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A/N: My first Mary/Bert story. Please be kind.

Disclaimer: Don't own Mary Poppins or anything recognisable.


He is the reason she always returns to London.

They grew up together, and at seventeen she first realised that she was in love with him. That was the first time she had ever been away from him for more than a week. He was nineteen, and he had taken a job in the Navy.

She wrote to him every day, but only mailed one letter a week. He wrote back once a month – short, brief letters.

When she began to go away, too, she always returned to London, no matter how far away she went – she loved him too much to stay away.

But when she saw him kissing a woman one day, she wished that she had never returned.