An alternate ending for the story 'Flowers from 1970' by the amazing @astr0nomika • Your story made me cry actual tears and inspired me to write again, so thank you for that. (I used a few of the lines from your fic to tie the stories together, hope that's ok!😬)

After Clay and George meet up in Orlando Clay starts acting different, but can George notice before it's to late? Does George know what to do? Is George fine or is he just good at pretending like it? This story was inspired by the song Tired by beabadoobee :) *This story does/will contain swearing* Should be sfw for most if not all of the story Tags: #4 in ed 4/4/21 #22 in crying 3/9/21 #34 in writing 3/17/21 #40 in mlm 2/13/21 #86 in eating disorders 1/29/21 Reads: 1K: 2/13/21 2K: 2/26/21 3K: 3/7/21 5k: 3/17/21 6k: 3/23/21 7k: 3/29/21 8k: 4/4/21 9k: 4/10/21 (republished 5/11/21) 10k: 5/11/21 11k: ? 12k: ? 13-19K: 5/31/21 IN ONE DAY 19-27K: 6/1/21 ONE DAY AGAIN WTF 28-4K: ? 35K: 6/5/21 39K: 6/8/21 45K: 6/14/21 48K: 6/20/21 50K: 6/25/21!!! TYSM 70K: 9/2/21 OMG WHAT

"I promise you. I promise I'll come back." He promises, George thinks wistfully. He promises such a thing- to offer George with his word on something, to uphold it. It's as if he's saying that he'll give the world to him, just for him. But somewhere is the lingering thought in George's mind is that he won't come back. That the cruel war that had riddled their land will take him too, and he will be left wonted and worry worn. George shivers at the thought. "You promise?" That you'll come home to me? And as if he heard those unspoken words. Dream beams at him. "I promise. You won't even notice that I was gone, my love." George releases a wet and broken laugh at the cheesy pet name. Dream does too before pulling him back into his embrace. They stay there for a bit. The war can wait. "I promise I'll be waiting." (or, the war au with letters and oscar wilde quotes.) ORIGINAL STORY ON AO3 (@Qekyo)