Road and Sky Align, a Looper AU by wallmakerrelict
Time travel has not yet been invented. But thirty years from now, it will have been. It will be instantly outlawed, used only in secret by the largest criminal organizations when they need to make someone disappear. Future tagging and tracking systems will make it almost impossible to carry out a murder or dispose of a body in secret, so they will send their enemies back in time, into the waiting sights of specialized assassins called loopers.
Keith is one such looper, under contract to the Syndicate which runs the fallen city of Seattle. He’s accepted his role within their murderous ranks. Until they send him someone he can’t kill: Shiro. Keith’s best friend, but thirty years older and with all the scars of a lifetime spent in a failed fight against the Syndicate.
Now Keith and both Shiros must work together to escape the wrath of the Syndicate in his present, and to somehow prevent the terrible future that has locked Shiro in a deadly thirty-year loop.
This fic written for the @sheithbigbang. The whole Sheith Big Bang 2019 collection is here!