Set the year before "Swallows and Amazons", this is how the genesis of the Amazon Pirates might have happened.

The young Walker family have lived in Malta for over two years, but now John is no longer stationed there, and Nancy has brought her daughters home to Beckfoot. Peggy and Jim are have come for a visit. The little Bradings get on like a house on fire with their Walker cousins.

Following the lives of the Swallows and Amazons through letters and interactions, mainly following John and his relationship with Nancy. Starts with the return to school after a summer spent on Wildcat Island. Chapter 18 up. This fic means a lot to me, and I cannot thank you all enough! Please forgive my erratic posting and enjoy!

World War Two finally comes to a finish and all the characters gather together once more. John/Nancy. One swear word.

These events take place in spring and summer 1938. This is a Swallows and Amazons adventure, so although Lord Peter Wimsey has a brief cameo in one of the final chapters not posted as a cross-over. Rated T for peril, some violence, sadness, scariness, Nazi Germany impeding war and romance and deaths of characters you have never met.

The Swallows and Amazons - and some others - look back on what they've done, and look forward to the future.

The Amazons seek a way to communicate secretly with the Swallows while at school.