LOL, thanks! What's funny is that I've very rarely *deliberately* set out to do anything to Sheppard in my stories! He seems to bring it upon himself with his damned self-sacrificing heroics. (And oh, man, I think I'm gonna have to do a part two of this, because I keep thinking of things I didn't talk about -- like the fact that Sheppard wasn't supposed to get hurt, and I had to rearrange the plot of the second half to accommodate his leg injury!)