Oh, I never doubted which option you’d want, and I would write such a story for someone else, but consider the delicious angst and sacrifice if time travelling Fritz does this knowing it’s the only way to ensure Katte will live!
(Lord Hervey, appalled: Wait a minute. If Katte gets that worst of traitors, Fritz of Wales, does this mean that instead of going home to England, I end up in Berlin?!? I hate German politics! And frankly, while FW and G2 are on the same level of appalling in my opinion, Queen Caroline is a vastly preferable patroness to SD. Not to mention: what about my friendship with Lady Mary? Our love triangle with Algarotti?
Self: You keep complaining that Fritz of Wales was a tool with terrible taste and no brains in your memoirs. Let me assure you, Fritz of Prussia is the opposite. And you can have your love triangle with Algarotti, don’t worry about it. Just without Lady Mary as the third party - sorry, but I won’t condemn her to life in FW’s Prussia.)
Incidentally, if it’s the same method of time travel, i.le. Fritz will forget all about the other time line once he’s accomplished the key change, he’ll make a flight attempt anyway, just not with Katte as support. Don’t worry, this isn’t an AU where Peter Keith dies instead, because Peter is still at Wesel and thus able to get away in time. But maybe Fritz will try to persuade Hervey to take him along as diplomatic luggage, thus creating international incident because Hervey is not FW’s subject so if they’re caught, that personal combat challenge between FW and G2 is back on!
ETA: about Heinrich - as wonderful as my present was, and it was very wonderful, I am inm general somewhat invested in keeping him and Fritz alive at the same time so they can have their fanatastically screwed up relationship. Though you know, my big suspension of disbelief in “Grind” wasn’t Heinrich going for the kill under these very specific circumstances and then covering it up the way he does, but earlier, Heinrich trying to convince Fritz to take AW back by pointing out Fritz’ own mistakes post AU Leuthen. I mean, I know why it’s dramatically necessary that he does! I agree with the necessity! But given how he behaved towards Fritz during the war in rl, I needed, as mentioned to suspend some disbelief.
Re: The Adventure of the Time-Traveling Valet
(Lord Hervey, appalled: Wait a minute. If Katte gets that worst of traitors, Fritz of Wales, does this mean that instead of going home to England, I end up in Berlin?!? I hate German politics! And frankly, while FW and G2 are on the same level of appalling in my opinion, Queen Caroline is a vastly preferable patroness to SD. Not to mention: what about my friendship with Lady Mary? Our love triangle with Algarotti?
Self: You keep complaining that Fritz of Wales was a tool with terrible taste and no brains in your memoirs. Let me assure you, Fritz of Prussia is the opposite. And you can have your love triangle with Algarotti, don’t worry about it. Just without Lady Mary as the third party - sorry, but I won’t condemn her to life in FW’s Prussia.)
Incidentally, if it’s the same method of time travel, i.le. Fritz will forget all about the other time line once he’s accomplished the key change, he’ll make a flight attempt anyway, just not with Katte as support. Don’t worry, this isn’t an AU where Peter Keith dies instead, because Peter is still at Wesel and thus able to get away in time. But maybe Fritz will try to persuade Hervey to take him along as diplomatic luggage, thus creating international incident because Hervey is not FW’s subject so if they’re caught, that personal combat challenge between FW and G2 is back on!
ETA: about Heinrich - as wonderful as my present was, and it was very wonderful, I am inm general somewhat invested in keeping him and Fritz alive at the same time so they can have their fanatastically screwed up relationship. Though you know, my big suspension of disbelief in “Grind” wasn’t Heinrich going for the kill under these very specific circumstances and then covering it up the way he does, but earlier, Heinrich trying to convince Fritz to take AW back by pointing out Fritz’ own mistakes post AU Leuthen. I mean, I know why it’s dramatically necessary that he does! I agree with the necessity! But given how he behaved towards Fritz during the war in rl, I needed, as mentioned to suspend some disbelief.