I hadn't intended for it to segue so well into the adultery thing (and it may not, I still haven't decided) but the second bit of this I wrote was the entire coda, and, well, if I did get to indulge my yen for S/P adultery, I wouldn't be terribly disappointed. *g*

He does transcend age! He has the sort of face that makes it hard to pinpoint exactly how old he is; I was surprised when I learned that Jim Parsons was in his mid-thirties.