They really are great together - and my OTP in this fandom :D Seriously, there aren't many who could keep up with either Neal or Sara, and it's wonderful to watch how these two have so much fun together, how they make each other better people, how they care about each other even when it's messy and difficult and inconvenient.

The most significant moment for this canon divergence was Sara discovering that Emily has been murdered, which happened several years in the past. Since then, Sara got as much closure as she was likely to get without Emily's killer actually being convicted, but at the same time, the fact that the authorities were helpless when it came to her sister made her more likely to stray into those "gray areas". Thus, PI Sara who has fake IDs, knows how to pick handcuffs, has some halfway-decent B&E skills and is just a bit less elegant and more ruthless than "our" Sara while essentially still being the same person. (She was lots of fun to write :D )

Thank you for your review and I'm glad you enjoyed the story :)