Tears of laughter, tears of sadness

I cried, I really cried when I read what cloudlessclimes wrote as a follow-up to Deeper Than All Roses. The pain, the sadness, the despair. The grief that everyone must at one time or another go through when a loved one leave us forever. She began thus ...

"I loved my friend. He went away from me.
There's nothing more to say.
The poem ends, Soft as it began ----
I loved my friend."
Langston Hughes

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But not all tears are of sadness, or evil, as Gandalf wisely said at the Gray Havens. I cried too, when I read these two fics but this time the tears that came forth were of laughter, and delight.

City of Night by montmorency and Mrs Craddock's Diary by arabia764.

The former is an Orlijah vampire!fic in which Elijah was an American vampire in Paris with Orlando as the tourist who was more than a little fascinated with his unconventional tour-guide, taking him on a journey to the darker side of the most romantic city in the world. Totally hilarious, brilliantly written.

The latter is an Orlijah, too, but one written in a fresh, new way. It's RPS Orlijah from the POV of one Mrs Craddock, an utterly charming elderly lady whose new job was to look after Elijah's and Orlando's apartment in London. I was in stitches the whole time I was reading it. And Part 2 is no less hilarious either.

Three fics that made me cry with sadness, and with laughter.

Thank you, ladies. You're all Awesome.