Thank you thank you thank you everyone!
I'm glad I'm not the only one that cried during this chapter. I tell you, I was sitting here bawling my eyes out at 2 a.m while I was writing it. <passes around the tissues>
The next chapter should be up later this evening--probably within six to eight hours, depending on whether I want to make this a normal-lengthed chapter, or the longest chapter I've posted so far. We'll just see, I suppose.
<crosses fingers>
SmirkyRaven