and you fight until the finish line carries you home (слэш)

“Did you love him?”
Isak looked down at the glass in his hand, the wine he’d barely had any of. He shrugged, carefully noncommittal, and glanced at Even out of the corner of his eye, raising an eyebrow at his expression. “What, are you jealous?”
“Nothing like that,” Even said. He leaned his weight on his elbows, tilting his body over the edge of the balcony as he fixed his eyes on a passing car below. “Hearing it makes me glad, actually.”
“Why?”
A beat of silence.
Then -
“You deserve all the chances at happiness you can get, Isak.”
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In which Even returns to Oslo five years after he first left it, and Isak seeks answers to questions he thought he’d long forgotten. Or: a post-break up AU.