*blushes* Thank you. :)

I just... for whatever reason, this pairing has always screamed anger and desperation and guilt for me, so getting a chance to really explore it in my own fic is very exciting.

I have to admit, one of the things that's going to be hard about this series is the lack of hope in it - in even my darkest stories that I've written (to-date), there's always an element of hope, but this time around, I'm not very sure how much room there is for that.