Thank you for both your replies! I'm so glad that you both enjoyed it.
I've done an alternate version of the fic, where they do get together. That having been my original intention, I hope you find it doesn't spoil this version for you.
It's posted on fanfiction.net since I've not gone through and done italics yet so I can post it to the board.
A little more explicit, but nothing beyond what AMC has done herself. (Taking the love-burnout scene in Damia as my bar.)