Post-parable AU where Stanley and the Narrator manage to escape but don't realise that the mechanisms of the parable are still working, meaning that the world still reset. Maybe the first time it happens when they just left so they just thought it was something they hadn't taken into account, so they change things and they escape again. They find a flat, a place where to live, somewhere to get comfortable, to start healing from the parable, but then after a few months it resets again and they are back in the Parable. So they try and try again. They escape, always. They figured out how to do it by now. And they start building up something, outside of the parable, meeting people, only to be forced back into it, some days, months, years later, when the world resets again inevitably. And so they escape again and again, knowing that their friends, everything they built is gone now that no one will remember them. And when they finally have their own place, they can't stop thinking about it, about the fact that at any moment, it could be completely gone again.