To people who might be thinking of starting the fic, but want to know more than can be gleaned from the summary ( Read more... )

:) I do it so well, after all.

Thanks for the "welcome back" wishes - and for them, I have a New Year's pressie in return. I lopped this off the end of a short fic I'm writing for a friend; this ending no longer fit, but it was hard to let it go. So here it is: an end without a beginning.
( The End )