stunt_muppet

So, according to CSI Files, once we finally meet Julia, she informs Horatio that she poofed off the map in Pensacola because she didn't want to burden him with a child.

Which, pardon my French, is a load of crap. 

Have any of these writers ever been in a relationship? (Yes, yes, pot calling the kettle black, I know.) Or for that matter, been a human female? 

And even if I could buy that excuse, which I couldn't, she apparently deposited the kid with her mother until she got her life in order and he "got swallowed up by the system" by the time she got back to him.

So wait - did she or did she not want this kid? Did she think she wanted this kid but didn't really, and so let him fall into foster care so she wouldn't have to make that decision (which I might actually believe, maybe, if the script was sharper than a seatful of tacks)? Because it's not like your kid can just get carted off into foster care without you even noticing. Don't they have to notify the biological parent, at least? 

I'm sorry, but for any of those excuses to work, this would have to be an exceptionally flighty and indecisive woman we'd be talking about here, which does fit into Horatio's type, I suppose. *scowl*

You know what? Screw it. I'm AU-ing Little Brothers. I don't care who Julia is in canon. I like my Julia better. I like my vodka-martini-drinking, sharp-minded, quick-talking, long-legged, snappy-suited, red-pumps-wearing, Janis-Joplin-loving, fantastic-in-bed med-school-graduate Navy nurse Julia. I like the Julia who has a casual relationship with Our Hero and walks out on him when he's being a jerk, rather than making noble sacrifices for Our Hero's hapiness. I like the Julia who bears some passing resemblance to a real human being in a real screwed-up relationship with another screwed-up human being. 

Damn it, writers, is that so much to ask? Why do I have to do all your work for you?