Oh, yay, I'm so glad you liked it! I had to have Buck do the last minute rescue thing, and the first scene which popped into my head? The "good thing" scene from ODOW.

I envisioned it sometime after the official end of canon, and I figured the boys would be "townsfolk" by then - if not in their minds, then in the minds of the rest of the citizens.

The tone comments might be familiar. I decided what words I wanted and went looking for quotes. None of the quotes quite said it right, so I paraphrased and combined ideas to get them across.