"I must keep the memory close, you see. It is all I have left." With reverent affection, Shizuru clasps Natsuki's hand around the ring and presses it to her lips. There is much about Shizuru that Natsuki still does not understand. The unspoken rules between them play out like a dance. [AU]

When one door closes, another door opens. If you close a door and find this to not be true, then you should open a window instead, and climb out of the building. Desperate to escape her scripted life, Shizuru gets behind the wheel and heads South. In the process of slipping out of her life, she stumbles into Natsuki's. AU

On an alien-subjugated Earth, Natsuki goes deep undercover to determine Shizuru's worth to the resistance as an asset or a liability. As another faceless sheep in a den of wolves, Natsuki learns that things rarely go according to plan when Shizuru is involved. XCOM 2 AU