A fnc fic where they met as kids, either by Chip obtaining a way to the under sea and meeting Gil some how or Gil running away to an above sea island and meeting Chip, where they know each other for no more than a month, but fundamentally change the course of each other's lives.
Where Chip shows Gil that it's not always black and white, that life is colored in shades of gray, that the Elders approval isn't everything.
Where Gil shows Chip how to allow himself to be, where he doesn't shave to chance his adoptive father's legacy, he can just be himself.
Where they sob in each others arm for hours knowing it'll likely be the last time they meet.
Where Chip, as he grows, learns to dream for himself, be himself, not chasing a shadow of a time long gone.
Where Gil, as he grows, learns to live for himself, be himself, not trying to fill impossible shoes for a Prophecy that could never be for him.
They do meet again, many years later, when each other is barely a wisp of a memory.
Chip in that boat with Jay, sure of himself and his own journey.
Gil floating in the open tide, having left his home to be free.
They don't recognize each other. They remember the person they met in their childhoods. But names and faces were lost to time.
They become crew, they become family.
One night, in an emotional conversation brought on by feelings of longing for a person long gone, they tell each other about the friend they had in their youths.
About the friend that forever changed their lives.
And maybe they realize, maybe they don't.
But regardless, they're together now. And forever.
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I'll be honest whenever I see mention of gabriel the worker in clay all canon information about him is secondary in my brain to the bright, shining, immediately on-command knowledge that he labeled for decades
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