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  1. Public Bookmark 34

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    Kaveh comes home drunk (allegedly) and takes a seat in Alhaitham's lap, much like he had before they started dating.

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    Kaveh frowned. “Quite frankly, when you’re concerned with my affairs, it worries me.”

    “And why is that?”

    “Because nothing good ever comes from you being involved.”

    That caused Alhaihtam to look up. It was a challenge, that look was. “I’d beg to differ. I’d say Sumeru as a whole has benefited greatly from my involvement.”

    “I still don’t believe half of what you say about that situation for the record,” Kaveh said, but the fight had drained out of him when he remembered what Cyno said in the tavern. It was awful how his whole body softened, how years of instinct and fight or flight responses dimmed at the thought of memories about when things were different. Perhaps Alhaitham was a curse. That must be it. Kaveh glanced at his roommate in the corner of his eye. He sighed.

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    (or; Kaveh is having a crisis, and Alhaitham is an unwilling participant)

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    01 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 40

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    Each day, Kaveh is transferred to a different parallel reality, and in every single one of those, he and Alhaitham are together:

    Waking up in Alhaitham’s arms felt more familiar on the third day. By the fourth, it was fully expected and, by the fifth, he found himself snuggling into those warm arms and sometimes smiling at the “Good morning, sweetheart,” before reminding himself of the situation and sitting down a very confused Alhaitham for a very confusing conversation. It’s not you he loves, he reminded himself, time and time again.

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    A fundamental shift occurs; Alhaitham isn’t sure of its timeline—sometime vaguely in the weeks after Kaveh’s graveyard visit—nor the exact reason for it. Perhaps it's related to the volume increase of Kaveh’s smiles, or the way he’s taken to tucking some of the flowers behind Alhaitham’s ear when he dozes off reading, or a decrease in that bitter undercurrent behind their arguments.

    All Alhaitham knows is something is happening that he has little familiarity with, and the unease that’s come along with it is just as startling as the problem itself:

    He’s losing control.

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    Alhaitham didn't expect he'd be the one to make the flowers bloom.

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  5. Public Bookmark 48

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    Alhaitham finishes his novel. He dozes against the same window, smudged from where his cheek constantly presses against it. The other man completes sketch after sketch, traces racing raindrops with his fingertips, mutters to himself as he flips through notebooks. Leaves turn to fire then die in the fading sunset, until their evening rides are taken in darkness. Day in, day out, the comfort of their cyclical monotony perpetuates.

    Until one blustery morning.

    Alhaitham's days are easy rituals. He doesn't realize, until one occurs, that he's desperately needed the disruption.

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    30 Nov 2025