james-flint-hamilton:

yes, but how about a canon divergent AU in which Abigail Ashe is an incredbly attentive and observant child and she especially likes playing hiding and also isn’t shy of eavesdropping.

so, what if one day, shortly before Thomas was sent to Savannah, she listens in to her father and Thomas’s father talking about it…

and years later when she meets Flint, she’s a young woman, but she hasn’t lost any of her attentivness and so she realises while talking to James and Miranda how much James must have cared about Thomas, still does, and then she asks something like: you liked him very much, didn’t you? Is this why they brought him away overseas?

and obviously nobody knew that Abigail knew about it, and at first James and Miranda are utterly confused, like why would Thomas be brought overseas, he died at Bedlam?

but then Abigail tells them what she remembers and they seek out Peter Ashe and confront him about it and in the end he confesses everything and James will be reunited with Thomas way earlier and Miranda is still alive and the three of them are living happily ever after in a house by the beach