Thank you. I was trying to emulate/recreate the same feeling I had at the very end of the season finale - that, yes, everything had gone to hell, but it was going to be okay (part of the reason I used the icon I did on the post).

As for companion pieces - well, I've already written and posted one story that takes place in this same (hopefully not AU) 'verse: Dying When You're Not Really Sick.