burn the shoes and boil the rice

This one makes me tear up it’s so lovely. All of the fake marriage scenarios are inventive and delightfully amusing – their antagonistic banter is just on point. In contrast, the last ‘scenario’ squeezes my heart so brilliantly, even after having read this quite a few times. Vala pushes as she does, and Daniel just… can’t take it anymore. The walls crack open in a beautifully Daniel way.