Gah, The End of the Road! That story haunts me. The problem is that Kat's realism is so perfect, so uncompromisingly razor-sharp real that somehow this story's embedded itself into my memories of canon -- it's realer than the real episodes! Like, whenever I musingly think about Ray and Fraser sledding off into the sunset, my automatic next thought is: "Oh yeah, and [deleted for spoilitude]." And then I have to REMIND myself that it's just The End of the Road and not ACTUAL CANON. But still. ARGH.