Sorry we kept you up late (I feel your pain; this chapter in particular meant my students got a very... sketchy first few classes! *laughs* I wonder if any of them read fic), but thank you for this delectable comment! We are so glad our vision of the episodes works for you; it's really interesting trying to actually stay firmly within the bound of canon (sometimes with less success than other times) but at the same time, really illuminate our own idea of what's going on. We try to make sure there's a basis in the original material to justify anything we do, and it's so great to know it works for you! Thank you so so much.

Yay on the ianto/Gwen thing. I have gotten to be a huge fan of their very complicated friendship, while writing this. *g*

And yeah, we're totally addicted.