biding our time (until tomorrow)
[...] “About that,” Ava said, walking to her desk to grab the other letter. “If he makes it past the New Year, it won't matter if a Major or a Colonel older than me runs. I'll be appointed General, soon.”Nate gasped at that and his eyes lit up. “You cannot possibly lose. The only other candidate that might get in your way-” his shoulders slumped a little. “Colonel Diggle. He does have one advantage that might allure to people more than your rank. He's married, on the family way.”Both Rip and Lance sighed, shaking their heads. Ava frowned.“That is easily fixed,” Nate amended.
OR, a past!AU where Ava is a Colonel who wants to be elected Governor, but to do so she has to marry quickly, and who better suited than the daughter of her Captain, Quentin Lance? Except, things get a lot more complicated than that.