Dr. Lily tightened the knot on her lab coat, brushing her bangs out of her eyes as she leaned over the microscope. The lab was cold, silent, and comforting the perfect place to bury thoughts she'd rather not think about. But memories had a way of creeping in, especially when she wasn't looking.

Years ago, she had spent her afternoons hunched over a different screen(discord), not in a lab, but in her small bedroom. Back then, she wasn't Dr. Lily She was just "Bluejeans," a fifteen-year-old girl with a curiosity that couldn't be contained.

Flashback:

Bluejeans: "If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?"

Heyrumbh: "Italy. But only if you're there too."

Bluejeans: "Smooth."

Heyrumbh: "I mean it. Let's meet there one day. You can bring your bio stuff, and I'll bring the physics. We'll build something crazy."

Bluejeans: "Promise?"

Heyrumbh: "Promise."

Lily smiled slightly staring at the screen but the smile didn't last. But promises made at fourteen and fifteen rarely survived the weight of time. They had talked for years, sharing their love for science, their dreams, their jokes. She could still remember the way she typed -fast, with too many typos and how her texts always seemed too big for the screen.

They had promised to spent the rest of the life with eachother and by that they meant they were gonna marry. They talked every damn day, and why italy was a special meeting place for them? Well, he liked pizzas and she had just read about the Italian research centre (they were doing something crazy on particle physics)

Both in love sending flirty texts and imagining life together.

It was the kind of promise that felt real when they made it, even though neither of them had thought much about how or when it would happen....

It all started when bluejean joined a science and research server and hoped on to one of the active channel, she asked him to DM him for further discussion on that topic. And from that day...