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Published:
2024-02-10
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2024-02-15
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forever might be short

Summary:

Max saves Chloe and they leave the bay behind, but what happens after ten months? And ten years? And all the in betweens?

Ten drabbles about love, loss, healing and learning how to navigate life together, in honor of International Fanworks Day 10th anniversary.

Chapter 1: ten months

Notes:

Eight years ago, Pricefield took me out of an almost lethargic state regarding my writing, and even if that first fic is on permanent hiatus right now (never say never), I thought it was only fair to come back to them to celebrate IFD.

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

 

They haven't lost the ability to smile, but they don't laugh the way they used to.

When it happens, ten months after the storm, it's random, spontaneous.

 

Max scrolls Netflix, Chloe is looking at her phone. Then, she reads something. Her eyes light up. She grins like an ass. 

 

"Hey, Max?"

"Yeah?"

"What’s the difference between a casual dinner party and a pirate orgy? The first one you come as you are… The other you ARR as you come!"

 

When Ryan and Vanessa come home they find them rolling on the couch, kicking each other, eyes watery, breathless with laughter.

 

Notes:

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To love thee Year by Year—
May less appear
Than sacrifice, and cease—
However, dear,
Forever might be short, I thought to show—
And so I pieced it, with a flower, now.

Emily Dickinson