A MaiChard AU that tells a story about love, acceptance and the healing power of laughter.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness, the discomfort, and letting it be there. Until some light returns. In an alternate universe, Richard and Nicomaine met each other in the most unexpected way.. anyone could possibly imagine.

My name is Julie Quinn and I've been a New Yorker all my life. Life was good. I was swamped with work doing a job that I loved and I was dating the best boyfriend I'd ever had the pleasure to. I have always been a strong-willed and independent woman - or as my best friend puts it "control freak" - and even more after the accident, but what happened on the eve of my 30th birthday was enough to bring down Wonder Woman.