Thanks for commenting. I agree with everything you wrote here, so that's always nice to see. LOL.

The last line carries a double meaning, I think. The safe-sex comment refers to the AIDs epidemic, which was still in full force when the show was airing. Sex using barrier methods is the norm now. But it also refers obliquely to the sex that saved them both from harm, returning them to the safety of the timeline where ironically, they hadn't had sex.

I think she's making a little meta-comment about fanfiction versus canon, don't you? They're sexing like mad in fic, yet every week, they're returned to the series timeline where they're celibate.