Where They Have To Take You In  Part Seven of Ten  by Herself
Summary: "There are things everywhere that'll break your heart.
Just break it." "Fortunately, you can live a big big life, even
with a broken heart." Rating: NC-17 Story Notes: Number umpty-
something of The Bittersweets Series. Set twenty-one years after
the events of "Mrs Grieves & The Abandoned Husband." Disclaimer:
All hail Joss from whom all these characters flow Completed:
August, 2004 Thanks: To Varina8, who consented to be spoiled
when this was a Work in Progress, to help me plot it all out.
And to everyone who read this in parts in my LJ and spurred me
on with great hot lashings of creamy enthusiasm, praise, and
character analysis. Thanks to Orthoepy and Lovesbitca for
suggesting or inspiring character names.  They have to take you
in."  "I should have called it Something you somehow haven't to
deserve."  —Robert Frost, The Death of the Hired Man, 1915
Days, low down in the hold with the loud metallic creaking of
the ship, the scrabbling