I absolutely adored this piece of fiction. I think that it is by far my favorite that I've read from JuC day yet. The parallels that you drew between their real life struggles and the AU characters were great, but you threw enough of your own touches in to make them your own. That makes for fabulous story-telling. And the setting makes me want to start planning my vacation right now!

I have always loved AU's (and just about everything else) and now I am going to have to go read the rest of the stories that I just discovered when I clicked into this LJ! Thank you so much for sharing this with us!