...while at work, and to make it less conspicuous I left out the quote marks for the dialogue. And now I want to keep it that way.
Edit Upon re-reading it, however, it gets too complicated w/o quotes so i put them in. it's on my fic-journal if you so care to read. it'll also be cross-posted to
alphabetasoup,
fanfic100 and
OzMIA.