Almost Us
kartsivaya
Ka'Syiah
Nonbinary. Soft-spoken but emotionally intuitive. They've spent most of their life learning how to hold space for other people - sometimes at the expense of their own. When assigned to help Cowen post-surgery, they bring more than medical care; they bring a kind of presence Cowen has never known how to accept.
Cowen
Trans man. Quiet, guarded, recovering from top surgery - but the physical healing is the least of it. He pushes people away out of fear of being truly seen. But Ka'Syiah's patience, warmth, and refusal to walk away begins to unravel the wall he's built around himself.
What begins as a simple caregiving arrangement between Ka'Syiah and Cowen quickly turns into something much more layered - and more fragile. Through fever scares, sleepless nights, near-confessions, and a long history of almosts, the two navigate the blurred lines between duty and desire, fear and feeling.
In the quiet spaces where care meets vulnerability, Ka'Syiah and Cowen find themselves slowly unraveling - not just toward each other, but toward healing. Almost Us is a soft, aching, deeply queer love story about the things we don't post, the words we never say, and the people who choose to stay anyway.
It's not quite love. But it's real.