Oh WOW. I mean, wow. Plot!!! And they're still them! I really like having an AU where J&R don't have some sort of instantaneous unique connection, but where it has to *grow*, like a real feeling. And O'Neill is a scream.

The OCs are excellent, fitting in flawlessly and not (as too often happens) hijacking the plot to lecture the characters on what they should be doing/feeling. The setting, the mistakes, the banter and the rubbing each other wrong, the h/c, it's all good.

Santa been good to us this year.