1 Second To Midnight was a spur of the moment idea I had while I was at work. It was partially inspired by the real world conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Putin had just put his nuclear force on high alert, and I asked myself, if a nuke was coming and you knew you were going to die, who would you spend your last moments with and what would you talk about?

I won't answer this one personally, but I had this nugget of Paulo dashing through the streets to see Jasmine. I chose Jasmine as, so far, she's been his most successful and loving relationship. While they were broken up, they definitely still had some stirrings for each other. Through plot contrivances, both were alone. But what would they say? What would they do?

So I came up with little plot points for them to talk about. If Paulo would marry anyone he dated, it would be her. Screw it, may as well ask her to. Jasmine questions her faith in the face of certain doom. They'd also reflect upon their relationship. I did forget to add the obvious, (did you wanna do the do before we die?) which would have come from Jasmine but Paulo would decline. I guess it would have kinda been out of character for her and disrupt the final bittersweet moments between them.

It was not originally part of the set of fics I had planned to write, but it had enough of an emotional charge that I went ahead and wrote it. Very… different to what I usually write, or from anything anyone else in the BCB community has written, but I think it still works all the same. In any case, thank you all for reading my stuff, and see you all next time.