Wow, Ver! I really liked that. You packed a huge punch in a small number of words, and I think that the OOCness is debatable - if you're going to skew the story to a J/E, who knows wtf could happen?

BTW, when I saw the description, I thought you went all Stepford Sparrabether, but I like what it ended up being - you should post it to pirategasm. And Sparrabeth comms!