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School is a cage. Therapy is a cage. Family is a cage. Every door slams shut before Morty can reach the handle.
Rick is the only crack in the walls — the only place where the rules stop mattering, where he feels seen, competent, wanted. But wanting that comes with teeth: shame that festers in silence, guilt that whispers he’s broken for feeling it, a ticking dread that if he ever lets it out, everything will burn.
When the one person who ever gave a damn disappears, the cage closes in. Morty faces two paths: stay small and safe inside the lie, or tear it all down and see what survives the smoke.
No heroes. No clean escape. Just the long, ugly crawl toward something that might feel like freedom — or might finish breaking him for good.
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This fic contains Major Character Death (supporting original character later in the story, plus one minor canon character).
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