Choose: Chapter One || The Handmaid's Tale || Nick Blaine/June Osborne
My attempt at an alternate version of 6x06, when Nick takes June to his house in New Bethlehem to spend the night, but Wharton has actually left for D.C.
I was originally going to post this as a oneshot, but then I polled Tumblr and realized other people feel the way I do about long fics - when it's hard to read the full story in one sitting, you put it off and forget to come back to it. So even though this all takes place in one night and without "scene breaks," I'm splitting it into 3 (maybe 4) parts. Most of it is already written, so it won't take me long to finish posting it. I'll be adding a chapter at least once a week, maybe faster.
The title came up because I was working on a video where June's "choose" line in the woods with Fred (the whistle or the gun) kicks it off, and then it's a series of clips comparing Nick and Luke's behavior throughout the series. I need to return to that someday. But I decided to name this fic the same thing as a reference that only I would really care about lol.
A note about 6x06 - tbh, I loved so much of this episode, and I have referenced ideas and some direct lines in this fic. But Wharton has well & truly fucked off, so you won't be seeing him here. This is just emotional smut & fluff. xx
