And just when you think the angst is over, it turns out that it's still all there, just in a different form. (I'm addicted, but I'm feeling this inexplicable urge to shout at my computer "Just kiss him already, you feckin' moron!" Ah, fanfic.)

There is a law of conservation of angst in fanfic; you always have at least as much angst at the end as you did at the beginning, unless you account for the fact that angst always increases. You can exercise therapy upon the angst, but doing so always causes an increase of angst elsewhere in fandom...Angst can spread and diffuse, but in the end there will always be an inevitable increase of angst...

(D'oh. Mr Davis is contagious...that, or I just enjoy the concept of entropy too much.)