!! Thank you so much! *_* ♥ I'm really, really flattered that you enjoyed this story and so happy that you came back to read it after a first skim! I also didn't know how I would salvage it, because the love potion plot materialised immediately but at first I couldn't see how I could possibly end it on an at least hopeful not. There was a significant false start to the tune of a 28K word fic with a contrived and really painfully OOC happy ending, which my betas beat me up for, predictably. Then I got the idea to use a device from anjenue's own Subtle Nuances and one that's been used time and time again to avoid Confessions of Doom, and all was well with the rewrite. >.>