Oh, this is just lovely! I like the way you've written the emotion around the edges, and the slow uneasy journey they take toward each other -- two steps forward, one step back. The dinner with Vecchio and Stella was particularly well done; it tugged my heartstrings so hard they twanged.
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Date: 2007-01-11 08:14 pm (UTC)Terrific story.