DEADLINE open thread. Have a party.

I'm going to disagree that the adoptive sibs were sleeping together (barring overruling of the author!); I recall that in Feed, George said that they weren't, and a lot of people made funny eyebrows at them because they didn't believe it. I am not going to disagree that they were as emotionally entangled as if they were sleeping together, and they canonically were in the same room or adjoining suites enough that, frankly, a little quiet self-pleasuring could've happened... (E.g., one or the other is indulging, the other wakes up, gets a "go back to sleep" with all the various olfactory cues...)

But (again barring that George didn't flat-out fib to the readers, which she could've) I think that they'd crammed the UST to subliminal levels, and the wrong-name part isn't "I am remembering other times of sex" but is more of a "I am so emotionally wrapped up in my (adoptive) sister that this state of exhaustion, relaxation, and hormonal fugue makes me think of her." ...like, he's so worn out, the only female figure of reassurance, trust, and safety he can think of... has George's name.

That said, I am pretty sure that even subliminal UST, to that degree, is enough that neither of them could've looked at any other serious relationship, whether they took it to Flowers in the Attic places or not.