to my erstwhile draughts opponent;

Turn Week 2021, Favorite AU - Abigail reunited with her family

This isn’t exactly an AU since they did film this aspect, but we...just never got to see it. For whatever reason, the scene with Abigail and the little girl she adopted in Nova Scotia with Akinbode and Cicero was cut from the finale. That this didn’t make it on screen is one of my biggest disappointments when it comes to Turn. It would’ve been a truly beautiful, beautiful moment to include with Abe’s ending monologue as the show came to a close. Abigail deserved a send off that saw her free and at peace with her loved ones. 

In Idara Victor’s words from her Instagram: “I know many of you questioned whether or not Abigail made it, and I just want to assure you, as one of our writers morganicink confirmed last night, that she did (hence the coded letter). I admit, I was just as shocked and horrified as you for a second, as we did shoot a larger ending, including the addition of a little girl to the family, the talented skyla_ilece, whose beautiful work you saw in that cart. And here you have it, proof of our happy reunion, on the show and in real life.”

turn week 2021, favorite ship - abraham woodhull & robert townsend

(a modern au) robert townsend has known abe for years. the successful owner of a local coffeeshop woodhull often frequents in their sleepy seaside town, robert has grudgingly come to tolerate - if not secretly value - the man’s presence.

he’s watched abe weather too many tumultuous moments in his life: the death of his brother, the amicable divorce from his wife mary, the birth of his son, the pressure placed on his shoulders to follow in his father richard’s lawyerly footsteps. through it all, robert offers support in snarky conversations and chess games...along with the occasional reluctant offer to babysit. they’re friends, robert tells himself. that’s all there is to it.

and yet as abe comes into his own, breaking with his father and pursuing his lost mother’s old dream of running a small organic farm instead, robert finds himself drawn in ways that aren’t strictly platonic. furious with his own feelings, he buries them down deep, oblivious to the fact that abe’s been carrying a torch for him from the day they first met.