It's very well written as far as it goes, and I'm not saying I don't like the story overall, it's not at all how I see either character behaving at this point in the drama.

So there we are.

The work was the medium and the impetus for their relationship at that point.

So, at what point do you think that did change? Because it must have changed somewhere along the way for them to have ended up together at the end in IWTB, without the work to keep them together. Or do you just leave canon behind entirely after Requiem (a perfectly understandable choice, by the way, given the canon we were given)?