Just a snippet, prompted by the trope present in a lot of Caryl stories where they're both prone to a lot of self-denial and sacrifice.  As I said when I published this elsewhere back in December 2013, "time frame indeterminate, but probably AU or post-4x08 and some future reunion." (and hey, it looks like it may actually fit in with what's coming up in S5, imagine that.) Re-written a bit, just because...

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