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Title: Feral Grace
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Drama, Tragedy to Healing Arc, Slice of Life, AU
There are boys who are born into sunshine. Who run, laugh, scrape their knees on playgrounds, and grow up surrounded by warmth.
JL was not one of them.
He was born with a heart that beat too softly, too carefully, like it knew it wasn't built to last. Hospital rooms replaced bedrooms. IV drips stood taller than any toy.
His childhood was a blur of machines, muted conversations behind doors, and parents who loved him in separate silences.
Love, JL learned, didn't always stay.
He didn't blame them.
Not anymore.
People break in different ways. Some slowly, some all at once.
But JL-he simply faded.
Quietly.
Gracefully.
Like he was preparing to leave before the world ever asked him to.
He stopped hoping.
Not out of bitterness, but because even hope became too heavy to carry.
And yet-just as life pulled the final thread-something impossible happened.
He survived.
And with that survival came a new story.
A heart that wasn't his.
A life he never expected.
And a love that would both mend and undo him.
Because sometimes, miracles come with shadows.
And sometimes, the hardest thing isn't dying.
It's learning how to live.