Caroline and the Uninvited Guest - Prologue

by Lady Karinsky

Caroline in the City ended on a cliffhanger, with Richards presence bringing Carolines wedding to a halt. With Annie and Del also seeing themselves the happiest they've ever been in a relationship, this is not the ending any of these characters deserved. This series will pick up where we left off in 1999, and bring closure to these characters stories.

Dear Readers,

If any of you are still with me, thank you. While I started writing fanfic for New Girl, there was one couple that started it all for me. When I was in highschool, I fell in love with Caroline in the City. The love story central to this show became the slow burn I looked for in everything since. I absolutely lived for these characters. The perky, optimistic cartoonist falling in love with a grumpy and angry unkempt artist IS the story that I loved that became my own life when I married my Caroline, my Jessica Day. And he got Richard 😊

CITC ended on a cliffhanger finale and was never resolved. I'm going to resolve it.

"Shall I continue?"

The silence roared over the church pews following the question from the Priest. The guests whispered quietly, tongues wagging more in gossip than mystery. The black-clad man in the balcony held the baby close, trying to calm him with a pacifier when he realized the eyes upon him. He spotted her then, in her white gown and pearls, her face confused and her eyes wide. Staring into the rafters towards the sound of the crying baby that had stopped the ceremony in its tracks, Caroline murmured to herself in disbelief.

"Richard?"

TBC, for realsies this time.