AU where Sarah and Hannah are born in 1650, and so when Sarah is promising Hannah that she’ll bring them a witch, something about leaving Hannah feels wrong. So Sarah sneaks back to her pig pen and grabs an axe, sneaks back into the church and axes the handcuffs away. The pair run out of Ohio/Union, through Pennsylvania, then to New York, where they take a boat to England.
They quickly become ladies in waiting to Catherine of Braganza. Catherine is kind, and fun, and liberating. They go for picnics and go fishing and dress in men’s clothing (Catherine’s wish). But Charles II dies, and James II comes. They become ladies to Mary of Modena, but soon retire during the glorious revolution in 1688. They buy a cottage, and Sarah is a famous pig farmer, and Hannah a great cook. They adopt a little girl, only 8, found off the streets, Diana Johnson.
When Anne comes to the throne in 1702, and little Diana is now 22, Sarah and Hannah find themselves unfortunately out of luck, and decide to join Anne’s ladies-in-waiting. There’s something about Anne that’s just like Sarah and Hannah. Maybe it’s the way Anne treats Sarah Churchill and Abigail Hill, which reminds Sarah and Hannah of their own relationship.
In 1713, Hannah sadly dies at 63. Sarah, grief stricken, writes a book, called Tales of Union, a dramatised story of her own experiences, featuring a shape shifting character, called a witch, who dies for her love (a female) innocently.
After Sarah’s death in 1725 at 75, Diana finds the book and publishes it under a pen name, Henry Fier. Diana writes a saga of these books, and after her death in 1760, the books get named…
i need sleep i overthink too much
