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   Closest That We Ever Were by softlikestatic

   Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   28 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Cole Cassidy/Hanzo Shimada
   • Cole Cassidy (Overwatch)
   • Hanzo Shimada
   • Mercy | Angela Ziegler
   • Tracer | Lena Oxton
   • Winston (Overwatch)
   • Slow Burn
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • Enemies to Friends to Lovers
   • Angst
   • Tragic Romance
   • Possibly Unrequited Love
   • Ambiguous/Open Ending
   • Character Study
   • Kind Of
   • My First Work in This Fandom
   • Possible Character Death

   Summary

   Nobody would call Cole Cassidy a romantic, least of all himself, but everyone's allowed to have their own little contradictions. He'll let himself have just this one thing, this one farfetched hope. It's not as if it wouldn't follow him past his last breath anyway.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   3,228

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   6

   Kudos:

   25

   Bookmarks:

   6

   Hits:

   273

   Bookmarked by Jack_lu

   25 Jan 2026