Sounds to me like a "summer of 1996 following the NK cliffhanger" fic, of which there were a few... It's not Ad Astra Per Aspera, though. If you can check the archive by dates, that might pull it up. Not sure. It's not ringing any bells with me.
PJ
"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."
--Stardust, Caroline K
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