Things I Want, but Had to Do Without
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Bail isn't the best of Christmas presents, and it's not easy being in someone's debt. Especially if you're a reluctant millionaire. An AU look at how Carter might have gone about paying Anna back for her good will, how it might have changed things between them, and how Christmas with family is a present with no price tag - or gift receipt.
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- Part 1 of Things I Want, but Had to Do Without
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Christmas seems so far away on the other side of New Year's, and the strange inertia of home doesn't last in the Windy City. Anna struggles to come to terms with the truth about liars, and families buried in ice and silence as she and John stagger toward a better understanding of what they need, and what they want.
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- Part 2 of Things I Want, but Had to Do Without
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Max is here. He's been in Chicago for almost two weeks. He's clean. He's sober. He's doing a survey of the ER, evaluating the feasibility of a dedicated pediatric emergency unit. And he wants to take Anna home.
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- Part 3 of Things I Want, but Had to Do Without
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John was twenty-seven the first time he asked her out in the dim light of a run-down Shangri Lodge. He was twenty-eight the first time he proposed. He was twenty-eight the second time he proposed, too. He didn’t propose again until he was twenty-nine, and when she turned him down that time she figured he got the hint because he didn't bring it up after that.
John is twenty-nine on the night he nearly dies.
Anna is thirty-two when Mark Greene calls to tell her.
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The final part in a very self-indulgent Fix-It AU, that diverges from the end of Season 4. Sort of. Because Paul Sobriki and everything after that happens anyway.
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- Part 4 of Things I Want, but Had to Do Without
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A series of vignettes exploring key moments in Anna and Carter's lives post-Paul Sobriki and the chaos he left in his wake.
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Anna meets Carter's mother for the first time. She isn't anything like she expected. And neither is Anna what Eleanor thought. They're both way worse.
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