See, I am glad that I told you to stop wibbling. In fact, I should have told you earlier to stop wibbling and post it because it so needs to be out and posted so that people can read.

The stories share a few key ideas, but you've used them on different characters, for different plot devices and so they have fundamentally different connotations and play out. Using Kate as a sounding board for Tony is far different from Ziva in the end because of who they are and how they related to her in the first place. Personally, I think the world needs both stories ... if nothing else for the image of Tony sitting down near the boat, drinking soda. Drinking soda whilst imagining Kate as a solace and voice of reason. Actually, it is a lot more like Grace Under Pressure in that regard. *g*

It’s just sense memory, he knows; a playback from the quieter moments in their own little indigo world, waiting for an end that didn’t come.

I love the phrase and idea of an indigo little world. Love it.

Hey look, you made me read two things in another fandom. Two!