*whimpers* I kinda feel like Paulie now. This fic worked me over and hit all my buttons and left me for dead on the side of the road.

Man, I've always wanted to write or read a Lucci/Kaku/Paulie, because that would be so intensely fucked, and yeah, you just wrote it and aced it and proved the fucked-upedness to the power of ten. Poor Paulie, realizing - and not able to do anything with the realization - that he was just a sort of a poker chip in a larger game.