Carlotta

Welcome back and congratulation on getting back on the saddle, I kind of know it is not easy. A few years ago you told me you were thinking about re-editing your stories after I made some remarks about the name you chose for the french characters, I told you I thought that your stories were great the way they are, but you chose a good way to get back. In the end the names do not matter, after all I am a french girl with a typical french name, Charlotte, but since the birth of the new princess in england, everybody think it is an english name. I love when write about France and Paris in particular. After all I was born and raised in Paris and lived there, I think it is a wonderful city and would be even better without the Parisian.

Can't wait to meet Ethan and see how he will interact with Wade and Will. Tony, Tony, Tony... He really needs to grow up, he remind me of a child in a candy store who can decide what he wants, so picks everything in sight, eat them all until he is sick. Thank you for this amazing story.

I was expecting some devious plans from Elizabeth and wondering what she may have concocted that I was surprise from the begining to the end. The expected did not happen but the unexpected was definitly there. It is sad that Ethan had to spend half his life on a boarding school without any family life. Senator Danfield has always been a womanizer so it that surprising that he had a child. All through history, men from prominent families always seemed to have an illegitimate child, thanks to arranged marriages. Well done.

A bonus point to Nana, it is a really good idea to call a grief conselor. Having all this group "confined" at the same place with a counselor will also help to built a new, more sane, dynamic within the family. I liked learning more about Darrius and seeing a new face of JJ, I think all this will help to create a new bond between the brother, and between Brad and his sons. I called Elizabeth Danfield a black widow previously but that not a good idea as I love spiders. They are fascinating creatures, and Mrs Danfield use the same predator technic, waving its web in the dark corners, almost invisible ... Will she really wait until after the funerals ?

The next few days in Goodwell should be interesting. Lot of emotionaly charged people in the same place : beware of the sparks. It could be good, they could relied on each other to help with their grief but they could also tear each other throat. I am waiting for the meeting between Elizabeth Danfield and JP : he is very close to Wade and I think he may destabilize Elizabeth, as Wade does in a way.

Thank you for posting so quickly.I think it is worst to keep waiting for news, any news, not knowing and against expectation, keeping your hopes up, than knowing the reality, even when it is bad. Claire and co should be inform now if it not already done : they follow what was happening and have no way to know what is going on since Brad called.I also worry about Franck, losing a hild is one of the worst thing that can happen, but thankfully Isidore would be here for him. About Senator Danfield, I am more worried about his ex-wife than sad about his death. He died somehow in a nice way and had worked a lot to expiate his past faults. I can only imagine how hard it is for you to do research and write about this event but even if 12 years have passed, so much happened as a result, and so quickly, we are still grieving and I hope it will help everybody to move on

I can't stop crying, I feel like I lost a friend. So close and yet so far... Now it is time for the ones left behind. It was hard to read because we made me feel like I was there. Chapeau bas for an amazing writer.

I didn't see things from his perspective, thanks to remind me. You are right he would have feel guilty and that would consume him lkie a virus. I also kind of forgotten the fact that they are part of a big, close and loving family that will support them not matter what. It is a bit ironic, the fact that your story is about a big loving family that we follow through generations is what I love the most. Sure, they all have their fault, but they love and help eachother, for me it is a dream. There is a quote often use that is : You do not choose your family. You prove that wrong, that family is less link by blood than by love. Thank you.

I agree that looking back always make decision easier, especlialy were you are not the one living it, but when you have children, you are a parent first, or should be. Children are the one left behind, and hearing your parent is dead but he/she try to save people, do not change the reality of loss. So when you have one parent already out of the picture the best thing you can do is being the pillar your child need the most. I may seem a bit vindictive here but I was an orphan before I reach my 18th birthday. I lived the hurt and the lonelyness that came with the death of a parent when my mother died first when I was 13 on a car crash and I saw my father drunk himself to death after that. Sure we cannot compare because here Robbie try to save someone not kill himself but with 2 parents probably already out of the picture the safety of the children come first. The people that I admire the most from that are from the plane that crash in Pensylvania. The passenger learn what happened at the WTC and they knew they were probably going to die not matter what, so they decided to at least avoid the death of others from the crash of the plane.

