Eee thank you. :D I thought at first people were going to be annoyed at how much of the fic I spent on the rescue, but I wanted it to really be difficult for him, to the point of him really not knowing if even he was going to survive much less Dan, to make it really hit home for him how close it'd come to Dan just being *gone*- as opposed to 'oh hey yeah you fell in and I pulled you out, you owe me.'

And yeah, I like that line a lot too :D I remember writing it and reacting with something akin to 'ooooh, shiny.'

Thank you so much!