I'm a latecomer to this fic, but by golly, it's incredible! Only 2 or 3 more chapters to go? Oh, dear. Please, please, update soon!
“Is he dead, Lois?”
“No! But I was really mad and I wanted to kick him between the legs and pull his nose off and put out his eyes with a freshly sharpened pencil and disembowel him with a dull letter opener and strangle him with his own intestines but I stopped myself just in time!” - Further Down The Road by Terry Leatherwood.