My heart remembers

Kai and Cole were already in love.

No secrets. No questions. Just something steady they never had to define out loud.

Then a mission in thick, unnatural smoke changes everything.

Kai survives-but his memory doesn't come back the same.

He wakes up with gaps where important moments should be. Familiar names feel unfamiliar. Entire conversations feel like they belonged to someone else. And worst of all-there's a strange emptiness where something deeply personal used to be.

But even with the missing pieces, one thing doesn't change.

Cole.

Kai doesn't understand why he trusts him so easily. Why his thoughts slow when Cole is near. Why his body reacts before his mind can catch up

Cole, on the other hand, remembers everything.

And now he's watching the person he loves look at him like he's someone he's meeting for the first time all over again.

Except... it isn't exactly the first time.

Because sometimes Kai says things he shouldn't know.

Sometimes he reacts like he's remembering something just out of reach.