I really like the "multiplicity" (to steal a word from your subtitle) of this story -- how the narrator keeps interrupting the narrative to mention other possibilities, which is kind of the essence of what fanfic is: all the possibilities (I love the idea of Fanfiction as Schroedinger's Cat (http://amanuensis1.livejournal.com/121669.html)). It reminded me of Ari's fic/style.