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Today in AUs I daydream about but will never have time to work on:
I don't think canon Owen Carvour was brainwashed, but- hear me out- what if he was? What if we had ourselves a little Manchurian Candidate scenario? For those unfamiliar, the Manchurian Candidate is a film about a soldier whose platoon is captured and brainwashed, and eventually released to return home. The soldier seems normal, everything is fine, except occasionally he gets phone calls where somebody speaks an activation phrase that triggers the conditioning. He was brainwashed to carry out a political assassination meant to destabilize the American political system, but he has no memory of what he does while the conditioning is active.
So what if Owen came back maybe a year after the fall, saying that he finally healed up and escaped and made it home. We have a grand curtwen reunion, maybe a little fighting because of everything that happened in the weapons facility, but it blows over quickly (almost suspiciously quickly). They're both just so relieved to be back together.
Maybe MI6 wants to make sure their operative is fully ready to be back in the field, and asks A.S.S. to let Curt and Owen work together for awhile. And things are good, they're normal, except every once in awhile Owen gets phone calls he is secretive about. He disappears in the middle of the night. Missions start going wrong. Owen is having a lot of headaches and lost time that he's too afraid to tell Curt about. Curt starts to suspect that maybe Owen has been turned into a double agent, and confronts him. They fight and start to distrust each other because Owen genuinely has no idea that he is carrying out Chimera orders during his blackouts.
Then it's just a race against time for them to figure out what's going on before Owen does something terrible.