Wow - I had a feeling if you were going to tackle this pairing you were going to *tackle* it, and you totally did. Proverbial body slam. It fits so perfectly that you used Ben/Glory's brain-messing as the device that simultaneously begins the interlude and then takes everything away. Evil evil and wonderful twist at the end. I kind of feel for Ben, and I think you do too, imagining the monsters at his windows in his childhood is such a humanizing moment. This was a delightful and all together unexpected read.