I will say it again, I am realy angry about Robbie. He does the most horrible thing, yes it is a nice and heroic gesture to try and save Jeanine and Hank but he knows there is a big chance they will not make it, so the goodbye message, and he does not know that Brad is probably safe, he was suppose to be on the top of the tower when the first plane crashed. So he goes on a sucide mission and his children are still not off the wood yet, with a good chance of leaving them completly orphans having lost all three parents. So that does not qualify as a heroic selfless act, it is pure stupidity. Lot of people risked thier lives to save other on the tower, and many lost their lives in the process, but they were professionnals who had an idea of the risk they took, and their children are safe and sound with the other parent or family member. That is a big difference, even if it not that much of a confort for the family they left behind.

I was so much focused on the WTC that I forgot about the Pentagon, at least senator Danfield died happy. I hope that will not revive his black widow. But I am angry about Robbie getting back, I know it is noble and everything but he explained things before getting down and he leaves his children, still in danger, to fetch some stubborn and not the most sympatic women. I really thought he would have escaped now it doesn't seem that way. Only 4 people escaped the south tower from above the impact through the stairway A, Robbie, Darius, Will and Maddie that was 4, now what ? I admire JP he knows he cannot do anything to help his family but he stays close and helps the way he can. I am more worry now than ever, I don't know how I will cope until the next chapter is posted.

Hello everybody, I am new in posting... I need to work on my english writing but I became so enthralled in Mark Arbour's CAP story, especially now that it reflects recent history that touched us all, that I decided to risk writing, even if it makes people cringe.

It was the beginning of the afternoon (6 hours time difference), I just got home from viewing the editing of a concert we shoot several weeks earlier and I put on the TV to have some background noise while I work on some paperwork. Usually at this time of the day we have a soap opera or some lame movies on TV so when I saw the tower in flame I thought it was a catastrophe movie, even when I saw the plane hit the second tower few seconds later I did not think it was real, I could not believe it. It took at least 4 or 5 minutes for me to realize it was really happening and it was not a movie. At that moment I was afraid for few seconds for my brother : few years earlier he was a flight attendant in Air France from June to October and he was a the plane who took off just behind the TWA which exploded in flight, I was sure when I heard the news at that time he was on that plane. He was doing a Paris New York flight, one way as a passenger (with an other company than AF) and the other as an attendant, I didn't knew on which one was on TWA. I finally remembered he was at his office at La Defence. I stayed glue to the TV, tears in my eyes, paperwork forgotten until my brother come back home several hours later.

Well... it seems that Bard and Stef had a close call but will make it they should have anough time to get out even with a sore ankle. Darius, Robbie Will and Maddie can get out, there was a flight of stairs free from top to bottom but they do not have a lot of time, they better run. I am less hopefull concerning Jeannine and Hank, time is short, and the smoke will push them up very soon. If Jeannine don't make it, and unfortunatly it is propably the case, I am worry about the impact it will have on JJ : he is not very stable emotionnaly and he will feel very guilty. In the meantime his reaction is quite normal, he just woke up and he doesn't know or doesn't realize what is going on but he has the good idea to go to a safe place where his family can congregate.

I did love the idea of having a lecture about the Vietnam war, and a mention about the first Gulf war, the day before the event used to justify the war in Irak to the americans. So ironic. The chapter reminded me how 9/11 brought out the best and the worst of the american people. The best was how everybody has united to help each other, risking their own lives and even sacrifice themselves to save others. On the other hand, the war in Irak reminded me this proportion to act like a sheriff : shoot first ask later. That is the thing that always made me feel inconfortable every time I went in the US, no matter how much the people there welcomed me.