Anon, you know you can just come out and say that you’re not fond of my take on the finale and wish I’d shut up, right? Because that’s what this is starting to sound like. I write fic not because I think Madi and Silver end up together post finale. In fact, I’m fairly certain that the Madi I grew to know and love in the series has a great deal more respect for herself than to allow him back into her life that way after what he did. I write fic because the way canon leaves things, James Flint McGraw and Thomas Hamilton either remain enslaved together or wind up breaking out of the plantation and going on the run with no friends, no allies, completely on their own, and Madi stays on her island, heartbroken and never to see the man she came to so admire ever again. Quite frankly, I find that ending to be more than a little bit heartbreaking. Also, I write fic because I can, and I want to, and I find your questioning of why I need to as if my writing has to exist inside the spectrum of what you personally find necessary to be more than a bit insulting. Art is meant to ask questions, and to unsettle at times, and to make people think, and clearly my fics have done that, because here we are, so I’d say it was necessary.