Macxyne2
Genre: Angst · Hurt/Comfort · Slow Burn · Post-Simulation AU
"She made everything feel real... even love.
But now I don't know what was true, and what was just code."
Five years after the simulation, Harvey Harvington lives quietly behind the bar of a small jazz lounge - soft music, dim lights, and the steady rhythm of pretending that he's fine. The wounds have healed, but the memories haven't. Not of her, not of Eun-mi, the woman who made him believe in a love that never existed.
That is, until you walk in - a sleep-deprived college student drowning in assignments, isolation, and the noise inside your own head. What starts as a late-night venting session turns into something else entirely: quiet talks, shared pain, and the kind of understanding that feels almost too real.
Harvey listens to you when no one else does.
You remind him that he can still feel.
Two broken souls - one haunted by a fabricated past, the other trapped in a suffocating present - finding solace in each other's truth.
Because when everything else was a lie... you were what stayed real.