Welp, as someone who's always been interested in time travel fics BECAUSE WHY NOT
I wrote an idea up on my own blog but I'll flesh it out here as I wouldn't mind seeing other people's thoughts:
Paige slips up somehow after the safe house - maybe she's had too much vodka and isn't thinking quite right with her liquid courage. Stan, who's angry at himself for letting P&E slip out from his grasp, decides to focus all the terrible weight of the FBI's power onto Paige, and she cracks like a cheap walnut without her mom to help buttress her. The USSR does nothing to help, knowing that anything the KGB does will just screw it up even more.
She spends 20, 25 years in jail for espionage, aiding and abetting homicides, obstruction of justice, etc, etc, etc.
When she gets out, all she has is the fact that she obsessively studied Russian for years, and it's 2012, just in time for Cold War II to start in earnest. She decides to try and find SVR/FSB contacts in Moscow who might want to use her bilingualism to some advantage, and Arkady, on the verge of retirement from his job at the FSB, decides out of sympathy to employ her: he decides she can pretend to be a native Russian-speaker among English speakers who would assume she doesn't speak the language, and puts her to work infiltrating low-level UK/Canada/Australia embassy shindigs (Never the US, though. They might still have her picture).
And then, fast forward and all of a sudden it's 2048, and a secret Russian-financed project taps her to be a test subject: time travel.
Paige, knowing she's had to deal with the hard lessons she's learned about facing the consequences of her actions, decides to take one last gamble: after all, if she dies, she's over 70 and what the hell. But if she succeeds, she might be able to swerve the course of history...
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I wrote an idea up on my own blog but I'll flesh it out here as I wouldn't mind seeing other people's thoughts:
Paige slips up somehow after the safe house - maybe she's had too much vodka and isn't thinking quite right with her liquid courage. Stan, who's angry at himself for letting P&E slip out from his grasp, decides to focus all the terrible weight of the FBI's power onto Paige, and she cracks like a cheap walnut without her mom to help buttress her. The USSR does nothing to help, knowing that anything the KGB does will just screw it up even more.
She spends 20, 25 years in jail for espionage, aiding and abetting homicides, obstruction of justice, etc, etc, etc.
When she gets out, all she has is the fact that she obsessively studied Russian for years, and it's 2012, just in time for Cold War II to start in earnest. She decides to try and find SVR/FSB contacts in Moscow who might want to use her bilingualism to some advantage, and Arkady, on the verge of retirement from his job at the FSB, decides out of sympathy to employ her: he decides she can pretend to be a native Russian-speaker among English speakers who would assume she doesn't speak the language, and puts her to work infiltrating low-level UK/Canada/Australia embassy shindigs (Never the US, though. They might still have her picture).
And then, fast forward and all of a sudden it's 2048, and a secret Russian-financed project taps her to be a test subject: time travel.
Paige, knowing she's had to deal with the hard lessons she's learned about facing the consequences of her actions, decides to take one last gamble: after all, if she dies, she's over 70 and what the hell. But if she succeeds, she might be able to swerve the course of history...
... or can she? :P