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"It has to look real."
"Then we'll make it real."
You had known him before Cairo, long before Jonathan Pine became Thomas Quince and Andrew Birch and laid down his life in the name of repenting his country from the sins of another. You had loved him before he left for Iraq, and during, and after, when he returned and left, taking a piece of your heart with him.Perhaps you should have known that you had lied to yourself about having stopped loving him before it suddenly mattered again, and in such a momentous way. But you hadn't, and with everything on the line, there's no time to question what is truth and what is fiction. You can only hope that after the performance of your life, the truth can emerge for the curtain call.
Roper mentions early on that Jonathan was married for six months, and his ex-wife is never mentioned again in the show. And thus, this fic was born.
Also known as "The One Where the Author Saw an Opportunity for a Reader Insert Without Breaking the Canon or Timeline of the Show, and Went For It" #noregrets