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After the final battle, Mike starts writing because staying silent feels worse.
What begins as a therapist’s suggestion slowly turns into a private journal addressed to Will — a place to record fractured thoughts, lingering fear, grief, and the guilt that won’t let go. Entry after entry, Mike tries to make sense of what was lost, what still hurts, and what he has never been able to say out loud.
Music runs through the story as a quiet thread, surfacing at key moments when words fail, anchoring memories and emotions in time. A Spotify playlist gathers the songs mentioned throughout the journal to accompany the reading.
Set in the years following the final battle, this fic follows an introspective slow burn Byler, shaped by silence, emotional distance, and the slow, inevitable realization that Will was never just a friend.
A story about surviving aftermath, learning to move forward, and finally naming the love that was there all along.