If my niece hadn't been born when she was I'd intended to write at least one more POI fic of a slightly more optimistic nature, but this particular prompt asked for Carter and the Machine! How could I resist? =)

Only a couple of my stories got recced this year, or even mentioned by their recipients on their home journals; I was happy that if one of them was going to get mentioned, it was this one. It wasn't the one I did the most research for, but it was the one I was most invested in.