#diedora

Patrick gave her the most important person in her life. Without him, Claire wouldn't exist. Allison didn't forget that.

She loved him, she really did. She loved him for years, and she thinks that he loved her too.

She doesn't know for sure, though.

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Ray was almost like a breath of fresh air.

Allison had been thrown into a new world, a new world that gave her more hate than she thought she would ever experience. When she was with Ray, the hate existed, but it was never at the forefront of her mind.

Ray was like light in the darkness, shining and giving her a way to find happiness in the 60s. Giving her a way to find happiness in general. Showing her the way that she could fight for what was right and still have happy days.

Ray didn't give her Claire, but he gave her love.

Allison loved him, so much.

And this time, she knew that he loved her back.

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Dave was something that Klaus never had.

Sure, he had relationships before. Relationships with men, women, all of the above and more.

It was different with Dave. Everything was different with Dave.

It was ten months of the most intense love Klaus had ever felt. And then it was gone.

Well, it wasn't gone, it was just overtaken by the pain replacing all other emotion in his heart. Dave died, and a part of Klaus died with him.

He missed him, so much.

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Dave was back. Dave was alive.

Except he wasn't.

Klaus' Dave had died in 1968, died in the Vietnam War. This Dave…

This Dave was a twenty two year old who worked in a store that sold mamie pink paint. This Dave never met Klaus, never spent ten months soldiering with him.

This Dave didn't love him.

And he didn't love this Dave.

He missed his Dave. Missed him so, so much.

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Eudora was his first.

Well, that wasn't completely true. He had been with others, but Eudora was the first that he truly loved.

She just understood him. He felt as if she mirrored him completely.

Eudora would take his snappy comments in stride and reply with one of her own. He felt as if they matched perfectly.

He loved her, but then he was kicked from the police academy. They fell out, as some do. He still loved her, though. He knew that he would always love her.

Diego felt almost as if he was starting to get her back just before he found her dead on the floor of a cheap motel.

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Lila was fast. A fast love.

He met her in the psych ward. She seemed a bit off, but she was fun to talk to.

It was only a couple months later when he found himself fighting to keep her in the car that he realized, oh, I'm falling again.

Then Diego and Lila were in Elliott's bed, then she disappeared, then he found out that she didn't love him the way he thought she did.

Then he found out, as he was telling her about her shitty mother who gave her a shitty idea of love, that maybe, just maybe, she did love him.

Diego could see in her eyes that he was getting her back just before the Handlers gun went off.

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Vanya thought that Leonard was love.

He had asked for her company, actually wanted to be around her, and how could she deny the one thing she had wanted her entire life?

She was desperate to proove her sister wrong, she'll admit.

She thought that it was love, but maybe, maybe she was wrong.

Allison gave her doubts about Leonard, and Vanya stayed with him almost out of pure spite. But then, then she was losing control and slitting Allison's thought and then she stayed with Leonard out of fear because what if someone comes after her? What if her family hates her?

But then Leonard was yelling and slamming his hand and making noise and she just couldn't-

And he was dead on the ground.

That wasn't love, she was sure of it.

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Sissy was there for Vanya.

Sissy gave her a place to live, gave her a life that she didn't even know she wanted.

Harlan was just as important to Vanya as Sissy was. She loved them both, so much.

Sissy showed her what love was, how it was supposed to be. Vanya couldn't remember her past, didn't have any memories, but she knew that she wanted her future to be with Sissy. Knew that she wanted to be around her, wanted to be loved by her and love her back.

Sissy gave her a home.