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"It has been a long time coming." Saul murmured.
"What has?"
"The endgame, Carrie. The endgame."
Islamabad had been a nightmare. Berlin had been the sequel. With the exposure of the Russian mole, the CIA may have a glimmer of hope for the future. But to what end? What of the consequences? In the words of Andrew Lockhart, "Will this ever fucking end?"
Carrie Mathison and Peter Quinn navigate the endgame, in the hope of finally getting the lives they deserve.
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Homeland s2 AU. Earlier in the season, Brody and Jessica decide to split up for everyone's sake. Brody goes to live with Carrie, Mike moves in with Jessica and the kids and everyone tries to move on with their lives.
Just an attempt at writing a somewhat happy life where Carrie and Brody get what they deserved, move in together and try to balance their crazy schedules somehow.
Originally planned to be a one-shot work only but I keep coming back to them time and time again, so this is becoming a collection of drabbles and one-shots starring C/B and their families !
TW: strong language; PTSD; mentions of torture, and physical abuse.
Not abandoned work, just randomly updated!
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“I killed him.”
“No you didn’t. You were bringing him back, and you would have made it…”
“No. I killed him. I killed him when I sent him on that helicopter… I killed him when I took him to see Dana, both times… I killed him when I left him at the border… He was rotting away in Caracas. I left him to rot in a hole after eight years of…”
“He would have died a long time ago… in a suicide bomb vest, if not for you.”
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A.B.: After Brody.
Picks up after Brody's execution. Carrie's perspective.
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- Part 2 of A happy ending in Istanbul
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Carrie adjusts to looking after Franny at home while trying to accomplish a mission
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- Part 1 of Homeland
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AU following S4. Two years after Carrie has moved across the globe to start afresh with her daughter, she receives a text message out of the blue from someone who she'd assumed was long-dead.
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This is post-season 4 re-imagined. In this, Carrie manages to successfully blackmail Dar, Saul is not a traitor, Quinn comes back home after two missions, and the aftermath of what happens when they see each other again. Navigating the domestic normalcy of life without a life-risking mission around every bend is something I've always wanted to see Quinn and Carrie do, so I fixed the ending of season 4 to show what I imagine would have happened between them.
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Carrie's struggling to cope during her first Christmas in Russia. Yevgeny does his best to help.
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After the Langley explosion, Carrie goes on assignment to clear Brody’s name and makes a life changing choice in the process.
Carrie/Brody AU with many other dynamics/relationships explored throughout. Work in progress. Reviews are appreciated!
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"You can be late, and it isn’t life or death, and you don’t have to check for threats in the bowels of this crumbling train station. That isn't your job anymore."
Back in the States, Carrie recovers from the near-attack in Berlin and plots her next move, with Otto at her side.
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It's Carrie's senior year of college, and she feels happy and settled and stable, until her brain chemistry decides otherwise.
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"I thought you hated Mom."
"I thought you didn't."
Carrie reflects on her relationship with her mother and the far-reaching effects on her own choices with Franny.
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"It’s just another item on the imaginary pro/con list she keeps in her head, 'difficult to love,' circled and underlined and highlighted for emphasis."
Carrie spends her life alone, until she doesn’t have to anymore. Spans decades and ends up in Moscow.
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What is sisterhood if not an invitation for constant competition?
Shifting perspectives between Carrie and Maggie spanning from childhood to the present reveal the tensions that have always separated and connected them.
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"She loved her daughter, and she loved defending America. She loved defending America, and she defied CIA orders in favor of a joyride around Afghanistan with a GRU agent. Sometimes one truth had to win out over the other, but usually she had no trouble holding onto two opposing facts, one in each hand.
Currently, in Moscow: she’s in exile, and she’s feeding America valuable intelligence. She loves Yevgeny, and she’s lying to him."
Winter 2020, 2.5ish years later.
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"She laughs at the impact of her Catholic upbringing: it didn’t stop her from sinning, but she still carries the guilt around with her like an extra layer of clothing."
Berlin, 2014-15: Carrie uses the church to come to terms with motherhood, and starts to believe that she's deserving of happiness.
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"A book, of course, has the added benefit of being a perfect cover to shield her from suspicion, to finally shake her Russian surveillance detail and set her up to develop assets. If she has to destroy every remaining shred of goodwill she has with the US intelligence community, at least she can benefit from it later.
And wasn’t that what Saul taught her, that the long game was the most important thing above all else? That self-sacrifice was worthwhile if you later had something to show for it?"
A reflection on motherhood, legacy, and Carrie's first few months in Moscow.
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His “thank you” came on shuddering breath and he realized he wasn’t just thanking her for cleaning his spectacles. He was thanking her for surviving unthinkable despair, for coming back to him, for granting him absolution and grace with the beating of her heart. She could have given up so many times, and certainly it would have been so much easier. He didn’t have a clue why she survived or how, but he found he was just so unspeakably grateful that she had.
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- Part 32 of Tyranny of Secrets
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This is what I would like to see in season 8.
Dar Adal figured out that Quinn was in danger and helped him fake his death. Saul has gotten Carrie back from Russia but after 7 months of captivity they can´t get through to her. Will Quinn be able to bring her back?
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7.12 ended with these horrible scenes at the Estonian boarder and my mind couldn’t stop spinning this story.
So what if Quinn did survive 6.12? What if he would come back now as Carrie is so miserable? How will Carrie survive what she went through? What did happen to her in those seven months?
Chapter 20 is new, posted on December 4
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What if Quinn took Carrie back home with him after they kissed?