Thanks to Carol and Kathy, who looked this over for me... I was going to wait until after Kerth season to post this, maybe wait 'til the boards' anniversary in April... but then I decided I'm too impatient for that smile

Hope you like it! I see this as the final, final, *last* story in this six-party "trilogy" (hence the title) -- I hope you'll find it a good wrap-up.

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