Overview

Rain
Rain has spent two long years pining over his best friend in their online gaming server. He had just about given up hope they would ever become more than friends, when the impossible happens. Lyle asks him out and they make plans to go to a gaming convention the following year. Of course, life never goes according to plan.

Lyle
Lyle isn’t even surprised that everything in his life went off the rails as soon as he finally got up the courage to ask Rain out. Now it’s been over a year since they last spoke and he has one more chance to make things work. At this point, it would be nothing short of a miracle…or maybe an act of fate.

Gaming Fate is a MM (with trans rep) omegaverse shifter short story in the Fate Beyond the Binary series. It features second chances, cute aquatic animals, and some creative use of slick.