This is just absolutely amazing -- the way the timescale blends and merges, the sharp images contrasting with the dream-like overlay that time has given the story. The immediacy and pain of Hal and Edward, and the conversation that must have happened, in any AU or even just as a missing canon-scene, and the reassurance that Edward cannot quite give because he does not quite believe it himself.

Turnbull and Asser, seasoned with a little New Hampshire earth.

Beautiful.