I think else { is the best Data fic I have come across so far. Good Data fic is so rare. Data fic is so rare.

But the whole time he is working, he can't stop thinking that at the very top level of his life, there is a structure he has never written down:

if Renji and I

And Inui is living in the else clause.

Everything -- Tezuka, Kaidoh, Seigaku, all of it -- is bracketed by that else.

I love this more than words could ever say.