Yay new chapter. I kinda agree with Brian here; Lisa going emo did seem a bit sudden. It makes perfect sense that she needs to confront her feelings after all this time, but I thought it could have been portrayed more gradually. She's more or less fine in Chapter 60, then at the start of Chapter 61 she's totally different. It's not like much time elapsed either. But the description of Lisa's emotions would have worked really well had there been some signs in Chapter 60.

I thoguht the panic attack was portrayed well (not that I'd know), and the session with Dr. Tanner was believable. I was snickering at Dr. Tanner continually asking her how she felt about things, which probably wasn't the reaction you were after, but it's good that Lisa feels a lot better (and strangely enough, I can see her spilling everything out to a stranger once she gets started; it's just that normally she wouldn't feel comfortable starting, like you said).

I really liked the scene with Gavin. 'Gavin was too macho to admit to her twice that he wanted to talk something over with her' made me laugh, but anyway. Gavin's brooding seems a lot more in-character just because he's been changing ever since he escaped the Union. And he's definitely had a lot to think about. It sounds like he's been thinking about it a lot too; the way he lists the deaths and tells Lisa what he has to do is so... resolute. Lisa and Gavin parting was done convincingly as well. Lisa's stubbornness, then giving in and making the promise made so much sense. You know, like them, I took their being together for granted as well. It wasn't until this scene that I thought about how close they'd have to be having been through all that stuff, because I'd never really considered them as anything other than two halves of a whole.

Waiting for the next chapter, as we always are. Except I think we've gotten used to months between chapters now