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Here we go again. I swore I wasn't going to write another John and
Luka epic. And I didn't! (This story completes itself in only five
chapters.) An ERFanfictionZONE cross-over challenge was issued by
High Blossom in Parade (I believe) and I found myself back at Cooke
County General Hospital.

For a long time, I was a one-fandom woman, then I found the File 40
website and there was no stopping me. (To date: ER, MFU, Horatio
Hornblower, Star Wars [4,5,6]) Some of my fellow ER fans may be old
enough to remember "The Man From UNCLE" (MFU) when it first aired in
glorious black and white during the mid-1960s. Others may be the
lucky owners of more cable/satellite channels than time allows you to
watch, and so may have caught the show in syndication. For my fellow
and sister "trauma-philes" who have never heard of MFU, here is some
brief background so my tale will make more sense than otherwise.

MFU's principal characters were the dark and debonair Napoleon Solo;
Chief Enforcement Agent for a world-wide do-gooder organization---
U.N.C.L.E. His partner in heroic derring-do was a blond-haired, blue-
eyed menace to a school girl's equilibrium: Ilya Nicolaievitch
Kuryakin*. I will try to post a picture in the "Files" section of the
ER groups so you can see these delicious dudes in their prime. (I
couldn't find the "Add Photo" thingie.) There were also numerous
gorgeous femme fatales cluttering up the original episodes but many
of us ignored them. Napoleon and Ilya were born to be slashed to a
fare-thee-well.

I owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to Natalyia for her "Chicago
Affair": a first-time story about Solo and Kuryakin set in the Second
City. I make brief references to her marvellous double portrait which
I consider SPOILERS. Read her story, archived at
http://file40.net/file40s/chic_one.html BEFORE you read mine. You'll
be extremely glad you did. In-depth knowledge of the MFU universe is
not needed to enjoy her tale of first (slashy) love.

My tale however, is most definitely an AU fic. I have taken the
liberty of moving the MFU universe forward in time so all of the
characters' ages fall within a decade of each other; somewhere in the
late thirty-to-mid-fortyish range. I have also tampered with my
(already skewed) ER time line to make things come out even.

In addition, for the "cousins" (UNCLE fans) this story makes
references to events I described in my John/Luka ER miniseries: "To
Dream..." Hearts in Darkness" and "For Such as These." All of these
angsty epics are now archived at the fanfiction.net website. If you
don't want to be SPOILED, cher cousins, check 'em out before reading
this work. If you don't care, don't worry. This tale (such as it is)
can stand on its own.


And now with no further delays... it's four years after the events
described in "For Such as These". Events which took place in "The
Three-Headed Eagle Affair," my second MFU tale, are also in the past,
but as I said before, the original MFU series time line has been
skewed to keep my agents from being great-uncles!.
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