was so excited when you updated, I stayed up late reading it slowly, savouring every word.
You said in the notes were nearing the end? Noooo, I will be very sad.
I can’t believe that last time I never mentioned the fact that I wasn’t till I’d read a few chapters that I realised that you’ve written this in first person! Which normally I don’t like at all. But in this case love, I’m really starting to come around to first person thanks you and some other writers, we really get inside toms head, which I can see would be harder to do in third person, even if that meant you could flit into the other characters heads and give us their thoughts, but this way, it gives those other characters more enigma! Hmm enigma, something all the old Hollywood stars had, something in short supply these days, don’t you agree? Because I just can’t stand how overexposed everyone is these days, in the words of Russell brand, ‘people live their life like an open wound’ those words just really resonated and stuck with me – a slight digression sorry!, anyway but then alas! Then I remembered, of course Tom’s clairvoyant! So if the plot dictates that tom touches another person’s skin we can have their thoughts and feelings. How cunning of you, and I didn’t even notice at first, but now I’m on to your tricks!
In an attempt to be critical and finicky, I wasn’t sure I liked the use of the sentence “(in a guest bedroom upstairs, thank you very much)”, well really just the use of the word ‘you’ because even though it’s first person and were in toms head and he’s describing what happening. He never addresses the reader directly, (or if he has this is the first time I’ve noticed it) and I just feel like the use of the pronoun ‘you’ breaks the 4th wall. I probably just don’t like this, because I had to study ‘the handmaid’s tale’ twice, TWICE god damn (sorry bill!) dystopian literature.
I’m really liking Bill’s new honest and direct attitude towards tom; revealing his feelings and being so open, but... I think bill’s only being this forward because he knows logically there’s no other option! After all Bill’s already proven himself to be an evil genius worthy of Machiavelli. I imagine his (HIGHLY simplified) thought process on the matter to be something like this... “Okay, I really like tom, ideally I would like to become intimate with him but play it off as a casual thing, keeping my feelings secret, thus maintaining the power in our dynamic. But... he’s touch clairvoyant! That level of physical contact would give me way, so if I want him that leaves no option but to be honest with my feelings now, lest I be caught out later” Later we discover that tom doesn’t get much trace of bill when they’re kissing, but bill doesn’t know this! Don’t dismiss me as a mad woman! Look I have proof! All the way back in the chapter two, tom says ‘I don’t know any of your secrets’ and bill says ‘don’t you?’ and seems thoughtful. I think was bit was clearly meant to show that bill thought tom has ‘seen’ lots from him, during their previous association? you feel me? Damn I should be a lawyer.
I’m not much of a gamer, but my dad is, so occasionally I will play one!, I love assassin’s creed, only question is which costume is it, altair or enzo?.. Wow that’s really geeky of me. But just imagining tom dressed like that made me think you should write that story next! set in the holy land, tom can be the assassin, and bill can the leader of the evil templar’s. It’s a hot summer night, moonlight and gentle breeze streaming through the drapes on the open balcony. Tom’s on a mission the assassinate him to bring about peace in the land. Tom watches bill stealthily from high up on his perch, hidden in the shadows, as the templar prepares for bed. When he’s certain bills sleep, he descends, pulls out his ‘weapon’... and ‘stabs’ him hard... Maybe? Joking! joking ;)
It’s interesting that when their 'making out' as you american's say, tom is the one who gets ‘squished against the door’ which is obviously the more submissive position, and he allows bill to lead and be the dominate figure, citing his experience. Makes me wonder who would top? I’ve never really been one for bot-tom, but I really liked this actually. It fits and is in tune with the rest of the story, and the characterisation. It just felt ‘right’. I’m surprising myself lately, enjoying all these new and different things, first the tomshido in Mizu’s epic Delusions of narcissus, I’m coming around to first person and now this! Benefits of an open mind, nothing wrong with liking what you like, but sometimes we limit ourselves don’t you think?

I think Bill seems smug when tom mentions Andrej, and says he’s bills ‘boyfriend’ because, he infers that tom is jealous, and therefore must have some feelings for him. It would account for bill mood changes, from angry to self satisfied near the beginning in this chapter.

I was convinced something would go wrong on the boat, especially when tom recognised the smell from hid memory of the victims trace. I was on edge the whole time, convinced Sabine would say “oh let’s take the boat for a little cruise” and them when they were all trapped in the middle of the sea she would spring a nasty surprise on them.
I didn’t mention it in my earlier review but actually I was feeling very sorry for Seveta. Just imagine how you would feel being abandoned your most loved one. But now of course, I can’t believe she hates Andrej to the extent that she would try to have him framed and killed! That shit cray.

I did see from my stalking of your comments of another review you had squeals planned? Write them! You simply must. It would be a shame if you went to the trouble of creating such a vivid and beautiful world and characters, only to utilise it with one plot.
All in all a lovely long well written chapter xx

Author's Response: It seems like quite a feat, to be able to alter your opinion on an entire style of writing, so I am proud. As for your finiky bit: he's more reasserting himself, rather than directly adressing you. I do have him address the reader very occasionally, like in chapter 2 where he says "For those who have never studied the anatomy of a cathedral..." and then of course there are half and half bits where he's sort of explaining something about his world like "You'd see it on the news sometimes; some congressman flipping his lid over..." but here he's not technically adressing YOU the reader, even though he uses the word "you." As to your analysis of Bill's thought process and his suspicion about Tom's clairvoyance: you're right! I have to say I'm thouroughly impressed that you remember tiny little things like "don't you?" I was worried nobody would know what Tom's costume would look like. I don't play video games but my boyfriend does, so I know what Altair's costume looks like. I DEFINATELY intend for most, if not all sexual contact between Bill and Tom in this fic to be botTom, to some extent. Like you said: it just fits. I hope you liked the boat scene and that the action seemed well-timed and more organic than not. I had an niggling doubt that it was too... forced or something, and one reviewer kind of reinforced that idea with their comments. It's cool to hear all of the things you thought would happen in this chap though. Yes, Sveta's an overreacter, but maybe sliiiightly sympathetic. And yes, I have two sequels roughly outlined. I've actually tried to begin some writing on the first sequel, but it isn't happening very fast, now that I'm suuuuuuuuuuuper busy with pastry school. All my free time is basically working out now! Thank you so much for this amazing review. I really hope you continue to comment on thestuff I post, since nobody makes as many comments as you and comments are truely like crack.