The Fault in Our Stars (Hazel Meets Infinity)

What if Gus had not been the one to die? What would have happened, had Hazel been the one to beat him to infinity? My take of the Fault in Our Stars, a take from Augustus and Hazel's perspective.

'In that moment, I wanted to make him promises. Promises that you heard other couples take in vain. Promises that used words like forever and didn't substitute okay for always because right then, that's exactly what I wanted to promise him. I wanted to give him always.

But when we finally got to my house and he helped me upstairs and kissed me once, slowly before I crawled into bed, only to awake a half hour later with a searing head pain, I was reminded again that I was far from always.

I barely had now.'