This was the second-place finisher in the concept vote-off, and has gone up as a complete work: over 13k on the word count, with no more to come -- although the events themselves are going to need some kind of sequel eventually. And it's another one of the AU break points: similar to what happened in Post Negative Comments Only, there's no going back after this.
I'm guessing there's going to be a fair number of downvotes on this one, and some will be from those who want me to stick closer to canon, don't like everything which went into this -- it links into a large number of previous stories -- or just dislike the 'verse, period. (Oh, and a few from those who just didn't enjoy the story.) But it's one of those things which was going to happen eventually, and it happened today.
The end is the beginning.