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• Under Lock and Key by UnderLockAndKeith

  Fandoms: Date Everything! (Sassy Chap Games Video Game)  

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  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  29 May 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Dorian/Keith (Date Everything!)
  • Eddison "Eddie" Watts/Volt
  • Chance/Parker Bradley (Date Everything!)
  • Drysdale/Washford (Date Everything!)
  • Keith (Date Everything!)
  • Dorian (Date Everything!)
  • Farya (Date Everything!)
  • Parker Bradley (Date Everything!)
  • Chance (Date Everything!)
  • Eddison "Eddie" Watts
  • Volt (Date Everything!)
  • Skylar Specs
  • Date Everything! (Sassy Chap Games Video Game) Ensemble
  • Washford (Date Everything!)
  • Drysdale (Date Everything!)
  • Penelope (Date Everything!)
  • Gaia (Date Everything!)
  • Bobby Pinn (Date Everything!)
  • Spoilers for Date Everything! (Sassy Chap Games Video Game)
  • Past Dorian/Keith (Date Everything!)
  • Post-Realization (Date Everything!)
  • Keith and Dorian work things out
  • Redemption through trauma
  • Keith suffers a lot mentally and physically
  • Keith is trying to be better
  • Dorian and Keith were toxic (Date Everything!)
  • Protective Dorian (Date Everything!)
  • Keith did some bad stuff (Date Everything!)
  • Keith is trying his best. Is he getting better? Probably not
  • keith is going through it
  • Most of the dateables hate Keith
  • Realized Dateables (Date Everything!)
  • Protective Volt (Date Everything!)
  • Keith gets confronted by the other Dateables
  • Gender-Neutral Player Character (Date Everything!)
  • Is it possible to undoom the yaoi

  Summary

  Five months after the events of A Lock Was Made For A Key, Dorian and Keith still struggle to adjust. Living together, permanent injuries, and tension between the former objects leads to lingering problems. As Keith attempts to improve, he finds himself being dragged down by his struggling body. As Dorian attempts to support Keith, he finds his friendships with the former objects becoming strained. As they attempt to move forward, the ghost of their past relationship seems to haunt them.

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  This is a sequel to A Lock Was Made For A Key, please check that fic out before reading this one!

  Series

  • Part 2 of Keith x Dorian Date Everything

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  19,204

  Chapters:

  11/?

  Comments:

  13

  Kudos:

  63

  Bookmarks:

  4

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