Wrote a strie(efe) fic enjoy it. It's called Sixteen Months
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Stria was minding her own business, walking down the street, when she spotted Keefe talking to Katie. Great. Her two least favorite people in the world.
Well, that wasn't fair to Katie. Katie was only occasionally bad. Keefe, on the other hand? That was a whole other level of hatred.
Stria was going to simply be on her way, but then remembered that Keefe talking to Katie could NOT be good. So she walked over to the two of them and overheard their conversation.
"Are you telling me what to do with my life?" Keefe was asking.
"No, of course not. That would ruin the experiment."
"You're demanding for me to participate in an experiment."
"I'm not demanding anything from you," Katie countered. "The experiment is ongoing and I never asked for your cooperation, I just did it. The fact that you figured that out is not my problem."
"You're stalking me!"
"It's not stalking if you're fictional."
Stria decided she needed to get Keefe and Katie away from each other ASAP. This was a recipe for disaster.
Sixteen Months Later
"But... what about Isa?" Stria sputtered.
"Oh, yeah." Katie laughed nervously. "Me and Isa are actually the same person. I just put on a wig to be her, and all our text conversations are fake. I just liked the idea of having a cognate. But I mean it when I say I love you."
"Why would you love me?" Stria asked. "You love Keefe, and I hate him."
"You don't, though," Katie said knowingly. "After all this time, I've seen how you've softened to us both. You've fallen for both of us."
"I have not!"
"Not even me?"
Stria gritted her teeth. "Okay, fine. Maybe I've developed feelings for you. But it would never work out."
"Why?"
"Because we always end up fighting over Keefe!"
"I have a feeling that won't be much of an issue anymore," Katie said. "You're telling me all this time you've spent realizing you like me, you haven't realized you like Keefe? Not even a little?"
"No," Stria said. It was the fastest answer, though there was more nuance. Katie wasn't wrong when she said Stria softened towards him.
"Fine then. Does THIS fix that?" Katie pulled a booklet out of her pocket. On the front cover it read, 16 Things I Love About Stria by Keefe Irwin Sencen. "He even included his middle name so it would be sixteen letters," she pointed out. "And it's sixteen pages."
Katie made a compelling argument.
"I do love the number sixteen."
"Then why don't you read this?"
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Stria, Katie, I'm sorry, it's for the bit
i, stria sixteen, hereby give "sixteen months" anon (and any following anons and non-anons) permission to call the ship between stria sixteen, kathryn myfairkatiecat, and keefe irwin sencen "katrieefe" instead of "strie(efe)"