The Tyranny of Socks

So in case you missed it, cofax7 and I were playing with some ideas about a gender-swap (genderswitch?) AU, and wrote a couple snippets. Then she wrote another snippet, set a few years later. And last night I wrote this, which is part of how we get from A to B.

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( It starts with a phone call... )

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I've never been all that interested in AUs, but what I kind of like about this one is how changing one thing might change everything else -- obviously the relationships here aren't quite the same as the relationships we see in the show -- but the characters are still, at the core, who they always were.