Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh. OH MY GOD. This is... so fabulous.

I adore the Tom/Isabelle interaction. They're just so different, but as siblings usually do, they know each other. Yet he's still surprised when Isabelle hugs him - I adored that bit.

And Isabelle and Miss Helena! *wibbles* I love that it left me wondering where Isabelle's feelings for her really came from. Whether she really felt for her as a person, or whether it grew from Miss Helena being someone who understood her and cared for her, in ways that her parents didn't seem to. Or some combination thereof.

And of course the pictures just make it that much more awesome. They add so much (seriously, every fic should be illustrated). I love the way the illustrations are done, though. Almost like they're not illustrations but snapshots, and I shouldn't call them illustrations, even, because implies that the story was written and then the images were taken out of it. But it feels like it's the other way around. Like real memory, where it's often a tiny image you remember, and then the story flows from that.

(And there's even mascara-tears! SO MUCH LOVE.)

And I'm totally in love with Isabelle's hand in Touched. Just for the record.