Archive of Our Own

Notes:

This is the first story in TML series that can’t stand alone. You have to read The Season Six Job… and maybe The Arch-nemesis Job first.
This is mainly a romance, written for readers who’ve been waiting for too long to see what happened with Eliot/Florence plot. I don’t think I’ll write romances so often, so I tried to give you here as much as I could. This is PG-13, so no explicit sex scenes, but I made it as hot as I could. I think you’ll be satisfied – and you have to be, because this romance thing screwed my structure completely.
Basically nothing happens in this first chapter, because I had to remind you all about the situation, and set things for Sterling and a plot. Yes, there’ll be the plot. I hope only one. In fact, though nothing is happening in the first few chapters, except two of them together, it’s full of plotting :D The plot jumps out from everything they say or do. Pay attention. It will explode, don’t worry – but I had to give this time to two of them, not only to readers.
And don’t be too harsh – romance is way out of my comfort zone, and I’m still not sure is this good enough for E/F. Maybe they deserve better writer, not the one who is writing fluff, and cooing, and kissing, all in the beginning, so she could skip that and jump into the action. :/
I would really appreciate some feedback this time. If this sucks, tell me. ( I’m not worried about the first chapter, as I said, nothing really happens there – I’m worried about Chapters 2&3)
Thank you.

PS: I’m on Chapter 4 right now, and still working on 2 and 3. I planned chapters to be about 5000 words each, and set an outline for ten chapters. For now, they have more than 10 000 each. I mentioned the ruined structure, and that means that damn romance prolonged everything, and I’ll have to squeeze action in Act 2 and Act 3. We all know it ain’t gonna happen, so we have another long story. Figures. Wish me luck.
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