YMMV / Leaving Town

• Angst? What Angst?: Erwin isn't affected all that much by her father's passing, saying that she "barely knew him anymore."
• Designated Hero: Mitchell badly injures two players at a lacrosse game, one of whom suffers a concussion. In the aftermath of the incident, he insists on doing tankery because he wants something to do, not realizing that if he gets into trouble, he'll undermine the movement to include boys in tankery (something that's pointed out in the story). Other characters call him out on his actions, so he avoids being Unintentionally Unsympathetic, but you have to wonder who in their right mind would let him take part in tankery, let alone command the team.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: While there was no guarantee of it being executed well, the plotline about Erwin's strained relationship with her mother over her remarrying so quickly after the loss of her husband could have been an interesting plotline that might have given some depth to Erwin as a character. Instead, the plotline is swept under the rug after a heart-to-heart mother-daughter talk in Chapter 2, and ends up being an excuse to make Erwin move to Canada.
• Values Dissonance: As a result of increased awareness of the lingering effects of concussions and CTE in the years since the fic was first published in early 2014, the police officer's reassuring Mitchell that the player with a concussion has "nothing too bad" comes off as rather naive.