Author's Note

Oookay, so... here's the thing.

I'm quite a big fan of the idea of "crack shipping", particularly when said ships are taken seriously by the work. So, when I saw a contest revolving around it, I was quite happy but...

Well, there have been contests in the past where I've very much approved of the subjects and haven't felt any need to enter them myself, but this time, for some reason, it just felt... wrong not to. Even though I didn't have any ideas for stories or ships at first, the ship I eventually came up with after searching for one isn't even all that creative and I really doubt my ability to believably write romance, I just felt like I needed to... put my money where my mouth is, so to speak.

Combining all of this with the inclusion of both Spitfire letting out her anger as part of their relationship dynamic and a scene involving one party drunk (both things that are... spectacularly easy to screw up, I doubt I need to tell you) and the fact I kind of had to rush the second half to fit under the word limit and... yeah, I am not happy with this one, but I can't really bring myself not to put it out there, if only to get feedback on what could be improved (even if I suspect the answer is 'everything'). I sincerely apologize if I screwed up anything about the topics I was trying to handle. Hopefully, I entertained you a little bit.