Thank you. It pains me too -- which is why I don't usually write death fic (ner death all the time!) butthee was something about them fighting through all of it, maybe even recognizing they couldn't win and yet still finding a way to *live* with it and through it, and even finding moments of solace and peace and even purpose to it all. And I liked (if that's the word) that thorugh all of it, death still had to come to them and trick them, becasue othewise they'd just have kept cheating death.