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    He's familiar like this. Like looking into a window, seeing how it all was. When everything was simpler. When everything was harder. When they were younger and the world was theirs for the taking.

    He’s been hoping for so long. Keeping himself on a narrow line, the noose tightening every year. Suffocated by the almost. Almost friends, almost not. Almost his. And then, almost lost. He was never truly Keith’s, but he was Allura’s.

    At least for a while.

    For her it was a lifetime.
     

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    A post canon Universe where they're both too destroyed by the war and all their losses to really be okay. It's a story about grief and obsession, and ultimately not getting what you want.

    or; Allura dies, and Keith joins the Blades full-time. Lance is left on Earth, consumed by his grief. Keith keeps pulling away until Lance attempts to unalive himself, and this is a few years after that.

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    It's Mature because of the themes, there's really not a lot of tags, but pls read them (and let me know if I need to add anything)

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