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    “Eye cream?” he says finally and Ivan watches in horror as his expression teeters on the edge of confusion before it pitches into understanding. “Oh my god, it’s because…” Till’s laugh interrupts his own sentence and Ivan’s stuck oscillating between wanting to die from mortification and transcending into another plane at the beauty of the noise.

    “I look like shit, don’t I?” Till says, running one hand through his hair and all Ivan can think is no, no, no, you look like the most beautiful person alive because it’s true, even with the sweatshirt tied loose around his waist and the two hours of sleep written on his skin.

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    22 Jul 2026

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    Nearly two years after being saved from the fire, Till runs into someone on a rebel mission with the same face of the person who has done nothing but haunt him.

    For the life of him, he can't let himself believe that Ivan is alive. Not while he's still hallucinating a version of him that keeps him from being able to speak.

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    22 Jul 2026

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    Ivan breathes a humorless laugh. "I don't know what it is you want from me."

    Till furiously snaps back, "I want you to—" before cutting himself off. He takes a deep breath and relaxes his scrunched-up facial features before continuing, quieter. "I'm your best friend. I find you half passed out in some—fucked up garden that you've been coughing up for a year, and I'm freaking out because I don't know what's going on or—or if you'll be okay, and now that I know you're okay, the doctors are saying they can't let you go because you're too damn sick to be left alone!"

    His lower lip quivers ever so slightly. Ivan, for his own sake, unfocuses his eyes until Till is only a shapeless blur of colors in the middle of a sea of hospital white.

    "I'm your best friend," the blur repeats, breathlessly. "I want you to fucking say something to me."

    Hanahaki disease is, quite famously, a condition born from love. Ivan is convinced that his case is the exception to this rule. And when each of his friends inevitably starts catching on to his quickly deteriorating health, everything goes spinning out of control.

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    22 Jul 2026

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    Till huffed and turned to her girlfriend. “Mizi, you can’t believe what Sua is telling you. It’s all lies! Ivan doesn’t have a crush.”

    “Oh… well, uh,” Mizi started, “Sua wasn’t the one who told me about it.”

    “Okay. So who did?” Till asked. He was already imagining hunting them down for spreading such inane rumors.

    “Ivan did.”

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    Till learns that Ivan has a crush on someone and hasn’t told him about it. Cue feelings of betrayal, shenanigans, and revelations about his best friend.

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    19 Jul 2026

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    Truth be told, Till thinks this exchange might be the best part of his week, and he had a feeling Ivan felt the same way.

    “I have a date after work, by the way, so don’t wait up.”

    Never-fucking-mind.

    “You have a what?” Till manages, his voice hoarse.

    Ivan’s eyebrows furrowed. “A date.” He repeats.

    “No.”

    “Okay.”

    “Okay— wait, okay?! Just like that?!” Till splutters, briefly wondering if he was still dreaming.

    3 times Till gets jealous + 1 time he does something about it

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