This's got to be one of the best fics I've ever read. So in character is almost scary (in a good way, if that makes any sense) and yet it got to its goal: making this two a wonderful, strong, loving couple. "Congratulations" is the best my English let's me say(I'm from Argentina, so my first language is Spanish), but I don't think I could properly express how much I liked this story in any language. Yeah, it's that good.
Well, I hope you're doing fine (this was really written in 2004? Wow, that seems like a lifetime ago...), great, actually. A person with this much of a writing talent certainly deserves to be doing as good as life would let us.

Is there anything more to this story/pairing in your archives? I'm gonna go look around.

Take care!

Oh, btw, Happy New Year!!!