No I don't think you sound dramatic at all! I had this happen to me before one was "Terminus" from Judy Gran in Star Trek (the whole fic and the ending had me numb for months, I ended up in tears more times than I can count every time I thought about it) one of the early 80's K/S fic and the other was "Shield Brothers Arc" by Maygra in Highlander, which is kinda silly cause the ending is happy, but to get there you had to.... sort of die in the progress!
I find that I don't really mind sad fics, as long as the ending can give me hope, IYAP took all that way and then stomped on me *g* And I know what you mean about Rakina and fixing it!
*thinks some more* Okay, so I just remembered more stories in more fandoms like that. It seems that all fandoms have a couple of stories that left people shaking and crying.