Heh, I figured Keeper would be 75K words max. I knew I couldn 't keep it to the 50K (me? wordy?), but 6 months later? No freaking way!! And as for my *vision* of Keeper? I'm still mostly on the same path, but I've taken a couple of side trips along the way, prodded by my f-list leaving comments that just made the bunnies BREED. I thought it was going to be mainly about Gibbs and DiNozzo, which it is but the supporting cast has become more important that I ever dreamed.