Stephen's drunk texts were hilarious. You did a good job getting a balance where the reader can still understand what he's trying to say despite the just absurd misspellings.

I thought the "kilowatts" aside was brilliant the first time, but its second mention blew the first out of the water, it was that great.

Perhaps I'm overanalyzing the dance with Aesthetically Pleasing too much, but: this version of Stephen seems to be less defensive about his sexuality than most versions. That is to say, he doesn't seem to be constantly vigilant about maintaining a (tenuous) heterosexual facade while blaming his feelings on anything but himself -- the Gay Agenda, baby carrots, etc. It seems to me this version of Stephen didn't require that much convincing before he was grinding with a handsome stranger, whereas most versions of him in fic would probably have screamed nononononono, no, no no!!! to drown out how he secretly felt deep down. And later he just thinks it's embarrassing, rather than a more extreme reaction, like anger or even just denying that it ever happened. But maybe it was because he was drunk, so his guard was down? Or he's young so he's had less time to internalize homophobia?

This comment was far longer than originally intended. Now back to lurking.

~ A. Fann