At first, I wanted them to be younger, but there are some things I needed John to do before he went to war (like, err...study and become a doctor/soldier) and I wanted him to be in a real war to keep the AU as real as possible. It had to be a war Britain had been involved in and, in that timeline, I didn't have many choices. So now they're a little older than what I wanted them to be.

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