Zen wrote :

This is beautiful.

Thankyou.

Thanks. It was partly-inspired by Joseph Palmer's 'Red' fic....and started
out with a totally unoriginal title : "Blue".  Then I got stuck on what the
heck I could do with 'Blue' that wouldn't just be a rehash of 'Red'.  Then
it struck me.  At 1am in the morning, no less.

How is it beautiful, if I may ask?  Maybe we should make a new category of
fics....[TJ]  (Tear Jerker).