Prologue
Elle,
You've been staying with that detective and his mate again lately, yeah? I've been traveling lately, thought I might stop by. Would you like that?
Write back quick, Tell. Myles is driving me crazy and I need to borrow somebody else's hands for a while.
Love you, dearest.
- Andy
Xandra,
Definitely visit me, m'love. The boys are getting restless – they haven't had a case in a couple days and S is gonna start shooting up the walls if they don't get one soon. And that's not even code or anything. He's actually done it before. But I don't blame him. With nothing to do it gets awful boring in this flat.
- Telly
PS- Give my love to Myles, too.
"So you're going to visit Tell then, Alex?" Myles inquired.
"'Course I am! That's an actual invitation! And plus, I've wanted to go to London for ages," Alex replied. She jumped up, started scurrying around and throwing her clothes and such into a suitcase.
"Why are you packing already?" Myles asked. "Don't you have to book a flight and stuff?"
"You're kidding, Miley," said Alex. "I've had flight plans for a while now. Timing them so I'd get Elle's response before I left was just a courtesy."
a/n - so here's the deal: this story is already completely one hundred percent finished. I'm reposting it - it was originally put up chapter by chapter on my tumblr (which is still the only place to read any of the shorts that go along with this, although at the end of each chapter I'll tell you any shorts that I've already written that fit into this au around that time or in a gap after that chapter).
... By the way, I write shorts (one shots) in this universe all the time, because I really like to write Letters-verse. They fill in gaps in the time line and give background for the main story. But they're not really necessary to understand what's going on - in fact, they're posted in a completely random order because time's wibbly-wobbly and I don't feel the need to write the shorts in chronological order.
Gah. This author's note is almost as long as the prologue! But I felt this all needed to be said... I PROMISE MY OTHER AUTHOR'S NOTES WON'T BE THIS TERRIBLY LONG! Keep reading!