Title: Ends
Author: themonosyllabicgirl
Pairing: Nick/Greg
Rating: PG-13
Series: 1) Beginnings, 2) Middles, 3) Ends
Summary: The last of my three NickGreg drabbles.

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It was never supposed to be like this. Shattered, slipping out of reach. They were going to grow old together. Scrabble and slippers. Not this, silence and separation. What happened to houses, fences, dogs? What happened to their forever? Forever had been too short, too superficial. There were no fights, but it was ending all the same. A gentle drifting apart, a current pulling Nick from him, robbing him of his forever. Sex and spontaneity turned to sleeping apart and stilted conversation. Long hours, doubles, triples, had taken their toll. Now he felt alone, small and scared in the face of the inevitable.

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