"Consequences of Eternity"
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The photo had so many creases in it that it was getting hard to tell who was who. That was a consequence of constantly carrying it around, he thought.

It had been so long. Age was to blame for most of them, Fred and Wes, and later Angel, after Shanshu... Gunn was always a fighter. Harmony had gotten closer to them, but it cost her unlife not even a month after she'd been included in one of their meetings. He remembered going with Spike to Dawn's deathbed, the last, not even a year ago. Cordelia had to be gone by now, but he never heard anything of it.

"We're gonna be late luv." A cool hand caressed his cheek and he couldn't help but smile a bit, folding the snapshot up and putting it in his pocket again.